29: “Dead or in Jail by 16”: WWE Superstar Titus O'Neil's Inspirational Story
Trading Secrets
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🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
WWE Superstar Titus O’Neil has a story unlike any other. He talks to Jason about it from the very beginning. From being a product of a rape victim to being told he’d end up in jail by 16 or wouldn’t survive, to being bullied, to turning it ALL around, Titus truly defied the odds. He shares his unmatched perspective on hardships and life, and it’s another episode of 'Trading Secrets' you can’t afford to miss.
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Host: Jason Tartick
Voice of Viewer: David Arduin
Executive Producer: Evan Sahr
Produced by Dear Media.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a DR Media Production. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets where today we talk career and life navigation, |
| 0:22.0 | both theory and impact with none other than the WWE Superstar Hall of Famer and recipient of |
| 0:28.7 | the Warrior Award. Titus O'Neill, I'm sitting across from Titus right now. He's about four times |
| 0:34.2 | my size and I'm a little hungover because there are rain delays at WrestleMania last night. So |
| 0:39.7 | this is awesome. Titus, I know it's a busy weekend for you, so thanks for being here. |
| 0:43.5 | No, thank you for having me home. Yeah, I mean, so last time I saw you actually, |
| 0:46.9 | I'm not sure remember this, we were playing this celebrity swanky. We had the lead. We were up |
| 0:50.4 | like 40 points against T-Mac, Doug Flutey, everything was good and then the 24-7 belt, |
| 0:55.0 | if you remember that he won it, then he dropped it, ended up with a bloody nose, everything went |
| 0:59.7 | to shit. Yeah, it was a tale of two halves. Exactly. And I think it was partly on, I'll take part |
| 1:07.5 | of it, because I wouldn't have, and I didn't have anybody blitz and tracing this the whole |
| 1:13.6 | second half and that's how they ended up coming back, it was on a no pressure level. You know what, |
| 1:17.9 | you're right about that. I'm born and raised in Buffalo. Of course we got Doug Flutey's from Buffalo, |
| 1:22.5 | Andre Rees from Buffalo, it is the most standard Buffalo thing ever, to be up by 40 points and |
| 1:30.4 | I love it. Well, let's get into kind of the weeds of trading secrets. We're so excited to have |
| 1:34.3 | you on your perspective. Everything you've done, I think your story's amazing, right? One of the |
| 1:38.8 | companies that I own is called Restart. It's about navigating your life, giving the challenges that |
| 1:43.6 | happen. And you know, when I say the name Titus O'Neil, to me words like strong, successful, |
| 1:49.8 | impactful, I even heard some of the people backstage say, mayer, obviously now champ and hall of |
| 1:55.6 | famer. But those are probably, and tell me if I'm wrong, but from research I've done, those are |
| 2:00.1 | describing words that as a child, if people were to say those about you now, you'd be like, |
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