Forrest Walden Of Iron Tribe Fitness: 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became A Founder

An Interview With Ben Ari

The market for your services is so much larger than you think it is in your head. Obsessing over what your competitors are doing and treating your business like it is a zero sum game will rob you of the joy and excitement of building an enduring enterprise. You’ll get much further and have more fun by not speaking negatively of your competitors and look for ways to collaborate instead of vilifying each other.

As part of our interview series called “5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became A Founder”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Forrest Walden.

Forrest Walden is the founder and CEO of Iron Tribe Fitness, a group and semi-private training fitness franchise that currently has 29 gyms scattered across eight states, more than two-thirds of which are owned and operated by franchisees. He’s also a co-founder of the non-profit Neverthirst Water, a nonprofit ministry with a mission to bring clean water to the…