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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on

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Speaker 1: iHeart Radio. Dude, I think it's so interesting. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I always like it when people I love to talk

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Speaker 1: to people who have a third and a fourth act,

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Speaker 1: right who didn't have just had that one big shot

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Speaker 1: at the beginning, but they found a way to keep

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Speaker 1: finding something new within themselves. And you are the blessing

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Speaker 1: that you're bringing to other people is that you're helping

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Speaker 1: them find a third and a fourth act when they

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Speaker 1: thought something had stood in their way. And so I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about just how bad were your vertebra

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Speaker 1: when you started yoga? I mean, what did they tell you?

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Speaker 1: What did the doctors tell you? Okay, so you got

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Speaker 1: to help me in here because I'll get to one second.

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Speaker 1: But here's the deal. I stop. My career takes off

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Speaker 1: when I was forty. That was nineteen ninety six, nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety seven. In nineteen ninety eight, wwfter the WCW Wrestling

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Speaker 1: you know my career, I was in probably thirteen different

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Speaker 1: main event pay per views. I just signed a multimillion

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Speaker 1: dollars three year deal. I finally got paid and I

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Speaker 1: blew my back out. And what happened was I ruptured

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Speaker 1: my L four and L five. So when you rupture

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Speaker 1: us the spine, and the spine controls everything, and in

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Speaker 1: call discs. So when you rupture a disc, that the

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Speaker 1: analogy would be if you took a jelly donut and

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Speaker 1: then you stamped it, the jelly donut would be gone right. Well,

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Speaker 1: that that's what happened with my two disks. So now

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Speaker 1: I'm bone on bone. It wasn't we call them bumps

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Speaker 1: hit whatever you hit. It wasn't that one bump. It

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Speaker 1: was a series of bumps, you know, a series of

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Speaker 1: beating my body up. And it was like the straw

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Speaker 1: that you know, broke the camel's back. Now, I went

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Speaker 1: to three different spine specialists, and all three and these

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Speaker 1: of them said the same thing to me, kid, you

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Speaker 1: had a hell of a career, but it's over. Like

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Speaker 1: even if we were to fuse your back, which in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine was not like the thing to do.

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Speaker 1: Like like today, they've got much better fusing techniques, but

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Speaker 1: they're still not good like they it's not your back.

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Speaker 1: And what you know, once you start playing with the back,

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Speaker 1: it turns into operation number two three. Hull Coogan has

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Speaker 1: had nine back operations it so you know, once you

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Speaker 1: start them, you gotta keep it just keeps going. And

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Speaker 1: you know, for me, I didn't want anybody playing with

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Speaker 1: my back. I had two shoulder surgeries on both shoulders,

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Speaker 1: lot about you know, rehab and coming out of breaking

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Speaker 1: you know, I start I'm the guy for the first

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Speaker 1: forty two years of my life. But you said earlier

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga because I get the

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Speaker 1: way I was raised. I was raised store and you know,

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Speaker 1: we didn't do yoga, and I didn't really understand it. Well.

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Speaker 1: My wife at the time was like, you need to

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Speaker 1: And in the first three weeks, I was so blown

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Speaker 1: But it was super frustrating because everybody was like Gumby

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Speaker 1: So one day, I'm on the I'm doing cardio. I'm

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Speaker 1: good enough. Now I'm getting on the StairMaster. About five

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Speaker 1: So what ended up happening I figured out by accident.

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Speaker 1: And this is all completely by accident. And today I

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Speaker 1: help me in branding it DDP. Why why Because it's

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Speaker 1: made it so that anyone at any level, I teach

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Speaker 1: created DDPY Rebuild, and our slogan is we can rebuild you.

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Speaker 1: And I got that trademarked. And what I do is,

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Speaker 1: never be successful without social media. Yeah. I didn't even

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Speaker 1: they think my letters are JC not DDP, and like

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Speaker 1: yoga has its own spiritual thing. That's awesome, but that's

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Speaker 1: not what I do. That's not what DDPY is DP

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Speaker 1: us to be. It's the mindset. Like in our personal

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Speaker 1: constantly hit with one adversity after another. Most of us

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Speaker 1: your brain. It's like rebooting your brain. Right. We do

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Speaker 1: control the way we react, Yes, we do. Now, if

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Speaker 1: you let yourself out of control, that's you. No one's

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Speaker 1: making you do that. We control the way we react,

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Speaker 1: how we adapt, how we take action. Indirectly, we control

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Speaker 1: do that. It's another thing that I teach in Positively Unstoppable.

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