. >> nine round was cofounded ten years ago by the husband and wife team of shannon and heather hudson thank you guys both for being here. >> thank you. >> heather, you met shannon when you took one of his karate classes. >> i wanted to learn self-defense, and ended up finding -- really finding myself, you know, through fitness. that form of fitness was new to me i had always done step aerobics. i talk about how i'm grateful to my mom for instilling a love of jane fonda in me that was kind of my gateway drug to fitness all jokes aside, i felt more powerful when i left a karate class than i'd ever felt if you just fast forward that to us opening nine round, it was very empowering for me to do that workout it's been a great ride ever since. >> you were a professional kick boxer and boxer when you guys first started this whole thing. >> yeah. >> what lessons did you take from that? >> i won a world title, you know, and i only made $2,400 for the world title. i'm like, you know, there's gt to be a better way besides the money i said how do i take this type of training and give it to real p