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- [Toby Mathis] In 2017, we paid my wife's mother

a small amount for administrative services on a 1099.

So we're not going to discuss

whether she's an employee or a contractor,

we're just going to say okay.

My wife and I are the only employees

of the company currently,

but was wondering if we could get around

the self employment tax

if we made her mother a direct part-time employee.

The answer is no, you either pay it as,

she pays it, so if you 1099'd her,

it's her responsibility to pay the Social Security

and the Medicare.

If you paid her as an employee,

you're paying half and she's paying half,

and it's being withheld.

And so if I'm you and I want to get money to mom,

I'm probably going to say can I rent her house for a meeting,

and I'm going to 280A it,

which means I'm going to give her tax free income, that's it.

Or I'm going to have her sit on the board

and your next part of this question comes up

where you say hey, I want to do a health benefit plan,

this is what's called a fringe benefit,

then depending on the type of company,

it might be taxable or non-taxable,

but let's just assume that this is a C-corp

where you enter into a 105 plan

which is a medical reimbursement plan,

you're going to have to comport with the ACA

meaning everybody has insurance

or that the company is at least providing basic coverage,

that's going to be really tough

because there's very few people

that provide coverage under group plans.

What I'd probably say is you're going to go

with the faith-based,

or they're going to already have insurance coverage.

[Jeff Webb]

So what the ACA says is that you have to cover,

if you have a group plan,

you have to cover full-time employees.

You do not have to cover part-time employees.

- [Toby Mathis] I don't know if you can, I guess you could.

- [Jeff Webb] You can cover them, I did double-check on that,

so you can cover them, you can opt to do it.

I think a couple things are going to happen

if you add your mother-in-law to it,

I think it's going to make your group rates much higher.

- [Toby Mathis] Well, here's the thing,

if you don't have mother-in-law,

and it's just you and a wife,

then you don't have to worry about the ACA.

'cause you're exempt. - Right.

- [Toby Mathis] If you bring mom on as an employee,

now you have a little bit on an issue.

So I'd be looking at other ways to get it to mom.

- Yeah. - But now, if she is on,

then any benefit you give yourself,

you have to give her, unless she is less than 1000 hours,

in which case you don't have to give it,

you'd just treat her like she's not there,

in which case that defeats the purpose,

you want to give her something.

What you could do though is if she is an employee,

and you don't even have to pay her a wage to do this,

you give her other fringe benefits

like again, a home office,

or a cellphone, computers, things like that.

So like there's ways to get money to somebody

that is not what you necessarily think.

And could the health benefits be provided?

Yes, it sounds like they could.

- [Jeff Webb] They could be.

- [Toby Mathis] I don't know if there's a minimum,

no you know what, you're right, 'cause I've looked at this.

There was an audit where the guy,

all he did was work for his medical benefits,

and there wasn't an hour requirement,

he was like five hours a week or something.

So less than 1000 hours,

you're not required to give it to them.

Over 1000 hours, I think you're into that point

where you're probably going to be required.

I forget the exacts, so don't quote me on that,

but it's something around there.

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I think when you get into perimenopause, you notice a lot of changes.

I can feel the hormonal shifts happening, the sweating, the moods— you know you're just like

all of a sudden furious for no reason.

My name is Gwyneth Paltrow.

I am the founder and chief executive officer at goop.com, and I am forty-six years old.

I think menopause gets a really bad rap and needs a bit of a rebranding.

I remember when my mother went through menopause, and it was, like, such a big deal,

and I think there was grief around it for her and all of these emotions.

I don't think we have in our society a great example of an aspirational menopausal woman.

We at goop wanted to create the Madame Ovary protocol because there aren't a lot

of products being made for us to really help us through this phase.

We felt that we could, with Dr. Dominique Read, really give them a hand through this period.

Surrounding yourself with love and the right amount of self-care is always the way forward.

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Sometimes we feel a little self-conscious about our dumb sport | Fighting in the Age of Loneliness - Duration: 30:49.

(slow jazz music)

- [Narrator] No one's ever content to just like something,

especially not nowadays.

In his 2005 book American Theocracy,

former republican strategist Kevin Phillips postulated

that Americans' language choices

and media consumption habits, in correlation with our

increasing wealth inequality and right wing politics,

showed us tilting more towards a theocratic monarchy

than a republic.

We were not just fans of things anymore,

we declare our media consumption habits

to determine the types of people we are,

segregating ourselves by

which reality TV family we identify with.

The rich make-believe duck hicks

or the impossibly beautiful children

of one of O.J. Simpson's friends.

We assign political meaning to individual pop stars

and spend countless hours fighting battles

for them online against faceless drones.

Battles that our millionaire entertainers

will probably never give a shit about

or even find out about.

When the idea of executing power in the division

of resources was abandoned as a political possibility,

we threw all our eggs into culture,

and now if someone doesn't like something we like,

they hate us, our way of life, and our identities.

Onto the very secure Dana White.

Pay-per-view buys were 10 to 20 times

what they were six short years before.

Dana had never made it a secret

that he wanted the UFC brand of MMA to be as big

as the NFL or MBA.

In 2008, he projected that in the next five years,

the UFC would be bigger than soccer globally.

In 2012, he declared that it would be the biggest brand

in the world, bigger than the NFL.

In 2014, he claimed that the UFC was already bigger

than soccer in Brazil.

Dana's obsession makes sense,

primarily from a money standpoint

as the already incredibly wealthy UFC president

and nine percent stakeholder would stand to be a billionaire

dozens of times over.

But Dana White is also an MMA fan,

and there's a very real insecurity in MMA fans.

Whether you're watching a shitty UK stream

on your friend's off-brand tablet,

or you're the president of the world's biggest promotion,

sometimes you may feel a little self-conscious

about our dumb sport.

Everyone who loves this sport has had a moment

where they watch an event with a friend,

a family member, or a romantic partner.

It was probably during the pay-per-view golden age

of the late 2000s, where the person you hoped would become

just as obsessed as you, saw men in awful tattoos

wearing shorts that said "Condom Depot"

in huge letters on them, push one another

against a fence for 15 minutes.

Or one just completely teed off on the other

and made him leak before making him fall victim

to a scary falling tree knockout.

Either way, your target audience found it too weird,

too boring, too terrifying,

or all three.

And the cultural image of MMA fighters is a bunch

of enormous angry men with weird tattoos

who always seem to be yelling.

And the image of fans is a sea of guys with big guts

and chiseled arms wearing Affliction shirts

and getting wasted before assaulting random passers-by.

But does it matter?

We love this sport.

We love the weird people like Jon Jones who are actually

pretty fascinating when you get to know them,

and have more depth than most would know.

We know those grappling exchanges that people find boring

often take a lot of skill.

When we see someone fall like they just got ripped

by a Barrett 50 cal,

we know it's no more dangerous than any given second

of NFL action.

We love it,

and that's all that should matter.

And Dana White loves it,

and he's made hundreds of millions of dollars

more than we have.

So, he should be even happier with it than we are.

And who gives a shit if we don't have hundreds

of millions of people watching with us every time?

And why do we care if people think we're fucked up

or weird for watching it?

We know what our sport is,

and we know who we are.

From the most stereotypical ones,

to the grandmothers and grad students who get just as

excited as the Affliction shirt guys for every card.

It's our stupid, violent, insane spectacle sport

for freaks and assholes that's as legitimate

or illegitimate as any other sport in the world.

(soft jazz music)

Well, at least it was ours at some point.

(soft jazz music)

Sometimes you want something so bad,

you don't care how bad it is for you.

And the UFC just really wanted that legitimacy.

Now, most of the sports that Dana and the UFC wishes

that MMA was more like have three commonalities.

One is a network TV presence.

The next is standardized uniforms.

And the third is drug testing.

After the gold rush of the late 2000s,

the UFC achieved all three to the detriment of the viewers,

the fighters, and ultimately, themselves.

First came the Fox deal.

In August of 2011, the UFC announced

that they had signed a deal with Fox Sports.

Previously, the UFC would air the preliminaries

to their big pay-per-views on Spike TV,

which also housed the Ultimate Fighter.

Now, Fox Sports and FX would air prelims

and the Ultimate Fighter,

but more importantly,

there were to be hugely important fights held

on Fox's main channel on network TV.

People freaked out.

Our sport had made it.

(soft jazz music)

We're no longer airing fights in between shows called,

like, "Boner Patrol" and "Boob Professor."

We're network now.

(soft jazz music)

Everyone rhapsodized about the big network TV boxing matches

of the 1970s and 80s,

reasoning that our sport that was once relegated

to a dumb cable channel for idiots, like Spike

and pay-per-view, would have the cultural importance

of Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard's historic bouts.

Mice and Men though.

(soft jazz music)

On the first network TV UFC card ever,

heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez was brought in

to defend his belt against Brazilian boxing specialist

Junior dos Santos.

In what fight watchers thought would be the UFC opening up

the Mexican market.

Cain was undefeated, had just destroyed Brock Lesnar,

and was very proud of his Mexican heritage.

He was supposed to use his brutal wrestle boxing

to destroy JDS over the course

of an exciting 25 minute fight,

and win millions of new Mexican fans tuning into Fox.

(soft jazz music)

dos Santos knocked him out in 64 seconds.

(dramatic music)

The UFC's production team spent the next 40 or so minutes

awkwardly filling time as Dana gritted his teeth

and Fox executives probably tossed their 10 gallon hats

on the ground.

Maybe God was trying to tell Dana White something.

After this bad omen, people started realizing what the deal

actually meant.

While there would be some big matches on network,

Fox inked the deal because the UFC would bring viewers

to unloved cable networks like Fuel TV

and Fox Sports 1 and 2.

(dramatic music)

To sweeten the pot more,

the deal mandated that the UFC owed constant fights

on those platforms.

In meeting their obligation without burying big events

on smaller platforms,

the UFC greatly increased the amount of events

they held every year.

Their promotion went from 27 events in 2011,

all the way to 41 in 2016.

In comparison, there were 20 events for all of 2009.

Because it increased the amount of cards,

that necessitated contracting more fighters

to save the more skilled athletes with more fans

to the biggest money-makers on pay-per-view

and Big Fox as MMA fans called it.

The roster of fighters under contract used to be

the mostly steady 200 to 300 range

with a half dozen cut at a time for performance

or other issues.

Now, it will swell to the upper 500s

before dozens are cut at once after they lose several

in a row, lose once in a particularly boring fashion,

blow a drug test, or just annoy the company in one way

or the other.

The company then finds some more guys

that they can shove out there.

Someone may say that it's good

that more fighters are getting paid.

Well, you can hardly call the highly temporary space-fillers

the UFC pumps and dumps paid.

The lowest level signees get $10,000 to show

and $10,000 to win.

Pretty good, right?

Nope. Let's say our guy shows up and wins.

He gets $20,000 for 15 minutes of work or less, right?

(dramatic music)

At the end of the day,

he's probably looking at about $7,000 for his trouble

if he wins.

If you're a moron, you'll say that's for 15 minutes of work.

He had to train for two months

and will get to fight three more times that year

at the very most.

If he wins all those, which is highly unlikely,

he takes home 28,000 fucking dollars for getting CTE,

not getting licenses or skills for the other jobs he

would need after the decade of fighting he could do

at the very most,

and shithead podcasters making fun of his haircut

on Twitter during his thankless task

of filling the undercard.

(soft dramatic music)

So, after oversaturating fans,

making cards shittier and less important,

and Uber-izing fighter labor,

the UFC decided the next step to legitimacy

was standardizing how fighters dressed.

Just a few years ago,

there was a middle class in fighting.

These were guys who never won a belt

and often never even fought for one.

But through a mix of exciting fights,

unique personalities, and strong fan bases,

were able to skewer loads of sponsorship money

for every fight.

But in 2014, the UFC put a stop to that.

They announced that they had signed a reported six year,

70 million dollar deal with Reebok.

UFC had, in recent years, imposed a heavy sponsor tax

to get their cut of the action.

But now they were the action.

They claimed that the majority of the deal

would be paid out to fighters and benefit newbies the most.

As it happened, newbies got $2500,

later bumped to 3500 to wear the company's hideous

and boring apparel.

While it's more than many got,

it's still a pittance

and the problem with the lower rung of fighters

not making enough could be solved by the UFC

just paying them more.

Veterans, on the other hand, got comprehensively fucked.

Before the Reebok deal,

there was no limit on how much they could make

in sponsorship money.

Now, their ceiling is $40,000 per fight.

While this may seem like a great deal

when combined with a champion

or main event fighter's pay,

keep in mind that our athletes have 10 years

where they could do this if they're lucky,

maybe three years of fighting at such a high level,

and very often have no other marketable skills

for when their bodies and brains are too beaten up

to continue.

And the middle class, they are wiped out.

Now that the sport looked more boring,

fighters were stretched more financially,

and there were way too many fights,

let's take a gander at that third chamber

of sports legitimacy.

Stringent drug testing.

(soft music)

The vast majority of your favorite athletes use steroids,

and no it doesn't make them bad people,

and no it doesn't make them invincible.

It gives them more strength and endurance,

but most importantly for them,

it helps them recover from injury.

Steroids are actually kind of amazing.

The human body is absolutely not designed to fight

for 15 to 25 minutes,

but steroids help make it work.

And those injuries that were once death sentences

to a fighter's career,

stuff like ACL tears,

steroids will help with those.

I mean, yes, they have their side effects of course,

but my point is, it is impossible to compete

at the highest levels of fighting

without some chemical help.

Talk to any retired fighter,

and they'll give you a number anywhere

from 75 to 90 percent

of their former training partners juicing.

Well, in June of 2015, the UFC announced

it was starting an anti-doping program

with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

And man has it fucked things up.

The punishment for performance-enhancing drugs,

which can often just be byproducts of over-the-counter

substances, are two years for a first offense,

double for your second,

and double that for your third.

For substances like cocaine and marijuana,

it's the same math except one year

for a fighter's first offense.

It used to be banned for a year at most,

and that was if you flagged a few times before.

Now, we have to be very capricious

so people will respect our sport.

USADA testing has flagged numerous fighters,

great and small, for the wrong stuff in their blood.

But at the absolute highest level of the sport,

no one was derailed by this as much as Jon Jones.

(dramatic piano music)

Jones became the champion of the light-heavyweight division

in 2011, utterly thrashing Shogun Rua in a fight

that made us all a little sad

and maybe hate Jones just a little bit.

He was a giant freak athlete who did moves

that he learned off of YouTube to humiliate fighters

we grew up with.

And to make it worse, he was a goody-goody

who bragged that he snitched on kids who smoked weed

when he was still in high school.

He met Lyoto Machida and Rampage Jackson,

and ran through the two beloved former champions,

angering people even more.

(dramatic piano music)

But as Fleetwood Mac said, "Time may be bolder,

"even children get older,

"and I'm getting older too."

As we got to know Jon more,

we saw his personal foibles

like his DUI arrest and rivalry with Rashad Evans.

We no longer saw the fake moralizing asshole

who beat everyone up.

We saw a uniquely damaged guy who experienced

the death of his sister at a young age,

being the skinny runt amongst two brothers in the NFL,

becoming a father at an age too young,

and also happening to be the best in the world

at beating the shit out of other people.

He was a person with failings who sometimes acted

like an asshole,

got pissed off, and said incredibly cutting things

to his opponents.

But he had real human vulnerabilities we almost never saw.

He had an incredible rivalry with Olympic wrestler

Daniel Cormier, and holy shit dude,

those guys hate each other.

(audience yells)

Before defending his title in May,

Jon had a hit-and-run incident

and was stripped of his belt.

And then proceeded to power lift for a year straight,

and he became great at that too.

He came back in April of 2016 to defeat Ovince Saint Preux

in order to capture the interim light-heavyweight belt.

He was Napoleon returning from Elba,

poised to make 10 million dollars in a rematch

for the unified belt with Daniel Cormier at UFC 200,

one of the biggest cards of all time.

Three days before.

(loud bang)

He got popped by USADA and was suspended for a year.

Still young, Jon returned in July of 2017

to fight Cormier again,

who was the new king in his absence.

It was an emotional lead-up with both men expressing

their undying hatred for one another

even more than the last time.

- [Jon] The guy has never beaten me.

In order to be the champion,

you have to beat the champion.

Until he beats me, that belt over there is a piece of shit.

- Are you back, junkie?

- [Jon] I'm back.

(laughter)

I'm back, motherfucker. - You got two more months

before you're actually back. - Yeah, yeah.

Exactly, and you better love

these next two months, Daniel.

Which I'm sure you do.

Make Christmas cards now

because the belt's gonna be gone, Daniel.

- Imma beat your punk ass. - Hey!

Did you guys forget?

- Imma beat your punk ass. - Did you forget?

- Stop looking for them to save you.

- There's a record-- - They can't save you.

Is he really gonna be in Anaheim?

Is this guy gonna mess this up again

by doing steroids or snorting cocaine

or sandblasting prostitutes?

- I beat you after a weekend of cocaine.

Back-to-back weekends.

Cocaine, one, your ass the next.

- [Daniel] That's one hell of a weekend

for a millionaire druggie.

(dramatic electronic music)

- [Narrator] In an amazing, close fight,

with Jon Jones being Jon Jones,

he knocked Cormier out with a street fighter head kick.

(dramatic electronic music)

And also because he is Jon Jones,

he tested positive for PEDs again.

Is he a fucking idiot?

In the sense of blowing up his own career, yes.

But in combat, Jones is a genius

who can destroy world champions

with stuff he saw in a movie.

The equivalent of those savant kids who can hear a song

once and instantly play it on piano perfectly.

It used to matter less if you acted like an idiot.

Everyone was a bit of an idiot in one manner

or the other in life,

but God forbid you now embarrass the sport

in front of a world that has already deemed you niche.

It's a little bit amazing to me that Dana White,

a fervent Trump supporter who spoke

at the Republican National Convention in 2016

is so obsessed with achieving norms.

What are you, afraid that people won't respect you?

There is no respect anymore.

There is no veneer in front of the spectacle and vulgarity.

And you wanted it that way.

(dramatic music)

Why you trying to stick Jeb Bush's exclamation point

on MMA?

(dramatic music)

The UFC admittedly made some good decisions in the 2010s.

The promotion now features Women's MMA

all because Dana White really, really liked Ronda Rousey,

and created the 135 pound women's division in 2013

just for her.

Rousey was a massive star,

earning millions in pay-per-view buys

and destroying everyone in her path.

With only one meaningful rival in Miesha Tate.

Tate never beat her,

she just found a way to last all the way

into the third round before getting destroyed.

Which was two rounds longer than anyone else to that point.

Rousey ended up doing movies,

and somewhere along the way,

lost her love of the sport

just as people figured out her game.

She got knocked out by Holly Holm after a first round

that looked like she was trying to setup

what she always did and just couldn't,

and steamrolled without a prayer by Amanda Nunes.

But thanks to the necessity of more fights,

we also got the women's 115 pound division,

and even Women's MMA agnostics and haters

eventually had to conceded that it had some amazing fights.

Joana Jedrzejczyk, a Polish Muay Thai standout

with an unbelievably charming personality

and extraordinary cruel streak.

- Compare me to them, come on.

They cannot compare themselves to me.

They cannot.

I'm telling to them bow down,

bow down. I'm the queen.

Thank you guys.

- [Narrator] Ran the table at strawweight for awhile

before getting knocked out bad by Rose Namajunas.

What's interesting about the 115 pound division is

that Women's MMA used to be notorious

for lacking exciting knockouts,

smooth technique, and more than one

or two great fighters per division.

Of course, this was a function of there being no money

or air time in it.

Pioneers like Gina Carano and Cristiane Justino

paved the way by demolishing

their far less skilled competition.

But it was a few years before Rousey showed up,

made insane amounts of money,

and made dozens of women realize it could be a viable path.

The UFC actually investing time and money into women's 115

was kind of atypical for the company in this era

because it required foresight, patience,

and doing something that would actually generally

be good for the sport.

(dramatic electronic music)

And I would be remiss to forget Conor McGregor,

who, with Nate Diaz, broke the UFC's all-time

pay-per-view record at 1.65 million buys at UFC 202.

Tons of people utterly despise Conor

because he wears three piece suits

when he goes to Chipotle and says insane braggadocious stuff

that he often backs up.

- [Interviewer] A lot of people says he's

the best pound-for-pound fighter

in the world. - He's not.

He's not.

- [Interviewer] How do you rank the fighters?

- I'm number one, two, three, four, five, six,

seven, eight, nine.

(soft music)

- [Narrator] But I think Conor,

like Jon Jones' drug testing,

is an interesting case study in the UFC's war

with its own brand identity.

While the UFC spent the next four years cracking down

on fighters having any distinct appearance and identity,

Conor, like Ronda Rousey, was allowed to be

who he wanted to be.

Which was a flashy, loud-mouth Irish bog man.

- I'm a lion in there.

- Short little people. - And I'm gonna eat you alive.

Your little gazelle friends are gonna be staring

through the cage looking at your carcass

getting eaten alive.

And they can do nothing. - Got it all figured out.

Huh, little fucker? - All they gonna do is say.

- No trained fighters at all. - We're never gonna cross

this river again.

(laughter) (cheers)

- [Narrator] Why? Because Dana White liked him.

Same reason as Ronda.

Within a few fights, Conor was dining with the Fertittas,

going on joy rides with Dana,

and dressing, acting, and taking sponsorship deals

however he saw fit.

Conor has made hundreds of millions of dollars

for the UFC and its owners.

But really, anyone they allowed to have a distinct identity

and fan base could make them way more money

than they are now.

Currently, only Conor is allowed to be bigger

than the UFC brand.

(piano music)

We're in a scary new time for the UFC.

A handful of top fighters have left to Bellator,

a decidedly B league promotion,

because they allow fighters to have sponsors

that actually pay them.

Conor McGregor left to cash the paycheck of a lifetime

in boxing and didn't fight in the UFC at all in 2017.

That year, pay-per-view buys dropped by about 50 percent.

In July of 2016, the UFC was sold to Hollywood talent agency

WME and three private equity firms.

One led by Michael Dell of Dell computers,

as well as Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts,

a group of corporate raiders who have been stripping assets

and cashing out for decades.

The UFC's misbegotten desire for prestige

and the machinations of the sport move independent

of any stakeholder.

The evolution of technique itself is often uncaring

to capital as we enter the fourth era of fighting itself.

Fighters in this sanitized, oversaturated era

are pretty much good at everything.

So good that they have trouble finishing each other.

The fourth era of fighting is about conditioning,

athleticism, and peaking the body's performance

so you can be a couple microseconds faster

than your opponent in order to knock them out,

take a limb, but almost as likely, rack up

microsecond victories over the course of 15 to 25 minutes.

It's very appropriate.

(dramatic music)

In the old days of fighting,

fighting transcended the world around it.

In the first age of globalization,

it was Hélio and Kimura fighting nationalistic battles

that ended in mutual respect

as opposed to the faulty world orders

and generations of resentment left by the nationalistic

wars at the time.

In the 1990s, it was a respite from the more

contemporary pains of globalization.

Something real amid an increasingly sanitized, standardized,

and unrewarding world.

When it became big in Japan,

it was the bombast and largeness of life

that the lost decade sapped from everybody.

And when every institution failed Americans,

and left millions feeling dislocated,

it gave people the honesty of a fist fight

and a cultural haven for strange people.

But our era now is defined by a lack of conclusion.

Our generals won't even tell us how many people

we have in Afghanistan and Iraq.

We're funding and arming the original groups

we said we were gonna fight when we set out on our

foreign adventures this time.

Nations we democratize by killing a sizable chunk

of their population and profiting off their infrastructure

never get an ending, happy or sad.

They fight civil wars of varying intensity

from year to year.

The defining traumas of our era had no conclusion.

None of the scumbag bankers went to jail

for destroying the economy in 2008.

All the weak rules put in place after, are all but erased.

We elected a president we thought was transformative,

and the person that followed him was a goblin

whose image invokes the robber barons

of a hundred years ago.

There are no closed cycles, conclusions,

or even abrupt endings now.

We're all condemned to each other in purgatory.

The rest of the world around us is breaking free of its norms,

only to see them revert to them, just with margins

behaving irregularly.

Donald Trump wins the Presidential Election,

and for all his paleo conservative bluster

and destruction of norms, governs policy-wise

almost identically to any other Republican.

But the edges of our reality fray so much

that it drives us even more insane.

There was an equivalent event in fighting,

the Mayweather McGregor fight that saw the previously

unthinkable matchup of an active UFC champion

and a boxing legend not too far removed

from his years at the top.

It was a massive event that defied all

our previous expectations of what was possible.

Then reverted to exactly what we always

thought would happen.

The boxer won a boxing match,

and the rest of the world was largely the same.

Sometimes, the dam of normalcy breaks,

and we get momentary bursts of how things once were.

And when it does, the UFC doesn't seem sure

of which side it wants to be on.

At UFC 229, Conor returned after nearly two years

away from the sport.

Months prior, he'd escalated a long simmering feud

with lightweight Khabib Nurmagomedov

when he showed up in Brooklyn

and attacked a bus carrying the undefeated Russian.

The UFC was all too happy to roll video of the incident

into their promotional packages,

including the pre-fight press conference.

(laughter)

- Proper Irish whiskey from a proper Irish!

Here's a gargle for you, Dana,

and a plop as well.

- I'm not a-- - Plop as well for me.

Enjoy.

- [Narrator] Dana also seemed unbothered

when a whiskey hawking McGregor continued to hurl insults

at the stoic Nurmagomedov.

- His own countrymen, his own people

that he's turned his back on,

they want to see him gone too.

And I am gonna do it in the name of the Russian people.

So, here's my location, you little fool.

Right in front of you.

Do something about it!

Do something about it!

Yeah, you'll do nothing.

(dramatic piano music)

- [Narrator] It wasn't much of a shock

to see Conor submit to the greatest functional wrestler

in MMA a few minutes into the fourth round.

Similarly, it could have been predicted

that Conor's words and actions just might bear fruit

in the form of further violence outside the octagon,

when Khabib, spurred on by further taunting

from Conor's corner,

leapt out of the cage and instigated a brawl.

This was the most-watched UFC event of all time,

shattering Conor's old record from 202.

Countless people curious to see what the spectacle

of MMA was all about, had tuned in just in time

to see all their preconceived notions

of the sport validated.

And now all of a sudden,

Dana was troubled by the extracurricular violence.

- Many of you,

I know there's a lot of media here tonight.

Some of you, this is your first event,

I can promise you this is not what a mixed martial arts

event is normally like.

This is not what we're about.

This isn't what we do.

This isn't how we act.

It's unfortunate that the night

that the most people are watching.

- [Narrator] The UFC wants both freakish spectacle

and mainstream respect.

It wants both the depravity of a blood sport

and the decorum of every sport it wishes it was like.

What was once a weird refuge for those who needed it

is now eroding into just another thing that's as formless

and indistinct as everything else.

Fighting has rid itself of so much of its magic.

It does not transcend the world anymore.

It is our world.

If you've somehow made it to the end of this

and you're not an MMA fan,

I hope you take one thing away from all this.

This will happen to everything that you love.

Nothing you like will remain untouched,

and it will get further and further monetized

into meaninglessness.

This isn't just our problem in our idiotic blood sport.

You're fucked too.

(dramatic music)

When Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone fought Nate Diaz at UFC 141,

he rolled into the center of the cage

with all the animosity

of their pre-fight build-up behind them,

squared up and prepared to unload on Diaz.

But Diaz hit him,

at first with punches that, if not overly powerful,

came in volume.

He did it again, and again, and again.

Every time it seemed Cerrone could land a blow

that may change the course of the fight,

Diaz kept hitting him.

He started shoving him around

and hitting him harder and harder.

(dramatic music)

Even when Cerrone landed a head kick

that floored the Californian,

Diaz just got back up and kept hitting him.

It went on like this.

(dramatic music)

In the corner before the third and final round,

Cerrone's cerebral coach Greg Jackson

dropped his zen routine and yelled at the fighter,

"Five minutes for the rest of your life, Cowboy."

- [Greg] You give me five minutes of hell.

You understand me, son!

You give me five minutes of hell!

(dramatic music)

- [Narrator] He went out, got hit for five more minutes,

and he lost.

(dramatic music)

For the rest of your life,

go out, touch gloves, and fight.

(dramatic music)

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Is Deontay Wilder the Most Underrated WBC Heavyweight Champion? | Self Made w/ Deontay Wilder Pt 1 - Duration: 13:51.

♪♪

(man speaking) ...holding that coveted green strap.

The undefeated WBC

heavyweight champion of the world.

The Bronze Bomber, the self-styled...

Deontay Wilder!

(crowd chanting "Deontay")

♪♪

Deontay, this is awesome.

I appreciate you inviting me into one of your homes.

I think you told me

your other home is across the...

uh, across that way? Am I right?

Across the way, I can, you know, I use my boat

as a ferry or the jet skis as a ferry.

Are you gonna be able to see each house?

Most definitely.

Yeah, we're gonna clear out a couple of trees over there

that, uh, that covers it up right now.

You can't see it. But we're gonna be

able to, uh, open it up.

Maybe get some binoculars.

I got a telescope right there as well, too, that could...

Well, this is awesome. I appreciate it.

You're two weeks out from, uh...

I would say, uh, maybe you wouldn't say this.

But every fight is your biggest fight. Mmm.

Uh, being undefeated. Am I wrong?

You're definitely right. You're definitely right.

Every fight is a big fight.

Because you just never know what's gonna happen.

You can prepare and train as hard as you can for a fight.

But on that day or that night when those lights come on

and you have the environment change and when everything

becomes so real, you just never know what's gonna happen.

Any man can get knocked out in the ring.

Especially when you have--

when you're in the heavyweight division.

That's why people love the heavyweight division.

Because dealing with the big boys

and the big boys bring weight.

So with weight it brings power.

Do you-- the whole series I'm doing

which is called "Self Made"

which is this idea of, uh, to me it means

doing things on your own, um...

And I can't think of another individual sport

that's more-- it's all about you.

At the end of the day it's you.

Where does that come from

in terms of, uh, you grew up in Alabama.

Where does it come from

where you, uh, I guess, let's start with boxing.

That boxing became something that you

decided I'm gonna focus on?

Well, boxing only came in my life because of my daughter

that was born with spina bifida.

You know, being here in Tuscaloosa, Alabama,

it was, you know, based off of Alabama football, you know.

All the kids looked up to the sport because, you know,

people had school spirit, they, you know...

Especially when they're, um, playing against different

rivals, like, Auburn or something like that.

You see all the hype.

You see all the people coming together, their excitement.

So, when you around it, you wanna be a part of it.

But when my daughter came and dealing with spina bifida,

knowing that she had the biggest fight of her life,

that allowed me to say, you know what?

I need to fight for my family.

So, I had to choose, you know,

whether to get a regular job or pursue my dreams

of becoming a professional where I know that if I make it,

that I'll be able to support her beyond her belief.

How old were you at the time?

I was 19 years old at the time.

Uh, did you finish high school?

I did finish high school.

And I got a little, uh...

I got a semester for college.

I had a daughter coming so I had to make decisions.

But why-- why boxing?

Um, boxing, you know, for one.

I had a, uh... reputation

for fighting, you know? I tell people all the time.

I never looked for trouble but trouble always found me.

You know, and people always look at me now

because I'm so tall. Yeah.

But it was a point of time that I wasn't as tall.

And I had to grow into this height, you know, but...

Being here was nothing-- really nothing to do.

People would pick with you. They'll find fun.

You know, as guys, as boys

the most fun that we found was the fun that we didn't

supposed-- with the things that we didn't supposed

to be into. Yeah.

Because it's just a, it's--

You know, when things are, are... suspense...

You know you're not supposed to do it but, you know,

you get the thrill from doing it because you know

with the consequences that can come from behind it if you get caught.

You know, you got in trouble a lot, you know, and people

always pick with you and try to test you

especially if you go in certain neighborhoods.

Like, every day I walked out the house,

literally, I was about to fight, you know?

It-- because they knew you could--

would win because they knew you were the guy... why?

It plays a lot of part because...

You know, one of the reasons I always, you know...

People love a winner.

Until you win so much... Yeah.

Then people wanna see you lose and that could be one thing.

Haters love to hate.

You know what I mean? Yeah.

And then on the other end, like I say, I wasn't--

I always been small framed.

My body has always been a athletic type of build.

I never been a muscular type of guy and then...

Being short, you know, as well.

And so people thought they had the advantage over me.

It's just like now, you know, because I'm not this big heavyweight.

I don't look the part. Yeah.

But I'm every bit of the part.

To me, and again, this, this self-made idea.

Whether I'm talking to a Rick Ross

or DJ Khaled or Dave East,

everyone's got a little chip on their shoulder.

So, I almost picture by what you're saying, uh...

you have a chip on your shoulder because they didn't--

They don't expect-- they see something

that you're trying to say, you know what, that's not me.

I'm something bigger than that.

You know, many people

looked at me as a statistic to society. Yeah.

Many people have my life picked out, you know,

better than I could have it picked out.

And what they had picked out was negativity.

It was in a wrong way, you know?

It was of my peers, you know.

Certain things like that, but...

I always had a plan for my life, you know?

And I just wanted to see myself get there.

Although my peers had things going on and stuff,

I've never been peer pressured to do anything,

but only what I wanted to do

and what I knew what was right, you know?

My father raised me and my brother well.

He taught us to work.

You know, in the South, you gonna work.

That's what they say them country boy is strong. Yeah.

Because we're always working with our hands.

We're always doing something whether it's in the yard.

Or whether it's outside of the house

or wherever we go, you know, they just...

So how did boxing kick in for you?

Boxing kicked in, you know, um...

when I knew I had a daughter coming on its way.

And, um, dealing with the, uh, disorder of spina bifida.

I had no knowledge of it.

But it's money to pay for...

There you go. There you go. That's it.

You just thought I'm gonna-- I need to make some money.

And when you're mind, you knew people were gonna pay for...

It was a quick pay?

I knew nothing about boxing, you know...

Boxing came to me 'cause I had a friend in college and um...

At lunch, we used to always-- See, I'm a type of person that,

I plan things out.

I speak it, believe it, receive it.

You know, and I always say speak it, believe it...

See, the belief is the water that grows your plant. Mm-hmm.

Now you can say anything in life.

You can say you can be this. You're gonna have this and that.

But it's only your words.

No action is applied to that.

So, if it's just your words, it's just,

it's just what it is, your words.

You can--- everyone has greatness. Mmm.

But greatness, greatness is determined by service.

We can be great without even knowing it.

But then till we apply the service, that's when we discover we're great.

You know, so with me, it's like,

I wanted to show instead of just speaking all the time

and doing different things. So, when boxing came along,

I was ignorant to the sport.

I didn't know how they made-- Well, I knew you had to fight.

Prize fight, you make money.

But I was ignorant to the sport because I felt like every

fighter that stepped in the ring made a lot of money.

Or if you see them in magazines, they made a lot of money.

I didn't know it was a process to getting there.

And with my daughter and her condition,

condition needing money, fast, quick and in a hurry.

And in my position where I couldn't go to school no more

to, you know, play the sports. Hm.

To be a professional football player or basketball player.

I had to lean towards something else.

Did you play other sports? I did.

I played football, basketball, baseball.

So, the thing I get out of it

which is interesting is those are all--

everything you just said sports wise is team sports.

Hm. You picked a sport that's just you.

Yeah. What does that--

Like, to me-- what does that tell you about you?

I mean, that just tells me that

I'll do anything for my children.

I'll sacrifice my life for my kids, man.

You know? And that's exactly what I've been doing.

40 fights. I've sacrificed my body.

Where do you think that comes from?

It just, you know, just being raised here

down in the South, man.

You know, you-- you know, a lot of people get

the South misconstrued with racism and all that.

But racism everywhere.

I've traveled a lot of places. Racism is everywhere.

Just here, they're just more open. Yeah.

And I like a person that's gonna be, you know, that can tell me

straight up what they are instead of behind closed doors.

And with that being said, you build a stronger mentality.

You build a work ethic. Like, with my father,

he always had a strong work ethic.

And with me and my brothers growing up, we saw that.

He put us to work, every, you know--

And when we got older,

the work that he used to have to do,

he didn't have to do no more because he relied on us because

we was older now and we knew what to do, and if it wasn't...

Did your father support you in boxing?

You know, my--

I wanna do this. Yes, I support you. Yeah.

My-- you know...

And boxing, my father didn't want me to box, you know? Yeah.

He was one of those fathers that had his, uh, had things

planned out for his children.

And he was basket-- he was a basketball type of guy.

He played ball throughout college

and different things like that.

And that's what he wanted his sons to do.

But I didn't believe in just playing one sport.

I believed in playing multiples of sports.

So, when I got into boxing, you know, it's a brutal sport.

No parent really wants to see their children No.

getting hit in the face especially if they're not used to it.

He wasn't used to that atmosphere.

He wasn't used to watching boxing, you know?

So, I could understand how he would look at this.

But he didn't know my talent. He didn't know,

you know, what God had for me.

So, did you think you were gonna be a good boxer?

Not only did I think it, I knew it.

I spoke it, I believed it.

Why?

Because I wasn't fighting for myself.

Self is selfish.

I had this other little girl on the side of me, man

that was looking up to me. I had this little girl

that I looked into her eyes and I said,

"Daddy gonna be a world champion one day."

And I come from unfulfilled promises.

I know what it feel like

for somebody to promise you something.

And you wait year after year after year after year.

And it never happens.

Until finally you just come to realization

yeah, it ain't never gonna happen.

So you can't depend on people. Mmm.

With that being said, you have to go get it for yourself.

That's what I did. Did anybody--

Who was the first person from the boxing side who said,

"You know what, Deontay's got something here."

Who saw something in you to say

I'm gonna put some time in this guy?

Well, you know, when I went to the gym, you know,

it was still doubts, you know?

Like you said, boxing is a lonely sport.

It's a savage sport. It's a snake's business.

If you're not smart, you will get tooken advantage of, you know?

It's a dirty game but coming into boxing,

even just me and my trainer, at first, it was, you know--

He would tell you his self,

he said, the basketball court's down the street.

That's what he was thinking because

I'm coming in with a small frame.

Talking about when a fighter...

He see over 100 kids coming in

saying this is what they wanna do.

But they don't know what they're asking for.

Some people can get past sparring

but not the conditioning part. Hmm.

Some people can get past the condition, but don't,

but don't-- but can't see themself

getting hit in the ring, you know?

When I came in, you know, he didn't know what he had.

He didn't know what work ethic that I possessed.

He didn't know that I wasn't doing it for self.

This wasn't for self to be famous or make no money.

This was making money for my daughter, not for myself.

You know, and...

I remember sparring a professional, uh...

He's been in there-- he was up in there for over seven years, you know?

In four, four fights and you know,

had a little reputation going in and...

Uh, three months into my training,

I ended up dropping this guy in the first round.

Only thing you see him move was his head

and just to lift up to look at my trainer

and say keep this guy in, he's strong.

And from that point on,

the belief came even more real.

Really didn't what it was when I walked in.

And with my trainer, you know, when guys are working out

or doing anything intense and it become, you know,

when you see your stuff starting to, to reach a peak

where you're getting tired, fatigue and stuff like that.

People start to quit. Hmm.

But my trainer said he knew he had something in me

because not only was I working hard when he was looking,

but I was working even harder when he wasn't looking.

And that was a big deal for him.

Do you think, uh, where do you think that--

Your daughter's now, what, 13? Correct.

So, where does the drive exist over 13 years?

Well, you know, 13 years old.

She's still dealing with spina bifida.

You know, she beat the odds, though, because doctor says

she may not never be able to walk or maybe never

have a natural ability of learning.

But today, Naieya, not only is she walking, she's running.

She does flips, she does cheer type of things, you know?

She's one of the smartest little girl in her class.

She's very intelligent. Very smart and, very,

like, independent, very, and you know...

And a lot of things-- When I see her

and her going through the situations, the trials

and tribulations that she had to go through

just as a baby with spina bifida,

to see so many surgeries and...

things done to her, man...

That was all-- that was my motivation.

I'm, like, this little girl go through all this.

I ain't got no excuse to do what I gotta do. Yeah.

You know, I got a tattoo right now on me

that we holding hands, and I call it

the Road to Success because she strengthen me.

And I tell my daughter all the time, like, babe, I don't know

what I'd be doing if it wasn't for you. Hmm.

You know? You came in and, and, and changed my whole life.

My mindset, the things that I wanted to do, it was no more

because, you know, when I brought a life into this world,

what I wanted to do had to be put on hold

because it was all about her

with the condition that she made me a stronger person, you know?

It's just the love for my children, man.

But Deontay, I see...

I watch highlights of you

and your fights and I swear--

And I take everyone of these interviews, I take things away.

And the thing I took away from you is

I think you would have been good at anything

you put your mind to.

And it made me think about me, like, I think, no matter what I--

If I made a decision and I put all my focus

and I'm gonna be really good at this...

You just happened to choose boxing.

If you would have chosen basketball or football,

it would've been the same thing. Do you see that?

That boxing is just-- it happened to be the thing you chose.

It happened to be the thing

that you put your entire focus on.

Most definitely. I totally agree

with you on that, you know...

Like I say, I always talk about my father.

I give him a lot of credit, you know, because he been there

through the thicks and thins of our lives.

And he built us to have a strong work ethic.

And with that being said...

When me and my brothers, when we apply something,

our mindset is so strong that we get the job done

no matter what it is. Mmm.

And we love when people doubt us.

That makes us even stronger.

Because only thing that person can do,

they can only use action with their mouth. Hmm.

But we have the ability and the power to not only

use action with our mouth to reply

but we're the one that can apply real action

to the solution to solve this problem.

And now when people say you can't do something,

and then you take all of that

and you apply with what you have,

you show them, like, I did what you said I couldn't do.

So, in boxing, which is not necessarily a sport

that you can control the next step, right?

Correct. The next fight.

How do you keep how do you keep

the motivation, the intensity?

How does-- how do you keep that self, that drive?

Well, you know, I haven't accomplished my ultimate goals in boxing.

So, with that being said,

it still allows me to have this mindset that

this is just the beginning. Every time I...

take the next further step or the next opponent,

or the next big fight.

I'm always saying this is just the beginning, you know?

Because I don't never wanna see it where

I'm not learning no more, I'm not-- Hmm.

I can't get up in the morning because

I'm in silk pajamas and silk sheets, you know what I mean?

Making it hard to get up because you're slipping.

You know what I'm saying?

I never wanna get that mindset, you know,

to, to thinking that.

You know, with that work ethic and like I said that we have,

you know, I'm still providing for my kids.

I still have things that I wanna see.

I'm building for generation wealth. Mm-hmm.

And when you're building for generation wealth,

you know, you got a long, you got a long ways to go.

And it's a lot of work that you're gonna have to apply

to whatever your craft is.

So, with that being said,

I'm, I'm, I'm still not satisfied.

I'm still going and going. I'm a hungry champion.

So, in, in... uh, we're in Alabama.

We're where you grew up.

Why didn't you leave and go somewhere else?

To L.A., to New York, to Miami? Yeah.

Like, why stay?

You're the heavyweight champion of the world.

Why stay right here in the woods

on a lake where we're not near anything?

(laughing)

Man, when you're describing it,

that sound like peace to me, you know?

And the saying is there's no place like home.

And I made it from here.

Many people tried to get me away from here.

You know, at the Olympics, I had Russia.

Russia wanted me to come and say, "You!

Next heavyweight champion of the world."

And they wanted me to come to Russia but, you know...

I didn't, I didn't-- Russia was too cold for me, you know?

And we had other people gave me suggestions,

and, you know, drilling me on why I'm staying at home

and all the distraction and they have other gyms

in other states and cities.

But, you know, like I said,

the way I came up in boxing,

my name-- I wasn't, I had,

I had to write my name in the books. Hm.

Because people looked over me.

They looked over me, one, because I was from a state

that they didn't know...

They, they, they didn't see fighters come out of.

But if they did their history,

they'd see Holyfield is from Alabama.

They see Joe Louis is from Alabama.

And they'll see Earnie Shavers is from Alabama.

But they had to start their career elsewhere, you know?

But me going to the Olympics...

I made the Olympics in a year and a half.

No one in the history of boxing has ever made it as fast

as I've done it and guess where I've done it from?

Mm-hmm. Right here.

So, the saying also is if it's not broken, then why fix it?

So, every time I have camps, I come back home.

This is where I'm comfortable.

This is where I can meditate and visualize

what I wanna do when I'm in the ring or anything I do.

This is where I get my sanity and my peace.

And I never let that-- I'll always have something

going on in Alabama so I can come back home.

Is there anybody you listen to?

Meaning is, uh...

To me, everything I do is gut. Mmm.

So, uh, I'll take advice, but at the end of the day

I wanna feel my ass is on the line.

I wanna make that decision. Mmm.

Is there anybody that you're listening to?

Or is it falling always on you?

You know, I grew up in the church, you know?

My father was a minister at the time.

My grandma was the pastor of the church.

Now my father's a pastor so, you know, I was very

sheltered, you know, and to believing in Christianity

and different things like that.

So, you know, I'm big in religion, I'm big in faith, you know.

But I'm also big on energy feeling

is when I can feel energy sometimes emotion.

I got a true gift. My grandma said

I was anointed by God, you know?

That's why I was-- I knew I was destined to be something.

And like you said, you feel like I would be good at anything.

And that's so true.

Because my grandma said I'm anointed, she used to tell me.

When I got in trouble at school or get suspended and stuff,

she didn't discipline me. She was a teacher.

She taught like, she used to talk to me all the time.

And I couldn't comprehend because I was a child.

But when I became a man and put away childish ways

and started going through life... Hmm.

I started to understand bits and pieces.

Ah, I see now what she was saying.

I didn't understand about being anointed

and God trying to use you. Use me for what, you know?

But when you become a man

and when you've been put in positions,

you start to transform and you start to understand things,

and I understand it all now, you know.

When you think back to starting out the professional career,

what was the goal?

My main goal was to make money for my daughter, you know?

Pay for medical bills and...

Did you think or put...

I don't wanna lose. I wanna be...

What was each fight to you?

What, what, what did it mean to you?

Each fight was for my daughter. Yeah.

You know? I had a goal.

I had a... mission to accomplish.

I said, I told, I set out

to tell my daughter a promise

that was unfulfilled yet.

Like, I said, I come from promises that was unfulfilled

for me so I know what it feels like for somebody

to tell you something and it doesn't happen.

Nor do they even put effort into making it happen

because that was, that was, that was told

while back, years ago.

Maybe they forgot or maybe they moved on.

But the person that they told to, they don't really look back

and say, dang, I told that person, not knowing that they

holding this dear to their heart. Mm-hmm.

I told my daughter I'd be a world champion.

I told-- I looked her in the eyes

when she was one year old,

and I was gonna make sure that happened.

So every time I step in the ring with a fighter,

it's still to this day,

after-- with all my kids-- there's seven now.

I want a better life for them,

and the way I had to do it is with my hands.

Everything I have, everything I've done,

with them, with these.

Did...

I-I know what you're gonna say,

but did you think you'd be 40 and 0 today?

You know, I never had...

I never look at it...

or... how long can I go undefeated?

Or how many guys can I knocked out--

can I knock out?

I never think about my record.

I never think about knockouts.

I-I'm still surprised when I knock guys out.

You know what I mean? I'm still--

I get still surprised, you know?

Because I tell people I have two different personalities.

Outside of the ring, I'm Deontay;

I'm this loving, tall, giant gentleman.

Yeah. You know?

That loves people, you know?

Loves interacting with people, you know?

Because, I feel, you just never know

who you may be talking to.

No matter what they're from-- where they're from--

or no matter how they look,

you know, or what their skin color,

you just never know who you're talking to.

Sure. You know? So I like interacting.

But inside of the ring?

It's a whole 'nother possession come over me.

I'm the Bronze Bomber in the ring,

and the Bronze Bomber--

when I'm the Bronze Bomber, baby, he don't care.

He don't care who you are,

where you're from, what you're saying you're about to do.

I know what I say I'm about to do,

and I'm finna show you.

I got the opportunity to be able to show my actions.

Not with my mouth,

but with these right here.

And that means everything for me,

because when I look at my children,

and they're smiling and you say,

"Good morning, baby,"

and you got the youngest baby smiling

and, you know, all her teeth coming

and slob coming down

when she happy, you know?

And come and want to get on you

and kiss you automatically...

Man, that's the life.

That's a beautiful life.

Like I tell people: I have love, peace,

and I have great health in my life.

D-do you think-- Do you feel pressure

being every fight that you're undefeated?

'Cause some people say in sports,

whether it's-- I'm a Chicago Bears

1986-- 1985-- fan. Mm.

They lost one game.

Sometimes it's good. Yeah?

Like, the pressure's off.

I can go win this thing. I can get it over with.

Do you fee-- Does that ever...?

I don't think about-- I don't think about losing.

Yeah. It's a negative entity.

You know? I don't think about losing.

I don't think about nothing that's negative.

Yeah. You know what I mean?

I always think about winning.

And with that being said,

we are powerful.

Our words we speak are powerful.

It's just how we have to put it.

You have to be very specific about what you say

and how you put things in...

(chuckling) ...in line.

Because things will come true.

It's the Law of Attraction.

What we think, what we speak,

will be drawn to us.

That's why certain things can happen to us,

and we never know or understand why

it's happening to us.

We don't go back and resort on the things

that we've said, or whatever, the moment in time,

because it's just what it is.

It's a moment in time,

and we spoke something.

So, so what's the difference

between Deontay 33 years old today

and-- and 13 years ago

when he first started boxing?

I'm more in tune with myself.

Where does that-- like, where--

where does that come from?

I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot of things.

I've met a lot of people.

You know?

I've been introduced to a lot of things

that works with my life.

So would you say--

'cause...

Clearly, I couldn't get in the ring with you,

but I would say, when I think about--

'cause I-I take away something from every conversation,

and what I think about with you is,

as you describe your father,

and work ethic... Mm.

Like, work ethic. It's a constant.

It never goes away.

It's-- you can't teach that.

It's either in you or it's not.

You're not gonna stop boxing for two years

and start up again.

That's not you.

Is that c-- is that true?

That's very true. You know...

Like I said, certain things you're born with.

You're born with certain things.

You know? And...

You know? There's a lot of things I'm born with

that, you know, I don't have to train for,

I don't have to prepare for.

It's already instilled in me.

Only thing that I can do is make it stronger.

And I makes it stronger.

That's why people don't understand me.

They can't figure me out, especially in the boxing.

They can't figure me out.

They see I have an unorganized style,

an un-textbook style,

and my fundamentals is not 101.

You know?

And I never understand people when they always complain about

my style or how I-- you know.

If everyone has the same style,

then boxing wouldn't be as exciting as it is.

You know? Sure.

If everybody had the same fundamentals--

the jab, the right hand, left hook...

Sure. Everybody's doing it the same,

then what's so exciting about it? Sure.

And then boxing styles make fights.

So, with my style,

not only do I create excitement,

but I create thrilling knockouts.

Dramatic knockouts,

knockouts that you can only see

in the movies.

Do you think about the fans?

Do you think about the guys in the audience looking?

Not at all.

No, the way I was raised and stuff like that, man,

I hear...

(scoffing)

Certain things grows on deaf ears, man.

I don't-- I don't...

I'm so in tune with myself.

I'm so in tune with my... you know,

the things that I want to do in life,

the mission that's incomplete right now.

You know? I'm well on my way.

You know? 33 years old.

This is 33 years of my manifestation.

33 magic, you know?

I'm walking in my manifestation right now.

So, l-let me-- from a...

Your business is boxing,

so when I think of my business,

I have the luxury of entering the ring,

which is launching something,

and playing around.

I have an idea of what I'm gonna do...

Mmm. ...but I don't know what I'm gonna do

until I get it out there.

So in theory, with your match coming up

against Tyson,

you have an idea of what you're--

any, any bout--

you have an idea of what you're about to do...

Mm. ...but you have to adapt during that moment.

Most definitely. Is that correct?

That's very correct.

And every true champion knows how to adjust

to anyone,

no matter what they may see themselves doing,

because a fight--

I can visualize myself and meditate on it,

of me knocking this guy out in a certain way,

and there's been times where I've told fighters

that, "I'm gonna knock you out,"

and I've told them what position

their body would be in before I knock 'em out.

(laughing) And it happened.

You know? So it's very strong.

You know?

But sometimes you can get in a situation where

you miss things,

y-you can visualize things, but you don't...

You know, life is all about surprises.

You know? So you can have a surprise in life,

and if it comes... (snapping)

...if you are true to your words,

if you're a true person

that you're dedicated to your craft,

and you ain't worried about nothing,

you speaking all positive, thinking it,

surrounding yourself by positivity,

then the result's gonna be positive.

In the ring, I'm a true champion.

I'm a king.

So, with that being said,

any man that I face,

if they bring something that I ain't used to

or I haven't ever seen,

I will adjust.

And when I address and figure you out,

bam, baby, goodnight.

So has that changed from being--

from when you became a champion to prior?

Or is it the same mentality?

It's the same mentality.

I still got the same hunger,

and I think that's what continues to--

that's what keeps me continu--

continuing to win.

Not only just my children, but the mentality I have,

because, in boxing,

you know, for me, it's more--

96, 97% mental,

and the rest physical.

You know? If I can get in your head,

or if you can get in my head,

before we fight,

then you've already won.

You just have to show up. Yeah.

(chuckling) You-- and this--

and I can be way better than you.

I can be a great fighter

and you can be just average.

But if you can find a way to mentally get up in this,

all my "physicalalities" is gone.

Mmm. That's over.

All the weights and being athletic

and doing certain different things,

all that goes out the window

because my mindset ain't right.

So you were talking about--

earlier, we were talking about meditation.

Mmm. When did that-- why that?

Why did-- when did that kick in for you?

That kicked in in the Olympics.

You know, we used to-- every Wednesday, we used to...

deal with one of-- she was like a nutritionist

and slash, you know...

I don't know the term to call it,

but, um, she introduced us to, to meditation, you know?

It was just exercise.

She wanted us to lay down.

Or some of the guys, you know, being fighters,

you know,

they into all types of superstition

as is anyway, you know?

And, um, I remember this...

this situation as if it was yesterday.

Like, I can see it,

and how she had us on the mat.

Some guys participated--

well, they went along with the process of it

because they had to. Mm-hm.

But really just

tuning into it, zoning out,

who knows what they did?

But when I do something,

I take it seriously. Mm-hm.

You know, I want to get--

I wanna get-- give my best

so I can have the best results afterwards, you know?

No matter how silly or how crazy

it may look or seem, I wanna try it out.

Mm. So I tried it.

You know? And...

At first it was just almost like...

you just being in this quiet place

and you hearing a voice talk,

but you see yourself going through something.

You want-- you're trying to figure--

Like, I'm a great visualization type of person.

You know, even when people talk to me,

for me to understand them,

I picture in my head. Mm.

I play it in my head.

So that's why I'm easily to understand people,

you know, when others are not.

You know? And as she was, you know,

going through t-the process

and telling us, you know,

"Think about this," or...

Her voice would get soft,

and she'd get higher and start talking,

then it'd get back soft. Mm.

You know, we had no music at that time,

and stuff like that;

it was all about just focusing out.

But it worked for you. It worked.

But I find-- again, I find that interesting,

because you-- you have the ability to take--

if some things can affect you positively,

whether it's five years in,

ten years in, 13 years in,

you're gonna use that.

Oh, most definitely. I use it--

I use it all the time in my everyday life.

Not only just in my profession,

but in my everyday life.

It allows me to, to...

The sixth kid affected you.

The fifth kid affected you.

Yeah. Right?

Yeah. Yeah. It's a magical thing.

It's wonderful, you know?

And it allowed me to learn so much

about myself,

so much about this world,

just so much about just being just...

a positive person.

So what happens between now

and the Tyson fight?

You're, what, two weeks away.

Two weeks away. What, what's gonna happen?

Um, pertaining to what? Training?

Training, psychologically,

meditation... Yeah.

Well, and training,

um, I think I've got, like,

a week and a few days left,

or sparring,

and then I'll be finished.

I'll be finished, like, on the 21st.

That'll be my last day of sparring.

Thursday, um...

Thursday of this week

will be my last day of strength training. Thanksgiving.

Yeah. Yeah.

It'll be my last day

of strength training.

So, right now is just

the, the preparations of...

assembling everything up.

That's-- this long camp has been so been.

So we're putting all-- everything together,

sharpening and all that,

you know, make sure everything is a muscle memory

so when I get in the ring

it's no thinking. Yeah.

It's all action, it's all doing, you know?

We never wanna think in the ring what we gonna do.

Wait wait on-- we wait on the vision

that we sees,

and when he do what we been seeing,

my body reacts. Yeah.

That's how I knock these-- it's reaction.

I done knocked so many guys out with these hands,

it's pitiful.

It's cra-- it's like-- it's...

it's like second nature to me.

D-do you get pissed

that you're not 40 and 0 by knockout?

What's that?

Do you get pissed that you're not

40 and 0 by knockout? We're all--

I-- No, I'm not. You know?

Because, uh, the guy that I didn't knock out,

in the rematch I knocked him out

in a devastating fashion. Yep. Yep.

But the first time, it was a proving point

because a lot of people at that point in time--

Sure. I was 32 and 0 then.

And, at that point in time, I'm knocking everyone out.

And, you know, people--

you know, you're gonna get doubters.

It's a big world, so you can't please everyone

and I try not to, you know,

'cause that's a big task to do, when you're trying prease--

please everyone, and listening to everyone

when they don't know...

Only thing th-that should both--

bother you, or make you upset,

is the things that people say that is true.

But half the time it ain't true,

so if it don't apply to you,

then wh-why keep it in your head?

So, aside from your daughter, where is--

where do you look for your motivation?

Who out there--

whether it's a boxer

or someone in a different sport

or an industry--

who do you look for for inspiration?

I'm a family man.

It's all for my children.

Mm. Every bit of it.

Even-- You know, I like to grab nice things

along the way; I've got nice cars,

nice toys, and...

different things all over-- you know,

but that's just me in the moment of time.

All that is in the will that will go to them.

You know? Everything that I have.

Like, you know, I'm gonna grab things along the way.

But I do it all for my children.

I knew how hard it was for my father,

you know, and mother, to take care of us.

You know, you grew up poor, man.

And I didn't know the "severeness" of it

until one day me and my father

had a conversation. Sure.

You know. How old were you then?

I was... I'm 33 now.

Probably in my 30s-- 31.

Mm. Somewhere up in there.

You know, when he said he only got $600 a week,

and the rent was 550...

(laughing)

You know?

And that's always made me resort back to when

I had my daughter at 19,

and I had to work, and, and-- two jobs,

sometimes three jobs,

learned that if you don't work, you don't eat.

So, so-- as an example,

I have more people here than you do.

Is that normal?

Yes-- No.

No, it's not normal.

I don't carry a big entourage.

I have my brothers and stuff like that

running around all the time,

and that's my entertainment.

Family, you know?

When I'm here, or anywhere,

like, I'm the same whether I'm in Alabama,

whether I'm in California, whether I'm in Atlanta,

you know, I'm the same way.

Whether I go down in Miami-- I'm the same way.

Most of the time I go where

my designated spot where I need to be,

or whatever, and then I'm home.

Do people recognize you?

Oh, most definitely. Most definitely.

You know, and-- you know,

some people take it overboard,

you know, because I'm not the type of p--

I'm like, don't call me a celebrity.

Don't, don't look at me as a famous person.

I'm just something that my grandma spoke

that I was anointed in God,

he's using me,

and I'm allowing him to use me, you know?

And what he's given me, I'm gonna use it up.

Because if you're blessed

and have a talent,

that you know you're special...

Mm. ...amongst the rest,

and you don't use it,

it will be stripped from you.

Hmm. And given to another brave soul

that has no problem.

Do you ever think about after boxing?

Most definitely. What's that look like?

You know, my passion is acting.

I'd rather act like I'm getting hit

than get in the ring getting hit, baby.

Mm. (laughing)

And that's the day I'm looking forward to.

You know, I've done, um...

you know, I done been in the TV, you know,

on a reality show and stuff like that, whatever.

But my true passion is acting.

You know, I've been--

I've always done the church pl-- church plays

and stuff like that.

They used to give me the long scripts,

and I remember going into the bathroom

and I'd be in there for several hours

rehearsing my, my lines,

because I wanted to know them perfectly.

I wanted to be perfect when I'm acting, you know?

And then the lines that I can't remember...

(snapping) ...I make my own up... Mmm.

...in there, and it always works out

because I'm being myself.

Like, I like to take the script,

and what I can't remember,

I get into character...

Like, being from Deontay to b-- to the Bronze Bomber,

you gotta know how to get into char--

Mm. you gotta-- you know, it's that transformation.

And w-with acting, that--

because of my transformation and what I do in my career now,

the acting part is gonna be killer.

Another Denzel Washington. I-I have to say,

I think in-- in just in this--

from what I've known of you prior to this,

to having this conversation,

um, the inspiration I get form you

is this, this utter feeling

of no matter what you decide to do,

you're going to succeed in this.

Mm. No one just is good at this like you.

You've decided, "I'm gonna be great,"

and, to me, that's all about

what being self-made is. Most definitely.

You know, my mother, when I was, um,

11 or 12 years old,

she gave me this poster,

and it had this bear running a race

and the bear had a red bandana, uh,

a red, uh...

you know, headband on his head. Yeah.

And he was finna cross the finish.

He haven't crossed it yet,

and it had a little--

it's just a little bit of space between

the chest and the-- what's it named?

But you could tell he was finna finish.

And the saying said,

"You don't know what you can do,"

at the bottom, "...until you try." Yeah.

And that meant everything to me.

So, with that being said,

even in my adult life

I apply whatever I have to...

You know, I dedicate myself to what I'm doing.

I give it my all, no matter what it is,

because I want great results.

If I don't give it my all and I come up shorthanded,

or I get the short end of the stick by any chance,

I don't wanna have those doubts of, like,

"Damn. I could have did more."

Yeah. "I should have did this. I should have--"

I don't wonder woulda, shoulda, couldas. Yeah.

When you coulda done it the right time the first time.

My dad said, "You do it wrong, you do it long.

You do it right, you do it light."

And we always talk about that saying to this day.

And everything-- (coughing)

a lot of things stick with me in my head, you know.

So I'd rather apply whatever I gotta do,

whether it's working at Burger King,

or working at Mercedes,

I'm gonna give it my best the first time.

If I'm at a--

It's just like I used to work for Budweiser.

I was the helper, I was the assistant,

but I needed money,

I had a daughter I needed to take care of.

So I looked at it like, "How much the driver make?"

I need the next thing. So--

I need the next thing, yeah. Come on with it. Come on with it, now.

So I started studying that manual book

on how to drive them, them big 18-wheelers, man,

that carry them 54 inch trailers behind,

and be able to whip that thing back, too.

You know what I'm saying?

Because it was more money... Yeah.

...in that.

So, like, why settle for less

when I can have more?

And I could support my family like I want.

I told myself I'd never struggle in life,

for the simple fact that

I put everything into what I do.

I-I hope you kick Tyson's ass,

and I hope, uh,

the next fight, uh,

will be Joshua and you're gonna kick his ass.

There you go. 'Cause you deserve everything that comes your way.

My man. You've earned it.

Self-made is you,

so I appreciate it.

Blessings. Thank you.

Blessings so much. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Blessings.

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Self Reliant 8 Ways Self Reliance Can Help You Can Create The Life That You Dream Of - Duration: 12:30.

Self-help, self-reliant, or self-dependent, whichever one you prefer to call it; is the

beginning to greatness, and the first step to success.

If you want it done right, then you gotta do it yourself.

80% of people don't care about your problems or goals, because let's face it, who doesn't

have at least one problem or a goal of their own?

Learn to rely on yourself at least 99% of the time.

1) Develop Trust In Oneself We've all done it, at least once or even

infinite times.

You know.

Calling or asking for help or favors.

The word "favor" can be a relief or a pain in the neck, depending on whether you

are the speaker or listener.

It's annoying, in fact, the moment someone asks me for a favor, I ask myself three things.

One, will this benefit me or give me some worth of knowledge.

Two, does this person deserve my help.

Three, can this person be depended on in the future if I were to call or ask them for a

favor.

If all three criteria are met, then it's a green light for me.

It's great and okay to ask for help or favors.

Humans should help and support one another to succeed and grow.

However, when one favor becomes two, three, or ninety-nine favors, then we have a major

malfunction.

Now you (the asker) have put yourself in a situation of needs and desperation.

No one and I mean no one likes to be asked or told what to do, twice.

Everyone now knows that you're a good for nothing beggar.

When you want to get something done, well, you can't because you rely purely on others.

Learn to do things yourself.

The internet is endless; there are more books today than there will ever be, and you should

want to rely more on yourself.

When someone does a favor for you, you feel good, right?

Have you thought about why they asked you?

It's because of your skill or knowledge.

You possess something that they don't have.

It means you have some value.

Why not trust yourself to handle more situations on your own?

Become your very own Macgyver or Bear Grylls.

They have a knack for problem-solving, for just about anything and everything.

Of course, these are TV shows, but it does portrait how one can depend on themselves

in such situations.

What are you going to do when you are alone or when that time comes when no one wants

to help or do favors for you?

I guess you're screwed!

2) Gain Knowledge And Education How is one able to speak a second language

or fix cars?

By learning and education.

Yes, there will be a little bit of sweat, discomfort, and a whole lot of practice.

Education gives one more knowledge.

And what does more knowledge mean as a whole?

Value!

The more you know, the more you are worth.

How much are CEO/VP/P/Head Manager/Janitors/Cooks paid?

That depends entirely on their position and task.

CEO's can make 100 to even 100,000 times more than a cook.

Education is one of the biggest contributing factors to success.

We do not live in the 12th or 1st century anymore.

In those days, sticks and stones maketh a man.

Such ideology has been eradicated from society since the industrial age.

Now education and status maketh a man.

Today, even beggars can rise to the rank of incredible, untouchable powers.

That was not the case back then, not at all.

If you yearn for power, authority, status, wealth, and the likes, then you shall have

it.

With education, you can have all the riches and desires that this world and Universe has

to give.

Read all the books you can, study the internet from every corner, and apply what you have

discovered through execution.

As you can see, no one can force you to read, study, or execute anything.

(Not talking about kids) The only way one shall advance to such status

is by doing everything on their own.

There will be family, friends, and coworkers to help you along your journey.

However, the ultimate person that can bring themselves to where they want to be in this

life is you.

Pride yourself in education.

Learning is fun, opens doors to new opportunities, discover the unknown, and banish fear from

existence.

Humans fear the unknown, and what they can not comprehend.

That is why God(s) have no fear because they are omniscient.

I'm not saying we can become Gods but given a one's lifetime.

I don't think you will be able to learn everything that this world has to offer, well,

not in one lifetime.

3) Save Time And Convenience First, you have to call someone, then hope

they answer, and finally pray to dear God that they say "yes" or will help you out.

And that's just the good part.

What if they can't help you today or even this week, but you have a deadline to be met?

Still, both of you must meet at a designated point to get the job done.

All that could have taken 1 hour or even 1 week.

The point here is that we can minimize such tedious and wasteful resource by doing it

ourselves.

How can we learn to do such things if we never had any prior experience?

One, learn from them as they are helping you out with your problems, so the next time you

can do it yourself.

Two, be financially independent so you can afford to have these inconveniences fixed

on time, every time!

That's the ultimatum unless you're annoying and constantly love asking everyone to assist

you out.

Remember, time is the most valuable thing in this Universe except for antimatter which

is worth trillions, but that's for another "time."

People have families, jobs, free-time, and other times that they need for themselves.

When you continuously beg for favors, it makes you a selfish being.

Being selfish is not the issue, being selfish while wasting other people's time and resource

absolutely is.

If you waste my time, then you best believe there won't be a next time from me.

Just make sure you WILL return the favor somehow.

It truly means something to the other party.

4) Makes One More Worthy I should emphasize how vital it is to make

one worthy or more worthy.

Let's take movie stars for example.

1,000's if not 100,000's of ordinary people audition for roles or a small parts.

Let's say half are accepted.

Can you guess how many actually make it to the top?

Maybe 1/10,000 that audition.

The movie stars that are at the top of the list never gave up.

They showed up on time, every time.

Did things that their peers weren't willing to do.

Spend months if not years perfecting their acting techniques.

And where do you think this type of skill comes from?

From self-help and self-doing, of course.

Acting is not a talent.

The dictionary defines talent as a "natural" skilled that has been developed.

The last time I check, no child was a born actor/actress.

If you want to be worth millions, then you will work hard.

If you want to be worth billions, then you will work harder.

If you want to be worth more than anyone in this world, then you will never stop working,

on yourself!

The reality here is, people who work towards their dreams and goals; day in and day out,

for as long as they can without giving up, eventually get to where they want to be.

Let me say that again in a different language.

As long as you do not stop, you will get to where you want to be in life.

(Assuming that death or an accident doesn't get you first.)

No one on this earth will wholeheartedly pure every ounce of energy into making your dreams

a reality.

Only you can do that.

Only you can be worth as much as you want to be.

Only if you put in the proportional amount of work and sacrifice, then why not?

5) Builds Character And Leadership Skills How many people does it take to run a company?

That's like asking how many pull-ups can one do before they are exhausted.

The answer can range from 1 all the way to 10,000's or even more.

Some individuals run multi-million dollar companies or sole-proprietorship, and there

are groups of people who run less than million dollar companies.

It all boils down to the individual, not the company.

How do I know?

Well, I literally just stated the facts for you.

For one to rise to leadership or boss position, what must one have?

Is not all the skills of every employee part of the requirement?

How can one run a company if he/she doesn't know everything that is needed?

When running a one-man business, it forces one to adapt, improve, and even improvise.

Running a business for a company still requires some serious skills and leadership traits,

but one can delegate task and work among employees.

However, running a big business entirely relying on oneself is even more badass.

Relying on others is not an option.

One must learn and do everything on their own.

Sure, you have to outsource some of your work, but everything else is handled by you.

That is why self-help is super vital when it comes to sole-proprietorship or running

your own business.

Most large corporations had to start with at least one person.

Don't you think that somehow that one person develop a ridiculous amount of skills and

character over time?

Well, I can positively say that if they didn't, then such companies wouldn't have existed.

You may want to check out The story of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

6) Be Independent Self-reliant means to be independent, or almost

purely rely on oneself.

I remember when I left my parents home and care, the first thing I wrote on my social

media and dating bio was that I was free and 100% independent.

Looking back, I was free but nowhere independent.

The lack of worldly knowledge and skills force me to work and live with my uncle, for almost

5 years.

During those times, I was able to build skills and learned how to lived on my own.

Being independent makes one grow and mature.

You get creative and must absolutely rely on yourself to get things done.

I guess you could say it is an attribution of confidence.

Today I can confidently say that I am fully independent.

I work, travel, play, and do everything on my own.

All of this would have been quite impossible if it weren't for the fact that it took

many years of knowledge and perseverance to build up over time.

Self-reliant gave me the courage and experience to fully be independent and do what I really

want and love without question or hesitation.

When I say independent, I mean that one supports and does everything on their own without interference

from family, friends, or coworkers.

Ask yourself, are you truly independent.

Is your boyfriend, parents, or even someone "special" paying or supporting you financially

in some way.

If so then you are not independent.

You don't have to be, and there's nothing wrong with that.

7) Discover Yourself & Things You Never Knew The more you rely on yourself, the more trust

and care you give to yourself.

It's not quantum physics.

Well, it's more than just care and love.

As one starts to handle more tasks and when a certain unforeseeable situation arises,

what must one do?

Adapt, improve, or improvise!

Tackle those problems and think of a solution, all by yourself.

Now, imagine doing this monthly, weekly, or even on a daily basis.

Do you realize how much skill, knowledge, and new things you will build or experience

over time?

When humans are forced to rely on ourselves, especially for survival purpose, nothing is

stopping us.

These are just facts and studies have shown that life itself will adapt and evolve.

If proven otherwise, then we humans wouldn't be here nor life itself.

You see, all living organisms started as a single cell.

Of course, it took almost a billion years for it to evolve and advanced to the most

intelligent life-form on this planet, humans.

We humans have 77 years on average to live.

It may not be a considerable amount of time, but it's enough to know thyself, to the

fullest.

During those 77 years (give or take 10-20 years), one should be able to discover themselves,

and know who they are.

Humans are explorers, travelers, adventurers, and conquerors.

Earth is just the beginning.

The Universe is waiting for us to go forth and establish ourselves.

8) Allows One To Forge Their Destiny People who are living life to the fullest,

achieving their purpose and dreams, and living life without a single regret.

Do you think they have mastered self-reliant?

Most likely so.

It shows itself.

Think of any famous, successful, or influential person that comes to mind.

Now compare that to the average Joe.

Do you see where I am going with this?

I honestly believe that I have yet to master myself.

Maybe far from it, however, I can positively say for sure that right now I have the ability

and will to forge my own destiny.

And believe me when I say self-reliant has a huge role to do with that.

Do you plan on making other people's dream become a reality or yours?

What's it going to take to prove that?

A little bit of courage, some hard work, and a whole lot of self-belief.

Self-belief is also one of the most crucial factors when it comes to paving your own path.

Because honestly, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter how much others believe in

you.

If you don't believe in yourself, then nothing will be possible.

Every step starts and ends with you because this is your life.

Trust me; only you can create the life that you yearn for, no one else.

I think we can come to a mutual agreement on this.

For more infomation >> Self Reliant 8 Ways Self Reliance Can Help You Can Create The Life That You Dream Of - Duration: 12:30.

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Practise self care to avoid burnout - Duration: 2:16.

Hey splendid women and magnificent men, Sarah here. The solution to avoiding

burnout is recognising that there's a problem and that you have a choice in

how you behave. I was talking to a client recently who is feeling exhausted and

more than that, she's noticing a lack of creativity. She used to have a real

thirst for problem-solving and coming up with brilliant solutions and that just

isn't available to her at the moment and although she's physically fit and eating

well and sleeping well, her creativity, her creative inspiration has

abandoned her at this point. It's so easy in our work culture to keep pushing,

pushing, pushing yourself and there are so many reasons, justifiable reasons, why

you've got to keep pushing, pushing, pushing yourself. Actually, the very best

thing that you can do to be more creative and more productive is to put

self-care at the top of your to-do list. That is the only way to avoid burnout. So,

when you're stressing about to do's and finding yourself not being very

effective, think about what you can do, where can you go get a bit of time away

from the screen, get a bit of breathing space, a bit of perspective. I know it's

super hard - this morning I've literally dragged myself away from my screen and

my to-do list and this is my job, this is what I do for a living, so

if I find it hard no doubt everybody finds it really hard, but it's the thing

that will make the difference between you thriving and surviving.

So, give it a shot! Thanks for listening.

For more infomation >> Practise self care to avoid burnout - Duration: 2:16.

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Hayley Kiyoko Says She Wishes She Could Give Her Younger Self a 'Massive Bear Hug' | Billboard - Duration: 4:30.

- Hey, I'm Hayley Kiyoko, and I'm about

to take a walk down memory lane with Billboard.

♪ I wanna be missed ♪

♪ Like every night ♪

♪ I wanna be kissed ♪

♪ Like it's the last time ♪

Hey, thank you, mystery man.

Ah, this is so cute.

This is me from Kindergarten.

It's funny to me because my best friend,

who I didn't really like, but she was my best friend

at the time, 'cause in Kindergarten

you just have to be friends with whoever will talk to you.

And she dragged me to this photo-shoot,

and she was supposed to be in this photo,

and then I showed up, and the guy was like,

oh my gosh, your face, you need to be in this photo,

and so this was my big break, this was my moment.

The internet is the biggest library in the world.

Look how old the computer looks.

I hated that dress, I don't wear dresses,

well I didn't at that time.

That's that.

(soft music)

Alrighty, let's see what we have.

I love this photo.

So this is me shooting my Pledge Music campaign

for my very first EP, and my fans raised a bunch of money

to alow me to record my first EP,

and this is me playing base guitar, and I played drums,

and I played all the instruments,

and it was kind of a cute video,

but I remember working really hard on this,

and my outfit says it all.

I mean look at these sparkly high heels,

and the knee socks, great knee socks.

Kay, let's see you you--

This is a gorgeous photo of me.

This is a true moment, my purest form of myself, right here.

I don't really know, I don't really know how old I was,

but I was a spunky child.

My Mom told me I was dark, and people were always like,

what was Hayley like growing up?

She goes, well, she was a dark child, so.

Okay, aw, this is a sweet photo.

So this is me, and my guitarist Lawrence

performing at The Satellite,

and this is a banner that says Hayley Kiyoko

because all of the professional musicians

have banners that say your name on it,

so I had my sister draw it out for me,

and I think I performed for like,

what was it, four people?

No it wasn't four, it was like 15, my friends,

15 of my friends, and yeah, aw, sweet.

Kay, last but not least,

another classic photo, gorgeous.

Do you see that passion behind my eyes?

My sweet eyes?

This was my second drum kit.

My first drum kit I got when I was five,

and then I got this from Santa Claus,

and this parrot drawing, I did out of

those like charcoal pastels, gorgeous, gorgeous painting,

and yeah wow, I love to color.

I had a music room, and the carpet was red,

and the walls were yellow, and so this is where I would

like practice, and write, and I would record on my 4-track,

my Korg 4-track, and sing.

I was terrible, but it's important to keep going.

Never stop, never quit.

(upbeat music)

If I could give my younger self advice,

I would give her a lot of advice,

but I also would just like to give her a hug,

because I grew up not loving myself,

and or accepting who I was,

and I knew who I was, I just wasn't happy with who I was,

so my advice would just to be to give her

this massive bear hug, and let her know

that everything is gonna be okay.

For more infomation >> Hayley Kiyoko Says She Wishes She Could Give Her Younger Self a 'Massive Bear Hug' | Billboard - Duration: 4:30.

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No more low self-esteem: "Thrive has completely changed it for me..." - Duration: 2:20.

Hi my name's Ben Collins and I went through Thrive because of my low self-esteem

I am a goalkeeper so I do get a lot of

hate, I suggest from players like

saying it's my fault when a goal

goes in and it like dragged me down and

pulled my performance and then like I had

people at school dragging it even further down and

it was really effecting my mental health, and they just basically

pulled me down and I was just feeling a

bit suicidal to be honest and I think

Thrive has just completely changed it for me because it's made me feel

more positive about myself, and i'm trying to make other people

feel positive now, and it's a really good

course and I do suggest it a lot, and the

people that do it, that teach you through it

they're very nice they're very supportive and if you need anything you can basically

just text them to say like hey I'm

feeling negative what should I do with

myself and they like explain it to you

and it really helps because a lot of

times when i'm at work and I'm like

feeling negative about myself I just

text my Thrive consultant to help me and

she like explains it's like saying

you're winding yourself up you're doing

this to yourself

and like trying to get me thinking positive about it.

In year 4 I was diagnosed with a learning difficulty and that

really knocked my self-esteem down very low

and through like a lot of therapy classes I could say,

I was trying to

make myself feel better and I was like

they were trying to make me feel better

and it was working, but it wasn't working

for a long time I mean I'm not

criticizing the place I went to because

it were lovely and fantastic but it's just

since I've done Thrive I'm feeling like I don't have to go again, to there,

to see him again, and probably that's a good thing

For more infomation >> No more low self-esteem: "Thrive has completely changed it for me..." - Duration: 2:20.

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Dede, self-employed, appreciates the one-stop shopping at Connect for Health Colorado - Duration: 0:30.

being self-employed it's always been a worry in the back of my mind what am I

gonna do about health insurance in the past when I looked for insurance it was

so challenging and it was a very tedious process with connect for health Colorado

it was definitely one-stop shopping it's really easy to go online and I'll be

saving about three hundred dollars a month what I'd say to any small business

owner is go for it do it now don't wait and it'll be one less thing you have to

worry about when you're doing your budgeting for the next year