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Dustin Poirier

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first: 2026-07-06
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“Thank you, man. I hope you're. You're right, and I'm an open book. I'll talk about it and talk about my struggles, and I hope it does help somebody”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It takes everybody to make these goals happen, man. Not just the monetary side, but going in this warehouse and packing every single backpack. Because we stretch the dollar with this foundation. You know, we don't have any paid any, everything is, and we try to keep it as minimal as possible to keep everything affordable. So we buy bulk backpacks. All the palates down to backpacks, bulk, flashcards, everything that goes in the backpack for the school year, we buy bulk and have to pack every backpack ourselves. Something I really enjoy doing. And I'm happy I have a platform to do it and raise awareness. And, you know, no kid should go to school without a, that's just one of the things we've done annually, but no kid should go to the school without the proper school supplies they need, you know.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The backpack back to school drive we do probably 1,300 backpacks filled with every school supply on the school supply list for Louisiana Wow Yeah”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we had all this stuff, and we just saw a news article that a police officer got killed a couple streets where me and my wife went to school a couple streets away from where we went to school and he left behind a wife and kids, Officer Middlebrook, here in Lafayette, Louisiana. And we're like, well, we're packing up the house. What about all these gloves and fight shorts that you fought in on these big fights? Can we sell? Maybe we can sell it and donate to his family. And that's what sparked the whole foundation starting. We did it for maybe a year and a half, two years just out of my name before we made it an actual nonprofit. We were just eBaying fight warrant stuff and donating it to the food pantry and donating it to this fallen officer's family. And then it turned into let's keep this going and see if other fighters would get behind this and give it a name so it's not Dustin Poirier does this. It's the Good Fight Foundation so more people maybe get behind it and it just kind of organically happened on something I'm very proud of. I mean in a couple weeks we have”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I truly honestly 100% believe I'm doing it, you know? I'm using the platform I built through hard work to benefit as many people as I can. You know, fighting was going to benefit me and my family every time I walked to the ring. So why couldn't I, my mindset was why couldn't I stack more on my back and go in with A cause and sell everything I wore that night and benefit a family or benefit a person or another organization, I was like, let me stack up as much on my back as I can and keep this momentum going. Oh, with the foundation, but when we first started it, it wasn't. Didn't auction off everything I wore to the octagona. We didn't link it to goals. It was just kind of random. We were packing up my house moving from South Florida back to Louisiana.”
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“But I'm going to continue doing what I was doing before this happened, you know, leave the world a better place than I found it, man, and teach my kids to do the same.”
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“Trying to leave it better than I found it. Better leave it a better place than I came into with everything I can, you know? The most part making the right decisions and showing that people do care, trying to be a good person who cares about people and stuff like that. That's what hurts me too, man. Me doing that I wasn't myself. I know it's easy for me to say and try to hide behind like a drunkenness or Mental breakdown, and all I feel like all those are excuses, but that's people who know me know that's not how I roll, man. I just feel. Bad about it because that's my attentions are The video and everything I did, and you know, I just hurt myself, man, really let myself down, hard to look in the mirror at times.”
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“I'm in patience as a virtue. I wasn't blessed with, I don't think. But I'm working on it. I'm working on it every day. Every single day, man.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right here in Florida, 38. Going vacation with my family, sitting in the sun with my kids and family, just have a good time, man. Stay off the internet Continue to work on myself. Have good mornings.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, as of most recently, she didn't know that he was homeless. I told her recently. After all this stuff happened, you know, I explained to her that he's, she's sorry that I have to deal with this. And, you know.”
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“I've been waiting for months every day. I've been waiting. Me and my wife talk about this all the time. Like every time I get a call about my dad from my sister or something, I'm like, just waiting for the news. He's not in good health and he's 74, 75 years old if he's eating and I don't know you know every call I was like this is the one”
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“Never smoked a cigarette in his life. Never smoked a cigarette. marijuana doesn't take pills like just alcohol We're trying, me and my sister trying to his other kids don't want anything to do with him, but me and my sister are trying to. Get him Super on board like trying everything to but if he doesn't want to help himself we can only do so much you know But like I said at the beginning, that's not my weight to carry. I'm trying my best. I'm a father now, too. I got to look out for me and mine. I can't babysit my father, you know?”
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“My sister actually gave him that truck that he's living in. And we're still working. We're still working to get something, get them to do something, or admit himself just to help himself, you know.”
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“When I got this is Father's Day week My sister sent me this, somebody who she knows. He was part, my dad was parked at the park. Somebody snapped a picture Getting out of his car”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Down, I think. Because I would have to reinstate, first of all, I'd have to give my wife on board. I'm going to do another training camp and do this again, but I'd have to reinstate myself in the drug testing protocol, and I think I'd have to do like six months of clean drug testing before I'm eligible to compete again. So that would be another six months. You know, it's just a lot of hoops to jump through.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're talking about brain trauma and like decisions I made or ways I feel, I'm sure I can draw links to all kinds of stuff. I don't even know if it would make sense or would be correct when you're scrambling for answers. It's easy to draw lines and say, well, this is because of that. This is because of that. You know, I feel normal. Besides ups and down days and stuff like that, I feel.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, besides like ups and downs with mood and stuff like that, that's one of the things I kind of notice. And being honest, spontaneous decisions, I notice, like if I'm... Like, fuck it, I'll just put $5,000 on this bet right now. Like, just, I wouldn't normally do that, I feel like, but maybe it's just who I am now. I don't know. Or saying, fuck it, I'm going to get drunk as I can right now in the airport just. I feel like that is like spontaneous decision making. that I wouldn't normally do, I think, but maybe I would. I don't know”
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“I have scarring and stuff. I'd have to pull out my phone and find the exact terminology for the parts of the brow. I don't know. I have a thinning in the back of my brain. At whatever part, and I have a septum in your brain like your nose. And my septum is splitting, separated a good bit, and the neurologist thinks my left and right side aren't communicating as smoothly as they should because of the separation.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, pardon me laying the gloves down, like I said, for my wife, wanting me to was because she was kind of. Worried about my behavior a few years back and I went to a neurologist and did a scan with contrast where they put the dye in your brain and your veins and do all that stuff and I have had some Changes in my brain, but we don't have A passport of Or throughout the process, you know, we just have a snapshot of right now of my brain. But the doctor, the neurologist told me that it has to be post-humorous. You can't put a chemical in the brain, it releases a protein, you know. We won't know until I pass away and they Study my brain if I have it or not. But the doctor was telling me, you know, looking at the things you have going on, like, I can't say you have it, but.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My wife was Nobody else in my family, no. She was pregnant, she was a couple months away from giving a few months away from giving birth to my son. I had been doing it for a long time. We just kind of both knew it was about the time, you know?”
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“I would love to. That's what I need something terrifying. I need something like that, something that... I can't stop thinking about.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just thinking about that night. About the guys and the pictures seeing my mom in the background, you know. My friends. It just. Incred And it hurts me a little bit to be sitting here talking about getting arrested last week. It feels like such a fall from grace, you know, looking at this picture, like I was on top of the world in this moment. Felt like I did it all the right way, you know? Even had the UFC I tried did it my way when I was walking out the octagon that night And, you know, just.”
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“So they cut them out of the thing and they have them framed in a nice shadow box with pictures from the fight and their names and stuff. That was really nice, man. So I had this picture hanging on my wall in my game room, in my Actually, I need to call this guy here and Mike Brown. I need to call him back. He tried to call me and he's been texting me the last few days. I need to call him back letting him know I'm good, you know? I've been silencing every call, you know, not just, I want to talk to people since Father's Day, but I need to start, I need to reach back out.”
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“To get him to come back here just for my retirement was a big deal. And I'm proud of that and proud of bringing it back to the city. I have a game room at my house and I have this. The UFC actually sent me a retirement. Big picture frame with my wife, my daughter. Their name was on the canvas for this fight, and I didn't even know. The UFC printed their names on the canvas of the octagon.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But if I can go back in time to when I was a kid, 16, 17, if I could do it again, I would do it again, even knowing everything that what could be, what damage I could take. I would do it again. That's how fun the ride was. But nobody rides for free, you know. That's why I'm saying I would do it again. The damage, the ups and downs, the unknown, nobody rides for free. Whether you're working clocking in at a job, working in an office for your whole life, you know? Or you're fighting men all over the world We're exchanging something, you know, for something so I would do it again. Just glad I got to do it here in Louisiana. You know where it all started. Yeah, that was special to me UFC doesn't come here often to Louisiana. The time they came before my retirement was back in twenty fifteen, and I fought on that on that one as well.”
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“I'm trying not to tear up, dude. It just makes me feel that way, you know Because I still love it, but I know I need to walk away from it, you know, continue walking away from it, but I still love it. And like I told you, it's like a piece of me Those gloves me putting them on the mat is a piece of myself I left, you know, I really truly believe that I was a kid when I started this. It taught me how to be a man. It taught me how to do business. It taught me a lot of things about myself. Let him go to school. Fighting was my education, you know? Travel the world and met people and sat at tables. I would have never dreamed of sitting at and through fighting. It was just an incredible journey.”
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“Yeah, my mother is back there. My family, you know? All these guys in my family members. Special day And I got to do it in Louisiana. You know it meant a lot to me. Really meant a lot to me. Yeah, I mean, I was just a kid chasing dreams, and it just flew by so quick. I guess that's a part of me I was scared for the future. I don't know. For 20 years, I was dreaming about being the best. I just want to dream again. I don't know what that dream will be. I just need that in my life, whatever that is. Special day, man”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Young to see the full picture and know how my career was going to play out. But 36, I hung it up. I told her from a very young age, 35, I lived half my life and I have a whole nother life to live at 35. I can go to college. Do be whatever I want to be. I have a whole other life to live. So I kind of always... Angled at thirty five to pivot.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've always, you know, I have a few businesses in Louisiana and elsewhere. I've always planted seeds my whole life. I started investing when I was 23 years old before I was even making real, real money. I was investing what little I had. I always play in these seeds because I knew I couldn't fight for ever. It was going to end any, you know, I could get in a car accident and never fight again. It could end any day with fighting. I knew that. So I've always planted seeds to try to have my future taken care of, you know, always since a young age. Actually, when I was like 18, 19, I told my wife, I'm not going to fight past 35 years old. And I almost hit that mark. I was too young to at the time when I told her that.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I told my wife the other day she was like She's like, I just paid some bills. I saw you made another deposit to the gambling thing. I was like, I can't cold turkey everything. Give me one. Let's throw one thing at a time. One thing gambling's...”
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“I really do, man That's why I'm scared to lose it too, because I really enjoy being connected to the sport. This sport has, like I said, given me everything I have, me and my family, everything we have is through fighting”
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“We'll see. I think in a few weeks I'm back on the podcast. So I know they're bringing me back to the Monday podcast. We talk about fights every Monday. In two weeks, I'll be back on that. So we'll see if that continues, you know.”
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“This is a only thing for me Talking on TV and talking about fights and things like that is a whole new thing. So I wanted Learn as much as I can.”
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“Not the right etiquette. If I can do something better, please let me know. Coach me, I'm not, it's no judgment. You're never going to rub me the wrong way. Please let me know. I want to be good at this. That's what I was trying to let them know.”
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“out if you guys think that that would be a good fit anywhere on a broadcast or anything I would love to Talk about fighting and talk about this sport as it continues to grow with what I've learned through the two decades of doing it. You know, if I can be a voice in this area, please let me do it. And they did, you know, and I told them like I'm coachable. I don't have no hard feelings like if I'm doing something wrong, please let me know. I'm very, you know, because a lot of these other people who work the desk come from a media background or things like that. Of course, we have a lot of fighters, but who work the desk, but a lot of these other people might not take criticism in coaching as well as somebody who's been coached their whole life. So I'm letting them know like if there's something I'm doing.”
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“Obviously, the gigs, the three things I was supposed to do that week. Are gone and then a big sponsor of mine is gone because of it.”
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“Oh, yeah, I'm sure I lost a few. I'm waiting to see when the smoke clears who's still with me or not. That day cost me not only embarrassment and embarrassment to my family. It cost me a lot of money too, you know? I'm losing sponsors. I'm losing gigs and losing things that I had set up.”
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“Worried about losing everything I've been working on. A possibility as well. Like post fighting when I retired, all the stuff that I've been doing, all the... The desk work that me focusing on getting better at all that stuff. I'm like, did I just ruin everything that I was working for? You know, I don't know yet. Still, too early to really have those answers, I think.”
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“Right. Yeah, man, but that's life. Life's difficult. You know, it's just Got to figure something else out. I got to figure solve a new puzzle. It's just life keeps going.”
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“And it's not just a new problem with fighting, it's a new problem, I think, with a lot of athletes who've done it for a long time and reached the pinnacle. And when it's over. You have a lot of life left to live.”
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“Not really to that exact point, but other fighters have reached out and said, hey, I'm all ears if you ever want to talk about it. I went through it as well, you know, laying the gloves out isn't as easy as you think. People who I look up to you have reached out to me and I never took anybody up on it. You know, I never started speaking to other fighters about what they do to get past, and I should. It's my doing, you know.”
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“Yeah, and that's what I thought I was a good avenue. That's what I was trying to do. That was my goal after fighting is I want to stick around the sport. Whether I'm on the desk broadcast or with the podcast, anything containing the spore where I can talk about it, you know, be around the sport that's giving me everything I have and taught me so many lessons in life. I just want to be around it speaking about it, being on the mats, helping younger fighters, whatever, you know, and I was doing it and I was doing that when I retired, you know. Still doing it”
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“I just don't know what's going to consume me and take all of myself the way fighting did. I woke up thinking about it. I went to sleep thinking about it. It was my life, man. I cared so much about it. Man, I was in love with it.”
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“No, nothing ever will Nothing I have a void inside of me that nothing will you know Being a father's very fulfilling and I love it and it's rewarding and I actually enjoy it. But nothing feels that void of what fighting was in my life. You know, I haven't found anything yet. I don't think there is.”
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“No, I don't have anything locked down with what I'm going to do exactly, what I'm going to focus everything on, but I need to find something, man.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I retired at 36 years old. That's young. Like I said, the days are long. I have all day, every day. I need to stay busy. And that's what I have been doing, working with CBS, working with the podcast we have down in South Florida every Monday. I've just been trying to saying yes to as much stuff as I can. So I don't have time to sit back and think. And that could have been my demise as well. Maybe I was being too busy. Maybe I wasn't focusing on my mental health and myself as much. You know, it's easy to get lost in these whirlwinds of busy and be here, be there. Life just moves so fast sometimes.”
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“I mean, for the most part, I am really open and honest, but like, If I'm just kind of filling off, and it's for me to, I know you don't understand what that means, or maybe you have something you can link it to when you feel kind of like today's not my day. If I'm Philadelphia, I'll let her know. I've been pretty honest. But like I said, if it's just slight, like I'm just not feeling right, I won't, I won't even bring it up. I got to be a dad and continue to do things every day and stuff like that. But if I'm feeling really down to where I don't even want to leave the house at all and stuff, you know, I'll let my wife know.”
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“Right, but even the airport incident, those days leading up, even if I did have an off day, I didn't feel like it was that bad, that serious, that dangerous to myself or anybody else. I really didn't feel like that.”
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“To keep them more on a steady day to day thing if it's just slightly, I'm kind of feeling a little bit off today. I just suck it up and go about. You know my business.”
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“Yeah, some days I will tell her, but some days I don't. You know, I just continue to go along my day and, you know. So I don't want to be that guy to where I wake up and my wife's worried about how I'm feeling that day. You know, I don't want her worrying about me like that. I wonder who's waking up today, is depressed, is upset, Dustin waking up today, or is this my normal husband I'm waking up to? I don't want to worry her. So some days, you know, if I'm feeling really bad, which hasn't been that often lately. I'll tell her today I'm not feeling that well. I don't want my daughter coming in the bedroom. You know, why is that staying in bed all day? You know, I don't want to tell her again that I'm not feeling good today. You know, she doesn't understand. She's about to be 10 years old. She can't comprehend what's going on. I can barely comprehend it, you know, so.”
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