“Confident women can be whatever they want”

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The awareness that his role went beyond victories grew throughout his career. “At first, I was just focused on competing and proving myself in a space that wasn’t designed for women. But along the way, I realized that every time I got on the podium, other women felt like they had permission to step onto the mat,” she tells GLOBO.

The impact of this movement became more evident when Kyra began hearing stories from women who had changed their posture, self-esteem and life decisions through contact with jiu-jitsu. “When I started hearing stories of women who changed their posture, their self-esteem, their self-confidence and even their life decisions through jiu-jitsu, I realized that my role was bigger than titles,” she says.

Today, she sums up this turnaround: “Winning championships was important, but my biggest victory was using the tool of Jiu-Jitsu to give self-confidence to women who are looking to have the courage to live the way they want. That’s why my focus today is not on championships but on winning gold medals in life.”

The change in perspective also transformed Kyra’s relationship with her own body and the idea of ​​strength. If previously the emphasis was on performance, the focus is now broader and more sustainable.

“Before, strength was performance, results, physical resistance. Today, strength is longevity, body awareness, presence, emotional balance and self-confidence,” he explains. The body is no longer just a very demanding instrument but has become a space of care: “I am still strong, but in a more intelligent way, more durable and much stronger in the mind than in the body, and that is also maturity.”

It is from this vision that Kyra develops educational jiu-jitsu, particularly aimed at children. More than teaching techniques, the objective is to transmit essential values. “Self-confidence, respect and responsibility,” he sums up. Learning includes the right to position oneself and occupy spaces.

“For girls, it is non-negotiable that they learn to position themselves, to speak firmly and to understand that they do not need to apologize for existing and that they can occupy any role they want,” he emphasizes. The athlete emphasizes that teaching is only a path: “The teaching methodology is the means; the goal is to create safer and more aware human beings. Courageous and self-confident women.”

On social media, Kyra and Malvino speak openly about female self-defense, without idealizing violence. The balance between vigilance and emotional reinforcement, she believes, lies in information.

“The key is anticipation and information. Fear paralyzes, knowledge gives power. We don’t talk about violence to scare, we talk to prepare,” explains the speaker. Understanding the signs, contexts and response possibilities increases female autonomy. “The message is not ‘the world is dangerous’, but ‘you can better position yourself in it’. Self-confidence comes from awareness, not denial,” Kyra emphasizes. Motherhood directly crosses her professional life and has always been a dream.

“Motherhood has expanded everything and has always been a big dream for me. My sensitivity, my responsibility and my determination,” she says. If previously decisions were focused solely on the combatant, this focus has broadened to a collective perspective. “As an athlete, I was at the center of my decisions and everything changed with motherhood,” he reveals. The personal example took on even more weight: “I understood that my example was more eloquent than any speech.”

Currently, the choices of the businesswoman are guided by a constant question: “What world am I helping to build for my children?”

This concern from an early age also appears in the book “A blow against harassment”. According to Kyra, treating the problem as early as possible is a form of prevention.

“Because harassment doesn’t start with physical violence, it starts with words, looks, exclusion,” he says. Teaching children to recognize their emotions, to position themselves and to ask for help is essential to avoid future trauma: “Talking early means showing interest early. This shows that feelings matter and no one needs to suffer in silence. » The content creator emphasizes that emotional education is one of the pillars of her work. “Emotional education is one of the most effective forms of prevention. Training safer and more self-confident children is the main objective of my teaching methodology of educational jiu-jitsu,” he details.

For Kyra, the biggest challenge remains breaking the labels that limit feminine behavior. “We must stop qualifying behavior. Girls do not need to choose between being strong or sensitive. They can be both. Courage does not cancel out delicacy, and delicacy does not diminish strength,” he says. This change, he asserts, involves family, school, sport and the way in which society validates different expressions of the feminine.