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HALO Talks: Elevating Wellness

The HALO Talks podcast is hosted by Pete Moore, the Managing Partner & Founder of Integrity Square, the leading boutique investment bank in the HALO sector (Health, Active, Lifestyle, Outdoors.) HALO Talks are a collection of the fitness industry’s most recognized and respected founders and key executives seeking positive change through the products and services they deliver.

The podcast focus is the vision and mission behind the business, how the guests found their purpose, lessons learned along the way, and expectations for the future.

Aug 30, 2019

"Stay true to who your customers are. You also have to be ok not being appealable to everyone out there," states Andrew Hirsekorn, Principal & Founding Member of Eagle Merchant Partners. Eagle is a private equity firm and one of the owners of the largest Planet Fitness franchisees. Listen now to this wide ranging...


Aug 28, 2019

"We wanted to find a way for health and wellness professionals to sell something that they were more confident in," states CEO Brett Maloley. Their team interviewed approximately 22,000 members, 11,000 trainers, and 1,000 physicians in the research phase. Ladder has ~65,00 users nearly 10,000 of whom are coaches and the...


Aug 23, 2019

"When times were tough, the Mission and Vision of our club kept us going. It would have been very easy to slash our values for the sake of the dollar," stated Stephanie Coulon of Stone Creek Club & Spa in Louisiana. She and Larry Connor helped build this award-winning, high end facility from the ground up 10 years...


Aug 22, 2019

Mike Morris worked in specialty retail for nearly 25 years and helped scale national brands like J. Crew, The Vitamin Shoppe, and others. He specializes in retail & supply chain operations, software, and data management. After going through 4 private equity sales, he became a full time advisor in the PE world 12 years...


Aug 19, 2019

Peerfit began with 8 employees and now has 100+ spread across the country. Their mission is ambitious! "It's to refine corporate wellness," states Chris Patton. He continues, "The value add is that we're doing something that it's hard for gyms to do, which is make that connection to the insurance carriers. Gyms and...