#149 – Rick Ellis: The Art of Skill, Courage & Facing your Fears

Enter the Lionheart

Lawrence Dunning

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5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Rick Ellis is a Roy Dean Black belt and founder of YouTube channel: The Art of Skill. In this interview he talks about being a musician in his youth; his nomadic lifestyle.

“Supercharge your potential, build a fulfilling life of purpose, and transform yourself into the best version of yourself!”

0.00: Why Jiujitsu is so unique and how it keeps your interest

5.30: Rick’s Youth being raised by a fearless single mother

11.30: Courage, fear and moving forward in the face of fear

15.00: Running a jiujitsu school in Wyoming

21.00: Maintaining a healthy vehicle to keep training into your later years

29.00: Importance of weight training and restorative training

35.00: Peptides, Ozempic and ways to raise Testosterone

46.00: Staying positive in the face of inflation, possible war, and other negative possibilities

50.00: Why Greatness can’t be planned

53.00: Music as a refuge to a life on the move

58.00: Focusing on the moment as the way to happiness

1.06.00: How it's harder to stay motivated as we age (small habits)

1.10.00: Life in San Diego

Until next time, love and good vibes.

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0:00.0	The A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts.
0:18.0	Get ready to enter the Lion Heart with your host Lauren Stunning.
0:22.0	Hello and welcome back to another episode of Enter the Lion Heart.
0:26.0	Today I'll be having Rick Ellis back on the podcast.
0:29.0	Rick is a Roy Dean Blackbell and the founder of the YouTube channel The Arts of Skill.
0:35.0	Rick is living a really great life teaching, training and promoting the art of Jiu-Jitsu
0:40.0	and is a great example for all the older Jitsu athletes as he's over 50 but he's still holding jitsu camps,
0:46.5	training all over Southern California and just generally getting after it in life.
0:52.1	More than 50% of people still find new podcast through personal recommendation.
0:56.0	So if this resonates with you, please share.
0:59.0	And as always, we appreciate any policy reviews,
1:02.0	which really helps to grow
1:03.0	podcast audiences and win the algorithm game.
1:06.6	Please enjoy my conversation with Rick Ellis.
1:11.6	Rick Ellis, my brother, so great to see you as well Lawrence I see you
1:17.0	man you are like everywhere on social media and the speed at which you post and
1:22.4	reap tweet and like and I'm inspired by you I don't know how you do
1:26.9	I mean you are I think there's probably three of you as you've cloned yourself
1:31.6	you've got a social media guy just watching Facebook all day and you've got another guy doing the real estate. So now I'm inspired by you man.
1:39.0	Well, thank you brother. It's it's a necessary evil to put myself out there in real estate,
1:45.1	but it's one of the one of the great things is I meet people
1:48.6	you know really inspiring figures like you and you know you're so inspiring to me because you're still at it and you know you're six years old and you're dealing with all these injuries and but you still have this passion for Jiu-Jitsu and you started at 41 which is so crazy to so it's so it's so inspiring because I feel like Jiu-Jitsu has grown, I've been doing it 20 plus years now,
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