Good Neighbor Podcast: Union
Bringing Together Local Businesses and Residents of Northern Kentucky! Based in Union, KY....The Good Neighbor Podcast helps the residents of Northern Kentucky get to know local business owners as people. We allow the business owners and influencers in NKY to tell the stories of how they started their business and why. We hear about their families, their personal interests and why they love living in and serving resident of Northern Kentucky!
Good Neighbor Podcast: Union
From Open Heart Surgery to Opening a Studio
Jenny Knecht never imagined that a reluctant first visit to Pure Barre would completely transform her life. After losing 80 pounds and recovering from open heart surgery, Jenny found herself at a crossroads when her sister-in-law convinced her to try this unique fitness concept. Walking out of that first class, she knew immediately: Union, Kentucky needed this, and she would be the one to bring it there.
Pure Barre isn't your typical workout. It brilliantly fuses elements of yoga, Pilates, and ballet into carefully choreographed 50-minute classes that work muscles you didn't even know existed. What truly sets it apart is the welcoming atmosphere Jenny experienced firsthand. "People call you by name. It's very family-oriented," she explains. "You can walk in the door, leave everything else going on in your life behind, and focus on you." This philosophy resonated deeply with Jenny, who spent years putting everyone else first as she and her husband raised five children, including three adopted special needs children from their years as foster parents.
The beauty of Pure Barre lies in its accessibility. Classes can be modified for any fitness level, welcoming everyone from pregnant women to marathon runners, bodybuilders to those recovering from injuries like Jenny herself. The teachers undergo extensive training—approximately 100 hours—learning anatomy, physiology, and the purpose behind each movement. "I can't imagine this not being for anybody," Jenny shares with genuine enthusiasm as she prepares to open her studio behind Schlotzky's on Highway 42 around mid October.
Already approaching 200 members during pre-sales, Jenny's passion for Pure Barre is infectious. She's creating more than just a fitness studio; she's building a community where people know your name, celebrate your milestones (with signature walls for class achievements), and support your journey. For those curious but hesitant, Jenny offers this invitation: come try an "Engage" class to experience all four Pure Barre formats, or attend a free pop-up event at Union Park. Your first class might just change your life—it certainly changed hers. Follow Pure Barre Union on social media to stay updated on their grand opening and join this transformative fitness community.
The Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Mike Murphy.
Speaker 2:Thank you, charlie. Yes, I am Mike Murphy, host of the Good Neighbor Podcast. We talk to local business owners here in Union Kentucky, Northern Kentucky, so that you can get to know people as people, more than just a logo on a business card or a logo on the side of a truck or a building, and so the person that I have with me today is Jenny connect. Jenny is the owner of pure bar, and so you know, you drive down 42, you see the logo and you wonder like, what is Pure Bar? Well, we're about to find out together. So, jenny, welcome to the show. Thank, you.
Speaker 2:And tell us what is Pure Bar.
Speaker 3:So Pure Bar has been a life changer for me is what I call it. But, for anyone else who's never heard of it, it's basically kind of a fusion between yoga and Pilates, and ballet utilizes different things from each of those movements, and it's a place people can walk into and feel comfortable and not judged, and work every muscle in their body. You end up working muscles you didn't even know you had and work every muscle in their body.
Speaker 2:You end up working muscles you didn't even know you had, and I hope that everyone in our community feels the same way about it that I do so when I think of pure bar because I mean I've never been, I have no idea like what pure bar is I'm finding out, you know, with the rest of the community.
Speaker 2:Here I think of like ballet, like the bar, you know right and putting your foot up on the bar and stretching and all that stuff. So I mean, is that kind of part of what purebred is a little?
Speaker 3:bit of it. So I thought the same thing, and when I went for my first time, my sister-in-law actually introduced me to it. She goes to a studio and absolutely loves it. I had lost about 80 pounds hadn't done any exercise in forever. And I was talking to her and I said I've got to get started on something and she said come to Pure Bar with me, try it. And I thought dance and ballet is the very opposite of who I am.
Speaker 3:I was a basketball player in high school. I want to do weights and things like that and I thought this is not for me. She finally ended up talking me into it. I went the first time. No joke, I left, came home, told my husband that day we are opening a studio in Union. This is the best thing I've ever seen and it just hit on everything I believe in, everything I love about working out. I actually have a degree in exercise and fitness management and always dreamed of doing something in the fitness world, but nothing was the right fit and I just completely fell in love with it. So, like you said, you do utilize the bar, and I utilize it probably too much, because a lot of times you use it to modify some of the movements.
Speaker 3:For example, we did planks. I cannot do a plank I was recovering from open heart surgery, as a matter of fact, and I thought there is no way I can do that and the teachers did a great job at showing you how to adapt the movements. So I did those up at the bar so you can use the bar to tone down some of the movements if they're too difficult for you. You do use it to balance with hold on to, but you work literally every muscle in your body and we also utilize weights and bands and an exercise ball and there's platforms as well, so it utilizes some other equipment as well so you just sort of like glossed over open heart surgery.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like not a big deal. And then I went to work out. You know pretty much. So, um, let's talk about that, okay. Um, so I mean number one. It's like what led to you needing open heart surgery and then the fact that you can do this type of workout exercise whatever, having had open heart surgery. So that tells me that you're probably able to help anybody, anybody that wants to come and do their version of a workout.
Speaker 3:You can help them correct, exactly, and that's what I love so much about it. You see people eight months pregnant in there. You see marathon runners. I've seen bodybuilders. There's ex-military, you name it. You can be there because of how modifiable the movements are.
Speaker 3:You can make it very difficult, or you can modify it and make make a little bit easier for your level. That's what I love about it. So, yes, I turned 50 a year and a half, a little over a year ago, and on my 50th birthday is when I first went to Pure Bar. Right around that time Hadn't done exercise in forever, as I mentioned, recovering from open heart surgery, and I thought I just don't know if I can do this. And I just walked in there and felt so welcomed and embraced by everyone. People call you by name.
Speaker 3:It's a very family oriented atmosphere. It's like you can walk in the door, leave everything else going on in your life behind and focus on you, which is something so many of us, especially mothers and women, don't do this week. Put everyone else first.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Think of everyone else, and it's just a chance for you to focus on you. You can't take care of others unless you take care of yourself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the whole oxygen mask thing that we're taught. You know, take care of yourself so you can take care of others Exactly so the open heart surgery thing like was that something that? Like? Was it a like you were born with this.
Speaker 3:Was there like a defect or like what happened to open heart surgery? I had blood pressure problems since I was in my early twenties and peak condition Me too, as so many of us do and it was just a routine screen and they saw that I had an aortic aneurysm that was big enough that they thought needed to be taken care of, got it taken care of, and the rest is history. I feel great now.
Speaker 2:OK.
Speaker 3:Prompted me to lose a lot of weight, like I mentioned I was. Yeah, I have a degree in exercise fitness management. I was great. Now, okay, prompted me to lose a lot of weight, like I mentioned I was, I have a degree in exercise fitness management. I was an athlete but, like so many others, got married, put everyone else first, started having children. My husband and I did foster care for many, many years and forgot about me, gained a lot of weight, was tired all the time, just didn't feel right. And as I approached 50, I said you have got to do something with yourself. And that's kind of where the journey started.
Speaker 2:Wow, okay, I mean that's a big, huge thing. I mean I don't know what that looks like or feels like, but to have that epiphany, that moment where you look in the mirror and you say something's got to change we all, I guess you know, wish that we could change ourselves in various different ways or whatever, but like to have that moment where you're like really, really honestly, truly say something's got to change. Like is there a specific day, like what happened, where you said this has got to change somehow, some way? I've got to change my life, my habits, my everything. What happened?
Speaker 3:I don't think it was a specific day, but I'd say my 49th year. I was exhausted all the time, couldn't even go on a walk. The most humiliating moment for me in my life, I think, was going to Kings Island and not being able to fit on one of the rides and I said this is it, this is not me. I need to change this. I can't. I have three special needs children. I can't take care of them if I'm not healthy and if I'm not here, who's going to do that? So it kind of happened over a little period of time and then the weight loss really sparked me to get moving and pursue exercise again, but I've done every exercise.
Speaker 3:there is kind of like everyone else, every diet there is, you name it. I have done it and nothing stuck. And so when I discovered Pure Bar, I knew it would stick, and that's why I said we don't have this in our community and we need it, and I want to share this with everyone else you went home to your husband you said we're going to start the pure bar it's like what was it about pure bar that made you have that?
Speaker 2:you know that moment like, oh my god, this is what I'm going to do with the rest of my life I think it was just the whole atmosphere and the fact that I didn't hate doing it.
Speaker 3:I've hated just about everything else. I leave not feeling good, I can't breathe, you know your lungs are hurting and you just don't feel great. I left feeling great, not dying. We don't want to leave a gym and dread going back and the fact that you walk in and they greeted me by name and they didn't know me. I get that, but I just felt so welcome. The other people in the class that had been going for years came up to me asked me if it was my first time. It just was so welcoming and that wasn't a one-time thing, it was every single time. After there's so many things to motivate you Like they had a first 10 challenge and being competitive I said, okay, I got to get the first 10. You get a free pair of socks and so if you're competitive, it kind of drives you and helps you to stick with it. But it's just something of all the things I've done that I knew I could stick with something of all the things I've done that I knew I could stick with.
Speaker 2:So at that time were you literally 80 pounds heavier than you are right now?
Speaker 3:No, so I had lost the weight going into it but hadn't done any exercise. All right I my body was not toned at all. I was starting to see some loose skin, and that's when I said I've got to start toning and working my muscle to kind of I still want to drop another 20 pounds and so just to get over that hump. That was kind of what pushed me to start working out.
Speaker 2:And then my wonderful sister-in-law who forced me to go Shout out to sister-in-law.
Speaker 3:Shout out to Bridget Bickle Okay, there you go. There you go, all right.
Speaker 2:Hey Bridget, yes, all right, hey Bridget.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:All right cool. So where was that Pure Bar at? So?
Speaker 3:that's at the Fort Wright location. That's a different owner. She and I are working closely together to make sure that both of our studios at this point are going to be successful. I've met owners of all different Pure Bars and they've all been amazing so far.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right, cool, all right. So you mentioned your husband, you mentioned children. Let's talk about that. So what does family life look like for you?
Speaker 3:So well, first of all, my husband is wonderful, he's. I'm a very type, a dominant, controlling kind of person and he's like super laid back, I can bring children home, animals home, you name it, and he's building a bedroom or fencing the yard. He just kind of goes with the flow.
Speaker 3:Exactly when I came home that day and I said, oh my God, that was the best thing I've ever done. I want to open one in Union. He kind of laughed and he said, well, what do we got to do? And then we started looking into it and that was a several month process of trying to figure out if we were going to be able to manage it and what that was going to look like. So, yeah, he has been wonderful, but we have five children. Okay, my oldest is out of the house. She's in her 20s. She was recently married and has a baby on the way. It'll be our first grandchild congratulations yes.
Speaker 3:And then my next one just graduated high school, um, and she still lives in the home. And then we have three, uh, other children that are, oh gosh, isn't it sad I have to think of their ages hey, that happened 12.
Speaker 2:They do get older almost 17.
Speaker 3:Okay, so, and they're all still in school, they go to gray and ryle, yep, so that's where we're at, okay well, very good.
Speaker 2:So I guess when somebody walks into a Pure Bar OK, what does that look like? And feel like they, they just hear like, ok, pure Bar is kind of cool and this sounds kind of cool, and my friend goes here, or whatever it's like. When you walk in, what are you met with? What? What happens?
Speaker 3:Right. So you make an appointment to come in. We offer a class called Engage and it's a trial class. It's a little bit of a shortened version. There's four different formats that PureBar offers, and that Engage class gives you a little taste of all four formats to see if it's something you'd be interested in, if you think you want to join. So after that we have one of our sales team that would kind of talk you through the options of joining. Um, when you come in we're going to know your name and we'll have been talking to you before that moment.
Speaker 2:So it's a super welcoming atmosphere when you come in so you know everyone's name, but they don't wear name tags, right?
Speaker 1:now.
Speaker 2:So that's kind of cool that you take the time to really know them.
Speaker 3:Right, not just their name Exactly.
Speaker 2:Like what their I guess history is, and like what what their goals are Right In terms of fitness and whatnot.
Speaker 3:Right, and just in this whole process of doing pre-sales, we're already pushing about 200 members, wow, and there's so many that I've connected with already just through phone calls and text and getting to know their story. And you know, we really take ownership. And getting to know people and I think that's one of the things that sets us apart from other places is every person means something. And we want you to come in and we want to ask you oh, how's your dog doing? I know they had surgery recently. Or your daughter's getting married, how's that? You know we want you to be a part of the pure of our family.
Speaker 2:Okay. So I've driven past your place multiple times. I peek in the window and I see there's, you know, building going on no-transcript Walls. I mean I see progress, yes, but I don't see that you're ready to open tomorrow. So what is the projected open date?
Speaker 3:So our general contractor has given us a date of around October 13th. Okay, we are hoping nothing goes wrong and that will be an accurate date.
Speaker 3:We do have the foundation walls up and they're working on the wiring right now for electric and then I think everything else is going to move pretty quickly. So I think we're past that difficult part of getting permits and that kind of thing which takes the longest. But my plan will be to continue giving updates to everyone and posting on social media pictures of the progress and that kind of thing and posting on social media pictures of the progress and that kind of thing.
Speaker 2:Okay, good, was there anything? Like you know, it's one thing to walk out of a pure bar and go home and tell your husband we need to start one in union, yes, but the reality is different, I'm sure. Like there are hoops you have to jump through, there's all sorts of things that have to take place you have to jump through. There's all sorts of things that have to take place. Um, was there anything that you were like? Um, wow, this is really harder than I thought it was going to be. Um, like, what did the the process look like for you?
Speaker 3:well, we're almost. I guess we purchased, we bought into the franchise almost a year ago. Okay, so that's how long this whole process has been up till now, and we didn't know what we didn't know, to be honest, my husband and I had never owned a business before.
Speaker 3:We kind of went in with some blind faith. But the franchise owner is called Exponential. They own multiple different companies and they have been absolutely fantastic. They have guided us step by step. We have five phone calls a week with different teams telling us everything we need to do. I say it's like a pay-by-number process, which is exactly what I need. They're successful and so we follow what they tell us to do.
Speaker 3:I think the biggest surprise is what the teachers go through in training. So I've hired a lead teacher. She's got tons of experience with Pure Bar and she's been helping hire new people. My plan was to teach at some point until I found out how extensive the training was and I said I'm going to not do that quite yet. I want to get a little more time under my belt. But those teachers go through extremely extensive training. I'm talking 100 hours in the studio preparing. They learn anatomy and physiology. They learn everything about how the body works and what movements, why the movements work the way they do. It's a very choreographed class pattern, excuse me, it's um the detail that goes into it and the planning is why it's so successful, which I didn't know when I was taking classes. You don't realize how they're trained, but it's just been phenomenal to watch and we've had several go through the training successfully and they're just so excited to get in that studio and share what they've learned are there different levels?
Speaker 2:pure bar like a pure bar. Are you sort of like a beginner? Are you advanced? Like what's that look like?
Speaker 3:so every teacher learns. It's our classic format first. So they're all certified in classic and I mentioned there were four formats total. So they have to get a separate certification in each format. So, like our lead teacher is certified in all four of those formats.
Speaker 2:The goal will be to get everyone certified, but they have to have so much experience before getting into that next level okay of training so, um, you hired the one person who's sort of like you know, I, I guess, like you're really leaning hard into her and helping, like you know um, but uh, do you. Are you looking to hire anybody else?
Speaker 3:Absolutely Okay. So it's very clever we call our desk staff bartenders B-A-R-R-E. I love that, so we'll be hiring that staff. I do have a sales manager. Her name is Paige Montel. She's been doing just about everything behind the scenes. Anybody who's been a prospect or joined has had contact with her. She's awesome. I do have a couple of teachers who used to teach peer bar but for whatever reason, went a different direction and now that we have something in union they are coming back to teach, so they're going to have some extra certifications under their belts just so we can offer enough of the class formats for everybody. But I will continue to be hiring all positions, all right.
Speaker 2:So you lost a lot of weight. I did.
Speaker 3:So how do you maintain your current weight? Honestly, it's just lifestyle change, which I didn't get until I turned 50. Honestly, we've all tried everything. I swear I've literally you name it. I have done it, and it just took me realizing that I wasn't on a diet, that I was changing how I view food and I would consider myself a food addict, to be honest, and I think I've just gotten a handle on that and I feel so great how I am now that I will never go backwards okay, were you a carb addict?
Speaker 3:oh my gosh holy cow.
Speaker 2:Yes, because I think most of us, anybody who's watching this, I think most of us, anybody who's watching this, I mean most people. I mean carbs are like yum, yum, yum.
Speaker 3:It is and it's an addiction like any other, and I truly do believe that I really do.
Speaker 2:How do people kick that habit? It's like, well, what do you have to do?
Speaker 3:You know, not being a professional in that field.
Speaker 2:I guess just as a personal. Yeah, if I'm asking a friend.
Speaker 3:Honestly, as a friend. For me it's eliminating it all for a short time to kind of detox, yeah, and then gradually adding back in the good carbs is kind of what worked for me. Okay, but I'm a candy addict and I don't deprive myself anymore of anything. Yeah, but I've learned how, instead of eating the entire bag of jelly beans, I'll eat five. So it's moderation, and when you start seeing results in your body, it pushes you to keep going. I think it took me, I'd say, about 10 classes of Noam Pure Bar when I really started seeing some definition and it just pushes you to keep going. But if you you know, if you're doing something you don't see results, what's going to motivate you to keep going? You got to find the right fit for you to be able to progress.
Speaker 2:How long did it take you to lose that amount of weight?
Speaker 3:It was a little over a year. Okay, yeah, and I do. Like I said, I've been maintaining for quite a few months and I do want to drop some more, so I'm hoping, once we get that studio opened, that's going to help okay.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, there are people who are going to watch this and they're like okay, I need help. Yeah, everybody needs different levels of help. You know everyone's sort of just on their own different journey or whatever, but they can come to Pure Bar and fit in, you know, in terms of whatever they need.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:You're going to be able to just sort of help them with their own personal journey. And you have walked the walk, I have walked the walk, I have walked the walk.
Speaker 3:Exactly. And you know what, having talked to so many people we've had pushing a thousand people that have expressed interest, and I hear the same story over and over I'm out of shape, I'm, you know, some say I'm getting older. I'm kind of embarrassed to go to the gym. Yeah, talk me into it and I just, you know, I think you got to try it, see it to believe it is what I say, but it's. There are so many in that same situation and I'm really looking. I'm looking to try to come up with some kind of a class idea where everybody in that class is a first timer, everyone's afraid, so that you feel a little more comfortable. So we are working on some things behind the scenes to help those people that are a little nervous about joining, because it is scary to start something new that you're not sure what it is.
Speaker 1:Is it going?
Speaker 3:to be for you, but I just can't imagine this not being for anybody. Now we don't have a lot of men. However, I hope to change that. It's funny because my primary care doctor is very familiar with bar and he jokingly said you know people, the men think, oh, that's going to be super easy, it's not for me. He said I took a class and I about died. I think men don't realize you know, you work muscles. You didn't even realize you had those little tiny muscles with real small, isolated movements and they're shocked. My husband had to take a class because we did a training in California, where the franchise is, and he fell in love with it. He said I'm coming, I don't care if I'm the only guy in there, and I have had a few people reach out saying their husbands are interested, so I do hope to get some men coming in.
Speaker 2:Okay, how long does a class last?
Speaker 3:Classes are 50 minutes.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:So yeah, all the class formats are that amount.
Speaker 2:All right, and then you wake up the next day and you're sore, a little bit, a little bit Because you're like whoa, what is that muscle?
Speaker 3:I didn't know I had that. Yeah, and that's a good thing it is. And it's not that it's minimal work, it's Small, isolated, controlled movements. I mean, you feel the shake. There's a lot of lingo that comes with pure bar that you learn, like the shake, the tucks, things like that, but it's, those small movements really make a difference. All right, you really work your core, which is kind of central to everything.
Speaker 2:So if somebody is thinking, OK, it sounds kind of cool. I'm not sure if it's for me, though. Like, what do you say to those people?
Speaker 3:I'd say come try and engage class, see what you think. I can't imagine you leaving and not thinking it was wonderful. I really just can't. Well, good, but that's the way to get in and see if it's for you. And the Fort Wright owner has been gracious enough to allow union prospects to come try a class at her studio for $15, which is much cheaper than it would be normal. So that's another option, and there are studios in Cincinnati and other options if someone wanted to try it.
Speaker 2:Okay, and what is her name? Let's shout her out.
Speaker 3:Tracy Chaplin. She's amazing. She's a Fort Wright owner. Let's shout her out.
Speaker 2:Tracy Chaplin. She's amazing. Okay, so she's. She's helped you out.
Speaker 3:She has. She's been a great resource.
Speaker 2:All right, well, before we go, there's one thing I want to talk about you. You have some special needs children, correct? So what special needs in terms of what? In terms of how, and you know of how, and you know how do you, how do you help them, and is there any sort of, I guess, like a local cause that kind of helps you help them?
Speaker 3:So we my husband and I I mentioned did foster care for many, many years and we mostly took medically fragile infants and then children with behavioral needs, and we ended up adopting three of them. My oldest one is 17. He's about to turn 17. He is very well known in the community. He loves to shop at Kroger. He is a trip, so he goes to Ryle. He's a senior this year but he'll stay in until 21. And the school has been absolutely amazing with him. He has some physical limitations. He is mobile. His language Ryle. He went to state the last few years.
Speaker 3:He is a miracle child. He is so much fun so I did tell him I want him sitting at the desk at Pure Bar. He's going to get a job there so everyone can meet Keegan so I do.
Speaker 3:He is on the Michelle P waiver. I'm not sure if people are familiar with that, but it's a government assistance where he gets one-on-one care pretty much around the clock. So we have that's how I met Paige. She was my sales manager. She actually was a caregiver for him, so that's a major resource. And then I have a daughter with cerebral palsy as well and she's a seventh grader at Gray. Her name's Stephanie. She is almost 13. And she also is low IQ and has pretty significant behavioral problems, and we're working on getting her on that waiver as well. And then my third son. He actually goes to Ackerman. He is in eighth grade and he is 13. He'll be 14 this year and we deal with some behavioral issues with him as well. Okay, so yes, but I do feel like we are plugged into some really good resources, but there's always the need for more, of course.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you have a lot going on.
Speaker 3:I have a lot going on but, I, have a lot of help, a lot of family.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, good.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I think, just having more eyes and ears on what you have happening within your family life and your business life, I think how could people not want to support you?
Speaker 3:I mean seriously.
Speaker 2:Exactly right. I just met you like literally what, like a half hour ago, yeah, yeah, so I am very impressed by you, are?
Speaker 3:you joining Pure Bar. Well, ask my wife, you're going to come I mean both of you on, I do that's another thing I really want to do is make, because we have so many women that have joined bring your spouse stay, or bring your husband or boyfriend, significant other or whatever.
Speaker 2:So I expect to see you there yeah, there's one thing that I lack in my life and that is discipline. Okay, and and that's probably, you know, common, amongst men especially. But I don't know. I mean, do I need pure bar Hell? Yeah, I do. So, you know, you are offered to come and check it out and just see how it goes. Why wouldn't I and why wouldn't anybody?
Speaker 3:And we do have pop-up events, which we unfortunately have had, two that had to be canceled due to weather but, we do. We're planning another one in the next week or so. That will be at Union Park, which is outside and it's free. Anybody can come.
Speaker 3:So those are good opportunities, too, for people to get a trial. We don't have the equipment or the bar, but you still get a feel for what you're going to get out of it Okay. So that's another good opportunity, and we do post that on social media and on our website.
Speaker 2:All right, and we'll wake up sore the next morning.
Speaker 3:You will wake up a little sore. Good, absolutely.
Speaker 1:That's how you know it's working Right.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 3:And that's the other thing is so my sister-in-law she I think I don't want to misquote this, but I believe she just hit 500 classes recently. She is a rock star, but she even says it's changed up enough with different kinds of movements that she still feels that way after doing it this long. You don't get used to it, yeah. Because, we change it. And we don't want your body to adapt to the movement. So it's that's something else I love about it.
Speaker 2:So I won't have giant arms and little skinny legs Not exactly Right. Okay, cool, good, good, all right, so we're wrapping this up. Is there anything we haven't talked about that maybe you want to make sure we get to talk about before we sign off?
Speaker 3:You know, I know there's a lot of different opportunities coming in union to work out and I, you know, I just no hard feelings to anybody who goes somewhere else, but I think you need to yell it to yourself to try them all, See what's the best fit for you. You know some things work for you and some don't, but Pure Bar is just one of those things that I feel works for everyone and I just want everyone to have that opportunity.
Speaker 2:That's a great point. I mean choices, I mean we all want choices.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:And what works for one may not work for another. That's right. Okay, but people can come and find their tribe.
Speaker 3:That's exactly right. Yeah, okay, and we do also offer options of doing like class packs, or maybe just eight classes a month instead of the unlimited. So there's, you know, options for everyone. If it's not something you want to do full time, okay, but you're going to want to do it full time and we're going to walk out of the class and say I need to start another one.
Speaker 2:Florence, that's right. I'm like.
Speaker 3:Hebron's looking good. Yeah right, they don't have one. Okay, I'm like Hebron's looking good.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, they don't have one. Okay, well, hebron's next. All right, I'm going to start one in Hebron.
Speaker 3:All right, no, I'll be your co-owner. All right Cool. All right Sweet, all right Cool.
Speaker 2:I want to try a class and just see what it's all about. Yeah, and when my, she will hold me to that, that's right.
Speaker 3:You're stuck.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm stuck, all right, cool. Well, tell you what this is. Wrapping up our conversation, I'm glad that I got to talk to you today and introduce the union community to what you have coming to. Union, right there on 42. If people want to reach out, do you have a phone number, a URL? Union, right there on 42. If people want to reach out, you know, do you have a phone number, a URL? I know people can just sort of you know, drive through union and look for you, but where are you at Like, who are your neighbors? What are you nearby that people would be able to to find you? So we are right behind Schlotzky.
Speaker 3:So you can eat your Cinnabon and then feel guilty and then come work out right after. But yeah, we were taking that whole backside of that building. Okay, and we do have. If you search Pure Bar Union, we should be the first thing that pops up. We have Instagram, Facebook. If you like us on that, you'll get all the updates which we post several times a week, and we'll also that get all the updates which we post several times a week.
Speaker 3:yeah, and we'll also that'll be where we post member achievements you know when you hit so many classes or if there's birthdays and things like that. So okay, follow us on any of those and go to our website as well all right.
Speaker 2:So yeah, when somebody hits, you know their 50th class, their 100th class, their 500 you know, whatever, yeah yeah, what's the?
Speaker 3:100, class there, 500 and whatever. Yeah, yeah, what's the the top you've ever seen? I've seen 2 000. Wow, and you know we have. So we have bars hanging on the wall. There's three tiers and you get to sign the bar when you hit the 50, I believe, the 100, the 500. So you get to sign your name on the wall of fame and be up there permanently, okay, and you get prizes for things as well.
Speaker 2:So is there going to be a big banner on the wall that says Mike Murphy's first class?
Speaker 3:I will do that just for you, and the best part is so I didn't mention. We also are going to have a little boutique in the front and we'll be selling some things that you can't get except in Cincinnati, like Lululemon, different high-end products, and when you do the classes you wear sticky socks and it becomes an addiction. I have quite a few pairs. They come in every season. They are the best part of Pure Bar Sticky socks. All right.
Speaker 3:I assume that you're talking like the bottoms of the socks, yeah, so we just call them sticky socks. But yeah they're just basically have the little rubber pieces on the bottoms.
Speaker 2:Okay well, very good, all right. So, jenny, thanks for stopping by today and sitting with us and letting people know that, whatever or wherever they are in their journey, their health journey, you're going to help them get to the next level. You've walked the walk, you talk the talk, and so, uh people need to come and be part of pure bar and you will help them figure out what their next uh chapter looks like. And I will be there um, as long as my wife has anything to say about it right alongside the union community, as we support Pure Bar. So, everybody, this is the Good Neighbor podcast, so I will always say to all of you until you see me again, everybody, be good to your neighbor. So long, everyone, bye-bye.
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