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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Adam Cole on Keeping a Positive Mindset, AEW Debut, Leaving NXT, How He Met Girlfriend Britt Baker

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest is Adam Cole. Adam Cole (real name Austin Jenkins) is a professional wrestler known for his time in AEW, NXT, and Ring of Honor. He joins Chris Van Vliet to talk about his AEW debut at ALL OUT, his decision to leave NXT, The Undisputed Era, his entrance theme, why he says his trademark "Bay Bay" catchphrase, how he met his girlfriend Britt Baker on the dating app Bumble, his time in Ring of Honor, becoming ROH World Champion, his positive mindset and much more! If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests.  For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://chrisvanvliet.com Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All systems are going.

0:01.3

Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blea.

0:07.7

Here we go, my friends.

0:09.3

Welcome back to another audio adventure on Insight.

0:12.5

I'm Chris Van Fleet.

0:13.5

Hope your week has been going amazing.

0:16.3

Thank you so much for being with us on this episode.

0:18.5

And thank you for helping us hit 300,000 subscribers on

0:22.9

YouTube this week. Oh man, 300,000 on the main channel and then my other channel, CVV clips,

0:30.7

where I post short clips and short highlights of these interviews, it hit 25,000 subscribers

0:36.5

the very next day. What a week. And I'm super

0:40.4

grateful that you're with us here on this journey. Thank you so much. I said we were going to

0:45.5

have a big guest when we hit 300,000 subscribers. So here we are at 300K. Here we are with a big

0:52.6

guest. Here we are with Adam Cole, baby. And he tells a great

0:57.7

story about where the baby catchphrase came from. Among many other things during this conversation,

1:04.3

he just has so much positivity. I love it. And we've been talking so much about YouTube here.

1:09.8

If you're not subscribed yet on my YouTube channels, yes, plural, or if you're not subscribed here on the podcast, it would be so great if you could change that today. And if you're not following Adam Cole, baby, on social media, you can change that today as well. He's at Adam Cole Pro, and I am at

1:29.9

Chris Van Fleet. Thank you to PBKFMV for being our fan of the week for leaving this review

1:36.5

that says probably one of the best podcasts out there. When it comes to wrestling podcasts,

1:42.1

I like to stick with the actual professionals.

1:45.4

Ooh, ouch. At first, I didn't take CVV seriously until I heard the podcast with Jonathan

1:50.9

Coachman, so I was curious about other guests on his show. Turns out I downloaded over 50 episodes.

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