Overcome

Arash Soofiani is a Judo Black Belt, with prior experience as strength and conditioning coach at Santa Clara University in California, Olympic Sports Performance Coach at University of Southern California, World Champion in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Jiu-Jitsu coach at Six Blades Lake Travis in Texas. In this episode Arash talks about how to make improvements with the tools you have, how to adapt your game after a major injury and the importance of SMART goals to drive results and achieve more. 

Dave Kennedy is an entrepreneur who always struggled with his weight, and despite many attempts to lose weight he was never able to maintain the weight loss for too long. All that changed once he switched his approach and adopted a better lifestyle prioritizing his nutrition and exercise. This lifestyle change led him to lose 100 lbs, gain lots of muscles and drop to 5% body fat. He did all that while still growing his company and leading many cybersecurity projects. In this episode, Dave will talk about how he came to this realization, what changes he made to accomplish this and how he continues to make progress in his fitness journey.

Armon Adibi is a top contest prep coach, dietician, NPC Judge and former NPC competitor in the bodybuilding super heavy weight division. Since 2016, Armon started his own line of bodybuilding supplements called Adibi Army. In this episode Armon talks about his journey as bodybuilder and prep coach, the mindset of a winning athlete, how to overcome obstacles and what you should look for when trying to finding you contest prep coach.

Al Sabo is a French Canadian woman who lives in British Columbia. At the age of 19 she overcame addiction and was introduced into the world of bodybuilding by a local coach in Squamish. Al works as a counselor building her own business which will focus on helping her clients with grief, loss & transitions. In addition, she also works as life coach helping people with their mindset & becoming their best authentic selves. In this episode Al is going to talk about how journey which includes competing four times in the bikini division, her transition to figure division and her plans to compete in wellness division.

Rick Mater is a longtime runner and Emmy-nominated TV executive living in Los Angeles. A miler in high school, he lettered in cross-country in college and has run the Grand Canyon twice as a cardiac patient. A heart attack survivor, Rick is the author of the book Six Hours: Running For My Life in the Grand Canyon. In this episode Rick talks about his journey from surviving a heart attack and conquering the Grand Canyon on his 60s.

Donald Robertson is a writer, cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, trainer and the author of the bestseller How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. In this episode Donald talks about talks about practicing Stoicism, how to use Stoicism principles to deal with pain and build resilience. Donald also talks about Cognitive Distancing and how it can be used, the dangerous aspect of positive thinking and the top five principles that you can adopt to start practicing Stoicism.

For more than a decade Tracy Frances battled Lyme disease symptoms without even knowing that this was the problem. After the correct diagnose she started a proper recovery process and that's when she discovered Jiu-Jitsu. In this episode Tracy talks about this journey that was negatively affecting her mental state and how practicing Jiu-Jitsu helped her to regain confidence in herself. Tracy also talks about her competition experience and her plans to 2023 season.

Kendall Reusing is a BJJ World Champion, sports commentator, entrepreneur, coach, and now Podcaster. She conquered many things in life in such young age and one of the main reasons she is able to do that is because of her strong mindset. In this episode Kendall give us an update on her knee injury, how the rehab is going and also she reviewed the emotions going through ADCC 2022. Kendall talks about the importance of surrounding yourself with positive people, strong mindset and how she is handling the downtime off the mats during this rehab. 

She is not only a Judo World Champion, but in Tokyo 2020 Jessica Klimkait won bronze medal and became Canada’s first Olympic medalist in women’s judo. However, the journey to get to Tokyo wasn't easy, she had to overcome injuries and training restrictions imposed by the Pandemic. Throughout this journey Jessica always stayed committed to do her best and this commitment led her to always stay on top for the past major competitions. In this episode Jessica talks about her mindset during the prep leading to every major tournament. How she overcame injuries to compete and how she handles pressure.