The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #1 with Miesha Tate! The ultimate rivalry with Rhonda Rousey, Becoming the UFC Women's Champion, Breaking the barrier for women in the UFC, The role Of God in her life, Overcoming adversity being a female wrestler and SO MUCH MORE!
Sat, 28 Dec 2024
Tune in to The Dylan Gemelli Podcast featuring former UFC Champion Miesha Tate for an epic interview YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS!! Dylan and Miesha delve deep into Miesha's background, touching on her challenges as a female wrestler in high school and her parents coming to grips with her wanting that path. Miesha discusses how she became a fighter and takes us through her career journey becoming a Strikeforce champion and breaking the barrier for women's fighting in the UFC! Learn the details of her intense rivalry with Rhonda Rousey and the ultimately becoming the UFC Women's Champion. Dylan and Miesha take time to discuss their faith and the huge role that God has played in their life. Miesha also discuss her podcast Built for Growth as well as what the future holds for her!!Follow Miesha's Built for Growth Podcasthttps://www.youtube.com/@UCUpPwaxMs1i6UfjXIiR-iMwCheck out her homepage herehttps://mieshatate.com/Instagram @mieshatateFacebook @mieshatatefanpageX @mieshatate______________________________________________________________________Follow Dylan on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Tiktok @dylangemelliHuge thank you to everyone for the support! Please make sure to subscribe, like and comment!!Email [email protected]://rss.com/podcasts/the-dylan-gemelli-podcastApplehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dylan-gemelli-podcast/id1780873400I Hearthttps://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-dylan-gemelli-podcast-249695201/Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/3In4QlJj4IvHqq0eduKj7mPandorahttps://www.pandora.com/podcast/the-dylan-gemelli-podcast/PC:1001096187Stitcherhttps://www.stitcher.com/show/1096187FM Playerhttps://player.fm/series/the-dylan-gemelli-podcastPodchaserhttps://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-dylan-gemelli-podcast-5933919Listen Noteshttps://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-dylan-gemelli-podcast-dylan-gemelli-HDjBueWOVvG/
Chapter 1: What makes Miesha Tate's podcast unique?
All right, everybody, welcome back to the Dylan Chamele podcast. And I have literally my most exciting podcast to this date. She is a former UFC champion, a former Strikeforce champion. recently inducted into the International Hall of Fame, and just launched an absolutely amazing podcast, the Build Better podcast. This, everybody... Build for Growth.
Build for Growth. Build for Growth.
That's right. Build for Growth podcast.
Better.
I was like, now I'm rethinking the name of the podcast, but Build for Growth. Yeah, Build for Growth, Build Better. It's the same thing.
I think it's because I listened to so much of it this morning on cardio that I just kept thinking about building better.
Well, yeah. Now you're better for listening to the Built for Growth podcast.
This is Misha Tate. Thank you so much for your time today. I can't tell you how appreciative that I am.
Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, you know, for people who are just listening now, I mean, I'm sure you'll get into it, you know, but we met at the Olympia, um, on the Matt Monica, uh, Brandt podcast. And, um, it was great. We had a great conversation and then we just kind of like, you know, an energy is just aligned or whatever, I guess. And, and then, um,
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Chapter 2: What challenges did Miesha face as a female wrestler?
What was the because I would assume any father would be very worried or hesitant about their daughter. What was that like when you told them your parents, hey, this is what I want to do. And how was your mom about it? What was the reaction? And did it change over time or did it just kind of stay kind of hardened the whole time?
Well, my mom was the first person that I talked to about it. I said, Mom, what do you think if I go out for wrestling? And she kind of paused and was like, you really want to do that? And I was like, yeah, I mean, I think so. I want to try. Can I? And she was like, well, I don't think you're going to like it. And I, I'm not going to tell you that you can't try it though.
So she said, you know, go ahead. And my grandmother, my mom kind of came from this headstrong family. you know, pro women in a healthy way. Um, I'm not going to tell you that there's nothing you can't do if guys can do it, you know, they're doing it, then you should have the opportunity to do it too.
So thankfully it was something that my mom did not withhold me from, or I would be on a totally different path right now. I would never probably have found the UFC. I don't think I would even know my own strength because nothing that I've ever done besides maybe birthing children, would test me in the ways that the world of sport has.
And especially the way that hand-to-hand combat does with one other athlete, no team to rely on. I'm in that single moment of high pressure, injury prone, hand-to-hand combat. combat provides. It's unlike anything else in the world. And for those reasons, you know, I look at that and I'm so grateful that she didn't hold me back from that.
And my dad, I don't remember when we told my dad, but it wasn't right away. That's for sure. So, yeah, we were able to kind of keep that from him for a little bit. And, you know, once he did find out, he was like, you're letting her what? She's doing what with who? And he wasn't very happy about it. He wasn't very stoked about it.
But he also kind of threw his hands up in the air and was like, there's nothing I can do about it. Like my mom said, I can do it. He was kind of like, well, then whatever. But it wasn't something, honestly, I didn't ever feel supported about. by my dad doing wrestling. Like he even came to some of my post wrestling meets and maybe he showed up to a couple, couple matches.
But there was not really any excitement or support for what I was doing. And I, I do understand it because now that I'm a mother and, I can understand the inherent need for a parent to protect and especially from a father, a father and a daughter.
That's kind of be one of the most God given instincts that there is, is for a father to protect daughter, for father to protect mother, for father to protect children in general. But I mean, especially his girls, you know, And I didn't realize how I was challenging that very notion at that time by going out and willingly putting myself at risk where he didn't really have any say.
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Chapter 3: How did Miesha Tate become a fighter?
And I had allowed myself to become isolated from family, from friends. And I had told myself that the more difficult it is, the better I'll be, the better I'll do. You know, it was in spite of, I needed, I convinced myself that I needed this adversity to be a great fighter because I had always had it. So I thought that it was necessary. And it wasn't until I,
I really went on a sort of spiritual healing journey to fix the relationships that I didn't have anymore, rekindle the things that are important to me and reconnect with God. You know, that was a big part for me was, you know, I was always a believer, but I didn't really have a deep connection. And I think
In that moment when I lost that second fight and my world was spinning out of control, I didn't know which way was up, which way was down. I'd always describe it like being in this really dark room. It's pitch black and there is just a pinhole of light And this is like the moments when you're considering whether your life is still worth living, contemplating taking my own life.
And there's a pinhole of light. And I can either stay until the room's completely dark and I'm gone, or I can run to that light. And so I ran to the light, even though I didn't know where it was going to take me. And, you know, that's symbolic of, you know, of starting the healing journey, the healing trajectory, dealing with the things that I had not dealt with.
getting rid of the things in my life that weren't serving me or moving me in the right direction, realizing that I'm not just me should take the fighter, finding who I am beyond that. And really, you know, soul searching. And, you know, I'm not somebody who pushes religion on people. I think that your relationship with God or Jesus doesn't need to happen in a church. The people are the church.
You don't have to go to church. But I do say, if anybody's still listening to the message here, I'm not trying to push anything on you. I don't have anything to gain from this. But if you feel like you're missing something in life, I believe that there's power in a relationship with God. And I will just leave it there. You know, I feel like there is freedom in that.
And it set me free in a way because just like the song, Jesus take the wheel, I can kind of like, Hey, it's all, it's all good. Like when one door closes in my face, I know like, I'm so good. Like I know who I am at the end of the day. I'm a God fearing woman. Like that's who I am. And you could take everything else away from me in life, but you can never take that away.
And so to have something that is so constant and I mean, you could take my house away. You could take my title away. Someday I won't be a fighter anymore. Right. Someday I'll be retired and like, I won't be able to say, Oh, I am a fighter. I'll say I was a fighter. Right. Um, God forbid, I could lose my husband. I could lose my children. The title mother could be taken from me.
I hate to even think about that. But I'm talking about like those, we really have to look at the things we take for granted. People lose their children and they're no longer fathers and mothers, right? People lose their significant others. They're no longer husbands and wives. People lose their homes.
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Chapter 4: What was Miesha's experience in high school wrestling?
Every time the wrecking ball comes in and wipes everything out from underneath me, it's like, okay, there's an opportunity to build it back better than it was before. I'm good.
I'm going to share something with you then, since we got all into that direction, because this is also something you and I didn't get to talk about. And that's why you saw me smiling the entire time you started talking about this. I've been raised Catholic my whole life, and I've always prayed, but not to the point of where you could say it's a proper relationship with God. You think it is. Right.
Right.
Until you realize it's not. And I'll tell you just briefly, because this is not about me. This is me sharing this with you. You know, for so long, things kept getting better for me. and I accumulate more things. I've got a beautiful wife. I've got us finally into a beautiful home after all the struggles. I've got a sweet car and all of this stuff, people complimenting that I never had before.
Most of the time I was having people just hit piece me online. And finally, you know, I've got all this going on and I just would go to bed at night and just, I'm just not happy. Why? What, what is missing? You know, I'd lay down, I'd have anxiety. I wouldn't, ever go to bed happy. And it doesn't make sense.
When I figured out and I started to put God first every night, every morning, first thing I do, thank you. First thing I do when I wake up, I spend an hour either in the Bible or reading books.
You'll see if you ever see, like I'll put something in my morning every day to try to help people, give them a word, something small, because hey, like you said, I'm not gonna push this on you either, but I'm certainly going to show you. And I think that the more people that show It might just catch on with somebody who knows.
And like, once again, if you get one person that you're helping, because that's in the Bible, that's what you're supposed to attempt to do. And, you know, he says, if you go into a town and they don't like it, shake the dust off and move on. But at least try. And I think that if we try and get people back on that, or at least understanding, because there's these preconceived ideas.
Things that people misinterpret, they read, they don't understand metaphor, they read things literally and don't. Like I have Bibles here that break down. I will read a section and I will go down and then get the actual translation of what it means, highlight it, go back to it. I have them all tabbed out, everything.
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