Stacked Keys Podcast
The idea to talk to women who are out there living and making a difference is where the Stacked Keys Podcast was born. There are women who make a difference, but never make a wave while paddling through life. Immediately I can think of a dozen or more who impacted me, but I want more. I want to talk to those I don't know and I want to share with an audience that might need the inspiration to find their own beat. This podcast is to feature women who are impressive in the work world-- or in raising a family -- or who have hobbies that can make us all be encouraged. Want to hear what makes these women passionate and get up in the morning or what they wish they had known earlier in life? Grab your keys and STOMP to your own drum.
Stacked Keys Podcast
Episode 176 -- Bre Stikk -- Unleashing Inner Strength
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When world champion grappler and martial artist Bre Stikk joined the podcast , she brought with her a story that is as impactful as her presence in the ring. With two black belts and a heart set on empowering women and fighting against sex trafficking, Bre opens up about her journey towards becoming a beacon of strength and hope. Her tale is not just about the glory of competition, but also about the courage it takes to embrace a cause that extends far beyond the mat.
Throughout the episode, we tackle some heavy hitters, from the harsh realities of healthcare to finding balance in the relentless pursuit of dreams. Bre brings to the table a raw and honest take on the mental fortitude required to not just survive, but to thrive in the face of adversity. We share insights on building resilience and staying true to one's moral compass amidst life's curveballs, a conversation that resonates with anyone striving for personal growth while facing challenges head on.
As we wrap up, Bre's infectious energy takes center stage, leaving listeners with a sense of empowerment and the urge to carve their own paths. The stories of her seminars, where she plants seeds of possibility in the minds of women, are a testament to the potential each of us holds. Bre's journey is a reminder that while our dreams and the road to independence might be loaded with anxiety and setbacks, with the right mindset, we can stomp to our own drum and grasp the keys to unlock our deepest desires and aspirations.
Music "STOMP" used by permission of artist Donica Knight Holdman and Jim Huff
The Warrior's Journey
Speaker 1I'm walking all alone down my yellow brick road and I stomp to the beat of my own drum. I got my pockets full of dreams and they're busting at the seams going boom, boom, boom.
Speaker 2Welcome to Stacked Keys Podcast. I'm your host, amy Stackhouse. This is a podcast to feature women who are impressive in the work world or in raising a family, or who have hobbies that make us all feel encouraged. Want to hear what makes these women passionate to get up in the morning, or what maybe they wish they'd known a little bit earlier in their lives.
Speaker 1Grab your keys and st three to my own drum. Whatever you do, it ain't nothing on me, because I'm doing my thing and I hold the key to all my wants and all my dreams like an old song I'm really excited today have a special guest, brie stick Welcome.
Speaker 3Becca out in the Femmevasion in Florida. She's been diligent about calling me about the podcast.
Speaker 2Well, you know why she connects with people. It's really neat Becca's in the jiu-jitsu world, she's also out there in her professional world. She just comes across really fascinating women just like yourself, and so we like to make the connection and then be able to talk to you with the audience and find out who you are. So let's right out of the gate, get started. Bree, how do people know you professionally?
Speaker 3and personally, I've been competing in jujitsu, grappling, combat, jujitsu mma beach wrestling um over the years. Um, I started when I was like 16 15 so that's like 2010 and I got my black belt in the gi um three years ago in a machado affiliate um, and then I got my black belt in 10th planet last august from boogeyman. So I don't know, I think I'm trying to kind of push this online, um, but it's it's rare to have two black belts, you know, a in martial art or in jujitsu in general, and then, as a woman, I might be one of the first, so I think people know me for that. And then, um, yeah, I'm a world champ in uh uww grappling.
Speaker 3I've been on team usa for like seven years in a row and I've traveled all over the world to compete and I people probably know me online as like a pretty Christian trying to help women, trying to get women out of sex trafficking. I work for a couple ministries that do that and help them heal. So, yeah, that's my God given purpose women and girls and fighting like the sexual perversions, all the satanic stuff. In my opinion, that's like happening in our society. So I hope that's what I'm known for anyway wow.
Speaker 2So competition is a real big factor of your life and that is quite impressive of the two black belts, because, you're right, I mean, it's rare for anyone but women. It's just there, just aren't as many of you. So even to compete, your opportunities are reduced. So what makes you a competitor? What, what about you in your being, makes you want to compete?
Speaker 3I think I'm crazy at times. No, I don't know, yeah.
Speaker 3I don't know like. For example, I just competed this weekend at the Abu Dhabi championship trials right, they consider it like the Olympics of grappling or, yeah, submission wrestling right, and I tore I have a torn SCM sternocleoid mastoid, like your biggest neck muscle. I tore it here at my clavicle the monday of and then I competed. But there's just like a thing in me I have to compete. There was no way I was going to miss it. I'd rather compete, hurt, and it's like.
Speaker 3It's like spirit to me, it's like spiritual, it's like I I have to keep um using like god. So god gave me this gift and this talent and in a way, it used to be like an obsession and how I was creative and, uh, if I'm not doing it and displaying it and challenging myself on that stage, or it's like you're risking it all, like I don't, I'm so bored in my life, I don't know. It's a where it's like you're risking it all Like I don't, I'm so bored in my life, I don't know. It's a weird, it's probably. It's like an addictive, an addictive feeling. I guess You're really scared the whole time, though before and then you do it and then you're like can't wait for the next one, can't wait for the next one. So I don't know. I have a serious intrinsic drive to to like push myself to the next thing.
Speaker 2Well and to go into this and and wind up getting injured and still going forward. Is there a voice in your head that says, brie, stop.
Speaker 3I mean other people's voices. Well, yeah, you know what? This year I had a rough year. I almost broke my neck in June of this year and then I've never had a neck injury like that. Like I said, I've been doing this probably 16 years at all, different styles and levels, and I've hurt, I've had probably every injury you could think of. You know, um, but yeah, I don't know. I there's me, there was no question. But everybody else is like you're gonna get hurt for life, this this, this, this. But then I'm like I think we're always kind of hurt. Nothing's ever gonna be perfect and it was a muscle.
Speaker 3It wasn't like my bone or my nerve or something. So I kind of knew it would heal but, yeah, I had a rough year.
Speaker 3I had to miss. I won the trial spot to go to Poland for UWW. I had to pull out of that because my neck injury a different one and then I had to pull out of a two thousand dollar match a bunch of stuff, probably like five events. I had to pull out of a $2,000 match a bunch of stuff, probably like five events I had to pull out of since June. And I just there is something like if I miss this one, I feel like I should just hang it up, you know.
Speaker 2Oh, wow, yeah. So how do you keep yourself encouraged? Because, I mean, you're facing some only things that you truly know how you feel and how your body's ready, but yet, having that God given calling, how do you, how do you find within yourself to keep yourself up?
Speaker 3Well, it's hard, but I definitely, I use, I outsource to God always, always. You know I'm a, I believe in Jesus, I believe in the Bible, I believe that there is, um, you know, like your current circumstance it's like for a reason it'll end, no matter how torturous it is. And I it's kind of funny cause this year has been super trying for me and I've had to learn a lot of this and then now I'm implementing it into competing and stuff. But I got divorced. I was a Navy spouse for like six years.
Speaker 3I lived in San Diego. I had a beautiful home and then my husband became alcoholic and cheated and like just got completely dysfunctional and I had to make that decision and I didn't have anywhere to go. So I ended up in NorCal at my grandma's old house that she left, my dad and I totally dilapidated. The land was completely unmanaged and we had to just gut and do everything here. So I've been here like a year and a half post-divorce, um, living by myself. I don't know anybody here. I knew one neighbor I nobody know who I was as a martial artist like in San Diego I was, everybody knew me, everyone respected me. Um, I was just kind of like, uh, I don't know how to explain it. It like famous in a small town, type of thing right and come here and I'm just like oh, who is that?
Speaker 3you know, at the new gyms I'm going to, and that was rough, um, but yeah, I always just sewed into god, no matter what church is big. For me, women's, uh, bible studies and like fellowship. Now I've built up three women's programs here and now I'm known for like I teach. I teach probably like five or six days a week. I teach like three women's different programs and now all these women look up to me and, no matter what's going on, I have to show up for them, cause I get one hour, you know, once a week to affect them and make them stronger and empowered. So that helps me to get out of myself, my own head when stuff's tough, you know.
Speaker 2Yeah, wow, and that is a responsibility too. I mean, you didn't just decide to stay off on the farm, way away from everything.
Speaker 3You came, came out, so do that you know, um, but I know that's my god given, that's what my god calling is. He wants me to help women and girls through my, through martial arts, but it just it can affect them in ways that people don't really talk about, um, as far as trauma healing trauma, uh, becoming protectors, encouraging girls to have, like, different sets of role models. You know we're in a crazy time as far as role models go yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2Well, why can jujitsu foster some of those descriptions that you're saying for women?
Speaker 3um, well, first of all, I I'm you know I'm obviously biased because I love, love, love jujitsu. But um, it is, jujitsu is rare because you could be the smaller, weaker person and you could use techniques to win. You could be a small I'm 122 pounds, probably 24 after I just competed, eating dinners and stuff but I could sweep a 300-pound man from top to bottom. I could escape, I could. You could sweep a 300 pound man from top to bottom. I could escape, I could. You could do a lot. There's limitations, of course, but it is the perfect martial art for women and girls because of that factor, because we're always going to be smaller, always going to be weaker, but we could be, you know, intelligent. Women are good about like risk management, um, thinking ahead, you know, or just design, like that kind of hyper anxiety.
Speaker 2so if you could channel that into learning some skills that would prevent you from getting into an assault or something it's, it's like life, it could be life-changing, you know yeah, well, and I have often heard people talking about jiu-jitsu and other forms of martial art where it it kind of bleeds over and consumes other parts of your life and has impact in other areas of your life.
Speaker 3You find that as well yeah, well, in my case it became my life, right? But?
Speaker 2yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, I mean I. So I work for a couple ministries that they work on getting girls out of trafficking or healing trauma through jujitsu, and now there's some new scientific data on it that it actually I've seen these girls. It actually I've seen these girls. I'm teaching them how to get out of. Like a choke or someone's on top of you and they're getting frozen and they're panicking and you can see the trigger happening yeah and then I just help them.
Speaker 3You know you back off off the choke. You're like, okay, get on your side, move your hips out, use your hands, and you make. You make them like, reset their wiring. It is the coolest thing ever. It works. It's like clear as day. These girls are just so happy after, and then they, they're rewiring those responses from that trauma. You know. So that could affect your and you could have the same trauma plaguing you for generations. Right, and if, if we could use jujitsu to kind of break that wiring man, that could be life-altering. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2Yeah, definitely. So how did you come across these ministries? And that being? You know, a lot of times we hear about the sex trafficking and such on the news, but we don't get up close and personal or let it get on us to do anything about it. So how did you get there?
Empowering Women Through Martial Arts
Speaker 3Well, I'm partnered with Turning Point USA. Charlie Kirk is a huge organization. They probably have like two million something followers on social media now and I got hooked into them as like an ambassador and they send me out to these big events and they're they're kind of like libertarian conservative, they're more about like finding the truth Right and so anyway. So I got sent out to an event and it was for students, like college age students, and I ended up running into one of the speakers. His name was Victor Marks and Victor Marks is a is a pastor that focuses on trauma and he he went through like severe, severe child abuse in every way, like electrocuted, waterboarded, sexually abused, insane, insane abuse, like just unbelievable possible. And he has built all things possible ministries and he's a black belt in a couple of martial arts and his base is martial arts, so he was a martial artist before he was a pastor. Right, his base is martial arts, so he was a martial artist before he was a pastor. We connected over at that event and then they had me come out. Then I just naturally really fell into the flow of teaching the women and connecting with them.
Speaker 3Ever since, they send me out to Colorado and I work with these groups. They call them Samantha Weekends. They particularly girls that were in trafficking. Um, and then, crazy enough, I'm near the Sacramento area and just a few days ago, um, by God, I just I can't even explain it. It's for sure Like God's working, but we're starting a troubled youth and, like girls that are in trafficking, a program like a youth program, so 13 and up, I think, to 18, maybe 21. And the public information officer of Sac, sheriff, personally asked me to come on Stings with them and go in the cop car and try to get these girls out of their, out of their box, you know, and kind of give them some fellowship. So that's going to be happening here in SAC now. I get to actually just work with girls that are local, trafficked and in the circuit in California, which is really rampant, I guess. Wow, that was a lot sorry so much.
Speaker 2Right around us and the opportunities to take something that a lot of times people look at at jiu-jitsu and a female involved in it and go, yeah, I mean, it's, it's sweaty, it's you know what are you doing, right?
Speaker 3that to gap. You know I try to make my classes like really casual. I like to have discipline but I want you to have fun, so I don't ever want people to think like you can't go to the bathroom, you can't just step off the mat and go to. This is like old school, traditional martial arts stuff. Right, you have to ask professor to go off the mat to go to the bathroom. You can't show up late, you have to wear their uniform. It's just so strict and uncomfortable and man, I feel like our lives just trying to work and survive and have family or whatever. We have enough stress and I really try to harbor my classes to be fun, stress relieving, not pressurized, you know. And yeah, it's, it's working so far. It's working so far.
Speaker 2I like that a lot. I know that some of the women that I've been around, donna especially has said you know everybody's got a right to be on the mat as women. You don't feel like you got that. Where do you go when you've got a problem? I mean, you're you're shouldering a lot for other people. Do you have some mentors that you can kind of tune into?
Speaker 3Well, I always pray, I always journal. I try to give everything to God and pray on things first. And because I I don't. I value people's opinions, but I feel like in my career there's been a lot of like oh, when are you going to get a regular job, when are you gonna from my own parents, when are you going to quit martial arts, um, you know, like kind of taking away from my passion and I kind of had to shut out. I've had to shut out a lot of people's opinions, um, hyper analyzing like, even like doing the farm stuff. People like don't understand that and they think I should just go get an apartment and live right next to the gym. Those are the extreme martial artists, right right so.
Speaker 3I, I kind of don't trust yeah, I don't really trust a lot of people's opinions. I feel like I know exactly what I'm supposed to do as far as, like, God gave me talents or gifts, right, and I'm so secure in that faith that, yeah, I don't know, it's hard to explain I have a really strong faith that God gave me a sign and a message and I'm going to, I'm going to go with it, no matter if it seems like I'm going to fail. He's been providing, he's been opening doors, and my parents don't quite understand, you know. They want me to just like, meet a guy, have kids, uh, have a little business, you know, and I'm like I want to go to Thailand and fight and I want to go here and and I want to start a nonprofit and help women and break them out of traffic.
Speaker 3You know I this is how I just talk normally. Yeah, that's my mind is like. My vision is way bigger than most people from day to day. You know, everybody's kind of in the I wish I was like that sometimes, cause, fuck, it's hard, I get injured, I'm traveling here, I'm exhausted, I've got to go over there. My life's pretty crazy, but I don't know, I just have a really big vision and a faith, and I think God is going to do a lot of stuff with me this next five years and that was a long answer to that.
Speaker 2That's, that's great, so do you think maybe daily actions are, are, are um what make us who we really are.
Speaker 3Well, what do they say? Like the sum. This is referring to men, but a sum of a man's actions determines his character, right? I think there's things in your life like, if you know, like I know, I'm meant to go to the UFC and help women out of trafficking, so it's like an everyday, unmitigated thing you have to do things every single day to those goals, right? I can't be like, oh well, I'm emotional, today I'm going to eat cake and wine and then I don't sleep good, and then my training shitty tomorrow, and then I'm tired from my class and I can't give that person that extra like attention they needed. You know what I mean? It's.
Speaker 3I think if you're not every single day doing those things that are going to get you to your goals, you get up and I'm getting lost and waste. A lot of years, you know, I've been trying to Harbor that every every day. Things that are non non-negotiables. So I call them like with the farm you better get out there and feed the cow. They're gonna be, they're gonna move first of all, but they're gonna go hungry, and there's just things that you have to do. So I've been trying to, instead of being emotional, I'm tired, I don't want to do that. I'd rather eat Kit Kat bars or whatever I'm like. No, this is a non-negotiable for my purpose and goals.
Speaker 2Yeah, all right, so talk to me a little bit about the farm that you're referring to.
Speaker 3Okay, yeah. So I live on five acres in NorCal Calaveras County. They're known for like bullfrog jumping. Apparently I haven't seen it yet they do a competition here.
Speaker 3It's like a bullfrog jump. Mark Twain started it during the gold rush or something. It's crazy, that's hilarious. So I'm out in this county, my grandma and grandpa. They bought five acres, the Turkish triangle, and they built a house and they're from Holland, in Britain, and they came out here like after just after World War II, and then, uh, yeah, so I'm here to harbor this space. My grandma's dying wish was don't sell it, brianna, keep it. So I am homesteading, or I'm working towards that, because it's a lot to learn and I am by myself. So, yeah, I got cow. I got five cows, I got two heifer, young heifers, and three steers, hereford and Angus, and then, um, I got, got some meat goats. I got some hair goats, angora, turkish angora goats, chicken stucks, turkeys.
Speaker 3I hatched I actually have a baby chicken in this incubator right now, just hatched yesterday oh no, I'm doing, I'm doing, yeah, I'm trying to, um, of course, a garden like spring gardens going in right now, right, and I'm trying to be as self-sufficient and learn this stuff, because I don't with COVID and all that stuff, the supply chains, and I don't know what they're doing to the meat at the store. It can apparently be from other countries and then it's marked as a USA product and their standards are like who knows, you knows, you know antibiotics, vaccines into that animal. I'm not about it. I want to know exactly where my meat came from, what they're eating. So that's kind of my, and I might use this as a retreat spot and do training. That sounds cool. Ice bath, sauna, ag skills, canning, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2Okay, how do you do this and find yourself time for the gym and for competing, because that is a brutal schedule.
Speaker 3Yeah, I don't Okay. So right now I'm hurt actually, so that takes away. I can't train for some weeks. I'll find out on Monday exactly how many, but so that's pro practice, every morning, 930 to 11. I'm not going to right now, but certain days depending. I like flex it with my income, right, if I need to buy. I'm going to be due for a half stack of hay here soon, so I gotta pick up some work. So I work on a ranch also. Um, yeah, I work on a ranch. I do my farm and then I teach at one, two, three, four, four gyms right now and I do privates. Um, I work for the robot. It's an AI jujitsu dummy, essentially. Oh yeah, um, yeah, I don't know, I don't. I don't have freaking time, but if it's important you're going to make time. You know I don't watch TV, maybe that's it.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's a big time waster for a lot of people.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2But when you have to leave, I mean you're doing all this travel for competitions, so who takes care of the farm?
Speaker 3Well, my parents came out. I was gone for three days for the Vegas tournament, abu Dhabi trials, and my parents came out, held it down, but it's tough. Yeah, they live six hours away and they come up to like vacation and we see each other, we work on the property and I'm raising them a steer, you know. So they have investment here too. Um, yeah, it's not, it's hard. I like to turn my property into like a chick ranch. You know have some girls live here and we all do the farm and train. And, yeah, it's hard. I'd like to turn my property into like a chick ranch. You know I have some girls live here and we all do the farm and train. And that's my vision.
Speaker 2Yeah, I hope it Well that's kind of cool.
Speaker 3Is this what you saw yourself doing when you were 16? Starting out, honestly, when I was 16, I was like, yeah, by 30, I'm going. Um, I thought I was gonna be a firefighter, paramedic with a great career. I was gonna have a husband and kids by now, a bitching house, a big truck, a boat. I thought I would be a black belt. I was gonna be in the UFC also. I was like I really I dreamed huge.
Speaker 3And life, yeah, life happens. Man, I'm 31 now and I this was I never expected to be living alone on a farm and no, this is crazy. Honestly, I just can't believe the turn of events. But, yeah, I don't know, it's all for a purpose. I do believe I'm in my prime. Still, I have a lot to do as far as martial arts and, um, I tried to do.
Speaker 3I was a paramedic for five like five years EMT. Before that, I was a wildland firefighter for two years. I was all about getting hired on the fire department. Uh, I did. I've done all kinds of jobs, crazy jobs and then I got married and covid happened.
Speaker 3We got stationed a bunch of places and then covid happened and the forced vaccines were going around and we didn't know what covid was, and I already already worked during Ebola before that and I'm like you know what and it was like minimum wage and you didn't sleep, right it was. I'd almost be crashing my car the next day, 24 hours, not sleeping, driving in LA and traffic it was. It was hard, I would for sure. I was in a crash and I felt like shit all the time. So I left that career during around COVID time and, yeah, I ran my dad's construction business for a while, which is cool. And then I realized I really like working for self A or family or and or you know, know myself and family, because you have such a internal drive you know to do well and to give extra time versus going to working for the grocery store or whatever. Yeah, so yeah, but I'm rolling with it, it's.
Speaker 2I'm here for then. I love it and I mean it. It's tough, but if you're working towards these goals and towards um, it doesn't sound like your mission has changed it. You may have changed career paths or or something, but there's still this core service there, even with your jiu-jitsu.
Speaker 3I thought, yeah, I'm gonna be paramedic so I can help people. And then I realized I ended up realizing it's it's not what you think. There's a lot of like insurance and it's about getting paid right. Insurance fraud like do the paperwork or certain way, and when it actually comes to helping and helping the human being that is putting in your truck, it you, your truck you're scratching the surface. A lot of people need help way before they're in an ambulance as far as just general health and mental health and addiction and stuff. So I know I'm supposed to get to people sooner. I think, yeah, I love the farm, the homestead mentality, to like having an alternate economy, being dependent from the grocery store, from companies, from the government. I really find that valuable.
Speaker 2Well, and you're? You're using everything you have, I mean your knowledge and your ability to learn. I think sometimes just jiu-jitsu itself strengthens your brain of learning.
Speaker 3There's repetition, but yet Okay, now I'm going to go this way. I'm going to use this to my advantage, because they're leaning forward. I really. Yeah, I think you're onto something there. It's like training your critical thinking in a physical way. But jujitsu is literally chess. You're going to go for your most ideal move, your strongest at. It doesn't work out. You have to adjust, you got to go the other way and your brain is constantly continuing on the best possible path. It's, it's really interesting.
Speaker 2Yeah, it is, and if that person doesn't give you the response that they're supposed to give you, then all of a sudden you have a different scenario. Yeah, so when you hear the word unfair what what do you think of?
Speaker 3unfair. Well, I don't know, I don't really like that word because it's like life. Life is essentially unfair in most ways. It's like you and I experience very hard constantly. I'm obsessed, I don't watch TV, I'm generally very disciplined in most ways and are always tried to be, and then I feel like somebody else gets this big break and they've been training for a fraction of the time as me. Or like social media, it's like that people are getting huge viral exposure because they're doing things that are more like sexual and it's not about grit and hard work and honor, like how I value life and stuff.
Speaker 3So the world is unfair and I think that actually, just from my sort of religious view, is it seems like to me that when you're selling into sex and drugs and money and fame, it's like it seems like these people, like celebrities, are highly rewarded for that behavior. And to me it's like. To me, I think that there's like dark principalities at work, whether there's a Satan and a God or whatever, but I do believe there's like good and evil and it seems like when people choose weakness, choose addiction, choose dark stuff, it's like they get a power and a fame and money out of it. And it's just weird. It's just weird. I just noticed that in life. So I don't even know if it's what's fair or unfair. I just think that either you're doing, you're going the hard route, and it's going to be good for good and light, or you're going to go the easy route, you're going to get rewarded in the worldly things, but not not like spiritually or morally, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2I don't know if that made yeah, it really does, and a lot of times you see things but maybe where you're doing a lot is kind of on the baseline. But yeah, you're out there competing with the top.
Speaker 3And so there is some notoriety that comes with that too. Yeah, and there's unfairness. And I mean, I my, I just posted my match from abu dhabi trials on the weekend and I still don't even understand how I lost and most people think I got robbed and, um, that was my trials. You know, that's every two years there's one opportunity for women to win a ticket to go to worlds and if you go to worlds, like forever you're adcc veteran and your life is changed forever, like as far as you could, notoriety, seminars, exposure, it's, it's a big deal. So if you get the ref messes up and you give a match to one other girl, you don't move on and you're just out for two years. You know big deal. It's like getting hurt before the olympics, like all those people spent four years to do that, yeah. So yeah, life's unfair, for sure, but you got to roll with the punches or you're just gonna get, just gonna fail, you know yeah, so how do you deal with reconciling that in both your heart and your head?
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Speaker 3like that bitter feeling, yeah, yeah, just faith like blind. I don't honestly blind faith, but yeah, I just. I always think there's a purpose, no matter what it was. I learned like you lose a lot of jiu-jitsu. You know, trying to get good at jiu-jitsu you lose all the time on the world stage on here on there, and it's heartbreak every single time, depression, possibly a lot. You know, yeah, you let that beat you or you're gonna learn, and then your next tournament you're better. Then next thing, you know you, you win a world title and if you didn't go through those unfairness or the losses and adjust, then you would have never become a world champion, right, yeah, yeah, I think it's getting out of this and looking out and being like, okay, I lost, now I can work on this, this, this, I can become more dedicated, I can take that pain. I don't ever want to feel that pain again, so I'm gonna adjust. That's kind of how I think about it yeah, well, and that's pretty good.
Speaker 2I mean, if you keep doing the same same same, then you will get the same yeah, and expecting.
Speaker 3You know they say expecting change. Doing the same thing all the time is great, is like psychopathic yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2So you're in a world of competition, so competition could just that concept could eat you up of. You're always competing, you're always trying to get better than somebody else. So, yeah, how do you temper that word in your lifestyle?
Speaker 3um, well, I I try to think of it. This is a recent adjustment though, because I or I came from a small town and I didn't really have a coach for a long time. I had my first professor died of brain cancer and he had a family and you know he had, he had a whole life and then he was fighting for his life. So I went to all the big tournaments, kind of solo, representing my little gym and my little town.
Speaker 3I grew up in a smaller town and I'd be fighting huge names or huge gyms of famous black belt as their coach and I don't even have a coach and they're talking to the ref and talking to the table and maybe swaying things and it does definitely cause a lot of anxiety in your life. Like when you have a tournament coming up, I like it's a weird thing. I get excited, I book this, okay, I gotta train for it, and then life happens and I gotta work a lot or this or this, or you get hurt here and it's never a perfect camp, right, but you're naturally going to have anxiety. When you book a tournament or it's coming up, it's like a weird countdown Every fucking day. You're like this is coming.
Speaker 3It's coming. The world's. You know, am I ready, am I doing enough cardio, am I eating right? Uh, you know what I mean. You like second guess everything you do in your preparation and controlling that is so, so important. Um, and I think, as women women naturally have I mean this is scientific women have more negative emotion and anxiety than men. So, and we have period, you know, up and down, hormones fluctuations, so that affects your mental health and anxiety levels. So I just really focus on anxiety control. So that would be like journaling. I take like more vitamins and supplements like l-theanine, ashwagandha, like herbs and stuff to help to keep your emotions level. Um, but yeah, it's a real, having a tournament coming up, like a world championship.
Speaker 3It's a lot of anxiety that you have to like address it every day type of thing and actions. I always fight like the fear I'm not doing enough. You know, when it comes to everything how you eat, mentality, sleeping, training and you really have to be in control of your schedule and you really have to hyperanalyze yourself and be like, okay, what do I need? I need to lose 10 pounds. I better get on the diet early and if you're doing what you should be doing like those non-negotiables every day. Action is for sure, the answer to like that fear and anxiety. Just doing what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2It makes it, it can harbor that, that worry and stuff. You know Well, brie, by going through a change in your life and and no longer having a partner, you could have checked out and said, okay, I'm just going to train, this part of my life will just be there. They get to support me doing what I'm doing. But you didn't go that way. So what? What? Within you said, all right, bree, I'm in control, because you can completely lose yourself in competition training. Yeah, all of that that goes into being the competitor that you are yeah, being obsessed.
Speaker 3I want to be more obsessed. I lost that. Yeah, anyways, that's a different subject. But, um, well, a, I was a military spouse, so my husband was deployed. He was deployed more than he was home, like, if you related the time, six months gone, six months home or whatever. Over time he was gone more than half the marriage.
Speaker 3Yeah, so I became I've been a very independent female, probably because my dad, my dad's just badass construction guy and he made me really tough. But I became super independent of my partner, or my parents' emotions, I guess, or support, because I feel like they never 100% supported my vision and I still deal with that. I, you know, um, but I know my purpose 150% and just because it's not super lucrative right now, it doesn't mean it's wrong. You know, like, money is not everything all, and even having a partner and getting married is not always an answer either. I would think I was married to the wrong person for five years, you know. So I didn't end up having a family yet. I know I will, but he was so emotionally independent of me. Also, he didn't really care too much about the tournaments. I don't think he didn't give me a whole lot of like encouragement or affection or anything.
Speaker 3But I was already used to that from not having a coach and then my parents being kind of disconnected from my dreams in a way. So I've just been like conditioned to just be my own motivation and stuff. You know, if I meet a partner, that's got my back, that's great. But at this point I feel like most men uh definitely have a hard time in the sport too, because you a lot of successful people there. You have to be very selfish, you know you have to be all about your sleep, your food, your. You know you, you in a become. You have to become self analyzed and absorbed. And if I got to go and compete and I have to leave the house, you know it would be nice to have someone to be my partner and take care of the farm especially. But yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, for now, it's just independent, hyper independent probably, which I don't want to be necessarily, but it is what it is.
Speaker 2Well, and that's not a bad strength to have to have, and maybe it'll balance out as you as you go. So you talked about living your dreams, and so what do you think the difference is in maybe wishing and realizing your dreams?
Speaker 3well, I think you could wish and dream and manifest, as they say uh, whatever you want, right. But if you don't have a plan and it's not a daily like you are assigning yourself daily things to get to your dream then, yeah, it's just a wish, you know, yeah, I'd like to have a million dollars or I'd like to have this. But it's like, okay, how about make it? Make it a real plan and a goal, then you can do it. There's a big, big difference. Yeah, plan Having a plan and every single day, even counting your little wins.
Speaker 3If you're weight cutting 15 pounds, that's a serious task. Okay, well, today I lost a half a pound. Okay, well, today, I lost a half a pound Today. Taking control each day and getting all those things checked off on your list for the big dream is important. And always focusing on your progress versus other people, right, wanting, oh, I want to be this. They're a UFC fighter, I want to be that. So bad, that doesn't do anything for you. You got to be like okay, what do I need to do to be a UFC fighter? I need to get better at striking every day right, and then you make it a every day progress and then you'll get there.
Speaker 2Yeah, you are a goal setter.
Speaker 3It sounds like yeah, probably a little crazy goal sometimes, but the farther you go, they say yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2So in the ministries that you work in and the, the girls that you come in contact with, is that something that you are able to kind of stress to them? Is the goal setting and the little micro manage, managing every little aspect of a day, getting you there.
Speaker 3Well, it depends. It depends if the girls I'm teaching are want to be competitors, you know, or if they're're here. There's a total different trajectory, almost. So I'll have girls that want to compete and maybe they want to, like, be a world champ one day. So I try to tell them look, this is what it takes, you know, and kind of a lot more disciplined route, but I also I adjust for every student too. So I have women that come in and it's a big deal just for them to walk in the door and show up to class, you know, and for them I'm really like hey, what's up? What's your name? Okay, um, and I try to make them as comfortable as possible. And and, yeah, the discipline part part, I don't really it just depends. It depends what people want and people need, and the girls that that are in that want that stuff, they'll come up to me and talk about it, you know yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2So what would you say is just a big waste of time, just in general, for yourself.
Speaker 3Well, I'm a little weird. Yeah, I don't watch TV, but in my personal journey of self betterment and development, every day I try to. I try to prevent like mindlessly looking at like social media, you know, because that I think it's designed literally to like give you dopamine hits and just keep you like this, oh, and it does something in your brain and the next thing you know, half an hour went by and time is their most valuable asset you have in. You know, it's not it. You know, almost you could just constantly make money, make money. We can make a trillion dollars if you, whatever, have some big innovative like Elon Musk, right, but time we all run out of time. We're all going to die. We all have this much time in the day before we're fatigued and have to sleep. So, yeah, I try to really just schedule out my time to put all the stuff I should do for this day, and then, yeah, I have to drive an hour each way, which is it is essentially a waste of time. But, like we were talking about with podcasts and books, I can at least sponge my brain into learning things that are going to help me for my goals, whether it's martial arts or having a nonprofit or psychology to understand people better.
Speaker 3You know I'm always trying to use every, every little second to my advantage and goals, cause, man, I'm 30. I'm like I feel like half my life's over and I'm just kind of really conscious about everything I do. Like when you're young, you kind of waste time because you're like lost or you don't understand what you're supposed to do in your life social, social things. You want to go to party and like you want to be somebody and I've like really I feel like I'm like 50 years old in my head my dreams, like fighting and then having a gym and I want to have, I'd like to have a husband and a family one of these days and me me wasting time and screwing around and partying or going here and going there. It's not going to get me there. No.
Speaker 2So we go back to goals. Um, so in in you mentioned books and podcasts. Can you think of any off the top of your head that are, um, like, especially books that are stellar books that you would recommend to somebody? Yeah with the books.
Speaker 3Well, a, the Bible, of course, but I nerd out on the Bible, like I really like to go to church and like hyperanalyze the story and God's word and stuff. So there's that and that's a resource you could just never finish. It's so much information in there. You know there's that. I listen a lot to Jordan Peterson. You probably know who he is. He's got a podcast now and I listen to that a lot. I listen to his talks and I like any sort of like scientist when it comes to health, like on a cellular level. Dr Hyman has a ton of books, podcasts as well, about health, about like parasites and heavy metals and EMF and mold and stomach fungus and like all these things that modern medicine doesn't address. I really I'm a total nerd about that stuff because I'm always trying to help people. We all have health issues generally. You know yeah, I think that's about it. Dr Mercola is awesome health stuff too.
Speaker 2So in your commutes you're you're able to kind of digest some of that information, and then you you find it helpful when you're doing some of this training, especially, you know, from the nutrition aspect or from just life philosophy.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah. So I've been really into the Jordan Peterson stuff because he he's big on like your vision for your life and, um, kind of like your worldview too. I listen to a lot of the turning point stuff too. You so you go through life and you don't really pay attention. You do things based on your values, essentially, or your worldview. So I'm trying to always expand my worldview, like how does our, how does our economy work? How does the food supply work? How does this contract in China? You know, I'm like really about politics too and like economy, and I want to know the truth about everything. I feel like like the truth, truth which I feel like in school we didn't really learn. I feel like we didn't learn um, a lot of important stuff. And have you seen my tattoos? Or we, the people? Yeah, 17.6, and I'm a real, I'm a real history buff, and uh, yeah, I went.
Speaker 2I totally went off tangent again on this one, but no, you're fine, You're fine, you really you didn't, Um, cause I mean you're when it actually leads me straight into this the most important thing that's ever happened to you. Um, and it seems like you've got so much grounding and then you pull history in and you kind of know from where you come and where you are going, so talk to me about maybe the most important thing that's happened to you, man, most important.
Speaker 3Well, man, that's a serious question. Um, oddly so I. I mean, I've been on a couple of fires and stuff and ambulance crash and a couple of things that I don't want to say, near death, but let's say, because I didn't get hurt, but it was like man, I could die today you know, like those type of scenarios.
Speaker 3Um, before I was married, I had a boyfriend that died and that really shifted my world. I think I was like 24. And I started questioning like well, what is life about? Like you know, I didn't. I remember not like telling, telling my boyfriend like I love you enough, or the truth over dating and there's like a weird game. You know, a lot of young people are like it's a game, it's can't pretend. Like you know, a lot of young people are like it's a game, it's can't pretend. Like you like them that much and it's I realized after my boyfriend died that year. I was like none of that shit matters, none of these social cues, none of this like popularity or ego. I really was able to throw out my ego, I think, when I, when I went through that and then yeah, so then I got and then I was married in the military and that was super tough in general. So it's hard to say, I think, when, additionally, when I really became, I really became grounded in church and my faith, and then I was like, oh, I don't know the truth of the world, my parents don't really know the truth of the world, my teacher doesn't really.
Speaker 3I think the book tells you how to live life the most functional. I think it's truly God's word. So I'd say traumatic experiences they were really important, even though I would have loved to not go through them, but that shaped me. Each one shaped me a ton. I had my boyfriend die. My best friend died two years ago. I got divorced. My husband cheated on me, you know, became an alcoholic and then moving here. It's all been significant things, you know. So that's a really hard question. But not letting those things mess me up but instead turn it for good, I think has been very important how I adjusted to those things and being able to develop a strong faith. Now I feel like I'm forever. I forever know what I'm supposed to do on this earth, uh, how I connect with people and my goals, and it's all divine. Wow, oh man.
Speaker 2I just I'm ranting right now, right, no, you actually tied all of it together and, um, you know, you mentioned earlier that, uh, where you met becca was at invasion and, um, that's a pretty significant time of a lot of women coming together. So, since you function in a, a world where there really aren't a lot of women at the same place, you are at the same time, other than those you might be mentoring. What does FemVasion mean to you and and maybe describe that a little bit of how your involvement in that particular event?
Female Champions
Speaker 3particular event. Yeah, um, so fembasion is the first of its kind as far as 10th planet women, um, or you know, affiliated. The whole point is women, right, but we're all 10th planet black belts. So I've taught a lot of seminars and stuff, but this was special because it's an all-women seminar. And then we went to florida, which is awesome. I love it there, but, yeah, I don't know, it was so freaking cool.
Speaker 3It was like all the women from all different places literally every different state is not here for a commonality of not only learning, learning from women that know what moves work for women. And then the fellowship was so freaking cool and being able to, uh, for me it's like to share these, these things about, about life. And hey, you want to be a world champ? Well, this is what it took and I've been through this, but I still was able to be a world champ and to be able to, like, plant that little seed in women and girls. That's my, that's my purpose in it, for sure, trying to help them from my struggle, I guess. Or to say, hey, you can be a double black belt, guess. Or just say, hey, you can be a double black belt female by 30. You know, like making things, doing things that don't seem possible. I want to prove it and I want to prove you can do it with having a strong faith.
Speaker 2You know what's it feel to say that you're a world champ?
Speaker 3I don't like to say it. Yeah, I have a hard time. People are like Whoa, you done what? I'm like I'm a double black belt, world champ, combat jujitsu champ. I don't, I actually really don't like to say it, but I have to because I'm trying to make people uh compute, like understand, you know, it's funny, because I'll go to a gym to train whatever and people don't know me there. And then they, they act like because I'm a girl, they're like, oh yeah, just uh, you know a double right. Or they're like trying to teach me something that they don't know. I'm a black belt. They think I'm like a brand new girl, right, yeah, and so I gotta be like, oh well, yeah, actually I'm a black belt and I gotta list it off, but all right how does it feel if, uh, you're just like looking in the mirror and saying you know, hey, I didn't?
Speaker 3know, I don't, I don't know. I definitely feel like I haven't done enough. But, um, at the same time, yeah, I did accomplish things. I didn't really think they were definitely childhood dreams that I was able to accomplish. But then, once you get there, it's so weird, the feeling of like working towards a black belt. It takes 15 years. For me, or for most, you know, 10 to 15 is what it used to. Now you can get.
Speaker 3Now it's changing the cultures, not as like old school, but that whole 15, 12 years, whatever your journey is, you're like going to be a black belt one day. I'm going to be a black belt one day You're a black belt. And then you're like gonna be a black belt one day, I'm gonna be a black belt one day you're black belt. And then you're like, okay, you like literally forget all those feelings up until that point. And then you're now I'm like, okay, now I want to be in the ufc, now I want to be abu dhabi, I want to fight abu dhabi championship. It's weird, it's weird in my mind. Anyway, mine's just like okay, milestone Now, what else can I do now? What else can I do? I don't even. Yeah, I forget, I'm a black belt. Sometimes I'm like it's weird yeah.
Speaker 3Feeling like will you ever be a black belt one day? It's weird.
Speaker 2So do you? Do you take time to celebrate, I mean, when you have these wins and when you may, I know when you come off of something and you didn't win. You've got this. Okay, now I need to do this, this and this to work towards improvement. Do you really celebrate, or is it too scary to celebrate?
Speaker 3uh, I celebrate, I'll celebrate. Then like so say, uh, well, win or lose, too, I'll celebrate. I've been trying to shift my mindset a lot into like being more grateful every day. And, um, one of the guys in our gym at Alpha Male, which, like most people, are like UFC fighters there and they really have some serious experience on a massive stage and they're just warriors and he brought up something the other day that I really took to heart was I think it was the Spartans or some sort of warrior group around that time, like Rome and Greek back then, when they were going to war the night before they weren't necessarily fasting, so they're ready in the morning. They weren't like, let's go to bed early, like fighters this will tie in in a minute but fighters are not supposed to have sex before they have a match like men, right, so that's traditional. But warriors, true warriors, they, they would celebrate and they would remember what they're going to war for. So they'd be with their family all day, they would have feasts, they would drink wine, they would be making love with their wives, you know, and they were, they were really celebrating what they're going to maybe go die for the next day. So I took that to heart.
Speaker 3I don't know what it was about that speech. At the end of practice I was like man, yeah, I, there are things in your life you love. I love my dogs, my animals, my family, my friends here. I like to eat steak, I like chocolate. But when you're so disciplined, you have to have the balance. So, yeah, if I go to cross the world and compete, win or lose, I'm always going to have fellowship with the team, with the friends. Win or lose, I'm always gonna have fellowship with with the team, with the friends. I'm gonna eat steak and have wine and enjoy yourself and walk the beach at night or whatever. Yeah, so I take the time, for sure, but uh, I get right back on the horse when I'm back home, you know yeah, well, you talk about balance, yeah it's always like this.
Speaker 3It's like eating super strict, strict, strict, strict. Don't go out Deny doing certain things. That doesn't align Like, for example, I had the Abu Dhabi trials last weekend. The weekend before was my best friend's bachelorette party in Vegas and I already was going to have to be in Vegas for these trials the next weekend. I couldn't go. She's my best friend, I couldn't go. There's no way I could go to Vegas and miss training and drink. They're obviously going to be drinking and eating whatever, and there's no way I could go, be in that environment and splurge and then really show up in a week and fight for that. You know so it's sacrifice, but it's discipline, discipline, discipline and then you compete and then I feel like I can. I can have fun and freedom and not feel guilty and stuff fun and freedom and not feel guilty and stuff.
Speaker 2Yeah, not have the what ifs. If you uh hadn't gone, then could you have won. I mean, you know you've given it everything you can.
Speaker 3It's dedication to what you believe in yeah, and when you're competing, it could be a little. If I was just a tiny bit stronger in that one second, I would have been able to get my hip up two inches and I would have got the point. It's crazy, like it's. It's like every tiny little factor matters how you slept that night, your cardio, your strength, your technique. Literally it's seconds, like one second. If my hip was higher an inch, I would have won. It's crazy, like one second. If my hip was higher an inch, I would have won. It's crazy like that. So then you start like yeah, if I, if I went to bed early, if I ate better, if I, if, if, if.
Speaker 2That's the worst yeah, I hate if game. Yeah, brie, what would you tell a younger version of yourself that advice? Life, that's coming yeah, a lot.
Speaker 3I mean, uh, I actually try to really channel that inner child. I always say, like you know, I owe my. I owe the 16 year old Brie a lot, because I listened to the world back then and I had the same dreams essentially then as I do now didn't change, but I believe now I could do it more than I did then. So I wish that I would have told I would have not listened to the world, my friends, my school, my parents as much, and I would have sewed into like what my passion is and I wish I would have been around people that believed in me more and put myself in environments of teams that that are dedicated to my level of passion for it. So I did that late in my twenties, yeah, when I was in San Diego. That was me. That was me sewing into a really tight team coach environment and it's just a different mentality.
Speaker 3So, yeah, I wish I would not try to be a careerist so so strongly and go to. I went to college, I became a paramedic, I did firefighting, I ended up being a military spouse. I worked a bunch of jobs constantly. Um, I wish I would have channeled a lot of that into martial arts, I probably would have been a UFC fighter making like 50,000 a fight by now, you know, and not be in in in the situation I'm in now, where I'm trying to make it still in martial arts anyway yeah, but at the time would you have found all these service places?
Speaker 2you know that you're in.
Speaker 3Acting with the women like I do and helping people. I mean, I know girls that are in the UFC and all this and their life is about their training, their schedule, their fight, their sponsor, about their training, their schedule, their fight, their sponsor, and they're not doing. They're not doing the public service or they don't feel the need to. And I don't have as much money as them near near but I know I'm put here to help people. So if we're always like about ourself and even in the career in a sport that it requires that to succeed, I don't think it's worth it, you know, yeah well, yeah, you have a platform and then you don't have anything to I got a platform but it's growing.
Speaker 3But I just I'm like, I look at girls and I'm like man, if I had this platform 500 000 followers, whatever like the impact they could make is crazy. So I'm helping people at my level I can right now and then that platform hopefully grows I'll be able to do more and have more assistance and resources and stuff.
Speaker 2So so what kind of challenge can you offer us?
Speaker 3Every women and girls should go try a jujitsu class, a women's program if they could find that a jujitsu based women's self-defense and just try it, just show up, go to the gym. Just show up, go to the gym. No ego, throw out your fears, just go in with an open heart and try it and see what God does with it. And then I challenge myself. I try to. I want to read the Bible every day. You know some sort of self or like a self-help mentality building resource. So every day, something like that spiritual, psychological, emotional that you're trying to level up. So whether that's a book, a podcast or like a regular prayer, I advocate for that. And then, as far as health, intermittent fasting and doing your ice bath in your sauna. So if you do all that, try jujitsu, so in your spiritual health, and then intermittent fast, sauna 20 minutes, ice cold therapy five minutes. If you can do that every day you're gonna level up, for sure well, and finding time to do that.
Speaker 2I mean, I think sometimes we can, time can be an excuse. Oh heck, yeah, yeah, oh time yeah.
Speaker 3So maybe once a week, maybe twice a week at some point. You know, starting small. Yeah, I agree, I don't have time for all the stuff I need to do for, like recovery, health. I don't ever have enough time, but you got to start somewhere, right, so let me do it. And then momentum I think momentum is is huge. Like if you're doing a couple little things right and a couple more than a couple more than you feel better, you have more energy. Then you can do more and more and more. You could build the momentum.
Speaker 2Yeah, I agree. I totally agree with that, brie. How do people find you? How do they follow you, get in touch with you?
Speaker 3You can find me on Instagram. I'm Brie JJ, b-r-e-j-j, so like, free jujitsu is what that means. Um, I have a TikTok, it's free stick B-R-E-S-T-I-K-K. And then same thing on Facebook. Free stick is the athlete page and I try to just post. I post a lot about farm stuff but, like with information, um, that's related to health, I post a lot of training and women's stuff and positivity and the truth. I try to find the truth and share it.
Speaker 2I like that. So I have one more question for you. If you had a superpower, you could use it for anything you wanted to, professionally, personally. You could only have it 24 hours. What superpower would you choose, how would you use it and why would you choose it?
Speaker 3I think I would be. I would be like be able to heal people like Jesus did. I would. Yeah, that's probably it. I would try to go heal you, heal you. Heal you, my, my, someone in my family with addiction and trauma. Boom, heal that. Heal myself my neck. Um, yeah, yeah, I think healing is is is very under um needed. It's very needed. Everybody has stuff they're they're hurting over whether it's physical health, mental, emotional, spiritual trauma. So I try to do that as a human. Now I'm trying to help girls heal uh, as well as I'm trying to heal myself. So that would be cool, that would be a sweet superpower.
Speaker 2That'd be a great 24 hours for sure.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2Bree, thank you so much. It has been fabulous.
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