How to Face Fear and Go All In On The Life You Always Wanted | Alberto Crane
The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs
Nick Lamagna
5.0 • 101 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
BJJ black belt and UFC veteran Alberto Crane joins Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs for a raw, candid, and deeply inspiring conversation that covers Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, entrepreneurship, mindset, overcoming MS, coaching, and building a business all in one episode.
From competing in some of the biggest fight organizations in the world to packing up and moving to Brazil with nothing but passion and a dream, Alberto breaks down what it truly means to go ALL IN - the philosophy behind his powerful new book - and why the most important word in business and life might just be "No." You'll hear the real story behind his journey from scrappy competitor losing 13 tournaments in a row to becoming one of the most respected names in the Los Angeles BJJ and fitness community, and what it truly takes to stay in the fight when life throws its hardest punches.
But this isn't just a fight story - Alberto gets real about the money and the mission too. He breaks down how Legacy BJJ grew organically from a love of the mat into a full-service training facility with affiliates across Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, Santa Clarita, Malibu, San Diego, and beyond - featuring BJJ, TACFIT, strength and conditioning, cold plunge, sauna, massage, and the famous Acai Cafe.
In this episode, you'll learn:
✅ How to push through fear, indecision, and the freeze response in business and competition
✅ What elite athletes like Tom Brady and Michael Phelps do mentally that anyone can copy
✅ The secret to emotional intelligence in leadership and why it keeps great people around for years
✅ Training longevity tips for the aging athlete - compensation work, TACFIT, and why less is more
✅ How he manages business, family, and an MS diagnosis with purpose, gratitude, and grace
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All In: Lessons On and Off the Mat on Amazon
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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. |
| 0:48.3 | Welcome to the A-game podcast, Real Estate Investing for Entrepreneurs, where we show average people every day that they can achieve extraordinary things. |
| 0:51.3 | And this episode is no different today. |
| 0:53.3 | But if you need some more, you go back to the archives. We have over 400 episodes of people in life, business, acting, fighting, entrepreneurship, investing in all shapes and sizes that tell you step by step exactly how they achieved personal and financial success. And they also go over the mistakes they made along the way so you don't have to make them. And if that was not enough, we have back for round two today, the amazing Alberto Crane. But if you do not know, his story is nothing short of incredible. He has overcome MS. He was a pro fighter. Did so many amazing things. Just picked up and moved to Brazil, studied with the Gracie's, open businesses. Some of them failed. Some of them succeeded. Now he trained some of the most famous celebrities in the world on the mats and |
| 1:30.2 | TAC fit, training his kids, shaping minds. |
| 1:32.7 | He's done TED talks and now he's also an author. |
| 1:35.5 | He runs one of the most badass fitness facilities in the Los Angeles area with affiliates literally all over the world. |
| 1:42.2 | And especially he's a big advocate of TACFIT, which has helped him overcome and have a good quality of life, even though he was diagnosed with MS. |
| 1:48.0 | I could go on for hours and hours about how amazing this guy is as far as an entrepreneur, a business owner, a fighter, |
| 1:54.0 | but also as a friend, he's been an incredible friend. We talk a lot about business, about leadership, about mindset. |
| 2:00.0 | We go over so many different things, especially his new book All In, which I highly encourage. |
| 2:04.6 | It's an easy read. It's not too long. It's the perfect amount. |
| 2:08.6 | And it's a biographical topic where you learn as you go. |
| 2:11.6 | So regardless of where you are in life, I think everybody should be checking out this book |
| 2:15.6 | because he goes through his journey, |
| 2:17.5 | his failures, the things he thought along the way, and you get literally lived this experience with him, that wherever you are, if you're just starting out on your journey, if you're in the middle of some bumps in the road, if you're scaling up, if you're retiring, if you're just, whatever it is. There's going to be parts of this that you can relate to that I found incredibly inspirational, educational. I tell people you're going to laugh, you're going to |
| 2:36.7 | cry, you go on and read it again, but it's very well There's going to be parts of this that you can relate to that I found incredibly inspirational, educational. |
| 2:35.0 | I tell people you're going to laugh, you're going to cry, you're going to want to read it again, but it's very well written. It's very entertaining. It's a very easy read and I highly encourage it. So go check it out. And the only fee for this show to have amazing guests like Alberto Crane come on, once, not twice, but probably multiple times |
| 2:49.0 | over the course of our careers together, |
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