"people don't know about this I had to keep it a [Music] secret uh it's really really difficult Ronda Ronda you have voted the best female athlete of all time what was it that made you the person that ..."

"often ask them to tell me the most sort of pertinent first event in their story that went on to shape who they are and with you from reading through your story it's quite clear that the first potentia..."

"umbilical cord was wrapped around your neck the doctors gave you a zero out of 10 in terms of your health when you were a baby what age did you learn to speak properly um I didn't really speak like in..."

"home life like for you before the age of 10 I mean I thought everything was perfect and awesome uh my my dad passed when I was eight though and um I didn't know but he had broken his back in a suing a..."

"died by Suicide um my mom told me right you know right after it happened how how how does a mother explain that to an 8-year-old child I mean she's a PhD in educational psychology so very you know tec..."

"champion in her own right yeah in everything she um got a perfect score on the SATs at 16 graduated college at 19 um then she won the World Championships in Judo the first American to ever win the Wor..."

"childhoods and those sort of early formative experiences and the traumas that we experience they leave fingerprints on us in various ways that follow us for the rest of our lives um for good for bad b..."

"and at sort of 10 years old you moved to Santa Monica um and you had your first attempt and try at Judo is that right yeah I um well I was swimming here but I wasn't so much into swimming it's kind of..."

"tournament people start considering you to be this child prodigy in Judo what was it about when you look back on yourself now with all the wisdom you have what was it about you that made you Excel abo..."

"and train with big Jim at 16 years old you leave home at 16 years old and go and train with big Jim who's Big Jim and why did you go and live with him what for eight months roughly oh God mean on and ..."

"and at this time you're 16 you're you have your first experience with what we call bulimia you talk about this in the book where because of the pressure for to make way almost every week you struggled..."

"called you missman yeah in school it wasn't cool for you know little girls to be muscular back then and so uh before I dropped out at 16 you know I uh I was really muscular and um people would like gr..."

"18 you leave home and you go off to um you leave home as you say because you felt like you wanted to have some control over your life um and I think you on route to the Olympics at this point you were..."

"through line in your story that starts very young about this idea of um the importance of validation and respect from other people this kind of bit of a chip on your shoulder that was driving you yeah..."

"like you you were living with a bit of a secret throughout your sort of early MMA career and the fact that you had what appeared to be a bit of a concussion based brain injury of sorts because in your..."

"understand the context of the what it's like to get a concussion and to live with a concussion that ends up compounding to make it even more sensitive you you you take those big hits when you're young..."

"hands in your book you talk about the relationship you had with Edmund and it wasn't always great in terms of his approach to coaching you talk about how he would physically strike you during training..."

"do to your emotions though because we develop you know at the age when most of us are developing our emotions you're having yours suppressed and you're being made into this really quote unquote tough ..."

"your coach um just just he was crossing them in terms of the things he was able to say and do yeah I mean a lot of it was like he just wanted to know where I was all the time and um like I needed to b..."

"going to allow women into the UFC to fight but then Dana changes his mind and he changes his mind because of you effectively so in September 2012 I remember the I remember it very fondly I remember wh..."

"fighting that frequently because that's how often Dana called and I told him that you no if you sign me I will be there to fight whenever you need me and I never said no and so anytime that I got an o..."

"for the UFC as the first ever woman to fight in the UFC how did how did that feel um validating really yeah and I was just really excited I just felt like I was in on a secret that the whole world did..."

"were the UFC champion you take up acting and you you feature in a couple of films like the Fast and Furious The Expendables Etc was that something that you always had planned or is that something that..."

"you had UFC 193 where you were lined up to fight Holly Holmes in Melbourne Australia I remember where I was when that fight happened I I didn't miss many UFC fights and I still don't miss many but it ..."

"you left that octagon what would I have seen a lot of crying you know um I had to get my lip sewed up the muscle underneath and then the the skin I remember I was so out of it that I like bit off a ch..."

"people realize the extent of they see it as kind of just a game you fighting they see it's some kind of game that they're watching like they're playing on Xbox or Playstation but I don't think they un..."

"professional career professionally yeah was it the hardest moment in your personal life no losing my dad was course you went on to fight Amanda Nunes as at UFC 207 in 2016 and the the fight um ends ag..."

"was there the whole time he was the one supplying the Crepes yeah he's amazing he he really was you know helped drag me out of my own hole and I'm very much like you know like a Gollum cave creature i..."

"ultimately what sort of I guess pulled you out of your little cave there but yeah I I had to get out of the cave and in front of like a crowd of thousands of people alive of course which is really fun..."

"surprised me and again it's because if we only get to see this sort of 2D representation of someone on a screen whether they're you know through your wrestling career or UFC career which is kind of li..."

"feel Expendable to the UFC to the WWE yes yeah I think you all we all did and they they made sure to make us feel that way why they made sure to make you feel that way yeah so that you wouldn't get ab..."

"at at the WWE as well so you're not employees you have to pay for your own health care and all these kinds of things from what I read in your book yep which is pretty crazy I mean that would never be ..."

"to the UFC after you left in 2019 um you were there till from 2017 to 2019 and um in 2017 you is when you got married with Travis I couldn't figure out from the from the dates I didn't think the date ..."

"people don't understand the because there are people that have gone through this and they understand although because no one's talking about it they've not had their feelings echoed by someone publicl..."

"difficult to go from those Arenas that I watched you in all around the world with all those people screaming and cheering to this Farm in Oregon because I don't know I don't know one assumes that the ..."

"other picture that I found when I was doing my research is this beautiful picture here and the question I have for you is about the lessons you learned from this man oh I'm going to keep this you can ..."

"exactly what you did in your career you showed everyone and um you know it's funny because I I'm a big UFC fan so I watched your career enjoyed it so much you gave me some incredible moments throughou..."

"tremendous amount about life about happiness about family about committing yourselves to Something in the way in with the form of Mastery that you had um but also more more than anything what I take f..."