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Blake Lopez January 14, 2026 at 07:36 PM

👋 Hello WGM!
Name: Blake Lopez
📍 Location: Dubai, UAE & United States (Miami, FL)
💼 Current Role: Founder of THEYRE (coming soon)— a modern social wellness platform and private members club blending movement, recovery, mental health, and spiritual growth. 14+ years leading marketing, growth, and expansion for global fitness, wellness, and lifestyle brands across the US, Middle East, and Europe.
🎯 Focus Areas: Building high-performance wellness ecosystems, digital D2C consumer & lifestyle brands, brand-led community, membership growth, experiential programming, and scaling premium wellness concepts globally.
🧠 Hobbies: Strength training, outdoors and nature, travel, design, music curation, spiritual study, and hosting meaningful gatherings
💬 Some Topics I’m Interested in Connecting About:
Building community-driven wellness brands, conscious leadership, performance + longevity, men’s health, spirituality, scaling businesses, and creating third-space experiences that actually foster belonging.
🤝 How I Can Help WGM:
Happy to share insights on brand building, growth strategy, community design, experiential wellness, leadership transitions, and navigating the intersection of business, purpose, and personal evolution. Also always open to collaboration and introductions where there’s true alignment.
How WGM Can Help Me:
Looking to learn from others building meaningful wellness concepts, deepen conversations around spiritual growth and relational health, and exchange perspectives on what’s working (and not) in modern wellness, community, and membership models. I also welcome investor introductions. Also open to conversations for fractional and consulting help.
🌍 Extra: I split my time between Dubai and the US and am always up for meeting in person when paths cross — especially around movement, coffee, or long conversations about building things that matter. https://www.linkedin.com/in/blake-l-01906a9/

Darci January 14, 2026 at 08:35 PM

Hi <@U0A9LARTB5W>! Welcome! THEYRE sounds fascinating! Can't wait to hear more! Community platforms or movements can be so tricky when it comes to engagement - I'd love to hear more about how you're approaching that aspect!

Tom Griffin January 14, 2026 at 08:36 PM

welcome <@U0A9LARTB5W>! excited to learn more about THEYRE when it launches, and dig the nods to mental / spiritual health (I've been working a bunch over the last year with Joe Hudson who sits at this intersection)

Jessica Gold January 16, 2026 at 06:17 PM

Hi <@U0A9LARTB5W> is THEYRE online-only or are there in-person spaces and events? Regardless, love what you’re doing, I am passionate about wellness and community, and I’m a member of the Portal in Marin, a fantastic social club/wellness space. I’d love to chat more with you sometime, as my startup is building software for wellness spaces and community hubs.

Blake Lopez January 19, 2026 at 08:48 AM

@Darci Thanks for the welcome! Would be so happy to connect and talk all things community. Feel free to shoot me a DM.

Blake Lopez January 19, 2026 at 08:50 AM

@Tom Griffin Hi Tom! Thanks for the welcome. Oh I'll have to look up Joe. Thanks for the suggestion. Would be happy to share about THEYRE and learn more about you

Blake Lopez January 19, 2026 at 08:51 AM

<@U0A8QJ6BRPG> Thanks so much! I'd love to learn about your startup and will have to check out Marin. It will be both a digital and offline business. Shoot me a DM and let's talk

Amber Berger January 26, 2026 at 10:33 PM

Welcome!! I'm in Miami too let's meet for a ☕