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Endless Endeavor with Greg Anderson

EE 283: Jiu Jitsu Chronicles Pt. 9 The Female Black Belt with Valerie Masai-Aspaas

Endless Endeavor with Greg Anderson

Greg Anderson

Innerpeace, Struggle, Growth, Perseverance, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Adversity, Conflict, Fitness, Leadership, Martialarts, Health, Camaraderie, Fortitude, Mindset

4.6 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 149 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In Episode 283, I sit down with Valerie Masai-Aspaas. Valerie was recently promoted to black belt under me at Electric North Jiu Jitsu, and I'm excited to bring her journey to The Endless Endeavor. I've always been fascinated by women who choose to pursue combat arts and jiu-jitsu—it's a demanding path, and they're often facing opponents who are bigger and stronger. Valerie has brought nothing but good energy, hard training, and solid coaching to our team.

Off the mats, she's a leader and a patriot. We take a deep dive into her story, including why she walked away from public education after seeing the corruption and cowardice throughout the Washington State school system. I'm incredibly grateful to have Val as both a friend and teammate.

Please enjoy Episode 283 of The Endless Endeavor Podcast.

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0:23.0

What's up, guys? Welcome back to the Endless Endeavor podcast. This is episode 283. And I kind of feel like dog shit today. I've been down for a couple days, but I was not sick when we recorded this episode. And it's a great episode that's about to come at you. So a couple things we can do. Share the show. Share it on social media. Share it with your friends. Share it with your family. I greatly appreciate you guys helping the show grow. And then also listen to the ads with the companies that I partner with.

0:27.0

I only partner with good companies, putting out good products, and through supporting them,

0:28.3

you directly support the show.

0:29.5

So let's go ahead and knock those out.

0:33.6

Before we go into today's show, I want you to go to our guest's website.

0:34.6

Her name is Val.

0:39.1

Her website is alpha raptor industries.com. It is in the show notes below.

0:45.2

She has all kinds of cool things for kids and jujitsu. She has jujitsu coloring books,

0:50.4

jiu-jitsu charts, plushies, all kinds of stuff. They're super rad and they're high quality.

0:55.2

And Val puts a ton of effort into these things. So like I always say, I love supporting good people doing good things. She's one of my black belts here at Electric North. So please go there,

0:59.7

buy all of her coloring books out. I don't even care if you have fucking kids. Buy them to start

1:03.2

fires with just to help Val in her entrepreneurial endeavor as someone that's creating cool stuff

1:09.4

for children. We're first brought to you by Element,

1:12.1

and that is spelled LMNT. And what Element is, it is a grab and go hydration packet that you

1:16.7

add to a bottle of water. Each packet contains 1,000 milligrams of sodium, 200 milligrams of potassium,

1:22.6

and 60 milligrams of magnesium, and these are designed to be used during or after rigorous

1:27.1

physical activity. That is or after rigorous physical activity.

1:28.2

That is because during rigorous physical activity, you sweat a ton, and you are not only depleting

1:33.1

your body of fluids, but you are also depleting your body of electrolytes. An element is how

1:38.2

you replenish those lost electrolytes. They have a bunch of delicious flavors. They have their grapefruit,

1:42.8

their citrus, their watermelon, their raspberry, those are my top ones. They have some not of delicious flavors. They have their grapefruit, their citrus, their watermelon, their raspberry.

1:45.7

Those are my top ones.

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