#186 – David Chacon: Choose Your Hard: Physically & Emotionally Fit or Chronic Illness
Enter the Lionheart
Lawrence Dunning
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
David Chacon owns Dominion Martial Arts, is married with two children, and recently passed 433 days of consecutive workouts, which has completely transformed not only his body, but also his health, his happiness and the entire trajectory of his life.
“Being physically mentally and emotionally fit is hard.
Chronic illness, a broken mind, and a broken spirit is hard. Choose your hard.”
0.00: David background and struggles in building an MMA school
5.00: How David changed his life in October 2023
9.30: Health vs Money as metrics for success
20.00: Raising strong kids
29.00: Being present with infinite distractions
39.00: Shifting your identity
45.00: Hard, dark times transitioning between identities
50.00: Nearly a year on a strict Keto-Carnivore Diet
56.00: Getting dopamine from life
1.02.00: Martial Arts as a vehicle for personal development
1.07.30: Principles and Systems for entreprenuers
https://dominionmartialarts.com/
Until next time, love and good vibes.
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| 0:00.0 | and I would see myself in a casket, and I would see my little kids looking over the casket |
| 0:05.7 | with their cheeks, you know, their eyes, my wife, and just like, why'd you leave us? |
| 0:13.3 | There's so much more you could have done for us. |
| 0:16.1 | And I would feel that like I feel it now, but I would let it hit me and I didn't want |
| 0:20.4 | it to stop. I knew that it |
| 0:21.8 | would eventually get me to flip to switch. And that was ultimately what got me to completely move on. |
| 0:29.7 | And I think unfortunately for a lot of people, they wait too late and they can't reverse it. And I'm |
| 0:35.4 | just grateful that I was able to reverse everything |
| 0:38.0 | and clear out all of that. I'm on nomads or any of that stuff. But ultimately, it was the fear of |
| 0:44.8 | death, but not even that, it was really how much I would hurt those that depend on me. A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts. |
| 1:07.5 | Get ready to enter the Lionheart with your host, Lawrence Dunning. |
| 1:11.8 | David, my friend, I've been following your journey for 433 days, and I've been excited to have this |
| 1:18.5 | conversation for many months because your recent transformation has been amazing. |
| 1:23.0 | Thank you, man. I appreciate it. I can't wait for it, and I thank you for making the time and having |
| 1:26.9 | me on here today. |
| 1:28.3 | So let's go back, say, a year and a half ago, I read something you wrote. You said, October |
| 1:35.0 | 2023, life was really good. I was just fat and unhealthy. But this question would ring into |
| 1:42.6 | it whenever I would think about my next goal. |
| 1:46.5 | What kind of person do you have to become to achieve what you want in life? |
| 1:50.8 | That was your goal. |
| 1:51.5 | And so when I look at you, you're successful, you have a beautiful family, |
| 1:56.0 | but you were a little heavy, a little out of shape. |
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