What if the key to growing your wealth isn’t another investment strategy, but actually your physical health? Most finance experts won’t tell you this secret, but fitness entrepreneur Devan Gonzalez reveals the powerful connection between your workout routine and your bank account.

The Missing Piece in Your Success Journey

When we talk about building wealth, we often focus on saving money, investing wisely, or finding the right career. But according to fitness expert and business owner Devan Gonzalez, we’re missing something big: our physical health.

As Stoy Hall explains in his recent podcast conversation with Devan:

“I cannot stress enough to you how important both your mental health and your physical health are to being physically fiscally healthy at the same time.”

This isn’t just feel-good advice. There’s real science behind how physical fitness improves decision-making, energy levels, and confidence – all critical factors for financial success.

From Martial Arts Kid to Franchise Owner

Devan Gonzalez started as a 13-year-old martial arts instructor working under the table. Today, he owns a successful fitness franchise called Strive Eleven that’s changing how busy people work out.

His story shows us that success doesn’t always follow the path others expect.

“My parents were telling me to get a career. And so I started going the firefighter route… I was still working as a personal trainer and making decent money and really loving it. So I ended up betting on myself and going the personal training route.”

Many people told Devan that personal training wasn’t a “real career.” It was just something to do in college for extra money. But he saw bigger possibilities.

The Three Buckets of Success

Devan shares a powerful concept during the interview – what he calls the “three buckets” that must be in balance for success:

1. Physical health
2. Mental health
3. Fiscal (money) health

When these three areas are in good shape, you start seeing opportunities everywhere. As Devan explains:

“If all of the three buckets – your physical, your mental, and your fiscal being – are all in alignment right now, your health is all in alignment. Then things don’t just find you either, but you’re constantly working on improving all of those things.”

How Fitness Changes Everything Else

The magic happens when you start working on your physical fitness. According to Devan, this creates a positive chain reaction in other areas of your life:

“From the people that start working out… They start to see the results from that. Now that result also starts to build other things that aren’t seen, that builds self-confidence, that builds mental health, that builds your discipline… And the other thing is it starts to build your social factor as well.”

This explains why many successful entrepreneurs and business leaders make exercise a non-negotiable part of their daily routines.

The Franchise Model: Growing with Purpose

Devan’s business success comes from understanding when to grow and when to pause. His fitness franchise, Strive Eleven, offers a unique model where members don’t have to schedule class times – they can start their workouts whenever they arrive.

What makes his business approach special is his planned growth strategy:

“We’re taking on seven more [franchisees] and then we’ll be putting a pause on it. The reason for the pause is essentially we’ve already beforehand laid out certain mile markers that we’re gonna pause everything so that we can make sure that we fill any gaps and continue to strengthen the foundation as we grow.”

This shows the discipline that comes from physical training applied to business decisions.

Your Living Proof of Possibility

Perhaps the most powerful lesson from Devan’s story is that success is always possible if you can see someone else already doing what you want to do:

“If someone else is doing what you want to do, living the life you wanna live, living in the house you wanna live in, right? That is your testimonial. That is your living proof that it is a possibility… It’s not a matter of if, it’s just a matter of when.”

Start Your Health and Wealth Journey Today

Ready to improve both your physical and financial health? Here are three simple steps to start:

1. Begin with small, consistent exercise – even just 10 minutes daily
2. Pay attention to how your energy and confidence change
3. Notice how these improvements affect your work performance and money decisions

Remember what Devan says: “How you do one thing is how you do everything.” The discipline you build in the gym transfers to every other area of your life.

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What step will you take today to align your physical, mental, and financial health?