Championship Lessons To Success In Life and Business | Benson Henderson
The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs
Nick Lamagna
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with our guest Benson "Smooth" Henderson a UFC Legend, athlete, entrepreneur, trainer and family man fighting out of The MMA Lab in Arizona by way of Colorado! Initially thinking he would grow up to fight crime as a cop locking people in cages he ended up getting locked in cages himself as a professional fighter who has fought the biggest names in fighting. He has thrown fists in every major promotion including Karate Combat, multiple high level Jiu Jitsu competitions against such high level grapplers as Demain Maia and Ben Saunders.
He fought In Bellator Fighting Championship and even became the lightweight champion of the WEC and of course won the belt in the world renowned UFC where he Is known as one of the greatest lightweights of all time tying Franke Edgar, BJ Penn and Khabib Nurmagomedov for the 2nd most lightweight title defenses of all time. He earned Fight of the Night and Fight of the Year honors in some of his past battles, choking out some of your favorite UFC fighters. After taking a temporary retirement from mma he jumped back into combat sports and earned a recent victory in the boxing ring and he has recently signed to the Global Fight League aka GFL and is scheduled to have another fight with Anthony Pettis this summer. He walks the walk of a true martial artist and role model as he is faith based and all natural never having tried drugs or alcohol building his reputation on hard work, a strong mindset and ethics. You can find him and his MMA Fighter wife teaching Jiu Jitsu and women's self defense at the MMA Lab in Glendale Arizona every week!
Topics for this episode include:
✅ The key to achieving your long-term vision
✅ Why risks and failure help to master anything you love
✅ The difference between Jiu Jitsu in a fight or in a sport
✅ Staying true to yourself for success in life
✅ Discover the lifelong benefits of martial arts training
✅ Present and future for Benson Henderson + More
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the A-game podcast with Nick LaManya, digging into the minds and experiences of some of today's brightest entrepreneurs in real estate and business, |
| 0:23.6 | along with Hollywood stars, UFC fighters, and your favorite rock bands. |
| 0:27.6 | People that have figured out how to overcome obstacles, take chances, live boldly, |
| 0:32.6 | and no matter what they do, they always bring their A-game. |
| 0:50.9 | All right, my guest today in the A-game podcast is Smooth. |
| 1:12.8 | Benson Henderson, an OG of the MMA game, an absolute legend and champion. And remember, the A Game podcast is about showing average people every day that they can achieve extraordinary things, whether it's on the mats, off the mats, in life, in business, and finance and family, just showing you that you have the potential to do a lot more. And just these 300 plus interviews that we've done in the past, if you go back into the archives, |
| 1:17.4 | have some of the biggest names in sports and entertainment, in finance, and especially in real estate investing, |
| 1:21.8 | that you can learn exactly how they did it and you can just follow their path to success or learn from the mistakes that they made along the way so you don't have to, and you can do it safer and faster. |
| 1:27.4 | And today's guess is no different a man who started out as an average person who just committed |
| 1:31.8 | the right decision making the right patience and the right tenacity consistency and dedication to |
| 1:36.7 | achieve amazing things in business on the mats in the cage and as a family man he is now not even |
| 1:42.1 | done with his story as he's about to fight again coming up |
| 1:45.1 | any week now in the GFL as a rematch for I think number four, number five with Anthony |
| 1:50.5 | Pettus. But whether you were a fight fan or not, the disciplines, the habits that you take for |
| 1:55.2 | anybody who wants to achieve the highest level of success will translate into anything you do. |
| 1:59.6 | And there's a lot of amazing principles that Benson Henderson gives you during this that have helped him get over things |
| 2:04.1 | like worrying about what other people think or getting shiny objects in Jerome or the daily |
| 2:08.0 | habits or suffering from losses or battling self-doubt to go out there and have a playful |
| 2:12.0 | mentality to try and achieve things. And I think there's all things that we can take away, |
| 2:15.9 | whether you are a fighter, a real estate investor investor or just a person trying to be better in life and achieve more. This is a fantastic |
| 2:22.2 | episode for you. And the only fee for this amazing episode and this amazing guest is for you guys to |
| 2:26.9 | please just subscribe to the podcast. So wherever you watch and listen to your podcast, you can find |
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