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Timestamps:

0:00:49Welcome Kristen!  Interviewing from Toronto, Canada.

0:01:31Kristen talks about her recent “Start Again” blog post, with thoughts related to meditation, yoga, and the Waking Up app by Sam Harris as it applies to overcoming small everyday perceived failures.

0:05:23Expanding the conversation to personal workout routines, and not allowing a small failure to sabotage your progress or ruin your motivation.  Thoughts on the difficulty of appreciating less intense workouts when you’re used to high intensity exercise or competitive sports. 

0:09:12When applying the Start Again concept to poker, how does Kristen manage to psychologically overcome errors she makes at the table?  Learning to respond to yourself like you would respond to a friend who’s made the same error.

0:11:47Thoughts on our tendency to be overly hard on ourselves, blowing up at the first error or sign of difficulty.  Plus some stories from Jamie of witnessing Kristen’s more tilted reactions.

0:14:11Meet Kristen’s dog, Riley!  A conversation about the ethics of bringing your dog to a live poker event.

0:16:06Publicly, Kristen seems to be a relatively private person.  Is that intentional?  Thoughts on social media, curation, and self promotion.

0:20:03The value of authenticity in social media.  Showing not just your highs, but also your lows.

0:21:13Kristen pushed her poker efforts into overdrive after the first time she achieved Supernova Elite status at PokerStars.  What was it about that achievement and that year that made her want to take her game to the next level?

0:25:15How does she feel about being a sponsored pro?  What were her thoughts on sponsored pros, in general, when she started taking poker seriously? 

0:28:10Thoughts on what makes Kristen a good role model for female poker players, and a broader conversation about the way women are perceived in poker.

0:35:35Is the hostility toward women less pronounced as you move up in stakes?

0:36:52The difficulty of building and maintaining confidence when moving up in stakes.

0:39:19The difficulty of gaining respect in the poker community, especially as a woman, and the value of letting go of your desire to impress others or to feel accepted by them.

0:45:09How women are often patronized in poker using a “you’re pretty good, for a girl” style of thought.

0:46:06Is she annoyed by the poker media’s tendency to highlight the fact that she’s a woman?  The ins and outs of this type of media bias in general.

0:51:04Are female poker players becoming more common?  Is the situation improving?

0:53:25What’s her favourite spot that she’s travelled to for poker?

0:54:50What’s the first thing she’s going to do when the travel situation becomes more normal?

0:55:24What are her upcoming plans in terms of online poker?

0:55:59Some info on an upcoming charity event that Kristen is taking part in, raising money to develop a vaccine for COVID-19.  Thoughts on the importance of highlighting kindness and generosity in the poker community.  We’re not all just degenerates!

0:59:32Thoughts on the lack of competition in online poker platforms in Nevada (and elsewhere in the US).  WSOP needs a competitor.

1:00:35Wrapping up.