Even if there are people around to help you, you don't suffer with an audience; you don't triumph with an audience. Molly Bloom More Quotes by Molly Bloom More Quotes From Molly Bloom 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. Molly Bloom 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. Molly Bloom you fear relationship sports High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble. Molly Bloom rich poor people way Life is about making choices, seeing those choices through, and living through consequences. Molly Bloom 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. Molly Bloom you moving-forward peace life I believe that refusing to quit and refusing to fail will trump talent and brilliance in the end. Molly Bloom 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. Molly Bloom 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.' Molly Bloom 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. Molly Bloom me you happy night The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much. Molly Bloom human you failure spirit I've always been very ambitious and very determined and very compassionate at the same time. Molly Bloom same always determined time I hang out with my grandma, go to sleep at 8:30, and that's it. Molly Bloom 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. Molly Bloom 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. Molly Bloom walk me fear father 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? Molly Bloom 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. Molly Bloom 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. Molly Bloom 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. Molly Bloom 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. Molly Bloom story best myself mom You can tell a lot about a man's character by watching him win or lose money. Molly Bloom you man money character
