We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Mario Pardua. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Mario below.

Mario, appreciate you joining us today. Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?

I think it all started in my very early age when I was 10 years old. Growing up in small town in Poland two parents house hold our big think was to watch the American movies with American heroes like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylwester Stallone and so on. Since then I knew I wanted to be just like them larger then life characters. One day I saw professional wrestling in the tv it was shown once a moth a few hours tv time and that just change me as a young kid and I said to myself “ I’m gonna live in Americaand become a wrestler one day”
Of course I did not charge that vision with my parents cause their answers would be “ ok kid why don’t you just relax go to school do your homework “ that’s just the ways it was those days.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

In 2019 I decided to moved to USA from Poland and the only one reason was to become Professional Wrestler. That was my main goal, but earlier in 2017 when I used to live in England for a few months I got to hold with wrestling trainer Steve Boz from Chicago Illinois mentioned him that one day I might show up at his wrestling class. Funny thing is 3 years later I’m in Chicago chasing my dream I showed up at the school we talked about and Steve himself opened the door saying “ Hello.. Mario ? Didn’t you text me a few years ago ?”
Of course I was shocked he remembered me “ Yes sir that’s me” I answered immediately
Since that day after many many hours of training together we became a very close friends together and he introduced me to the Pro Wrestling world.

Business itself I think is so unique because you not only get to chance to perform on the stadiums in front of 15 000 people live who cheer for you or boo you ( whether you’re good guy our bad guy ) what’s important is you are leaving positive energy you can take them on the emotional journey emotional roller coaster during my performance and leave not only smile on their faces but connect with them at the level that they will remember you to the rest of their live.

Having my lovely wife by my side who has been since day one of the journey to have my back and not only , I have been blessed to get to do what I do for a living be in the greatest country in the world it changed me for a better person what I have been able to accomplish through the hard work and opportunities given me I’m grateful for and proud of.
But I want everyone to understand that there is no such thing like self made man, the amount of people who helped me to be where I’m today is countless. And think when you reach some point in your career and you have been lucky enough to succeed now is up to you to give back and inspire other people to help them.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

I think that it all comes to follow your dream do what you passionate about and the rest will follow. If you know you are doing something good for the community for the people leaving a positive impact on the world that what drives me the most. Because one you you might become the person who some little kid can look up to one day become someone’s hero or idol and motivate him to be better every single day and everything is possible if you really believe in yourself and your vision like I did what I was a kid.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

Definitely the day I stepped foot in American immediately I felt I belong here. At that time I had 900 $ in my pocket and backpack ready to conquer the world. The amount things a had to learn was just inestimable.. 26 years old couldn’t speak English couldn’t read the news paper.. after I while my girlfriend joined me here and we started building our live from the very beginning. New job a new friends who later on became our family here cause so many people in America coming from similar background. The were so many things we learned among the way the amount of fails we did embarrassing situations we went through that was a lesson that I never forget. But it was I forever will be a very special part of my live I will never forget.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariopardua/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mariusz.pardua?mibextid=LQQJ4d
• Youtube: Mario Pardua

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