“I’m a dental hygienist who's been working for over 40 years. I came out of work and there was a card on my window that said STRETCHMED Wellesley, come in for a free demo stretch and assessment and I was like, “Wow! This card fell from heaven!”… I went back in and signed up for 3 times a week for 50-minutes and it changed my life. I stopped taking my medication at night after one month. I continued to go for a few more months and I jokingly said to my husband one day I need to buy one of these so that I can be stretched the rest of my life it helps me more than anything I’ve ever done and we started looking into it and he said OKAY but you need to buy three so we have bought three and I’m very excited to help other people!”

“It was about a 4-to-6-month process from the time that we went for a stretch to the time that we opened our doors. From corporate, we have weekly calls every Tuesday with the owner of STRETCHMED and all of the owners of the franchises. We collaborate together, we suggest ideas, we have our ideas heard, and we're able to learn more on those calls. So, definitely there is a good amount of support that comes from the corporate level to help open and train and work the studio. The systems are in place for you to follow, so it's different than starting up your own business with nothing available to you. It is scripted for you. there is a marketing plan, there is a business plan, there is corporate support, there is a design that is ready for you, there's a training structure that is there. So, opening a franchise, in my mind, is a lot easier than opening your own business…”

My background is I’ve been running medical practices for a large academic medical center for the past 10 years. So, I’ve got a background in the operational side of it, in the financial side, and dealing in a in the medical field. And, although this is not medical, it's medically based and I think that's an important part. That the word “STRETCHMED” is derived by stretching with a medical basis. They used science to create the program that we all follow. And, my wife, who kind of runs the day-to-day of the business, she tells the story about how this program really helped her significantly. She loved the product so much that she bought into the company… she will be very successful at it and helping people. And that's really what our goal is: to be able to help people.”

“I got involved in STRETCHMED at the front end, because I own a fitness center for women… And, in working with those women, what I know, is that they don't stretch enough…. Women 40 and over essentially is the market that I was working with. As we age, we don't have any choice but to stretch. We cannot continue to exercise without Stretching, but no matter what I said my clients still didn't stretch and so, they would come with acute issues like “my knee hurts, “my shoulder hurts,” and I would ask them if they have been stretching and they said “no.” Once I became aware of this therapy and that franchise was going to be developed under stretching, I became immediately intrigued because working with the clientele I had for five years, I knew that there was a marketplace for it. So, I immediately asked for a meeting and started diving in to learn as much as I could… One of the biggest challenges that you'll have in starting a new franchise is staffing it. The corporation has a training manual for you to follow in order to train up your staff and to learn the sales process, help your staff learn the sales process as well as learn the systems and infrastructure that you need…”