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Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Nikki and Brie Bella: WWE Wrestlers and Reality TV Stars

Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil

Sports, Business

5.01.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Nikki and Brie Bella are the next Kardashians. They're professional wrestlers in the WWE, massive social media influencers, women’s inclusion and health activists, and co-founders of Birdee Bee, a women's health clothing line. From a stat-staggering standpoint, the Bella's represent the largest aggregate social media following of any female athlete or sister duo in professional sports. Throughout the show, I look to unpack how they’ve built their audience, what platforms they’re investing in, how they curate differently on each, and how Total Divas and Total Bella's on E! Network has impacted their career. When their first WWE tryout didn’t meet their expectations (they weren't given the chance to wrestle), as former college soccer standouts, they plead to executives to give them a chance in the ring. They earned that contract and since their entrance into the WWE, the women’s division has blossomed, with main events at PPV’s, and its own Women's Championship Division. The Bella Twins are gearing up for Season 6 of Total Divas and Season 2 of their second reality TV show on E!, Total Bella's – which premiers on September 6th. We’ll have all their links, social media handles, and show notes on www.suitinguppodcast.com. I’m your host Paul Rabil and welcome to Suiting Up, where I interview athletes, media executives, team owners, and other key stakeholders about the duality of the modern professional athlete, their startup investing appetite, other strategic investments, NewCos, social media influencing, creative marketing and digital strategy. Today’s athlete, whether active or retired, is continuously redefining what it means to be a professional on and off the field, or in this case, the ring.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the show. I'm your host Paul Rabel and this is Suiting Up

0:07.1

Podcast. It's where I interview athletes media executives team owners and other key

0:12.4

stakeholders about the duality of the modern

0:14.3

pro-athlete.

0:15.7

From their startup investing appetites, all the way through social media influencing and more.

0:20.8

Today's athlete, whether active or retired, is continuously redefining what it means to be a pro on and off the field, or in today's case, the ring.

0:31.0

Nicki and Brie Bella are the next

0:32.8

Kardashians.

0:34.0

They're professional wrestlers in the WWE, social media influencers,

0:38.0

women's inclusion and health activists and entrepreneurs,

0:41.0

both co-founding Birdie B. They're my first WWE superstars on the show as well,

0:46.0

and I hope to host a few more soon actually.

0:48.0

And from a staggering standpoint,

0:50.0

they represent the largest aggregate social media following of any female athlete or

0:53.8

sister duo in all of pro sports.

0:56.7

To kick off the show I look to unpack how they've built this audience, what mediums

1:01.0

they're investing in, how they think think about them and the influence of starting both

1:05.4

Total Divas on the e network and more recently total Bellas

1:09.8

When their first W. W. Tryout didn't go as expected or certainly not meet their expectations,

1:15.7

they were selected as ringside divas.

1:18.5

That wasn't what they wanted.

1:20.2

Both former college soccer players, they pled to executives to give them a chance in the ring as wrestlers and they won that contract and since that entrance into the WWE the women's division has blossomed

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