The Mindset For Success With World Champion Roosevelt Sousa (Episode 390)
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
4.9 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Jiu-Jitsu World Champion and BJJ Black Belt Roosevelt Sousa.
Roosevelt discusses his start in Jiu-Jitsu, what helped with developing a strong work ethic, how learning the mindset of high level Volleyball players hlped with success in BJJ, how to get the most out of training as a black belt, how working with a sports psychologist helped with performance in BJJ, his competition mindset, how Roosevelt prepared for Jiu-Jitsu Worlds in 2 weeks and training with white belts, the importance of being a good role model for your students, the impact of being a coach, what immigrating to America has meant to Roosevelt, the importance of customer service, and how BJJ can help improve your life.
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| 0:00.0 | What up, guys. Welcome to the Jiu Jitsu podcast. Today we have world champion jih Tjitsu Blackbelt, a multiple time where he's, you know, Nogi World Champion and a key world champion, Roosevelt Sousa. So, you know, I met this guy. He, um, he sent me a message last year. And, um, then we ended up meeting each other at Nogi worlds last year. And we kind of talked for a few minutes. And then, you know, when we're thinking about guests, I'm like, oh, we need to have this guy on there. He's got a fantastic story, right? As we'll talk about it later on. And so I wanted to have him on the podcast to talk about it. And I was watching a couple of videos and his English is pretty good. He definitely has the Brazilian accent, but English is good. |
| 0:38.4 | And I was like, all right, let's get him on, right? |
| 0:41.5 | Because he's got a lot of different takes. |
| 0:43.7 | And I really think his story about the, his story about his training leading up to |
| 0:49.2 | the world is, is, it's really interesting because it kind of goes against what everybody thinks they need |
| 0:55.7 | to do to win the win a big tournament but at the same time it's something i've experienced |
| 0:59.2 | because like not that it's the same thing but i remember when i did trials similar situation to that |
| 1:05.6 | you know not quite as bad because obviously my i wasn't had i was still training and stuff but |
| 1:10.1 | not nearly as bad but still to some degree like completely underprepared you know and just went out there and performed incredibly well so it's this it's an interesting thing to chew on but he has a lot of good insights into his mindset and you know I think the mindset stuff's really important because the mindset a lot of |
| 1:28.2 | times is what leads to you actually taking action and doing the thing versus like more how-to |
| 1:33.4 | specifics. And so anyway, we're going to get into this podcast. Hopefully you guys enjoy it and |
| 1:37.4 | get something from Roosevelt. And a big thanks for you guys for being here. And big thanks to our |
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| 2:34.2 | having any issues sleeping and it tends to help support my sleep cycles and you know get |
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