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Speaker 1: I'm Lisa and Akazawa join me on season two of

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Speaker 1: Stars and Stars with Lisa, where I sit down with

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Speaker 1: some of the most exciting stars of our time to

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Speaker 1: find out what their birth chart reveals about their life's purpose,

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Speaker 1: their relationships, and their challenges. Winner of the Signal Award

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Speaker 1: for Most Inspirational Podcast, Stars and Stars will help you

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Speaker 1: make sense of today's complicated times even if you're an

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Speaker 1: astrology skeptic. You can listen to Stars and Stars with

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Speaker 1: Lisa wherever you get your podcasts. Don't forget to follow

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Speaker 2: Although a couple of rob me listening if you on.

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Speaker 3: I'm standing in the middle of a driveway peering into

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Speaker 3: an open garage door on a hot summer night. I'm

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Speaker 3: in my hometown, Stockton, California. The garage has been fully

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Speaker 3: transformed into a makeshift gym, with matts covering most of

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Speaker 3: the concrete floor and a heavy punching bag swinging next

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Speaker 3: to the washing machine.

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Speaker 2: Come this swamp, don't.

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Speaker 3: You can't really tell because you can only hear her

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Speaker 3: grunting at her coach, But inside, Faith Gomez is moving

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Speaker 3: with precision and power, pivoting on her toes as she

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Speaker 3: lands every job. Her belts and metals are proudly displayed

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Speaker 3: on the wall, right next to a letter from the

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Speaker 3: City of Stockton honoring her achievements.

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Speaker 4: Don't keep your habits down.

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Speaker 3: One of her coaches, who everyone calls Suley, is wearing

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Speaker 3: a thick, padded chess guard to absorb her punches. Still,

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Speaker 3: I can tell her quickness is wearing him out.

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Speaker 4: Don't accept direction, So he was a Jeff.

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Speaker 2: Time.

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Speaker 5: I see you guys already working on getting hand down

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Speaker 5: and all that.

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Speaker 3: As the training session is about to wrap, Fate's other coach,

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Speaker 3: her dad, Simon, enters the garage to see how things

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Speaker 5: To push, push it out, it up, put it down,

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Speaker 3: Faith is just two weeks out from her next big fight,

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Speaker 3: an all female competition and her first international one. So

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Speaker 3: every job, hook and pivot matter.

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Speaker 6: Javid, like you guess, said David, right hand, always right

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Speaker 6: here with rick, and move it aggressively.

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Speaker 4: I tell it to be a little aggressively and I would boom,

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Speaker 4: yeah about that else, fucker come on right hand. Right after.

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Speaker 3: A year ago, I knew I wanted to tell a

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Speaker 3: story that showcased the boxing scene here in my hometown

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Speaker 3: of Stockton. A lot of greats have come out of

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Speaker 3: our city. We have the Diaz brothers, Nick and Nate,

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Speaker 3: who put Stockton on the global MMA map. But even

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Speaker 3: before that, boxing had been woven into the fabric of

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Speaker 3: this place, the legendary fights held at the Civic Auditorium

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Speaker 3: back in the day. This place has a nickname, Fat

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Speaker 3: City that reflects both irony and pride. There are layers

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Speaker 3: to this stemming from Stockton's heyday, where you could come

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Speaker 3: out to the Central Valley and make it big, lift, fat,

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Speaker 3: and luxuriously. We may not have much, but we fight

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Speaker 3: hard and there's beauty in that. We are news desert,

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Speaker 3: a place where we mostly see mugshots and crime stats

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Speaker 3: come out of our community. Yes, Stockton can be a gritty,

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Speaker 3: rough around the edges type place. So I knew I

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Speaker 3: overlooked corners of this country, if you look hard enough,

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Speaker 3: there's power, resilience, hope. But what I didn't know was

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Speaker 3: that the story I'd end up telling would be about

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Speaker 3: a teenager. Faith is only fifteen years old.

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Speaker 6: Okay, so this is my bed.

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Speaker 7: You can't see the bottom sheet, but it's pink because

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Speaker 7: I'm going through my girly eric.

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Speaker 3: Faith pulls up the comforter of her twin bed to

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Speaker 3: reveal a hot, pink fitted sheet. On top of her

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Speaker 7: I'm Faith Gomes attend squat Stocked, an early college academy

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Speaker 7: known as SECA. I still gotta get used to saying softmore.

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Speaker 7: I'm saying I'm fifteen and everything.

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Speaker 3: Her thick brown hair perfectly frames the roundness of her

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Speaker 7: I have my mom, I have my dad, I have

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Speaker 3: I was drawn to Faith's story not just because of

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Speaker 3: So for the last year I've been documenting her life

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Speaker 3: as she prepares for her next big fight. Her story

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Speaker 3: for something more, even when the odds are stacked against you.

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Speaker 2: What it's like to balance school girlhood and a dream

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Speaker 2: of becoming boxing's next big name. Producer Adriana Rodriguez takes

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Speaker 2: us back to Stockton to continue our story about Faith.

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Speaker 3: I'm in faith off white room because she wants to

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Speaker 3: show me something.

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Speaker 7: And then this is rough because you can feel it.

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Speaker 3: Faith picks up one of her many stuffed animals so

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Speaker 3: I can feel it's fur.

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Speaker 4: Oh you have a lot of monkeys.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god. That's Jazz, Faith's thirteen year old sister.

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Speaker 3: The two share room. People often think Jazz is older,

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Speaker 4: No, when people see me, they say him.

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Speaker 6: When they see me, they have a baby face.

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Speaker 7: And then when they see Faith, she has a baby body.

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Speaker 4: But she's a grown man woman.

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Speaker 6: She just a grown man woman.

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Speaker 3: Do you see?

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Speaker 1: Though?

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Speaker 3: The girls are hilarious, constantly cracking jokes and full of

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Speaker 3: goofy teenage energy. The corkboard hanging next to their TV

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Speaker 3: says it all. It's covered with photos from tournaments and metals,

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Speaker 3: glittery stickers, Hello Kitty and k Pop cutouts, a collage

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Speaker 8: And these are my rosaries. Oh yeah, to keep kept two.

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Speaker 4: We're not Catholic, but we're Christian.

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Speaker 3: Faith has two rosaries hanging right next to that glittery

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Speaker 3: covered corkboard. They're families. Religious beliefs run deep and are

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Speaker 3: to the way they care for each other. Faith is

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Speaker 3: more than just a name. It's what holds the Gomez

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Speaker 3: family together and out of the ring. Since you've been

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Speaker 3: doing this for four years, like you know, you're still

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Speaker 3: a kid, and I feel like boxing it's kind of

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Speaker 4: I definitely changed over the years, and once I got

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Speaker 4: into boxing, it just cleared my mind and helped them,

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Speaker 9: I still mess around, you know, I'm still kids, you know,

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Speaker 9: but when it comes to boxing, it's like that's all

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Speaker 3: As I've gotten to know Faith over the past year,

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Speaker 3: I often find myself forgetting that she's just a teenager.

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Speaker 3: She wakes up before dawn to run powers through a

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Speaker 4: Right now, I'm taking ap classes and college classes, so

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Speaker 4: it's a little more harder than just going to regular

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Speaker 3: She even sometimes has to miss a week of school

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Speaker 9: I feel like I'm just trying to enjoy the time

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Speaker 3: Yet somehow she finds time to do her homework and

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Speaker 7: When people going to stockdon like that place is places hard,

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Speaker 7: the place is ghetto. You know, they have all these

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Speaker 3: As someone who's also from Stockton, I hear her words

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Speaker 7: People in Stockton stick together and they they will to

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Speaker 3: Faith's family has a long history in Stockton and with boxing.

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Speaker 3: Her dad, Simon, is from here.

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Speaker 5: Grew up around violence, group around it, and it was

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Speaker 5: right in front of my face. It was almost for sure,

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Speaker 5: you're going to join a gang. At that period of time,

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Speaker 3: Getting talent, Simon leaned into sports. He played football and

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Speaker 5: My story is it?

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Speaker 4: And like unique?

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Speaker 5: Is this a slocking story of kid had to fight

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Speaker 5: his way home a lot. I didn't choose to join

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Speaker 3: And he's right, I know that story too, of having

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Speaker 3: to fight my way home from school, except I was

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Speaker 3: were not afraid to run up on someone for making

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Speaker 3: had to swing. Stockton will do that to a kid.

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Speaker 3: It builds resilience into our DNA. Stockton was the biggest

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Speaker 3: so growing up in Stockton means you learn to fight,

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Speaker 3: sometimes metaphorically and sometimes literally. So when Simon says his

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Speaker 3: Stockton get it, whether we like it or not. Faith

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Speaker 3: grew up like any other kid, curious, energetic, always on

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Speaker 3: the move, but even from a young age, her athleticism

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Speaker 3: stood out. Simon would catch her climbing on the fridge,

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Speaker 4: Four, I want to start fighting, and always begging them NonStop, like.

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Speaker 7: Take me to gym, let me go work out, let

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Speaker 7: me go fight someone, you know once in.

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Speaker 4: A while, get the bits out me and her words bam, bam.

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Speaker 5: You know, she had a lot of power in her hands.

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Speaker 5: We're just, you know, six seven years old, and I

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Speaker 4: Find my sister's that time.

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Speaker 3: Out of all of her sisters, Faith was the only

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Speaker 3: her dad do mma and was captivated by the boxing

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Speaker 3: matches on TV. She had just turned ten when she

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Speaker 3: really started begging her dad to box.

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Speaker 4: I don't want my daughter to box.

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Speaker 5: I know how it does get in the face. I

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Speaker 5: know how does it get kicked, and it's not fun.

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Speaker 4: You know, I don't want that for my kid.

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Speaker 8: And she bugged me and bugged.

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Speaker 4: Me and bugged me.

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Speaker 3: It was twenty twenty, the world had just shut down,

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Speaker 3: and Faith was still asking to box. With lockdown keeping

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Speaker 3: everyone home, Simon finally ran out of reasons to say no.

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Speaker 4: Finally he let up, and he was like a cigarette gent.

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Speaker 5: I was off of work. You know, nobody's working, and

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Speaker 5: basically I couldn't tell her no anymore.

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Speaker 3: Part of him wanted to shield her from that grind,

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Speaker 3: but he also recognized something in her. Letting her train

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Speaker 3: structure and self discipline that once saved him. The plan

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Speaker 3: was just to sign up, get a feel for the

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Speaker 3: to the gym.

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Speaker 8: She's like, hey, do I get to fight today?

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Speaker 9: After the first like sparring, I had a liking today.

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Speaker 3: You're ten at that age. Yeah, It's hard to wrap

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Speaker 3: That cramping that gets so bad it makes her throw

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Speaker 7: You could gain the one to three pounds I have

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Speaker 3: It's not just about discomfort, It's about discipline.

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Speaker 7: I could get through this. I could get through my weight,

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Speaker 7: I could get through cramps. I could get through everything,

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Speaker 2: Coming up on Latino USA, the complicated relationship that this

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Speaker 5: Lid which I take boxing my life from this kid,

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Speaker 2: It does no word and now we step into the

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Speaker 10: Here my dad saying, you going, Faith, this is what

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Speaker 10: we work for. Get mad, this is what came for.

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Speaker 8: Ready, stay with us.

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Speaker 2: Yes, welcome back to Latino, USA. I'm Maria Hosa. We're

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Speaker 2: going to go back to the story of Faith and

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Speaker 2: producer Adriana Rodriguez, who's going to start by addressing the

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Speaker 2: physical intensity of boxing, especially when it's young girls in

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Speaker 3: I should probably state the obvious boxing is brutal.

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Speaker 4: It just is.

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Speaker 3: I've watched Faith fight a handful of times now and

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Speaker 5: The only way to protect a kid is either take

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Speaker 5: chose to be obsessive with that part of safety.

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Speaker 3: Either you teach your kid how to do it right,

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Speaker 5: We tried to take boxing life from this kid, which

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Speaker 5: I do it does not work. You can take your phone,

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Speaker 4: She's fine with that.

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Speaker 5: But every time you try to take boxing life shed

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Speaker 5: I almost feel disrespectfu. She's ready to fight, be not.

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Speaker 3: Everyone sees what Faith is doing and feels inspired. I've

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Speaker 3: seen people questioning youth boxing online, and even medical experts

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Speaker 5: I would put her in some of these situations if

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Speaker 5: I didn't trust what we do and what she she's

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Speaker 5: not looking good, you know, then we wouldn't put her

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 10: Corner makes some boys or face.

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Speaker 3: One of face early fights took place in the tiny

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Speaker 3: town of Coolidge, Arizona. She was just twelve, and this

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Speaker 3: isn't a kid whose family can casually fly her around

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Speaker 3: the country for tournaments. Every trip takes planning, fundraising, and

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Speaker 3: sacrifice from everyone. But Simon knows how important these fights are.

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Speaker 3: For an amateur boxer, because it could be the moment

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Speaker 3: to catch the eye of the right coach, the right promoter,

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Speaker 4: I heard him in the corner.

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Speaker 10: Look you going, Faith, if you want this fight, this

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Speaker 10: is all you. This is all you. This is what

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Speaker 10: we worked for. We didn't come all the way from

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Speaker 10: California to come here to lose this fight. You know

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Speaker 10: you got, this is what we worked for.

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Speaker 3: Faith's opponents stumbled to the ground, and Faith couldn't believe

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Speaker 3: what she had just done.

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Speaker 11: I've seen her lay on the floor and it shocked me,

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Speaker 11: like I just dropped this girl, Like did I just did?

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Speaker 4: I just bring the crowd to go silent.

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Speaker 2: To your winner, my unanimous decision.

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Speaker 3: This fight changed everything boxing.

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Speaker 10: You got a blue corner, Faith.

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Speaker 3: Faith didn't just hold her own. She dropped a top

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Speaker 10: I'll see to the music. I'll spill in it, you know,

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Speaker 10: Winter Loss.

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Speaker 11: I gave it my all. I dropped the top girl,

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Speaker 3: Listen, I get it, I get it. It might sound

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Speaker 3: same one who giggles with her sister right after they're

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Speaker 3: done arguing about sitting on each other's bed. Last December,

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Speaker 3: Faith was fourteen. She and her family traveled across the

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Speaker 3: country to the USA Boxing National Championship in Richmond, Virginia.

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Speaker 3: I went to and I'm not gonna lie. I almost

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Speaker 3: Watch literally notified me that my heart rate suddenly rose

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Speaker 3: and I wasn't even the one in the ring. In

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Speaker 3: the end, Faith did great in her bracket, and for

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Speaker 4: She's a top girl.

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Speaker 11: She's never been defeated.

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Speaker 4: I seen her guys, someone who was.

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Speaker 11: Worth fighting, worth every bit of my time, and she

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Speaker 11: didn't respect any of her fighters, and I want her

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Speaker 4: I want to show who.

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Speaker 3: I am face opponent was known for ending fights early,

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Speaker 3: and here was Faith going pound for pound, punch for punch,

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Speaker 10: You hear my dad saying, keep going, Faith, this is

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Speaker 10: If you ain't mad, you ain't ready, what a loss

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Speaker 10: You're going to show her that you came here to fight,

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Speaker 10: and you came here to give it to that.

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Speaker 3: Even with the words of encouragement, Faith found herself slowing down.

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Speaker 3: Her punches got a little lazy, and she stopped bouncing

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Speaker 11: My arms are tired, and how I just didn't want

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Speaker 3: The bell rings, and Faith goes back to her corner.

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Speaker 4: Something to My.

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Speaker 10: Dad told me, how like, it don't matter what happened

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Speaker 11: You know you gave it to me. You know you

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Speaker 11: did everything you could.

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Speaker 10: Faith, this is what we came for.

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Speaker 3: Faith lost, But she held her own against one of

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Speaker 3: chores and curfews, got in that ring and showed a

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Speaker 3: It's fierce, it's alive, It's earned her parents, her siblings,

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Speaker 3: her coaches. They're all in this with her, and so

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Speaker 8: We will be right back, don't they. Yes, Hey, we're back.

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Speaker 3: There are clearly more opportunities for young boxers now, but

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Speaker 12: So my parents didn't let me play sports. They didn't

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Speaker 12: And then the other thing is girls don't fight.

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Speaker 3: Blanca Gutierres founded the all female Beautiful Brawlers competition. It's

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Speaker 3: her gym called baby Face Boxing. Blanca grew up watching

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Speaker 12: Six months later, I was fighting, and so I could

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Speaker 12: I was like shit, like this is beautiful. This is

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Speaker 3: So years later, Blanca built the space. She never had

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Speaker 3: this is exactly the competition Faith has been training for.

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Speaker 3: The Beautiful Brawlers fight card hosted by Blanca's gym, a

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Speaker 10: We're going to start this event, mom, and we want.

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Speaker 4: To say thank you for showing on, thank you for

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Speaker 12: The first time England comes across the pond to fight

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Speaker 3: I've been to my fair share of boxing tournaments at

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Speaker 3: One by one, the fighters step into the ring for

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Speaker 3: rivalry but in sweaty, smiling hugs between opponents, no matter

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Speaker 6: Right now, I feel confident, comfortable. I've been training for it,

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Speaker 3: Her hands are wrapped, her gloves are on, She's bouncing

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Speaker 3: in place, calm, focus, confident as ever. This isn't just

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Speaker 6: I mean, it's whatever.

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Speaker 10: I mean.

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Speaker 6: I'm coming for that belt, pink belt. Now, I'm trying

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Speaker 6: to win the top international fight. I mean, that's what

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Speaker 6: I came before, and that fight right away.

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Speaker 3: With the footwork of a dancer and the grit of

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Speaker 3: a street fighter, Faith puts on her show. Faith won

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Speaker 3: her match and also walked away with the second belt

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Speaker 3: for best fight of the night. I caught up with

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Speaker 3: Faith outside of the gym just moments after the fight.

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Speaker 3: A small crowd had already formed, family, friends, even a

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Speaker 3: few strangers. They were all waiting for a chance to

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Speaker 6: All Right, I just want I just want the one

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Speaker 6: I was talking about that Bik Glenn. I feel good,

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Speaker 6: I feel happy. Why isn't a little draink because I

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Speaker 3: Faith is already training for her next big fight. She'll

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Speaker 3: Championships this December. What else has been going through your

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Speaker 4: Honestly, you could even.

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Speaker 3: One to wear or another, but for now, this fifteen

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Speaker 2: This episode was produced by adrian Na Rodriguez and edited

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Speaker 2: Julia Caruso, JJ Carubin and gabriel Lebayez. Fact checking for

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Speaker 2: this episode by Rosanna Aguire. Special thanks to Diego Ayala

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Speaker 2: from the Press Recording Studio.

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Speaker 8: In Stockton, California.

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Speaker 2: The Latino USA team also includes Jessica Ellis, Rebecca I Vara, Rerinaldo,

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Speaker 2: Jurieta Martinelli, Monica Moreles Garcia and Nancy Trujuillo. Benni Le

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Speaker 2: Ramirez and I are co executive producers. I'm Your Host

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Speaker 2: Mariano Josa. Latino USA is part of Iheart's myke Ultura

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