We recently connected with Bill Bain and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Bill thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?

Being a professional wrestler is a huge risk in so many ways.

To be successful, you have to risk your time, health, and finances to be successful.

I have missed important birthdays, weddings, and other moments to pursue my dream of being a wrestler. Some people saw it as selfish, but to have any amount of success at this, you have to be willing to make sacrifices.

Every time you step into the ring, you are taking a risk with your health. The most common thing I hear about wrestling is that it’s “fake” this couldn’t be further from the truth. You can’t fake being slammed, getting hit, and the countless other risks there are.

Financially, you have to accept that you are not going to get rich doing this at first, and likely ever. You put a lot of miles on your car, expenses with traveling, and you just hope you will get an opportunity.

I have been fortunate enough that my time I put in, allowed me to be able to live my dream and work for the biggest wrestling company in the world for the last 15 years.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I have been a professional wrestler for 21 years. I have been able to perform in front of thousands of people in major arenas, millions of people on TV, but in most cases I am in front of a few hundred people at local wrestling events all over the US.

Over those 21 years I have been able to sit down and work with, as well as learn from some of the best people to ever take part in professional wrestling.

If you told 14 year old Bill Bain that he would one day be sitting in a room with Vince McMahon reviewing a match of mine, I would never have believed it.

I don’t think of myself as a big star, because I’m not, I’m just a person who has made the most of his opportunities and has been lucky enough to work with some of the biggest stars of all time.

Have you ever had to pivot?

In 2011 I was diagnosed with Ménière’s disease. I wasn’t sure if I would ever be able to wrestle again. At that point I had to evaluate my career choice and decide if I needed to pivot.

At that time I really focused more on health and fitness and dove into that. Thankfully with learning more about how to properly diet, I was able to manage my Ménière’s and was able to get into better shape for wrestling

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

In wrestling you get the ability to decide how people think and feel. You are able to take the crowd on a journey with you. Should they be happy? Sad? Mad? You have the ability to make them feel based on what you do and how you do it.

Nothing is more rewarding for me than when a fan approaches me to let me know how they felt during one of my matches.

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