Blaze Your Trail: How One Man’s Wolfpack Inspired Him to Help Others Transform their Lives

John Swanson remembers vividly how exhausting it is to be a small business owner.

In the early 2010s, he was stretched thin across three ventures: The Fast Factory, a small gym in his hometown of St. Cloud, Minn., consulting agency Fast Forged, and the Granite Games, a Minnesota-based CrossFit fitness tournament. He worked day and night to ensure his clients and employees were successful and growing, but his family and personal time suffered as a result.

“With three companies, family, health and fitness, and everything else in life, there [was] always, always unfinished business,” Swanson told CrossFit news source The Barbell Spin in 2018.

As an athlete himself, Swanson had always taken a special kind of pride in his impact on the health and fitness space, but knew he wasn’t even close to reaching the full potential of the good he could do for entrepreneurs and business owners across a variety of niches.

Being a highly-impactful business owner was about more than just selling products and services; Swanson believed it was also about changing mindsets and attitudes to focus on productivity and internal competition. And that wasn’t something he had the ability to do while working constantly across three different…