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Mind Of The Warrior

MOTW #80: Mental Health and BJJ with Brad Barnes

Mind Of The Warrior

Dr Mike Simpson

Mma, Philosophy, Combat, Self-improvement, Education, Nutrition, Mixedmartialarts, Military, Fitness, Health, Society & Culture, Medicine

4.8900 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.

Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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performance really happy today to to have somebody on the podcast that I have the

0:51.2

pleasure of meeting.

0:52.6

It's always, you tend to frame everybody in your life

0:56.6

by how you met them.

0:57.7

You know, they say the first impression is a lasting one.

1:00.4

I don't think it has as much to do with the person sometimes as it does with the setting.

1:04.3

So this was a person that I got to meet doing Chad Laman, Chad Liman C4C defensive tactics instructor course which you guys heard me talk about it it was just absolutely a week of

1:17.8

Murderers Row in a room 8 BJJ black belts on the mat and literally everybody in there was just out for blood.

1:25.3

And I met, I had the pleasure to meet and roll with this individual and we got to talking

1:29.9

and he said, hey, why don't you have him on your podcast?

1:32.8

And I think that's an exceptional idea,

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