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🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with his guest Amal Easton a Jiu Jitsu Legend as well as brilliant business owner with an incredible story and reputation. Among many personal and professional achievements such as being only the 7th black belt under the Master himself Renzo Gracie he has created systems and processes to successfully scale his businesses over 7 locations, an online academy as well as two podcasts and even finds time to invest in real estate!
This gentleman is living his best life and holding himself accountable to his core values on and off the mats. Some of the pupils, students and business and training partners along the way of Easton Training Center and Easton BJJ include Eliot Marshall, Shane Carwin, Brendan Schaub, Nate Marquardt, Duane Ludwig, Alberto Crane and of course Matt Serra!
After establishing himself as a staple in the Martial Arts community he earned his black belt in business as well and now through such platforms as The Black Belt Business Podcast And Easton Online he has put together a comprehensive program designed for the martial arts academy owner and manager that is committed to enhancing every aspect of their business. There is a ton of great information for the martial arts and Jiu Jitsu level but especially for any investors, entrepreneurs or business owners looking for advice on starting or scaling your business!
Topics for this episode include:
✅ Systems and processes to successfully scale you business
✅ The importance of defining core values in life and business
✅ Is jiu jitsu the most effective martial art
✅ How to have hard conversations with employees and co-workers
✅ Life advice from Renzo Gracie
✅ The evolution of Jiu Jitsu + More!
See the show notes to connect with all things Amal!
Connect with Amal:
Easton Training Center
Easton Training Center on Instagram
Easton Training Center on Youtube
Easton Training Center on LinkedIn
Easton Training Center on Tiktok
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| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the A-game podcast with Nick Lamagna, digging into the minds and experiences of some of today's brightest |
| 0:21.0 | entrepreneurs in real estate and business, |
| 0:23.5 | along with Hollywood Stars, |
| 0:25.2 | UFC fighters, and your favorite rock fans. |
| 0:28.3 | People that have figured out how to overcome obstacles, |
| 0:31.1 | take chances, live boldly, and no matter what they do, they always bring their |
| 0:36.7 | A game. All right, my guest today on the A-game podcast is a mall East and I'm rocking the eastern trading center moy tie shirt so |
| 0:54.6 | Amal easton is a legend in the Jiu-Jitsu community but on top of that he has |
| 0:59.4 | also turned his Jiu-Jitsu school into a thriving business he He's got a podcast he's got he's just |
| 1:04.4 | opening his eighth location. Obviously he's got merchandise so he took his love and his |
| 1:09.4 | passion for learning and becoming a black belt on the mats and has transitioned into learning how to be a black belt in business off the mats and the story tells itself. |
| 1:18.7 | So this is a guy who plugs and checks every single box and hole you can think of for that jury to |
| 1:24.4 | success with cutting out the negativity, silencing the doubters, focusing on |
| 1:28.6 | things, getting over the self-doubts, or adding himself with positive people, |
| 1:31.8 | getting the right mentors around, |
| 1:33.4 | understanding his core values. Like all the things we talk about in every episode, even if you're not |
| 1:37.6 | into Jiu-Jitsu at all, there's amazing business practices to take away for your real estate |
| 1:42.4 | or for whatever it is that you're doing |
| 1:44.7 | it's all basically the same thing so we talk a little bit about that obviously be going through a Jiu-Jitsu journey we talk about Henzo Gracie we talk about Matt the Terrace era shout out to Alberto Crane, we talk about Jason Rao, we go into some of the things on the mats. We talked about his early journeys in Brazil, and then we transition into some of the ways that he's been able to scale his business through his core values, |
| 2:04.4 | being able to implement that, keep that same integrity, find ways to have systems and processes, |
| 2:09.2 | find ways to hire good people, to communicate with good people, to know when to get the bad people out, to focus on the good people to communicate with good people to know when to get the bad people |
| 2:13.6 | out to focus on the good eggs to appreciate all the lessons that are learned from the |
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