Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in health and fitness but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Dragos Mutascu, owner of Physion Dynamics, located in Toronto, ON, Canada.

What's your business, and who are your customers?

My business aims to revolutionize the field of health and fitness. We aim to teach everyone that the true meaning of health is not just eating a salad or doing half an hour on the treadmill but truly grasping a holistic approach and lifestyle. There are many components to being healthy. While yes, working out and eating right are two of the main pillars, people need to understand that how they live their day-to-day life is critical. Such things are mental health, physical health, and spiritual health. These are all pillars to promote a truly strong, long, and healthy life. Our business is here to support everyone who builds or repairs their pillars. Physion Dynamics will provide the services you need, from providing a diet plan and workout to providing physiotherapy treatment for your injured hip or osteopathy for your hurting neck. People will no longer need to spend countless hours searching on the internet where to go for health and wellness professionals. Physion Dynamics will have all the answers and numbers for the top practitioners in the fields.

Tell us about yourself

All my life, I have been an active person. My family owned a farm in Romania from the early years of childhood, so the fresh air, running fields, and active lifestyle have always surrounded me. I was always the shy, thin little boy who kept to himself and studied to get good grades, but at the same time, I quietly admired strong bodies like Rambo and the Terminator. I wanted to be the "protector," to be the one who stands their ground and have people fade away when I was in the room. I didn't want to be afraid of anyone, and there was something all these strong-bodied heroes had in common.

They were all big and muscular; they were all working out. So I started dabbling here and there in exercise and the gym growing up in Canada because I wanted to have a chest like Arnold and legs like Platz. However, the turning point in education and understanding what working out truly is was after graduating high school and receiving The Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding from the library as a reward for my high grades. This has opened a whole new world for me of learning the technique and understanding the drive Arnold Schwarzenegger used to have.

The gym is more than just picking up and dropping weights; there is a system, there is a method. From there, I have joined my very first gymnasium at the PanAm Pool, and my journey to bodybuilding has truly launched. My time working outgrew more and more, becoming something without which days would feel incomplete. If there were days in which I couldn't workout out for any reason whatsoever, the guilt would overwhelm me. Some would call me crazy and sick because of it. However, I didn't care, the feeling was addicting, and I wanted more. But this addiction and love for growing and improving my body were about to become more...on one of my days of following a carefully hand-picked workout plan from Arnold's Encyclopedia, my life was changed again being approached by a Personal Trainer at the gym.

He wanted to acknowledge my dedication and recommend trying to become a Personal Trainer to help others achieve the passion I have. I was a bit hesitant but decided that it would hurt to try; after all, if nothing more came out of this course, I would at least have more knowledge to build my own body. So I took the course, and to this day, I cherish Mark's suggestion. Not only have I learned more about the human body and started digging and educating myself more on anatomy and physiology, but having people trained for goals in their lives such as weddings, marathons, sports competitions, and most importantly, living fully with their families, was a rewarding feeling that nothing in this world could replicate. I have studied and helped kids become better soccer players, helped people attain goal weight that seemed impossible, helped seniors feel and be more independent in day-to-day life, brought happiness and calm to people fighting depression and anxiety, and attained the ability to walk for some who were bedridden.

All these and more have helped me grow and motivated me to keep learning, keep going and keep helping people. I myself ended up learning enough to build my body and become a Fitness Competitor and Natural Bodybuilder, winning medals and inspiring more and more around me. It is a feeling of reward much bigger than any paycheque, to see people healthy, to see people inspired to live strong and laugh with their families, to have people thank me at the end of a program for attaining the goal for which they fought a long time.

My career started with pure curiosity and the desire to be like Arnold or Stallone, but it continues with helping as many people as possible live their full potential in life, a holistic, healthy lifestyle. I continue to be fueled by the addicting feeling of people getting healthy, active, and motivated by my actions and advice.

What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?

My biggest accomplishment is building the foundation and trust with the people who entrusted their goals and life to my hands. My ability to entice trust and spark drive is unmatched. What I do, as a person and business, is create a journey, which begins with someone sharing with a complete stranger their most private, and to some very embarrassing weakness, in an attempt to grow and fix oneself. The journey begins with two strangers but grows into friendship, into a family.

My biggest accomplishment is being able to earn and keep the trust of many who took a leap of faith and believed I could help; the biggest accomplishment is not only to be able to have a complete stranger join my journey and achieve their goals to be healthy but also form bonds which last strong way beyond the "trainer and client" portion.

What's one of the hardest things that come with being a business owner?

Anyone will tell you being a business owner is hard. It takes hours, days, weeks, years to build something out of nothing; it takes sacrifice and sleepless nights, parties missed, mornings waking up in fear of what the next day may bring, fighting to make a living, trying to push through people who don't believe in you. Building a business is horrible and difficult. However, one small thing makes those sleepless nights and all the sweat and sacrifice and pain worth it: the ability to do what you love. In my case, the ability to help people and be next to them while they grow and improve their lifestyle gives me that extra push to stay up a few more hours at night, fight through the pain longer, to find more ways to succeed. Working for someone 9 to 5 and building their dreams, I wouldn't lose sleep over or go the extra mile. However, working for myself, building MY dream, fueling MY passion, I'm here to tell you that I will go days without sleep and fight to move mountains. It is much more rewarding and fulfilling when you see something to which your heart smiles, grows, and be successful over just receiving a paycheque for something you may not care much about.

What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?

  1. Be hungry and driven. You have a passion, that is great, but now you are making a business out of that passion, you are entrusting your life and financial health into this passion...be hungry to grow and never stop.
  2. Have a vision, have a goal. Visualize yourself how you wish to be at the peak of your success. See this vision very clearly; now do everything possible and impossible to make this vision a reality.
  3. Don't be afraid to fail; it is part of building something new. Maybe the idea or industry in which you are in has a million more business owners, but NONE of them are building their business with what is in your brain and heart. Your journey is unique and new, and failure is unavoidable and needed in order to build a strong foundation; however, never give up when failure hits. I promise you this much; failure will hit 1,000,000 times before that one-time success does. Don't let failure defeat you because one hit of success is more powerful than millions of hits from failure.

Is there anything else you'd like to share?

I do wish to share one sad part of reality...always be careful in growing your business, who you trust, and who your partners and advisors are. Not everyone wants to see you succeed, and a lot of people will go to unimaginable reaches to stop your growth. Choose carefully and always be watchful of who enters your business.

Where can people find you and your business?

Website: https://www.physiondynamics.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/physiondynamics
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/physiondynamics/

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