Episode 18: Genah Fabian

Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 9:16 a.m.

b'\\u201cI won the fight, and I said to all my friends, \\u2018I\\u2019m never doing that again.\\u2019 It was terrifying. The anxiety before the fight, the uncertainty, the unknown, it was a totally different feeling to what I\\u2019ve experienced before. And then, I took another fight, took another fight.\\u201d

World champion Muay Thai fighter and mixed martial artist Genah Fabian has been a competitive athlete since she was six years old.

She talks to Lani and Ben about how injuries that halted her track career as a teenager not only led her to pursue fighting as a profession, but also taught her valuable lessons about mental toughness, running towards fear and how to persevere when she might once have given up.'