Creator of The CALF GUARD Discusses Business, Fighting & Marketing with Nabih Barakat
The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs
Nick Lamagna
5.0 • 101 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with guest Nabih Barakat former professional fighter, muay thai kickboxing coach and founder of the fast growing product The Calf Guard featured on The Joe Rogan Podcast! Nabih has been around martial arts and MMA for well over a decade and has trained alongside and competed against some of the biggest names in the sport. After taking on more of a focus on coaching he saw a need for a protective equipment and started turning his idea into a reality. The timing could not be better with such high profile fights featuring calf kicks such as the recent Conor McGregor fight, the Calf Guard promotion took on a life of it's own being featured but such notables as Cory Sandhagen and Eric Nicksick! Great episode with tons of valuable lessons that anyone in business or fighting will definitely enjoy and take lessons from!
Topics on this episode include:
- Using downtime during quarantine to take action on your ideas
- How ideas start out and turn into million dollar businesses and inventions
- How "The Calf Guard" came about and why it is a game changer for coaches and athletes in kickboxing and mixed martial arts (MMA)
- Discussing Duane Ludwig, Trevor Wittman & Ben Askren
- Ever seen a product and think to yourself, "I thought about that years ago!"
- Why ideas with no action can cost you millions
- Stages of development for products
- Timing can be everything in business
- Is it more important to have more followers on your social media business page or the right followers
- The amazing priceless benefits of word of mouth advertising when you have a product that people need
- The importance of self belief and why fear has killed more dreams than failure
- How mixed martial arts has helped in business
- Current state of Mixed Martial Arts and entertainment vs athleticism building stars
And More!
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See show notes for all the ways to connect with Nabih and contact Nick to start doing some real estate deals together!
Connect with Nabih and The Calf Guard:
Facebook: Nabih Barakat on Facebook
Instagram: Nabih Barakat On Instagram
Instagram: Calf Guard on LinkedIn
Websites: The Calf Guard
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| 0:00.0 | All right, my guest today in the EA game podcast is my longtime friend longtime training partner and inventor of the calf guard |
| 0:05.6 | Nabi barricade. He is a former professional fighter. He is a stand-up guy. He's got great Jiu-Jitsu |
| 0:12.3 | He's been grinding the background during COVID while people are sitting around watching Tiger King |
| 0:16.7 | He came up with the calf guard and it's getting a lot of notoriety |
| 0:20.0 | It's getting a lot of press a lot of free press |
| 0:22.3 | Especially with all the stuff going on lately with the kind of a Gregor fight and even you know the stars Charles Oliver |
| 0:27.3 | Michael Chandler opened up with the calf kick. Oh, the whole dust and poignant thing. It's been featured on Joe Rogan |
| 0:32.3 | He's got a bunch of people that are that are following him and it's one of those things man |
| 0:36.4 | I love this story because it's the kind of thing where |
| 0:38.9 | Everybody's gonna look back and go why I thought of that and but you did do anything with it |
| 0:42.8 | And I love the whole principle of what he did and and he found something that's practical that everybody needs |
| 0:48.3 | That a lot of people have thought of but he took action on it and he followed through with it and he worked through the problems on it |
| 0:53.4 | And it's just a great story of a success and just overcoming business and |
| 0:57.7 | Business obstacles and taking something that's an idea making your reality and fighting through making the best of a bad situation and |
| 1:04.0 | You know working through some tough spots to get on top |
| 1:05.9 | And I think that that's why I love talking to guys that are martial artists or fighters or Jiu-Jitsu guys |
| 1:11.0 | They get into business because that same tenacity and that same take no prisoners attitude and work yourself out of bad spots |
| 1:16.9 | And take your lumps and keep on going |
| 1:18.6 | It transfers over to business perfectly and the beast whole story here is perfect with that |
| 1:22.9 | So again, been a good friend of mine for a long time. I'm really excited to see that he |
| 1:27.8 | Hold the chair girl on this he followed through with this and it's getting such |
| 1:31.9 | Amazing attention being featured on Jiu-Rogan is his priceless and he's getting free price |
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