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

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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

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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

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

Molly Bloom

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

Molly Bloom

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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

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

Molly Bloom

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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

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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

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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

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

Molly Bloom

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

Molly Bloom

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

Molly Bloom

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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You can tell a lot about a man's character by watching him win or lose money.

Molly Bloom

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