Mental Samural Season 2 Episode 1: Interview with competitor Michelle Joy Nixon

Michelle Joy Nixon (MJ to her friends) is the first Season 2 competitor to make it into the recording booth.  We discuss MJ's remarkable life (which includes growing up as a tomboy, being the first in her family to graduate from college--Magna cum Laude from the University of Florida, realizing her childhood dream by working as a reporter for ESPN, switching to teaching special needs kids, and getting involved with multiple televised competitions) and dive into the details of how Mental Samurai Season 2 came together (first MJ was going to shoot in Spain, then finally in Portugal, which involved flying from Jacksonville to LA to New York to Lisbon). We also explore MJ's pop culture Achilles heel, which tripped her up because she's never seen Star Wars, or many other movies, as I discovered when she referred to Harrison Ford as, "Isn't that the guy that played a cowboy in some movie?", and didn't know him as Han Solo or Indiana Jones. You can learn more about MJ at her various websites, and you can even view some of her local TV commercials on her YouTube channel! http://www.joyisinyou.com/ http://www.mjnixon.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrro0mYr5Y_8EaQATJxSawg/videos --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chris-yeh-podcast/support