I’d Rather Be The Hunter Than The Prey

July 21, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, self confidence, Teaching adaptability, evolution, hunter, savage, strength, survival

Don’t be the person out here wearing Milk Bone shorts in a dog eat dog world where you were lied to about someone’s bark being worse than their bite. People are encircling you and licking their lips at the chance to eat you alive and you’re galavanting about in Lady Gaga’s meat suit looking like […]

Agree to Disagree

June 23, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, Family, Friendship, Positivity, Teaching hatred, internet, learning, negativity, online, opinions, positivity, social media

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we can disagree about something and have opposing viewpoints and still remain friends, acquaintances, or at least cordial to one another. We live in a day and age where civility seems to go out the window when two people fall on opposite sides of the fences […]

Long Live Love

June 9, 2020 Samantha Schell Family, Friendship, love, Overcoming Adversity, Positivity, Teaching equality, family, friendship, gym, love, pride, relationships 3

2020 has been a hell of a year so far, and one that has left me with an abundance of questions with very little answers, and if I may add, a sour taste in my mouth. If it is so easy to hate someone we do not even know based on appearance, why isn’t it […]

Khaleesi

May 26, 2020 Samantha Schell Family, Friendship, Teaching burn, learning, relationships, sunburn

Don’t make the mistake of getting burned by the people you allow into your life only to be used, abused, and taken advantage of over and over again. A lot of times, they don’t even make an SPF strong enough for the ensuing raging inferno and damaging rays the people in your life can exude. […]

Mind Yo Business (No One Asked You Karen)

February 18, 2020 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Perseverance, Positivity, Teaching advice, bjj, Jiu Jitsu, learning, MMA, WMMA 4

Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life; it is going straight into the trash with my publisher’s clearance house scam checks. Yet when you are in a profession that can lead to being in the spotlight, everyone and their 3rd cousin once removed thinks they are in a position to offer their 2 cents […]

Putting the ‘Possible’ in ‘Impossible’

January 29, 2019 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Family, Friendship, Laughter, love, Positivity, self confidence, Stress, Teaching, winners bjj, happiness, love, MMA, positivity, Schell Shock BJJ, WMMA

As I approach my fight this coming week, I am doing some reflecting. Primarily, reflecting on all the good in my life because no matter the outcome for the title this weekend, I have so much going on that I can appreciate and be grateful for. There are people out there that love to throw […]

Who Run the World?

November 27, 2018 Samantha Schell BJJ, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, Teaching bjj, female empowerment, self defense, strong, women

Women. The bearers of the children, the maternal figure, the estrogen fueled gentle warrior. A vast multitude of adjectives can be used to describe her role, but what I never want the word ‘woman’ to be synonymous with is ‘victim’ or ‘weak’. This past weekend, I hosted a 2 hour free women’s self defense seminar […]

The Children of Today; the Leaders of Tomorrow

October 30, 2018 Samantha Schell BJJ, Family, Friendship, love, Parenting, Positivity, Teaching bjj, Children, future, generation, instruction, Schell Shock BJJ coach

You never know who is watching you; how your thoughts and actions are impacting others until you see it come to fruition. The more I put myself out there, the more vulnerable I become but the more raw and relatable I seem. With as often as I compete and my presence on social media, I […]

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