Healing What the Wins and Trophies Couldn't ft Jaws aka John Le

The Mind Builder podcast with Amer Kamra

On this episode Amer speaks with John Le — known in the bodybuilding world as "Jaws" (@jaws_ifbbpro) — didn't build his body first. He rebuilt his identity. Long before the IFBB Classic Physique pro card and the Mr. Olympia stage, John was fighting battles no trophy could fix: addiction, unhealed childhood trauma, and the quiet question underneath all of it — who am I when the thing I'm chasing goes away?

In this episode of The Mind Builder, John opens up about the failures and rock-bottom moments that forced him to look inward. He talks about how relentless self-examination became the tool that rebuilt him, why healing his past was harder than any prep, and how he reconstructed a sense of self strong enough to carry him to one of the biggest stages in the sport.

This is a conversation about the man behind the physique — the addiction he faced, the identity he lost and remade, and what it actually takes to become someone new.