Dose Khango: If You Build It, They Will Come | The Kids Table Podcast Ep. 37

This week, Gunnar and Jen catch up with Dose Khan, the Houston-based trainer and owner of Khango Gym who first got connected to us by cold-DMing Gunnar a decade ago and ended up crashing on his guest house couch after one too many tequilas. Dose walks us through the wild road from getting locked out of his first training space on Christmas Eve, to building a name for himself training pro athletes out of a five-star Houston hotel.

The conversation gets real fast: the $20K supplement deal that fell apart and the fear he felt admitting to Gunnar that he was taking on a $1.2 million buildout for his new space with no guarantee it would work. Dose opens up about betting everything: his savings, his time, his family's trust on a vision nobody else could see yet, and what it took to keep going after being burned by investors and partners along the way. They dig into what it actually means to bet on yourself when nobody else will, why the "popular circle" and the "winner's circle" aren't the same thing, and how his whole family has become part of the business itself.

Whether you're weighing your own leap into something bigger or just need reassurance that the hard road is usually the right one, this episode is equal parts business lessons, family story, and a masterclass in betting on yourself.

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