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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I did ayahuasca and like going from like the hot
chick to hot mama.
I can be the rock hardest bodyin the world and still feel bad
about myself.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Straight out the rock , you got a great guest today.
Indeed, we do.
Straight Outta the Lair Rock,you've got a great guest today,
indeed, we do the lovely UFCmama.
Six-time World MMA Award RingCard of the Year.
We've seen her at Maxim.
We've seen her in Playboy, fhm,sports Illustrated, ufc's most
iconic ring girl, model,entrepreneur and all-around

(00:45):
fitness enthusiast.
But more importantly, mum, thebest title of all Ariane Celeste
.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Do you have a clap here?
Oh, my God Give her a clap.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Ariane, it's great to have you here, iconic.
Good word, good word.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
She's already told me .
She started it.
She was the one.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
You're the first one I think everybody knew in the
world right Like you were, likereally put it on the map and
obviously with the UFC growthand growing with that
organization over the years, Ithink all of us dudes have have
seen you a few times.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yes, I've been in the game for a while and I had no
idea that UFC was going tochange my life like that.
I just literally was going toUNLV here in Vegas.
I'm like I need to make somemoney and my agent sent me to
the casting and it was just allup from there, the rest was
history.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
The rest was history 18 years, right 18 years, you've
seen the UFC truly evolve.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Obviously, you've been a massive part of it.
You've got you know what theycall the UFC mama, the UFC mama.
Hot mama You've truly paved theway for so many girls to get
into this.
Obviously, you and Brittanythis year are both retired.
And congratulations on anincredible career.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah.
Thank you so much I love thetwo of them yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
You're definitely missed.
Incredible career yeah, thankyou so much.
I love the two of them.
Yeah, you're definitely missed.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
It's like peanut butter and jelly.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, totally Peas and carrots, but you guys
retired the same time correctSlightly Like she retired, like
officially.
I'm still doing events withthem, yeah, so I'm not like
officially retired.
But yeah, I've slowed down alot.
I'm not doing the ring card,girl stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Got you.
So she's semi-retired.
Jay, right, semi, we've got tospeak to somebody on Wikipedia
because it said retired on there.
Oh yeah, we'll get into that incase anything else.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
They also call me Penelope, which is not my real
name.
I swear.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Where did that come from?

Speaker 1 (02:40):
on my Wikipedia as well.
It's a full-on name.
I love that name, though.
It's a great name.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, it's like Penelope Hernandez or something
like that.
I don't know what it is.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
It's very exotic Anyways.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
So, going back to something you touched on earlier
, so you were in UNLV and yougot a casting for the UFC, so
take us back to that and Talkabout your journey through the
early days of the USC.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah, and what year was that?

Speaker 1 (03:06):
I believe it was 2006 .
I was 21.
I was as shy as could be.
I just got my boobs donebecause I literally like I had a
subscription to Maxim and FHM.
I thought the girls on thecovers were like the coolest
thing and like the hottest.
I was like one day I'm going tobe just like them.

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So I got my boobs done and whenI was 21, and then slightly
after that, I had the um, thecasting, which I walked into a
room with Dana White and CraigBrassari, I believe that's it,
and I came in with the uniformand they asked me do you know
what UFC is?
And I'm like not really.

(03:47):
I had seen like a commercial ortwo and I was like taken back,
like what is this?
And that's it.
I got the casting.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, we went wrong.
We didn't get boobs I was likea baby face.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
I don't even know how I got the job, because I just
look so young.
I just remember looking soyoung.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Baby faced, cheeks, baby faced.
I remember those days.
Yeah, how long have you guysknown each other Long time Long
time Like 20 something years.
Wow, so before UFC.
Yeah Well, I was hip to herbefore.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
What was hip to her before I?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
have no clue.
I mean, I was an admirer ofyours and then you know mutual
friends.
But yeah, we've known eachother a long time and obviously
she's been the face of the UFC,you know, for a very long time
and we've been friends a longtime and you know we both kind
of came up in Vegas and you knowit's great to see you know

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friends doing well and she justcrushed it and got that FHM
cover and got that Maxim coverand got all those covers right.
So, uh, I I love seeing peoplemanifesting their reality and
and seeing that come to fruition.
So, um, obviously always been afriend and and always uh, uh,
liked seeing your journey asyou've been going.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Thank you, j Obviously, I feel the same about
you.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, I'm proud of you.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Why are you stumbling with your words, like you're
getting all shy?

Speaker 1 (05:13):
I'm seeing through your soul right now.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yes, you got all shy there for a second.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah well, you know she's nerve-wracking being
around.
It's almost like you went backto your palm days when we used
to just make fun of each other.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh, tell me these stories.
I want to know about these.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
It's mostly her making fun of me and I take it
on the chin, yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
I need this ammunition.
So you've got to tell mesomething.
The whole palm days Actually,that's when you and I first met-
Really.
Yes, I was in Scotch 80.
Okay, yes, and you had.
All the girls were on the table.
I was there with the Monsterguys, hans.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
Hans, who else was there?

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Hans Hans Wollenkamp, and we took a picture the dingo
.
I tried to find that picture.
Of course it's lost incyberspace somewhere.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Oh, my gosh, it would have been great to pull out for
the show.
It might have been on my yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
I was actually trying to find some photos.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
Actually.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
I've drowned like six phones in that period of time
so I've lost some photos.
The old Blackberry had somegood stuff.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, the old Blackberry I used to hold
Blackberry.
But yeah, so you and I metthere and we had a quick little
conversation.
It's like one of them surfacelevel Hi, how are you?
You know, same for me.
And then I signed the door backthere in the Palms Somebody's
calling me right now, sounprofessional.
But anyways as you said,welcome to the show.
It's relaxed, it's just ushaving fun and you've got to

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give me some blackmail storiesof Mr J-Rock, okay.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
I'll try to think of one.
Think of one.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
I think you have a lot more than one.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
The old.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Palms days started out.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
The, the old Palms Day, started out the good, old
days the good old days we werewinning championships back then.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, it was the place.
But going back to the show andthe UFC, that's such an
incredible story from seeing theevolution.
How has it been for yourselfbeing there for 18 years and
seeing that evolution, from youwalking in as a 21 year old you

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know, shy girl to now becoming aglobal star within within the
organization?
And what's been the biggesttakeaways from just seeing that
evolution from your perspective?

Speaker 1 (07:19):
seeing the evolution.
It just makes me really proudto be a part of that and a
little part of history, becausebefore the girl fighters were
there, it was all about us and Ithink we just dominated.
We had so much fun.
We did every signing that wecould.
It was just a very fun time ofmy life that I'll never forget,

(07:40):
like traveling the world.
I think I was gone everyweekend for seven years straight
and at the time I like I lovedit.
I'm like I'm going here, I'mgoing there, like I never
thought I would be out of vegasperiod.
So for me to be out of vegastraveling the world, it's just
been a dream come true.
And what they've done with theufc, obviously it's incredible.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
So seven years every weekend.
I mean that must have made ithard for you to.
That made no sense start again.
Well, no, it's incredible.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
So seven years every weekend.
I mean that must have made ithard for you to.
That made no sense.
Start again well, no, it's along time oh, you mean seven
years, every single weekend Imean it's be hard to like carry
on relationships and stuff likethat.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
I mean, did you, did you mix a little business with
pleasure and date, uh, somefighters, or how did that?
All I mean because you, youknow how it works.
Like you, you end up hooking upwith people that are closest to
you yeah right, this is how itworks, so give us a good few of
those um, but but nothing tooserious.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
I feel like I I realized quick on that the
fighters are very much aboutthemselves and they have to like
really focus.
And I honestly I don't.
I dated people, but it was.
It was really hard because Iwas gone all the time and plus
you throw in like probably thehottest guys, like their like
bodies are chiseled and likeit's it takes a very confident

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man to be like okay, bye, babe,I'll see you when you get back,
you know flex knows aboutchiseled hard body.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Also living on the road too?
Yes, unfortunately.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
So I would say I'm good at a lot of things,
relationships I'm good at, butthey weren't successful for me
in the past.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, but that's also as you're younger and
developing.
I think we have to go throughthe good, the bad.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
So like I mean, you're not really thinking about
that when you're traveling theworld with the UFC.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Trying to date and travel and work on your brand
and everything else that's goingon is so tough.
I lived my life before Livingon airplanes.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Just that part is tough so tough.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
And it's like a long-distance relationship, even
though you might be in the sametown.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Especially back when you're partying too, because
you're hungover and you'regetting on flights and you're
getting hung over again gettingon the next flight home.
It's like it's definitely acycle.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
I remember one time I was in England and so, hung
over, I was just puking in thetrash and my girlfriend was also
UFC girl, I won't tell who itis, she was crazy that day.
But she they were saying, oh,if she can't hold down her
liquid, she's not going to geton the plane and she's just like
we need to go back to America.
I am not doing this.

(10:16):
And she got in their face likethey were going to arrest us and
I was like, please don't dothis, I just want to get home.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
I just want to go home.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
I'm going to bed.
You couldn't tell us the name.
But what does it rhyme with Hername's Allie?

Speaker 4 (10:35):
Oh, there we go Bam.
I just came up.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
She's been out of the game for a while.
That's a hard one.
That's good, that's good.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
She probably just threw us off the scent, yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
So did you guys have a you know?
Like obviously with Brittanyyou guys are like besties, you
know, and like all the othergirls like did you guys have you
know?
Was it kind of similarexperiences for all of you, kind
of having this like girls cluband like kind of attacking the
world together.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, it was.
I mean, at first, brittany andI we didn't like each other.
Well, I didn't like her becauseyou know, she's like coming in
fresh, fresh off of, was it wcand uh, I remember the first day
she met me, we were at thepalms, I think it was right
after uh, world mma award.
She's like, by the way, I'mgonna get it next and I was like
, who are you like?

(11:19):
I was like very like, so, um,but then she, she just grew on
me and we, we became like soclose, like we've been through
so much together so it's likenot even like a friendship, it's
like a sisterhood.
Now the other girls, obviously,I, I become close to them, but
not as close as her and andeveryone kind of like moves on.

(11:40):
If they, if they don't work foryou, I've say they move on.
They're having families and allthat.
So I've I've definitely kept intouch with a lot of them, but
br, Brittany and I we're sisters.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
So yeah, what are some of the memorable stories
that you can talk?
About Some good stories thatyou two get into some
shenanigans on the road.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Oh my gosh.
There's a lot, Probably toomany.
I got to discuss with her theones we're allowed to talk about
.
Well, there is the time I gotarrested, but anyways, we won't
make that up.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
You said it.
So what about this arrest?
What was it about?

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Okay, well, it was like straight out of a movie.
It was after a night out.
Me and my ex at the time got inthis big old fight and it was
crazy.
It was not fun at the time, itwas very scary, but anyways.
The cops got called and we bothaccused each other of DV and we
ended up both in jail in thesame exact jail which was I was

(12:40):
in one seat and then the otherside was the male side and he's
looking at me like I'm so sorryand I'm like don't look at me.
Don't look at me and like I'mso sorry and I'm like don't look
at me.
And then, uh, I somehow gotahold of Dana and, um, he got me
out of jail and I went straightfrom jail to work.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Wait straight to work .
Yeah, Wow.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
I hadn't slept all night.
I was crying all night.
It was crazy, what was the.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
What was the?
Uh, what was the car?
Uh, I think it was crazy.
What was uh?

Speaker 2 (13:08):
what was the uh what?

Speaker 1 (13:09):
was the car?
Uh, I think it was ufc 100.
It was like a big one yeah andum, I think, uh, there was like
paparazzi waiting for me outsideof the jail and somehow, like
the bodyguards were like don'ttake pictures.
And then I got into the car andsuzy, my friend, um and makeup
artist.
She did my makeup and I wentstraight to work while she were

(13:31):
driving yeah wow and I made itto the main event and I think
some somehow the word hadalready gotten out and um, I
remember I was just like shakingoh my god, what a night.
And I got up on stage andpeople were like standing
ovation me.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
I'm like, oh, that makes me feel better, but that's
another thing to mention rightLike, because obviously you're
in the public eye, right?
So when you have crazy blowoutfights or certain things happen
like, everybody finds out aboutit, right?
Especially in this world ofsocial media.
I would think that that is alsomakes it a lot harder to date

(14:10):
and just do normal stuff rightlike, yeah and I didn't
paparazzi yeah, yeah, so it's.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
It's hard to date, but I'm a true lover at heart.
I still believe in love and,yeah, I'm here, I'm happy well,
this show.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
No, you better believe there's gonna be so many
people sliding in your DMs.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
Wait a minute Single.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Sorry in advance.
We have a global fan base.
You might have all kinds oflanguages in the DMs and you
might have to translate.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Okay, perfect.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, but going back to the paparazzi stuff, when did
that start?
When did the fame truly kind ofhit you?

Speaker 1 (14:54):
I think it started as soon as I started working for
UFC, because they had forums andall those things that would
talk about not only the fightersbut the girls, and I'm freshly
21.
I really didn't feel like awoman until I was like 24, 25.
That's when I started workingout, really taking care of

(15:15):
myself and, um, so was a veryweird time, like very insecure
time of my life.
Um, I remember Dana Whitecoming to me at a show and he
was like, can you slow down alittle bit?
Like he was so nice.
He was like you're doing great,but can you slow down a little
bit?
I just remember I was, I was sonervous, I wanted to walk the

(15:35):
fastest that I could, and so Idid that.
And then he had to tell me buthe did in the nicest way, and I
didn't really feel confidentuntil I started working out and
I did the cover of Playboy, butnaked.
So, yeah, oh, how was that?
I seen it.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
You seen it?

Speaker 2 (15:55):
I seen it.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
I haven't.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Because my wife watches the show.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
I haven't.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
It was my pleasure.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Indeed.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
Well, it was actually , it was like a dream come true
Because, like I said, I alwayslooked up to those, the
beautiful women, and I just lovebeauty.
Like I said, I always looked upto the beautiful women and I
just love beauty, I love beauty,I look up to it and I was
turning into one of those girlsand I just felt the most
confident.
I took, like I think, threemonths of my life and I really

(16:24):
did weights and everything elseand I ate a lot of protein and I
felt really good about myself.
So I was walking around.
There was probably a crew oflike 15 people.
It was in a mansion in malibu.
Like the ocean, like itcouldn't be a better setting for
me.
I'm like I love water and likeI was just running around naked,
like no problem more dms beingsent right now yeah, they had

(16:50):
champagne.
They're like, if you need somechampagne to loosen up, I was
like, no, I'm good, I'm good, Ijust was fine with it.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah I mean, you've done a lot of bikini shoots and
stuff like that, so it was verysimilar to that.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Just uh, you know no bikini yeah, yeah, I felt good
and, um, yeah, I think to get tothe confidence level, like you
said, is really important.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, I definitely work out so I can look good
naked.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
It's definitely one of the things, it's definitely
one of my goals in working out.
It is yeah, to look good naked.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Thank you.
Thankfully, I have not beenpart of that conversation.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
You know I look good naked we can imagine.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
I will pretend.
I will pretend, jeez, you throwme off with the whole naked
thing, I have another questionand it's just gone.
I've got J-Rock in my head justwalking past me in the buff.
Yeah, it's not anything that Iwant to have rolling on my head
right now.
But going back to a lot ofpress and all the social media
and stuff like that, listen,you've got a lot of love and all
the social media and stuff likethat, listen you, you've got a
lot of love and social media waslike growing, becoming a thing,

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while this was the beginning ofInstagram, I believe.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
So that's when everything, and the more popular
you get, the more people arewatching you and the more people
are talking about you.
And, and you know, sometimes asa woman, you see all these nice
things, but you only focus onthe bad.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
That's what I was getting at.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
The bad can only be like one or two things, and I
remember looking up the forumsand really getting in my head
and not feeling good aboutmyself and doing stupid shit to
my body because of it.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, oh, it's hard to deal with all.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Plastic surgery.
That was unnecessary and um,that I regret, but made me who I
am now and I'm healthy andhappy, and you know.
Back to the gym and yeah,taking care of myself.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Isn't it crazy?
Because obviously, me doing myworld too.
You've got the fans that arealways going to be behind you,
no matter what.
They're always there in support.
Even if you have an issue,they're there in support yeah
injuries, whatever else.
But then you have the guys manyguys, that will always a lot of
guys will just attack for noreason and yeah being a girl
that's in the spotlight in abikini, as as that's your living

(19:05):
and that's your profession.
It's got to be hard for you toread these things at a very
young age as well, and at thattime I'm sure looking at the
timeline where we've spoke abouttrying to find that inner
confidence and you're battlingwhat you're reading, and then
you're looking at the mirror.
It's like man, I'm, I'm tryingmy best here yeah um, how
difficult were them times to gothrough, and and was that, you

(19:26):
know, a hard period of your lifeit was.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
It was good and bad.
I think I masked a lot of itwith the partying and, um, I was
very much in my ego.
So the good things that weresaid were like I'm the shit what
those people you know I would.
I remember getting drunk andjust like talking shit back to
them and it was very unnecessary.
But, um, it's always necessary.
But yeah, I've done a lot oflike mental health work since

(19:53):
then.
So I feel like even if peopleare going to say things like
that to me now, it doesn'taffect me.
You know, I'm a woman, I'mconfident, I'm happy with myself
.
I know I'm not perfect, but I'mproud of myself.
You know, like I'm a mom, Imight have loose skin here and
there, but like I'm me and likeI'm just happy with who I am.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
I love that you know, and you said something
interesting also that you know,I mean you were feeling insecure
, right?
I think you're a very beautifulwoman, always have been lovely
personality as well, and so likethere's a lot of people out
there who are also feeling thesethings.
Well, and so like there's a lotof people out there who are
also feeling these things, andfor somebody like yourself, who
is a frickin model, to befeeling those type things, it's.

(20:34):
It's it also shows, like whatsocial media is doing to people
and making them feel like andcomparing and comparison and all
these type things, and I thinkthere's a lot of young women who
feel a lot like that.
And I think there's somethingto be said about yourself.
Again, you're very beautiful, soyou know, even you have these
feelings.
You know, and we're all humanand we all have these type

(20:56):
feelings.
And I feel like sometimesbecause when they see people in
media and they see these typethings, they forget that these
are humans that have feelingsand, you know, are going through
certain things.
So there's definitely in ourculture, like you're seeing
people just look past the realhuman, um.
So I'm glad that you found thatfor yourself.
I think we all have to kind oflook within and be happy in our,

(21:19):
in ourselves, and after we findthat it doesn't matter what
anybody else says, you know it'slike, yeah, I don't listen to
any criticism at this pointanymore, because I know who I am
.
I love myself.
It took me a long time to lovemyself, but now that I'm here
it's like the criticism doesn'tmatter.
But as we're younger, gettingthose things.
I was definitely same emo, likefeeling different things about

(21:43):
that but the journey is thejourney and we have to go
through those things to becomethe people that we are now.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Mental health.
You mentioned Mental health.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Shout out to my therapist, yeah, shout out.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
You know you gotta put shout out to the therapist.
I missed that.
It bounced off the wall a fewtimes and, by the way, just for
the fans to know, this Arianesaid Flex please speak in the
best English possible.
I might have to ask you a fewtimes to repeat yourself.
So with me being deaf right nowand with the accent, I don't
know how loud I'm speaking orhow You're doing.

(22:19):
Great, yeah, it's not bad.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Just right.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
This is my best English accent.
Going back to mental health,you're a person that's a big
advocate for mental health.
're a person that's a bigadvocate for mental health.
Can you share any of the dailypractices, routines, that you do
to to keep you kind ofsteadfast in this new version of
yourself?

Speaker 1 (22:41):
okay.
So, speaking of new version ofmyself, I was going through a
rough time the last like year ortwo, and I've never been a
religious person.
But I was like you know what?
I've done it all.
I've done hypnotherapy,ayahuasca, regular therapy, emdr
.
I've done it all and it'shelped.
But I've never gone to churchand I've never been a church

(23:04):
person because I was raisedCatholic and I always felt weird
in the Catholic church.
So I decided to go to aChristian church and I felt so
amazing after and they usedmodern things that are happening
in the world with Bible versesand yes, music and they just

(23:26):
taught me that it's okay to notbe okay and I just fell in love
with the church and now I'mgoing every Sunday if I'm home,
so that's one thing I do.
I downloaded the Bible app and Iread a verse every morning.
There's also plans on there, soif you like to read, if you're
going through something I did alot of healing and forgiveness

(23:48):
plans, so you read every morningfor five minutes.
But I also have, like, mymeditation apps.
So I use the Chopper app andthat has anywhere from five
minutes to 20 minute meditationsand they're guided.
I'm not, like, the greatestmeditation person because I like
my mind wanders and I'm like,ok, I should be doing this, this

(24:10):
, this, this, so the guidedmeditation, and then again you
always take something good withit with you throughout the day
and I feel like those five, 10minutes of my day every morning
I focus on myself.
It just completely changes theapp.
The day, the week, the day,everything, um.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
I love it.
Yeah, I do some, I do similarand I'd like guided meditations
as well.
So it just kind of like I canjust focus on that voice and
kind of go through.
But taking control of yourmorning is so important, you
know.
And like not going right tosocial media, not going right
into stressful you know newsstories, cause that's all we get
right now is all thisnegativity.
Like I try to do exactly thesame thing no phone, at least

(24:55):
the first 30 minutes, and gointo you know.
Uh, I have a couple of dailybooks that I do and I read.
I read some of those passagesbut it's really important and I
love to hear that.
And also that with God isreally important and you know,
finding that I was also Catholic.

(25:16):
I was an altar boy right.
And I started going to a couplechurches here, and I'm not sure
which one.
Is it City of Light or Central.
Central Okay.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
And I thought the same thing I've heard of City of
Lights.
It's good things yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
And it was just a lot .
I tried to make him come withme actually we'll get you to
come.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
I try to get you to come it's just, I'm a dad of two
, and saturday and sunday is myyeah, I call it family day, but
that's his church.
I I have been, and you knowthis.
I've asked a few of my friendswho are involved with church.
I was like guys, can you get anearly service?
Because, when I lived intennessee, you had services that
were kicking off for like 7 amoh, wow 6 30 for early birds.

(25:55):
They were doing like fourservices a day and they were
packed.
Everyone was packed and I fellin love with church in Tennessee
.
It was a completely differentversion that I grew up to,
because I grew up with a wholestand up sit down wood seats on
your knees, up down, praying onyour knees.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, I was also a little bit of a singer back in
the day.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
Oh really.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah, before the old nutsack dropped.
You know I went from oh okay,this guy's gone.
Next, Rinse and repeat, rinseand repeat, but that's a story
for another time.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
But yeah, it was.
He's a man of many talents.
Talks to birds too.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Oh wow, can they talk back?

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Stop, we're not taking this podcast in that
direction.
But yes, I talk to birds, don'tlisten to this guy.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Okay, no, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
But I had a massive kind of pouring into my heart
when I was there, because I wasaround a lot of people that were
just so abundant with theirfaith, and I was the guy who was
like I'm so new to this, I havemy own.
It's guided me to everythingI've done, but being around
these incredible people thatjust had such energy to them and

(27:10):
were just openly talking abouttheir faith.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
I wasn't around that when I lived in LA and when I
was living in Reno.
When I moved to Tennessee.
It was just a whole differentworld.
At the time I was dating a girlwhose dad was a youth pastor,
great guy.
Unfortunately he passed away,but he was a great guy.
At that point in time thatpoured into me as well and I
learned a lot.
I've traveled around the UnitedStates.

(27:34):
You know a lot I've learned.
I've traveled around the UnitedStates, you know, moved, shall
I say, around the United Statesand every state that I've been
to I've learned something new.
You know that I've taken withme and carried on in my life.
But Tennessee to me wasprobably my most religious
experience because I would walkinto church and it was just like
no matter if the band wasplaying or if just people were

(27:54):
congregating, it was just thisenergy I don't know how to
explain.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah, do you know what I mean?
Feel good energy.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
Yeah, it's definitely feel good because I went to
catholic church.
Right same thing, really strict, really.
You know um and when I went tothis church and they're like
rocking, right when I came ineverybody's clapping and dancing
.
It's just a.
I wish it was like that for meas a kid and I could have
experienced church in that kindof way.
Because it was so that for meas a kid and I could have
experienced church in that kindof way because it was so strict
for me as a kid and if I messedaround my dad was grabbing my

(28:21):
ear and twisting it really hardlike calm down if it wasn't rock
and roll, that's for sure youcoughed in my church.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
I bring Raiden and he just sits there looking at the
band.
He does pretty well, and thisis your son.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Let's set the floor to the biggest achievement of
your life.
Great name Amazing how old isRaiden he's going to be four in
a month.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
He's the best thing ever.
I've always wanted to be a mom,so this is like you said.
It's the biggest dream of mineand I love it.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
You talk a lot about your son, which is amazing.
You've traveled with him.
Yeah, I know that.
Anyways, I don't want to go allover the place.
I don't know how much you wantto talk about your child or not,
but it's great to see for melooking from the outside in,
because obviously I've seen youfrom one perspective.
You have known each other fortwo decades, I guess.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
But to see the evolution of yourself, to go
from the ring card girl that weall knew to go into to be, you
know, the entrepreneur mom.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
It's an incredible transformation and to be the
pioneer of that.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, do you still?

Speaker 2 (29:34):
feel the pressure.
I do feel of pressure, but it'sa different pioneer of that.
Yeah, do you still feel apressure?

Speaker 1 (29:38):
I do feel a pressure, but it's a different kind of
pressure.
It's a pressure to be like agood mom and be there and be
present, like I've lived thisfast life for so long, so I
think for me to slow down andactually be present and be the
best mom possible, that was atransition in its own.
And like going from going fromlike the hot chick to hot mama,

(29:59):
like I'm like am I still cute?
I'm like I am cute, like chillout, like you don't have to be
like in a bikini, you know, withyour ass hanging out all the
time to like be hot.
So it's, it's a you hear thattyus it's a transition boy, do I
?

Speaker 2 (30:15):
are you on the mic?
The mic's hot, I think themic's hot.
Yeah, there we go.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
This is the voice of a Tyus was actually wondering if
you had brought bikinis withyou and I was like bro, calm
down, tyus, I have like athousand bikinis you should have
let me know.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
You know, hey, so I'm hearing you talk about Feeling
insecure and everything, as likethe person that's on the cover
of magazines.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
And I'm so hideous they won't put a camera on me in
this room and I'm like so howare we supposed to compete?

Speaker 4 (30:42):
If you're feeling insecure, how's the average
person supposed to feel securewith themselves?
But you said you've gotten tothat point in your life.
What have you done to get there?

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Oh, I've done a lot of work Mental health, therapy.
I've working out, reallylearning what works for my body.
Um, I have a life coach, I havea therapist.
You know I've, I've done a lotof work, um, on myself, and it's
not just on the outside.
I realized after working somuch at a young age on my body

(31:13):
that you know, I need to work onmy my mind as well.
Everything goes together and ifI don't feel good in my mind, I
can be the rock hardest body inthe world and still feel bad
about myself.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
So you listed a lot of good things there.
Did any particular one have abigger effect than the others?

Speaker 1 (31:34):
I would say two of them stand out.
I think I did ayahuasca in 2019because I was living a fast
life, I was partying a lot, Iwas dabbling in drugs and I
dabbled a lot and I liked it andI little dabble do you little
dabbles and I liked it Littledabble do you Little dabbles.

(32:05):
And I realized that if, becauseI always wanted to be a mom, if
I wanted to be a mom, I neededto take care of my body and not
abuse it.
And I did ayahuasca, and itinstantly made me not want to do
drugs.
Wow yeah, so I stopped doingdrugs.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
So you went to Mexico .
What was that?
Did you go to Mexico to do that?
I did it actually in LA twicein a row and did you feel when
you came, you know, out of thatexperience, like something had
changed, or was it progressivewhole time?

Speaker 1 (32:28):
No, it was probably instantly.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Damn.
Yeah, like you just didn't wantto party anymore.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
It's not that I don't party, I have fun.
I drink here and there and likeI still enjoy cocktails, I
still enjoy wine, but I don'thave this desire to do that all
the time.
I don't have the energy noweither, but back then, like.
I just you know I like to partyand I just knew that if I wanted

(32:57):
to be a healthy mom I needed tochange that.
And I didn't.
I wasn't even pregnant yet, soI was.
I was just thinking ahead likeI want to be healthy and I don't
like how I feel when I do thesedrugs and I yeah, it helped me
a lot what's it any good change?
It's time for a change what'sit?

Speaker 2 (33:13):
an ego death?

Speaker 1 (33:14):
there was an ego death I.
I gave birth to myself.
I re rebirthed in my myceremony.
I became a new person and moreaware and more acceptance of who
I am and just more appreciationof who I am and my body.
and, if you think about it,you're putting all this crap
into your body like we don'teven not eat organic and I'm

(33:36):
over here doing this kind ofstuff.
No, it's not good.
And then another thing thatreally helped me is EMDR.
It's a certain type of therapyfor trauma and, yeah, basically
just takes you back to thetraumatic experience and you
have to relive it and you haveit's.
It's almost like a hypnoticstate that you're in and you

(33:57):
face that, that trauma and thatinstant, and you learn how to
get through it so that whenother things happen in your life
, it doesn't trigger thosethings are you okay?

Speaker 3 (34:06):
that's kind of why I don't want to do it, because I
don't want to you got it bro,yeah, trust me, I've.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
So you're talking about the trauma.
Is that something you you canspeak about?

Speaker 1 (34:15):
you don't have to give us the details um, it's
been certain instances withdifferent people, but mostly one
person, um, just very verballyabusive, a little bit physically
, but mostly verbally mentallyabusive, uh, relationship that I
was in and having to likereally forgive him and also

(34:36):
forgive myself for lettingmyself be in that situation.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Was that something you were aware of?

Speaker 1 (34:41):
I was fully aware, but it was almost like a drug,
like you let go of this drug andthen you get another drug and
you have this person.
That's like I'm going to change.
I'm going to change and like Ihave a big heart, so I would
forgive and forget and thingswould happen again and it just
became worse and worse cycle.
Yeah, so it's almost like youhave to like cold turkey like.

(35:02):
All right, blocked, delete.
You're out of my life, I can'ttalk to you yeah, you can't be
friends.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
You can't.
Can't be meeting up like youliterally need a complete
separation.
Don't see each other yeah for aperiod, a long period of time,
and then, maybe after that,possibly, you could be friends,
but sometimes not.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah, sometimes not, but did you?

Speaker 2 (35:21):
know that this was causing that suppression.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
What do you mean?

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Well, when you had done, what was the name of the
treatment you'd?

Speaker 1 (35:29):
done EMDR.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah, when you went into that.
Was that something you wereaware of before you went in or
was that something youdiscovered during that treatment
?

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Yeah, I, when you went into that.
Was that something you wereaware of before you went in or
was that something youdiscovered during that treatment
?
Yeah, I knew that I had stuffthat I needed to face, but I
didn't know what it was.
So each time I would go in, Iwould.
It would bring up things that Ididn't even think about, like
when I was like growing up,things that happened to me, um,
and weird feelings that I hadwith men.
But yeah, it was just each timeI went in and this guy's
incredible that I work with, hewould just pull me in and then

(36:02):
pull me out and then I was in astate of just peace instead of
just holding on to that.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
The EMDR.
That's not the ketamine therapy.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
Oh, I've done that too, but I know you have done
that.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
That's why I was going to.
I was like, is that the samething?
But I know you do the ketaminetherapy.
I wanted to go do it with you.
Actually, that's one I wouldtry Um just jump in a little
less Well, it seems a littleless harsh than ayahuasca.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Plus, I don't want to poop my pants.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
You won't poop your pants.
Might piss my pants throw up.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
I don't like any of those coming from the, from the
former wait.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
That's not true well, that's exactly why you should
do ayahuasca yes but, I want totry ketamine first because I
feel like that would be a littleeasier of a transition, because
I've heard a lot of I've had alot of positive stories about
ayahuasca and a lot of peoplefacing their fears, their
traumas, you know, and kind ofgoing over those.

(37:02):
But then I've also had peoplewhere they're changed in a
different kind of a way.
Um, you know, jason Strauss isalways like I don't want you
doing ayahuasca, like don't doit because he's had, he's seen
people where they lost theirambition in certain things and
stuff like that.
Obviously, I think everybody'sdifferent, but for me, I guess
I'm not ready for the You're notready for it.

(37:24):
Well, I had a little side story,but I've also done enough deep
diving that I feel like I'vefaced all my stuff that I need
to, absolutely.
You haven't.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Most of it and I'll tell you I'll tell you why
because it's the stuff thatyou're unaware of.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Yeah, but that's the thing is like don't just not to
be talking about myself, butwhen my dad died and like, all
these things have happened to meand I, like, I learned that I'm
filipino, I learned that I hadtwo other brothers, I learned,
like, right, like I had thiswhole self-learning journey
about who I am and all thesethings, and so it has definitely
, like you know me, bro, I'vesoul-searched from hell back.

(38:03):
So not to get too deep into it,this is the part.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
But I went and had an experience.
It wasn't Ayahuasca.
I went to Mexico and I was in asituation where I had to have
that ego death and I had to.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
Was this the penis reduction surgery?
It was.
It was in the way of mypost-tron San Pedro, or
something.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
I love how he just took a beautiful conversation
and talked about my pee-pee.
But no, welcome to our show.
Right?
I ended up connecting withshout out to Sean Ryan.
I've not really talked aboutthis.
Sean Ryan has a big show calledVigilance Elite.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
Just had Trump Vigilance Elite.
Just had Trump Fantasticinterview.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yeah, and he hit me up and he knew I was kind of
struggling because that was myidentity.
So everything you're saying Itotally understand.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
So what I mean?
You have your identity, that'syou for so long and you're like
what am I now?

Speaker 2 (38:57):
And you also have the temptations of like going back
and staying in the grind.
So for me, I was undefeated inmy weight class.
I was going to go up to anotherweight class and we found out.
My son was on the way at thetime and I was like I spent so
much time on the road, just likeyou as the champ every weekend,
flying all over the world yeah,that I wanted to be present, I

(39:20):
wanted to be see the first.
You know, walk first talk andthankfully I never missed out
with my daughter but, uh, I hadto kill that guy because I'm
around so many people thatwanted me, especially the fans
that wanted me to get back upthere and cheer for me in
another weight division, and Isaid to myself I just have to do
whatever I got to do and Itried everything that I could
handle.

(39:40):
You know that I was aware of totry and work, meditation,
self-talk, but I'm an athlete,I'm a competitor and I'm
searching for that next highestclimb.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
And it was always reverting me back to the
bodybuilding world Did you alsohave, maybe not a life coach,
but somebody in your head reallykind of mentally prepping you
even for the shows and keepingyou on track?
Because I've seen this,especially now with fighters too
right, it's like when you're inthe back there's a lot of
nerves and there's all thesethings right.
So having someone coaching youmentally, I feel like, is an

(40:14):
advantage and I don't know ifthat's something you had when
you were when you're winning allyour championships yeah, my
coach has been with me for 20years, so he knows me inside out
.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
He knows when I'm pretending to be okay and when
I'm, you know yeah, not, okay,no, they.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
I think it has to be like that.
Yeah, because they need to beable to pull something out of
you if they need to Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
And even my coach was like saying to me at the time
he's like if your heart is notin it, you know we're not doing
it.
So, when we both agreed on that.
I had to find some additionalhelp and, speaking to somebody,
I'm very weird about that.
So Sean Ryan told me about thisplace and I had a private house
Went this place and I had aprivate house, went to.

(40:54):
Mexico at the Ibogaine and Iwas like the male version of
ayahuasca what do you mean?
The?

Speaker 3 (41:01):
male version of ayahuasca.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
You're saying there's two different versions yeah,
ayahuasca is the female version,ibogaine is the male version.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
I never knew that it was horrible.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
I never knew that.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
I thought it was all.
You're just taking ayahuasca.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
So you're saying it was a female or male version?

Speaker 3 (41:17):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
To be honest, ignorance is bliss.
I went into this not knowingmuch at all.
I relied on Sean Roy and when Igot there, obviously they're
going to give you the overly Alot, but I was purging more than
anything else and I think somecoming out, but they were like
it's good to purge no Good topurge, it was air and they were
like this is all your anxietycoming out.

(41:39):
This is all your, and I was likein the time, you have a great
day after it.
I don't know if this is similarto Ayahuasca, but there's a
great day where they give you abreak nothing violent, because
everything's overly sensitive.
Yeah, like even watchingspongebob, it's like oh, why did
fucking, why did he do that tospongebob?
so you gotta find some channelsyeah, so and then that gray day

(42:00):
is when you're kind of, like youknow, having second thoughts.
It's like this didn't help atall.
But what it did help me withwas when I got off the show,
when I got sorry back into us,they told me that your life is
going to change by 5%.
So over gradual time it'scompounded.
And it definitely helpedbecause the first thing that I
felt was the unnecessary need toget back up and improve myself,

(42:24):
because I've already done whatI needed to do.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
Acceptance of yourself.
So I hear your story and that'sthe next chapters.
Yeah, it's always hard to dothe next chapter, especially
when you're used to somethingfor so long.
You know.
Yeah, and that was a big thingfor me is like okay, I'm not the
ring girl anymore.
What am I?
Oh, my mom, it's okay, like youcan slow down, you're in your
best chapter now.

(42:46):
Yeah, it's okay to just I don'tknow.
I had a hard time chilling fora while and uh, I went back to
work three months after I hadread and and I'm like, I look
back and I'm like I wish Iwould've given myself a little
bit more time.
I just put so much pressure onmyself.
I was like, okay, six weeksgoing straight back to working
out and in a couple months I'mgoing to text Dana and be like

(43:08):
I'm ready to go put me in coach.
So that's what I did.
But those time, those that timeyou don't get back from your
little baby, you know, and nowhe's so big.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
So, yeah, I wish I would have slowed down back then
, but I get it now.
It's working at the right timebecause, being four years old,
this is like the time that he'sjust absorbing everything, right
.
I think, it's like what is it?
Four till 11 or four till 12.
Like that's the most um yourchild absorbs.
You know things about you.
They're learning, they'relearning and they're molding
their brains during that point.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
So you're right in the right zone.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Yeah, well, the evolution.
You know You've gone into manydifferent things real estate.
Can you tell us what you'reinto now that you've evolved
from Ringo?

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Yeah.
So right now I'm into investing.
I do have a couple properties,one in LA, one in Mexico and a
few here in Vegas and I lovethat because I feel like it's
just like a safe bet and I'mmore of like a safe bet girl
kind of right now, so kind ofsetting up Raiden's future and
if I were to have any more kids,like their future and my week

(44:20):
is just basically working outtaking care of myself and I
shoot content I have OF.
You know, hit me up there.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
What is your OF.
You can follow me here, my.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
OF is.
It's all my sexy stuff.
So, basically, fhm, maximPlayboy had a baby and I had an
OF.
I actually had a fan page thatwas like an app for a while
before OF was OF and it's thesame thing.
It's basically like anInstagram feed where I'm talking

(44:53):
, I'm able to connect with myfans, but it's more of sexy
stuff and I show more there.
I'm not fully nude, just FYI,but yeah, it's more sexy stuff.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
She's nude and I get to talk about more like sexual
things.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
if I want to talk about sexual things, you give
out free subscriptions tofriends.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
You can't even talk.
If I want to talk about sexualthings, you give out free
subscriptions to friends.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
He's like what is the name of the?

Speaker 3 (45:20):
wife again.
Yeah, lex has flex, is comingwith an OF2, so we're gonna
we're getting we're getting thatone primed up for his feet.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
I've had so many people on that fucking hands and
knees, taking photos of mycalves Wow.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
Really.
Yeah, I mean, I get that, I'veseen the pictures.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Yeah, I've got decent calves.

Speaker 3 (45:40):
I have good calves too.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
I know what you do, but the feet thing.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
I don't understand the feet thing, but they love my
feet.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
It's a big thing they love.
You have, as we mentionedearlier, a great fan base, but
let's talk about some of theweird incidents.
Being as you, the celebrity andeverything else, they've got to
have had some weirdinteractions and tell us some of
these stories.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
Huh, I do.
This is really creepy Like thisman.
He fully wrote like a book.
It wasn't that thick but it waspretty thick and it was a
handwritten book to me and Iknew who he was because as soon
as I looked at the book and Isaw the name, I realized he had
been emailing me.

(46:21):
And the emails were like wewere in a relationship and I'm
like, ah well, and as soon as Isaw him, I like I remember it
was at a signing for ufc and Ilooked at the security guards.
I'm like get him out.
It was kind of creepy, it was,it was scary.
But signing for UFC, and Ilooked at the security guards.
I'm like get him out.
It was kind of creepy, it wasscary.
But for the most part the fansare really sweet.
I've had a couple marriageproposals.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
I bet you have.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Which is nice and yeah, they're very sweet for the
most part.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
That's such a PG answer.
I know there's more in the tank.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
The worst I've ever got is like a guy that like
wants to like take a picture andhe like tries to get sassy and
I'm like don't touch me likethat.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
So that's about it.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
I get them.
Guys, too, I can handle.
I feel like you've had to havehad a lot of stalkers.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
Yes, Totally, whether you wear them or not.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Yeah yeah, there's gotta been a few perks, luckily.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
Dana, lets me use his security there we go, or his
like you know, if anything, if Ifeel uncomfortable, he like
does a background check andstuff, because I've had a couple
of those where, like, they keepemailing you and you're like
this is getting a little weird.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
Yeah, and you wanting to be nice, maybe you responded
once like oh no thank you, youknow, and no thank you.
And then they just neverstopped Ever.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Yeah.
That's how we met Fuckingrelentless, trying to message me
.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
I was like, okay, I'll be a friend, One of those
big arms dude.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
So we're going a little bit on the fight side of
things.
You've been to the greatestfights of all time.
Let's be honest.
You've seen them all.
You've been part of it.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Which are kind of the fights that stand out for you.
It's always the Nate Diazfights, because I just feel like
he just puts his heart and souland he's just like fuck it, I'm
going all in and that's how youwant to see a fight.
The ones that are verycalculated and thought out.
Like I get it, you guys areathletes and you're doing your
thing, but the ones wherethey're brawling, those are the

(48:17):
ones you want to see, and I feellike he always puts on a show.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
So you would say he's your favorite fighter.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
He's my favorite fighter, yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
How hard is it for you to watch somebody that you
become friends with?
We asked this to Megan with.
We asked this to megan.
Yeah, um, how hard is it foryou to watch, as, as you know,
you being in your job, your role, and see a friend, yeah that
sucks, especially when you getto know them or they, like, have
family and kids, and then thekids are sitting there.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
You're like, oh man, no, no, you know it's hard, but
they always, they always reboundfor it from.
They're athletes, so they know,and luckily we've never had a
serious problem.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Well, the other thing that you and I have in common
is the fact that we have viralmemes and GIFs that go around
the internet oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
I've seen some of them.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
Oh boy, the one that always stands out to me is the
Alistair Wolverine.
Oh yeah, was that real.
Was that real, was that real?
Yeah, there we go, look.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
I mean, it was real, that's not even her in the
background.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
I know what that photo is, but she should be
there somewhere.
I know we got a clip of herwith the mouth open, or whatever
.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
Well, I'm Latina, so I'm very dramatic.
I'm Latina, so I'm verydramatic.
And like everyone was talkingabout him and how he was so
large and in charge, so I wasjust being very dramatic.
Yeah, but he's not my type.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
My one is of a girl biting her lip.
Oh, there we go.
I don't know if you've everseen that.
That's me back in the day.
Oh cool, that's a viral meme.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
It keeps on keeping going.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Yeah, and it's.
It's where the hand prison isthe old lip bite.
Yeah, but that's all a funnyone.
But going back to the Alistairthing, you know, once you had
that kind of viral moment, areyou now aware of?
The cameras are going to lookat you every time.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
Yeah, now you're aware You're like, okay, don't
smile too hard, don't look Idon't want people to think
you're in love with them.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
Do you mess with the cameras, though you know they're
watching, so you kind of messwith them a little bit too.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
No not really.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
No, sorry, I just do my job, j-rock.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
J-rock had a lot of follow-up questions.
Now you just squash them, sorry.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
No, I don't really.
I just do my little thing withBruce Buffer.
We have our little handshakeand stuff.
But, nothing too crazy.
Apparently I'm in love withBruce Buffer too.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
I'm his girlfriend.
Is that?

Speaker 3 (50:40):
a rumor.
Yeah, it's a legit rumor.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Well, we all love Buff, let's be honest.
He's incredible.
But in kind of London there's aplan.
What are we at there, tyus?

Speaker 4 (50:51):
52 minutes.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
Look at us, weus 52 minutes.
Ah, look at us, we're gettingso professional.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
We are, we are professional.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
We're landing this plane.
We're talking about yourjourney in fitness and I've seen
, in doing my research, I'veseen a podcast you were talking
about you hadn't ate steak.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
I hadn't ate steak, yeah on the podcast, you podcast
.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
You said, oh, I just ate steak for the first time in
several months and I was blownaway by this.
You follow certain I know youguys are talking off camera but
certain diets that you followthroughout the years.
I'd love to speak to you aboutthat obviously being in the
limelight.
You know being body consciousand everything else.
Was there a diet that you werefollowing back then Because

(51:31):
obviously you had a big fitnesspodcast?

Speaker 1 (51:33):
Yeah, I've never had a diet, but I do try to just eat
clean eggs, turkey, all that.
I actually have never had asteak in my life.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
What Really?
So it wasn't you had a steak?
Hold on, I haven't Hold on.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
I've had a bite of a steak, but I've never, I've
never.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
I've seen you at Barry's.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
Yeah, I always have fish, and vegetables and a
starch.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
Is that because you don't so?

Speaker 1 (52:00):
Okay, so I was raised .

Speaker 3 (52:03):
What took you to not?

Speaker 1 (52:04):
I was raised on carne asada.

Speaker 4 (52:07):
I was raised on carne asada tacos.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
On carne asada tacos and for some reason I think it
might be my blood type I justI'm grossed out by most meat, so
if it, if I do eat meat, it hasto be like meatballs or ground
beef, so it's more of like atexture thing for me.
I think I've definitely atemore meat this year.
Um, I, I like how I feel betterwhen I eat meat, but I just
never had a steak.
Wow, and if I had a steak, I'dbe like I need it.

(52:34):
Well done, and I feel likeeveryone looks at me weird if I
say well done, because you'renot supposed to eat it like that
, but I can't see, like I can'tsee blood and stuff in my food.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
You know Barry's is going to now be all over this
podcast.
All the guys train you, sothey'll be like hmm, I love
berries.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
Oh, who does this?
Lobster mack the fish there.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
Incredible.
Tater tots, oh, my God.
Anyway, back to the job, backto the job, but how has your
fitness routines now changed,now that you're a mom and
balancing the new lifestyle?
A mom, a mom.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Mom.
So yeah, before Raiden I wasdoing hot classes, hot yoga, hot
Pilates, boot camps, a lot ofhigh intensity training type
stuff, the fast paced stuff withlow weights.
And this year I came to loveweight training and I've
definitely seen it change mybody so it becomes like an

(53:29):
addiction in itself.
You're like, oh, I want to goto the gym, so I love it and I
do one or two different bodyparts a week and then I throw in
yoga if I'm sore, or a hotclass.
I do F45 sometimes too.

Speaker 3 (53:43):
I like those classes.
I like F45.
They're fun.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
They're just you know .
Go and get it done.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
You're lifting weights, though I mean.
I don't know if you've done F45, but they're real sessions and
you're actually doing real liftsand they make it pretty easy
for you.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
You just got to be careful with your form and stuff
because you're going likepretty fast in those classes,
but the weight training is whereit's at.
You know I'm getting older.
You got to build muscle or elseit just all goes downhill.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
It really does After you're 40, I I think they say
you lose 10% or 5% of yourmuscle every year after that, or
something like that.
But I definitely think thatthat's a great point.
You know, for all the ladiesout there, like you need weight
training, you need weightlifting, you need to be doing
strength training a couple daysa week.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
It's the most beneficial for you.
I mean Flex.
You know a little bit aboutthis.
A little bit, a littlesomething A little bit, but I
think that a lot of womenapproach fitness sometimes
differently, but strengthtraining is definitely a core
part of what you need to bedoing.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
Yeah, and it takes a lot of weight for you to
actually become.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
Jacked, jacked, yeah, it does.
Misconception, yeah, especially10 years.
I hate when people say that.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (54:49):
You probably, I mean you get it all the time I will.

Speaker 3 (54:54):
But where people are like you know, like ah, you know
, I don't want to get all jackedand I'm like, don't worry, you
never will you never will.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
You have to eat so much.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
I think Arnold said it and he was like don't worry,
you never will.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
He's talking to a guy though my gosh, but with the
weight trainers side of thingsnow, and obviously this is new,
new part of your life.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Well, it's a part of your life, yeah would you say
that you wish you knew this inthe past to incorporate weights
more?
Would you?
Would you would you say that Ithink I did know this?
So I was a gym girly at firstand I would do my own routine
and that was like my thing for awhile, especially my younger
years, and then I just kind ofgot bored and I started doing
all the the fast-paced likekickboxing and stuff like that,
and it was easy and itmaintained like my weight and

(55:43):
like I was thin and fit.
So it was good for a while.
Um, but then, after having akid and stuff, I'm like okay, I
need to like step it up a littleand figure out my body now at
this age and this weight andyeah, it works better for me now
she trained.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
Well, I can't say the gym she trains in, because I
don't want people fuckingsweating out, but she trains in
a gym in Las Vegas, which is agreat gym and I'll be back here
a couple times.
But can you imagine she's goingto be jacked if you came here?

Speaker 1 (56:13):
I want to be jacked.
I want to see significantdifference in my body.
You look fantastic.
I just want to selfishly getyou here.
I'll be here, for sure.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
And it was the first time for you to see the gym
today.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
Yeah, it's beautiful.
You should come work out withus.
I will Leg day oh.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
I like that.
I've actually never done a legday with flex oh really it's a
little scary, it looks yeah it'sa little scary.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
You should see him in there.
He's a different guy.
Yeah, when I go into the gymhe's a different guy in there.
He's yeah, but that's theswitch, that's it'd be like
walking into somebody whenthey're working.
It'd be like me coming up toyou as you're going to have a,
you know, just about a walk out,uh, or just your ufc mindset is
on and I'm gonna have aconversation with you.

(56:56):
When I was training for the mrolympia, I set up a gym this
size yeah, just for myself inboca raton that was my
investment into myself for me towin, to defend and it sounds
like me gloating, but honestly Ihad to do it for me to win and
defend because when I wastraining in public gyms I was
flex yeah, people are messingwith you.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Yeah, in and out, want a picture so you're like on
stage yeah

Speaker 2 (57:21):
yeah and it's hard when you're a champion or you're
trying to chase something to tohave a mindset walking into the
gym and remain that guy.
Like some people can, theycould be a dick.
That was me.
My fans were everything, so Iwould stop everything talk and
then I'm like, okay, where was I?

Speaker 1 (57:36):
Okay, good, yeah, and then you feel bad.
I can't do that either.
So I just put my hat on and goto the gym.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
Keep the earphones in .

Speaker 1 (57:45):
Yeah, sorry, I'm busy .
I actually live in my house.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
So I'm very recognizable Today.
I done my hair because of you.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
Oh, nice Thank you for that.

Speaker 3 (57:52):
You get stopped a lot at the gym Like guys are
hitting on you?

Speaker 1 (57:56):
Not really, actually.
I don't know if they.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
I feel like they think they're not supposed to
say hi to me.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
Yeah, probably scared of you a little bit too.
Maybe it's the bodyguards thatfollow you around, yeah.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
Well.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
JayrockRock.
Is there anything you want toadd on to some old stories?
Are you good to go?

Speaker 3 (58:14):
no, no, I just want to say you know, it's obviously
it's great to see yourtransition in this new chapter.
As you said, I think youhaven't written your best stuff
yet, so it's great to see it andI'm really glad you came and
talked to us today thank youguys.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Yeah, I really appreciate you coming in and
shooting the shit to this.
There's two guys and a hotchick talking about random stuff
from ayahuasca to everythingelse and all above.

Speaker 3 (58:43):
Indeed Bodily fluids.
We got it all, oh my God, wegot it all.
We got it all.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
Shoot yeah, but without kind of not mentioning
what you've achieved.
It's truly remarkable to readthe accomplishments and do my
research.

Speaker 1 (58:57):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (58:58):
For this show You've done so much, all stemming from
your Ring Card Girls from TV towatching you on Overhauling.

Speaker 1 (59:09):
Yeah, that was fun.
Yeah, that was great.
That was a great moment in mylife.
Yeah, and you rocked that,thank you.
We need to get you back on that.
That was fun, that was great.
That was a great moment in mylife.
Yeah, and you rocked that weneed to get you back on that.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
That would be fun, by the way not to prolong this any
longer, but are you going tomove into doing more TV stuff?

Speaker 1 (59:24):
Yeah, I want to.
I'm trying to work on a conceptwith UFC right now where I'm
hosting more and it might justbe like stories or just simple
little clips, but we're workingon that right now.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
I think that'd be a great path.
Yeah, absolutely, you knowbecause you're so synonymous
with the UFC already.
It's like you know.
That's like a great step tostay involved with them and also
let your personality out more.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
You know, yeah, thank you.
But overhauling was acompletely different demographic
right, more you know, thank you, but overhauling was a
completely different demographicright.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
Oh yeah, I was going.
It was kind of like the ufc I'mlike going in not knowing
anything about ufc and then I'mgoing in not knowing anything
about cars, but I learned a lotand I had so much fun.
It was the first hosting gigthat I got that was on actual tv
and I had worked a lot for freebefore then.
I was like I gotta practice,practice.
So I did a lot of free work forUFC.
I remember like staying afterum the weigh-ins and I would be

(01:00:18):
on teleprompter doing stuff foronline and I would be there till
like midnight and be like whyam I doing this?
But now I know I was doing itbecause I needed that, I needed
that practice, I need that helpand that confidence.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
So see, that's a very interesting point where a lot
of people just see this shot tostardom and they all kind of
read how much you've made,because obviously these things
made, whether it's true or not,but it's all out there and then
a lot of people don't realizejust how much sweat equity
you've had to do, all the unseenstuff that all plays a in in to

(01:00:52):
where you've got right now.
but all these unseen hours doinglike you mentioned on the free
UFC stuff you know it, it's,it's made you become the global
star, because a lot of girlswill say, sorry, I can't, or no
problem.
But doing all this stuff andbeing a true company girl, you
know, for the UFC has made youagain not only known in the UFC

(01:01:15):
circles but far outside.
Thank, you.
I just want to say, and takethis opportunity to say, thank
you so much for all the years ofnearly two decades.

Speaker 3 (01:01:25):
Two decades, two decades, man, pretty much.
Yeah.
I mean fucking how many fights.
18 years went by fast.
I feel like yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
Crazy, yeah, when I look back to it, it has, but in
terms of accomplishments andwhat you've done, TV shows
movies front covers covers, Imean magazines, things that you
wanted to be on when you were akid.
You've ticked so many boxes and, as Jay Rock said, I'm very
excited to see the new endeavorsof what is going to be coming
out from yourself.
Yeah, and we'll see the newendeavors of what is going to be

(01:01:52):
coming out from yourself.
So, yeah, and we'll see you inhere getting buff, yes, so this
is Flex.
Rock, Ariane, Celeste.
We are out.

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