5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Nick is a 12 year Special Operations Marine Corps veteran with Marine Reconnaissance and Marine Special Operations Command, CEO of Alexander Industries, an author, he runs a popular YouTube channel and podcast, and is a Jiu-Jitsu Blue Belt.
On this episode, we discuss how closely the Jiu-Jitsu community is connected, why Nick started Jiu-Jitsu, why growth happens on the fringe, why Nick finds it essential to complete difficult tasks, Nick’s path to joining the military, his mentality and drive to achieve goals, his time in the military and when he knew it was time to move on to a new venture, how being fired from a job inspired Nick to start his first company and numerous others, and much more.
You can follow Nick on Instagram @nickkoumalatsos and check out his companies, podcast, books, and mentorship program at https://www.nickkoumalatsos.com/
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0:00.0 | What's up guys? Thank you guys for being with us today on the Chiu-Jitsu podcast. We have |
0:05.4 | Nick Kumilatos. Kumalatos. I'm saying his name terribly. It's Greek. And I'm a stupid |
0:14.0 | slack-jalled hillbilly from Kentucky, so you'll have to excuse me. All right. Yeah. Not to say |
0:18.3 | that. I don't have to, but that's what I'm going to say for this time. Okay. |
0:21.2 | All right. |
0:21.5 | But we talk to him. |
0:22.6 | He is a, he will get into it more in just a second, but he is a guy that we met through Matt, who runs Epic Roll, who is a sponsor of the podcast. |
0:33.1 | And he's been doing jih Tjitsu for about three years, but he's got a really interesting |
0:38.0 | background in other areas. |
0:39.5 | And so, you know, he still got the jih Tjitsu connection. |
0:42.2 | And he'll talk about it. |
0:43.8 | He was mistaken as me a couple of times. |
0:46.3 | But we wanted to, we wanted to chat with him. |
0:48.6 | You know, it seemed like an interesting guy. |
0:49.6 | I had a, we had a great conversation a little bit off the, there's a little jihitsu in there and a lot of it is, to me, |
0:56.4 | I think it's mostly universal stuff as far as like, as for self improvement. |
0:59.7 | So if it's self-improvement, something that you're interested in, I think it's some good |
1:03.0 | stuff and hearing from stories from people that, the stuff that they've gone through, |
1:07.4 | the stuff that they've overcome. |
1:08.4 | I always, I always enjoy that. I always enjoy hearing from that and being able to talk with someone about that. Again, |
1:14.9 | if that's something you enjoy, then you're going to enjoy this podcast. As always, thanks to our |
1:19.9 | sponsors for helping make this podcast happen. Charlotte's Web, you can check them out at |
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