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 so much about herself. Deonna and Cody discuss various topics, including:

- her teaching job before wrestling and how it helped her break into the business

- is it smart to have a plan B in life when plan A is being a pro wrestler?

- when she was a young girl, writing in her personal diary all the dreams and goals that she was able to manifest later in her career

- how she had to give up being a planner and a “control freak” in both her personal relationships and her career

- why she sought therapy to improve her mental health

- how her struggles in WWE / NXT affected her mental health

- navigating the WWE developmental system and the negatives that go along with it

- getting released by the WWE

Deonna can be found on social media on both Twitter and Instagram @DeonnaPurrazzo

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