Fasten your seatbelt, today’s guest is about to take us on a superhighway fast lane to success, as she shares her rise to mogul status in the health and fitness world. You know her well:  Jillian Michaels, the foremost fitness expert in the world and a renowned life coach is our SO MONEY guest today.Jillian has built an international fitness community on countless platforms from her popular fitness DVDs and exercise streaming platform, fitfusion.com, to her 8 New York Times best-selling books, to her award-winning podcast The Jillian Michaels Show.

And she’s not slowing down. Jillian recently released her own iPhone app which allows users to train with her with pre-set workouts. Jillian’s company Empowered Media, which she launched with business partner Giancarlo Chersich, has fast become a monumental wellness empire that’s dedicated to provide people with accessible and affordable solutions for all of their wellness needs.

In the interview we discuss how Jillian’s not super conventional when it comes to executing her vision for the business. Hear how she strategizes her next steps. She also shares the worst money mistakes she made when she first encountered a great deal of wealth in her early 30s and how she’s making up for it today. Plus, the $8 million deal she says she would have NEVER done.