#192 – Marlon Suarez: D1 Football, Jiu-Jitsu & Thriving in NYC Real Estate
Enter the Lionheart
Lawrence Dunning
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Marlon Suarez is a former college athlete and a Danaher Death Squad Jiu-jitsu black belt, who has achieved massive success as a New York Real Estate broker for two decades. Marlon shares his wisdom on the transferrable lessons of high-level athletics to entrepreneurial real estate, the importance of consistency and mentorship, and why we must all find our niche.
0.00: Marlon’s background in D1l football and the lessons that transfer to business
7.00: Importance of controlling the variables we can control – work ethic and being in shape
11.00: Moving from professional Football to working in finance
18.00: The price you pay for competing in high level football and jiujitsu
27.00: Early days at Renzo Gracie and start of the DDS (Danaher Death Squad)
31.00: What makes John Danaher such a good coach
37.00: Training Jiujitsu as a super heavyweight
44.00: Transferring to Real Estate in Manhattan
50.00: Building a team in Real Estate and the joys of mentoring other agents
1.00.00: Clearing the noise and going solo again
1.08.00: Training in Jiujitsu after 50 and why longevity gets so important as you get older
Until next time, love and good vibes.
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| 0:00.0 | If I get up every day and I follow a structure with an ultimate goal, but with small, |
| 0:05.6 | incremental growth every day, I'll get what I want. |
| 0:10.0 | I wasn't understanding it at the moment. |
| 0:12.7 | When I got to college, I understood it better. |
| 0:16.0 | When I left college and I tried to play professionally, it made all the sense of the world. |
| 0:20.7 | It gave me the absolute confidence that it doesn't matter what I'm doing. I need to isolate what I want to achieve. I got to break it down into compartments and then I got to attack it. And that attacking is every day, apply myself with every day making small, progressive growth. That has been really a godsend for me |
| 0:38.9 | because I can apply that to my business. |
| 0:41.0 | I can apply that to my personal lives. |
| 1:00.8 | I sing. A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts. |
| 1:04.7 | Get ready to enter the Lionheart with your host, Lauren Stunning. |
| 1:07.0 | Marlin, thank you so much for taking the time. |
| 1:11.4 | And I can only imagine how busy you are brushing New York real estate and juggling jiu-suitzoo as well so really really nice to get connected. |
| 1:15.9 | Lawrence, thank you for having me. |
| 1:17.9 | It's a pleasure to be on. |
| 1:19.4 | I've been listening to your podcast and it's amazing. |
| 1:22.0 | I love it. |
| 1:22.5 | It's part of up. |
| 1:23.2 | I've made it part of my routine now. |
| 1:24.9 | You know, a shout out to our mutual friend, Nick, French Ducas, Nick LaManna. |
| 1:29.2 | He always says, Jiu-Jitsu is a new golf, and I really think it is. |
| 1:32.8 | Back in the day, I remember when I grew up, my dad would say, oh, yeah, all these wealthy people, |
| 1:36.8 | they get the stock tips on the golf course, and they make all their connections playing golf. I've never played golf, but I feel like that's what jiu-situ is, the amount of awesome connections I've made, and it's helped my business thrive as well. So jih Tzu |
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