50. Still Fighting with Angela Lee

Angela Lee was a six-time MMA world champion. She retired in 2023, not long after losing her sister Victoria. When she stopped fighting, she started talking about mental health, about Victoria, about who she was underneath the fighter. Not everyone around her was ready for that. She felt like a black sheep, with just her husband and daughter supporting her.

What pulled her through was learning to advocate for herself, something she says she could only do at first by treating it the way she'd stand up for the people she loves. She built her nonprofit, Fight Story, out of the same instinct, and slowly found new people, at the gym and around the work, who became a new family.

This conversation is about who she is now, what she's still fighting for, and much more.

Angela's links:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angelaleemma/

Fight Story: https://fightstory.org/

United We Rise Book: https://a.co/d/0g481yuk Podcast links:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2h9gsrWKH9C1KY1OzR12kr?si=2a4d19970632465f Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/before-we-get-there/id1775182252 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beforewegettherepodcast/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/nicholasbraman Website: https://nicholasbraman.com/podcast

00:00 Welcoming Angela Lee Back To Singapore 05:15 Identity Crisis After Fighting 11:49 Why She Retired 13:43 Burnout And Mental Health 22:46 Losing Victoria And Starting Fight Story 27:41 Becoming The Black Sheep 33:08 Building A New Tribe 36:27 Writing United We Rise 42:31 Five-Year Vision 44:43 Closing