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Megan Erber went from the Navy to Jiu Jitsu entrepreneur!
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From Navy to Jiu Jitsu fighter, this entrepreneur has battled in life in many different ways. Coming from a background of having two brothers and needing to fight for everything that she wanted. She turned her passion for adventure into a career with the Navy, and when that chapter of her life had come to a close, Megan Erber found comfort at kicking butt in Jiu Jitsu.
Now, a bit later in life, dealing with injuries and not being able to recover as fast. Megan Erber has turned her competitiveness into becoming a entrepreneur by taking her knowledge of the promotional items industry to make it work for herself. With the help of her mom, she has been able to spread her wings and go out on her own and take her passion to another level! And yet somehow she still finds time to be a mother to six children!
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Episode 19
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers shared their stories to inspire
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you
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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams
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yeah
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yeah
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welcome to the juniors podcast I’m your
host Joe Carter and today I’m
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interviewing megan garber right yeah
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who is living her dream through
jiu-jitsu and being an entrepreneur
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welcome to the show Megan thanks Kelly
so let’s get started by giving a
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background about yourself
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well um I gosh what I start I was
actually in the Navy for eight years
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when I started out I learned a lot about
working hard i absolutely loved being in
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the Navy the only reason i end up
getting out was because I kid and it was
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really tough really tough the travel and
being away for so long
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so when I got out I went to college to
be a doctor or scientist actually I was
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pre-med and I was in Texas and I you
know I took one advertising class and I
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was like this is kinda cool
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this is kind of cool so i am but i had
to move home going through a divorce and
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any help with the kids so I moved home I
answered an ad on monster.com started
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doing jiu-jitsu and the rest is history
and I’ve been in Italy promotional
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products industry ever since so well
thank you for serving not one
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yeah what would you say inspires you
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you know what my kids actually inspire
me that sounds cliché but i love that
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reason I started my own company was so I
could be at home or with them and you
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know I think every decision I make is to
make their lives better and
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and I submit make my life better being
around my kids and watching them grow up
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versus being on the road or being out to
see you know quality of life takes a big
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part of my life is a big part of making
my decisions is about quality of life i
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left a hundred-thousand-dollar your job
to use to start my own company and
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knowing there will be trials and
tribulations and struggles I’m being
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able to watch my family grow up and
become a family versus being home friday
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saturday sunday and being on the road
again it’s tough i’m a mom and you know
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i love being around my children so being
able to work from home or work out of my
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home and it’s giving me the opportunity
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how old are your kids 14 and 12
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I’m sorry I just changed my youngest
daughter she’s ten I she looks like
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she’s 12 because she’s so tall who
promised literally I actually well I’m
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sorry I have my stepkids to i actually
have four stepkids and there’s a
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twelve-year-old in there so i have two
ten-year-olds to 14 year olds a
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twelve-year-old a nineteen-year-old so
there’s a lot in there there’s a lot of
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kids right yeah so how did your dreams
come about like we’ll start with jujitsu
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and then you can work is the marketing
yeah well i was working from home being
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industry as a promotional products
distributor and I started to put on some
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way and I’ve always been very athletic
very into sports but i was working a lot
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and I looked into getting a personal
trainer and the personal trainer just
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happen to do jujitsu and he kept saying
your body type is so good for judge it’s
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your long your lien you know you’re
strong let’s do it knows
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at first I was kind of hesitant i’m not
a big fan of grappling with big sweaty
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men but I took to it I was really good
at it and I did a tournament like right
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off the bat and I i placed third like a
big deal but I didn’t expect to win and
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then it was like a drug like I’m
addicted to this i love training i love
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that i could actually take down a
full-grown man and and dominate him and
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I still can’t like there’s youtube
videos of me of choking out some penn
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state alumni linebacker and knocked him
out cold so that’s cool to me that
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method
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that’s how i got into it and take a
break from it for about a year or two
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because i was moving a lot 44 work at
the time and really got back into about
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five years ago full-fledged wanted to go
pro is doing MMA and jiu-jitsu full-time
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and working but because of travel
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I was missing out a lot but i would just
train when I would travel so if I was in
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Chicago for a trip to find a school and
train there in dallas school vegas and
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school so I did a lot of cross training
which just made me a better better
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player so being in jiu-jitsu and there’s
not that many women in jiu-jitsu at all
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with that being said there’s not a lot
of a parallel or gear for women at least
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something that what i would want to wear
you know you go out and you go to dick’s
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sporting goods and use my rash guard and
Oriole order one off the website they’re
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all geared more for men so with that
being said they’re very boxy or they’re
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they’re not fitted right so they don’t
cover your hips and that’s that’s a big
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thing for women
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um so I actually started my own fight
your line originally was called kimura
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fight here which I had some trademark
issues but it’s now dark horse pike here
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and it also kind of how I got started
into starting my own promotional
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products company i am selling branded
apparel and gear and that’s kind of what
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I’ve been doing for the past 11 years
just with different schwag like little
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trinkets and stuff and t-shirts here and
there so kind of combine it all being in
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the promotional products industry for
about 11 years I thought it would fit so
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it went from jiu jitsu to fight your
line combined it in with my experience
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in the promotional products industry and
now I I basically run two companies i
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fight your line and my promotional
products company so how started here I
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am
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first off what is a rash guard ok
alright i guess it’s easy to compare it
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to what surfers where they kind of
complete protect themselves from the
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cold water or the reef so it’s very
similar a lot of jujitsu competitors
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where it’s a rash guard its long sleeves
or short sleeves and it has a really
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cool funky design on it you support your
team or your school and right now it’s
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kind of like battle of who is the
coolest rashguard so my template
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jiu-jitsu community of contest of who
has the whatever school has the coolest
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rash guard
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some pretty cool ones out there often
have to send you some pictures and
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they’re really really cool actually i
can post them in the the Shona yeah
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definitely
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so how is your your dreams received by
your family i guess first jujitsu and
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then later wanting to go on out onto
your own your own company
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well no mother likes to see their
children beating up other people so my
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mother was like I can’t watch can’t
watch even though my love my one she
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still won’t watch any of my videos she’s
scared to death and I get that I mean I
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couldn’t imagine my one of my children
going in fighting and getting hurt by
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yeah that’s scary that’s really scary so
my my mother and my dad kind of like
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whoa that’s what you want to do but my
kids think it’s the coolest thing and
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all their friends think it’s so cool so
I’m kind of like the cool mom who who
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fights people and as far as we started
my own company they’re all very
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supportive and very very happy
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I’ve actually partnered with my mom with
a promotional products company she’s
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actually my business partner so it’s a
it’s taken off very quickly and a lot of
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lot of support for my friends in the
promotional product industry as well so
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what steps did you take to get started
with jujitsu and then with with emotions
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coming yeah well with jujitsu
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I’m very competitive and I think that’s
what brought a lot of it out in me my
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four brothers and I felt like you’re
always competing for attention or food
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or love or whatever it might be you come
from a big family you’re always
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competitive so doing these tournaments I
like I had to win I always felt if I
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don’t I didn’t win it’s like didn’t
train hard enough i won i think 19 in a
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row straight and I remember my first
loss i flip the Boston for a fight
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didn’t have anyone there to coach me and
I lost I was so depressed I was like on
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the worst luck in jiu-jitsu and then I
went to the pan am games a week later
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and i placed third so I still lost like
a match but it’s hard i don’t i don’t
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lose well i’m a poor loser but but
losing actually taught me more but it
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taught me
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ok this is what you’re lacking this is
what you need to work on and I’m
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very dedicated to being the best and
even if i’m not the best I want to be
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the best so I I kind of use that in all
aspects of life I coach my kids soccer
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team I i teach them skills so they can
learn it on their own or so I’m not
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screaming at them like I want them to be
the best for themselves not for me but
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for themselves
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I i apply the same thing to my own
company you know I don’t want to do the
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same thing everybody else is doing i
want to do it a little bit different so
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i have fun promo videos I have you know
different ways of of advertising and
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doing my own marketing and and just fun
thing people like fun and so I try to
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keep everything fun with the rash guards
and the and the fight your line and
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everything is keeping it fun keeping it
like so we’re there any roblox with all
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this
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um yes I actually had a huge roadblock
last year with my fight your line i had
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the opportunity to sponsor a very
well-known fighter for Bellator it was
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the championship fight
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his name was Emanuel Newton he was
fighting King mo he won the previous
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match with a spinning back fist and it
was like a rematch so it was 15 rounds I
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mean this was my opportunity to actually
make it big you know that that moment I
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finally made it was all over Twitter it
was insane and I was blowing up and then
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there was another company on a canada
that had a very similar name is mine and
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they just came at me with every legal
thing possible and unfortunately i do
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that 86 it season assistant and kind of
put me in a little you know made me sad
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for a little bit because I’ve worked so
hard to get to that moment where I’d
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finally made it i finally was in my name
out there sponsoring a huge fighter that
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was kinda the rug was pulled out from
underneath me so I took a while I to
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change the name and finally got there
but i’m there now and it’s better and I
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lot more products and a cooler logo and
and my own company to back it up
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so how about with jujitsu a lot of
injuries
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three years ago I was working on a new
move and I was sparring with a guy who
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was probably about 50 or 60 pounds on me
and freak accident he just landed on my
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arm wrong and it snapped in half that
put me out for a couple months
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and I’m not the kind of person that sits
till I tell you I was at the gym weekend
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week with my cast on and they had to
change my cast a couple times because it
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smelled so bad from the Sahara actually
took the cast off and put a brace on
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because they’re like you’re disgusting
he needs to shower shower just shower my
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arm so that was a huge robot just the
injuries have really injuries and age
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I’m 33 now so I don’t heal up as quickly
i had a really bad injury in my hip
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toward the labrum and was still working
on it for about eight months and come to
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find out end up having arthritis and
it’s that’s really put me back in my
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training so where I wanted to go pro at
my age and with all the injuries that
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I’ve had its kind of been a huge
roadblock so as much as I would love to
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be the next ronda rousey i’m not going
to be I’ll be too old by the time i get
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there so hoping one of my kids could
take on that legacy
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well how did you overcome the being you
know sued part it was really i just had
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to stop everything I did season this is
everything I kind of put it put it aside
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and regroup
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it took awhile to just get that
creativebug back to find a name that I
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loved tons names out there that I liked
and knowing all this could be it and
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then someone else already had it you
know
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come to find out there’s a lot of fight
your lines i was doing things
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differently
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I think that’s why i did so well but
again i had to find one that I liked my
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like I saw something that was the katy
perry song like dark horse it’s kind of
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like my vibe of jiu-jitsu it’s a little
bit of this little bit of that and I’ve
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taken a bunch of different styles to
make it my own and some of its frowned
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upon
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because of gracie jiu-jitsu being so he
organized and I’m a noogie fighter so
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it’s kind of a dark horse
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it’s kinda benefit so that’s why i
thought it would be perfect for the name
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of my new five-year line
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how did you overcome the the injuries in
jujitsu damn it is just a time to heal
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up but when I was my broke my arm i was
at the gym working on my legs when I
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couldn’t run anymore because my hip I
was working on my upper body you know
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p90x in the basement
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you know if I can do pull-ups we’re
doing assisted pullups until my back is
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stronger second time up to 5 pull-ups
like that’s really cool for a girl you
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know it’s just making myself stronger
where I i if I’m injured on one part of
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my body is just making myself stronger
another parts when I do get back to the
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mat I’m not weaker i’m actually stronger
from my injury
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well I know you mentioned wanting your
jujitsu to be a full-time thing for you
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yeah what other parts of your dreams
have not quite worked out the way you
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wanted man i think when i was 17 I
wanted to be a professional whitewater
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rafters that didn’t work out during the
Navy had kids
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no honestly that when i get fixated on
something it’s it’s high i don’t give up
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i mean i don’t think i’ll be the next
ronda rousey but it doesn’t mean I can’t
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go to Abu Dhabi trials it doesn’t mean
that I can’t just be somebody that all
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that black belt mega never like I want
to make a name for myself and I’m not
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ever gonna give up on that dream ever
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so that’s where I’m at with that huh so
if you were stranded on a deserted
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island with your family
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what are three things you couldn’t live
without and we’d probably kill each
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other
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oh gosh I don’t know i mean like that i
mean if you’re going to be I’m I’m kind
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of a an organizer like I would have to
be organized so if i knew i wasn’t be
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deserted island i would have water i
would have matches and I have sunblock
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yeah but not knowing gosh probably my
cell phone because I like to play games
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on my cellphone and watch videos in
jiu-jitsu videos that we would be really
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boarded gosh i was deserted on a desert
island i would have to make sure that
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had something to do for my children
because they would put we probably just
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kill each other
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there there were such active people that
not being able to do something just gets
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to us ask me next time you have me on
i’ll probably better answer for that but
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I i don’t know i never once I mean one
thing the cell phone thing a lot of
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people have said ya phone so it’s not
not muhammad and yes sir
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yeah but you know I yeah cell phone
because yeah that is a hard question so
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I’ll to go with cellphones kind of
generic
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don’t like to do generic but I’ll think
about it you’ll have a better answer for
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you by the end of this so you have any
dreams for the future I would love to
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see my name’s Mike promotional products
company my five-year mine take off i
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would love to have a sponsor of a big
fighter that that’s it for me right now
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I i really like to see it do well be a
top-40 distributor i recently did
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partner with a huge distributor i’m in a
depression products industry is a 20
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billion dollar industry it’s made up of
small businesses tons of small
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businesses i was approached once i
started my company because of my
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reputation in the industry of
promotional products i was approached by
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halo branded solutions and Geiger and
through a lot of research and a lot of a
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lot of decision-making i decided to
partner with them and they are over a
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hundred forty million dollar company
here like they do a ton of revenue and
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they back me up there my backing they I
literally was able to go out and do what
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I do market and sell and they back me up
so it’s nice so I have a lot of big
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plans i would like to be up there on my
own in next two years and break away
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from them and be right under them as you
know follow their footsteps
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that’s some big dreams yeah uh-huh so do
you have any last thoughts you’d like to
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share you know if you if anyone
listening to the podcast obviously needs
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promotional product definitely think of
me you want to come train learn jujitsu
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I’d love to have you at my gym we have
matt’s all the time teach you a few
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things i do women’s self-defense classes
at trade shows as well so if you even if
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you’re a woman you want to learn how to
defend yourself you know jiu-jitsu is
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all about self-defense see the worst
place you want to be as on your back
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when you’re attacked and I get that’s
the best place I want to be because
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that’s where I’m strongest so that’s a
different mentality to have is a woman
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and i am very confident in my jiu-jitsu
and my self defense so you know if you
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want to learn something definitely come
check out the gym with next-gen ma most
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effort so love to have to pass that
information along so before we go any
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Twitter Facebook websites you wanna plug
definitely definitely so on twitter
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because you so many letters in a and a
handle I’m Bryn
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those promo on facebook facebook.com
forward slash friend speaks promo on
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pinterest as well definitely check this
out
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I’ll have all those insurance thanks
thanks for coming thanks for having me
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