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Emmanuel Manolakakis

Owner and head instructor of FightClub in Toronto, a senior Systema (Russian martial art) instructor with 40+ years in martial arts and author of Eudaimonia.

Oct 7, 2026

CurtisHOST
12:01
Well, what does the term spiritual warrior mean to you, and how can someone start to embody that in their everyday life?
12:07
Sure.
12:08
So let, let's, let's, let's break this up into two bits.
12:11
Warrior.
12:12
Um, so a warrior is...
12:14
How does a warrior differ from a fighter? A fighter Is, uh, somebody who's competing in something, so a boxer, wrestler, and usually fighters, uh, compete in a sport or some sort of arena that has some rules, right? And that governs the contest, and it's makes a fighter.
12:35
A warrior, um, is not worried about winning and, uh, losing stuff.

11 MINS LATER

CurtisHOST
24:04
... that you see and how can people overcome them?
JahanHOST
7:39
Explain how you came to that realization.
7:42
This one unique gift I have, it's, it really is a gift.
7:45
I don't know how it's happened.
7:46
I, I'm able to see a little bit into the future, and I'm not saying like, uh, far.
7:50
When you go ahead, and I, I was-- I, I've always been a person that's read a lot, and working on myself is, has been something I've done since anybody's ever known me, since high school.
8:00
I just, I've always loved it, but never in an obsessive way, just an interesting way.
8:04
I think because I was smaller, so you always have to, [laughs] you know, figure out a way around the big problems.

18 MINS LATER

JahanHOST
26:09
[laughs] Horrible person.

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