Joel Bennett

✝️ Jesus Christ is King

[xadran @xadrani]

- born in cameroon
- alcoholic abusive father
- made to work in sand mines as a child
- tells people he wants to be like mike tyson
- they genuinely think he's insane
- gets to mid 20s and still hasn't even thrown a punch
- leaves cameroon without saying goodbyes
- hitchhikes through nigera, niger, algeria
- gets to morocco
- lives in forest, scavenging for food.
- ate out of trash cans, etc.
- moroccan police catch him multiple times
- they don't imprison, just throw him back to the desert.
- he climbs fences with razor wires & armed guards
- to this day has scars all over his body from them
- makes it to the mediterranean
- has to get in rubber dinghy and sail across to spain
- the first time he does this he didn't have oars.
- tries to paddle with hands
- get caught, dumped back in desert.
- escape desert, camp in forest, scale razor wires, sail across again
- does this process SIX times, gets caught SIX times
- eventually on the 7th he succeeds
- gets into spain, thrown in jail.
- released after a few months.
- makes his way to france.
- lives in homeless shelter but can't handle the "negativity"
- leaves comfort, food, bed, etc. of homeless shelter to sleep in a car park
- eventually gets "lucky" chance to work in a boxing gym
- few years later he's the UFC's heavyweight champ

"Homeless to UFC champ"

is such a disservice based on what he had to go through

just to BECOME homeless.

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[Epic Clip Vault @EpicClipVault]

Even bodybuilders were stunned by this rock climber’s strength.

[🇯🇵SAIGOU🇯🇵郷田剛士🇯🇵 @oidonhagouda]

Bro, let’s stop pretending.

Muslims make up about 25% of the entire world’s population — over 2 billion people across 50+ countries.

Japanese people? About 1.4% of the world. One single country.

Shinto exists only in Japan.

So when people say “Japan should prioritize minorities and be more accommodating to Islam,” who exactly are we talking about?

The global majority is coming to one of the world’s smallest ethnic and religious groups and demanding that Japan change its culture, food, and traditions for them.

That’s not “protecting minorities.” That’s the majority trying to colonize a tiny minority.

Japan has every right to protect its own people and culture first.

If Muslims want to live under Islamic rules, they already have dozens of countries where they can do that. They don’t need to come to Japan and turn it into another one.

[Joel Bennett @grassfedjoel]

@oidonhagouda Do Japanese people mix wasabi with soy sauce for a sushi dip?

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

You shouldn’t build a personal brand, start a podcast, stream, or anything like that.

Here’s why, with one exception:

Doing this in 2026 is the equivalent of being a stripper in a club with one million other strippers.

Yes, you can make money fast. But there are three major drawbacks:

A) This skill set stops producing money the second you stop shaking your ass.

B) There are 1,000 other creators starting every day. Even if you make it, you have to shake harder and harder to stay relevant.

It is no longer an “open” opportunity. The second you stop serving the algorithm, you are replaced.

C) You will not want to be shaking your ass on Twitch and making content at 40.

Keep in mind. At 40 you will not just have to maintain this. You will need to be shaking your ass 5x harder, every year, as the competition to be relevant get's harder and harder.

What you really should do is master a craft: business building, investing, or something else you can master in silence. Then do that for 30 to 40 years straight.

In all honesty, 90% of people making content are wasting their careers. Even the mildly to largely successful ones. It is just not a good choice.

It's fun when your 20. But ultimately a brutal waste of your years.

The only times you should do this are:

A) If this is truly your life’s calling.
B) If it is a fun side hobby.

95% of people doing this do not fall into bucket A. They are doing it simply to make money.

Their time would be better spent learning how to invest, build companies, build brands, and develop real skills.

95% of my net worth comes from my tech companies, which have grown mostly outside of my “content.”

For the last six months, I stopped making videos because videos fell into bucket B for me.

I stopped enjoying it. So I don't do it. The end. I get up and work on my businesses and write in hobby time.

I cannot fathom a greater hell than having to make videos and content if I didn’t want to.

This is a luxury most “personal brand” entrepreneurs do not have.

Ask yourself as you see all the past aging influencers running ANOTHER stream...Another podcast...Still having to shake their asses...

Ask yourself if you want that to be you.

If you’re young and thinking about starting another podcast, stream, channel, or personal brand, you really need to ask yourself:

A) Does the world need another talking head?
B) Is this really what you want to do for the next 30 years?

The answer to A is no.

The answer to B is likely no.

Think about it before you waste years of your life in the rat race of trying to become popular online.

The vast majority of hyper-wealthy people are total unknowns.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Derech @IDerech]

Thoughts about Japan:

People often ask me what made me move to Japan.

I first visited Japan 12 years ago, I was backpacking with a friend, and neither of us spoke Japanese.

On the last days of our trip, we went to Hiroshima, we arrived around 11 PM, starving.

My friend found a small izakaya run by an old lady who spoke no English at all.

A couple was sitting next to us at the counter, the man spoke English and helped translate for us, and we started telling him about our trip.

The night went by, and after a few cups of sake and some incredible Hiroshima tempura oysters, I asked him to ask the lady for the bill.

She wrote ours down, then theirs too.

As I reached for it, he crossed his arm in front of me and grabbed both.

He smiled and said he wanted to invite us because they had such a good time with us.

As a thank you, I offered to send him one of my photographs, so I asked him to write his address on a napkin.

A few days later, back in Tokyo, I told the story to a Japanese friend and asked him to translate the address for me.

He looked at it and smiled.

“The person you met was most likely Buddhist,” he said.

The napkin read:

ichigo-ichie

“One time, one meeting.”

The idea that every encounter in life is unique, and that beautiful moments should be appreciated without trying to recreate them.

That way, they remain special forever.

I had lost my father, and this taught me to let go.

Today, I have that ichigo-ichie tattooed on my arm.

That was the first of many moments that made me fall in love with Japan.

Thank you Japan.

[Coffee_Beans @Bean_Is_Life]

@mrwtffacts It's almost like normal people understand that when you violently end the life of someone else in cold blood you've waived your right to basic human rights.

He was no longer human.

It was a reasonable response.

[Joel Bennett @grassfedjoel]

@harukaawake Most people i know have a very high respect for Japan 🇯🇵

[Joel Bennett @grassfedjoel]

@JZ_Graham

[Joel Bennett @grassfedjoel]

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[Não Intendo @blognaointendo]

Presta atenção porque eu só vou ensinar uma vez

[EchelonFront @EchelonFront]

It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.

If someone isn’t performing and the issue goes unaddressed, the standard drops.

The rest of the team sees it.

Over time, the standard is what we tolerate.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Professional boxer Ryan Garcia shows an amateur fighter that there are completely different levels in this sport.

[EchelonFront @EchelonFront]

People are people.

They do random things that you can't really predict.

As a leader, you have to build a flexible plan and have to be ready for the unexpected.

[FoundMyFitness Clips @fmfclips]

Most people are deficient in omega-3s, and fixing that may be one of the easiest ways to improve how you age

Taking about 2 grams per day of EPA and DHA can raise omega-3 status from roughly 4% to 8%, a shift associated with major gains in lifespan and cardiovascular protection

At higher omega-3 index levels, studies have found about a 5-year increase in life expectancy, about a 90% lower risk of sudden cardiac death, and substantially lower Alzheimer’s risk

Even more compelling, omega-3 supplementation slowed biological aging in a recent study of mostly active adults, showing benefits beyond just correcting an obvious deficiency

[Joel Bennett @grassfedjoel]

@LibertyCappy The question should be, who has the best chance against Tyson

[Joel Bennett @grassfedjoel]

@SStricklandMMA About as good as your gonna get here in Canada 🇨🇦

[Joel Bennett @grassfedjoel]

@NightSkyToday Definitely Theo Von

[Joel Bennett @grassfedjoel]

@n4hpg @CaryKelly11 Even then, a company here in Canada was just caught cutting their Maple Syrup with some kind of sugar and selling it as 100%. Fortunately they were snuffed out lol