Escaping the American Dream with Rollie Peterkin / COMBAT

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

When you leave a high-paying job on Wall Street to fight MMA professionally in Peru. That’s the decision Rollie Peterkin (@rolliepeterkin - Twitter) made - our guest on today’s episode of Combat on the SpartanUp Podcast - that would forever change his life. Host Ryan Warner talks with Rollie about:

-Rollie’s college wrestling career at the University of Pennsylvania

-The breaking point that encouragee Rollie to move to Peru, leaving his Wall Street job behind

-How to acclimate to a new environment

-What routines, tactics and tips helped Rollie embrace a life without the 9-5 routine

To learn more about Rollie,...

-Check out his book “The Cage: Escaping the American Dream”

-Listen to his podcast, The Divergent Path

-Read Rollie’s blogs

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0:00.0	He was like, I want you to come down here and fight MMA in Peru.
0:04.1	And I'm like, no man, I have this good Wall Street job.
0:07.3	Like I work on Wall Street, like I can't do that.
0:09.9	You are listening to Spartan Combat on Spartan Up.
0:17.0	Learn from battle-tested combat athletes. With your host, Ryan Warner.
0:20.0	Spartans!
0:21.0	Welcome to the Combat Series. This is Ryan Warner, I'm your host. Spartans. before embarking on a lifelong journey where he fought
0:33.0	in Peru. Enjoy it folks.
0:36.0	This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Kettle and Fire,
0:39.6	bone broth for better living, loaded with collagen collagen find it at kettle and fire
0:44.1	dot com slash Spartan use the code Spartan for 25% off and free shipping so folks
0:50.8	who don't know the story, Raleigh wrestled at Penn, three-time national
0:56.2	qualifier, made it to the blood round three times, but then after that you went on to
1:00.4	be a successful traitor in Wall Street.
1:03.4	You know, from the outside looked in,
1:04.9	it's like, hey, this kid's got everything going for him.
1:06.8	And I'm sure you felt that, but there was something gnawing at you.
1:10.2	And then lo and behold, you've been as 56 countries, you quit your job, you moved to Peru,
1:14.7	so that's what we're going to talk about today. But I just want to folks to understand, you know, traditionally
1:19.5	with a wrestling podcast, we would just go down your career and let's talk about the nationals let's talk about Fargo but I just want to give folks that background so you're this elite elite wrestler you go to Penn you're a finance guy you just like, you got it all buttoned up.
1:34.7	Take us to the national term of 2011 and then would just go from there?
1:40.0	Yeah, so I mean, ever since I was a kid, dreamed of you know that the NCA tournament and
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