Why It Is Never Too Late To Reinvent Your Life | Jason Yang
The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs
Nick Lamagna
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with our guest Jason Yang, aka "The Criminal Defense Butcher" a former NYC criminal defense attorney, turned butcher and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt! Jason is an instructor at Renzo Gracie Jiu Jitsu HQ in Midtown Manhattan and has an incredible and inspiring story of successfully reinventing himself multiple times in life. He is an athlete, entrepreneur, and many of many talents who studied pre-med before changing his focus to law school. He played soccer, wrestled and even did some rowing before landing on his passion of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
He started his Jiu Jitsu journey with his first instructor Matt Serra at Columbia College and then transitioned into teaching there for almost 20 years while training at Renzo's famous blue basement in midtown. As a black belt with a white belt mentality he is constantly learning and reinventing himself showing courage and inspiration to change. Many people in life feel stuck in their careers or choices or even identity and Jason shows us that it is never too late to shift your life and focus on the things that bring you happiness, keep you curious and allow you to constantly evolve and mature as a person. You can find him shaping minds and talents of all shapes, sizes and ranks on the mats at Renzo Gracie's doing group and private lessons throughout the week! You will not regret following this journey from a very intelligent and well spoken guest!
Topics for this episode include:
✅ The key to learning new things in life and business
✅ What drives big life and career decisions?
✅ The principle that will give you the best chance of success
✅ How to spot the right fit in business and life
✅ Achieving success through curiosity and critical thinking + More
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the A-game podcast with Nick LaManya, digging into the minds and experiences of some of today's brightest entrepreneurs in real estate and business, |
| 0:23.6 | along with Hollywood stars, UFC fighters, and your favorite rock fans. |
| 0:27.6 | People that have figured out how to overcome obstacles, take chances, live boldly, |
| 0:32.6 | and no matter what they do, they always bring their A-game. |
| 0:54.1 | All right, welcome back to the A-game podcast where we show ordinary people every day that they can achieve extraordinary things. |
| 0:59.6 | Just these 350 plus episodes we have show people who have reached the highest level in life, |
| 1:05.1 | in business, in finance, in fighting, in jiu-jitsu, in real estate, in business, you name it. |
| 1:09.1 | They have excelled and you can just go back to these past episodes and find enough people with whatever it is you want to be great at to show you what not to do through the mistakes they've made or show you the shortcuts to |
| 1:15.2 | safety and success so you can copy them as well. If that is not enough, we have another fantastic |
| 1:20.4 | guest on today to show you how to achieve your best in life. And his name is Jason Yang, |
| 1:25.3 | who is a Hensel Gracie Black Belt, who started under |
| 1:28.3 | Matt the Terra Serra just like myself, and I've been going for 25 years. |
| 1:32.1 | But more importantly, he is such a great addition to the A-game podcast because for any of the |
| 1:36.9 | entrepreneurs listening, we have to pivot in life and business quite often. |
| 1:41.3 | Markets change, strategies change. |
| 1:45.9 | Some of you that got into real estate did it because you were forced to change for medical things, for life issues. Maybe you got laid off, |
| 1:50.1 | medical, but who knows what it is. But we all find times that we have to reinvent ourselves, |
| 1:54.6 | we have to change, or we have to pivot. And sometimes you put so much time into something that |
| 1:59.2 | it's hard to do or you're scared of starting over or you've been so good at something that you don't want to go back to having to be bad at something again. |
| 2:06.3 | Or maybe you just are even to the point where it's just scary because your identity is wrapped up to what you've been doing for so long. |
| 2:13.2 | And what's amazing about Jason is he was a criminal defense attorney in New York City that became very successful for 10 years and just literally scrapped it and decided I wanted to do something else and became a butcher. |
| 2:24.5 | Totally completely different. |
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