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🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with his guest Javier "Showtime" Vazquez, a business owner, UFC Veteran, cancer survivor and high level black belt who is reshaping the way Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is being taught and practiced. Javier has an incredible story being the 1st American Black Belt of Cuban ancestry accomplishing the rank in under five and a half years. He competed in the UFC, King of the Kage, WEC and even the ADCC Trials.
Being no stranger to a good scrap he found himself in the fight of his life and changing his mind and body to get a victory of Cancer. His new found understanding of clean living and nutrition were applied to all aspects of his life and he now runs Javier Vazquez Jiu Jitsu in Rancho Cucamonga, California and is taking over the internet with his mindset and technical concepts he is now sharing through his online systems JVOS and JVTV among many other amazing lessons coming soon. Javier is reinventing the way we train, think and teach Jiu Jitsu and you will hear many lessons you can take and apply to your life and business whether you train Jiu Jitsu or not. This is an inspiring story from a true disruptor!
Topics for this episode include:
✅ How to train your mind to find solutions not problems
✅ Beating cancer with lessons learned from fighting
✅ Do you have a fear of winning and don't realize it?
✅ Improve your Jiu Jitsu faster by changing the way we train and teach
✅ Lessons In learning to stay calm in discomfort from Ryron Gracie + More!
See the show notes to connect with all things Javier!
Connect with Javier:
Javier Vazquez Jiu Jitsu
Javier Vazquez Jiu Jitsu on Facebook
Javier Vazquez Jiu Jitsu on Instagram
Javier Vazquez Jiu Jitsu On Youtube
JV Jiu Jitsu Shorts on Youtube
Javier Vazquez Jiu Jitsu on TikTok
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| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the A-game podcast with Nick Lamagna, digging into the minds and experiences of some of today's brightest |
| 0:21.0 | entrepreneurs in real estate and business, |
| 0:23.5 | along with Hollywood Stars, |
| 0:25.2 | UFC fighters, and your favorite rock fans. |
| 0:28.3 | People that have figured out how to overcome obstacles, |
| 0:31.1 | take chances, live boldly, and no matter what they do, they always bring their |
| 0:36.7 | A game. Thank you for this to the A-game podcast. I'm on a mission to the A-game |
| 0:48.9 | podcast. I'm on a mission to use this podcast to show ordinary things every single day on and |
| 0:56.1 | off the mats and in and out of real estate. |
| 0:58.4 | So if you would like to be one of those people, that's why you were listening to this podcast |
| 1:01.3 | to become the best version of yourself. |
| 1:03.8 | This is what we hope to bring you with interviewing hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people |
| 1:07.5 | that have found success in their black belt signing off the mat and showing you how to do the same. |
| 1:11.0 | All right, my guest today the A game podcast is Javier Vasquez. |
| 1:14.6 | He is a Jiu-Jitsu phenomenon. |
| 1:16.3 | He is one of the guys who is literally reinventing the game right now, Jiu-Jitsu. |
| 1:19.6 | So even if you're not a Jiu-Jitsu person, I think the stuff that we talk about for just the decision-making, |
| 1:25.0 | for the rationale behind stuff, for challenging stuff, the discipline behind things, |
| 1:29.3 | knowing when to lead, knowing when to follow, especially a lot of the health stuff that he talks about where all the things in the world don't matter if your health isn't there. |
| 1:36.5 | And he was a guy who beat cancer and he didn't have a really great outlook but he changed his mindset and his whole thing is think different because you |
| 1:43.9 | change the way you think then you change the way you live. And we talked about just thinking differently and |
| 1:49.2 | living differently, which I think whether you're a real estate investor, I'm a father of a jijitsu guy, a business guy, |
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