Take Risks, Overcome Challenges and Follow Your Passion with Mitch and Garrett Holeve - Ep. 118

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

My guests today are Mitch and Garrett Holeve. Garrett is a 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter who was born with Down Syndrome. In this show, we tell his story of overcoming challenges and following his passion. Throughout the show you’ll hear him use the “D” word — he doesn’t use the term Down Syndrome because he doesn’t let it define him. He has transformed his life into much more, and I hope you find this conversation as inspiring as I did. Enjoy the show!

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Topics of discussion:

[:33] Growing up just Garrett

[4:17] Bringing MMA into the picture

[8:21] Developing the passion for jiu-jitsu

[9:33] Finding himself through fighting

[12:50] Why anyone could fall in love with martial arts

[16:27] Garrett’s favorite part of the gym

[18:23] The mental hours that go into training

[20:38] Garrett’s proudest fighting moments

[26:40] Mitch’s journey as parent and coach

[29:20] Why Garrett’s story needs to be told

[33:45] Find your passion and take risks to follow it.

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Garrett’s Fight

Garrett’s Fight on Facebook

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Mike Kaju, and you're listening to the Brut Shrink Podcast.
0:03.6	This week's guest are Mitch and Garrett Holliv.
0:07.5	Garrett is a 27-year-old that was born with Down syndrome, and in this show we tell his story of overcoming challenges and following his passion.
0:16.0	Throughout the show you'll hear him say the term D word because he doesn't like to use the term down syndrome.
0:24.0	He doesn't let it define him and his life is much more
0:27.7	than just being a kid with down syndrome.
0:30.2	I hope you find this as inspiring as I did.
0:32.4	Enjoy the show.
0:33.6	Hey, this is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the Brute Strength Podcast.
0:37.5	Mitch and Garrett, thank you guys so much for making some time to do this with me.
0:41.8	I've done over 100 shows now and this is one of the
0:46.2	this is close to the most excited I've ever been for one. So thank y'all for making this happen.
0:51.3	Thanks for having this, Michael.
0:52.3	Absolutely. So I want to, I want to. this Can you give a little bit of background to the listeners?
1:04.0	Tell us what your family life was like and kind of what Garrett's life was like
1:10.0	before finding MMA, and specifically was he happy before finding m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m So I have three sons, he's the middle son, and Garrett's going to be 28 in October,
1:26.1	his older brother's 31, and his younger brother's 22.
1:29.8	So, and we lived in pretty much a typical household. My wife and I have been together since college.
1:37.0	So I think Garrett had a pretty typical life growing up and we strive to make it that way. My wife and I are very militant on the
1:46.4	inclusion end. So from the moment that Garrett was born once we got over the
1:51.7	initial shock and as he started to grow up and we started to
1:55.8	teach them how to do things my kids were always involved in Little League and
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