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Podcast Summary: The Daily Motivation - Episode with Becky Lynch
Podcast Overview Title: The Daily Motivation Host: Lewis Howes Description: The Daily Motivation focuses on the stories we tell ourselves, highlighting how these narratives shape our identities and life paths. Lewis Howes interviews industry experts, sharing principles and ideas that can motivate listeners.
Episode Details Episode Title: #1 WWE SUPERSTAR: “THIS Advice From THE ROCK CHANGED MY LIFE” How To OVERCOME ANYTHING | Becky Lynch Episode Description: In this episode, professional wrestler Becky Lynch recounts her journey from aspiring actress to WWE superstar, sharing pivotal moments and advice that influenced her career.
Key Themes and Discussions
Becky Lynch's Journey
- Initial Career Aspirations: Began with a focus on acting and theater.
- Transition to Wrestling: A suggestion from a friend led her to attend a wrestling school which eventually sparked her WWE aspirations.
Importance of Timing
- Lynch emphasizes the significance of timing in her journey. She reflects on how being signed at a younger age could have hindered her growth and led to a different outcome.
Challenges in the WWE
- Struggles in NXT: Lynch discusses her initial struggles with self-doubt and the pressure to stand out among talented women in wrestling.
- Mindset During Trials: Entered WWE tryouts with confidence, believing that her diverse experiences would lead to success.
Overcoming Self-Doubt
- Despite initial confidence, Lynch faced significant self-doubt throughout her first year, leading to feelings of inadequacy.
- A pivotal moment involved a breakdown that prompted introspection and reevaluation of her approach to wrestling.
Collaboration Over Competition
- Lynch advocates for a collaborative mindset in wrestling, stating that success is not just about personal achievement but about elevating the entire women's division.
- She emphasizes the support and camaraderie among her peers, which was crucial to changing the landscape of women's wrestling.
Key Takeaways
- Self-Authorship: You are the author of your own story; the narratives you create for yourself influence your path and success.
- The Power of Timing: Recognizing that the right time for opportunities can lead to personal growth and readiness.
- Building Resilience: Embracing vulnerability and learning to see setbacks not as failures but as part of the growth process.
- Community and Collaboration: Success is often achieved through mutual support and collaboration rather than cutthroat competition.
Conclusion Becky Lynch's journey illustrates the importance of resilience, timing, and supportive relationships in achieving success. This episode serves as a motivational reminder that personal growth often comes from overcoming challenges and embracing the stories we tell ourselves.
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:11And that's why I say, you know, sometimes you can't plan. You can try and force things. But sometimes the timing of the universe or whatever you want to put it up to is wild. It's just wild because when I finished my acting degree and I was trying to get acting work in Ireland, I ended up getting stunt work on The Vikings, a TV show. and I was like I don't have a clue what I'm doing I gotta figure something out so I went down to a wrestling school and it was the guy that was teaching the wrestling school of Joe that said would you think about going for a WWE trial because I think you'd get it yeah that was it and he had just gotten accepted him and his girlfriend at the time Rachel who was one of my best friends they had both gotten accepted to WWE and he suggested me go even though at this time I had decided I was going to move back to New York.
1:06I lived in New York briefly. I was going to move back there. I was going to pursue, you know, acting, trying to get into more theatre. And when he said that, it was just like, this is it. It was just this pull. It was this instinct, you know, after feeling like I was forcing everything for so many years. But the thing is, is if I had gotten signed when I was 19, and when I wanted to, I wouldn't have ended up where I am now. You know, like I would have been mouthy. I wouldn't have understood life. I would have had this ego. I would have messed everything up, probably burned more bridges. And then I just would have been, who knows what would have happened.
1:47But all of these other things that were happening and as I was trying to figure out life and I was getting all this experience helped so much. But then I ended up in the perfect place at the perfect time with the perfect people and with this drive to change things and change how the women were booked and all of a sudden what i wanted to do back then didn't seem so crazy now so you you do this scene as like a stunt person yeah from the tv show yeah and they're like okay let's put you through some training to be able to do the stunt training right yeah and brings you back to kind of like the wrestling roots yeah and he's like oh i think you can make this i guess this is a school for the wwe yeah so you go for a tryout and then if you uh get that tryout and they'll um give you a contract to nxt which is the developmental brand and then you can go and uh learn to be a wwe superstar so we said do the tryout i think you'll make it and go into kind of the the yeah the underground the up and coming and as soon as he said it i was like oh yeah and what happened oh yeah the trial you got i got it but like i went in there with this mindset of there is no way they will not want me why there's no way look at my experience i'm like a full trained actor but i've also had this experience of main eventing in japan and i'm a stunt woman and i was like there's there's no how would they not want me i've done a bodybuilding competition right right like amassed all of this wacky experience.
3:21Interesting. To where I was like super confident there is no way that these people are refusing me a contract. And then I was also like, I will die before I quit. Wow. Because they put you through all these drills, which... And a lot of people quit. Yeah. Yeah, they gave up. How many people came in when you were there? Or how many people were there when you were there versus, I guess, a few years later? Well, the triad, there was 30 people. Two people got offered a contract. and then how many people when I started I was the first class of this brand new performance center that they'd opened in Orlando I remember my first day and they were like look to the person left and look to the person right because they're not going to make it one of you isn't going to make it not you know it was it was the likelihood is only one of you are going to make it many many of us made it and some have come and gone over the over the years yeah I was like oh I don't know that I'm going to make it.
4:20Really? Well, no. Like, outwardly, I could be like, I could see why I wouldn't make it. But there was still this... I was so scared of not making it. I was so scared of failing. I was so scared of failing. But there was just this little voice of like, this is what you're meant to do. You are main event wrestling. And with absolutely no reason to believe it, by the way, it was terrible. I was so insecure because now I was with... by the most beautiful women I'd ever seen. These giant behemoths of men that just looked like superstars. And then there was me, the perfectly average girl from Dublin, who just felt like she had something.
5:01Felt like I had something to offer. How many people were there? How many men and women are at this first day? Gosh, I think there was like maybe 10 women and like 50 dudes or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We were really outnumbered back then. Wow. Really outnumbered back then. But yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, no. How did you not lose your confidence going in? Oh, I did. Oh, completely lost. Gone. Soon as I walked in that building, gone. Gone. It was gone. Anything that I had in the tryout was completely gone and just continued to just be dwindled away as I went through the first few months into, I would say, the first year.
5:43the first year and it wasn't until I had this breakdown and I remember crying from the depths of my soul to my friend Frenchie I just felt like I was doing everything I could to become better but I wasn't like I wasn't becoming better like I was just in my own way and I remember another one of my friends I remember him saying to yeah sometimes you have a bad day maybe you'll have a bad week but nobody has a bad month I was like buddy I've had a bad seven months like I'm I'm screwed but I remember just thinking I'm not a bad person like I'm I suck right now but I love this and at least I'm not a bad person and for some weird reason that gave me a bit more confidence I don't know why I think because maybe there's this old thought of wrestling or maybe any sport or endeavour that's competitive where you kind of have to be cutthroat and I hate that I don't like that especially in something like wrestling where you're not doing it on your own you're not making history on your own everything is a team effort Yes, you want to be the best, but like rising tides and all that jazz.
7:10And you've got to, everything's a collaboration. Everything's a collaboration. Even when you're competing, you're collaborating. Yeah, but I wasn't going to be able to change the trajectory of women's wrestling by myself. I needed a group of women, which I was there with, who all had the same goal. It was myself, Stastra, Charlotte, and Bailey, and we all, and Paige, and Emma, and other girls that were there. and we all wanted this different future for the sport. And we were all working together. But there was this feeling of, okay, I'm not willing to cut anybody's throat to get on top. That made me feel like, okay, all right.
7:49Well, maybe that mentality will help me. I don't need to be the biggest name in the business. I just need to do this. I just need to make a living out of it. I just need to be able to tell stories.
8:12Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of The Daily Motivation, and I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to click the link in the description. That will take you to the full episode of our main podcast on The School of Greatness. And if you are loving the daily motivation, please follow us over on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review over on Apple Podcasts right now. And if you want more exclusive content and ad-free listening experience, make sure to subscribe to our Greatness Plus channel on Apple Podcasts right now. And if you want to get even more inspiration from our world-class guests and learn how to improve your life and take it to the next level, then make sure to sign up for the Greatness newsletter and get it delivered right to your inbox over at greatness.com slash newsletter.
9:02Again, have an amazing day, and I'll see you tomorrow with another episode of the Daily Motivation Show.
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Professional wrestler Becky Lynch shares her incredible journey from aspiring actress to WWE superstar. Lynch reveals how a serendipitous suggestion from a friend led her to pursue a career in wrestling, despite her initial plans to return to New York and focus on theater. She emphasizes the importance of timing and personal growth, acknowledging that her success in the WWE might not have been possible had she been signed at a younger age. Lynch also opens up about the challenges she faced during her first year in the WWE's developmental brand, NXT, where she struggled with self-doubt and the pressure to stand out among a talented group of women wrestlers, all striving to change the landscape of women's wrestling.
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