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Molly Bloom

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“Podcast they listen to doesn't change them. Right. Or like when staring at the sun and sitting in an ice cube bath doesn't fix their like.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Even then, Anytime I think I have something completely figured out, something fixed, something else will happen in life and it'll crop up. So that's why I think it's so important to have a process for how you deal with these things. And I think anybody that says, I did this work on myself and now I'm fine. Isn't being fully truthful.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, that's a great question and a hard question. And I think I think the answer is Stop searching for the evidence that you are worthwhile, that you're good enough, and just start to believe it. And I think the person to say it to me is me. I think I was my own worst critic. You know, we all have certain challenges in our life, but I think at some point taking responsibility. For your own shit is the most important thing a human being can do.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My past or in the present Yeah, I mean, there are little things that I'm working on, but I wouldn't say that I'm not proud of them because I think having grace for yourself and learning how to forgive yourself and treat yourself with compassion is a Is something that I had to learn as a survival skill. Back in those dark days, but something that I continue to practice. The only times that I'm not proud of myself are if I'm staring straight into something that I know that I'm Totally ignoring that's causing harm in the world to myself, to other people.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm proud that when That I stay self aware. And when I believe that I'm wrong or believe that I'm Behaving in a way that is not aligned with who and what I want to be in the world that I'm willing to either say sorry or do that work really deeply relentlessly do that work to change. Willing that I mean, I'm proud that I just continued to, I'm proud that I stayed open.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The choices they're making in the game and then in their greater life. A lot of times when people lose It becomes Unwilling to take another big risk, and if you aren't willing to take risks in life over time you will lose the game. The people that took calculated risks. People that took impulsive risks. But people that took calculated risks over time and didn't let a past failure or an external condition stand in that way, won the game. I think a healthy relationship with risk is super important. I think being able to stay composed when there's chaos inside, chaos outside is incredibly important in those rooms. I think being able to No one to use your emotional mind to make choices and no one to use your rational mind and being able to toggle between the two in an intentional and Smart way is super important.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I've seen thousands of hands are winning and losing poker, and I've kept spreadsheets, Excel spreadsheets on people for years, and I've then watched. The choices they make and how they get to the numbers that I look at the end of the year.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The trials and tribulations of my life I want to teach her at a young age, I want to teach her that her worth is not dictated by the things that she produced but she is inherently worthy at the same time. It is She will not be happy unless she has purpose in life. I believe that to be true. I don't know who said it, but it was very succinctly said to love and to work. You know? I believe that people need a reason to get up in the morning I don't care if that purpose is stay at home mom or president of the United States.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, we're going to be having this conversation well before she's 18. I want to I want to help her cultivate. Her passions, her talents, I want to teach her. About her mind in the ways that I have had to learn. How to manage that mind, how to manage fear, how to manage The internal critic. I want to teach her to sit with hard emotions, not to run from them, to figure out what they can teach us. I want to teach her to go into the shadows, the parts of ourselves that we don't want to look at, and look at it. Don't wait until you get beat up by the mob federally indicted, you know, like addicted to drugs and alcohol to finally go into those shadows to look at the demons that you haven't dealt with. All these things that I learned”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Terrifying terrifying moment. The most vulnerable you'll ever be in your entire life up until the point that Fiona was born? I thought to myself, I believed, I went through life believing, particularly after everything that I had just been through. There's nothing I can't handle. And then you have a baby, and you realize losing this little life is something that I don't think I can handle. And of course there are people that do, and they do it with grace, but you just know in that moment that there is something that is changed in you that will never be the same. Terrifying.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then when I met Fiona's dad, I was forty one and I said, okay, great, let's thaw out these magical eggs, and none of them worked. And I was forty one and my fertility metrics basically the doctor said I'll give you a four percent chance of making this happen. And nine rounds later. And I'm so happy I didn't miss it”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it's the mental anguish. You know, it was interesting for me because, and I think this is important to talk about, and I'm glad you brought this up. So I froze my eggs at 36. And I was told you're gonna be good. You have a lot of eggs, you're young, you know, whatever. And my point is here is I think it's a big money making industry and I think they oversell the technology. And it's not to say don't do it, but to do your own research. In my case, what I realized is doing three rounds of an egg freezing procedure would have probably given me a much better shot. The technology is getting better, but eggs are 80% water, so freezing a thawing is kind of tricky. Anyway, so I thought I had purchased this insurance policy on my fertility”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so, you know, it allows me now to make a really great income and then also work on the other things I'm working on, which is a podcast in a community called The Smart Girls Guide to Everything. It's basically using the strategy, the access, the network, the resources that I've been able to accumulate in my life and applying it to real life. And then I'm writing a book on effective presence And I have a one and a half year old at home.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do, but I'm still, I still owe millions. Not today sitting here, but at that point. So I had to figure out like What is what's the next move? And I remember the first time. I didn't even think about speaking, you know, like a speaking career or anything. I just remember the first time I got hired to speak, it was in front of thousands of people for Google. and I had never spoken publicly, and I think I just got on that stage and just blacked out. It was so awful and I was so bad at it. But the money was compelling. The adventure was compelling?”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he hacked Sony Studios, and the chairwoman was Amy Pascal, and she was the one that really believed in the movie, and she had to step down. And then the new chair person wasn't that passionate. And so then we had to set it up kind of like at festivals. So, you know. Nothing's ever a smoother ride.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Lifetime value They don't because you have a back end, they give you a sort of convoluted. Back end number, but everyone made money on the movie. And it got nominated for awards. I'll never forget the bank wire again, and it takes a really long time. You don't just get paid up front. You get like 50 grand, and then you get the rest of it three years later, four years later, whenever the movie gets made. And it was a rocky road to make the movie because it was all set up at Sony. Everything was going smoothly. It had this big budget, like big movie studio budget. And then Kim John pissed about the interview remember the Seth Rogan movie?”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, life rights. A life Like, if that book had become a bestseller and it already had a built-in audience and I had a million followers on Instagram and, you know, there was this compelling package.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He drops what he's doing. He takes it on, he decides to make it his directorial debut as well as writing it. Movie comes out, it's nominated for every award, BAFTAs, Oscars, Golden Globes. Also, I had Done a lot of really good negotiating on my part, on the money part. They wanted to give me nothing up front and promised me back end and I had done enough research to know that that wasn't ever going to happen the back end in Hollywood is notoriously”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah. So, and I was like, when I was done telling him my story, he said, well, I'll tell you one thing. I've never met someone so down on their luck and so full of themselves.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Persistence Of course you have to have a good product. Of course you had to have a good story. I believed in the story I got rejected so many times, you know. So finally, I get this meeting with Aaron. And I remember trying to mentally prepare for it. Living with my mom, you know, I'm by all societal measures the classic loser. I'm like living in my mom's basement. I have no money. I don't have all any of the trappings of the world and the success world, you know. But I said to myself. You walk in there with humility of lessons learned, but you walk in there like you are like you're worthwhile, you know?”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They don't want to take the risk at all, even though I'm you know, I went to bat for them. They don't want to take the risk at all that they could be portrayed in this movie. Anyway, So I loved the West Wing and I loved social network and I loved the characters and the sort of like message and humanity that comes out from his writing. So I was like, I need a meeting with him. Aaron's workin' and he happened to also be the highest paid screenwriter in Hollywood, so he's a good bet, right? That number doesn't come from air. So most people laughed me out of their office. They're like, your book sold ten copies. You know, like this, it was in the press a couple years ago. Aaron Sorgan's never going to look at this. And I just kept with it. I was just persistent because I had seen, you know? I'd seen How people get successful.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I still believe that the story's the way out. I just believe it. I can see it. I'm going to have to bring in the big guns. And I said to myself, I need to. I need to Oh speak to one of the most powerful filmmakers in Hollywood. Had a bunch of meetings, and I was like, it can't be something small. It has to be something big. And so I made this short list of people who really are successful, who are the A list here, you know? And it was like Shonda Rhimes, Stephen Spielberg. Aaron Sorkin, and there was another component that this person had to have, another feature to their personality. They had to be fearless because there were so many people, as you can imagine, in Political world, in Hollywood, in Know the billionaires making calls saying, Don't make this Molly Bloom movie.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The wolf of Wall Street or something. Right, right, right, right. And so I'm like, I'll write this book and it'll sell so well, and my life will change, you know? And I went to New York Publishing, and there was a lot of publishers that wanted to give me a lot of money for a celebrity takedown book. And I wasn't willing to do that. So I got rejected a lot, but I just kept, you know, I was just persistent and I got this book deal. I got my own press and everything and I waited to for this, you know, I released the book and I waited for my life to change. And I think like 100 people read the book or something. Maybe a little more than 100, but not enough to even earn back my advance, which wasn't that big And then I said to myself, I still believe in this story.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's cool. I haven't. About that, and that's really cool. I like that And this next, the way that my story ends really, calls. Kind of speaks to that. Not ends, but you know. Begins again So I'm walking around the mountains. I'm thinking to myself, like, what's the way out I just realize there's a unique story here. We've seen this version of a story. It just usually has a male.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think all is a pretty powerful word. I think if we are willing to do the work that it entails, Um, on ourselves Yes, I think success, money, abundance is much more available than I originally thought.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Remember when Joseph Heller was at the house of the Of the billionaire, and someone walks up and says, Heller, like this guy just made in one day what your Gross sales were for catch 22 or whatever. And Heller just goes, yeah, but I have something he'll never have. He goes, what could that possibly be? Enough. That's peace. Most of these people that I knew do not have peace, and peace should not be underrated. Peace contentment, the ability to find joy in small moments. and then have the big moments I am all for adrenaline. I still chase it. Have to chase it last, not that I'm a mom. But I chased it in healthier ways, you know, heli skiing, whatever it is, climbing mountains. But to sit lay your head down at the end of the day and be able to say I know who I am. There may be times where I Lose sight of that, but I have a process.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“First of all, I thought behind that curtain I was going to find the most contented, generous non petty Like extraordinary people. And that's not what I saw for the most part. There were exceptions. I just saw people who were kind of like unwilling to fail. I don't know because they're obsessed with money. I mean, you know, it was just drive. Being dragged right.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I remember going back and walking in the mountains, you know, going back, moving in with my mom, walking the mountains, walking. meditating trying to figure out what is the way out here.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How big it is until that happens, you know, and probably would have been even bigger from it the other way. But I mean, I felt like I lost my feet, you know? And Oh man, you know here. Here we are going to dinner after the sentencing and there's best friend Allie who stuck with me through everything and my family and even my old boss came. I'm looking around the table, and everyone's living their lives, having kids. My brother's a heart surgeon, he's in residency. Just graduated Harvard. My other brother just got inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame, and I'm just sitting there and I'm like I am. The family felon, you know, I'm 30. Now I'm 35 years old. Millions of dollars in debt. A convicted felon. social pariah to some degree. I'm all in for a comeback, but how does that even happen? Where do you go from here?”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I get Going to judge that's very disappointed with me. But ultimately a pretty reasonable guy who said, listen, you were running poker games and it seems like you've done a lot to change your life. I'm not going to sentence you to prison. It's hard to adequately express to you how big that moment is because you can do all, you know, I used to say to Jim all the time, whatever, I'll go to federal prison, I'll learn a new language, I'll mentor some women, and he's like, that's not what it's like. You know? Are dangerous, and a lot of the guards are dangerous, and women get raped. It's not a country club. And in my mind, I was just like, I can handle it, I can handle it, I can handle it. But in that moment when you get sentenced to not go to prison and you're not going to lose your freedom. You don't realize.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And also We were going to give me a deferred prosecution, which would have kept sort of giving me a guarantee that I would stay out of jail. And I went home and I, you know, I had a very short amount of time to make this choice, something like 48 hours. And here's where I got to with it This place that I was in was a hundred percent my fault. I did all of this. I had near perfect information about the law, I had great parents, I had college education almost completed, I had all the opportunities in the world, and I had chosen this, and I had chosen this path, and I I had to own that, you know, and turning around and Ruining the lives of people who had played in my game who had made me very wealthy, many of them I saw their kids grow up, to get out of the trouble of my own choices did not feel in alignment with the My true”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, I would have never protected someone like him. The things that they were interested in to me Whose booking sports it's about to become legal in two years in New York and New Jersey, you're going to drag somebody's family through the mud and I'm going to be your accomplice with that.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and they didn't care about the mobsters or the people running the insurance fraud scheme. I think they already had what they needed on those. They cared about inside information that I could potentially provide them with on the billionaires, the bankers, the celebrities, the politicians. And I, you know, you spend enough time with people. You do get that inside information. Now I want to be really clear about something. If there was someone in my game that was doing really bad, like if Epstein was in my game and I knew that he was trafficking children or whatever, like I would have given that information freely and before this. But what I knew”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm just sitting across from Jim Walden who is nothing but integrity, who is this attorney who has spent his life fighting the good fight, who continues to fight the good fight, who spent the first part of his career in the eastern district of New York fearlessly going after the five crime families, who's looking at my indictment and saying this is bullshit. Right. And taking on this case and fighting for me because no one else would. He's talking about integrity, and I just had this moment of like. All hit me I wanted to be How far I had come from that and for what? And I made a decision in that room that day that I Could never, ever abandon myself again in that way. I could never abandon the things that I knew to be true to who I am. And one of those is integrity and doing what I believe to be the right thing.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so I have like eight meetings that day before the indictment or before the arraignment. And seven out of the eight all said, you know, Maya, I really wish you the best, but without a retainer, I can't represent you. And then I met Jim Walden, who was a Was at a very prestigious law firm. And kind of like listen to my story Looked at my mom and said, I'm going to help you. And Jim and I started working together. And I'll never forget something he said to me. I went in and I said, look, I don't have the money to fight this, so but I can't do ten years And I have to have a life after this. So what is our strategy and what is our angle? And he said, you know what? Integrity is going to be our strategy and our angle.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have a day and a half to get to New York City to find an attorney that's going to represent me in the fight of my life. And I don't have a dollar. My dad and I aren't He got mad at me, and I got mad at him. Because The age resentments and rife. Came to a head. This is my biggest fear, right? Failing the spectacularly. In front of the world the tabloids are covering it. So I had a day and a half to get to New York City to find an attorney, and you know, I don't have a dollar. My mom just put her house up to bail me out of jail. My dad's and I aren't speaking. So my best friend. loan me a little money I'm sitting down with people who are quoting three to six million dollars. 250 to even look at it.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I'm not 35 yet. Got sober. Trek to Machu Picchu, did some salt, deep soul searching, finally got a job, moved back to Los Angeles. Seven days later, this is two years later, okay? I don't think anything's coming. I have Rehabilitated myself, you know, and had been living with my mom and my grandma in the mountains of Colorado. I moved back to LA seven days later in the middle of the night, I get arrested by seventeen FBI agents, machine guns, high beam flashlights. They put me in handcuffs and they put this piece of paper in front of me that says the United States of America vs Molly Bloom. I'm thrown into this wild indictment. Looking at real time in prison. The press release said 90 years, I think realistically it was more like 10. But I'm”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't even know what they think of me. I think they're extremely worried. I think that My dad had been writing me handwritten letters every year, telling me that what I was doing was going to end badly, pleading with me to do something different. So I think my dad was angry. My mom's just scared, and I think they're also relieved, right? Like They knew that what I was doing was dangerous. They knew it was I was up late at night running around with large sums of cash. I mean, they had many sleepless nights.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But the past several months I hadn't, and it would be an admission on record of a crime. So I couldn't. I couldn't do that. At this point, they said we're not interested in her as. Know we're not pursuing anything criminally against her. And if we are, we'll let her know So I just went”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Did I managed to get out of New York? I got home to Colorado. My mom's house. My attorneys are talking to the feds and they said, basically in this country, you as a person have the presumption of innocence, but your property does not. Someone can't just come get you. Unless it was under some of those after 9 11 or whatever. Know, let's just keep it simple. Someone can't just get you, throw you into jail, say that you're guilty. You have the right to a trial. With your money, with your property, it's different. A division of the government called asset forfeiture that can just take it. And then you have to go into legal proceedings to try to get it back. And so basically what that would involve is me going on record talking about this game and telling how I made this money, which for the most part I'd made it legally.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I want my mom and I want my dad and I want to go back in time. I don't want to do any of this. Even know how to process this? And then a couple hours later it got even worse. I got, you know, I went back to my apartment, and the whole time, I mean, it's like you're in a movie looking around every corner. Are they going to be there to apprehend me? Packed a bag and grabbed my dog and, you know, tried to book a plane ticket to Denver from JFK. Credit card got declined, which was strange, and then my debit card got declined, which was really strange. I logged into my accounts and the account balance read negative nine million nine hundred ninety nine thousand ninety nine dollars in all of my accounts. because the feds had seized every single penny.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The winners. So the winners would play in the game, and if they won They would tip a percentage one to five percent of their wins. Games were huge. And I was running multiple games around the city. My taxes, I have an event planning company. And I started to get reckless about who I was letting in the games And who I was letting play, and my debt shoot started to get bigger, and I started to take a rake. I started to partner with some people that, you know, were not necessarily. The right people to partner with And the feds had thrown a confidential informant in the games by that point. And he tracked that, and so around the end of that year, I got a text message from one of my employees at one of my games, and they said, the FBI's here looking for you. Don't come here. And so, you know, I. I knew finally it was game over.”
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“And the New York Times. And a couple days later, I got the New York Times and it said 125 arrested and the biggest mob related takedown in New York City history. And I never heard from them again. But, you know. Disaster is a comment. It's just And the last thing that happened before the whole thing blows up was, you know, for most of my poker running career. I was running these games. According to this playbook that had been written for me by And one of the biggest ones that differentiated me from a lot of the games in the city, and LA was that I didn't take a rake. I didn't take a percentage of each pot at the end of the game, and Winner's I'm extending people millions of dollars. I'm in charge of the nine seats that people are. A lot of them are pathologically addicted to.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so a couple things here first of all, if somebody comes into your apartment in the real world, in real life and puts a gun in your mouth and steals things from you and beats you up. Cracks You have somewhere to go. You call the police, you call your family, you call your friends. It was undeniable now that what I was doing was so deeply dangerous and underground. and I was completely alone. And I was too afraid to tell anyone. And so I'm trying to like, and also now I'm not just putting my own life in danger, right? Like I'm in it way over my head. And my family's a danger in danger now? And I'm just I mean it is so heavy. so much and for the first time in my life. Have any strategy? I have no idea what I'm going to do. And then I got so lucky. You know, my only contact with the outside world was. Food delivery.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And they were really clear with me. You know, if you want to continue to run these games, you're going to have to give us a piece. And we all know we've all seen that movie, right? And I tried to politely decline their offer and tried to explain to them in business terms why that wouldn't work for me and just went on my merry way and started to avoid their calls. And they didn't just go away. And they sent this terrifying guy to my apartment. And he beat the hell out of me. And took everything that was in my safe, including photographs. A couple things I had from my grandmother. And, you know, he said. I think your answer will be different next time And if you tell anyone about this Know where your family lives in Colorado.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Then the feds start to pay attention to this $100 million poker game where people can show up with Millions of dollars in cash and get a check, right? Pretty rife for corruption. And interesting for them. The next thing that happened was I had a run-in with Italian organized crime. And I guess naively I thought that I knew that gambling was always one of the ways that organized crime earns. But I was having the games at the Plaza Hotel with billionaires and For the New York Yankees. And I just believed that there was enough separation. But by this time I had become the biggest game runner in New York City and they didn't care. They didn't care who my clients were.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So here's the kind of Levels and stages of the train wreck. So the first thing that happened was I had just recruited these guys. They were Russian, American businessmen. They had the air of being Ivy League, seemed so legitimate. I had people vetted within an inch of their life. I used to hire the same people that vet politicians, for instance That people, I'd bank employees on my payroll to find out people's liquidity. I mean, it was a whole process. You know, it's a lot of money and big risk to bring a stranger into a room with important people. Their story is checked out, but there is something in my gut that told me it was off. And it turns out that they were running the biggest insurance fraud scheme in New York City history. and they had alleged ties to the Russian mob.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was in a relationship for most of the LA game, and that ended right around the same time that my game ended. And then I went to New York and had sort of a secret relationship. One of the big players' little brother. Kind of did my role in the beginning of handing out ships and everything. I found to be this deeply fascinating brilliant heart centered person, and so we were in the secret relationship, but I didn't want anyone to know because he was. He didn't measure up to the persona that I was trying to sell which was very hurtful to him.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I had stopped really communicating, showing up for my family. At times didn't treat people that worked for me as well as I'd like to. I started to have Know New York was a trip. I had all these beautiful, interesting, compelling women that worked for me. And although I always wanted them, I always wanted to mentor them and provide them with opportunity. The truth is that I made sure they made enough money so they stayed in that darkness with me And I didn't Hold myself to the same accountability that I would hold myself now to in a friendship. I pay them so much money. I don't have to show up for their birthday, right? It was a I had even if I didn't act like it in my mind there was a hierarchy so I had no authentic relationships or very few Those were the reasons.”
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“I was very depressed. Very disappointed with myself. And completely powerless over these forces. by this point drugs. When I say drugs, I was I didn't like the inconsistency and the unreliability of street drugs. I liked the consistency and formulation of Pharmaceuticals. They allowed me to be productive and not feel myself, not feel the world. I was drinking a lot”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT