A Birthday Message I Wish Someone Sent Me At 25 - Part 1 (Episode 407)
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
4.9 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Chewy shares some ideas that he wishes he received when he was 25 years old to help with getting the most out of life. In this episode we discuss these ideas:
1. Why Chewy "ate crap" to figure out his business.
2. How Chewy dealt with criticism and how following your own path can get lonely.
3. Why Chewy lost a lot of relationships in the process of creating the life he wanted.
4. The importance of sitting down and writing out how you want your life to look.
5. Why Chewy and his wife decided on having clearly defined roles and responsibilities.
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| 0:00.0 | What up, guys. Welcome to the Jiu-Jitsu podcast episode. Who knows? It's 407, 407. |
| 0:06.3 | And that number is a perfect number to do the podcast we're going to start with. |
| 0:09.8 | Why is it the perfect number? I have no idea. 4-07 sounds as good as any of you. |
| 0:14.1 | Got a 407 at these. Holy crap. It's a lot, man. It's a lot. But hey, so here's the idea today. |
| 0:20.6 | So guys, recently I shared an email on my newsletter, which if you guys haven't subscribed to that, you probably should. |
| 0:27.1 | It's at chujitsu.net slash join, J-O-I-N. |
| 0:30.4 | You can get my daily newsletter. |
| 0:31.7 | And I sent this email out recently on my birthday where I basically titled it like the birthday message. |
| 0:38.0 | I wish someone sent me when I was 25. |
| 0:40.8 | And it was a long list of different ideas that have been helpful to me in regards to |
| 0:47.4 | living the life that I like to live that I have and able, am able to live now. |
| 0:53.0 | Right. And it come in, I'll tell the story as to why I'm sharing |
| 0:55.5 | this with you guys, right? Because this is not normal jiu-jitsu content. This is kind of, |
| 0:58.7 | we're, you know, we're going to talk about jihitsu, but it's going to go around in some |
| 1:01.3 | different places, a lot more life stuff. But it seemed that a lot of people enjoy the email. |
| 1:04.9 | A lot of guys resonated with it. And so I got a ton of messages from a ton of replies. And so I figured, well, it seems like everybody liked it. |
| 1:12.1 | We would make it into a podcast. |
| 1:13.4 | And we'll be breaking this up over like two or three episodes because it was a long email. I think in the actual email, I told people, it's like this is a, you know, today it's like my 40 first birthday. and I've got fittingly the as I'm the oldest I've ever been I'm going to give you the |
| 1:26.8 | longest email that I've ever written because I think it was you know 1,400 1400 words or |
| 1:31.3 | something. I've got fittingly the as I'm the oldest I've ever been, I'm going to give you the longest email that I've ever written because I think it was like, you know, 1,400, |
| 1:30.7 | 1400 words or something. So if you have tick-tac brain, you probably shouldn't read it. |
| 1:36.2 | But, uh, you know, it basically some ideas on basically about lifestyle stuff as well as, |
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