Tony Blauer
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Hey, Tony Blair. Thanks, Dan. I love doing this. I love coming to Blacksite. And the, you know, the bio at turning 65 years old, you know, how do I do a two-minute bio? But I, you know, I start off, there's two things that are unique about our system. One is it's the foundation of understanding the psychology of fear, how to turn fear into fuel. and I grew up afraid of everything.
I was a really good athlete, but I was afraid of every single sport. I didn't want to strike out. I didn't want to let my team down. If I was grappling, what if the guy breaks my knee? And I would worry about all the wrong things, so I never hit flow state. In spite of that, I figured out a system to manage fear so I could excel as a parent, as a dad, as an athlete, as an entrepreneur.
The other part of that is I was scared to death of violence, and I grew up in the 60s, and so that was batman and manix and the wild wild west and and it was wild so i'd watch all these shows and this this fear connection is so important because i was so afraid that all that was going to happen to me that when i was watching the tv shows i was going if i learned to fight all that fear will go away
So I started to learn how to train martial arts, grappling, and all that stuff. And when I got into fights as a kid, as a teenager, the fear didn't go away. I was like, what is wrong? And I realized that we look at self-defense incorrectly, and I spent my life transforming and reimagining how people can protect themselves.
Same thing. And it's interesting because if you talk to Tyson or De La Hoya when they were fighting, they might not have had that same answer. It was when they matured and evolved that you realize, oh my God, fear was my fuel. We have a program called No Fear and it's spelled K-N-O-W. And it's just this reframe of... that if you get to know fear, that's the stress inoculation, that's the reps.
If I asked you a question about business, about betrayal in business, an entrepreneurial thing, and I've seen you teach and talk so many times, your answers are like, you're like, but it's because you've had so much experience with it, When we're kids, nobody mentors and tells us fear is a good thing. Fear is there to keep you alive.
Fear releases these chemicals that make you stronger, that make you faster. But if you've got a negative relationship with it, you know, if your coaches, your mentors, your parents don't teach you, it's okay. You got to lean into fear. But so George St. Pierre, one of the greatest MMA guys. I was, so I grew up in Montreal and George was a Kyokushinkai fighter.
In Montreal, he used to bow to me in the gym before he was Rush St. Pierre, before he did MMA. And what was wild, we became friends. But he never talked about fear and psychology until after he got much older. And now he talks about it. I just saw a clip of him saying,
he wouldn't have been a champ if it wasn't for fear so i think part of that is you as you get older you go like i think now that i'm in my 60s i think of people when i was in my 20s or 30s telling me business advice or mobility or or any type of advice and i'm thinking that doesn't apply to me that doesn't apply to me so i i really think that um
I look at fear as a psychological tool, as an organic fuel. We like to tell people, you can't be brave if you're not afraid. So it's a reminder that if I use that fear, it can be empowering. The hard thing is when you have an experience of fear, whether it's business, health, entrepreneurial violence,
the physiological change like the blood rushing to extremities feels like you're like like that and your heart is racing and you get vertical breathing and your palms are sweaty if nobody teaches you that that's okay that's what your body's doing autonomically that can freak you out and so that's why a lot of people hyperventilate or they get that freeze response
Genius.
Yeah.
After we finish this, I'll show you some really cool old pics. I knew him before he was Rush. In fact, you know, my high gear equipment that we do the force of force stuff. I... gave him some equipment back at the gym there so he could work on his ground and pound, like just gave it to him. And it was wild to see his career just grow.
And, you know, there's one interview that I use in some of our presentations where he says, that the worst day of his life is the day he has to fight, that he's terrified. And when you see him doing his Superman punch, punching people in the face and fighting guys, if I said to you that guy this morning was terrified, you wouldn't believe it.
What people don't realize about fear, and this is like the gift of this like epiphany, like this light bulb moment, is that, you know, Tyson used to throw up before his fights, but people didn't know that, right? If you remember like what a menace, he was just like dominated everybody. Imagine if you and I, and you're a betting man, you invest.
If you and I were walking in the bowels of an arena and we opened the door and it was a young Mike Tyson, right? But wait, so visualize this. I'm there and I go, the next fighter we see, you're going to bet on to win, I'm going to bet on to lose. and we open the door and there's Tyson crying, throwing up, you'd have gone, oh man. I'm vetting the other guy for sure.
So what I tell people, it's called fear management. And there's like a joke I make when we do our No Fear seminars is I go like, you know, you have a Costco store manager, Walmart store manager, that what we all need is like a little fear manager button that we need to manage fear. The market changes, you're managing fear really quickly. You're being followed, you know, you're managing fear.
You're late for a flight, you're managing fear.
uh it's it's uh it's a wild thing and the better we manage fear the better we manage time the time is the only resource we can't get back when we're in a fear loop we're catastrophizing what's going to happen what next oh i'm going to lose this i'm going to screw this i'm going to you know like when when when covet hit was wild because all of my contracts most of my contracts are law enforcement military
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