Nick Palmisciano on Practicing Jui Jitsu and Raising Resilient Kids
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Ryan talks to Nick Palmisciano about the lessons that training in Jiu Jitsu can teach young kids, the benefits of training as a family, Nick’s journey as an entrepreneur, and more.
Nick Palmisciano is the CEO of Diesel Jack Media, a full-service marketing agency. Nick is also the Vice President and one of four founding board members of Save Our Allies, an effort that rescued 12,000 refugees in the final 10 days of the Afghanistan Mission. He was one of the twelve men that physically went to Kabul to assist with the evacuation. He spent six years of his life serving as an infantry officer in the United States Army. In 2006, Nick created Ranger Up, the first military lifestyle brand, which kicked off a decade and change of veteran entrepreneurial endeavors focused around digital marketing and social media.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast, where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your most important job, being a parent. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from parents just like you all over the world. |
| 0:24.8 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:31.5 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Dad podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | My son is five, turning turning five this week, actually, and he currently plays soccer, |
| 0:44.1 | but he doesn't love it that much. |
| 0:46.0 | I think he has fun out there. |
| 0:47.0 | But anyways, sports were a big part of my life. |
| 0:50.4 | I think they're important as a way to teach life skills. They're fun. Keep you active. |
| 0:57.1 | We've kind of been thinking about like what sports we want our kids to play. And one of the |
| 1:03.2 | sports we've been thinking a lot about is jiu-jitsu. Sort of off the table with COVID. I can't think |
| 1:09.4 | of a sport that is more indoors and more close contact |
| 1:13.2 | than literally grappling with people. So that's sort of been off the table, but as as COVID changes, |
| 1:21.0 | vaccines, et cetera, we're really starting to look at that. I trained in Jititza for two or three |
| 1:26.4 | years, really enjoyed it, really got a lot |
| 1:29.3 | out of it, wanted to get back into it, and I want my son to be able to do it. So anyways, |
| 1:36.3 | today's episode is with the one and only Nick Palmishano, the founder of Ranger Up, former Army Ranger, great all-around dude and entrepreneur who I had on |
| 1:48.0 | the Daily Stoic podcast recently. |
| 1:49.6 | You can listen to that whole interview. |
| 1:51.2 | Anyways, not only did he grow up wrestling, not only is his wife a high school wrestling |
| 1:56.4 | coach, but his whole family is, his whole family is participated in martial arts, uh, jujitsu, wrestling, |
| 2:05.3 | grappling, judo, all of that. And so I think this is a really great episode. We talk about that, |
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