In the End, the Love You Take, is Equal to the Love You Make

May 24, 2022 Samantha Schell Family, Friendship, love, Perseverance discipline, exhaustion, fighting, hard work, love, motivation, relationships 6

Sitting my run down, worn out, bedraggled booty on the couch, sipping my triple espresso ice coffee, and mustering up the energy to begin my trainings and fight prep for the day. You see, motivation is a bitch. It’s not always there when you need it, sometimes it refuses to rear its ugly head, no […]

Coaching & Relationships

May 10, 2022 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Family, love bjj, coach, coaching, fighter, fighting, MMA, relationships, WMMA 6

Probably one of the hardest things in the world to deal with, is watching one of our loved ones suffer or get hurt and not being able to stop the pain from occurring. I don’t think it ever hurt me emotionally as badly before as when my husband or his kids were hurting from something […]

Checkmate

October 12, 2021 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence bjj, Competition, fighting, Jiu Jitsu, MMA, WMMA

We either get discouraged by our setbacks, or we use them as the fuel to help ignite us further into working harder to accomplish the goals we set for ourselves. I refuse to call the recent fight loss I had a failure; sure it stings and I cried a bit that night upset at what […]

Slow & Steady Wins the Race

December 8, 2020 Samantha Schell Adaptation, BJJ, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, self confidence, Teaching bjj, fighting, Injuries, kindness, patience, perseverance, satsfaction

Patience may be a virtue, the moral compass we should all strive to adhere the quality for, but it is also harder to master than a 300 pound blue belt learning to berimbolo. Think about it. If patience was so easily attainable, New Year’s resolutions wouldn’t exist. There wouldn’t be an influx of new gym […]

Just Let Me Bang, Bro

September 15, 2020 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, winners bjj, cage fight, Competition, fighter, fighting, Jiu Jitsu, MMA, WMMA

Fighting is an unconventional occupation as is, but throw in a global pandemic to the mix and suddenly your whole world is in disarray. Understandably, there are numerous unprecedented precautions we all must now implement, but securing a contracted fight during the Covid-19 era is almost damn near impossible. Either people haven’t been training due […]

Float Like Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee

October 15, 2019 Samantha Schell Anxiety, BJJ, Competing, Family, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence bjj, butterfly, butterfly effect, Dreams, fighting, Jiu Jitsu, perseverance, positivity

I preface a lot of posts by saying I don’t know who needs to hear this but (and then implementing my infinite wisdom on the masses with the next sentence) but this time I am screaming this advice from the rooftops because this is something everyone in all walks of life needs to hear. You […]

No Guts, No Glory. No Pain, No Story.

September 3, 2019 Samantha Schell Adaptation, BJJ, Competing, Family, Friendship, love, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Positivity, self confidence, winners bjj, fighting, Jiu Jitsu, love, MMA, positivity, Quitters, winners

Crying doesn’t make you a loser. Bleeding doesn’t make you a loser. Tapping doesn’t make you a loser. Even failing doesn’t make you a loser. Quitting, however, does. And this, I should add, is with anything in life, not just Jiu Jitsu or MMA. Quite recently, I was ready to give up on something because […]

Don’t Call it a Comeback

April 16, 2019 Samantha Schell BJJ, Competing, Family, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity bjj, cagefighting, comeback, fighting, MMA, perseverance, WMMA

The highs won’t ever feel as high if it weren’t for all the lows we face in life. A couple months ago, I busted my face open and lost a title fight and felt absolutely horrible. I was unfocused and deviated from any game plan set in motion and deserved to lose and suffered greatly […]

Adulting is Hard, mkay?

March 26, 2019 Samantha Schell Anxiety, BJJ, Competing, Family, mental health, Parenting, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, Stress adulthood, adulting, bjj, competing, fighting, Jiu Jitsu, perseverance, trying

Ever hear the phrase that if you’re always the smartest person in the room, then you should get up and go find a new room? I am really trying to abide by this mindset lately. Not that I’m ever the most intelligent in any given room, I’m a moron, but I am always willing to […]

It’s Okay to Not be Okay

October 16, 2018 Samantha Schell Anxiety, BJJ, Competing, Family, Friendship, Laughter, mental health, Overcoming Adversity, Perseverance, Positivity, self confidence, Stress Anxiety, battles, bjj, chronic, Depression, fighting, Jiu Jitsu, love, mental health, self care

Lately, I’ve been seeing more and more posts on social media in regards to mental health and my friend’s persistent struggles with bouts of sadness and depression. These feelings impact more people than we could possibly imagine, but since mental health is seen as a “weakness” or taboo subject, many end up suffering in silence, […]

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