In this interview, Speaker A (George) recounts a turbulent period of his life marked by the sudden loss of his WWE contract, which precipitated a cascade of personal crises: the collapse of his marriage, the loss of his home, mounting legal expenses, and the responsibility of raising two young children (ages 3 and 5) while supporting extended family. Faced with the need to provide for his kids on a schedule that accommodated their school hours, he pivoted to entrepreneurship, co‑running an ice‑cream truck in San Diego. While driving the truck he encountered a Reiki teacher, sparking a deep interest in energy healing; he studied Reiki for several years, which became a cornerstone of his personal recovery. Leveraging his acting background and connections with athletes, he began working with sports professionals, gradually rebuilding his career and financial stability. Throughout the conversation, he reflects on the importance of letting go of unhealthy attachments, viewing each challenge as a “fork in the road” that opened new doors, and emphasizes ongoing emotional work and self‑growth as a lifelong process.
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we get to see the front of the picture and we see like, okay, I understand why that wasn't the timing for me for this, or why, how this connected to this, or how meeting this person actually opened up this whole— you know what I mean? There's— we don't— it's messy on this side. We don't see all the connections. But once, you know, we're over there, we have the opportunity to see like, oh, okay, so this is why that person came to me that day and told me Yeah, I was complaining, or what, all the little, all the little things that we just dismiss, you know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like I said, that was something to take to heart. So moving forward, George, so tell us about some of the challenges that you faced in life. I read your bio and I seen some of the things that you, that you went through, that you endured, and that you overcame. So can you elaborate on that a little bit for us?
I mean, I think there's so much since we already have been kind of taught. I've kind of an inordinate amount of craziness and trauma in my life. But since we were just talking about the WWE thing, I think maybe that's an easy one to use to illustrate. I mean, to look from the outside, people would have thought, "Oh, she's on top of the world. She's on international television every week and has this great career." And it's what a lot of people would strive for. But what people didn't realize is behind the scenes, I had two little kids I was providing for. My kids were 3 and 5. My marriage was failing. It was not going well. I was also providing for other family members and, and really had so much responsibility on my shoulders that I needed to just be who everyone else needed me to be and show up how everyone else needed me to show up. But I was breaking inside. And then when I shockingly lost my contract, they just called me one day. I had my suitcase by the door prepared to go full-time on the road with them. At that time, I had only been required to show up for televised things, but I was going to go dedicate my whole life to them and surrender basically is what I thought I was doing. And, I got this call, "It's not personal, it's just business. We're releasing a lot of people. Basically, you're done." You know what I mean? And, my whole world came crashing down. I ended up losing my house. I ended up my marriage failed shortly after that. It was, it was just so messy. And then it's how do you pick up those pieces and decide, you know, I still got these kids that I'm raising and providing for. Now I'm on my own and paying for attorneys and losing family members that I was supporting because that's what they were there for. Do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
So really my whole world got turned upside down, uh, and I just kind of felt that call on my heart to return to It was this real, almost like fork in the road because when in acting you lose a contract or the show's over or whatever, you back to auditioning every day and they don't care what time your kids get out of school. They really don't. So I needed something that I could manage my schedule and I love being a mom more than anything else. So I just had to refocus and rebuild and kind of almost felt like breadcrumbs leading me back through Okay, now you're going to start working with athletes because I had worked with a lot of athletes in my acting career, a lot of fighters and things. Okay, now you're going to have this opportunity. Actually, it's how I moved to San Diego. I started a whole side business with a friend. We did an ice cream truck, which is a whole different story. But one day when I was driving around this ice cream truck, I told you I wanted to learn Reiki so bad. I went to this one neighbor's house and someone was there that he introduced me to that I'd never seen. She's not even from the neighborhood really. And I said, what do you do? And she said, I'm a Reiki teacher. I teach this.
And I was like, oh my God, will you teach me this.
And so I ended up working with her for a couple years. So it's kind of like each thing that I accepted and, and decided to try opened a new opportunity for me. And I didn't realize that at the time, which is often how it is, like we were saying. I was slowly kind of climbing these rungs out of this really terrible full breakdown of my entire life to get to where I am now. And I still feel like I'm a work in progress. I mean, I think that's part of the beauty of life is we get to keep working on ourselves and growing and evolving.
Yeah, I mean, like you say, uh, working on yourself. And I— and, you know, it's amazing, like you say, you, you lost this and you lost that, and yeah, how you didn't have the desire to give up and, you know, saying keep pushing, where your kids were the focus. Like, hey, I can't give up, I still got two little kids that I have to provide for, you know. And, and, and just going through the emotional trauma of everything else that you have to deal with, like say losing the contract, a marriage in shambles, and then that breakup, family members and people that, that you're supporting whom you felt as though they loved you because of you. Yeah.
And that's your family. That's what you do, right? So yeah, yeah.
So, you know, all these hurting things that, you know, at one time, but to be able to to, uh, put all that to the side and still build yourself up and say, you know what, I'm more than a conqueror, you know, like, I'm gonna keep on going, I'm gonna keep on building it. And like you say, look where you at now, you know. Hey, sometimes we have to go through some things, you know, forks in the road. Maybe it's, maybe it's us, maybe we have to, you know, look at ourselves like, man, why am I going through this? Why did I go through that? Why did I go through this? Yeah. Or You know, one thing that I found out in life, Joy, and this is— and, and, and I'm gonna be honest with you— one thing I found out in life, that sometimes some doors may open for us.
Yeah.
And there's some people that's connected to us that's not allowed to go through the door, but because of our attachment to them, we want to bring them through the door with us, but they're not meant to go. And, and then so sometimes when we let go and move forward without certain people that, that becomes exposed, like the ones that I'm, I'm supporting you, I'm giving you money, I'm paying your mortgage, or I pay your car note when you, when you, when you miss a car note payment, and then I don't have it to give you, the love that you supposed to have for me is gone. You know, you know. So absolutely. So those people are the ones I was trying to bring through that door. And so once I, you know, found out and everything got exposed, now that same door that was open and I don't have the extra baggage with me. Now the doors that was always open for me, now I can go through. Now this, like you said earlier, on the other side, you know, like on this side is all messy and this, that, and it don't look like it's put together. And then you go on this side, you say, when I let this person go and that person go and this person went away, this is what came about and this is what happened. And so life is, you know, a lot better because, you know, uh, the circumstances. So, uh, so the other—
sorry, go ahead.
No, no, go ahead.
The other piece of it is I had to do so much emotional work on myself because it's back to we have that choice. I could have sat in and wallowed in the why me and the
