How This Fitness Entrepreneur Found His Way and Quit His Day Job

How This Fitness Entrepreneur Found His Way and Quit His Day Job

Excerpted from Starter Story

For years, Mike Doehla spent as many hours a day dreaming about his passion for fitness and nutrition as he did grinding away at his corporate day job. Then he did something about it. Today his diet-coaching company, Stronger U, has tens of thousands of clients around the world and hauled in more than $7 million in 2019 revenue, landing it at No. 567 on the Inc. 5000 with a three-year growth rate of 830 percent. The key to that impressive growth, says Doehla, is community–but not the social-media-marketing kind. Stronger U members are simply passionate advocates, just like their community’s founder.

It all happened by accident.

This is his story…