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Career Change: How I Ended Up Opening a Personal-Training Franchise

A chance meeting at a buffet table in Mexico led to a career change for Sam Langer.
A great fit: Sam Langer of GymGuyz.

Sam Langer was having a quarter-life crisis. After graduating from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, he took a job as a sports planner at ESPN, mapping out commercial breaks during broadcasts. He was mildly unhappy. That’s when his parents found themselves in a fortuitous buffet line. 

On a trip to a resort in Mexico, Langer’s dad,

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