Fortunato Podcast

If you think black belts don’t have the same worries/stress/self talks/insecurities as you. Listen to this episode, Our guest is Alex Stuart, one of the instructors at Gracie University. Many feel pressured from being part of this great organization, including himself. He shares his story for all of you to understand that nothing is beautiful without being ugly first.

If you are worried about trying jiu jitsu because past injuries or you got injured and you don’t know how to get back. Special guest John Hoffman, shares his story about how he got injured in Karate after 10+ years of training, his mindset at the stage of recovery, how he persevered, why he wanted to come back to jiu jitsu, and more. Let us know what you think at infomemorialbjj@gmail.com or DM us.

Jackson and Rafael had a special guest, Chris Diaz. His story is incredible and inspirational. If you have someone that needs a bit of a push/motivation to keep going. Send them this episode, enjoy! Let us know what you think by sending us an email to infomemorialbjj@gmail.com

Jackson and Rafael found a article from a Clinical Psychologist that talks about the benefits of jiu jitsu for our mind. Being students ourselves we wanted to dive into that topic more. Check it our and let us know if you have any questions or comment by sending us an email at infomemorialbjj@gmail.com

Jackson and Rafael shared their experience on how can you start and maintain your jiu jitsu journey after 40 years old. Plus if you are younger, how can you reach your 40s and beyond without big impactful injuries.

Jackson and Rafael discuss one the best days of their Jiu Jitsu and Business Journey. Let us know what you think by emailing us at infomemorialbjj@gmail.com

Jackson and Rafael talk about lack of patience, entitlement behavior, and why short term thinking is not the way of living life.

Jackson and Rafael discuss on their daily habits on becoming more present. What is it so important for yourself, family, friend, and how jiu jitsu is all connected to that.

Jackson and Rafael share their experience in business, react to a viral inspiring video, and more. Let us know what you think.

We talked about our wins and loses about our partnership. What makes us not argue too much and how everything started.

Jackson and Rafael dedicated this podcast episode to one of our student that passed away. We don’t know the whole details but for what we understand, he suffered from anxiety. We wanted to give you a bit of our experience with anxiety and some things that we found researching about the subject. Hopefully it helps, let us know what you think. Thanks for listening.

We tell our experience from our trip to California this year. Funny enough we practice physical and mental Jiu Jitsu. True story about our last day in LA, we got into an accident with 2 intoxicated people. We made a big mistake. In this episode we share it with you so you don’t have to go through that. Let us know what you think.

This questions today are one of the main issues with many Jiu Jitsu Academies today. They don’t speak about this important mindsets. Leaving students learning the hard way or actually quitting the art.

The title says it all. Check out the full episode. Let us know what you think @memorialbjj in your favorite platform.

Jackson’s friend Richard pass by the podcast to share how they met and how people are the most powerful tool is our utility belt. How kindness, good intentions, no hidden agenda, can build you a beautiful community of support and growth

Jackson and I talked about our experience with jiu jitsu training. How can you learn more efficiently and the benefits of training for women apart from self defense skills.

#13 Ice Bath Party Jackson and I had an incredible experience with Aaron. We did the Ice Bath, a pool full of water with ice. Hear our testimonials and the many correlations how this can help you overcome anxiety and stress. #brazilianjiujitsu #wimhofmethod #icebath

Jackson and I discussed 3 new questions. How to train with higher belts and lower belts? Mindset/Strategy What can you do after training to recover from soreness? What to do when i get injured? And how to come back to training? Let us know what you think. If you have any question send them here infomemorialbjj@gmail.com

Jackson and Rafael answered 3 main question that the student wanted to know. What are the best moves to focus on as a white belt / newcomer? How do I break plateaus or periods where I’m not getting better? Is Jiu Jitsu Enough? Let us know what you think.

How can we grow our Emotional Intelligence. Recent events that helped us learn new ways to better ourselves. And how Jiu Jitsu helped Jackson controlled his emotions when he was a bouncer.

We introduce a new segment called ‘O que voce acha’ (What do you think) in Portuguese. Something that we share with each other already when we find funny, interest, and thought provoking content online. After the new segment, we talk about how being nice, compassionate and kind is the best way to go by in life. Here is the link to the video we reacted on the segment; https://bit.ly/2ZEVElR

We are here talking with Jill. She is super curious about the body and human movement. She is our main Foundation Training(FT) Instructor in our academy. We talk about her story and how she found FT. Jackson shares with her a similar story about back pain. So we talk about that, how most back pains are created, and how to fix it with FT. If you want to check Foundation Training out, check their website at foundationtraining.com. Let us know what you think about this episode, hopefully it helps.

We got a dear friend and colleague of ours as our first guest. She is a Fitness instructor, Dancer instructor for 10+ years, Mother and a Business Owner. We talked about the Fitness Industry and how they are focused on looks intead of feeling great and functionality. Super interesting conversation, we wished to listen to when we were younger. Genuine and real fitness is the way. Let us know what you think.

Experience good and bad ones give us the tool of perspective. A chance to compare and simulate the many situations we have encounter in life or others people experiences. The problem if we don’t have this. It will make are life feel like its never enough. Perspective helps us balance ourselves in our day to day life. Whenever we feel sad, discourage, too optimistic, etc. Building this skill is possible. Immigrants like us, that came from a country that didn’t have much. Gave us naturally more perspective than others. But if you feel that you don’t have it, no worries there is a way. This is our humble opinion on it and how can you build it. Let us know what you think, Thanks!

We all have Insecurities and of course an Ego. This prevents us from doing the right thing for us. We need to know ourselves to be able to manage them. If we cant stop them from controlling us. Our life wont be as fulfilling as it could be. In this episode we talk about how we got to manage them, the benefits from those small wins and how are we dealing with them today.

There are many ways to train Jiu Jitsu. Most people train competition or MMA focus, without knowing the difference between self defense focus and the rest. There are individuals practicing in the wrong place. Feeling that they are not good enough or getting injured, or maybe even being held back because they are so talented. Jackson and I shared our experience with all of them. Hopefully this will help you understand more about the end goal of each one. So you can make a better decision whenever you are ready to start your journey in Jiu Jitsu. There is no good or bad here, you’ll decide which one is the one for you.

What trendy diets have in common? How to create your own way of eating better and healthier? We all believe that one diet is the solution, but its not. We will share our story with our relationship with food. How did we find our own path to feeling great and how can you find yours too.

Podcast #2 Bullies We were bullied as kids too. We talked about how we got bullied, how we felt, how we dealt with it, how Jackson’s Son handle a situation beautifully and the different types of bullying. Plus the famous story of Babão. Keep in mind that English is our Second Language. If we say something out of context or a word that doesnt make sense. Let us know, we are trying our best to get better

We talk how in Jiu Jitsu the people that we are most intimidate it from. Are actually more insecure than most of us. We all have something that we fear or get anxiety before starting. We discussed how can we take action and don’t let this stop us from progress and growth. Jackson tells cools stories about his bodybuilder friend in London. And how one of our student really felt before signing up.