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Episode 107 of heCast features Jordie Taylor in an open conversation about humility, masculinity, wrestling, growth, and the lessons that shape a man.
Jordie Taylor is a standout independent professional wrestler competing across multiple promotions. In this episode, he joins Mike to talk about what he has learned over the years about being a man, the role humility has played in improving his life, and the perspective that comes from growth.
This conversation explores masculinity, discipline, confidence, and how success can look different when you lead with humility.
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It's a lot of fun. Now, I have talked a couple of
times on this. Upon on this program about some
of the things that I do outside of of this I've talked about my
career a little bit as a financial advisor.
I've talked about some of the other things that I've done in
my background including been part of the pro wrestling
industry. That's right.
We've talked about this in the past.
We've had some guests on from the industry is well and the guy
that I'm going to have on today you can see, I'm already.
We've got it. So you can see both of us today
playing around with the format. Seeing how things go.
What? Like and I just, I got to say
the very, very first wrestling show that I was a part of from a
professional standpoint on the business end of things.
It was a fundraiser that we were doing that people thought we
were crazy, we were putting on an event called Kelowna
Invasion. We brought in an old school, WWF
wrestler called Brutus, The Barber, Beefcake, and people
thought we were not. So we were using it as a
fundraiser for BC at Children's Hospital and people thought we
were Bonkers doing this? What are you doing?
You know, put on a golf tournament.
German or a walk like other you know, regular people do while
we're not regular people so they weren't laughing anymore.
The next day when we raised well, over 15,000 dollars for
the BC Children's Hospital in one night, the guy who were
having on here today was a part of that night and many other
night since that wrestling promotion that little fundraiser
that could went on to raise over a quarter million dollars for
local charities in the run from 2013 to 2019 when we did that.
And He was a part of most of those events.
I will tell you this the business model that we had was
we would bring in a WWE guy or an ex-wwe or WTF guy or gal and
they would kind of be the draw and then we would use wrestlers
from the Pacific Northwest and the Lower Mainland of Canada,
you know, Vancouver area and then locally here where I'm from
in the Okanagan and they would put on you know, it's all about
steak and sizzle. Do you know the the old WWE
wrestler? Many times would be the sizzle
but the steak had to be put on by the substance of the show,
was put on by these amazing athletes.
These amazing storytellers and that's really what a pro
wrestler is. Is there a Storyteller?
They're able to take and manipulate emotions that are in
the crowd and and create a story and really get the crowd around
them to suspend their disbelief and put their emotion into what
they're In front of them, it's like a live-action movie is
really how it is and someone who's really good at this
business is really good at being able to manipulate these
emotions and create these emotional responses of a crowd
live real-time. The guy that I am interviewing
today is a guy like I said, he was part of that original show
and I would submit, that is one of the best pro wrestlers that
you've never seen. And I'm just saying that if
you're not part of the geographic area that we are,
he's an independent Didn't independent pro wrestlers are
some of the hardest working people that you'd ever want to
meet because they hold a career or a job many times while they
on the side bus, their butts quite literally.
And every other part of their body, for this art that they
love so much. This desire to perform Jordi.
Taylor is a guy who has done that.
I've seen him do it, multiple multiple multiple times and it
blurs, the line, man, when you see some of these performers, I
think about actors and you said, Kim Coates.
Sons of Anarchy on he talked a lot about the idea of being an
actor. Me able to blur the line with
reality and fantasy pro. Wrestlers do it real time and
this is one of the best Jordi Taylor.
Thank you for taking time. To be part of he casted.
A man. Thank you, bro.
I'm so much looking forward to it.
I don't really do podcast. And this one is exactly the kind
of that I was wanting to join. I guess it's a perfect way to
express the story and, like my story and help anyone that may
listen to. And that's, that's the main
Point of like my path now is to just help people men and just
like in general just like use my story, whatever the case to help
who's ever willing to listen in wanting to listen or needing the
growth or the help at the time. Okay.
Our first show was in 2013 with you and I would submit that the
words you just said were not in the vocabulary of that guy that
I met 2013, the journey that you have taken is extraordinary.
We're going to get into that today and I'm excited.
Out that let's talk a little bit about where you were though,
because I think that to really appreciate where we are and
where we're going, we need to look back and say this is where
we were that guy in 2013 that I met, I mean, you're jacked right
now, that guy was Jack, you're intelligent guy now, you're
intelligent guy back then, but tell me a little bit about that
guy versus the guy now. Well, I mean, in terms of 2013,
2011 is when I started my career and like, I I've always been a
total pushover because my entire life, like I wasn't really seen
as a child or heard or like made to feel like loved or whatever
the case and it's no one's fault.
Right? It's like, it's all just, again,
like, we're running our programs.
Like I said before we started. But, and 2012 2011, 2012, I just
kind of was like a pushover and I would let everybody walk over
top of me. So, on, in 2013 ish, I started
using steroids because I was, like, I need to get big, he's
got to be big to be a rest, all right.
Yeah, kind of made me, like so to the other end of the
spectrum. So like I went from extremely
nice to kind of rude. Crazy and psycho and like all my
shit out a little bit, it's we're here.
But yeah, what cement its immense podcast, you can say
whatever the hell we want to say absolutely during that time like
2013 I was I was in the middle of like, my transformation of
like, my first getting out of my, I was, I was getting away
from not being seen to being overseen.
Like I was, it was, I was Overbearing.
And like I was still kind of always been kind to people that
are kind back to me. Like I was always, I kind of
just used it as a way to, like, get back at the people who were
rude to me, or didn't see again, didn't see me.
Because I kind of had a thing with that.
But during that time like, you guys were basically, the only
promotion or only people like and I gotta get a lot of credits
or Credence to you. You and Rizzo, like we're the
only people that would give me a chance when no one else really
would. So, it was like, those were the
times, which were keeping the light at the end of the tunnel
when I was in a pretty dark place.
I'm very interested in this perspective and I appreciate you
saying that it's not the first time you've said that to me.
But in this context it certainly is you started wrestling in
2011. Where did you train?
I started Wrestling Academy Lance Storm and Calgary, Alberta
Canada. Okay, so the pedigree of Lance
Storm can be traced back to the heart, the legendary heart
house, and then and and Lance himself went on to a an
incredible career in pro wrestling.
And and then started It up arresting Academy, probably in
many respects considered one of the during its Heyday when you
were there at the time, probably one of the greatest pro
wrestling schools in Canada. That's all fair to say, right.
We're on the same page there. Never seen a better trainer than
Lance Storm and I'm not effective up.
I apologize on that. Yeah.
He's the best trainer I've seen period.
Okay, so good. Okay, so in the ring.
So so you're you, you had the upbringing that you did you
weren't seen boy. I mean, I don't think it takes
the psychologist to go. Okay, well, here's a, here's a
compensation for that. Get into the pro wrestling
world. You go to category, you learn,
you learn the technical elements of of The Craft, I alluded in
the introduction to the psychological elements of The
Craft as well. All the Mind work that needs to
be done, you know that an effective pro wrestler, does you
come back? 2011, and what was it?
That had a hard that had a Difficult time for you.
Getting your foot in the door and getting noticed.
I'm in for in terms of like I went to wrestling school in May
of 2010. So when I came back a couple
months later, I didn't have any money because I grew up
extremely poor so I had to quit my job, but I finally got a good
job right before I went to wrestling school, but I was like
if I get this job, I'm using this to get to wrestling school.
So like I had to quit. And then I went to school moved
to Calgary came back after school.
And then I had six months of not having a job, not being able to
find a job and kind of just getting down on myself.
Because like the I lived in Moines.
Like there was no wrestling and I'm over there wasn't for quite
some time. Funny enough.
There, wasn't any wrestling until six months after I moved
off the island which is just funny how that works.
But ECW was the company. That was like, the biggest
company around, like, Vancouver area.
Yeah, and there was also a SW, but I emailed a bunch of places
and nobody got back to me and then I emailed ECW, but they
had, I guess they ran into a bunch of people who said,
they've been trained by storm but had no experience.
So they were skeptical about people just saying that they had
Trained by him. So that I had to wait for them
to come to Victoria and like, it was just perfect timing that
they just happened to come to Victoria in January of 2011.
It was like, that was my thing. So, I just showed up, because
somebody BJ Laredo was the person that broke me into the
business. Essentially, he brought me to
the show and then Scotty Mac, who's the owner of the company?
He liked was like, oh, you look decent.
You want to be in a triple threat tonight?
I'm like yes yes I do. And then like that mean it was
all just like that simple, even though it was difficult to get
there at the beginning. Well it's funny.
I can I want to A little bit about that because there's a lot
of guys out there right now who are tunnel-visioned and and and
we talked a lot about the different pain points of guys
that would that we go through sometimes.
And one of those pain points is not living our purpose or our
Dream. The thing that we've always
wanted to do and I want to I want to stick on this a little
bit because at the end of the day you did chase a dream
whether it was to be noticed whether it's because you love
wrestling, whether it was that need to perform, whatever it
was, you were chasing a dream. You the dream had a drought and,
and yet at the same time, you kept Focused on it like you know
you look great you are ready for that shot as soon as that shot
arrive. I think that pro wrestlers have
a very unique definition that can be Universal about guys who
are waiting for an opportunity and being ready.
When that opportunity, sometimes shows up because we don't know
when that opportunity is going to show up, do we?
No not at all. Mad - it totally is right, place
right time for a lot of wrestling for the majority of
it. Yeah.
But that's the thing too is like a lot of people spend their time
waiting and I've been victim of A lot myself but like there is a
big against difference between waiting for something to happen
and then going out and making it happen, whatever those steps
maybe like a lot of us do and I've been victim of this, not
victims, like everything you do, you do yourself and do your own,
your own biggest problem. Our own biggest way.
Sometimes in your own, biggest way, whatever the case, I'm
trying to say. But anyways, they're like, yeah,
there's a big difference between, like, waiting for
something to happen then making it happen.
And like, I've been in both and I'm still in both.
I got I, it's hard to get past the waiting, even a day-to-day.
Like, am I doing enough? Am I doing NG too much and it's
always just like a balancing act, right?
Yeah, I hear you but at the same time though, I mean you had a
drought there and you still kept on.
Pushing like you wouldn't, if you hadn't kept working for that
entire six months working on your body, working on, you know,
whatever it is the skill set that you were working on at the
time when that opportunity suddenly showed up, you wouldn't
have been ready for it. And I think there's something to
be said as well for for preparing, whatever it is
preparing for that opportunity and always working hard.
Even if you're working another job, or whatever it is, you're
doing be willing to Out of work on whatever that purpose of that
dream might be. Yeah.
Take the micro steps if need be right?
Like there's different levels of what you need to work on at all
times and like, it can be different every day, right?
Like some days working on your body.
Some days watching wrestling, some days getting in the ring
like everyday looks different. In every goal looks different on
different days. What did it?
Feel like when that opportunity arose and they looked at you and
said, okay, well yeah, hey, yeah, you want to be in the
triple threat match tonight? What did that?
What did that? Feel like that night alone was
kind of funny. Like it was a Not actually the
best debut or whatever the case. So I'm not I wasn't really good
in front of people, I wasn't really good around people, I was
kind of like I was very introverted growing up.
So being around a bunch of people in the first place was
nerve-racking. Being a bunch of her about like
around a bunch of wrestlers and itself, because they're all kind
of like, egotistical big scary looking, whatever the case like
real men, real women, like Fighters and whatnot.
Yeah, so like being around that was already nerve-wracking
enough and I was prepared for just in case that I got the
chance to wrestle, and I've never attend before.
Or really like I got a spray tan and I didn't know when I got the
spray tan, like the person to assist their spring, you
whatever the case and I had boxers on because I thought like
you know, this is high enough so I just pulled them up.
Little did I know? Because I've been wearing trunks
that there would be an inch and a half mark of like, whiteness
from my leg where the boxer like, with my gear the next day.
So, there was that and I tried to sleep like a log and I
drooled on my chest. So there was a white mark on my
chest and like I was already like nervous because a triple
threat is extremely difficult and it's a hard wrestling match
to to be in in the first place. So I like, I had this 10
problem. I'm in the triple threats that's
nerve-racking. I've never been in front of a
crowd before so I'm terrified about that.
My heart's going, a million miles a minute.
And the funny thing enough to when I sister gave me a blank CD
because I was going to put my entrance music on there and it
was like something I've worked on for a few months.
Getting ready for it. She didn't tell me.
There was a song on the first saw the first track, it was
Blink-182, All the Small Things and like that's literally the
opposite of the tone that I was trying to come into the room.
Playing. Yeah, I'm like this isn't my
song they're like just go go and on top of that, my resting name
at the beginning, was the greed father, but they called me the
greed master. So I was like every single thing
screwed up at the times like this is it something?
But at least it's like I got out there and I did it when I did it
after that. Like I just sat there vibin for
like a day and a half you like I did it.
I finally did it. Yeah, it was a breakthrough and
and I again I I think that sometimes the fear of the
performance itself is The thing that overwhelms and maybe even
stopped some guys, from actually, whatever it is,
whether it's learning a musical instrument.
Whether it's getting in shape, whether it's having that
difficult conversation, you need to have or or coming to grips
with the job that they're at many times.
Those fears of what might happen.
Like, if you would have just said the chain of events that
just happen to you. If you would have told the guy
beforehand, that that was all going to happen, those fears
might have been enough to Cripple.
You to not go that night but at the end of the day, what did you
say? Okay, all this shit.
Up and didn't go the way that it was supposed to go.
Wrong music and crazy tan lines, all that kind of stuff, and a
difficult match with all the nerves of that and to perform.
And yet four days after you were vibing about it because you knew
you were leveling up right 100% And like that right there gave
me the courage to I've never really gone over to Vancouver or
traveled anywhere, or do anything is my own.
Because again, like I grew up very poor.
So I didn't have the opportunities to get out and do
stuff and like I had to take care of my sister's a lot of my
life. So I don't really have the
opportunity to like Go out and do things on my own.
So when I, when I did that it was like I did this know.
I can start going over to Vancouver for the first time in
like that was terrifying and itself because I didn't know
where to go. What to do, whatever you thought
I was gonna get lost, didn't have a cell phone at the time,
but it's like that alone gave me the strength to start.
Like, now I can go to this this next level.
I go to Vancouver and I can start heading shows up there and
like that was essentially what started my breakthrough of
wrestling, right? Like it got me to where I needed
to be like, it's just like a step Russian production,
Gresham, like one step at a time, right?
It's lily pads. Across the river.
It's the stepping stones that are there and right now we say
this any guy who's listening to this right now hey what are some
of the stepping stones that you may not see?
What are what are some of those those steps that you could take
to lead you to that better spot that more satisfactory existence
on this planet? You know, those Stepping Stones
were there? They're there for everybody.
Just sometimes we fail to see the awareness, have the
awareness for them. I should say.
And also, you know, you and I talked about this before, I'm
going to get into vulnerability here and then also, Oh, the
vulnerability to to admit or to even search inside that things
aren't exactly the way that I want them to be, you know what
would it look like if they were what they wanted to be?
And what are the stepping stones that will lead you towards that?
And I think those are really powerful questions that every
man, every human really should ask themselves.
I find it very interesting, you're introverted.
There's a lot of people in the pro wrestling business that are
introverted and yet you said it yourself tan line Is that even
boxer shorts wouldn't cover talk about being exposed physically
in front of people, but then also, once you start with public
speaking, which many people fear that, and more than more than
death, how does an introvert Express themselves in that way?
What was it that compelled you to use that as your megaphone?
I mean, it was all just like General progression.
Like I've been cutting promos or trying to Peppermill since I was
16 and the first ones like Uh, trap salute terrible.
A product was a promo is talking to a camera, talking to somebody
and just basically talking a bunch of shit or telling a
story. Making your case for something
is that with that, is that a fair case more or less than,
like hydra-matic hyping the next show, your opponent, talking up
your opponent. All that jazz is like expressing
your gimmick or character, your persona, like, it's extremely
difficult for like it's one of the most difficult things that I
run into and like, for myself, I guess in that sense of like,
just like pushing yourself too. Do the thing that you want to do
like that's it's one of the hardest things that I found for
wrestlers. The majority of wrestler.
So is one of the main things that I focus on since I've
started and like when I first started it was terrifying and
like I didn't get good at it for about like five or six years
until after I was at started doing it professionally and
like, that is terrifying. The whole thing is terrifyingly
resting in front of people and like at the problem that I had
or like that even sometimes I run into still is like the
voices in your head or so loud of like I'm going to screw this
up blah blah blah, right? Like I'm not gonna get this
right. I'm gonna forget this line,
which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, but like the voices in
your head, or so strong and so loud, that you can't hear
anything around you and like that doesn't work in favor for
like listening to the crowd, listening to what you're
actually saying. And like if the Cadence comes
off properly, if like you're making the right pauses, if it
sounds genuine and real and a lot of people want to portray a
Persona, right? Because they're scared to like
let their inner selves out and be seen, which again was a huge
thing that I've had to deal with my whole life, right?
Yeah, it's it's definitely nerve-wracking to say the very
least. What?
Learning to be a pro-wrestler. Jordie was at therapy for you?
Yeah, in a sense it's like it's the only thing that I've wanted
since I was five. It's the only thing I've ever
been in love with. Like, I don't like anything else
and I've never liked anything else.
So it's the only thing that I've since I was five that like, you
can be yourself. You can connect with a crowd,
you can tell a story and again like the crowd part was very
scary and I never thought of that when I was a kid but it's
like I can be myself. I can express myself as full as
I want to and like when I started getting in the ring and
I started to after five or six years learning how to Control
the story control the crowd, like, with the ups and downs in
the flow, like that is. Yeah, it's therapy.
It's like, even when I'm in pain, like I just go out there
and like there's there's no drug or better drug in the world and
I know because I've done them all, so I'm sure absolute best
well and as someone who can attest for this, I've watched
you, I've watched it happen multiple times whether it was,
it was, it was just you, you with a partner, telling a story,
whatever it was where you literally had people in the
past. Of your hand and you got them to
go ho and you just you the ups and downs that you used with
your physical body. But also with the way that you
move the way that you said things the way that you, I've
watched you do it and it's it's art.
It really, really is. It takes a special kind of
artist to be able to do that. So you're in the business for a
while. Again, we want to talk about the
comparison. I appreciate you going into
that. I think a lot of guys don't even
step up to the plate. And I can certainly say, from a,
from a personal standpoint, you know, yeah, financial advisor.
I trade all that kind of stuff, but I know that I'm a
broadcaster in my heart and it, and it's just just going out and
doing these hundred and, you know, somewhat episodes of he
cast so far, I know that I'm fulfilling my purpose.
I got other podcasts that I'm that I'm doing that are that are
that are kind of dream fulfilling and and I just there
are so many men Jordi like in you doing this you want to be
wrestled since we were five, you dreamt of being a wrestler.
I just wanted to be but like the ultimate dream was oh if I could
just be a wrestler and and do this there's a lot of guys who
are listening to this right now that haven't explored some of
those inner most desires of what they want to do.
What would you say to those guys?
Right now you only live once. I mean, if depends on if you
believe that you're reincarnated whatever the case, but in this
Lake okay, every day that you don't take the step is a day
that you live with regret, right?
Like that. The only thing that I've ever
known is to dive headfirst. First into the thing, you love.
See, if you don't, what if I am like, what if is very shitty
place to be in the rest of your life?
Like the only thing we're here to do is live our lives, fill
our lives with love, right? Like, fill our every task with
love the like because what you have inside radiates outside.
So if you love what you're doing in your life, then you're going
to attract nothing but love, and loving the experiences and like
just the happiest most wonderful life you can imagine, right?
But if you're sitting there like regretting, your choice is
regretting, your life hating things, blah, blah blah.
You're going to attract those same kind of like, situations,
right? Like, like attracts, like, So if
you think like all this sucks life is so hard, I didn't get my
chance. You're going to get more things
that like are forcing you to step into your power or further
disassociate into not loving your life, right?
So I mean do it is the thing I would say that's awesome.
I you know another guy that that we know in the wrestling
business has big big a lot of success.
He's been on this podcast and you talked about this is Al Snow
all snow was on this podcast and he talked about how people play
you talk about, what if he talked about how people play?
The what if game the wrong way? All the time, all they do is
they play the? What if game, what, if I don't
get this job? What if I don't have enough
money for the rent? What if I screw this up?
And, and my life will never be, you know, ask that girl out and
she rejects me. What if and you play it the
wrong way and that affects your life and it affects the
trajectory of your life, whereas you could play it the other way.
What if I ask the girl out and she said, yes, you know, or
what, if it's something turned out because of that even better,
what if I didn't get that job? Yeah.
And play the, what if game the other way and I hear that, you
know, imagine if that's all you focus on, if you just focus on,
what if it worked out and I mean that's I'm just I'm just put an
exclamation point on what you say.
But it's interesting that you and Al had both had that to say,
and you did that. And I mean, you talk about.
Okay? So, so from a part-time
independent, professional, wrestler standpoint.
Especially you've had a lot of experiences.
And I mean, I can, I can say, because I've witnessed it, I
watched you. How you have a lot of fun at
after these shows you had, you were living the life.
You really enjoying what this all brought to you safe to say
that you enjoyed it, sometimes to access a hundred percent.
Like that's, it's always been about, like, walking the line
finding the balance, and I'm a Libra, right?
So, I'm all about balance, but when a Libra is out of balance,
they go to extremes. They make irrational choices.
And like, for myself, when I, when I started, I told you like,
I was introverted. I was a pushover.
Everyone stepped on me, because I let them Like I would get in
somebody's way and I would say, sorry.
So like it's hard like somebody will get my way and I would say
stories what I meant? But anyways, like yeah, it would
be the one side where I was very introverted, very scared of
Life, very blah blah. And like I did still choose to
dive into life whatever the case but then as soon as I went to
the other end of the spectrum is like now I'm going to go as hard
as I can and like there was a part of me to that because at
that point not even like when I 33 was about the year that I
started to finally dive into my traumas and figure out what they
were. And like, what Things were
unconsciously running my life, but before that, like when I met
you, that was like, when I was like 25 26.
I was deep deep. Deep into my traumas and like,
trying to escape myself, trying to get away from the things that
I didn't want to look at which were like a very hard upbringing
and I'm not trying to say that in terms of like all my stories,
hard feel like, feel sorry for me, I love everything that
happened in my life and it's a badge of honor now and like it
just, it's part of my story, right?
But like at that time I was as soon as wrestling was over
because that's where identified and that was another big thing
too, was identified so hard with me being a wrestler.
Once I became Like as soon as the match is over, it's like, oh
now I gotta start Escape my life again until the next match.
So it's like let's do everything we can find well and I mean not
to tell Tales out of school, you go to whatever you want to go
into. I had a I just recently had a
conversation with a guy who hung out a lot with John Belushi back
in the day and and and the way that he described John Belushi
is the pedal down to the floor. It does not move and it just
stays there when describing how John lived his life there were
Safe to say that there are time periods where that would be
something that was you could you could relate to.
I would say it's from 23 to 25 till Twenty Eight.
Actually he had a three-year run with it like without taking away
the metal Autumn. Yeah, just very stupid.
I'm surprised. I'm still alive after a long,
but that was part of the story. But like I would, we're all
like, I believe very much that we have a birthday and we also
have a death date, right? Like so whatever we're going to
do in this life is wherever we're going to do.
We're supposed to go when we're supposed to go.
Just like we're supposed to come here when we Come here but like
during that time, like if I didn't, I guess, revamp or like
level up, I guess then I was probably going to party myself
to death. Those probably a pretty strong
Factor pretty strong probability.
Yeah. And, and I mean, it's a, it's an
easy, it's easy to have a hard life when you're running in
those circles constantly in your having those adrenaline highs
and lows and the people around it and stuff, it's really easy
to live a hard life and you've seen it.
I've seen it with people and I love seeing people who come out
on the other side of it and I want to talk about that too.
He said it was in your early, 30s is when you realize you had
trauma and started diving into it.
What was the, what was the Catalyst for you seeing
something bigger? And, and identifying it with
with, maybe trauma or wanting to change or grow.
And I don't want to put words in your mouth but what was the was
there was there one moment or was it a series of moments that
led to that decision? It was definitely a Of moments.
Cause like I would say at 33 was when I had sort of my Spiritual
Awakening where I started to realize that I was running a lot
of unconscious traumas and like that was dictating my life but
there was one specific moment at age 33.
It was like three quarters into it, whatever the case, something
like that, or maybe even the beginning of 34, I don't know
that time doesn't exist to me. Like I'm just like I'm here
right now. Yeah, it was when I was talking
to my girlfriend and I just I kept on, I had this thing and
I've had this thing, like I told you like I used to say, sorry
when I would get in someone's way.
Like, I would say, Oh sorry over everything.
Like I would say sorry constantly like my trauma
response where like I didn't feel good enough.
So it's like as long as I overcompensated and said, sorry.
Constantly then like then it's good right, right.
Like it's also through like you're putting up with me
because I was again never seen never heard of the child and I
didn't really like I wasn't shown that I'm worth something
or means something blah blah blah and again no one's problem,
right? But like I would just say sorry
over everything and like my girlfriend was like I was doing
the dishes and I was helping and then I didn't do something
properly those like sorry. And then she's like doing food.
And I'm like sorry and then like she's sorry.
You say sorry so much like, you know, that's drama response,
right? And I'm like, damn, I don't even
know what a trauma response was. And then I started to like, dive
into what? How many other ones I had like
it's funny too because then I'm like ah shit.
Here's another huge workload. I've got to put myself into to
see like this. I didn't know what they were
right. And I was like, damn, they're
literally running my whole life and it's not.
My problem is no one's problem, right?
It's not, my parents problem is, nobody's really, it's just
that's our story and what we've been given, we can either choose
to continue down that path or start to work through them and
up, Upgrade. I've got two responses to
everything that you just said. Number one, the idea that
saying, sorry is a trauma response.
That's the first one I've on all of the episodes of this podcast
so far. That's one that hasn't come up.
That's really, really interesting.
What is it about saying, sorry, that's a, that makes it a trauma
response. Do not doing anything wrong, and
I wasn't doing anything wrong at the time.
Like I was, I was helping someone, but I always felt that
my being around was a hindrance because like I never felt good
enough for anything like that even worked in.
The right, so like even subconsciously when you're in
the ring, if you don't because I now I am body being the man.
Like I feel very much that I'm the best, but then like I would,
I would fake confidence. But even then like I would, I
would always just feel like I wasn't good enough.
Like I didn't deserve what I had.
Like I didn't deserve to be there, I didn't deserve the nice
things. I was getting even though like
I've always been given everything that I've ever asked
for dreamt of, but there was a part of me that always like, I
don't I don't not worthy of that again.
I guess it's kind of like imposter syndrome, like I'll do
great, but it's like, do I deserve this really?
But then that's the only, like, I would say sorry.
Sorry for everything that is really interesting.
I, we talk a lot about impostor syndrome on here and and I'm
actually there's a side project that's going on with each engine
that's involving with involved with impostor syndrome.
And that's the second thing I wanted to actually ask you, once
you realize what you said there. I think was really, really key
Geordi. I think I'm glad that you said
it the way you did because it triggered this this, this
response. The idea once you realize that
it is a trauma response and suddenly you're like, oh shit,
the amount of work. It's going to tell you, another
thing, like something to work on.
And I think that there's a lot of guys out there who even if
they haven't explored consciously and become aware of
what exactly is some of those traumas fought, some of those
things that are in the background that the lacking is
that we might have in our life. I think many times the idea we
don't want to open Pandora's Box because as the overwhelm, the
overwhelming fear of how much effort, what will change, will
our security be affected? All of these, you know, reality
you know, to its core, the fear of any of that stuff, being
rocked stops us. And I just find it interesting
that when, you know, she's had to go.
That's a trauma response. And there's a part of you that
in retelling a story even goes. Okay, well shit, you know, this
is Anna. Overwhelmed by this here.
Now you're on the other side of it.
Now we're going to get to that in a second here.
But any guy who's got this whole shit, kind of kind of feeling
right now. How worth it is it on the other
side to deal with that stuff, there's literally no better
feeling in the world. Like you, you feel like you're
coming back to yourself, right? Like you have all these programs
and whatever the case and they run your life and you don't run
your life. And that's the problem is like
when you have so many things running your life, you're
triggered at everything and like a lot of men When myself, I'm
the only one that can I know my experience.
So that's what I'm going off of is a lot of men being me.
Aye aye, we try to attack everything from the mind and
like, that's because we have a closed heart.
We've never really learned how to open her heart.
And like, you can't feel from the mind.
So, like, if you have an issue in your head being like, oh,
I've got to deal with all these things, it's because your heart
has to open for it. And like we try to like okay now
I have all these these steps and I can listen to all these
podcasts, whatever the case, because that's what I did.
I just started diving into like Men's Health podcast.
Ever, but it's like you can listen to a lot of things but
instead, you have to be like in the moment and like something
comes up and you be like, oh what's coming up now?
I have to feel this now. Where is this coming from what
sort of like unresolved trauma? Is this coming from as a child?
And like that's the part that really sucks and hurts.
It's like you can't think your way out of feeling like you have
a lot of pain that you have to feel and come up to integrate
and like them. That's that's where the word
comes. I like it's like being in the
moment. It's like, okay.
Like I've learned all these things and now oh and good.
Now I'm prepared for whatever comes up and like something
comes up and you're like, ah shit.
Here's my heart open to a little bit it's like that painful stuff
well and it's painful but also there's also the fear of how
painful it's going to be. When the reality of it is that
it's also moving forward. It's you know it's not still
water. It's like a it's like a river in
you're moving it forward and you might get hit for some rocks
along the way a little bit but you're still progressing versus
when you sit there and it's just still and and because that hurt
is still there, it's just there two different formats in the
form of procrastination. Another form of of, you know,
overworking everything right? Yep.
Yep. Abso-fucking-lutely I appreciate
you talking about that and I mean you know we've had some
we've had some real aha moments that we're going to get to hear.
Now let's go back to your 33 that the that saying sory that
trigger response thing. Sounds like it was a bit of a
keystone to an avalanche continue continue on in the
progression of that hill falling down I mean at that point then I
was like How many times? Because even that triggered me
to. I was like this Little Charmers
fun, so, I'm just being a nice person but like really, it was
just me, like, not feeling worthy, not feeling good enough
and like, I was in the literal place that I wanted to be in,
but my mind thought, like, okay, maybe I should just do the
dishes. Maybe I can like help and do
everything cause that's how I like lived my life, in terms of
like my upbringing with my family.
It's like how can I do things for other people to make me feel
like I'm I'm worth being here. Instead of being like, you know
I'm I'm a beautiful soul. Who deserves all the love in the
world and like this is my Sorry that I've been given by God by
Whatever by the universe, right? Like this is I'm here for this
reason, instead of I don't belong here, I don't deserve to
be here and I Would overcompensate by like doing
everything to make someone's life, so easy that it started
hindering their lives and like because like they need to do
things for themselves to be independent, right?
But that was just my thing and like from then it was like, okay
so I say sorry, a bunch, that's a trauma response.
I like, I overworked myself all the time and I don't rest and I
don't sleep because I feel that if I stop or if If I don't
continue doing things then that's a trauma response because
I'm like, I'm over working there's no balance Within Myself
and I had to start like learning to rest because that's just as
much like it's the yin and the yang, right?
Like you have to rest as much to have to work and I had to like
just just be more in the moment and like stop like learn to
quiet my head and get into my heart and then that was one of
the biggest problems to arise because when you come in your
heart, then you become into the moment instead of like thinking
of like, okay 10 minutes from now, I need to do this 20
minutes from now. This like how can I continue to
make myself worthy instead of that?
I am worthy and ever since then 34, now just about to turn 35.
So it's been like a painful two years but it's been the most
learned two years of my entire life so far.
And like it's it's been the most wonderful two years ever.
Like I would I would go through that pain times 1000, if it
meant to be in the spot, I am now because I got that there's
no better feeling in the world than learning to love yourself
and love your experiences, the love of your life because like,
when you heal your, your trauma becomes your gift to the world.
World then you can help other people with with.
There's right. Yeah, your trauma becomes your
gift to the world. My God does that ever take the
edge off? If you know that you're going to
have trauma? Or, you know, you've had trauma
but understanding the fact that your trauma can be the gift to
the world. You might, you cut yourself a
break a little bit. And I think, I think that's a
lot of us, who can identify with what you're, what you're saying.
We don't cut ourselves a break many times if we're shouldering
the responsibility of a family and you got stresses in the
family, if we're feeling stressed.
What? We're don't want to burden the
family with that stuff, we don't want to burden our friends.
We don't want to. And I mean, that you got these
guys that are living quiet lives of desperation.
I don't how many times on this podcast.
We've used that phrase where these, you know and you you
encapsulated it. So perfectly here, you got this
guy who on the surface, like there are people, I'm not being
hyperbolas by saying, there are people who would look at you.
Jordan say I want to fucking be that guy.
He's jacked whole man. The girls must Is love a look
what he can do and look at what he can do and just use this
larger than life. Kind of the superhero, kind of
guy come to life. And imagine if those guys
realize that that guy they're looking at has worthiness
issues, you know, like if I'll say this, I've watched you
perform. If you've got worthiness issues,
oh my God, it's okay. For all of us to have worthiness
issues and and and it's a it's actually a bit of a natural
thing. Unfortunately, what's happening
is you got a lot of guys were bottling that shit up and We're
going to get to vulnerability because I mean, you know, I
talked we talked before before the red light went on and and
because they're not being vulnerable, that shit, it Stacks
up. We push it down and push down,
push it down, but it comes back up and it, and it comes out,
unfortunately, in horrible ways is, you know, can be violent.
It can be Health shit. That pops up, heart attacks and
and and stroking out and, and then it can be some insane
horrible psychological and mental.
Cool ways that can really make existence difficult.
You've seen it, you've got it, you've got some rock bottom
moments top. Can we can we go into it?
Can we talk about your your path?
That is Led from where you were then to where you are now open
book. No problem.
I was saying that no problem, no problem.
So so when I started my career at 23, I was a total pushover
and this is all because of like just insane amounts.
From never being seed, never being heard, never really
feeling. Like I was loved, whatever.
The case I'm like, again I'll preface by I was constantly by
saying, that's no one's fault because everyone's running their
own programs. But like that was my story,
right? Like, I never really felt like I
was worth anything, so I would let people bully me pick on me,
just do. I like, whatever the case, like
I would just like, just gotta get through this.
I'm the funny guy who just dismantles people's anger at me
by funniness and like, I would that crossed over to the
wrestling business and like in wrestling business, you kind of
have to have a thick skin. You have to be like strong
whatever and I was just the most intense pushover, that anyone
can see like I was scared of everything.
I was terrified of getting heat and heat is like getting in
trouble I guess by like wrestlers are like doesn't it
correctly gossip? You you get afraid of the gossip
because for a variety of reasons, I don't want to make
anyone mad like that. So I would let everyone push me
around and like when I started using steroids, that's when I
went to the other end. It's like, well, now I'm the
psycho now, everything that everyone has ever done to me
including my upbringing. Now I'm gonna bring it out on.
And that even tries to bully me or push me around in the
slightest. And it's like that turned into,
like, okay. So I'm I've always I used
chronic we need to like, I smoked weed like most of my life
because I was trying to hide it from myself and my traumas, and
my story and like all this stuff, right?
Like I wasn't proud of where I've been where I come from all
this. So when I started using
steroids, then I started trying other things.
And like I started like doing every drug.
I could find more less and like that.
Put me on a very destructive path where around like 28 when I
told You that like I started like turning my life around
because that, that from 25 to 28, I was smoking weed.
Every day I was doing MDMA as much as I wanted, I was doing
coke. I smoke crack, I did math, I've
done like every drug. You can think of doing.
Like I was just, wouldn't it. When I started using drugs,
constantly to decide for myself, then I hit a guy adopted a
mindset of, like, okay, I'm just gonna go and tell him 28.
I'm gonna party as hard as I can until that age and I don't
really have a vision past that. So then I just like this I was
so ingrained in my traumas and I was like I'm just gonna party
myself to death, really holy shit.
Like that was conscious thought that you had yes and no.
Like I did admit it to myself one time I think when I was
like, at my like, my mom's getting to my lowest but I just,
I just wanted to just go as hard as I could.
I wanted to be that guy, like I want to just go out looking like
a tough guy, who handled everything and when it's hard as
he could and yeah it put me into a dark place and then like 28,
my nephew was born and I was also injured at the same time.
Like, I had two hernias, so I was literally just like forced
to sit on my coat and do nothing and then my nephew was born to
and like that, I can honestly say that my nephew was the
person that like reignited, my like want to live and like who
Embrace a new side of me or heal myself, I guess.
But until that time like I was just like partying and being a
total dipshit and I would I would do blow every weekend.
I was one of my lowest times ever in that 20. 25 to 28.
I recall smoking crack with a homeless guy, behind a
supermarket like like the stupid things like that, right?
Like I was just the dumbest person and like, it wasn't my
fault. I was just trying to hide for my
life, but around 28, when I started to like I just had
burned all my bridges and wrestling.
I just out asshole to myself out of the business and like I
totally understand. I was a jerk to everyone, right?
Like, but then I was like, left alone.
Like, I had no one, I had nothing.
And it's like, I saw that little guy born and I was like, I got
to be there for this kid because I can't just like let the same
thing happen to me happened to him.
We're just doesn't, have anybody?
That's cool to hang out with them not to say like Doesn't
have family around him but like, no.
It was a another person, who, like, I had a lot of, I don't
know what the word to say is, but like, I guess like made a
lot of mistakes, whatever. But I could help him, not make
those same mistakes. And like, that was another
person that I could, like, show love to and give the love that I
hadn't really received. So, it's totally purpose.
It's 100% of gave you a purpose that you hadn't had previously
and a new definition of purpose, safe to say?
Yeah, very much so. And like little by little after
I had that surgery I was like I'm just going to spend every
single day making the tiniest steps possible to get back to
where I want to be and like so I was like heal from the surgery,
then it's like, okay, now I'm going to start getting into the
gym and then once I started getting the amount of like,
wait, I guess we're like the look that I wanted back because
I had like withered away to like skinny little man.
Just doing drugs all the time. Yeah.
And then I was like, I just once I got to the place where I
wanted to physically, then I started like working on.
Like okay. Now I'm just going to sit down
and watch wrestling and from like 20 17 to 20 of 2017. 19 out
of the, whatever, the case, I spent three years, just sitting
on my couch for almost 10 hours a day, watching wrestling.
Because I was like, I'm just gonna become the best at this.
Now, like I have to, I can either sit at home and be
stagnant and hate my life, and be where I was before, or I can
just work as hard as I can to become what I want to be.
And like, that it very much did reignite my life.
And like that's what started like when I started to embrace
myself and love myself and it's funny to like I was sitting in
my house around like 20 20 19, and I was I was doing mushrooms.
All the time because it was like an organic drug.
And I wanted to like get back into like looking to myself with
like a with a non synthetic drug that I hadn't done before.
Yep. Like I was just sitting in my
house doing push-ups while I was watching wrestling and I just
looked into the mirror and I looked into my eyes and I'm
like, I'm the fucking best. I'm like, I deserve everything
in life. I deserve like all the things
that I've ever wanted in life and it just ignited.
Another thing, it was just like one more spark in the ignition
of like wanting to get back to myself.
And once I started telling myself that and feeling that
like, it wasn't shortly, After that I started winning all the
Championships around and I had four belts on me and then I had
five and then I got a spot and it's a bit of a movie and then
shortly after that I was on, WB Smackdown as like a I guess soon
as I started to believe that I deserve these things and like it
was with accumulated work, and that work was self-love the
right. It was like, I'm going to do all
these things because I love myself and I deserve these
things and like, I deserve all the things I've ever wanted.
They started actually coming to me like rapidly was like, bang,
bang, bang, bang, bang things, beautiful, you know, and I want
to, I want to make sure we do. Get lost in the Weeds on
something like this. If a wrestling promoter is
willing to have you as a representative to the point
where they wrestle for and and win the championship belt of
that promotion, a promoter isn't going to put somebody in the
position to be even working with the champion of that promotion,
never never mind, if they become the champion and become the
representative of that promotion.
I mean attitude is probably every bit as important as the
work ethic in the ring for those types of things to happen and
for you to be a champion of multiple promotions, it
certainly shows that you haven't, you had an attitude.
That was, you know, collaborative and thought and
definitely you thought of yourself to carry yourself that
way for others to see that you've got to believe in
yourself. Would that be four hundred
percent and like, I did jump around there.
Like, I get very excited talking about it now because, like, it's
all it's very exciting stuff, right?
Like to like, sherbet roads, were making all this stuff, but
also, when I was like, taking those steps to like, heal
myself, physically, mentally, it's sort of like watching
wrestling and whatever. The case, I also started to,
because I had to come back to wrestling, right?
Because I took the only during that time in which I was at,
like, my lowest funny enough and like, again, this is why I say
that you and like Rizzo were somewhat, like, The Guiding
lights. You were the only guys that
would book me in the only guys that like showed me love.
So it's like, that, that kind of, like, save me to write like
that. Year span from like 2015 to
2017, where I was just at my lowest, being a total idiot, the
time in which you guys would use me.
And book me, like, obviously, I would never be messed up.
Well, I'm wrestling, I would Irish wrestling team work
provide. But during that time, like, I
really had no one and I had nothing like I had my, my one
friend who's never gave up on me, who's Kevin?
Daniel Adonis, he's the one guy that's always been like there
for me. But aside from that, I would say
you guys were the only ones that helped me but because I had
burned every bridge and like made an ass out of myself to
everybody along with helping myself and loving myself and
getting My place back to her where I wanted to be, I had to
like start mending fences and building bridges in like
extending help and to every person that like wanted or
needed it. Like if I saw somebody that was
like having a hard time getting bullied, where were the case?
I would go over and help me like anything you need any time.
So I started opening my doors to any person that ever needed any
kind of like help. So I kind of gained a reputation
for being like that guy that will help you and like help you
like see through the problems that you need or breakthrough
where you need to and wrestling. And because I always had a mind
for wrestling not to, like, talk myself up but I know I'm I've
got a genius mind when it comes to wrestling.
I don't know anything outside of wrestling but I'm a genius in
wrestling. So I would use that to help
people and like because of that I kind of got a reputation of
like again like helping people and people saw that like
promoter saw that and like, obviously I was working on
myself in terms of like my in ring I was laser focused.
I was finally starting to embody what I'd always believed that I
could and like people started seeing that noticing that and
then putting Faith behind me, putting faith in me.
And then, yeah, before I knew it, I had everything I ever
wanted and is like, I don't really see many people around
here that can have 45 belts at a time.
Like I said, there's not a lot of promotions necessarily easy,
right? And like the Pacific Northwest
is kind of like, the black hole of wrestling that we're kind of,
in our own little bubble here. So, to win the money belts, that
quickly was kind of unheard of and like, it just made me feel
like, okay. I literally, I have the power
within me and I can do these things.
Like an I can take what I want in this life, because I deserve
it, but again, I hadn't got to my traumas yet, but that was my
first step of like, if I love myself and I show myself what I,
what I want and take My wand and know that I can take it, then I
can take it and I got it. Well I got a few reai.
Few reactions to what you just said number one.
Yeah. We're not even talking about the
time where you've, you know you've had some some some other
eye-opening experiences since then.
But again they're all stepping stones that lead to this, right?
I want to go back to when you said you would burn Bridges with
everybody and all that. And I appreciate you saying that
about us and what not, we always came from the perspective and
then this is this is a life thing for me.
I don't enjoy. Ting under gossip and pretense
and and and and I also don't enjoy when somebody tries to
assassinate somebody's character, especially if it's
one that I don't have that experience with that person.
So, so for you and us, you never burned a bridge with us, you
never you never did anything. In fact there was a time where I
think we'd use you two or three shows in a row and I think you
were off one of the, the next shows you showed up and you just
showed up at the say, hey, how's it going?
And shake hands. And and if you got a place for
me to be a part of it and I, you know, I just from that
perspective for me, you always had the attitude of somebody who
was a hustler and going for it and what not?
And if Bridges were being burdened other places we
certainly, you know, didn't you never burn a bridge with us?
So so, you know, for guys out there who are in that in that
place right now, where you think the whole world might be against
you, it's not necessarily the case and And just go and start
being a better version of yourself and see what doors are
actually still open. So I wanted to make sure I
respond that way because that's a two-way street and Jordi.
It really is and you never, we always loved you.
And again, you always put on such a good show, you are the
man. When it comes to this stuff, I
love how you started talking about the generosity and giving
and whatnot. You know, there's a Zig Ziglar
quote out there where you say that says, if you help other
people accomplish your goals and dreams, you'll accomplish Goals
and dreams and that's and I think that that's a life thing.
I don't think that necessarily has to translate to specific
things it might. But but at the end of the day
there's there's no feeling that feels so good then to help
others and the the selfishness from it or the seemingly
selfishness part, is you get your cup filled by helping to
fill other people's cups. And I know you live.
That I know that's who you are and that's what's in your heart
and I appreciate that about you. So you've got You know, you've
got these belts, all the stuffs happening covid hits and and
we're getting into that we're getting into that that that age
of 33 here. Where there's been some
breakthrough moments. You were walking along the path
along the way you were seeing Improvement, recognizing
overcoming, some of the things that yourself built for you, the
obstacles that you self imposed on yourself and you've had some
moments in our you've smashed through those obstacles.
What else? Let's let's let's keep moving
forward. To the closer to the present.
So January 2020. Yeah.
I was like, yeah, yeah. Uh, January 2020.
I was in a table or a four-way Tables, Ladders and Chairs
match. And it was like, when I was just
like, I was, I had taken everything I've ever wanted.
Like I was on top of the world and like I had like a meteoric
rise in a sense. Right?
Like around in DC and like I just went from like midcard.
Nobody eat. I was on the top of the card
everywhere. Yeah and I got was in a fatal,
four-way TLC match. And in that match I it was It
was a very stupid like it anything that happened in
wrestling, right? Like it's way she goes and I
don't blame anyone for it because like I put my.
So you put yourself in the position to have these things
happen to you. But so there was me and this
guy, we were sitting beside each other.
Another wrestler, we're in the middle of the match.
We're five minutes in and there's a ladder place like
right here along us, right? And like, it's on the center of
my sternum and I had my arms up and like, to protect myself,
just because it's a ladder coming down to you, got to be
smart, right? Like I should have put my arms
down here and it was two people that were over 200 pounds.
Be under 50 pounds, right? They both, Down on the same time
and it caved in my chest. And it was literally, the worst
like worst pain I've ever felt. And I had to, I didn't have to,
but I'm not going to not finish the match.
So I wrestled 15 more minutes with it.
And like, it was fucked up, man. It was brutal.
If there was a literal dent in my chest, and it's the worst
pain I've ever felt in my entire life.
And that was the, the absolute Catalyst right there of to,
like, what awoke me from my unconsciousness.
But so I caved in my chest and I finish the match.
I had, I was on WB Smackdown, two weeks after that, and the
cool thing about That not like everything is like just magic
over. Makes anything everything works
as a supposed to flood. So my entire life, since I was
5, the only thing I wanted to do was get on WWE TV and Beyond
every TV and BMW recent with. All right?
Yeah, so I got some Talent or some extra work with them either
be and I got to be on the actual show on Smackdown like a, my
first time. They're like, it's just so cool.
I was security guard and I had a caved in chest.
This is the funny part, it's not funny, but I had a physical
couple days before that. And I had a caved in chest at
the time and I had Act like I didn't hurt at all and like
there's no pain. Like a caved-in chest against
the. It's when you breathe, when you
sneeze, when you lay down, I couldn't sleep.
I couldn't breathe properly for months, and I had to pretend
like I had no pain cuz I'm not missing this opportunity so it
comes to the time and I have a caved-in chest.
I'm not telling anybody like I'm walking down the ramp because
we're supposed to be myself and another security guard and Braun
strowman. This really big dude who was
there at the time the idea is he runs down the ramp and like tack
pulls us and for myself like it. That's my moment right there.
Like, we're supposed to stop the guy, right?
So, I ran to him as fucking hard as I could, and I kick my feet
up and like, I went straight on my back on the, the concrete
more or less. There's a little padding in
between, but like so I hit my fucking head.
And I got a concussion on top of it because I like, I went as
hard as I could into, it's okay, then chest concussion, but it's
still like the moment I've been dreaming of so I could care less
that. Guess the thing I've been
working towards so that happens and it was amazing.
And I would do it a thousand times.
Just like, I would go through with the pain that I went
through of like healing trauma and that's not to say that I
don't have a lot of work left to do because obviously, I do,
everyone does. Yeah, but I would go like the
pain, doesn't matter, right? It's like it's the outcome that
you can working in her life for this reason, and once you get
it, it's like I don't give a fuck.
Hey, and I'll do it again, but so that happened and then a
couple weeks later the World closed down, right?
So then wrestling was taken away from me in a sense because like
and that that is literally my whole identity.
So your identity was stripped of you is how you viewed that you
were at the highest. So high that you could be the
momentum was on your side. Not even physical adversity was
stopping you from being the best you.
You could be at that time, that's how it felt and then
suddenly everything stops. And that's another thing with
that to is shortly. After that, I was supposed to go
to Alberta to wrestle a massive legend in the name of Jason, the
terrible. The guy's a psycho like Stampede
Legend crazy guy. Yeah, super cool.
Awesome. But he's fucking scary and I
knew he was going to beat my ass because he's just crazy, and
he's that kind of guy, right? But I'm not trying to say that
in like a mean non complimentary way, he's just a real ass dude
who loves to fight. But so I had a caved in chest
and a couple like shortly. Like I had a caved in chest and
also had a herniated disc in my neck and that was just from
Randomness, right? So like, I was kind of falling
apart and so wrestling was taken away from me, but before
wrestling was taken away. And before I had this Smackdown
stuff, I Wait. It might have been shortly
after. Yeah.
Okay. So but a convergence of events
was happening in your life to basically be the Catalyst for
what was going to happen. Yeah.
So like wrestling was taken away.
I was just kind of like left to my own devices to like just be
in the immense amount of pain that I had and sorry the
caved-in chest came before the herniated disc in my neck that's
when wrestling started back up again.
Yeah, but though I had a caved in chest, it was the worst
literal pain I've ever felt in my life.
Life and for three months, that's how long it took me to
pop it back out. And like, I didn't go see a
doctor because like, they're just going to tell me, not to
like wrestle. And even though I'm not
wrestling, right? I'm just, I'm gonna power
through what I'm going to tough guy it, right?
So, I actually popped it out myself and like it was, it was
horrible because sneezing was the worst pain I ever felt
because it would like, pop the little bones out little by
little. So it's like, every time I
sneeze do but like, a little pop, little pop little pop and
yeah, like, it was absolutely terrible.
Here's the funny thing, in that sense like I popped it out to
the point where there was one part that really Still hurt and
it was like a tiny bone. But I knew that if I just like
pushed on it as hard as I could, that I would pop it back out.
So one night I was at home and there's no wrestling.
So I'm just sitting there watching wrestling like normal.
So I just started dancing and I'm like, I know that if I just
attack this part and just like, do the motion like while dancing
that like a tax, it that it would eventually fix itself and
like it hurt to the point where I started crying and I like
sitting there like cry dancing, just like pushing myself and
then at one point like just pushed it as hard as I could it
pop back out and I'm like all the pain is gone.
Like it literally it's fixed. And it was like I was like if
you the pure, the cure for the pain is in the pain, in some
sense is like, so I just I just pushed it until it was, it was
fixed and lick. That was my chest and they don't
try this at home, kids whole new recommended.
Wow. Okay, wow.
All right, so your ailments your homeopathic remedy happen to
work in this case. I listen to my, I've been able
to always listen to my body, even though like my mind was
always loud, but I've always had this kind of like knowing of
where my body needs to go to write help it.
I guess that's from wrestling, like being in tune with your
body because like we're almost always wrestling with some sort
of injury, right? And so like we're going to learn
how to work around it and you listen to your body, whatever
the case. But so with that and I don't
mean to cut you off if you have something.
No, no, you're good, you're good.
You keep going. But so II happen to fix that but
I was still left with the. I have no identity now.
I don't know who I am. I am and Jordi outside of
wrestling has always been. So trauma riddled that.
I didn't feel worthy outside of the Ring.
I only felt worthy when I was in the ring.
I only felt like I was the man in the ring.
So like I had two different. Personas one was like this guy
that I never looked at and like I, when I thought about like,
buying new clothes, buying, whatever the case it was always
like, I'm gonna buy new wrestling girl, but I think
about this for my wrestling guy. Yeah.
And then I had to like oh here's real Jordy.
Here's the guy that no one cared about I didn't care about.
I've never seen because I was never shown To see myself.
So I never saw myself in his like, then I had to like start
getting to know me and then that's when the initiation into
trauma without being told that I had traumas kind of started.
But it was. Yeah, it was probably the like
when I was doing drugs and being an idiot around 28, that was a
low but this was like the lowest of low because it was like now I
really have to get into the pain and I can't mask it.
Imma fucking to, like, do drugs, whatever the case.
But one of the coolest things I ever had happened was that was
January. And so, So I got my timelines
mixed up, so that was January and then I had all this time in
which I had to get to know myself again.
And it was, it was extremely beneficial in the sense that I
finally learned to see myself a little bit.
But so wrestling starts, back up months later and I start
wrestling again here and there. However, I can.
Yeah. And I herniated a disc in my
neck. And so, that was like, when I
caved in my chest, I had like shocks running through my arms
and my legs at all times. And I was losing crank all the
time. And this is another thing too,
though. This this adds the story, this
is the part that I messed up because I could it all just was,
it's been like a blur for the last few years, right?
Up like cool thing, painful thing, sure.
But I caved in my chest and it was the Catalyst to get to that
little bone. I was talking about where I
popped it back in. But so, wrestling started back
up again. And this is before I popped it
back in. I was at a show on the island of
Vancouver Island and I was about to win a belt that night.
So, I had two matches and the first match I was like, I have
to Take it easy because I still have a caved-in chest and I feel
really fucked up and five minutes into the match.
I got pinned hard and it made my chest even worse.
So I hadn't finished that match. I finished the next match and
then I went to my sister's house, and as I was laying in my
sister's house, I was in the most pain I've ever been in to
the point where I was, I thought I was in shock, right?
Cuz I was like, yeah, I was sitting there and I was like,
adjusting myself being like, if I just move this tweak, this
something will happen. Yeah.
And then my chest, like fixed itself a tiny bit, but this is
before, like, it was totally Fixed.
But if it's this up a little bit but since your sternum plate is
connected to your, your your spine, the ribs connect.
I felt it fix on the front but then I fell to go into my back
and down my back went numb. So like, oh my God, yeah my
back's numb, my next numb and like I'm losing fucking pain and
I'm losing feeling on everything and it was just like I sat there
that night and I was like, I don't think I'm gonna wake up
tonight or tomorrow morning. So I'm like, if I wake up, then
I really hope that I get to. But if I don't then I guess that
lived a nice life and I really hope my sister hasn't come to
the couch and find me here. Laying here is like a stupid
question. Why aren't you calling the
ambulance? Why aren't you at that point?
They're submitting to the idea that maybe you need a little bit
of help outside of the hope and a prayer.
I mean obviously it worked out but I'm just curious what it
was. Is it pride?
Is it? Is it?
What is it that stops you from from that?
I identified so hard as being a wrestler and like I still do to
an extent. Like I've come full circle to
the point where I know that I am a wrestler, like, I've But I
want to say that without jumping too far ahead.
Well, I didn't want to stop wrestling.
I knew like, I had like a lot of matches coming up and so like
around that time. So it was January 2020.
When I had my chest caved in it was right after that, in
February. When I was on, WE Smackdown.
I spent the next few months. Healing myself, and then
wrestling started back up again. Yeah.
And so my chest was still, like, my chest was fine, but my spine
was fucked up because I like popped it back.
I popped it into my chest and like, here's the weird thing.
So, I felt my back, like the, the disks or whatever.
I felt like it. Like, work itself up every disc.
So I pop one part of the disk, the next one to move, and I pop
one part of the disc and the next one is moved and eventually
got to the point where, like, right here in my soul, I felt
like a creek there like a like a like a, it was like I try.
So I always like this, I would pop it and I would snap it and I
knew that I had the papa to fix it.
But like so it was like, I popped that part of my chest and
then I pop Then in my spine and then so I was wrestling semi
frequently and then that was that night that I fucked my
chest up even more. So yeah it so that like that
fucked it up to more so and I didn't again I didn't want to
stop wrestling right? Because I had that massive
Jason, the terrible and this is where the timeline I kind of
messed it up. But yeah.
Later on in the year I was supposed to wrestle Jason, the
terrible. And that's when things are
stopped again. So I was about, was set to fly
to Calgary, even though I had a herniated disc in my neck, I had
a fucked-up back because there was another disk that was fucked
up. I was like, I'm gonna get the
chance to wrestle. This legendary guy.
Why, right? So I can't I can't not do that
but luckily probably beneficial for me.
That the flight got canceled because they closed the world
down again for a second time. More or less, right?
Stop the things again. Yeah.
So then I was again, just left to sit there and like I was
sitting with my family just in all this pain and like I had to
wrestle the week after but it was local like it wasn't like
interpreter wasn't provincial. Like it wasn't the fly, whatever
the case. Let's so I was about wrestling
Vancouver Island again and my neck was fucked up.
And like my back was fucked up and I was just There with my
family and like it goes back to my nephew again because he was
older by now, obviously, the city with them.
And I'm like I he was asking me to pick him up and I didn't have
the strength to pick him up. So I was like, she's like trying
to and try to pretend that I don't have any pain and I don't
want to tell my family that goes back to trauma two, right?
Where I was like, I don't feel worthy in the sense of like
telling people. My story, my problem.
So I'm just going to like suck it up and be quiet and like just
just men through the pain. Yeah, and so I was I was sitting
there thinking to myself I'm like I'm probably going to spend
the rest of my life in a wheelchair from this point on.
And I'm going to have to retire from wrestling because like, I
was, I was set that I was going to tell the promoter that I was
going to wrestle for like days later because I couldn't feel
like my limbs. I was like, I'm probably gonna
have to retire. So I just like sat there and
like surrendered and this is the first time I've ever truly
surrendered and I just told myself as like I'm surrounded by
love, I have love everywhere. No matter what.
Like this is the story that I've been given, this is the path.
I'm supposed to be right here, doing this experiencing, this
pain and like, no matter what, if I'm not supposed Be a
wrestler then maybe I can be a manager.
Maybe, I can still do something. Like there's still, there's
still a purpose that I can live here and like I have my nephew
here of my family here, they're still love everywhere.
So I just have to be grateful. And the cool thing was it was
like not five days later because I had to wrestle the next
weekend. I was at work and because like
dancing funny thing enough to when you dance you like you move
stuck, energy throughout your body and my body.
It would kind of just told me to do that.
So I was like, I learned to isolate my neck, like, with,
with like the isolations for dancing.
So I did that and I Like pushed the bone this way and I kind of
met in the middle and it popped my neck back in when I was at
work. And I was like, I literally
surrender a couple days before telling myself that I'd be fine
and then they, they fit like they pop back into place and
they were good. And it's like, I don't have any
pain at all anymore. The pain, like the shooting
fucking feeling of my rent, my arms, and my limbs had stopped.
And I was just, I was good. And it's like I told me like as
soon as I like surrender and stop destroying a force
everything. Then I kind of got my dream back
and was it was one of the most beautiful things ever and who
training, Jordy, you're like fucking Wolverine.
How Your body has the ability to pop its bones back into the
place and put itself in danger, not.
And I were going to go get the healing factor in there and I
mean, I'm not trying to make light of it.
It's crazy. How how that happened?
So was that moment where you realized that there is world a
world outside of at that point what you would constructed?
I mean and there's so many guys who wrap their entire identity
around what they do for a living.
Or their position in their family, the father or husband,
or whatever a duty of some sort. And when you surrender, you talk
about this moment of surrender and how it's not about the
wrestling. It's about all the things that
you were present in that moment and grateful for was there a
catalyst for that? Or it?
Was it just the universe? Just saying, okay, here you go.
It's for you or did you read something to you?
What was the AHA? What was the Catalyst for the
aha moment? Is it just the fact that you
were coming to grips with the fact that you were taking stock
that you actually did have a lot more than wrestling?
Is that is that really what it was?
It was literally just sitting in my sister's living room sitting
with my nephew after I had thrown him up and like, was like
playing with them. I was just sitting with all of
them and he was just asking me to play and I'm like there was
so much love around me. I'm like, how can I not be
appreciative of this and not think about the things that I
don't have in terms of like wrestling?
Like I've lived in awesome wrestling career, even to that
point and I was like, I have literally nothing but love
surrounding me. So how can I not be grateful,
right? And like when I did that, like
when you're, when you were in your grateful, you open yourself
up to Miracles, right? Like you become like on the
vibration for miracles to happen and like I did, that's the thing
is like when I started to just feel the love and love myself
and love what was around me and again, that was right before I
was like, before I started a tackling traumas and like when I
started getting embodying love and feeling loved and letting
myself feel it. So, I guess it was one of the
first times my heart opened. Then that's what happened is.
Like, it was just that moment is like, Sparkle of everywhere.
What am I doing? I would submit that.
You needed to be in this place in order to truly tackle.
The traumas. Yeah, 100%.
I guess. Just, you know, you're another
one of those Stepping Stones were talking about.
Yes sir. Yeah.
I I I love you for having this moment you talk you you know a
lot of folks don't necessarily hear pro wrestlers or guys who
you know have that that stereotypical male testosterone
persona. Talk like this and it's one of
the, it's one of the reasons why, you know, when you and I
reached out a few days ago and I like I want to have guys like
you on this podcast all the time to break through and to talk
about these moments of Awakening and awareness.
And it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside or the
actions of what you have done. When these, when these moments
happen and these moments of awareness show up and we pay
attention and we lean into them and we actually do something.
It's even if it's a baby step at a time to lean into those
moments. How much better Our Lives can
be? I say that myself included, I've
got my own that I've got to lean into as well and it's hearing
guys talk about this stuff. There are so many guys out there
who hear this and will it take this and internalize it and and
the gratefulness I think I think you're exactly right.
Gratefulness is a silver bullet for anxiety.
It's a silver bullet for for when you're uncertain about.
Out things gratefulness is one of those.
It's, it is a silver bullet. It's so important.
And when you have that, and there's so many things that we
can be grateful for that we just overlooked and we're not were
not present and we're not aware and and for you to talk about
this and how it's a simple Act of awareness of the love around
you and how suddenly that it becomes a that Avalanche that we
were talking about. So what did it lead to?
So what traumas have you lean into?
What Awakenings, have you found since that moment?
I mean, it's a, it's been a mountain.
I like I've, I've never really seen myself and like, from that
time that wasn't that was more. So just like getting to awaken
in a sense of like learning that I had all these traumas and then
like I started like I funny enough like I started to like
tell myself but like I deserve wonderful things.
I deserve a wonderful life and I started talking to the universe,
right? Like I started like like having
a conscious conversation at all times mean like Be guidance.
Where am I supposed to go next? What is, what's the next thing
that's for me? And like, just, like I would
affirm that, like, I'm destined for love.
I'm a destine for, like, everything that I've ever wanted
in the so, like I the next thing I said, was like, I want to have
a loving partner like a conscious partner, weight of the
case and lo and behold like a few months later, a woman that I
had a crush on in high school ended up just stumbling in front
of me and was like not like literally but like it's like she
crossed your path like I got That is like, the more I look
back, the more I realized that I had been given everything I've
ever asked for like, that was another thing.
And the like, then like wrestling just started, like
piling up with more cool experiences, more cool
opportunities. And like before I know it, like,
now I'm the man around here like now, I have everything I do.
Like I do the things that I love all the time.
My life is literally just filled with love, but like, during the
things, the traumas that I hadn't liked tackled that I have
now is like, not being seen as I had to start looking at like
They'll feel like seeing myself and seeing that I deserve things
and like, not being, I gotta start going to stop you for a
second. If there's a guy out there right
now, who's feeling, like they're not seen, they're feeling like
they are the man who wasn't there.
What would you say to that guy? Right now, the only love that
you can, the only love you need is the love that you give
yourself, like if your inner child was never seen, it wasn't
your parents fault. It's it's nobody's fault that
they weren't able to give you what you needed.
But as an adult, it's your job to repair it yourself.
And in those moments in which you don't feel, Seen, then you
have to see yourself and like tell yourself that it was no
one's fault and like you're not unworthy, your you're worth
everything that you could ever ask for like and it's not it's
not a problem for you to take up space and take up the things
that you want in your life is like, you deserve everything.
We all deserve everything. We're just, we have so much.
Most of us are in survival mode and we don't know how to even
look at anything because we're just like, okay, how do I need
to? How do I get more food in the
house? How do I pay rent?
How do I do this thing? Like it's not like we just think
that like a when I get enough stuff.
Then I'll be happy instead of being like I just need to decide
to be happy and decide that I need my own.
Like I just need to love myself and know that I deserve love and
know that I deserve anything I've ever asked for.
So, like being seen, you're the only one that can see yourself
truly and we all deserve to be seen.
We all deserve to be loved, right?
That starts with using yourself. Yeah, I love that.
There's a book that I just, I adore called The Power of Now,
by Eckhart Tolle and Love someone.
It's such a it's such a it will make you question the way that
you interpret, everything that goes on in your life, including
what your head tells you and and it gives you tools to kind of
separate yourself from those things and and how you can in
those moments become still and become president and it's it is
a phenomenal tool that can be used and Outlook.
So I want to I want to be cognizant of time.
We're in an hour and 10 minutes and I want to I want to make
sure that we're you know, not taking too much time for our
viewers and listeners but at the end of the day, the
transformation that you have you have gone through from who you
were to who you are now and it's funny, you know, it's I'm going
to, I'm going to be kind of literal here, literally talking
from like like, you know, picture the the the
quintessential athlete in your mind of Ballplayer or what, a
testosterone-fueled individual, you know, over to kind of a Zen,
kind of a Zen, kind of guy, what, not that.
I've watching that happen with you, take us to take us home on
the journey as to where you are now.
One of the things that we haven't explored yet in this
journey here Jordi because it's amazing, the transformation that
has happened in you. The blessings that have come
from it, please please. Yeah, take us to take us.
Take us home in that Journey. That means A lot and I'm sorry
if I talk in jumbles because like there's a bunch of
different timelines. Whatever the case that I we're
good, if there's a bunch of going on.
But anyways, like nowadays, I just now I'm just like, and I'm
not to say that I'm perfect. Everyone still learning, I'm
still learning, but like now, I'm more present than I've ever
been. When something comes up and it
obviously still gets me sometimes.
But like, when something comes up now it's like, okay, what is
this trigger coming up? Like what have I not reconciled
with in my inner child? Like my inner child leading to
be seen in this moment. It's needing to be heard.
Well, There's the things come up.
There are teachers, right? Like when we're having emotions
come up. We're having feelings or
whatever. The case, I get something trying
to tell us like something that we weren't validated with as a
child. And the only thing about
location, we're going to get is by ourselves.
So like now I really just love my life.
Like I know that everything that happens to me, is exactly what's
meant to happen to me for my highest good and like I live
dream. Like my life is amazing.
Like I went from like smoking crack and meth to being like now
my life is amazing. I don't need to hide for
anything and like I did do all those drugs and whatever the
case so I could hide for myself and now Like, I don't want to
hide from myself now. I just want to be right here
living. This magical thing that I have,
which is my life. I'm like I said, the more I do
that, the more like I literally just get everything that I want,
because I'm always in the, the vibration for miracles in my
life is a giant Miracle which is wonderful.
It's phenomenal to hear this Geordi.
I read something. I forget where it was.
We're with the where it was it. I read it.
But actually, you something like candy, it's something that she
wants to help incorporate into the heat change to adapt,
actually. Talking about fear and how fear
if we could look at it, we can identify it.
And if we can put a filter on when we recognize that we are
afraid, or that were uncertain and we say, okay, well what if
this is a gift from the universe meant to teach me something and
you you kind of alluded to that. Um, and it just reminded me of
what candy was saying and how, what if we as men every single
time? Something that brings up
anxiety. Something that brings up, fear,
whatever. What if we could kind of
separate ourselves from the emotion and analyze it and go.
Okay, what's it trying to teach me?
Was it trying to make me deal with from the past you talk
about the inner child? And I mean you know it's funny
childhood traumas childhood trauma, it doesn't it doesn't
have to be that we were physically or mentally abused or
something like that. It could be the way that someone
looked at us wrong on the playground on that day and how
we interpreted it that day. And it created a block of some
sort that can affect us now and only by analyzing like what you
just said like how can this teach me?
What is it trying to tell me? What is this a result of asking
those questions? Jordy, you're a changed guy.
Like you have a very different Outlook than you did and I'm
astounded by it. And and you talking about some
of these behaviors and some of these thought patterns that you
have now certainly are filling in gaps as to how you've made
such a radical mental change. Do you think that that mental
change that adjustment is possible for any guy out there?
Any guy like we're all the same? Really like we all have the same
traumas and not all Typically the same, but we all have the
same challenges. We're all facing challenges, we
all feel Sadness. The same, we all feel love the
same. We all have the same strength
within us. Everybody has the ability to do
it. It's just whether they're
willing to love themselves enough to make that change.
And like a lot of it is, we don't feel safe because we're
not taught how to feel safe, right?
Like but when those things come up, all we have to do not get,
it is my thing. But like I guess the thing that
I do is like I tell myself like I'm safe, I got safe to feel
this. I'm safe to work through this.
I'm safe in my skin right now and like we're not what our
traumas. Gave us like we're we can choose
who we are every day, right? Like we can choose to run our
patterns and run the things that like that we had coming up like
throughout our lives. Or we can be right here right
now and accept everything that's happened to us and then like,
just choose to live choose to love and choose to be grateful.
I've got two things that I want to, I want to bring up and then
I want to take her home if that's okay.
The the first thing is well the second thing is going to be how
do people get in contact with you cuz I think that's really
important. But the first thing, NG before I
do that, when you found out about what my wife and her team
are building this men's mental Wellness platform, this app
prevention in your pocket, they like to call it these tools that
we want to be give for guys to equip them with these skills
that you have learned through the School of Hard Knocks.
When you heard about he changed the, he changed it out.
What is it about that? That's got you.
So excited, it's literally every guy needs like a we're all
taught to be strong, be tough being, whatever the case.
But like in order to be vulnerable, which we all need to
We need to start diving into our things and like, like that's
literally what you're providing is like we all have hard times
and hard lives but like the change comes from within and the
only one that's going to love yourself and give yourself that
changes you. And like you're giving that
awareness. You're giving platform for
people to talk about that same kind of change that they've had
right? Like not only is it wonderful to
listen to but it's also amazing to and therapeutic to get it off
your chest. Like I've never really told the
story of like my upbringing, right?
So like it's just as therapeutic for me to be able to like get it
out finally. Right.
Right. It's, it's beautiful.
At the biggest freedom to have. Yeah, its freedom.
I me and it's funny. The ironic part about it is we
try and, you know, man up by staying tough and not bring it
up and all that. But but really you show that
you're tough by being able to be vulnerable.
That's the ironic part about the whole thing.
The much though, it's a mind. Fuck, isn't it, man?
Like the things that lead to success are the things that
naturally, you know, it's not necessarily intuitive until
you've gone through it and once you Through it it's like oh my
God, how many years did I spend? In your case, you know, not
giving yourself credit for even being there not being seen
goddamn, I mean there's so many guys that that are in that place
right now and we want to help and that what's what leads me to
you are a guy that wants to help.
And at the end of the day, this app in this movement is all
about guys being able to help each other.
We're not therapists, but we're brothers for each other and we
can and that helps that's a lot of the time.
And again, we're not for Those who have have real severe,
things that need to be dealt with, by the, by the proper
channels. Go deal with those things, you
know. But but when it comes to what
the goal for this for this movement is, is, you know, you
do a lot of yoga, guess what chances are, you're not going to
have to go to the doctor for a lot of cardiovascular things and
and or or muscle things or that that being said, it's
preventative. And that's what this movement is
here, where guys can actually talk about this stuff and It can
prevent having to deal with worst things.
Down the line Jordi is a helper Jordi.
At the end of the day, you're still doing what you're doing.
You're out there. If somebody wants to attach
themselves to you or look at what you're doing or reach out
to you, what's the best way to do that?
Jody Taylor on Facebook Jo, RDI, etay Lor, on Facebook.
I'm that's where I mostly on stuff.
Inner-city Mystic is my Instagram and the best pro
wrestlers, my other Instagram. And like that's usually where I
stay as on those. The best pro wrestler.
You're the best pro wrestler on Instagram.
I'm legitimately the best pro wrestler.
There is so I have to label it on Instagram.
When I feel like you're offering is love like it's glove to
everyone like and there isn't a situation that enough love can't
solve, right? Like love is the cure for
everything, whether it's self love, whether it's love from
someone else, trying to help you.
And I could literally all of his like, men just need to embrace
love and like embrace the love within themselves and that's how
you open your heart, right? Like that's all it is, is just
offering the gift of love. I want to finish it right there
that I don't think that there's a better excuse explanation,
exclamation point to put on there Geordi.
I love you brother and I'm so grateful that you, you know, are
are vulnerable enough to talk about this stuff.
Thank you for helping people. I'm so proud of, I hate to say
this about saying, it sounds exciting, condescending.
I'm so fucking proud of you. And and, and it's amazing to
watch where you've come from and and and and where you're going.
And I just I'm on And to be part of it Jordi, thank you very much
for taking time to be on on he casted.
And talk about this stuff. Thank you.
And I love you too, brother. Thank you for having me.
It's been wonderful. Oh, no problem.
They'll K. They finish that quickly.
They got the time goes really, really quick.
It's my favorite time of the week is, when I get to do these
things. I am very, very appreciative of
all of the support that we have gotten so far, with this, with
this, he changed to movement. You haven't seen anything yet.
I promise you that. If you haven't downloaded the
heat, change it up. What the heck?
Are you waiting for? For no matter your persuasion
whether you're an Android or an apple person search he changed
it in the app store, download it for free.
Find get the app sign on in and look at some of the resources we
have. Once again, you ain't seen
nothing yet. This has been another episode of
he cast the official podcast of he changed it.
My name is Mike Chism. Go change something.
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