Recently, fitness has gotten pretty big on the east coast. Otherwise I would definitely consider moving closer to your neck of the woods.
Intenseone has the weather in his favour compared to you brixton...
I think training people is like a lot of things... if you have the passion for helping people and are still humble enough to know that you don't know everything and you need to keep educating yourself you can do well.
Joe's competitve edge is his thirst for knowledge IMO and thats a big reason people stay with him so long as clients...