Episode 38. Jiu-Jitsu, Fear & Building a Pro Grappling Team
The conversation
About Lauren Barone.
Lauren Barone sat down for Kumite Lifestyle. That conversation is episode 38, “Jiu-Jitsu, Fear & Building a Pro Grappling Team”.
Lauren is a blue belt competitor, an entrepreneur, and co-owner of the Philadelphia Phenoms, a pro team in the Professional Grappling Federation. She lives in the greater Philadelphia region.
A big reason she started jiu-jitsu was to improve her cardio. She went from barely surviving one five-minute round to getting a little better every week.
Lauren talks about using competition to face fear and anxiety, building a pro grappling team from the ground up, and how her love for sci-fi shaped the Phenoms' identity.
“My opponent became my friend”
From the episode
- The scariest thing you do might turn out not so bad.
- Sometimes the win is the friend you make.
- Stick with it and you get a little better every week.
- Discipline
- Jiu-Jitsu
- Gym or dojo
- Philadelphia Phenoms
- Location
- Greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Rank
- Blue belt
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