THE PODCAST

"For me, it was always the first key to winning is not losing." Professor Tosh Cook's tagline, on and off the mat, is simple: before you try to win, first make sure you're not going to lose.

Tosh, a ...

In February 2000, James Clingerman was a blue belt sitting at a stoplight when a man pulled up next to him and shot him in the face. The 9mm bullet is still lodged in his skull, and he's blind in his...

In 2017, weeks after closing the biggest deal of his career, Marty Herrick's company found a mistake, and a major bank threatened to sue. For three months the company president walked into his office...

Professor Elan Walshe thought he had life figured out — a driven career, a beautiful family, and a lifetime of competitive sport, from college football and high-level rugby to sponsored cycling. Then...

Professor Matt Baker started working at 14 — washing cars in freezing weather, janitorial work at night, bill collecting, bartending, DJing, selling insurance — usually two or three jobs at once. "Wh...

Peter Liciaga grew up a street kid in the South Bronx, where martial arts first became a way to survive. Over the next fifty-six years it became something else entirely — a way to live. In this conve...

Professor Heidi Garwood is a clinical social worker and a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt who built her gym around women and kids. In this conversation, she and Pete dig into the mental side of the ma...

Pete Deeley sits down with Professor Ryan Brock of Impact Jiu Jitsu in Hood River, Oregon — a coach who says, plainly, that without jiu-jitsu he’d be dead or in jail. They talk about the tough-love m...

Pete Deeley sits down with Professor Steve Ficca of Odin’s Halls BJJ in Las Vegas — a coach who found jiu-jitsu after boxing gyms and shuttered wrestling schools and never looked back. They talk abou...

Pete Deeley sits down with Cameron Shayne — founder of Budokon and a lifelong martial artist — for a wide-ranging conversation about the difference between a warrior and an athlete, why the body only...

Professor Eli Knight returns to The Jiu Jitsu Mindset, and this time we build the conversation around the hero’s journey — the call, the crisis, the near-quit, the mentor, and the message he’d leave ...

Host Pete Deeley talks with Professor Chris about preserving Gracie Jiu-Jitsu—specifically Rickson Gracie’s interpretation focused on practical self-defense, common-sense solutions to common attacks,...