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Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia

Naomi Is Back! Total Divas, Jimmy Uso, WWE in Saudi Arabia, AJ Lee & More…

Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia

Lilian Garcia

Health & Fitness, Sports, Society & Culture

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This week on “Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia,” Lilian sits down with 2-time Women’s Champion, Total Divas cast member and WWE Superstar Naomi. Continuing Women’s History Month, Naomi discusses what it is like to not only represent women, but African American women throughout sports and entertainment. She talks about what it’s like to be a pivotal part in the GROWTH of women’s wrestling and fresh off the WWE Network documentary, Naomi shares her experiences in FCW, leaning from AJ Lee and how much it helped her career. She talks about what being on Total Divas (E! Network) has meant to her as well as making history wrestling in Saudi Arabia and although she was hesitant at first, find out which fellow WWE Superstar helped her to make the decision to wrestle in the HISTORIC championship match. Naomi took some time off in 2019 for both personal and health reasons. She shares the heartbreaking reason she stepped away from WWE and tells everyone the importance of having family around during these times. She also talks about the importance of not only being healthy physically and also REHABBING your mind. She is excited about her immediate future in the WWE and her thoughts of working with NXT Superstar Bianca Belair as both an opponent and potential teammate. All this and so much more. It’s about to get real, raw, and inspiring with Naomi.

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It was just year after year.

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Every time something happens, I just work through it.

0:04.5

You know, I don't really stop and deal with it and process it.

0:09.8

And when that happened, I was just like, I'm done.

0:14.6

Like, I don't know, I don't even care what happens to my career

0:20.1

at this point, because all these things that matter the most to me are so out of whack right now.

0:25.2

I have to focus. Stand by.

0:29.2

Three two one.

0:37.0

The following program comes from executive producer Lillian Garcia. Every athlete is on this quest.

0:40.0

Every performer dives in head first, battling real life challenges and overcoming

0:46.7

obstacles in an effort to make their dreams reality.

0:50.3

Reality.

0:51.3

Singer, speaker, and 15 year

0:53.2

WWE host, Lillian Garcia, was the first woman to ever announce

0:57.9

WrestleMania and is now the PFL MMA Cage announcer.

1:01.9

Oh yeah! And now she's giving you an all access pass to the human interest stories of elite athletes,

1:08.0

extraordinary entertainers, and wellness experts.

1:11.0

Now let's embark on another fascinating journey of

1:14.7

chasing glory with your host Lillian Garcia.

1:19.2

Welcome everybody to Chasing Glory. I am Lillian Garcia and while this is a very different world that we are facing.

1:30.0

Man, coronavirus going nuts. Okay everyone seems to be affected by this in one way or

1:39.5

another I want to say severe, sorry, if you were being affected by the actual virus with it in yourself or in your family members.

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