Introduction
Discover how Corbin, a 20-year-old fitness trainer from Virginia, built a successful AI business generating $7,000 plus a monthly retainer of $1,000. This interview explores his journey from fitness training to AI automation, how he identified problems within his workplace, and leveraged skills from The Real World platform to create solutions that caught the attention of corporate executives. Learn how he balanced personal development with technical skills to create a thriving business while still working as a fitness trainer.
Founder Success Story QnA
So, I didn’t catch your name, sir.
Uh, my name is Corbin.
Obviously, you’re from state side. Whereabouts are you?
Uh, near like DC, about a 30 minute drive away from DC in uh Virginia.
What time is it there?
Uh 10:20 a.m. Oh, in the morning.
So, tell me a little bit about yourself, Corbyn. Tell me how old you are. Tell me your little journey so far.
I’ll be 21 this summer. Um, let’s see. I joined TWW back in like December 2023 cuz I was on like my own kind of like little little business business venture. Um, I was just trying to resell these lights and like, you know, to increase the social media cuz that’s what I was in charge of. I joined TRW and I mean what really kept me in TRW was a stocks campus. So I mean like I’m still like in the stocks campus and I’ve been okay loving it there. But I mean like I’m a fitness trainer so group fitness trainer. Um love it. Love it. You know that’s that’s my field. That’s you know that’s my that’s my field. So yeah I I look it gives me so much joy every single day to train people.
I’ve been coaching for about a year and a half now. I got to go get my certifications recertified and it’s like I’ve grown to love it so much that it’s like I won’t need it for the money, but like I want to keep it in just because of the relationships I’ve built there just because I like come in like you know I’m all miked up like I have I have control over all the music. So like I have a great time coaching.
No, I I I love that as well. And like I say, so what do you So you’re 21. Um I believe that, correct me if I’m wrong on this, your school system runs until what age?
18 is when we graduate. My brother just graduated on a Friday. Okay, cool. So then after that, what did you do?
I went right into electrical. So, I like didn’t know what I wanted to do for school-wise. And I knew that going into like a 4-year university straight away, not knowing what I was going to do and like just kind of like the path that I was in like didn’t didn’t make sense. So, I was like, “All right, trade.” You know, I go in, I did that for a year, you know, learned how to work hard, but then at the end of like that first year, I was like, “It’s not going to happen.” Like I I’m I’m looking at my co-workers and I’m like, “Dude, they’re like 60 years old and they’re still having I don’t want to be like that. Yeah. Yeah. And I’m like I’m like they’re still having to climb in these attics with me. Like I can do it right now. Like I’m young. Like I can work these long hours and but like I’m not not going to be able to do this forever, man. So then I just started going to community college. I’ve been doing community college for about two years and I just applied for a transfer into mechanical engineering. So I’ll be going to a university here soon.
Oh, okay. Cool. So, you’re going to do the university above. So, then what made you join the real world?
So, yeah, I joined the real world mainly because like what what really kept me in the real world was the stocks campus, right? Trading. What made you join it in initially first?
Initially, it was for social media. I was trying to promote a business that I was starting with my friends cuz like when I first had that realization, I can’t do this. It was like, all right, start a business. We got to make money. And it was basically just kind of like we would buy a bunch of products like I think I think the guy before me was saying like he would buy stuff from China, you know, AliExpress. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We would put them together. We would make it look real nice in this box and it would basically be like uniform LEDs. So like the room LEDs, but like really nice. You can control them on your phone. Like I got them in my room. So I got some sweet. So I had some in my gym. I had some in my gym before. Yeah. I know exactly what you’re talking about. Yeah. So I like I like really liked the experience like the business failed but I mean like I learned so much from it you know so like it was a great venture and like when that business failed I was like while I was going through it the business I was like oh this is stocks campus I’ve always kind of like been drawn to that so I joined that and I’ve like I mean it’s not open anymore you know it’s been like merged into crypto trading but I mean I’ve loved the people there and I know like that’s something I’m going to be for the rest of my life.
So, okay, cool. So, how are you getting on with your stocks campus?
Absolutely love it. I mean, tech technically what brought me on the interview was AI automation. Like the stocks campus though really built and installed the habits. So, with the stocks campus, it’s more of like when you trade, it’s not like a like I know you’ve heard it a few times, but it’s not like get rich quick scheme. You have to change everything internally first. So, it’s like the real world really started on internal work first. I know you guys advertise a lot of like make money now, right? But for me, it really was like, all right, when we’re here for a long time, let’s let’s really start with the important stuff first. You know, let’s focus on diet mentality, journaling, working out, taking care of yourself, making sure everything input is clean. You know, the PM challenge was amazing. like the positive masculinity challenge on how cutting out cheap dopamine, eating good food, and like always working out. Like that really just set me off and like got that boulder moving, got the momentum started. I loved it. I loved it. Yeah, it’s easy. Super easy to do that.
So when So I obviously that that’s a great path to go down. So when did you actually start kind of monetizing from from the real world? How long was it before you started?