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I love teaching martial arts, and that’s probably the same reason why you started your school.

But what happens if you get hurt, get sick, or get abducted by space aliens.

Can your school survive without you? Will you still be able to support your family?

If you want your school to thrive without you, this Team Building edition of the newsletter is for you.

Here’s my question for you…

Do you have a roadmap in place for your students to grow into instructors?
Because if you don’t, here’s what happens:

They either quit and go chase whatever their friends or parents tell them is a “real job”

or they open up down the street and become your competition.

I’ve seen it happen over and over again.

Hiring from the outside can work, but hiring from the inside is almost always easier. Those students already understand your culture, your system, and your values.

Training them is 10x’s easier.

But here’s the problem: if you don’t show them that martial arts can be a career (or at the very least a great part-time job), they’ll never believe it’s possible.

I’ll be real with you. I grew up in martial arts. My brother was running 12 successful schools by the time I was in college. And even then, I still thought “that’s HIS thing, not mine. I want to make real money doing something else.”

If I thought that, imagine what your students think.

It wasn’t until my brother sat me down and actually broke down the finances that I realized, “Wait… this can be a career where I can truly help people AND make a great living” That one conversation changed everything. I opened my first school 6 weeks later.

Here’s the takeaway: you need a career roadmap in your school that you share proudly!

Otherwise your best people will assume martial arts is just a hobby and that you probably sell wigs on the side.

𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗽 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝟲 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘀:

Leadership Team

Certified Instructor

Head Instructor

School Manager

School Partner

School Developer

When you lay it out this way, you’re not just training good students. You’re showing them a future. A path. A career ladder.

This is what all the best Fortune 500 companies do, why should your martial arts school be any different.

And don’t skip the money conversation. If they don’t know what’s financially possible, especially when they’re teens, their parents will push them toward another career.

𝗜 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝟭-𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹’𝘀 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘁? Reply “𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗽” 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜’𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲.

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