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Retired but I stay stylin’

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Cat Daddy Maine Event tonight 🤌🏼🔥 ❤️‍🔥

I know we’re all looking forward to this match-up!

Make sure to be there tonight for at or tune in to he will be the main event.

Team

Something I’m taking into 2024…
Taking advantage of my home ☀️

Another day another Kini 👙
And I’m not even on vacation… I made this life 🫶🏼🐆

Vitamin D, will always be a priority to me.

I originated in Maine ✈️ California ✈️ Hawaii 📍 Miami 🏡 Just kept getting warmer 🫶🏼

Gym fits from last week ✌🏼🐆

• Happy Monday •

The sun came out… hubs b-day and my people.

Life is good, happy weekend ✌🏼

If you know me, you know I’m all business!

AND WE ARE BACK! Excited to be working again with and not only as a sponsored athlete BUT now to run my own gym!

We recently added jiujitsu to our schedule at and I knew, the only way to maximize not only my experience as owner/ manager but our students, was to be operating with the best in the business.

Because truly, makes your business better.

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Cute outfit of the week, post week gains

And the two meals I ate outside of my diet ✌🏼

Happy Friday friends. Don’t sabotage your gains this weekend! 🫶🏼🔥

H A P P Y • B I R T H D A Y • M R. L I R A

Ladies, that 1% of the time, we’re still allowed to feel powerful 🐆🥋

Thanks for letting us express our selves as martial artists through fashion 🫶🏼✌🏼

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PART II:

I think it’s safe to say we don’t choose who we love or who we fall in love with. We all want the perfect scenario with the perfect outcome, but majority looking back on their love stories, it was an unexpected love, doubt from others, judgement.

Feelings for Luccas only grew within the next two weeks. Respectfully, I knew at some point I would have to tell my ex, reason being is, we had grew (what came off as) a strong friendship and I was not only managing his gym but plain and simple, was there more than he was… but at the end of the day, still his business.

I had the intention of doing the right thing and going to him and expressing my feelings I had for, unfortunately, one of his friends, employees and someone he was close to. But with what I found out he had done during the relationship, hurt and lied to me, time and time again, the fact he was the one who broke up with me and I respected his wishes to not announce publicly about the break up but at that point, I had seen him with someone else, via someone’s public instagram. With everything, it was my time to put me first even if, I was going to be the bad guy because of who I “chose” to fall for.

Two weeks is not a long time to make what could be such a life changing decision.
It did not go well. The second I told him he said we were both out, that this was worse than anything he had ever done to me, and that, word for word, “Luccas wanted to be a lion, but there was only room for one lion in the gym…”

Fight or flight, I lied. In that moment I thought of my future and Luccas’s and wanted to defend that. I said it was just feelings. And he agreed that if no one found out about these feelings, I could continue training and teaching at the gym. At this point it was clear that it didn’t have to do with me as much as it had to do with ego.

The next day I sat with a friend and expressed to her that, I’ve built so much and Luccas worked so hard to get back here, I think I should ignore these feelings and move on. I had a sign in my home that said “choose happy” She pointed to that sign and said “NO. It’s time for you to choose happy, regardless of the outcome you will figure it out.”

The Liras, A Love Story: PART I

Luccas arrived late November 2022, 3 years after being away from Covid visa complications. He left as a boy and that’s the imagine I would have. But 3 years later, when he came back, plain and simple, he grew up.

It wasn’t until NOGI worlds (early December 2022) that we spent time together being at the tournament all day. There is where I started to see who Luccas had become. And of course myself. I was a very different person. I had gone through a year of intense healing at that point, finding God, living on my own, and became the best version of myself up until that point in my life.

A year ago today, on Christmas Day, I asked Luccas to come to my house. He had no idea why I was asking him over and I didn’t know my exact intentions either and that was the point, to find out.

I was at a point in my life, where I didn’t give up hope for love and chose to put myself first. And after that day, what I felt towards Luccas, I didn’t deserve to ignore it because of someone else, especially who that someone else showed themselves to be and the way I found out they treated me.

I’m tired of being silenced. This silence has made it look like I left my ex for Luccas, it looks like I cheated and that’s not fair to me. I am allowed to defend my character, especially after defending someone else’s for years. I was in a very public relationship, which I was okay with but transparency to me, is to share the good and the bad. It was okay for our entire “love story” to be public but when it came to the bad to the “failure” of our relationship, he didn’t want people to know and asked that I didn’t post.

I thought I was being respectful but I was being silenced, to the point, getting in a new relationship, regardless of who it may be with, I was going to look like the bad guy. Now, After a year of being able to be my true self with someone, I realized it’s not only important to tell my story for me, but for those who may have gone through or may be going through the same thing.

I chose to have my platform to be transparent, to relate and to make sure that I’m not keeping anything in that could help someone else.

We all love a good holiday open mat.
Just hit different 🐆🔥

Happy Holidays Fam 🎄

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The hardest is always the most rewarding.

This year started with a storm but without that storm I wouldn’t,

Be married to the love of myself
Have given CHAMPIONFIT the home is deserved
And created friendships with people who are genuinely clapping in your corner.

We wouldn’t be us without you all and we can’t wait for a new year of memories and goal crushing together. And we can’t wait to welcome new people to our team as well.

Not only do these people support us and what we do. They show up daily and brought the party all the way to our wedding in Maine.

And to the best partner and husband a girl could ask for. I love you and am forever grateful for all you do.

Cheers to what 2024 brings for CHAMPIONFIT. I know the opportunities are endless.

And now cheers to vacation 😅🐆🫶🏼

Yesterday was my 4 year anniversary as a black belt. 4 years chasing the dream and competing against the best. That’s not a long career as a professional at black belt but to accomplish what I did, be on the stages I was on and to have gone after it, I have no regrets nor do I feel unfinished.

Most professors, including myself, will always see so much more behind the black belt and that it shouldn’t just represent performance or time on the mat but the person you are as a whole and holding true to the values you should be carrying a black belt around your waist.

As I transition into coach and professor my goal now isn’t to be another “preacher.” Someone who can get up in front of people and their students and preach what it means to carry such a title, and justifying by showing up consistently every day, rather then actually living out the core values it takes to be not just a martial artist but a decent human.

Cheers to the years:

EUROPEANS: 🥇 🥈
Gi Worlds: 🥉
Gi Pans: 🥈
Nogi worlds: 🥉
Nogi Pans: 🥈 🥉

And to everything in between 🐆🙏🏻🫶🏼

Soon to be a year ago, this man gave up his dreams, left everything he worked so hard to return to behind and chose me.

He didn’t only choose to be with me but to become me… instead of himself. As humans what we do daily, what we work with, our passions, our routine/schedule makes up who we are. Due to our circumstance’s my life, my purpose, what I do, became what WE had to do.

A man takes responsibilities for his actions, accepts the consequences for his choices. And Luccas did this without hesitation, knowing that it could be the outcome of his decisions by being with me.

He had to wake up at 4:30am every morning not to train jiujitsu but to be a business owner, a coach and a husband, a leader. At 25 years old he took on responsibilities most “men” wouldn’t be able to handle and he did it without complaint or question. And for the majority of the time not having the escape of stepping on the mats to train.

But still he continued to never back away from a competition due to his circumstances. Going after the win, but not afraid to lose and still believing and holding on to his purpose anyway he could.

He is my biggest why. Not only because he is my partner in life but because of the man he showed himself to be to me this last year.
It’s time to focus on you and your dreams, this was apart of the journey, a sacrifice that I know will motivate you into this chapter.

His part in my retirement creates a shift in our roles. With my sole role being CHAMPIONFIT and coach, his can now become athlete.

My love, thank you 🙏🏻
But it is your turn

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THE • LAST • DANCE

We always see those dropping the belt and choosing to step away, I now understand the release and the significance. It might be only a piece of fabric but as athletes it’s our amour and without it we can no longer fight. As an athlete we surrender our armor to the sport that has given us so much as a thank you. We leave behind all the hours on the mat training, the days we didn’t want to continue, the moments we questioned believing in ourselves, the cliche blood, sweat and tears and the very piece of fabric, that makes us feel like super hero’s when we step out onto that mat. Whether it’s a belt or a ranked rash guard, without that piece of fabric there would be no journey and the only way to walk away, is to leave it behind, in the place that we came to earn it in the first place.

These mats, the yellow and blue. This is where my career started and 10 years later it comes to an end. The amount of time, sweat, tears, smiles and everything in between that I have left on these mats, that I have given to these mats and this sport I will carry with me daily. Many people have and will still step out on these mats but my prints, my efforts will never be matched in a sense my journey, my blueprint is my own and no one will ever be able to take that away from me.

To the community, there is no better in the world. And I am honored to be apart of it and am honored to have had you all in my corner over all these years.

I look forward to leave my blueprint in other ways now in our sport and I am excited to continue to share my why with you all and relive this beautiful journey together again through memories.

H•E•A•D T•O T•O•E

NoGi Worlds 🌍
Here We Go! 🐆


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Cheers to the years… 🥂 🥋 🐆

R•E•T•I•R•E•M•E•N•T

This week is NoGi Worlds and it will be my last matches in the adult division and competing for now.

This decision has been weighing on me for sometime now and it has gotten to the point that I have no doubt that I am making the right choice.

I am looking forward to going out there one last time and can’t wait to do it in front of all of you.

The love and support I have felt, the friendships and fans I have made over the last 8 years has kept me going and will continue to and will always be one of the biggest blessings in this journey.

All I have to say is THANK YOU! To everyone who has been in my corner, on my team and those who loudly or quietly supported me. You all are the reason us athlete continue sometimes.

I am excited for what’s next for my roll in this sport, because you’re not getting rid of me that easily 😜

Thank you to my husband for being on my side while making this decision and to my sponsor for trusting me to represent their brand on and off the mat and I am excited for our continued growth.

As I have shared my entire career with you all, I will continue to share my why, my plans and everything in between, in the next couple of days leading up to worlds before I step out on those mats one last time. 🙏🏻🔥🥹

🚨 I WILL BE DOING A LIVE AT NOON EASTERN TIME TODAY 🚨

In honor of WNO 21 tonight…
vs

Fun Fact. I was on WNO 1 vs
And on two WNO Main Cards.
The other agaisnt

It’s amazing to watch and enjoy the growth of the sport and how even this event has changed so much in just 20 shows.

Ready for the show tonight and swipe to see my picks 😜 🔥

Where do your picks differ?!
Drop yours in the comments ✌🏼

Let’s go home ✈️

Thanks for the SLEEP Maine ❤️

Hey! 110k FOLLOWERS,

Nice to meet you, a little about myself…
My Priorities, believer & wife
My Career, coach & athlete
My Hobbies, travel & bikinis

If you’re new here, Welcome to my life, I can’t wait to share it with you through reels, photos and being transparent AF 🐆

Day 1000 raining in Miami, post your kini pics to send good vibes to Mother Nature. Hot girl winter isn’t so hot without a tan ☀️ 🕶️🐆

This is one of those interruptions, to your regular scheduled program. 🐆

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Orlando Open -65kg 🥇🐆

I really am enjoying the place I am at with competing in my life. There are times I wish I could be all in and eat, sleep and breathe as an athlete but currently that is not my purpose.

I was singed up for both weight and absolute but my weight class didn’t end up starting until 8pm 😅 (the latest I’ve ever started a tournament) and by the time the absolute started it was past my bedtime (start time 10:30) and my husband was still fighting his division so I moved my focus there.

I was able to win both of my matches in my division, 1 by submission and called it a day ✌🏼

I was able to make the 65kg, perform some good jiujitsu and for that I am blessed.

To everyone in my corner. Thank you. It means the world to me. I am forever grateful.







📸 since forever

Processing…

When you’re in control of your mind there are no excuses ✌🏼

What the end of a training week looks like 😅

24 classes taught ✔️
6 days straight training ✔️
10 of 20lbs down ✔️
Weekend ✔️
Living off of passion ✔️✔️✔️

I pray for more days like today. A day where I could have been, a better person.
I could have spoken to my husband in a different tone, had more patience where I lacked with certain people and I can always stop more before I speak and ask myself, is it coming from a place of love, is it adding value or is it better left unsaid or for another time. Days that make me realize, I need to take my own advice.

These days don’t get me down or make me upset with myself, because I am human and letting it take up space in my mind will waste time. Time that I could be spending on becoming that better person.

Have your days, honor them, do better and pray to God 🙏🏻

It’s always been nogi for me 🤌🏼

Next Stop ADCC Open 🐆
Who is coming to Orlando?!

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Vacation but first… 🐆
Holiday festivities 🎄

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