Ellie Dempster

If I was fighting for myself, I probably wouldn't even fight.

But, you know, I'm doing this for a much bigger reason.

Yeah, exactly.

With Karate Combat, the one that I came to America for, I raised $30,000 in my very first fight in America.

And that kind of set the tone of being like, oh, I'm actually more valuable in America than I am in Thailand.

Yeah, yeah.

And I mean, I was just doing little charities here and there.

My biggest one was $3,000.

All the little ones were, you know, not much.

And, you know, that was a really hard decision because I was working with the kids.

You know, I watched a lot of them grow up.

I've seen some...

terrible, terrible things.

I've seen some amazing things where we rescue children, return them to their families.

I've seen some where they got rejected from their families.

So I got really invested in the kids and not wanting to see a lot of things repeat themselves.

Um, so walking away from that really hurt that that sucked.

Uh, but then that's when I had to sit back and go, okay, this isn't about me and wanting to make myself feel good and interacting with the kids.

This is about how can I make an impact?

Because that's why I'm there.