Passion Beyond Pay: Taylor Mauldin Talks Her Drive

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00:00so there's a saying what is it if you know find something you love and you know you'll never work

00:05a day in your life you clearly love this you have to love to do what you do but it's not like there's

00:11a ton of money in it right so what drives you so much right you're a single mother you're out there

00:16you're fighting you're getting punched in the face you got to train your ass off all the time and

00:21let's be real i mean people complain about ufc fighter pay and sean's a great guy but you're not

00:27a millionaire because of him right now what why do you love this sport so much what does it mean to

00:33you you know i think as a as a young girl uh i've always had a great example of what hard work looks

00:39like my dad's a blue collar a construction worker woke up really early every morning and so by nature

00:45it was uh ingrained in me to do something like that and by nature i just learned to love the grind and

00:50i think it's rewarding in the end there's nothing it's hard to describe to people that's never fought

00:56but there's nothing more rewarding than to work hard for something and then getting that hand

01:01rates at the end it's it's like um i don't know it's a high on life you know it's it's exciting and

01:07it's you can't really put a price on it and so that's what drives me so you say you're a dad's a

01:12construction worker were you were you like a tough teenage girl were you like a tough little girl

01:17that were like yeah i'm as tough as the boys are type of thing or did you not know like oh yeah i've

01:23got this mean streak and toughness in me you know i'm the youngest of a pretty big family and i'd say

01:30my dad always told me don't you be crying don't hit like a girl

01:35you know i'd say i was pretty tough i'm still am tough it takes a little crazy to do anything like

01:43this and i've got that crazy um streak you know

01:46you