From teaching spanish classes to becoming the #7 ranked MMA fighter in the world with Charlie 'The Spaniard' Brenneman
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Charlie “The Spaniard” is a speaker, mentor and author. After teaching Spanish for three years and winning Spike TV’s Pros vs. Joes, he left his job to pursue professional fighting. In 2011, he was ranked #7 internationally and recently published Driven: My Unlikely Journey from Classroom to Cage.
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| 0:00.0 | Buh-hah-hah-hah! Shake the room, Fire Nation! J.L.D here and welcome to episode 1442 of E.O. Fire |
| 0:10.4 | where I chat with today's most successful launchmaneuors, seven days a week, and knock over |
| 0:16.3 | that domino Fire Nation and start your chain reaction of awesome with thefreedomjournal.com. |
| 0:23.4 | And now let's chat with today's featured guest, Charlie the Spaniard Brennan. Charlie, are |
| 0:28.9 | you prepared to ignite? I was born ready, good night, let's do this. Charlie, the Spaniard, is a |
| 0:36.0 | speaker, mentor and author. After teaching Spanish for three years and winning Spike TV's pros |
| 0:41.9 | versus Joe's, he left his jaw to pursue professional fighting. In 2011, he was ranked number seven |
| 0:48.2 | internationally and recently published Driven, my unlikely journey from classroom to cage. Charlie, |
| 0:55.5 | take a minute, fill in some gaps from that in-zone. Give us just a little glimpse of your personal |
| 0:59.6 | life. Yeah, you know, that was a pretty thorough intro there and, you know, to sum it up, I'm a |
| 1:04.9 | small town guy from a central Pennsylvania who dreamed big and was able to accomplish some pretty |
| 1:10.7 | awesome things and it's a result of my foundation and I'm sure we'll talk, you know, talk through that |
| 1:16.3 | during the episode. Well, we've got a lot of things going to be chatting about. The first place that I |
| 1:20.5 | want to start is you've developed quite the area of expertise. So kind of fill us in on that and give |
| 1:26.2 | us two value bombs in this area that you think fire nation could really benefit from. So the place |
| 1:32.4 | that most people would know me from is professional fighting in the UFC and because I'm guessing, you know, |
| 1:37.6 | this is not fighters on fire, I'm guessing, you know, I can apply. Are you going to start that podcast, |
| 1:43.0 | Charlie? Don't lie. Maybe I already have a book. Who knows? So I'll apply it to the entrepreneurial |
| 1:49.8 | world, but the area of expertise that I honed it down to was fighting fear head on and that is |
| 1:55.8 | something that I did literally inside the cage on live national television against these absolutely |
| 2:02.2 | scary terrors. Lethna. Yes. But the two, the two pieces that I wanted to send with that fighting |
| 2:08.9 | fear head on in this applies the entrepreneurial world world is once you fight it, there's really |
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