E184: - Molly McCann (UFC): Forged in fire, how adversity creates winners

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🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Molly McCann, also known as Meatball Molly, is a mixed martial artist, currently competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. In this open and honest interview, Molly shares stories from her turbulent childhood, including her mum's struggle with addiction. Her mum was able to recover from addiction, get qualifications and turn her life around - Molly shares the immensely positive impact this has had on her, being able to follow the positive behaviour her mum illustrated.

Molly has won thirteen fights, to only five losses. Her work ethic is enhanced by journaling and positive thinking. She shares with Jake and Damian how journaling has helped her to become a better fighter, the mantra she tells herself every morning and how writing down vivid goals turns them into reality.

They discuss her fear of coming out at the age of 25, how to figure out who the good people are and the power of saying no.

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0:00.0	Please be advised there is some bad language in this episode and some conversations that may be
0:04.7	triggering for people. Hi there, I'm Jay Comforty. You're listening to high performance and this
0:13.0	is what's coming your way today. The meatballs is the person that you see at the weigh-ins,
0:19.2	feeds from the crowd, fights for the crowd, fights for the person, fights for the underdog,
0:24.4	fights for everyone who's not got it easy and needs something to cheer for, needs some
0:29.6	excitement and needs someone to know that they fight for them. When I'm in the cage,
0:35.1	getting hit and outmaneuvered by a submission attempt or by a strike is nothing to the life that
0:41.5	I've had to overcome and to beat. What people write about me, what people say about me,
0:46.0	or what my opponent's doing. That's none of my business, I can't control that. As long as I do what
0:51.8	I'm supposed to do, I will be the best to me and the best Molly McCombie tell anyone on any given day.
0:58.2	If you look at me in Pardy Pimbley, we have the same people in our corner who have always been there.
1:03.3	I have my coat sit me down and literally say, that's not good enough it is it Molly? I wonder,
1:07.9	you mess them, are you joking? Like I'm crying, like I'm trying to have it and you're not, you know,
1:13.9	I went home and I'm not, I'm not, I'm hands in the head. I went and I fucking show you. So I went
1:19.6	home and I fucking show them. I'm going to be bigger and better than this. I'm not going to repeat
1:25.6	this and I'm going to make a change. I'm too fast, I'm too strong, I'm too fucking good,
1:32.5	I'm powerful beyond measure. I'm successful beyond belief and anyone's life I torture I change.
1:39.5	So that is 32 year old UFC start Molly McCann, otherwise known as Meaball Molly and the conversation
1:49.7	you're about to hear is one that I don't think that she's had on any other platform. She speaks
1:55.6	incredibly vulnerability and I think that it's so important to have someone who's an MMA fighter,
1:59.7	someone who fights at the top level in the UFC talking about being vulnerable because of people
2:05.6	like Molly can be vulnerable. It allows everybody else to do the same. So you're going to hear Molly talk
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