#159 - Nick Chapman: MMA Champion’s Mindset for Success & Creating Your Dream Life
Enter the Lionheart
Lawrence Dunning
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Lawrence is joined by Nick Chapman, the former MMA fighter & Cage Rage light heavyweight champion. Alongside his professional fighting career, Nick also built several successful businesses, but decided England wasn’t the place for him. He got free of the shackles of the West, sold everything he had and moved to Thailand. Nick spent his life proving doubters wrong; no goal was too great, no challenge too daunting. Nick exudes a growth mindset and now is passing these priceless lessons onto his young son.
0.00: Ten years to win an MMA Championship at 39
4.00: MMA as showbusiness
8.30: Moving to Thailand
11.00: The Myth of Retirement
18.00: What you can learn from wisdom vs personal mistakes
25.00: Knowing what you don’t know
30.00: Having a mindset with no limitations
35.00: White Collar Boxing and the benefits of overcoming fear
43.00: Building a legacy and creating wealth
49.00: Why you only get what you deserve in dating
56.00: Being calculated for success
1.00.00: Working on his black belt in jiujitsu
Until next time, love and good vibes.
Podcast Website: https://enterthelionheart.com/
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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 | To be here with such an accomplished man, Nick Chapp. with your |
| 0:25.0 | Bight-Dunning. To be here with such an accomplished man, Nick Chapman, former |
| 0:26.0 | MMA champion, multiple business owner, |
| 0:29.0 | and now one of the happiest people of what I like to say, |
| 0:32.0 | you're a black belt in life make yeah |
| 0:34.1 | thank you but that's a good way of putting it black belt in life |
| 0:36.8 | because it's a I'm a brown back in Jiu-Jitsu and it's really hard to get to black belt in that |
| 0:41.5 | so I'll take the blackbough in life. |
| 0:43.2 | But it's amazing Nick I mean I saw you going for a beach in the morning and I know you just |
| 0:48.1 | dropped your summer for school. You've created this amazing life and I'd love to talk a little bit maybe if you can |
| 0:53.8 | bring it back to you just retired from MMA you've had your last fight you're |
| 0:57.3 | living in England to then getting from there to arriving the first time in |
| 1:02.0 | Thailand and ready to make a new life. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, okay, so I worked tirelessly for for nearly 10 years to win that title on ultimate challenge. |
| 1:10.0 | When I first went to Cage Rage in 2002 I was watching the Light Heavy |
| 1:15.2 | Champion win. By that time I never done any proper training and I was like |
| 1:18.1 | shit I want that I want that belt. My friends obviously laughed at me but I |
| 1:22.3 | went training and I trained and I got the title |
| 1:24.7 | well when I was 39, I won it after two attempts, two failed attempts against Jimmy Manoir |
| 1:30.0 | and Lincoln Visele, but I got it on a third attempt and yeah I was 39 but I felt like |
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