{"id":22211,"date":"2020-09-24T14:12:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T21:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creatitive.com\/?p=22211"},"modified":"2022-08-03T16:01:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:01:53","slug":"audrey-winters-professional-mma-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creatitive.com\/audrey-winters-professional-mma-fighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Interview: Audrey Winters Professional MMA Fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Zach Colman<br>Alright. Perfect. Well, I like to thank you for having you on the show today we have Audrey why don&#8217;t you tell everyone a little bit about yourself and, uh, what you&#8217;re doing right now?<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_341dd2-bc, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_341dd2-bc[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_341dd2-bc\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_341dd2-bc mark, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_341dd2-bc[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_341dd2-bc\"] mark{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading_341dd2-bc wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_341dd2-bc\">Audreys Story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Winters<br>I am Andrea Winters. I am an MMA fighter currently in the amateurs. , I come out of Los Angeles and I&#8217;m training at a place called dynamics that we may, currently, we&#8217;re training outside. So we&#8217;re lucky enough to have a space to train outside and hold classes. I also teach children MMA. So that&#8217;s kind of a new thing that I&#8217;ve been doing. It&#8217;s been really amazing. So that&#8217;s kind of what I&#8217;ve been up to right now with my training. Uh, there are no fights in California right now. , I was signed up for a jujitsu competition that ended up getting canceled and, , so we&#8217;re just gonna see workouts, like see what I can get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach Colman<br>Yeah, yeah, no, definitely. It&#8217;s definitely a hard time for a lot of people to get athletes. A lot of things are closed right now. Uh, yeah. Or cardboard people in the band in the stands and, and things of that nature. It&#8217;s just, it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s a weird situation right now. , do you see yourself, do you see yourself, uh, thinking about other avenues or, uh, other directions you can kind of take yourself as an athlete is you&#8217;re, uh, with the current situation going on right now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Winters<br>Yeah. , I&#8217;d been diving a lot into more of the mental side of it. , I&#8217;m very interested in just developing myself mentally and, I love philosophy and I love, just learning how to view the world in a way that brings me peace and, brings out the best of myself. , so I&#8217;ve been doing I&#8217;ve meditated for a very long time, not always consistently, but since as a kid, I really loved philosophy and knowing how to be present. And, , so more recently I&#8217;ve been very consistent, , and really devoted to that side of developing myself. And, , and so I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of readings as well. , I love to read, uh, I&#8217;ve been reading a lot of, uh, uh, quarterly, , and, uh, uh, not sure if I say his name correctly, which is like so embarrassing. Cause I love him so much, but tick not hon, , loved him and uh, yeah, I&#8217;ve just, I love to, , I loved the idea of, of Buddhism and, , implementing that into my training and just my life and how I treat people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Winters<br>It&#8217;s very important to me and I, and I can see it. So, I see it so strongly, in my training and how it&#8217;s shifted because of the time that I&#8217;ve spent meditating and learning about, learning more deeply about how to be present and, really understanding it and living it. , I stayed on my training so clearly, as I feel so much more, capable of, of reacting in, in real-time and not being in my head, not, you know, I get anxious when I spar oftentimes almost every time and now it feels much like it&#8217;s subsided quite a bit and I&#8217;m just enjoying it and it feels new, which is really amazing. And then, of course, it adds, it flows, but like for the most part now it feels, it feels like there&#8217;s been a shift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach Colman<br>That&#8217;s, that&#8217;s interesting. Cause I feel like most, most fans watching MMA, they might not, they might not realize that they might not even think they&#8217;re like, Oh, you&#8217;re hitting stuff and you&#8217;re hitting people. So you meditate, you know what I mean? Like they might not realize that that that could be, that could be a good thing. And it&#8217;s crazy how, when you say that it really resonates. And that&#8217;s one of the reasons I got into this field because I saw such a, a huge, not just passion, but a huge connection between business and growing as a business and growing as an athlete because it&#8217;s kind of a lot of the same kind of dynamics of you have to learn new things. You have to, you have to grow from failures. You have to keep going because it is, it&#8217;s a struggle. It takes time, it takes money and it takes a lot of effort to get to where you want to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach Colman<br>, I really liked that what you said about being anxiety side. Cause that, that really makes me think, cause I, I have really bad anxiety myself and I, I tend to similar, similar to what you said. I, I tend to, I will personally work out and I run and I do all that stuff to watch my anxiety, but my wife always nagged at me that I needed to get back into meditation. , and so maybe that&#8217;s something that I&#8217;ll, I&#8217;ll, I&#8217;ll force myself to start doing and clear my mind, especially right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Winters<br>Yeah. I, I&#8217;m definitely a very yang person, so I need that yin as you know, it balances me out. So also I&#8217;ve been, I&#8217;ve been surfing more, so that&#8217;s another kind of thing. , so I think I&#8217;m like, I just have this energy in me. That&#8217;s like as a kid who is very aggressive, like just, just wanted to throw things and like once people, but now I do that often and in an enclosed environment. And so I need the other side of it. I need to balance myself out through meditation and I actually really enjoyed the beginning of meditation. I was like, Oh, this is you sit down when you first meditate, you sit down. You&#8217;re like, this is overwhelming. This is I&#8217;m thinking way too much. This is not peaceful. It&#8217;s just, it, it feels like the opposite of what it should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Winters<br>But as you do it continuously, you start to like really deeply understand what&#8217;s actually happening. Like what is, what is meditation people? I think even myself like I&#8217;ll fall into the like all start to think, Oh, I should presence equals peace presence. Doesn&#8217;t always mean peace presence means just knowing what your attention is drawn to at that moment. So like, it could be something negative, like you had, I had a fight with my sister or something and, I&#8217;m thinking about what I said and everything, whatever. So that&#8217;s where my attention is. So, so that&#8217;s, I have to be present with the fact that I am thinking about that fight and not feeling good about that fight. And so then when you are aware of that feeling and the way that you feel in the, with things that you&#8217;re thinking of, , that awareness brings a space around the thought and the emotion. So you&#8217;re no longer, there&#8217;s no longer this resistance and this identification with like, Oh, I&#8217;m so, so sad. It&#8217;s like, okay, I&#8217;m sad. And I&#8217;m aware that I&#8217;m sad. So then there&#8217;s a space around it. , I don&#8217;t know. I forgot why I was talking about this, but that&#8217;s just something that I&#8217;ve definitely been. , there&#8217;s I feel more spacious inside of myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brand Power Analysis: Audrey Winters Professional MMA Fighter\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dreInxsDMWo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach Colman<br>No, I think that that&#8217;s, I think what you&#8217;re saying, it kind of resonates with me a little bit because I, when I go for runs, it&#8217;s meant when I go for runs, it&#8217;s meant for me to clear my head it&#8217;s meant for me, it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s supposed to be like meditation and lately, especially lately, I&#8217;ve noticed that a lot of my runs, with having anxiety, you kind of next thing, you know, it&#8217;s a lot, like when I read a book, I&#8217;ll get like 10 pages in and then I&#8217;ll realize, I don&#8217;t know anything that I just read. , it&#8217;s the same thing. When I run, I&#8217;ll get like, uh, you know, a half a mile in or a mile in and I&#8217;ll be like, I&#8217;ll just be so drowned and thinking about work and certain random things and work that it makes it harder for me to run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach Colman<br>And I ended up stopping next thing, you know, I&#8217;m walking for like two or three minutes. , and it&#8217;s like, so I can kind of see where you&#8217;re coming from an app and maybe leveraging some of that, meditation and practicing the meditation really out being in the moment. One thing I learned a lot from being in the moment a few years back, with one of my, with one my coaches, definitely mindfulness, and the mindfulness definitely led me to not really, I&#8217;m not going to say grow my business. It was a lot sooner than that, but it really helped me get to that gets to that point, especially now when you get crazy and you have to be like, you know, it&#8217;s not in my control, I have no control over it. I have to kind of wait, you know? , yeah. So I can definitely see where you&#8217;re coming from. So what kind led you to this moment where you&#8217;re at? And I know you kind of talked about helping the kids with the MMA, and I know everything&#8217;s kind of rough right now, but what, what really led you into wanting to become an MMA fighter?<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_e02955-2c, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_e02955-2c[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_e02955-2c\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_e02955-2c mark, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_e02955-2c[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_e02955-2c\"] mark{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading_e02955-2c wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_e02955-2c\">Mental Health Activities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Winters<br>I&#8217;ve always been drawn to things that make me feel strong and powerful. , so before I did MMA, I was very much into lifting weights and powerlifting. I did CrossFit for a little bit. , but at a certain point, I got kind of bored of it. There was like, okay, every week or every month I grow numbers. And to me it just wasn&#8217;t really satisfying cause I feel, I&#8217;m very creative. So I like to express that part of myself. And, so I moved out to California and I wanted to try to do it just because my sister had recommended this place. I was like, let&#8217;s try it. And I just loved it. Like there, just something about it. That just, it felt so right to me. , and like I said before, like always kind of an aggressive kid. So, , I remember in like fourth grade, I would like just to line boys up and just kick their shins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Winters<br>, no, I wouldn&#8217;t line them up. I would do that just sporadically at recess. And then, then I would get boys to line up to arm, wrestle me at lunch. , so I just, I love power just giving I don&#8217;t. , but it just, it makes me feel, it makes me feel powerful and strong and, ma MMA there&#8217;s a creative aspect to it. So, that really is very fulfilling for me. And I love moving my body. I love moving my body in a way that makes you feel beautiful and creative and strong. , so that kind of fulfills all of those things. , and then on top of that, there&#8217;s an enormous it&#8217;s MMA or martial arts is just, uh, is, is life like air. You can dive into any part of martial arts I think, and find a reflection in real life and, , learn from it and grow from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Winters<br>And I&#8217;ve grown so much because of the sport. I can give so much credit to like my own wellness and my starting MMA. And I was lucky enough that I started at a place that was very, my coach, my head coach is very nurturing in the best way. He&#8217;s, he&#8217;s helped me so much grows up as a fighter and has protected me from its kind of, I mean, obviously, it&#8217;s a very brutal sport, but inside the ring, but outside is also kind of brutal people. Aren&#8217;t always looking out for you, but I know that my coaches and I trust them a lot. , so they just, nurtured me in a way that made me feel very capable of really pursuing this in a legitimate way. , and with the idea of being the best. And I know that they have such a high quality of training. I just, think it&#8217;s inevitable that I will get to the top. So yeah, that&#8217;s, that&#8217;s kind of how it&#8217;s blossomed into what it is now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach Colman<br>No, that&#8217;s, that&#8217;s, that&#8217;s a great story. Uh, I mean, when you look at the fans and, and, and you look at how they probably perceive it, it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s probably so much different, but as you said, you, you, I think athletes have a thing of, they love change. I think I kind of have that too, where it&#8217;s it&#8217;s you do something, you learn it, you get bored of it. You want to move on. And that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so hard for me to continue working out. So I got so used to my old workouts that if I&#8217;m like, Oh, I have to do this, or I have to do that. Or I have to try this and try that. Then sometimes it could be a real struggle, but I think MMAs funny enough, it misses a whole different perspective from a geek perspective. , you know, I got my bachelor&#8217;s in graphic design, so, , years and years and years ago, and one thing that graphic designers have from a visual perspective is they always want to rebrand it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach Colman<br>They always want to rebrand every year. There are like, Oh, I hate what I have. I want to do this. And I think I got to the point where I was like, I can&#8217;t do this anymore. I&#8217;m going to grow my brand and stay consistent. I need to really stick with one thing. And so I really got into that really big into that. The online search optimization and Google search optimization, stuff like that. Cause that&#8217;s ever-changing. It&#8217;s always it&#8217;s that anxiety spot, but that&#8217;s off the subject, but now it&#8217;s very, I think it just goes to show you that everything&#8217;s kind of connected, you know, and that&#8217;s one of the reasons I really like working with athletes like yourself is because I feel like everything in sports, no matter what sport, no matter what you&#8217;re doing is there&#8217;s always a, there&#8217;s always a frame of, of connection between people and things. , so what is, what has been your biggest transition, with the sport, with, we could say with everything going on, but in general with let&#8217;s say, what was your biggest struggle with the transition from,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Winters<br>Well, let&#8217;s say this, like with what you&#8217;re doing now. Cause I know you&#8217;re going to school. Correct as well. How was it? How has, how has that impacted, your training and everything that you&#8217;re trying to do? Oh gosh, you can say, you can say as hard as crap if you want. It&#8217;s totally, frankly, I hate school. I, I love learning, but I don&#8217;t like the setup of a school I never had. I just I&#8217;ve always felt like there was too much pressure on the numbers and like, not enough, like excitement and passion for the actual subjects. , well actually, well in high school I went to a really great high school and there was, and there were a lot of, uh, teachers who were very passionate and very giving. , and in retrospect, that was a really great school at the time. I hated it. I&#8217;m very dyslexic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Winters<br>So, there definitely is an element of anxiety with the school. , in an elementary school, it was definitely, kind of traumatizing. A lot of my teachers were very mean to me because of my learning disability. , I didn&#8217;t even really see it as a disability, but like some people say it is, but, , I just learned differently. , and so now I&#8217;m in school. I enjoy it, I try to enjoy it as much as I can because I&#8217;m grateful that I have the opportunity to have an education and I&#8217;m grateful for my dad for helping with that. But I don&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t feel super inclined to go, but I do. And, , you know, I just make time, I just make time for the schoolwork that I have to do and I make sure that I, like, I always have it on my calendar. Like, do your schoolwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Winters<br>I add this little slot of time. Most of the time I do it sometimes. , but yeah, it&#8217;s, I can manage my time pretty well. So I know if I have to do something, I will do it. So I&#8217;ll put in my, calendar that I&#8217;ll do it at this time. And I also just, I hate having free time where I feel like I&#8217;m not being productive, in some way. So it&#8217;s actually good for me to have that time in between training to be, doing the schoolwork, because otherwise, I would always find something to do, but like, it&#8217;s good for me to have some kind of goal outside of the training. Cause, my family, there, there is definitely a good amount of, I wouldn&#8217;t don&#8217;t want to say pressure, but like my family is pretty well educated, so I kind of has to a part of that. So yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach Colman<br>Yeah. I, uh, I&#8217;m kind of the same way. I mean, I&#8217;m not gonna, I&#8217;m not going to complain right now, but I have a one-year-old and I&#8217;m my calendar is my life. As I&#8217;ve told you, especially, you know, have to have slots here even to do work. I have to block off two or three hours for work, but having a one-year-old is tough. It&#8217;s hard, but not just for the reasons people think it&#8217;s hard, it&#8217;s different for everyone, but I&#8217;m the same way I&#8217;ll sit down and you know, I&#8217;m at that age now where, you know, I don&#8217;t just sitting down and watching TV or, you know, even games. I don&#8217;t even really play. Like when I was a kid, I loved video games. I don&#8217;t even, I can&#8217;t even do that anymore. My mind is still everywhere, but the kid having a kid makes you want to, you&#8217;re not really doing anything, but you, but you&#8217;re doing something cause you have to take care of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach Colman<br>And so have that anxiety of, I need to do something, but I can&#8217;t like it. And so, yeah. Yeah. So now that we&#8217;re pretty similar in that way. I think that I think that&#8217;s one of the reasons I got into this field is because I think I have a lot of the same similarities, similarities with athletes. My dad, my dad was an NFL kicker for a while. I just wanted a different direction. I just kind of wanted to combine both, both of my passions together. Hence why? You know, as I said, I work out and stuff, but uh, it is tough. I can understand the school. I&#8217;ve always thought it was strange how people get jobs and they, they try there, they, they work not to work. Like they do their best to like find ways not to work. So I&#8217;m like, you know, you work eight hours, man. I&#8217;m like, it&#8217;s gonna see, like, it&#8217;s gonna take you 25 hours if you&#8217;re just sitting there and be on Facebook for 25 hours, like, you know, I just don&#8217;t get it. I don&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Winters<br>Okay. But everyone has their path. And like some people like that&#8217;s how they want to live and that&#8217;s fine. But I know for myself, like I really, I want to enjoy everything that I do. I don&#8217;t want to have any part of my life that&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve struggled with school because I don&#8217;t really enjoy it. I do my best to enjoy it, but it&#8217;s just, sometimes it&#8217;s just not there. , but like, I don&#8217;t care if I&#8217;m dirt poor, but I&#8217;m doing what I if I&#8217;m doing what I love, that&#8217;s fine. I really don&#8217;t care. I love nice things, but like I&#8217;d much rather be happy and fulfilled through what I&#8217;m doing than be doing things for other people that I just don&#8217;t really care about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach Colman<br>Yeah. No, I think having the business flying says that set&#8217;s very similar. If you don&#8217;t have the estimate like with you working with kids in MMA, I would assume if you didn&#8217;t like it and enjoy doing it, you wouldn&#8217;t be doing it, you know? And, uh, it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s basically a business what you&#8217;re doing and, and it&#8217;s very similar in that aspect is if you&#8217;re not enjoying what you&#8217;re doing, then you&#8217;re gonna, you&#8217;re gonna get sick of it pretty fast. And school was the same thing for me. The only cool thing about school was you knew that, Hey, I have a class and I have two hours of homework. It was there very similar to the corporate world where you&#8217;re going for eight hours and you were done. You nearly set your time up for something else. , I think being an athlete, you probably would agree with me. It&#8217;s a little bit different than that. And that&#8217;s probably why you meditate and why you work with the kids. Cause it&#8217;s like you get to combine multiple passions together. You still get to kind of train a little bit, but you get to learn the kids and you get to do something you love. No, I mean, what, what, what are you going to school? What are you going to school for? Again,<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_657dc9-aa, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_657dc9-aa[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_657dc9-aa\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_657dc9-aa mark, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_657dc9-aa[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_657dc9-aa\"] mark{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading_657dc9-aa wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_657dc9-aa\">Communications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Winters<br>I am going for communications. And my idea with that is like, I want to be able to communicate my story well. And, you know, at a certain point I know that I&#8217;ll have press conferences and, have to do PR. So, I find that hopefully, I can get something out of this education that I can use for real. , so far I&#8217;ve learned some things, but I think most of it is I have to do it. ,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach Colman<br>You have to do it. I, one thing I noticed when I got out into the business world is I learned more in the first year of my business than I learned, in the corporate world over 10 years of the corporate world. Uh, and it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s very similar. I mean, I do, I do really preach a lot in, in, in telling my pro the prospects that I talk to my clients, et cetera, that, you know, as you grow, make sure that you&#8217;re leveraging your time efficiency, efficiently, learn stuff in PR learned stuff in that, but at the end of the day, just hire someone else to do it. If you really, when you get to that point, you know, cause there&#8217;s no need, there&#8217;s no need to stress yourself, know enough that, you know, someone&#8217;s not screwing you over. Or, uh, you just don&#8217;t understand what they&#8217;re doing in here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach Colman<br>They&#8217;re all over the place. But, uh, but yeah, you always have to learn as you go. I was really bad at school too. I was going to go back for my MBA and I struck studying for it for two, three, and four weeks. I was grinding it. And then I realized that I&#8217;m like, I could probably just open a business and not have this much debt and grind out for a couple of years instead of paying 40, $50,000. And those tests are hard. Like you said like I&#8217;m not a test taker. So I&#8217;m always an over-thinker. And I look at this for a, B or C or D it&#8217;s like, why do we test that to be that way? And that&#8217;s why I like athletic stuff. It&#8217;s even though it&#8217;s a brined and there&#8217;s certain, it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s all different with whatever you&#8217;re doing here. You&#8217;re always, you always can set yourself up with a goal without having these weird barriers of, uh, Oh, well now you have to take this test and pay us $800. My wife&#8217;s a family therapist and she has to, you know, take tests and, you know, pass licenses every year and do all that stuff. And I&#8217;m like, I don&#8217;t know how you do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Winters<br>I think that I like to set my own goals, and school kind of like sets their own standard for what progress is. And so I think progress is very fluid and very, very personal and subjective. So what I find myself progressing in, or seeing progress in myself stolen, maybe like, that&#8217;s, what is, that&#8217;s nothing like you didn&#8217;t do anything, but so it&#8217;s different for everyone. , but yeah, I think school kind of like, they&#8217;re putting a lot of people who are very, very different, into a box and making them, like setting these goals. 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I was teaching through zoom and, , so I&#8217;ve been training for about four years, and still very new to the sport and I&#8217;m still learning a lot, a lot, a lot. , so going through it as a little bit nervous as like, Oh, I don&#8217;t really feel like I know enough, but I do. And, it&#8217;s been amazing. Uh, I want to give what I&#8217;ve gotten from MMA and just training to other people. And if I can give, martial arts can really change the trajectory of somebody&#8217;s life. , I know that it has for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Winters<br>So, , if I can give that to a child, it&#8217;s like, it&#8217;s like the most fulfilling thing that I could, that I can really think of, for me to do, just directly helping children and, and, , you know, really creating relationships with them. , you know, there&#8217;s obviously the more, , surface level, growth that you can see with them physically and, , like technique-wise. 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