Athlete Minded: Stories

Current women's MMA fighter out of the Invicta FC, Marina Shafir joins us today.  Training with Josh Barnett and Erik Paulson in Fullerton, CA, the "Supernova from Moldova" talks about how she got bullied growing up, how she got into fighting, and how she deals with the critics. It's hard being a fighter.  Not just because of the months of training leading up to a fight that will last less than an hour, but the possibility of losing that fight.  The best part of this interview was when Marina said, "You are the only one who considers yourself a success." In addition to the possible loss that comes from a fight, we discuss the vitrol that Ronda Rousey had to deal with following her loss.  We both agreed that the best way to deal with this hate is to just "let people say what they want to say" and to not let it affect you because those people will just be going on to the next thing in about 10 seconds.