Wrestling is Life is Wrestling with Cody Deaner

Cody Deaner sits down for Part 2 of his conversation with former Impact Knockout Champion, Impact Knockout Tag-Team Champion, Ring of Honor Women’s Champion, AAA Reina de Reinas Champion and former WWE / NXT Superstar – “The Virtuosa” Deonna Purrazzo. Deonna continues in this conversation to be vulnerable and honest with her successes and failures within the wrestling business and what that taught...

Cody Deaner sits down former Impact Knockout Champion, Impact Knockout Tag-Team Champion, Ring of Honor Women’s Champion, AAA Reina de Reinas Champion and former WWE / NXT Superstar – “The Virtuosa” Deonna Purrazzo. Deonna opens up in this conversation like she never has before. She is open, honest, and vulnerable about her wrestling career and the successes and failures within it that taught her...

Cody Deaner sits down for the 2nd part of his conversation with wrestler, singer/songwriter, and all-around great dude – Chris Bey. Chris is a former X-Division Champion, proud member of the Bullet Club and current TNA Impact Tag-Team Champion. Cody and Chris start where they left off last week discussing the lessons Chris learned in wrestling school. They go on to discuss various topics, such as:...

Cody Deaner sits down with wrestler, singer/songwriter, and all-around awesome guy – Chris Bey. Chris is a former X-Division Champion and current TNA Impact Tag-Team Champion. He’s accomplished a lot during his relatively short time in the wrestling business (including appearing for WWE, Impact Wrestling, and ROH all within the first few years of breaking into the business). Cody and Chris work to...

Cody Deaner sits down with his longtime friend of over two decades - AEW star Shawn Spears (formerly known as WWE/NXT superstar Tye Dillinger). They continue their very personal conversation discussing their lives and lessons they've learned in their two different journeys in the wrestling business. Shawn discusses a variety of things in this second installment of this 2 part conversation, such as...

Cody Deaner sits down with current AEW star Shawn Spears (formerly known as WWE/NXT superstar Tye Dillinger). Cody and Shawn have been friends for over two decades. They sit down for a very personal conversation discussing their lives and lessons they've learned in their two different journeys in the wrestling business. Shawn discusses a variety of things in Part 1 of this 2 part conversation, suc...

This is a special BONUS episode where Cody Deaner takes questions LIVE from his fans! Cody ends up telling some stories from his career including: what Ricky Steamboat said to him in the locker room after they worked together, his admiration for Roddy Piper as a heel and someone who persevered through hardship, sitting on his porch and talking about life with the late Brodie Lee, working with ODB...

Cody Deaner sits down for the 2nd part of his conversation  with the creator of the very popular website Kayfabe News - Colin Hunter.  Kayfabe News has been viewed by MILLIONS of viewers and has been endorsed by WWE legend Mick Foley as "it's like The Onion for wrestling fans." Colin has a very unique story of how he got into the wacky world of professional wrestling via writing for Pro Wrestling...

Cody Deaner sits down for his very first non-IMPACT Wrestling guest this week with the creator of the very popular website Kayfabe News - Colin Hunter.  Kayfabe News has been viewed by MILLIONS of viewers and has been endorsed by WWE legend Mick Foley as "it's like The Onion for wrestling fans." Colin has a very unique story of how he got into the wacky world of professional wrestling via writing...

Cody Deaner sits down for Part 2 of his conversation with former IMPACT Wrestling Knockouts Champion & former IMPACT Wrestling Knockouts Tag-Team Champion World Champion Jessicka Havok. In Part 2 of this conversation, Havok discusses a variety of topics in her career including:   Signing her first big TV contract after struggling on the indies for 10 years Gail Kim saying she wanted to work wi...

Cody Deaner sits down for Part 1 of his conversation with former IMPACT Wrestling Knockout Champion & former IMPACT Wrestling Knockout Tag-Team Champion World Champion Jessicka Havok. In Part 1 of this conversation, they take a deep dive into Jessicka’s journey to becoming a professional wrestler. Havok discusses a variety of topics in her career including:   Her love of animals & job work...

Cody Deaner sits down for Part 2 of his conversation with IMPACT Wrestling Creative Director for Television David Sahadi. We learned last week that David Sahadi has done it all behind the scenes in terms of wrestling television production. He's worked for NBC Sports, WWF during the Attitude era, WWE, TNA Wrestling, Ric Flair's Last Match, and IMPACT Wrestling. They talk plenty of wrestling over th...

Cody Deaner sits down for Part 1 of his conversation with IMPACT Wrestling Creative Director for Television David Sahadi. David Sahadi has done it all behind the scenes in terms of wrestling television production. He's worked for NBC Sports, WWF during the Attitude era, WWE, TNA Wrestling, Ric Flair's Last Match, and IMPACT Wrestling. Sahadi is Cody's first guest on the podcast who isn't an in-rin...

Cody Deaner sits down for Part 2 of his conversation with former IMPACT Wrestling World Champion Steve Maclin. This week, they take a deep dive into Maclin’s career at NXT, WWE, and IMPACT, and all the lessons he learned in that journey. Maclin discusses a variety of topics in his career including: Skills he learned on the road in the WWE Learning from Dusty Rhodes in promo class Seeing NXT blow u...

Cody Deaner sits down with former IMPACT Wrestling World Champion Steve Maclin. They discuss how he grew up as an Irish kid in Jersey, joined the Marine Corps, and eventually trained at the Monster Factory to learn the craft of professional wrestling. He talks about how the lessons he learned in the military prepared him for the wrestling business and how he earned a WWE contract only within his f...

Cody Deaner sits down for Part 3 … the dramatic conclusion of this epic trilogy with IMPACT Wrestling superstar Crazzy Steve. We left off hearing about Steve finally getting a tryout for his dream job with IMPACT Wrestling. However, it happens just as his life is in turmoil – he is moving to the UK after his mother has committed suicide. Hear how Steve navigates this experience and finally secures...

Cody Deaner sits down for Part 2 of this epic trilogy with IMPACT Wrestling superstar Crazzy Steve. We left off hearing about Steve's mother's beautiful advice to him regarding starting wrestling school. He'll discuss beginning wrestling school as a 120 lb blind kid and how Eric Young responded to the idea of training a blind wannabe wrestler. Steve discusses the specialized learning process of ho...

Crazzy Steve's story is an unreal one. It's a story of a skinny, awkward, artistic young kid who grew up in an extremely small town, in a trailer park, amongst a family riddled with alcoholism and mental health issues. Despite his situation, he had a big dream - he wanted to be a professional wrestler. Oh... but he had one other little obstacle in his way of accomplishing this goal... he's BLIND!...

Cody Deaner sits down to finish his conversation with the multi-talented IMPACT Wrestling Superstar Joe Hendry. They discuss a range of personal topics including: turning down the "secure" job in order to chase your dream, having a blind faith & plan to succeed in the "hustle," an important caveat many people forget when told to "follow your dreams," not being complacent even when you're succe...

Cody Deaner sits down with the multi-talented IMPACT Wrestling Superstar Joe Hendry. They discuss a range of personal topics including: the importance of first impressions, being introvert vs. extroverted, needing to have fear in order to have courage, the importance of growing your intelligence, being truly honest with yourself in order to grow, and throwing the rulebook of life out the window. T...

Cody Deaner sits down to continue his conversation with the extremely talented and unique Courtney Rush (aka Rosemary). In this second part of their conversation, they discuss a wide range of personal topics including: the great advice they were both given in their career to “be different,” using trending to find success in business, being careful of who we accept advice from, young people’s desir...

Cody Deaner sits down with the extremely talented and unique IMPACT Wrestling Superstar Courtney Rush (aka Rosemary). Cody and Courtney have been friends for almost 2 decades. They discuss a range of personal topics including: being a private person in a public job, feeling responsible for those who vouch for you, putting positive energy into what you love in order to manifest a positive reality,...

In Part 2 of this two part conversation, Cody and Josh discuss the life lessons Josh learned through various hardships; such as, being banned from the United States and breaking his neck... twice! They also discuss how Josh built up and kept his confidence when he became the longest reigning IMPACT Wrestling World Champion in the company's history. Get a special (and super cute) bonus story about...

In this debut episode, Cody Deaner sits down with former IMPACT World Champion Josh Alexander and discusses the life lessons Josh learned early in his life as a wrestling fan and what he learned about himself when he decided to train to become a professional wrestler and struggled on the independent wrestling scene. Get Part 1 & Part 2 of this podcast early and ad-free, as well as loads of oth...