The strongest leaders don’t need you to stay beneath them. They want to see how far you can fucking go. Felipe Bragiao left Brazil at 19 with a blue belt, worked whatever jobs he needed to survive, and eventually built a life around the martial art that had been shaping him since childhood.
The strongest leaders don’t need you to stay beneath them. They want to see how far you can fucking go.
Felipe Bragiao left Brazil at 19 with a blue belt, worked whatever jobs he needed to survive, and eventually built a life around the martial art that had been shaping him since childhood.
He’s also the man who gave Zach his Jiu-Jitsu black belt.
Nearly 20 years into their friendship, Zach and Felipe sit down inside the gym they helped build to talk about the old-school fight culture they came from, the hard years that forged them, and what changes when winning stops being about proving yourself and starts becoming about the people you’re building behind you.
Press play and find out what it means to build something worth passing down.
Want to connect with Felipe? Follow him on Instagram or visit his website.