People ask me all the time and you know; how would your life be if you didn’t train martial arts? And I want to be honest with you, I would not have a clue. The process of training and the process of personal refinement, the process of personal development is so ingrained in my person. […]
In Today’s Edition of Coffee With Rhadi I wanted to talk about investing in yourself and doing the repetitions and leaving a legacy of excellence and I think I touched on all those pieces and a lot more during that particular time and I didn’t intend for it. But I ended up dropping what I […]
I want to talk to you about something that I learned when I was competing around the world. First and foremost, I’m going to say when you fight for the United States, you are fighting within, what we call the Pan American region, inside the pan America region there are a lot of countries from […]
This is Dr. Radhi Ferguson 2004 Olympian four-time national Judo champion, Brazilian black belt, author and speaker and coach and welcome to another edition of coffee with Rhadi, and here’s what I want to talk to you about this morning. I want to talk to you about being in tough situations and being in a […]
After competing in the Olympics in 2004 I was depressed. I went from feeling like I was on the top of the world to feeling like I was useless. I wasn’t motivated. I wasn’t training super hard. And I wasn’t making a whole lot of money. I remember doing my taxes one year and I […]
I want to tell you that on the on the second of May. This year, I’m having the second annual power of summit with my business partner and the cohost of the Summit coach, Arlo Henderson, this year’s Summit is going to be absolutely fantastic. This is our second annual summit, we had to have […]
No matter what you doing this morning, if you’re getting ready to workout, if you just got your workout in, if you’re just having your coffee, have you a second cup of coffee, like me, or if you are up and getting the kids out of the house, and ready for school, or if you’re […]
Listen, I also coach at the elite level, but I’m a grassroots judo coach too. Let me let me explain something to you. If you’re running a race, let’s say you’re running the 400 meters and you’re in lane four, when you come around the corner, you can’t be running in lane […]
There are some rough coaching moments in the preparation process for an athlete, especially when you move through different sports. I was in my dojo last week my daughter was training, getting ready for the tournament season in July, she was doing round after round after round and she began to get distressed. She got […]
So here’s what I want to talk about today. There is a constant battle that happens internally with us, in the spiritual sense. it’s a battle between your flesh side and your spiritual side. If we look at Freudian psychology, it’s a constant battle of the ID and the super ego, which is balanced out […]