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The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs

Forrest Griffin | Handling Fear, Money and High Pressure Decisions In Fighting And Business

The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs

Nick Lamagna

Business, Entrepreneurship, Education, Self-improvement

5.0101 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing for Entrepreneurs episode, Nick Lamagna sits down with Forrest Griffin - UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, UFC Hall of Famer, two-time author, UFC athlete development leader, and one of the most beloved personalities in MMA and combat sports history. After starting with nothing in Athens, Georgia, training out of a hardcore gym with five guys crammed into a three-bedroom apartment, Forrest became a UFC champion and Hall of Famer - and has since built a life of passive income, real estate investing, Bitcoin, and real purpose after the cage.

Forrest breaks down everything from his legendary last-minute appearance on The Ultimate Fighter Season 1 and the iconic fight with Stephan Bonnar that saved the UFC on live TV, to the financial mistakes he made at the height of his fighting career, what he would do differently, and how he now generates $6,000 a month in passive income from land investing while holding Bitcoin as an inflation hedge against the falling dollar.

Whether you are a UFC fan, BJJ practitioner, MMA fighter, real estate investor, entrepreneur, or someone simply trying to build wealth and a better life, this episode will change the way you think about risk, money, mindset, passive income, and what it really means to win inside and outside the cage.

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Topics for this episode include:

✅ From broke & sleeping on air mattresses to UFC Light Heavyweight Champion - the full come up story

✅ Why struggling when you're young is a gift - and how your circle of influence makes or breaks everything

✅ Land investing, real estate, Bitcoin, and passive income - Forrest's real money strategies and biggest financial regrets

✅ Conflict resolution and negotiation tactics from law enforcement, the octagon, and the boardroom

✅ How to build wealth, find purpose, and prepare financially for life after your athletic career + More!

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Forrest Griffin on Threads

Forrest Griffin on Twitter

 


 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the A-game podcast with Nick LaManya, digging into the minds and experiences of some of today's brightest entrepreneurs in real estate and business,

0:23.6

along with Hollywood stars, UFC fighters, and your favorite rock fans.

0:27.6

People that have figured out how to overcome obstacles, take chances, live boldly,

0:32.6

and no matter what they do, they always bring their A-game.

0:47.4

Welcome to the A-game podcast, Real Estate Investing for Entrepreneurs.

0:52.3

And the whole point of this podcast is to show average people every day that they can achieve extraordinary things. And there's about 400 episodes in our past archives of some of the most successful people in life, business, fighting, and entrepreneurship that literally tell you exactly what they did to achieve personal and financial success so you can copy the system. And they also tell you all the things they did wrong so you don't have to make those mistakes. If those archives are not enough, we have another amazing episode today with literally a living legend of the game, Mr. Forrest Griffin. If you do not

1:16.3

know who he is, you are living under Iraq. He is one of the most famous UFC fighters, literally

1:20.6

probably the reason UFC is what it is today with his legendary fight with Stefan Bonner, where

1:26.1

they literally run Ultimate Fighter

1:27.7

One finale and people all over the world tuned on and made fans that today have fell in

1:33.0

love with Forrest not only for his fighting style, but for his relatable, loving, loving,

1:36.8

and vulnerable, and humorous perspective he's taken to his self-deprecating humor and all

1:41.8

of his funny things as well as exciting fighting style.

1:44.5

But this man is an onion and he has achieved some of the highest successes and it's all the same things we talk about in life and business. It's the decisions you make. It's the self-doubt. It's the choices. It's how to handle adversity. It's how to take advantage of opportunities. It's how to handle wins. It's how to handle losses. It's how to take calculated risk. and we talk all about the things he've done because you've seen the same journeys that he has found success in the cage has led him to success outside the cage, even the opportunities he have today. But being a likable guy, being a company guy, being a loyal guy. And he talks all about his journey from being a police officer to being a UFC champion.

2:21.6

And we also get into some of the stuff he's done with guys like Chris Rood, guys like Brandon Turner, real estate, crypto, land investing, business advice, conflict resolution, speaking up,

2:27.7

people skills, how to have hard conversations, all the things that you need to know as a leader,

2:33.0

as a parent, as a human to be the best version of you, whether you were just a fighter, just a real estate investor, just a crypto person, or just somebody listening to this podcast to try and be a better husband, wife, father, or mother. You will get a lot out of this podcast. So make sure you stick around, listen to the whole thing, and definitely follow Forrest Griffin on all his social media. Reach out to him for all the stuff he's got

2:54.4

going on because he's a very entertaining and a very deep, thought,ed guy who gives a very

2:59.4

entertaining explanation to a lot of different things about life, business, and relationships

3:03.0

that all of us can benefit from. And it was an absolute honor to be able to have him on and talk to him today. But of course, the only fee for this podcast is to please subscribe. Take a minute. We are available everywhere you watch and listen to your podcast, whether you watch on YouTube, whether you listen to Spotify, you listen to Apple Podcasts. Just go find the A Game podcast, Real Estate Investing for Entrepreneurs with Nick LaManya, everywhere you watch and listen, and take a second and subscribe. And of course, what we like to do here is have you guys interact. So you can follow Forrest and myself on social media at nicknick.com slash links. That's nicknicknick.com slash links, L-I-N-K-S for all the ways to connect with us. And the way that Forrest tells other people they should come on and share their stories is by you showing him how much you appreciated him getting on. So when I post clips from this podcast, you're all scrolling on social media anyway. Take a minute, like it, give it a thumbs up, give it a share, tag a friend, follow Forrest, write to him and let him know that you got value from this interview by following and interacting with the social media posts. We will interact with you as well. And then Forrest goes and tells other people to come on because you have an amazing community here and more people can come share their stories with you for free. And of course, the whole goal here is to make some money together. I want to do some deals together this year. Whether you would like to buy a real estate investment from me, whether you would like to sell a real estate investment to me, or whether you would just like to get on a call and have some discussion about how we can work together out an investment opportunity. All you have to do is write to me on social media with the words real estate on any of my social medias or just text me the word real estate to 516 5405733.

4:32.7

That is 516 54057733.

4:35.2

I appreciate you guys coming on.

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