MYB 031: Multi-Millionaire to Bankruptcy to Shipping Container Yoga Studio Owner ~ with Chris Downham
Feb 01, 2021
After years being in financial services and property businesses with his identical twin, in 2019 Chris decided to make a complete change. Chris changed his businesses, his exercise, his nutrition; he stopped drinking and became plant-based. The next 2 years were full of running, doing yoga & Pilates, and setting up R1SE yoga with his wife (Jen). After the pandemic struck, R1SE pivoted gracefully and continued to thrive in the new world.
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In this episode, you’ll learn:
- His morning routine
- Why he reminds me of the Wolf of Wall Street
- Making over $1,000,000
- Building a wellbeing village in the Bulgarian mountains
- Old Chris Vs New Chris at the age of 41
- How he started his yoga studio - R1SE
- The benefits of gamifying and rewarding behaviour change in regards to health and fitness
- His experience with being framed
- Being served a demand to pay $7,000,000 in 7 days
- Becoming bankrupt
- Why he went vegan but calls it plant-based
- Why he spent 2 years of his life clearing an acre of land by hand starting in the British winter
- How he found yoga
- The one child-like activity that makes it hard to be depressed
- The benefit of failing quickly Vs slowly
- The 6 hacks Chris lives by and believers if you have these in your life, you will be the best version of yourself
- His cure for the mindless consumption of media
- Increasing his reading speed from 180wpm to 600
- Why he naps for exactly 26 minutes after skulling a coffee
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https://www.instagram.com/r1seyoga/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/R1SEYOGA
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