The podcast Guiding Growth: Conversations with Community Leaders from the Gilbert Chamber of Commerce, event and meeting venue Modern Moments and the Gilbert Independent/yourvalley.net explores the human journey of leaders. There are stories of humility, triumph, roadblocks, and lessons learned. This partial transcript of the most recent podcast with Jason France has been edited for brevity and clarity.

Jason France is a fitness professional, personal trainer and gym owner as well as a former Marine Raider and current HYROX athlete.

France is 44 years old and a Phoenix native. He was a nine-year Marine combat veteran with multiple tours to Afghanistan and one to Iraq.

He does lots of trail running, pumping up his muscles and doing his best to stay in tip-top shap

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