PETE ROBERTS | Make it in America Again (Ep. 348)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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In this episode, we welcome Pete Roberts to the show. He is a 3rd-degree Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and the Founder of Origin USA, which is a fast-growing company headquartered in Farmington, Maine. Origin is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu lifestyle brand focused on creating dynamic products and training gear that both elevate and promote the culture and sport of BJJ. Origin’s core products are jiu-jitsu gis, jeans, and boots, and they are expanding into hunting gear. He also runs Jocko Fuel, which is Jocko Willink’s nutrition supplement line that includes protein, energy drinks, greens, vitamins, and other supplements. Overall, Pete’s goal is to bring manufacturing back to the US. In this interview, we discuss why he started on the jiu-jitsu journey, why everyone should train jiu-jitsu, his failed entrepreneurial ventures prior to founding Origin, how he got connected with Jocko Willink, why he decided to spearhead bringing manufacturing back to the United States, the difficulty inherent in creating products in the US, what makes Origin gis so special, what we can expect from the new hunting line, and much more. Let’s get into it… Go to the ORIGIN website to check out the full line of Origin and Jocko Fuel products: Gis, jeans, boots, protein, energy drinks, supplements, and much more. Use the promo code KYLE to get 10% off your order! Episode notes and links HERE Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast.
0:21.6	I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
0:23.3	Let's get into it.
0:24.3	Our guys today, we got a special guest on the podcast.
0:26.0	His name is Pete Roberts, so he is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt.
0:29.3	He is the founder of Origin USA, which guys, this is a super fast growing company headquartered
0:34.9	in Farmington, Maine, and it is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu lifestyle brand that's focused on creating
0:39.0	dynamic products and training gear that both elevate and promote the culture and sport
0:43.6	of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
0:44.6	Now, you might be thinking to yourself, well, I'm not a Jiu-Jitsu guy.
0:47.0	There's so much more in this podcast than just talking about Jiu-Jitsu, even though we
0:50.1	do spend a lot of time talking about that.
0:52.2	And his main business partner is a guy that I'm sure some of you, at least in the audience
0:55.7	have heard of before, and that's the one and only Jaco Willink.
0:58.4	So under this brand under Origin, they also run the Jaco Fuel brand, and that is Jaco
1:02.7	Willink's nutritional supplements, and that line has protein and energy drinks and all
1:06.2	kinds of other stuff that I'll get into here in just a second.
1:08.6	But overall, Pete's goal is to bring manufacturing back to the United States, because a lot
1:15.2	was made of the fact, especially in 2020, that almost everything that we needed, that we
1:20.6	really needed was made somewhere else overseas.
1:23.3	And so we get into the story of Origin, like, you know, he has some entrepreneurial ventures
1:27.7	beforehand, and we get into some of that, and we get into some of the failures and some
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