An interview with Diamond Dallas Page about the lessons he learned from his family, how his dyslexia is both a strength and a weakness, his favorite and least favorite part of being a wrestler, why he decided to start a yoga business and his best career advice.

Welcome to the 76th episode of 5 Questions with Dan Schawbel. As your host, my goal is to curate the best advice from the world’s smartest and most interesting people by asking them just 5 questions.

This episodes guest:

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guest today is former pro wrestler turned entrepreneur, Diamond Dallas Page.Born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey his name came from his love of the DallasCowboys football team. After attending Coastal Carolina University in SouthCarolina, he started work full-time running a nightclub in Florida, while beinga wrestling manager in the American Wrestling Association. A year later, heworked as a color commentator in Florida Championship Wrestling, which becameProfessional Wrestling Federation, working alongside Gordon Solie beforebecoming a wrestler himself. He was eventually brought into World ChampionshipWrestling after Dusty Rhodes offering him a contract. At WCW, DDP started as amanager then eventually rose up the ranks to become the United States Heavyweightchampion. He continued to wrestle for the World Wrestling Federation after theybought WCW and went on to win the WWF Tag Team Championship and WWF EuropeanChampionship during his time there.  Aftersuffering from a neck injury, he retired, but eventually came out of retirementand has made appearances in WWF, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, All EliteWrestling and others since. More recently, he was inducted into the WWE Hall offame, published his second book “Positively Unstoppable” and launched his fitnessprogram DDP Yoga. DDP was my favorite wrestler when I watched WCW so I wasexcited to learn more about his experience as a wrestler, life lessons and whathe’s working on right now.

The 5 questions I ask in this episode:

1. As a child, you were raised by your father and then your grandmother. What impact did they have on your life and what life lessons did you learn from them?
2. In your autobiography, you admitted your dyslexic and it’s common that many of the world’s most successful people are dyslexic. How was your dyslexia both a strength and weakness as you grew up?
3. Even though my friends loved the WWE, I was a WCW fan and you were my favorite wrestler because I enjoyed your charisma and of course the Diamond Cutter finishing move! What was your favorite and least favorite part of being a pro-wrestler and what would you say your legacy is?
4. When did your wife introduce you to yoga and what transferable skills from wrestling enabled you to create a successful yoga fitness program?
5. What is your best piece of career advice?

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