How this Army veteran who served in Iraq became a Fit Body Boot Camp Gym Franchise Owner
Jodi Rund has actually always wanted education, nourishment and health and fitness-- but it's her military experience that offered her and her spouse the best structure to run their very own business.
"The military really does give us an advantage," Rund told FOX Business. "It does give you a set of skills that you can easily apply to a business."
Rund, 40, and her spouse Thad reside in West Palm Beach, Fla., and also own 3 Fit Body Boot Camp franchises in the state.
They relocated to Florida from Costa Rica, where they had actually lived given that Rund completed her service in the Army National Guard, which lasted from 2001 to 2006.
Rund spent 15 months in Iraq as an equipment artilleryman and a Combat Lifesaver and throughout her solution, her unit endured 39 casualties-- including Rund's buddy.
"She was a bridesmaid in our wedding," Rund said. "She had a six-year-old daughter, so there was lots to deal with, lots of tragedy and hardship."
Nevertheless, it was also throughout that time that got Rund started assuming concerning what a great education can do.
"I just realized that these people, it wasn't that they were evil, it was that they lacked a lot of education," she said. "So when I got back, I ended up pursuing my Master's in global studies and education. And that's kind of what spurred my husband and I to get out of the country."
She claimed that she and Thad had actually checked out Costa Rica and fell for it, so Rund got a task teaching at a local secondary school as well as working as a fitness train at the Four Seasons Resort in the location.
Rund as well as her husband eventually started an additional institution-- where Rund started a ladies' basketball team-- as well as a church, where she used her degree in faith from Chicago University to aid teens.
"We did a lot of counseling, a lot of helping. Which in retrospect, helped me, just being able to help somebody else," Rund said. "It was, I think, an easier transition for me. But I wasn't in the United States. I was in Costa Rica, which was kind of an adventure."
"I think me escaping the United States really helped," she added. "I didn't get to hear about all of the political drama and what's going on in the United States. I got to focus more on a different country, different culture, different humanity out there that we could really dive into."
Nonetheless, she and Thad had to relocate back in 2015. They still have their house in Costa Rica, now they're residing in West Palm Beach also.
Within their first year there, Rund read about Bedros Keuilian's Fit Body Boot Camp franchise as well as chose to leap in.
"Thad and I weren't strangers to risk and companies and starting our own businesses, so we just said, let's do it," Rund said. "We looked into it and we ended up buying into this franchise and opening our first location in 2016 in May."
Now they have studios in Palm Beach, Fla., North Palm Beach, Fla., and Delray Beach, Fla., where Rund said she still utilizes her military experience to aid her run business, particularly to create a kind of "brotherhood" amongst her staff.
"We structure our businesses kind of in a similar military fashion where we do want [employees] to own our mission, to understand our vision and where we're going and [we] really explain the whys of everything that we do," Rund said.
"We want them to take ownership of every decision they make and let them know that it's okay to fail as long as you tried and course-corrected," she added. "Having them take a lot of ownership and buy-in has really helped create a team/family aspect."
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