Straight Outta The Lair with Flex Lewis
7x Mr. Olympia 212 Champion Flex Lewis presents Straight Outta The Lair, the podcast that aims to bring you vital information for your life's ambitions, providing valuable insight from interviews of the many many different faces that walk through our doors at The Dragon's Lair Las Vegas and a few from the man himself.
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UFC Icon | Arianny Celeste | Straight Outta The Lair Podcast
What if we told you that a shy UNLV student transformed into a legendary UFC ring girl and global icon? This episode features an intimate chat with Arianny Celeste, who shares her awe-inspiring journey from her unexpected entry into the UFC in 2006 to an 18-year career filled with unforgettable moments. Arianny opens up about the highs and lows of her tenure, reflecting on her friendship with Brittany Palmer, her semi-retirement, and the humorous misconceptions that have followed her, all while highlighting the personal growth and professional milestones that have defined her extraordinary path.
Experience the sisterhood and stories behind the scenes as Arianny recounts her early days at the Palms and the lifelong friendships formed amidst the whirlwind of constant travel. She delves into the personal challenges of maintaining relationships while navigating fame and the empowering moments that shaped her confidence. From an unforgettable Playboy cover shoot to the dramatic tale of going from jail straight to work, this episode captures the essence of her resilience and the complexities of being in the public eye.
Journey with Arianny as she discusses the importance of self-discovery, faith, and healing therapies that have guided her transformative experiences. Discover her morning routines, the impact of supportive communities, and the profound joy of parenthood. We also touch on lighter topics like managing an OnlyFans account and unforgettable UFC fights, giving you a comprehensive look at the life and career of this remarkable woman. Join us for an episode filled with inspiration, humor, and insights into the unexpected paths life can take.
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:04:00 - UFC Ring Girls Sisterhood and Stories
00:12:08 - Navigating Fame and Confidence
00:23:36 - Journey to Self-Discovery and Faith
00:31:38 - Healing and Self-Discovery Through Therapy
00:44:27 - Behind the Scenes With UFC Stars
00:48:57 - Unveiling Fitness and Diet Regimens
00:59:26 - Expanding Opportunities With UFC
I did ayahuasca and like going from like the hot chick to hot mama. I can be the rock hardest body in the world and still feel bad about myself.
Speaker 2: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 UFC mama. Six-time World MMA Award Ring Card 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 fitness enthusiast. But more importantly, mum, the best title of all Ariane Celeste.
Speaker 3:Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2:Do you have a clap here? Oh, my God Give her a clap.
Speaker 3:Ariane, it's great to have you here, iconic. Good word, good word.
Speaker 2:She's already told me. She started it. She was the one.
Speaker 3:You're the first one I think everybody knew in the world right Like you were, like really put it on the map and obviously with the UFC growth and growing with that organization over the years, I think all of us dudes have have seen you a few times.
Speaker 1:Yes, I've been in the game for a while and I had no idea that UFC was going to change my life like that. I just literally was going to UNLV here in Vegas. I'm like I need to make some money and my agent sent me to the casting and it was just all up from there, the rest was history.
Speaker 2:The rest was history 18 years, right 18 years, you've seen the UFC truly evolve.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Obviously, you've been a massive part of it. You've got you know what they call the UFC mama, the UFC mama. Hot mama You've truly paved the way for so many girls to get into this. Obviously, you and Brittany this year are both retired. And congratulations on an incredible career.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Thank you so much I love the two of them yeah.
Speaker 1:You're definitely missed. Incredible career yeah, thank you so much. I love the two of them. Yeah, you're definitely missed.
Speaker 2:It's like peanut butter and jelly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, totally Peas and carrots, but you guys retired the same time correct Slightly Like she retired, like officially. I'm still doing events with them, yeah, so I'm not like officially retired. But yeah, I've slowed down a lot. I'm not doing the ring card, girl stuff.
Speaker 2:Got you. So she's semi-retired. Jay, right, semi, we've got to speak to somebody on Wikipedia because it said retired on there. Oh yeah, we'll get into that in case anything else.
Speaker 1:They also call me Penelope, which is not my real name. I swear.
Speaker 2:Where did that come from?
Speaker 1:on my Wikipedia as well. It's a full-on name. I love that name, though. It's a great name.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like Penelope Hernandez or something like that. I don't know what it is. I don't know.
Speaker 3:It's very exotic Anyways.
Speaker 2:So, going back to something you touched on earlier, so you were in UNLV and you got a casting for the UFC, so take us back to that and Talk about your journey through the early days of the USC.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and what year was that?
Speaker 1:I believe it was 2006. I was 21. I was as shy as could be. I just got my boobs done because I literally like I had a subscription to Maxim and FHM. I thought the girls on the covers were like the coolest thing and like the hottest. I was like one day I'm going to be just like them. So I got my boobs done and when I was 21, and then slightly after that, I had the um, the casting, which I walked into a room with Dana White and Craig Brassari, I believe that's it, and I came in with the uniform and they asked me do you know what UFC is? And I'm like not really. I had seen like a commercial or two and I was like taken back, like what is this? And that's it. I got the casting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we went wrong. We didn't get boobs I was like a baby face.
Speaker 1:I don't even know how I got the job, because I just look so young. I just remember looking so young.
Speaker 3:Baby faced, cheeks, baby faced. I remember those days. Yeah, how long have you guys known each other Long time Long time Like 20 something years. Wow, so before UFC. Yeah Well, I was hip to her before.
Speaker 2:What was hip to her before I?
Speaker 3:have no clue. I mean, I was an admirer of yours and then you know mutual friends. But yeah, we've known each other 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 long time and you know we both kind of came up in Vegas and you know it's great to see you know friends doing well and she just crushed it and got that FHM cover and got that Maxim cover and got all those covers right. So, uh, I I love seeing people manifesting their reality and and seeing that come to fruition. So, um, obviously always been a friend and and always uh, uh, liked seeing your journey as you've been going.
Speaker 1:Thank you, j Obviously, I feel the same about you.
Speaker 3:Thank you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2:Why are you stumbling with your words, like you're getting all shy?
Speaker 1:I'm seeing through your soul right now.
Speaker 2:Yes, you got all shy there for a second.
Speaker 3:Yeah well, you know she's nerve-wracking being around. It's almost like you went back to your palm days when we used to just make fun of each other.
Speaker 2:Oh, tell me these stories. I want to know about these.
Speaker 3:It's mostly her making fun of me and I take it on the chin, yeah.
Speaker 2:I need this ammunition. So you've got to tell me something. 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 Monster guys, hans.
Speaker 4:Hans, who else was there?
Speaker 2:Hans Hans Wollenkamp, and we took a picture the dingo. I tried to find that picture. Of course it's lost in cyberspace somewhere.
Speaker 1:Oh, my gosh, it would have been great to pull out for the show. It might have been on my yeah.
Speaker 2:I was actually trying to find some photos.
Speaker 4:Actually.
Speaker 3:I've drowned like six phones in that period of time so I've lost some photos. The old Blackberry had some good stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the old Blackberry I used to hold Blackberry. But yeah, so you and I met there and we had a quick little conversation. It's like one of them surface level Hi, how are you? You know, same for me. And then I signed the door back there in the Palms Somebody's calling me right now, so unprofessional. But anyways as you said, welcome to the show. It's relaxed, it's just us having fun and you've got to give me some blackmail stories of Mr J-Rock, okay.
Speaker 1:I'll try to think of one. Think of one.
Speaker 2:I think you have a lot more than one.
Speaker 3:The old.
Speaker 2:Palms days started out.
Speaker 3:The, the old Palms Day, started out the good, old days the good old days we were winning championships back then.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was the place. But going back to the show and the UFC, that's such an incredible story from seeing the evolution. How has it been for yourself being there for 18 years and seeing that evolution, from you walking in as a 21 year old you know, shy girl to now becoming a global star within within the organization? And what's been the biggest takeaways from just seeing that evolution from your perspective?
Speaker 1:seeing the evolution. It just makes me really proud to be a part of that and a little part of history, because before the girl fighters were there, it was all about us and I think we just dominated. We had so much fun. We did every signing that we could. It was just a very fun time of my life that I'll never forget, like traveling the world. I think I was gone every weekend for seven years straight and at the time I like I loved it. I'm like I'm going here, I'm going there, like I never thought I would be out of vegas period. So for me to be out of vegas traveling the world, it's just been a dream come true. And what they've done with the ufc, obviously it's incredible.
Speaker 3:So seven years every weekend. I mean that must have made it hard for you to. That made no sense start again. Well, no, it's incredible.
Speaker 2:So seven years every weekend. I mean that must have made it hard for you to. That made no sense. Start again well, no, it's a long time oh, you mean seven years, every single weekend I mean it's be hard to like carry on relationships and stuff like that.
Speaker 3:I mean, did you, did you mix a little business with pleasure and date, uh, some fighters, or how did that? All I mean because you, you know how it works. Like you, you end up hooking up with people that are closest to you yeah right, this is how it works, so give us a good few of those um, but but nothing too serious.
Speaker 1:I feel like I I realized quick on that the fighters are very much about themselves and they have to like really focus. And I honestly I don't. I dated people, but it was. It was really hard because I was gone all the time and plus you throw in like probably the hottest guys, like their like bodies are chiseled and like it's it takes a very confident man to be like okay, bye, babe, I'll see you when you get back, you know flex knows about chiseled hard body.
Speaker 2:Also living on the road too? Yes, unfortunately.
Speaker 1:So I would say I'm good at a lot of things, relationships I'm good at, but they weren't successful for me in the past.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but that's also as you're younger and developing. I think we have to go through the good, the bad.
Speaker 1:So like I mean, you're not really thinking about that when you're traveling the world with the UFC.
Speaker 2:Trying to date and travel and work on your brand and everything else that's going on is so tough. I lived my life before Living on airplanes.
Speaker 3:Just that part is tough so tough.
Speaker 2:And it's like a long-distance relationship, even though you might be in the same town.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3:Especially back when you're partying too, because you're hungover and you're getting on flights and you're getting hung over again getting on the next flight home. It's like it's definitely a cycle.
Speaker 1:I remember one time I was in England and so, hung over, I was just puking in the trash and my girlfriend was also UFC girl, I won't tell who it is, she was crazy that day. But she they were saying, oh, if she can't hold down her liquid, she's not going to get on the plane and she's just like we need to go back to America. I am not doing this. And she got in their face like they were going to arrest us and I was like, please don't do this, I just want to get home.
Speaker 3:I just want to go home.
Speaker 1:I'm going to bed. You couldn't tell us the name. But what does it rhyme with Her name's Allie?
Speaker 4:Oh, there we go Bam. I just came up.
Speaker 3:She's been out of the game for a while. That's a hard one. That's good, that's good.
Speaker 2:She probably just threw us off the scent, yeah.
Speaker 3:So did you guys have a you know? Like obviously with Brittany you guys are like besties, you know, and like all the other girls like did you guys have you know? Was it kind of similar experiences for all of you, kind of having this like girls club and like kind of attacking the world together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was. I mean, at first, brittany and I we didn't like each other. Well, I didn't like her because you know, she's like coming in fresh, fresh off of, was it wc and uh, I remember the first day she met me, we were at the palms, I think it was right after uh, world mma award. She's like, by the way, I'm gonna get it next and I was like, who are you like? I was like very like, so, um, but then she, she just grew on me and we, we became like so close, like we've been through so much together so it's like not 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 and everyone kind of like moves on. If they, if they don't work for you, I've say they move on. They're having families and all that. So I've I've definitely kept in touch with a lot of them, but br, Brittany and I we're sisters.
Speaker 2:So yeah, what are some of the memorable stories that you can talk? About Some good stories that you two get into some shenanigans on the road.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. There's a lot, Probably too many. I got to discuss with her the ones we're allowed to talk about. Well, there is the time I got arrested, but anyways, we won't make that up.
Speaker 2:You said it. So what about this arrest? What was it about?
Speaker 1:Okay, well, it was like straight out of a movie. It was after a night out. Me and my ex at the time got in this big old fight and it was crazy. It was not fun at the time, it was very scary, but anyways.
Speaker 1:The cops got called and we both accused each other of DV and we ended up both in jail in the same exact jail which was I was in one seat and then the other side was the male side and he's looking at me like I'm so sorry and I'm like don't look at me. Don't look at me and like I'm so sorry and I'm like don't look at me. And then, uh, I somehow got ahold of Dana and, um, he got me out of jail and I went straight from jail to work.
Speaker 2:Wait straight to work. Yeah, Wow.
Speaker 1:I hadn't slept all night. I was crying all night. It was crazy, what was the.
Speaker 3:What was the? Uh, what was the car? Uh, I think it was crazy. What was uh?
Speaker 2:what was the uh what?
Speaker 1:was the car? Uh, I think it was ufc 100. It was like a big one yeah and um, I think, uh, there was like paparazzi waiting for me outside of the jail and somehow, like the bodyguards were like don't take pictures. And then I got into the car and suzy, my friend, um and makeup artist.
Speaker 1:She did my makeup and I went straight to work while she were driving yeah wow and I made it to the main event and I think some somehow the word had already gotten out and um, I remember I was just like shaking oh my god, what a night. And I got up on stage and people were like standing ovation me.
Speaker 3:I'm like, oh, that makes me feel better, but that's another thing to mention right Like, because obviously you're in the public eye, right? So when you have crazy blowout fights or certain things happen like, everybody finds out about it, right? Especially in this world of social media. I would think that that is also makes it a lot harder to date and just do normal stuff right like, yeah and I didn't paparazzi yeah, yeah, so it's.
Speaker 1: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:No, you better believe there's gonna be so many people sliding in your DMs.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:Wait a minute Single.
Speaker 2:Sorry in advance. We have a global fan base. You might have all kinds of languages in the DMs and you might have to translate.
Speaker 1:Okay, perfect.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but going back to the paparazzi stuff, when did that start? When did the fame truly kind of hit you?
Speaker 1:I think it started as soon as I started working for UFC, because they had forums and all those things that would talk about not only the fighters but the girls, and I'm freshly 21. I really didn't feel like a woman until I was like 24, 25. That's when I started working out, really taking care of myself and, um, so was a very weird time, like very insecure time of my life. Um, I remember Dana White coming to me at a show and he was like, can you slow down a little 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 so nervous, I wanted to walk the fastest that I could, and so I did that. And then he had to tell me but he did in the nicest way, and I didn't really feel confident until I started working out and I did the cover of Playboy, but naked. So, yeah, oh, how was that? I seen it.
Speaker 3:You seen it?
Speaker 2:I seen it.
Speaker 4:I haven't.
Speaker 2:Because my wife watches the show.
Speaker 4:I haven't.
Speaker 3:It was my pleasure.
Speaker 4:Indeed.
Speaker 1:Well, it was actually, it was like a dream come true Because, like I said, I always looked up to those, the beautiful women, and I just love beauty. Like I said, I always looked up to the beautiful women and I just love beauty, I love beauty, I look up to it and I was turning into one of those girls and I just felt the most confident. I took, like I think, three months of my life and I really did weights and everything else and I ate a lot of protein and I felt really good about myself. So I was walking around. There was probably a crew of like 15 people. It was in a mansion in malibu. Like the ocean, like it couldn't be a better setting for me. I'm like I love water and like I was just running around naked, like no problem more dms being sent right now yeah, they had champagne.
Speaker 1:They're like, if you need some champagne to loosen up, I was like, no, I'm good, I'm good, I just was fine with it.
Speaker 3:Yeah I mean, you've done a lot of bikini shoots and stuff like that, so it was very similar to that.
Speaker 1:Just uh, you know no bikini yeah, yeah, I felt good and, um, yeah, I think to get to the confidence level, like you said, is really important.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I definitely work out so I can look good naked.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3: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:Thank you. Thankfully, I have not been part of that conversation.
Speaker 3:You know I look good naked we can imagine.
Speaker 2:I will pretend. I will pretend, jeez, you throw me off with the whole naked thing, I have another question and it's just gone.
Speaker 2:I've got J-Rock in my head just walking past me in the buff. Yeah, it's not anything that I want to have rolling on my head right now. But going back to a lot of press and all the social media and stuff like that, listen, you've got a lot of love and all the social media and stuff like that, listen you, you've got a lot of love and social media was like growing, becoming a thing, while this was the beginning of Instagram, I believe.
Speaker 1:So that's when everything, and the more popular you get, the more people are watching you and the more people are talking about you. And, and you know, sometimes as a woman, you see all these nice things, but you only focus on the bad.
Speaker 2:That's what I was getting at.
Speaker 1:The bad can only be like one or two things, and I remember looking up the forums and really getting in my head and not feeling good about myself and doing stupid shit to my body because of it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, it's hard to deal with all.
Speaker 1:Plastic surgery. That was unnecessary and um, that I regret, but made me who I am now and I'm healthy and happy, and you know. Back to the gym and yeah, taking care of myself.
Speaker 2:Isn't it crazy? Because obviously, me doing my world too. You've got the fans that are always 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.
Speaker 2:But then you have the guys many guys, that will always a lot of guys will just attack for no reason and yeah being a girl that's in the spotlight in a bikini, as as that's your living and that's your profession. It's got to be hard for you to read these things at a very young age as well, and at that time I'm sure looking at the timeline where we've spoke about trying to find that inner confidence and you're battling what you're reading, and then you're looking at the mirror.
Speaker 2:It's like man, I'm, I'm trying my best here yeah um, how difficult were them times to go through, and and was that, you know, a hard period of your life it was.
Speaker 1:It was good and bad. I think I masked a lot of it with the partying and, um, I was very much in my ego. So the good things that were said were like I'm the shit what those people you know I would. I remember getting drunk and just like talking shit back to them and it was very unnecessary. But, um, it's always necessary. But yeah, I've done a lot of like mental health work since then. So I feel like even if people are going to say things like that to me now, it doesn't affect me. You know, I'm a woman, I'm confident, I'm happy with myself. I know I'm not perfect, but I'm proud of myself. You know, like I'm a mom, I might have loose skin here and there, but like I'm me and like I'm just happy with who I am.
Speaker 3: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 beautiful woman, always have been lovely personality as well, and so like there's a lot of people out there who are also feeling these things. Well, and so like there's a lot of people out there who are also feeling these things, and for somebody like yourself, who is a frickin model, to be feeling those type things, it's. It's it also shows, like what social media is doing to people and making them feel like and comparing and comparison and all these type things, and I think there's a lot of young women who feel a lot like that. And I think there's something to be said about yourself.
Speaker 3:Again, you're very beautiful, so you know, even you have these feelings. You know, and we're all human and we all have these type feelings. And I feel like sometimes because when they see people in media and they see these type things, they forget that these are humans that have feelings and, you know, are going through certain things. So there's definitely in our culture, like you're seeing people just look past the real human, um. So I'm glad that you found that for yourself. I think we all have to kind of look within and be happy in our, in ourselves, and after we find that it doesn't matter what anybody else says, you know it's like, yeah, I don't listen to any criticism at this point anymore, because I know who I am.
Speaker 3:I love myself. It took me a long time to love myself, but now that I'm here it's like the criticism doesn't matter. But as we're younger, getting those things. I was definitely same emo, like feeling different things about that but the journey is the journey and we have to go through those things to become the people that we are now.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:Mental health. You mentioned Mental health.
Speaker 1:Shout out to my therapist, yeah, shout out.
Speaker 2:You know you gotta put shout out to the therapist. I missed that. It bounced off the wall a few times and, by the way, just for the fans to know, this Ariane said Flex please speak in the best English possible. I might have to ask you a few times to repeat yourself. So with me being deaf right now and with the accent, I don't know how loud I'm speaking or how You're doing. Great, yeah, it's not bad.
Speaker 1:Just right.
Speaker 2: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 big advocate for mental health. Can you share any of the daily practices, routines, that you do to to keep you kind of steadfast in this new version of yourself?
Speaker 1:okay. So, speaking of new version of myself, I was going through a rough time the last like year or two, 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's helped. But I've never gone to church and I've never been a church person because I was raised Catholic and I always felt weird in the Catholic church. So I decided to go to a Christian church and I felt so amazing after and they used modern things that are happening in the world with Bible verses and yes, music and they just taught me that it's okay to not be okay and I just fell in love with the church and now I'm going every Sunday if I'm home, so that's one thing I do.
Speaker 1:I downloaded the Bible app and I read a verse every morning. There's also plans on there, so if you like to read, if you're going through something I did a lot of healing and forgiveness plans, so you read every morning for five minutes. But I also have, like, my meditation apps. So I use the Chopper app and that has anywhere from five minutes to 20 minute meditations and they're guided. I'm not, like, the greatest meditation person because I like my mind wanders and I'm like, ok, I should be doing this, this, this, this, so the guided meditation, and then again you always take something good with it with you throughout the day and I feel like those five, 10 minutes of my day every morning I focus on myself. It just completely changes the app. The day, the week, the day, everything, um.
Speaker 3:I love it. Yeah, I do some, I do similar and I'd like guided meditations as well. So it just kind of like I can just focus on that voice and kind of go through. But taking control of your morning is so important, you know. And like not going right to social media, not going right into stressful you know news stories, cause that's all we get right now is all this negativity. Like I try to do exactly the same thing no phone, at least the first 30 minutes, and go into you know. Uh, I have a couple of daily books that I do and I read. I read some of those passages but it's really important and I love to hear that. And also that with God is really important and you know, finding that I was also Catholic. I was an altar boy right.
Speaker 3:And I started going to a couple churches here, and I'm not sure which one. Is it City of Light or Central. Central Okay.
Speaker 1:And I thought the same thing I've heard of City of Lights. It's good things yeah.
Speaker 3:And it was just a lot. I tried to make him come with me actually we'll get you to come.
Speaker 2:I try to get you to come it's just, I'm a dad of two, and saturday and sunday is my yeah, I call it family day, but that's his church. I I have been, and you know this. I've asked a few of my friends who are involved with church. I was like guys, can you get an early service? Because, when I lived in tennessee, you had services that were kicking off for like 7 am oh, wow 6 30 for early birds.
Speaker 2:They were doing like four services a day and they were packed. Everyone was packed and I fell in love with church in Tennessee. It was a completely different version that I grew up to, because I grew up with a whole stand up sit down wood seats on your knees, up down, praying on your knees.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was also a little bit of a singer back in the day.
Speaker 3:Oh really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, before the old nutsack dropped. You know I went from oh okay, this guy's gone. Next, Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat, but that's a story for another time.
Speaker 3:But yeah, it was. He's a man of many talents. Talks to birds too.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, can they talk back?
Speaker 2:Stop, we're not taking this podcast in that direction. But yes, I talk to birds, don't listen to this guy.
Speaker 1:Okay, no, I'm not.
Speaker 2:But I had a massive kind of pouring into my heart when I was there, because I was around a lot of people that were just so abundant with their faith, and I was the guy who was like I'm so new to this, I have my own. It's guided me to everything I've done, but being around these incredible people that just had such energy to them and were just openly talking about their faith.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I wasn't around that when I lived in LA and when I was living in Reno.
Speaker 2:When I moved to Tennessee. It was just a whole different world. At the time I was dating a girl whose dad was a youth pastor, great guy. Unfortunately he passed away, but he was a great guy. At that point in time that poured into me as well and I learned a lot. I've traveled around the United States. You know a lot I've learned. I've traveled around the United States, you know, moved, shall I say, around the United States and every state that I've been to I've learned something new. You know that I've taken with me and carried on in my life. But Tennessee to me was probably my most religious experience because I would walk into church and it was just like no matter if the band was playing or if just people were congregating, it was just this energy I don't know how to explain.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you know what I mean? Feel good energy.
Speaker 3: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 to this church and they're like rocking, right when I came in everybody's clapping and dancing.
Speaker 3:It's just a. I wish it was like that for me as a kid and I could have experienced church in that kind of way. Because it was so that for me as a kid and I could have experienced church in that kind of way because it was so strict for me as a kid and if I messed around my dad was grabbing my ear and twisting it really hard like calm down if it wasn't rock and roll, that's for sure you coughed in my church.
Speaker 1:I bring Raiden and he just sits there looking at the band. He does pretty well, and this is your son.
Speaker 2:Let's set the floor to the biggest achievement of your life. Great name Amazing how old is Raiden he's going to be four in a month.
Speaker 1: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 mine and I love it.
Speaker 2: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 all over the place. I don't know how much you want to talk about your child or not, but it's great to see for me looking from the outside in, because obviously I've seen you from one perspective. You have known each other for two decades, I guess.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But to see the evolution of yourself, to go from the ring card girl that we all knew to go into to be, you know, the entrepreneur mom.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's an incredible transformation and to be the pioneer of that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you still?
Speaker 2:feel the pressure. I do feel of pressure, but it's a different pioneer of that. Yeah, do you still feel a pressure?
Speaker 1:I do feel a pressure, but it's a different kind of pressure. It's a pressure to be like a good mom and be there and be present, like I've lived this fast life for so long, so I think for me to slow down and actually be present and be the best mom possible, that was a transition in its own. And like going from going from like the hot chick to hot mama, like I'm like am I still cute? I'm like I am cute, like chill out, like you don't have to be like in a bikini, you know, with your ass hanging out all the time to like be hot. So it's, it's a you hear that tyus it's a transition boy, do I?
Speaker 2:are you on the mic? The mic's hot, I think the mic's hot. Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 3:This is the voice of a Tyus was actually wondering if you had brought bikinis with you and I was like bro, calm down, tyus, I have like a thousand bikinis you should have let me know.
Speaker 4:You know, hey, so I'm hearing you talk about Feeling insecure and everything, as like the person that's on the cover of magazines.
Speaker 1:And I'm so hideous they won't put a camera on me in this room and I'm like so how are we supposed to compete?
Speaker 4:If you're feeling insecure, how's the average person supposed to feel secure with themselves? But you said you've gotten to that point in your life. What have you done to get there?
Speaker 1:Oh, I've done a lot of work Mental health, therapy. I've working out, really learning what works for my body. Um, I have a life coach, I have a therapist. You know I've, I've done a lot of work, um, on myself, and it's not just on the outside. I realized after working so much at a young age on my body that you know, I need to work on my my mind as well. Everything goes together and if I don't feel good in my mind, I can be the rock hardest body in the world and still feel bad about myself.
Speaker 4:So you listed a lot of good things there. Did any particular one have a bigger effect than the others?
Speaker 1:I would say two of them stand out. I think I did ayahuasca in 2019 because I was living a fast life, I was partying a lot, I was dabbling in drugs and I dabbled a lot and I liked it and I little dabble do you little dabbles and I liked it Little dabble do you Little dabbles.
Speaker 1:And I realized that if, because I always wanted to be a mom, if I wanted to be a mom, I needed to take care of my body and not abuse it. And I did ayahuasca, and it instantly made me not want to do drugs. Wow yeah, so I stopped doing drugs.
Speaker 2:So you went to Mexico. What was that? Did you go to Mexico to do that? I did it actually in LA twice in a row and did you feel when you came, you know, out of that experience, like something had changed, or was it progressive whole time?
Speaker 1:No, it was probably instantly.
Speaker 2:Damn. Yeah, like you just didn't want to party anymore.
Speaker 1:It's not that I don't party, I have fun. I drink here and there and like I still enjoy cocktails, I still enjoy wine, but I don't have this desire to do that all the time. I don't have the energy now either, but back then, like.
Speaker 1:I just you know I like to party and I just knew that if I wanted to be a healthy mom I needed to change that. And I didn't. I wasn't even pregnant yet, so I was. I was just thinking ahead like I want to be healthy and I don't like how I feel when I do these drugs and I yeah, it helped me a lot what's it any good change? It's time for a change what's it?
Speaker 2:an ego death?
Speaker 1:there was an ego death I. I gave birth to myself. I re rebirthed in my my ceremony. I became a new person and more aware and more acceptance of who I am and just more appreciation of who I am and my body.
Speaker 1:and, if you think about it, you're putting all this crap into your body like we don't even not eat organic and I'm over here doing this kind of stuff. No, it's not good. And then another thing that really helped me is EMDR. It's a certain type of therapy for trauma and, yeah, basically just takes you back to the traumatic experience and you have to relive it and you have it's. It's almost like a hypnotic state that you're in and you face that, that trauma and that instant, and you learn how to get through it so that when other things happen in your life, it doesn't trigger those things are you okay?
Speaker 3: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:So you're talking about the trauma. Is that something you you can speak about?
Speaker 1:you don't have to give us the details um, it's been certain instances with different people, but mostly one person, um, just very verbally abusive, a little bit physically, but mostly verbally mentally abusive, uh, relationship that I was in and having to like really forgive him and also forgive myself for letting myself be in that situation.
Speaker 2:Was that something you were aware of?
Speaker 1:I was fully aware, but it was almost like a drug, like you let go of this drug and then you get another drug and you have this person. That's like I'm going to change. I'm going to change and like I have a big heart, so I would forgive and forget and things would happen again and it just became worse and worse cycle. Yeah, so it's almost like you have to like cold turkey like. All right, blocked, delete. You're out of my life, I can't talk to you yeah, you can't be friends.
Speaker 3:You can't. Can't be meeting up like you literally need a complete separation. Don't see each other yeah for a period, a long period of time, and then, maybe after that, possibly, you could be friends, but sometimes not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sometimes not, but did you?
Speaker 2:know that this was causing that suppression.
Speaker 1:What do you mean?
Speaker 2:Well, when you had done, what was the name of the treatment you'd?
Speaker 1:done EMDR.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when you went into that. Was that something you were aware of before you went in or was that something you discovered during that treatment?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I, when you went into that. Was that something you were aware of before you went in or was that something you discovered during that treatment? Yeah, I knew that I had stuff that I needed to face, but I didn't know what it was. So each time I would go in, I would. It would bring up things that I didn't even think about, like when I was like growing up, things that happened to me, um, and weird feelings that I had with men. But yeah, it was just each time I went in and this guy's incredible that I work with, he would just pull me in and then pull me out and then I was in a state of just peace instead of just holding on to that.
Speaker 3:The EMDR. That's not the ketamine therapy.
Speaker 1:Oh, I've done that too, but I know you have done that.
Speaker 3:That's why I was going to. I was like, is that the same thing? But I know you do the ketamine therapy. I wanted to go do it with you. Actually, that's one I would try Um just jump in a little less Well, it seems a little less harsh than ayahuasca.
Speaker 1:Plus, I don't want to poop my pants.
Speaker 3:You won't poop your pants. Might piss my pants throw up.
Speaker 2:I don't like any of those coming from the, from the former wait.
Speaker 3:That's not true well, that's exactly why you should do ayahuasca yes but, I want to try ketamine first because I feel like that would be a little easier of a transition, because I've heard a lot of I've had a lot of positive stories about ayahuasca and a lot of people facing their fears, their traumas, you know, and kind of going over those. But then I've also had people where they're changed in a different kind of a way. Um, you know, jason Strauss is always like I don't want you doing ayahuasca, like don't do it because he's had, he's seen people where they lost their ambition in certain things and stuff like that. Obviously, I think everybody's different, but for me, I guess I'm not ready for the You're not ready for it.
Speaker 3:Well, I had a little side story, but I've also done enough deep diving that I feel like I've faced all my stuff that I need to, absolutely. You haven't.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Most of it and I'll tell you I'll tell you why because it's the stuff that you're unaware of.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but that's the thing is like don't just not to be talking about myself, but when my dad died and like, all these things have happened to me and I, like, I learned that I'm filipino, I learned that I had two other brothers, I learned, like, right, like I had this whole self-learning journey about who I am and all these things, and so it has definitely, like you know me, bro, I've soul-searched from hell back. So not to get too deep into it, this is the part.
Speaker 2:But I went and had an experience. It wasn't Ayahuasca. I went to Mexico and I was in a situation where I had to have that ego death and I had to.
Speaker 3:Was this the penis reduction surgery? It was. It was in the way of my post-tron San Pedro, or something.
Speaker 2: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 with shout out to Sean Ryan. I've not really talked about this. Sean Ryan has a big show called Vigilance Elite.
Speaker 3:Just had Trump Vigilance Elite. Just had Trump Fantastic interview.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he hit me up and he knew I was kind of struggling because that was my identity. So everything you're saying I totally understand.
Speaker 1:So what I mean? You have your identity, that's you for so long and you're like what am I now?
Speaker 2:And you also have the temptations of like going back and staying in the grind. So for me, I was undefeated in my weight class. I was going to go up to another weight class and we found out. My son was on the way at the time and I was like I spent so much time on the road, just like you as the champ every weekend, flying all over the world yeah, that I wanted to be present, I wanted to be see the first.
Speaker 2:You know, walk first talk and thankfully I never missed out with my daughter but, uh, I had to kill that guy because I'm around so many people that wanted me, especially the fans that wanted me to get back up there and cheer for me in another weight division, and I said to myself I just have to do whatever I got to do and I tried everything that I could handle. You know that I was aware of to try and work, meditation, self-talk, but I'm an athlete, I'm a competitor and I'm searching for that next highest climb.
Speaker 3:And it was always reverting me back to the bodybuilding world Did you also have, maybe not a life coach, but somebody in your head really kind of mentally prepping you even for the shows and keeping you on track? Because I've seen this, especially now with fighters too right, it's like when you're in the back there's a lot of nerves and there's all these things right. So having someone coaching you mentally, I feel like, is an advantage and I don't know if that's something you had when you were when you're winning all your championships yeah, my coach has been with me for 20 years, so he knows me inside out.
Speaker 2:He knows when I'm pretending to be okay and when I'm, you know yeah, not, okay, no, they.
Speaker 3:I think it has to be like that. Yeah, because they need to be able to pull something out of you if they need to Absolutely.
Speaker 2:And even my coach was like saying to me at the time he's like if your heart is not in it, you know we're not doing it. So, when we both agreed on that. I had to find some additional help and, speaking to somebody, I'm very weird about that. So Sean Ryan told me about this place and I had a private house Went this place and I had a private house, went to. Mexico at the Ibogaine and I was like the male version of ayahuasca what do you mean? The?
Speaker 3:male version of ayahuasca.
Speaker 1:You're saying there's two different versions yeah, ayahuasca is the female version, ibogaine is the male version.
Speaker 3:I never knew that it was horrible.
Speaker 1:I never knew that.
Speaker 3:I thought it was all. You're just taking ayahuasca.
Speaker 1:So you're saying it was a female or male version?
Speaker 3:I didn't know that.
Speaker 2:To be honest, ignorance is bliss. I went into this not knowing much at all. I relied on Sean Roy and when I got there, obviously they're going to give you the overly A lot, but I was purging more than anything else and I think some coming out, but they were like it's good to purge no Good to purge, it was air and they were like this is all your anxiety coming out.
Speaker 2:This is all your, and I was like in the time, you have a great day after it. I don't know if this is similar to Ayahuasca, but there's a great day where they give you a break nothing violent, because everything's overly sensitive. Yeah, like even watching spongebob, it's like oh, why did fucking, why did he do that to spongebob?
Speaker 2:so you gotta find some channels yeah, so and then that gray day is when you're kind of, like you know, having second thoughts. It's like this didn't help at all. But what it did help me with was 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's compounded. And it definitely helped because the first thing that I felt was the unnecessary need to get back up and improve myself, because I've already done what I needed to do.
Speaker 1:Acceptance of yourself. So I hear your story and that's the next chapters. Yeah, it's always hard to do the next chapter, especially when you're used to something for so long. You know. Yeah, and that was a big thing for me is like okay, I'm not the ring girl anymore. What am I? Oh, my mom, it's okay, like you can slow down, you're in your best chapter now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's okay to just I don't know. I had a hard time chilling for a while and uh, I went back to work three months after I had read and and I'm like, I look back and I'm like I wish I would've given myself a little bit more time. I just put so much pressure on myself. I was like, okay, six weeks going straight back to working out and in a couple months I'm going to text Dana and be like I'm ready to go put me in coach.
Speaker 1:So that's what I did. But those time, those that time you don't get back from your little baby, you know, and now he's so big.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, I wish I would have slowed down back then, but I get it now. It's working at the right time because, being four years old, this is like the time that he's just absorbing everything, right. I think, it's like what is it? Four till 11 or four till 12. Like that's the most um your child absorbs. You know things about you. They're learning, they're learning and they're molding their brains during that point.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So you're right in the right zone.
Speaker 1:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, the evolution. You know You've gone into many different things real estate. Can you tell us what you're into now that you've evolved from Ringo?
Speaker 1: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 love that because I feel like it's just like a safe bet and I'm more of like a safe bet girl kind of right now, so kind of setting up Raiden's future and if I were to have any more kids, like their future and my week is just basically working out taking care of myself and I shoot content I have OF. You know, hit me up there.
Speaker 3:What is your OF. You can follow me here, my.
Speaker 1:OF is. It's all my sexy stuff. So, basically, fhm, maxim Playboy had a baby and I had an OF. I actually had a fan page that was like an app for a while before OF was OF and it's the same thing. It's basically like an Instagram feed where I'm talking, I'm able to connect with my fans, 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:She's nude and I get to talk about more like sexual things.
Speaker 1:if I want to talk about sexual things, you give out free subscriptions to friends.
Speaker 2:You can't even talk. If I want to talk about sexual things, you give out free subscriptions to friends.
Speaker 1:He's like what is the name of the?
Speaker 3:wife again. Yeah, lex has flex, is coming with an OF2, so we're gonna we're getting we're getting that one primed up for his feet.
Speaker 2:I've had so many people on that fucking hands and knees, taking photos of my calves Wow.
Speaker 3:Really. Yeah, I mean, I get that, I've seen the pictures.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've got decent calves.
Speaker 3:I have good calves too.
Speaker 2:I know what you do, but the feet thing.
Speaker 1:I don't understand the feet thing, but they love my feet.
Speaker 2:It's a big thing they love. You have, as we mentioned earlier, a great fan base, but let's talk about some of the weird incidents. Being as you, the celebrity and everything else, they've got to have had some weird interactions and tell us some of these stories.
Speaker 1:Huh, I do.
Speaker 1:This is really creepy Like this man. He fully wrote like a book. It wasn't that thick but it was pretty thick and it was a handwritten book to me and I knew who he was because as soon as I looked at the book and I saw the name, I realized he had been emailing me. And the emails were like we were in a relationship and I'm like, ah well, and as soon as I saw him, I like I remember it was at a signing for ufc and I looked 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 I looked at the security guards. I'm like get him out. It was kind of creepy, it was scary. But for the most part the fans are really sweet. I've had a couple marriage proposals.
Speaker 2:I bet you have.
Speaker 1:Which is nice and yeah, they're very sweet for the most part.
Speaker 2:That's such a PG answer. I know there's more in the tank.
Speaker 1:The worst I've ever got is like a guy that like wants to like take a picture and he like tries to get sassy and I'm like don't touch me like that.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:So that's about it.
Speaker 3:I get them. Guys, too, I can handle. I feel like you've had to have had a lot of stalkers.
Speaker 2:Yes, Totally, whether you wear them or not.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, there's gotta been a few perks, luckily.
Speaker 1:Dana, lets me use his security there we go, or his like you know, if anything, if I feel uncomfortable, he like does a background check and stuff, because I've had a couple of those where, like, they keep emailing you and you're like this is getting a little weird.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you wanting to be nice, maybe you responded once like oh no thank you, you know, and no thank you. And then they just never stopped Ever.
Speaker 2:Yeah. That's how we met Fucking relentless, trying to message me.
Speaker 3:I was like, okay, I'll be a friend, One of those big arms dude.
Speaker 2:So we're going a little bit on the fight side of things. You've been to the greatest fights of all time. Let's be honest. You've seen them all. You've been part of it.
Speaker 1:Which are kind of the fights that stand out for you. It's always the Nate Diaz fights, because I just feel like he just puts his heart and soul and he's just like fuck it, I'm going all in and that's how you want to see a fight. The ones that are very calculated and thought out. Like I get it, you guys are athletes and you're doing your thing, but the ones where they're brawling, those are the ones you want to see, and I feel like he always puts on a show.
Speaker 2:So you would say he's your favorite fighter.
Speaker 1:He's my favorite fighter, yeah.
Speaker 2: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 for you to watch, as, as you know, you being in your job, your role, and see a friend, yeah that sucks, especially when you get to know them or they, like, have family and kids, and then the kids are sitting there.
Speaker 1:You're like, oh man, no, no, you know it's hard, but they always, they always rebound for it from. They're athletes, so they know, and luckily we've never had a serious problem.
Speaker 2:Well, the other thing that you and I have in common is the fact that we have viral memes and GIFs that go around the internet oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I've seen some of them.
Speaker 2: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:I mean, it was real, that's not even her in the background.
Speaker 2:I know what that photo is, but she should be there somewhere. I know we got a clip of her with the mouth open, or whatever.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm Latina, so I'm very dramatic. I'm Latina, so I'm very dramatic. And like everyone was talking about him and how he was so large and in charge, so I was just being very dramatic. Yeah, but he's not my type.
Speaker 2:My one is of a girl biting her lip. Oh, there we go. I don't know if you've ever seen that. That's me back in the day. Oh cool, that's a viral meme.
Speaker 1:It keeps on keeping going.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's. It's where the hand prison is the old lip bite. Yeah, but that's all a funny one. But going back to the Alistair thing, you know, once you had that kind of viral moment, are you now aware of? The cameras are going to look at you every time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, now you're aware You're like, okay, don't smile too hard, don't look I don't want people to think you're in love with them.
Speaker 3:Do you mess with the cameras, though you know they're watching, so you kind of mess with them a little bit too.
Speaker 1:No not really.
Speaker 3:No, sorry, I just do my job, j-rock.
Speaker 2:J-rock had a lot of follow-up questions. Now you just squash them, sorry.
Speaker 1:No, I don't really. I just do my little thing with Bruce Buffer. We have our little handshake and stuff. But, nothing too crazy. Apparently I'm in love with Bruce Buffer too.
Speaker 2:I'm his girlfriend. Is that?
Speaker 3:a rumor. Yeah, it's a legit rumor.
Speaker 2:Well, we all love Buff, let's be honest. He's incredible. But in kind of London there's a plan. What are we at there, tyus?
Speaker 4:52 minutes.
Speaker 2:Look at us, weus 52 minutes. Ah, look at us, we're getting so professional.
Speaker 3:We are, we are professional.
Speaker 2:We're landing this plane. We're talking about your journey in fitness and I've seen, in doing my research, I've seen a podcast you were talking about you hadn't ate steak.
Speaker 1:I hadn't ate steak, yeah on the podcast, you podcast.
Speaker 2:You said, oh, I just ate steak for the first time in several months and I was blown away by this. You follow certain I know you guys are talking off camera but certain diets that you follow throughout the years. I'd love to speak to you about that obviously being in the limelight. You know being body conscious and everything else. Was there a diet that you were following back then Because obviously you had a big fitness podcast?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've never had a diet, but I do try to just eat clean eggs, turkey, all that. I actually have never had a steak in my life.
Speaker 2:What Really? So it wasn't you had a steak? Hold on, I haven't Hold on.
Speaker 1:I've had a bite of a steak, but I've never, I've never.
Speaker 3:I've seen you at Barry's.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I always have fish, and vegetables and a starch.
Speaker 3:Is that because you don't so?
Speaker 1:Okay, so I was raised.
Speaker 3:What took you to not?
Speaker 1:I was raised on carne asada.
Speaker 4:I was raised on carne asada tacos.
Speaker 1:On carne asada tacos and for some reason I think it might be my blood type I just I'm grossed out by most meat, so if it, if I do eat meat, it has to be like meatballs or ground beef, so it's more of like a texture thing for me. I think I've definitely ate more meat this year. Um, I, I like how I feel better when I eat meat, but I just never had a steak. Wow, and if I had a steak, I'd be like I need it. Well done, and I feel like everyone looks at me weird if I say well done, because you're not supposed to eat it like that, but I can't see, like I can't see blood and stuff in my food.
Speaker 2:You know Barry's is going to now be all over this podcast. All the guys train you, so they'll be like hmm, I love berries.
Speaker 1:Oh, who does this? Lobster mack the fish there.
Speaker 2:Incredible. Tater tots, oh, my God. Anyway, back to the job, back to 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:Mom. So yeah, before Raiden I was doing hot classes, hot yoga, hot Pilates, boot camps, a lot of high intensity training type stuff, the fast paced stuff with low weights. And this year I came to love weight training and I've definitely seen it change my body so it becomes like an addiction in itself. You're like, oh, I want to go to the gym, so I love it and I do one or two different body parts a week and then I throw in yoga if I'm sore, or a hot class. I do F45 sometimes too.
Speaker 3:I like those classes. I like F45. They're fun.
Speaker 1:They're just you know. Go and get it done.
Speaker 3: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 lifts and they make it pretty easy for you.
Speaker 1:You just got to be careful with your form and stuff because you're going like pretty fast in those classes, but the weight training is where it's at. You know I'm getting older. You got to build muscle or else it just all goes downhill.
Speaker 3:It really does After you're 40, I I think they say you lose 10% or 5% of your muscle every year after that, or something like that. But I definitely think that that's a great point. You know, for all the ladies out there, like you need weight training, you need weight lifting, you need to be doing strength training a couple days a week.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:It's the most beneficial for you. I mean Flex. You know a little bit about this. A little bit, a little something A little bit, but I think that a lot of women approach fitness sometimes differently, but strength training is definitely a core part of what you need to be doing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it takes a lot of weight for you to actually become.
Speaker 2:Jacked, jacked, yeah, it does. Misconception, yeah, especially 10 years. I hate when people say that. Yeah.
Speaker 4:You probably, I mean you get it all the time I will.
Speaker 3:But where people are like you know, like ah, you know, I don't want to get all jacked and I'm like, don't worry, you never will you never will.
Speaker 2:You have to eat so much.
Speaker 3:I think Arnold said it and he was like don't worry, you never will.
Speaker 2:He's talking to a guy though my gosh, but with the weight trainers side of things now, and obviously this is new, new part of your life.
Speaker 1:Well, it's a part of your life, yeah would you say that you wish you knew this in the past to incorporate weights more? Would you? Would you would you say that I think I did know this? So I was a gym girly at first and I would do my own routine and that was like my thing for a while, especially my younger years, and then I just kind of got bored and I started doing all the the fast-paced like kickboxing and stuff like that, and it was easy and it maintained like my weight and like I was thin and fit. So it was good for a while. Um, but then, after having a kid and stuff, I'm like okay, I need to like step it up a little and figure out my body now at this age and this weight and yeah, it works better for me now she trained.
Speaker 2:Well, I can't say the gym she trains in, because I don't want people fucking sweating out, but she trains in a gym in Las Vegas, which is a great gym and I'll be back here a couple times. But can you imagine she's going to be jacked if you came here?
Speaker 1:I want to be jacked. I want to see significant difference in my body. You look fantastic. I just want to selfishly get you here. I'll be here, for sure.
Speaker 2:And it was the first time for you to see the gym today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's beautiful. You should come work out with us. I will Leg day oh.
Speaker 3:I like that. I've actually never done a leg day with flex oh really it's a little scary, it looks yeah it's a little scary.
Speaker 2:You should see him in there. He's a different guy. Yeah, when I go into the gym he's a different guy in there. He's yeah, but that's the switch, that's it'd be like walking into somebody when they're working. It'd be like me coming up to you 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 a conversation with you.
Speaker 2:When I was training for the mr olympia, I set up a gym this size yeah, just for myself in boca raton that was my investment into myself for me to win, to defend and it sounds like me gloating, but honestly I had to do it for me to win and defend because when I was training in public gyms I was flex yeah, people are messing with you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in and out, want a picture so you're like on stage yeah
Speaker 2:yeah and it's hard when you're a champion or you're trying to chase something to to have a mindset walking into the gym and remain that guy. Like some people can, they could be a dick. That was me. My fans were everything, so I would stop everything talk and then I'm like, okay, where was I?
Speaker 1:Okay, good, yeah, and then you feel bad. I can't do that either. So I just put my hat on and go to the gym.
Speaker 3:Keep the earphones in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sorry, I'm busy. I actually live in my house.
Speaker 2:So I'm very recognizable Today. I done my hair because of you.
Speaker 1:Oh, nice Thank you for that.
Speaker 3:You get stopped a lot at the gym Like guys are hitting on you?
Speaker 1:Not really, actually. I don't know if they.
Speaker 3:I feel like they think they're not supposed to say hi to me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, probably scared of you a little bit too. Maybe it's the bodyguards that follow you around, yeah.
Speaker 4:Well.
Speaker 2:JayrockRock. Is there anything you want to add on to some old stories? Are you good to go?
Speaker 3:no, no, I just want to say you know, it's obviously it's great to see your transition in this new chapter. As you said, I think you haven't written your best stuff yet, so it's great to see it and I'm really glad you came and talked to us today thank you guys.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I really appreciate you coming in and shooting the shit to this. There's two guys and a hot chick talking about random stuff from ayahuasca to everything else and all above.
Speaker 3:Indeed Bodily fluids. We got it all, oh my God, we got it all. We got it all.
Speaker 2:Shoot yeah, but without kind of not mentioning what you've achieved. It's truly remarkable to read the accomplishments and do my research.
Speaker 1:Thank you.
Speaker 2:For this show You've done so much, all stemming from your Ring Card Girls from TV to watching you on Overhauling.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was fun. Yeah, that was great. That was a great moment in my life. 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 my life. Yeah, and you rocked that we need to get you back on that.
Speaker 2:That would be fun, by the way not to prolong this any longer, but are you going to move into doing more TV stuff?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I want to. I'm trying to work on a concept with UFC right now where I'm hosting more and it might just be like stories or just simple little clips, but we're working on that right now.
Speaker 3:I think that'd be a great path. Yeah, absolutely, you know because you're so synonymous with the UFC already. It's like you know. That's like a great step to stay involved with them and also let your personality out more.
Speaker 2:You know, yeah, thank you. But overhauling was a completely different demographic right, more you know, thank you, but overhauling was a completely different demographic right.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I was going. It was kind of like the ufc I'm like going in not knowing anything about ufc and then I'm going in not knowing anything about cars, but I learned a lot and I had so much fun. It was the first hosting gig that I got that was on actual tv and I had worked a lot for free before then. I was like I gotta practice, practice. So I did a lot of free work for UFC. I remember like staying after um the weigh-ins and I would be on teleprompter doing stuff for online and I would be there till like midnight and be like why am I doing this? But now I know I was doing it because I needed that, I needed that practice, I need that help and that confidence.
Speaker 2:So see, that's a very interesting point where a lot of people just see this shot to stardom 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 realize just how much sweat equity you've had to do, all the unseen stuff that all plays a in in to where you've got right now.
Speaker 2:but all these unseen hours doing like you mentioned on the free UFC stuff you know it, it's, it's made you become the global star, because a lot of girls will say, sorry, I can't, or no problem. But doing all this stuff and being a true company girl, you know, for the UFC has made you again not only known in the UFC circles but far outside. Thank, you. I just want to say, and take this opportunity to say, thank you so much for all the years of nearly two decades.
Speaker 3: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:Crazy, yeah, when I look back to it, it has, but in terms of accomplishments and what you've done, TV shows movies front covers covers, I mean magazines, things that you wanted to be on when you were a kid. You've ticked so many boxes and, as Jay Rock said, I'm very excited to see the new endeavors of what is going to be coming out from yourself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we'll see the new endeavors of what is going to be coming out from yourself. So, yeah, and we'll see you in here getting buff, yes, so this is Flex. Rock, Ariane, Celeste. We are out.
