The Jiu Jitsu Mindset Podcast · Interviews
THE PODCAST
Australian-born entrepreneur John Graham has lived what Pete calls several lifetimes in one: rugby player, CrossFit competitor, boxer, bodybuilder, gym owner and fight promoter. With Professor Lucas ...
Professor Matt Arroyo, a former UFC fighter who runs a Tampa gym of 500 to 600 families, traces his drive back to his Uncle Jimmy. At 15 he had failed every ninth-grade class except gym, until a five...
Professor Dan McCarthy was a 28-year-old competitive kickboxer when he saw the early UFC and went looking for this ground game. Now 55, a father of five, a money manager and management consultant, an...
Coach Tim Stinson found jiu-jitsu as his college baseball career ended, then had to choose: two weeks after his MMA fight he was hired as a full-time firefighter-paramedic, and his chief made clear t...
Professor Malachy Friedman, whose online technique videos reach millions of people, started at 18 or 19 by getting choked by a blue-belt friend in the front yard and refused to put on a gi for years....
Professor Jason Hawkins has spent 42 years in martial arts, starting with karate at 12, and teaches at Three Rivers Academy in western Kentucky. A longtime yoga practitioner who rereads the Yoga Sutr...
Professor Eli Knight came to jiu-jitsu from taekwondo and Japanese jiu-jitsu in a small town, watching bootleg Gracie tapes before the first UFC and traveling to seminars and camps to learn. He recei...
Mike Cheney teaches jiu-jitsu, wrestling and weapons-based self-defense at Endeavor Defense and Fitness in Hilliard, Ohio, and joins Pete, hosting solo, the morning after Thanksgiving. He explains th...
Aaron Jannetti is a three-stripe brown belt, a gym owner in Columbus, Ohio, and a self-defense instructor whose teaching covers knives and firearms alongside jiu-jitsu, Krav Maga and kickboxing. With...
Professor John Renken started fighting professionally in the mid-1990s, when jiu-jitsu was barely known in the US, his own jiu-jitsu instructor was a blue belt, and he could walk into an event with n...
Julian Torres joined the Marine Corps in 2007 as a machine gunner and was on the fast track, already five ranks up in three years, when he stepped on an IED about four weeks into his 2010 deployment ...
Professor Vivi Almeida is a first-degree black belt under her husband Flavio Almeida, her brother Marcio Feitosa and Master Carlos Gracie Jr., and one of the people working hardest to bring more wome...
