Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea of right now we're here, be here.

It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these women that I'm so blessed to play are some of the most compelling stories, and the truth is stranger than fiction.

I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

I love to travel. I'm a curious person.

When I was a swimmer and I would lose a heat in something I was doing whether it backstroke or breaststroke, were two of my most strongest strokes, I would look at how whoever it was that won and beat me and think, "What did they do? What were... What were the qualities that they had that I can incorporate into my swimming to make me better?"