Enter the Lionheart

Lawrence is joined by Scott McDermott, Coach, Ultra Endurance Athlete and Speaker. Scott Fell in love with Ultraman, which is 2.5 times longer than an Ironman. At his 2nd Ultraman World Championships, he crashed his bike at nearly 70 kph, breaking his shoulder, arm, ribs, and skull.  He nearly died that day and through a long, painful and gritty 3-year recovery, he made it back to the world champi...

Jamie MoCrazy was a Trailblazing Female Skiing Champion who had dreamed of obtaining an Olympic Gold Medal. When a catastrophic crash ended her competitive athletic dreams, Jamie had to relearn even the simplest skills. But, through those difficult times, Jamie employed her grit and winning mindset to overcome her circumstances.  Today, she shares her story of loss, recovery, and triumph with audi...

Lawrence is joined by Spyridon, former Rugby Player, Jiujutsu Athlete, Artist, and Serial Entrepreneur. Also known as "Spyrosketches" in the art world, he recently launched his first collection of NFTs on OpenSea and Known Origin and is preparing for his next launch. He explains just why NFTs are so popular for investors and why they will be here to stay. He also shares some fascinating thoughts o...

Lawrence is joined by David Wood, an entrepreneur, and a veteran personal transformational coach of over two decades. David is extremely passionate about helping people stay focused in attaining their goals, and becoming extraordinary humans both professionally and personally. David is the author of "Get Paid For Who You Are" with foreword by motivational leader, Jack Canfield, author of Chicken S...

Lawrence talks about his goal review process and goal setting strategies for the start of each new year. How type A personalities need to take the time to look back and see their past goals through a long-term perspective. Also setting "one day goals" to avoid the pitfalls of existential depression at paradigm shifts in life. Finally, Lawrence shares his top Reads of 2021, why he enjoyed about the...

Lawrence is joined by Brian Russ, an early adopter of Bitcoin. Brian is incredibly intelligent, well studied, and eloquent--the perfect person to explain the ideas, misconceptions, and strategies about such a misunderstood and misrepresented asset class as cryptocurrency. As many high net-worth individuals, along with fund managers, CEOs, and even countries like El Salvador are beginning to adopt...

Lawrence is joined by Nate Palmer, a fitness and nutrition expert, coach, speaker, author, and a devoted husband and father who believes that being in optimal health gives a massive advantage in business, focus, and relationships. He has created a niche for business owners and entrepreneurs to improve their physique, finances, and family time using fitness and nutrition as force multipliers. Nate...

Lawrence is joined by Educator, Author, and Keynote Speaker, Dr. Danny Biddell. Danny has made it his mission to educate the youth on the powers of reading. And as a former inner city schoolteacher from Compton, LA., he knows how to educate and inspire under served communities. The son of a librarian and a reluctant reader most of his childhood, Danny became an avid reader when he finished his doc...

Lawrence and his good friend Rocco Jarmin discuss Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Future of Consent. Bitcoin is so much more than just "digital money", it's a revolution of freedom; Bitcoin is a technology, it is a currency, and it's an international network of payments and exchange that is completely decentralized. It doesn't rely on banks. It doesn't rely on governments. That is part of the blockch...

Lawrence is joined by Sunny Akhigbi, an unbelievably resilient survivor of trauma and destitution growing up in a small rural village of Nigeria. Despite his family trying to contain him in a horrific environment of hard child labor, he managed to get his high school education. He went on to get a college education regardless of almost dying from being caught in the gang warfare that threatened hi...

Mark Vives discusses his strength of schedule and his professional approach to jiu-jitsu competition. In his preparation, he truly leaves no stone unturned. In the past 5 years, he's traveled 190,000 miles and had over 230 black belt matches. Doing that in your 40s, when you have a family and you're running a gym is absolutely mind blowing. It exudes both his commitment and motivation to jiu-jitsu...

Lawrence and his good friend Nic Gregoradies, discuss Bitcoin and the Cryptocurrency Revolution that we are living through. Money can give us the ultimate freedom to liberate us from the shackles of soul destroying careers; but money has also been inflated away since Nixon left the gold standard fifty years ago. Bitcoin is so much more than just "digital money", it's a revolution of freedom; Bitco...

Lawrence is joined by Rick Ellis, host of the "Art of Skill" channel on YouTube.  Rick is an incredibly creative person obsessed with skill development, excellence, and the highest expression of skill, through artistry. Rick first worked in Hollywood as a recording engineer and videographer before starting his software company in the early days of the internet. After his company made him insane ri...

Lawrence is joined by Nick Chapman, the former MMA fighter and Cage Rage light heavyweight champion. Alongside his professional fighting career, he also built several successful businesses, but decided England wasn't the place for him. He freed himself from the shackles of the West, sold everything he had and moved to Thailand. Nick has spent decades proving doubters wrong; no goal was too great,...

Lawrence is joined by Darcy Luoma, author of "Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success".  Darcy is a performance coach who focuses on helping her clients achieve business success, but more importantly, she also helps them fulfill their potential in their personal lives. Darcy explains how all the elite performers have coaches, and like them, she herself has always had, an...

Lawrence is joined by Brian Russ, an early adopter of Bitcoin. He is both an unbelievably successful cryptocurrency trader, as well as having a full time career in banking. Its humbling that Brian is willing to share his deep knowledge on Bitcoin, so openly. He is incredibly intelligent and eloquent, the perfect person to explain the ideas, misconceptions, and strategies about such a complicated c...

Lawrence is joined by Artem Tepler. After coming to America as a child from Communist Russia, Artem soon understood that he could flourish in his new home with the right work ethic and mentality. From his formative years training in traditional martial arts as a boy, and progressing through the belt system to Black Belt in Taekwondo, he developed his "growth mindset": that anything was possible if...

Lawrence is joined by Brad Anastasia, a former Investment Banker who became so burnt out with the Rat Race, that he quit the Corporate Dream and moved to South America to search for answers on how to live a life worth living. During his years in Argentina and Peru, Brad spent his time learning Spanish, while trying to demystify the elusiveness of happiness. While working in finance he had traded i...

Rocco, a brilliant multi-faceted man who has spent a lifetime devouring introspective subjects, such as poetry, literature, psychology, physics, hermeticism and believe it or not, much more. He graces humanity with his knowledge and discusses his interest in developing a cohesive and foundational theory of reality and the human experience, specifically in a synthesis and comprehension that bleeds...

Lawrence is joined by his longtime jiujitsu instructor, Jay Valko, a lifelong jiujitsu athlete and philosopher with vast interests, specifically, finance and economics, philosophy and political libertarianism. Jay reminisces of his early days of training and his evolution with combat sports. From traditional martial arts to high school wrestling, to the beginning of his jiujitsu journey with Graci...

Lawrence is joined by Trevor Mosbaugh, a successful financier who never misses his Spartan workouts--a true archetypal of a man who balances his professional and personal successes by staying consistent and principally oriented. Trevor discussed the significant benefits of getting up in the early morning to kick start his day, influenced by one of his favorite books the "5 am club" by Robin Sharma...

Lawrence is joined by Brian Feldkamp, a man of rare distinction of someone who has never had a "boss" or a regular job in his entire life! Brian started his first mail order business when he was in his teens, then went from franchising fitness training programs to eventually moving to LA and working on his first tech startup. He moved back to Chicago where he started his second tech company, and f...

Lawrence is joined by Thomas Huisking, a man blessed with male model looks, with the intellectual capacity and emotional intelligence of a wise old stoic. Thomas discussed his life's evolution in pursuit of personal and professional success through constant reinvention. Throughout his life, Thomas has been a bodybuilder, fitness coach, actor and producer in Hollywood, music producer, podcast host,...

Lawrence is joined by his former training partner and teammate, Mark Allen. We reminisce about some of our favorite memories from our decade plus in the combat sports world, and how he is dealing with his Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) which he examines in depth, in his fantastic (hilarious, but also gritty, and powerful) new book: "Based on a True, Traumatic, Brain History: A Short Memoir".  Mark i...

In this second episode, Lawrence is joined by his real-estate mentor, Mo Dadkhah, a serial entrepreneur and always the hardest worker in the room. Mo is the owner or Dadkhah Law and Main Street Real Estate Group, among his other ventures. Mo discusses the roots of his insane work ethic, from watching his father, a Persian Immigrant who came to the US with almost nothing, and after several advanced...