#91 with Ben Askren - The UFC Star Turned Crypto Investor

What's up, everyone? Uh this is a special episode with Ben Askren. If you don't know who Ben Ashren is, he is One of the most famous MMA fighter in the world. He was an Olympic wrestler. He was in the UFC. Uh, he's got his own podcast, his own doing a whole bunch of stuff launching a course, doing some cool stuff. He's one of the more interesting guys to talk to. He got famous because he was great in

kind of his interviews during the UFC. And so me and Sam were big uh MMA and UFC nerds and we we love this stuff. So we were we were pumped. You can probably hear it in our voice during the interview. We were pumped for this one. you know, I I got up early, I did some research, I I showered, I I was I was excited for this. We've had billionaires on here, but I was way more excited to talk to Ben Askren. And so hope you guys enjoy we talk a little bit about Dealing with fear. I mean these guys

They walk out in their underwear to fight another person who they've been talking trash to for the last two months. With millions of dollars on the line, millions of people watching and a stadium full of people just watching them sort of hand to hand combat. So it's a it's a incredibly intense pressure that very few people get to experience. So we asked Ben about How did he deal with fear? How did he get good at the active competition? What is he doing post career? Like what does an athlete do? How do they leverage their brand to build a business afterwards? And then he's also kind of active in the crypto space. So we talk a little bit about cryptocurrencies at the at the very end, but uh hope you guys enjoy this interview. Anytime we just get a cool guest on who is somebody who's they're kind of world class at whatever they do.

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