Molly Bloom

Professions :

I approach everything, including sobriety, with the same mentality I approached sports with. You're going to put in the time. You've got to suit up, show up, and keep your eyes on the win.

eyes you time sports

In sports, especially skiing, you have to be comfortable with risk. You have to have a relationship with fear, and it can't dominate the decision-making process.

you fear relationship sports

High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble.

rich poor people way

Life is about making choices, seeing those choices through, and living through consequences.

consequences living choices life

You're as sick as your secrets, and my whole life was a secret, so it's just... it's been really healing, and I've found a lot of inner peace by just owning everything and moving forward from there.

you moving-forward peace life

I believe that refusing to quit and refusing to fail will trump talent and brilliance in the end.

end will talent believe

This was 2008, you know. The economy was falling apart, spiraling. And I was hosting a game in New York, and there was $5 to $7 million on the table.

new game know you

I think everyone can relate to that fall from grace - having life change in an instant or having to stand for some of your bad choices, that feeling of 'Nothing is ever going to be good again.'

good change grace life

I saw someone lose $100 million in one night. When you watch that, as an owner-operator of a game, you realize that these numbers are incredibly unsustainable, incredibly unhealthy. So, I was not happy about this loss. It brought me no joy or adrenaline.

me you happy night

The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.

human you failure spirit

I've always been very ambitious and very determined and very compassionate at the same time.

same always determined time

I hang out with my grandma, go to sleep at 8:30, and that's it.

hang out go sleep

Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.

look you forgiveness past

My father is a psychologist who wouldn't let fear stop us. Particularly with me, he was hell bent on requiring us and teaching us to walk through fear. I don't know if I would've become someone who taps into their ability to push through those tough situations without him.

walk me fear father

Even if there are people around to help you, you don't suffer with an audience; you don't triumph with an audience.

suffer help you people

I did a little soul searching to explore where I had gone wrong, why I made the decisions I did, how my definitions of success and ambition were off. I love a great new pair of shoes - I love to look at my bank account and see zeroes - but what is it attached to?

shoes soul success love

I would love to raise a fund or get some awesome empowered women together and put together an advisory board to get behind female entrepreneurs.

behind women together love

My regular game in New York City was a $250,000 buy-in, no limit. So people were burning through that, a lot of times in the first 30 minutes.

city new game people

I think, before I had money, I believed that money would solve my problems, that it would give me power and I wouldn't have financial stress anymore, and it would completely change my life. And then, when I had money, it changed a lot of things, but it didn't change the way I felt inside at all.

me money change life

I believed that writing my story was my best shot to be able to pay my mom and my attorneys back and pull myself out of this massive crisis that I had put myself in.

story best myself mom

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