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About This Episode
Back in Vegas! Dan Lourenco and Ryan Hughes, founders of GHOST, sit down with Ryan to discuss the trials and tribulations of starting GHOST, their failures, the lessons they learned and what 2022 is going to bring.
Topics Covered on this Show
- Newlywed game
- Ryan moving across country to start GHOST with Dan
- Biggest failures of the brand
- Biggest lessons learned
- Growth of GHOST
- GHOST 2022
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About The Host
Ryan Bucki is the founder and CEO of Fitness Informant. Ryan launched FitnessInformant.com in 2016 with the goal to help inform people across the globe on the subject of fitness, nutrition and supplementation so they themselves could change their own lives. Throughout the years Fitness Informant has grown into more than just a “supplement review platform.”
Ryan has strategically built Fitness Informant into a multi-digital platform including a website, podcast, YouTube channel and social media channel to reach tens of thousands across the globe on a daily basis.
Ryan is also a NPC bodybuilding competitor in the light heavyweight division.
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