Before You Kill Yourself: a suicide prevention podcast. Molly Bloom (Molly's Game): Constructive suffering, sobriety and tools for transformation
BIO:
Molly Bloom is an inspirational keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of
Molly’s Game. She is best known for her memoir, Molly’s Game, which was adapted
into an award-winning film of the same name by Aaron Sorkin. Bloom’s memoir
chronicles her journey from college student to LA waitress to building and operating the
largest and most notorious private poker game in the world. Her games featured
hundreds of millions of dollars and players like Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, A-
Rod, and Ben Affleck.
Bloom began her career as a world-class skier. While training as a pre-teen she was
diagnosed with severe scoliosis and had to undergo surgery that the doctors said would
end her athletic career. A year later, fully recovered, she was back on the slopes. She
later joined the U.S. Ski Team and at 21 years old was ranked No. 3 in North America in
moguls, but her Olympic dreams would go unrealized as she left the team to pursue
other projects. This led her to what she thought would be a year sabbatical in LA.
Bloom was finishing her degree in Political Science from the University of Colorado –
Boulder, and was in the process of applying to top tier Law Schools, when her assistant
job turned her into an accidental entrepreneur, running one of the most exclusive, high-
stakes underground poker games in the world, pulling in as much as $4 million per year.
What happened next is where her story truly begins.
The film Molly’s Game, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, stars Jessica Chastain (as
Molly), Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Brian d’Arcy James, and Chris O’Dowd.
Bloom has appeared on numerous shows and in media outlets such as Ellen, Vice, The
Los Angeles Times, NPR, Vulture, and has been asked to speak at Fortune’s Most
Powerful Women, for companies like Blackrock Financial, SiriusXM Radio, and
delivered the 2018 commencement speech at Colorado State University.
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IG: @immollybloom
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