The Bella Twins - WWE Superstars Nikki and Brie Bella

WWE Superstars Nikki Bella and Brie Bella discuss their path to fame. The Bella Twins are a professional wrestling tag team who perform on WWE and consist of real-life twin sisters Brie Bella and Nikki Bella. They are both former Divas Champions, with Nikki having held the divas championship for 301 days, being the longest reigning Divas Champion in WWE history. On November 1, 2017, Nikki and Brie launched Birdiebee, a lifestyle intimates and activewear brand. The line includes transitional intimates, activewear, and loungewear aimed at “empowering and educating women through mirroring the twins’ passion for life, strength, women’s health and wellness, and fun.” They are also the stars of the E! Channel's very popular shows: "Total Divas" and "Total Bellas". We discuss their incredible rise to WWE fame, their personal stories, along with their business branding and marketing strategies. We also touch base on entrepreneurial best practices, with an emphasis on young aspiring female entrepreneurs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Ed Mylett?

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• 1:42Ed Mylett?

  Welcome back to Max Out with Ed Mylett. So excited about today's program.

• 1:46Brie Bella?

  Yay. Thank you for having us.

• 1:49Ed Mylett?

  Good. I don't think these ladies need much of an introduction, but in case you don't know, if you've been living under a rock and don't watch any TV, or WWE, or you don't drink wine, or you're not on the internet in any way, you may not know them. But if you are, you know who these two ladies are. So I have next to me Bree and Nikki Bella, the Bella Twins.

• 2:05Brie Bella?

  Hello.

• 2:06Ed Mylett?

  From everywhere, from Total Divas, Total Bellas now.

• 2:10Ed Mylett?

  WWE, all kinds of brands, we're gonna talk about all that today.

• 2:13Nikki Bella?

  Yes.

• 2:13Ed Mylett?

  Thanks for being here ladies.

• 2:14Nikki Bella?

  Yeah, thank you for having us.

• 2:15Brie Bella?

  I mean, the view?

• 2:16Ed Mylett?

  The view's pretty good.

• 2:17Brie Bella?

  I could like, look at this all day.

• 2:19Ed Mylett?

  It's not bad, we're hoping for whales.

• 2:21Nikki Bella?

  We're hoping for whales, that's our goal by the end of it.

• 2:23Ed Mylett?

  Hopefully by the end of the day, maybe some sunlight too, I'd love you to see that, but... So let's start, everybody knows the after product, so when I have people on that are so successful, you guys have built these amazing brands, and of the two of you, and businesses too, which we'll get to, but can we go back just like a little bit, like before, because it's a trip, the two of you become really the most two well-known, certainly women, but people, in the history of your entire business in the WWE, and so, and I told you earlier, one of the things that impresses me about you is I don't think fame's altered you.

• 2:51Nikki Bella?

  Yeah.

• 2:52Brie Bella?

  No, it really hasn't.

• 2:53Ed Mylett?

  I think you're comfortable with your fame, like it's suit, like you're almost born for it, you know, some people were, so...

• 2:58Nikki Bella?

  That's very sweet, thank you.

• 3:00Ed Mylett?

  But I bet if we watched from your birth to about 18, we wouldn't predict this, speaking of that, right?

• 3:04Brie Bella?

  Um, not at all.

• 3:05Nikki Bella?

  No, actually no.

• 3:06Brie Bella?

  I mean granted, did we like to lip sync to the Spice Girls for my parents and all their friends?

• 3:11Nikki Bella?

  We loved performing.

• 3:12Brie Bella?

  And we were, you know, we traveled on a competitive soccer team, and, um, you know, we learned athletics at a very young age and realized we had a natural ability for it, but if you had told me that I was gonna see the east coast in middle school, I would've been like, wait, what, I get to see New York, sometime in my life, I would've been blown away.

• 3:30Nikki Bella?

  And Paris, and then Tokyo, yeah.

• 3:32Brie Bella?

  And wrestle, and yeah, Japan, Italy, all these places.

• 3:35Ed Mylett?

  Unbelievable, so did you wrestle though, growing up, like were you wrestlers?

• 3:38Brie Bella?

  I mean, each other.

• 3:40Nikki Bella?

  Yeah, there was a constant battle, our brother was a collegiate wrestler.

• 3:44Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 3:45Nikki Bella?

  And so he would always wanna practice smooths on us, but we were just, no, it was so obnoxious, I was like, can he just quit the wrestling team?

• 3:51Brie Bella?

  Yeah.

• 3:52Nikki Bella?

  Because it was like, we couldn't walk in the house without getting tackled.

• 3:54Brie Bella?

  Well then he got really into the rock, and then that took everything to a whole different level with him.

• 3:59Ed Mylett?

  So when he was into the rock, were you at least watching WWE back in those days?

• 4:02Brie Bella?

  Nicole and I were into Dynasty.

• 4:04Ed Mylett?

  Oh yeah, I remember Dynasty.

• 4:05Brie Bella?

  Remember Dynasty?

• 4:06Nikki Bella?

  And Nick at Nite, like Friday nights. We'd watch the thons, we lived all the old school shows.

• 4:11Brie Bella?

  We did, Nicole and I were really outdoorsy girls, like we were building forts, we were outside with all of our farm animals, um, we weren't really into TV, and soccer took so much time.

• 4:22Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, it was a travel soccer, like every one?

• 4:24Brie Bella?

  Yeah, and so, um... For us, it was like any free moment we had, it was like we wanted to be outside. Like, it wasn't about being inside and watching TV. And to be honest, our parents didn't watch wrestling. And I think that happens a lot when you're younger, is your parents might be fans and put you in front of the TV and watch. Or your friends might watch it, and we were never surrounded by it.

• 4:44Ed Mylett?

  That's crazy.

• 4:45Brie Bella?

  Isn't that crazy?

• 4:45Ed Mylett?

  So how's it happen? How do you end up becoming this? Like, what were you doing right before this?

• 4:50Nikki Bella?

  We were Hooters girls.

• 4:52Ed Mylett?

  Hooters? Perfect preparation.

• 4:54Brie Bella?

  Yeah. So we were looking, yeah. We were looking for a job at 18, and we just heard like waitress seem to make a lot of money in high school.

• 5:05Nikki Bella?

  And it was in California, in San Diego, not in Arizona.

• 5:07Brie Bella?

  In high school, which we went to in Arizona, Nicole was working at a health fitness place, and I was working for my mom. And so, we wanted to go to college at Grossmont Community College and dorm at San Diego State. But mom's like, "Well, you're gonna have to work."

• 5:22Ed Mylett?

  Right.

• 5:22Brie Bella?

  And so, we were like, "Okay, well, what can we make the most money at, and who will hire us?" And we were like, "Hooters."

• 5:28Ed Mylett?

  Perfect.

• 5:29Brie Bella?

  You can be 18, we hear the cash is amazing.

• 5:32Nikki Bella?

  In California, if a restaurant had a hard alcohol, you or spirits, you couldn't, you had to be 21 or over to waitress.

• 5:39Ed Mylett?

  Right.

• 5:39Brie Bella?

  But not at Hooters.

• 5:40Nikki Bella?

  So, Hooters was just beer and wine.

• 5:42Ed Mylett?

  Ah, because it's beer and wine, okay.

• 5:44Brie Bella?

  So then we started showing the WWE pay-per-views. They were kinda, were they once a month or every couple of months?

• 5:50Ed Mylett?

  Oh, at the Hooters, the pay-per-views would be on.

• 5:53Nikki Bella?

  So that's how we started to become really familiar with WWE.

• 5:56Brie Bella?

  I know, isn't that hilarious? And so, then there was a program that WWE used to have called Diva Search. And so, they were always on a search for like, knew at the time, they'd called women wrestlers divas.

• 6:07Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 6:07Brie Bella?

  They were always on a search, like, looking for them.

• 6:09Ed Mylett?

  Good.

• 6:10Brie Bella?

  So Nicole and I, I begged her to come with me to Diva Search. And I actually, I told them, like, I have a twin sister. But at the time, Nicole was looking to play pro soccer in Italy.

• 6:20Ed Mylett?

  All right.

• 6:20Brie Bella?

  And so, because she had broken her leg our senior year of high school, and then after it healed, she really wanted to make a comeback to soccer.

• 6:28Ed Mylett?

  So you were really, really good athlete?

• 6:29Brie Bella?

  Yeah. Yeah, I mean, she did always get first place with a lot in soccer, and I was right behind her, but...

• 6:36Nikki Bella?

  You were right behind.

• 6:37Brie Bella?

  But I always liked to think I was more artistic than her, and I shared that part of the woman with... Yeah.

• 6:43Nikki Bella?

  You got the creative side.

• 6:44Brie Bella?

  I got more the creative.

• 6:45Nikki Bella?

  No, we both got the creative side. You were just the free bird at that time.

• 6:49Ed Mylett?

  There you go.

• 6:50Nikki Bella?

  You wanted to follow the musicians around.

• 6:51Brie Bella?

  Yeah, so Nicole, I did, my twenties. So then Nicole, I just told her, I'm like, just come with me, let's check it out. And if you don't like it, go to Italy, play soccer. If you do, then we'll become wrestlers. So her and I showed up and we showed up in like sneakers, ripped up jeans. And we made these shirts that said, "Breezy for Sheezy, Nicole for Show." And we had bandanas, because we all come in as like-

• 7:14Nikki Bella?

  We thought they were the coolest nicknames ever.

• 7:16Brie Bella?

  But we were kind of shocked at what all the women were wearing. And we're like, oh.

• 7:20Ed Mylett?

  What were they wearing?

• 7:21Brie Bella?

  Just-

• 7:21Nikki Bella?

  They looked like go-go dancers, I guess you could say, a lot of sparkles and like those kind of skirts, like the Tu Tu feel skirts.

• 7:28Brie Bella?

  Yeah, and so she was so mad.

• 7:31Nikki Bella?

  I was so mad at her.

• 7:32Ed Mylett?

  But like, when you're driving there, are you thinking like, I don't wrestle?

• 7:35Brie Bella?

  Yeah, we just thought they were gonna like, test our like athletic ability. And we're like, we're naturally athletic.

• 7:40Nikki Bella?

  I literally remember my preparation for Diva Search. I was like, running around the track, like doing the mile.

• 7:47Brie Bella?

  Like, we literally were at the gym.

• 7:49Nikki Bella?

  I'm thinking like, like Bree tells me, yeah, we're gonna go to see a search, but it's like wrestling. And I'm like, okay, well, I'll go wrestle with some people, sure, I mean.

• 7:57Ed Mylett?

  That's awesome.

• 7:58Brie Bella?

  Kind of like how you see Glow now, when the girls get in the ring and they're like, ah, and you see them like pushing and doing weird stuff. I figured maybe something like that was gonna happen. Like, I didn't know.

• 8:06Ed Mylett?

  Yes.

• 8:07Brie Bella?

  But it turned, it was way different than what we thought. And kind of at the time, they weren't prepared for twins. So to think of twins going through and to the top 10, they just were like, oh, we don't know if we're ready. But actually Kristen Proudie, who, you know, she, she pulled aside and was like, we're really interested in you guys. And we're like, we want to do this, but we were kind of like a little down from that day, just because like, we knew twins couldn't go through. And we felt like they didn't really like us. We're like-

• 8:35Ed Mylett?

  Because they could have picked one or the other.

• 8:36Brie Bella?

  Yeah, and I'll be honest, like, a lot of the girls were extremely sexy. And Nicole and I just never knew our sexiness. Like, we kind of-

• 8:43Ed Mylett?

  Even working at Hooters.

• 8:43Nikki Bella?

  We were in the bikinis with like-

• 8:45Brie Bella?

  Yeah, but at Hooters, it was like-

• 8:47Nikki Bella?

  I think we're, when you're with the San Diego girls and you, you probably know, living in California, it was like, we met actually our best friends in the whole world. We're still this strong group. And people always be like, where'd you guys meet? We're like, college, but we all met at Hooters.

• 9:00Brie Bella?

  Yeah, College of Hooters University.

• 9:02Nikki Bella?

  And we all had the same background and like, all kind of like, we're drawn there in the same way. And we are just the girls that like, watching football and having hair. We're just, we weren't, I don't know.

• 9:12Brie Bella?

  Very natural.

• 9:13Nikki Bella?

  Yeah.

• 9:15Brie Bella?

  But Chris and Pat Proudie just told us like all these great things that we could do with WWE and they offered us to go to McDonough, Georgia, which they called the deep south. Get in the ring and kind of try it.

• 9:25Nikki Bella?

  Yeah.

• 9:26Brie Bella?

  So we flew to McDonough, Georgia. We got in the ring and we fell in love.

• 9:29Nikki Bella?

  Fell in love.

• 9:29Brie Bella?

  We were like-

• 9:30Ed Mylett?

  You loved it.

• 9:30Brie Bella?

  Yeah, you know what it was is Nicole and I were kind of like a little confused what we wanted to do and like, nothing felt right.

• 9:37Ed Mylett?

  A lot of young people relate to that, by the way.

• 9:39Brie Bella?

  Yeah.

• 9:39Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 9:40Nikki Bella?

  That's true.

• 9:40Brie Bella?

  And the minute we got in the ring, it's something we never knew growing up. It was nothing that was ever introduced to us. It was something we found and we instantly connected with. And her and I looked at each other and we go, whoa, this is what, and it gives me goosebumps. This is literally what we have been searching for.

• 9:53Ed Mylett?

  See, I think that's how it works, by the way. I don't think, I don't think most of your dreams in life show up in the package you expect them to.

• 9:59Brie Bella?

  Right.

• 9:59Ed Mylett?

  I really don't. Or even your spouse, in many cases, right?

• 10:02Brie Bella?

  Oh, totally.

• 10:03Ed Mylett?

  It's, it's, but once they do show up, there's this instant intuition you have, almost like, I belong here.

• 10:09Brie Bella?

  Yeah, that's what it felt like.

• 10:10Ed Mylett?

  Or I belong with this person. There's like a belonging that you feel, I think, when you find something.

• 10:13Brie Bella?

  Yeah.

• 10:13Ed Mylett?

  It's sort of a trip. I mean, let's be honest, you, you're working at Hooters, you go, they don't want you.

• 10:17Brie Bella?

  Yeah.

• 10:18Ed Mylett?

  Right? And then you still, you still pursue it though. So that's the other thing too, that people need to learn, especially young people to watch this. Like, that dream may not just reveal itself to you in ease, like, it's just automatic. Like, things don't just fall right into place easily. You have to push through some of these walls and barriers, right? And you guys are obviously pointed at.

• 10:33Nikki Bella?

  Yeah, and take those chances. I think sometimes people are so afraid to step outside of the box or... I mean, did I ever think I was going to become a professional wrestler enough at that time? Like, if I was to tell anyone, they're like, wait, what are you gonna do?

• 10:46Ed Mylett?

  Right.

• 10:46Nikki Bella?

  But I didn't have that fear of like, no, yeah, that's what I'm gonna go do and I'm gonna try it out. And even when my mom was like, no, my grandfather was like, no.

• 10:53Brie Bella?

  My grandma.

• 10:54Nikki Bella?

  Yes, no, we're gonna do it.

• 10:56Ed Mylett?

  Huge. Cause those two things, by the way, when I interview people, those two things are what stop everybody. The initial, like, family, actually, people that love you going, you're nuts, stop it, don't chase that. Be normal, like, conform, right?

• 11:07Brie Bella?

  Exactly.

• 11:08Ed Mylett?

  So you didn't listen to those things, that's huge.

• 11:10Brie Bella?

  And we were in serious relationships at the time, and we were 22 years old at the time. Yeah, we were 22 years old at the time, both dating older men. Who we went and told, like, we want to be professional wrestlers and we are going to move to Tampa, Florida. They were like, "No."

• 11:26Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 11:26Brie Bella?

  And I'll never forget, I was with my boyfriend at the time for two years. And he looked at me and goes, "You're just all of a sudden gonna pick up your stuff and move away from me?"

• 11:36Nikki Bella?

  And across country, I mean, moving from LA to Tampa, Florida.

• 11:40Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 11:40Brie Bella?

  And so, um, I was like, in my heart, I feel like I need to do this and I just want you to support me on this. And even though I was 22, so in love, I told myself I'd never let a man hold me down. And I wasn't gonna make a decision based on him. And we packed up our, was it Nissan Sentra?

• 11:59Nikki Bella?

  Yeah, Nissan Sentra.

• 12:00Ed Mylett?

  Nice ride.

• 12:00Brie Bella?

  Yeah.

• 12:01Nikki Bella?

  Where was it, Malibu?

• 12:02Brie Bella?

  No, it was a Sentra. I think it was a Sentra. But we, her and I were like, we sold one car, we packed all our stuff in one, and then we drove to Tampa.

• 12:12Ed Mylett?

  I gotta tell you, no matter what it is, such a trip, man. Because your career's like totally unique, right?

• 12:17Brie Bella?

  Right.

• 12:17Ed Mylett?

  Like, no matter what it is, when I interview people that have become really successful, there's these threads. And like, a lot of them is, it didn't show up like what I thought.

• 12:24Brie Bella?

  Right.

• 12:25Ed Mylett?

  I kinda took this risk, my family didn't want me to do it.

• 12:28Brie Bella?

  Yeah.

• 12:28Ed Mylett?

  I sacrificed, I can't tell you how many people have loaded up cars or moved into apartments or like stepped, I guess what I'm saying is they stepped way back first.

• 12:35Nikki Bella?

  Yeah.

• 12:36Ed Mylett?

  Like, you were Gouders, you were probably doing pretty good, drinking some beer on the weekend, had some good boyfriends, life wasn't that bad. Now you're in a car, driving a Sentra, I can picture you two going out there. That's crazy. Were you both saying we're crazy, or were you both like, "We're gonna try this, we're gonna do this"?

• 12:49Nikki Bella?

  There was like an excitement there. I think it was...

• 12:51Brie Bella?

  And we thought there was, because as waitresses, we were making good money. And then it went from what we make in one night to almost what we were gonna make in a week. So we were even taking a big cut, yeah. With our finances in, but her and I, it was just that connection we had with WWE that was so instant that even though if we fail, we were like, "We have to do this."

• 13:11Nikki Bella?

  We have to try.

• 13:12Brie Bella?

  And her and I were never, the thing about Nicole and I is we don't have ego.

• 13:15Ed Mylett?

  You don't.

• 13:16Brie Bella?

  So we're never scared to fail. Because for me, like, my mom told us growing up, "You can't live with no regrets." Like, my mom's like, "You wake up in the morning and you regret something, you will hate yourself." So my mom always embedded that in us, and Nicole and I have always lived like that, with no regrets. Even if we fail, it's like, "Well, we tried it, we sucked at it, so..."

• 13:33Ed Mylett?

  Such huge, like, things that you do really naturally, the two of you, like, huge lessons for other people. Like, all this stuff... Especially the young people who follow, they need to hear this stuff.

• 13:42Brie Bella?

  Yeah.

• 13:43Ed Mylett?

  You don't want to have regrets. I'm old now, man, I'm 47. I'm so glad I took risks when I was younger. And I'm not sitting here now lamenting things I didn't try, because I did fail at other things, right? So, I totally want to acknowledge the power of what you just said, it's awesome. So you go there, obviously something clicks, you're in Tampa. What's that first night, was it, did you say it was a Monday night Raw that you were on?

• 14:02Brie Bella?

  No, so Friday night SmackDown. And we were in Pittsburgh.

• 14:05Ed Mylett?

  What was that like? Was it, I mean, obviously you'll never forget that.

• 14:08Brie Bella?

  No, it was so blurry going down, but, you know, at the time...

• 14:12Ed Mylett?

  Like you were blurry?

• 14:13Brie Bella?

  I'll never forget because, so she had, they're like, "You guys are gonna come up next Friday, we're gonna debut." "One twin's gonna be under the ring, the other one will have the match, then we're gonna do a twin switch." All of a sudden, she breaks her nose the next night at FCW.

• 14:26Ed Mylett?

  Oh my gosh.

• 14:27Nikki Bella?

  I mean, like, so bad, you could barely see my eyes.

• 14:31Brie Bella?

  Yeah.

• 14:31Nikki Bella?

  I looked like a dinosaur, like, it was, I didn't even look human.

• 14:35Ed Mylett?

  Oh my gosh.

• 14:35Nikki Bella?

  It was so bad.

• 14:36Brie Bella?

  So, a lot of makeup.

• 14:38Nikki Bella?

  I was like, "Or I could punch you in the face."

• 14:41Brie Bella?

  No, thank you. So then, she, they ended up having me, it'd be my name, Brie Bella, coming down the ramp, and she, Nikki hadn't debuted yet. I mean, Nikki hadn't debuted yet, so, we did the whole twin switch, but I'll never forget, we...

• 14:57Ed Mylett?

  Oh, I get it.

• 14:57Brie Bella?

  FCW didn't have TV at the time, like, there's NXT now, so nobody knew who we were, so we were gonna be able to get away with it. But, we were semi-main event, when they announced my name, the crowd went dead quiet.

• 15:09Nikki Bella?

  Well, they say, but they say everything before with our outfits.

• 15:12Brie Bella?

  Oh, well, so, the outfits that we had, and that we spent money on...

• 15:16Nikki Bella?

  Brie and I always wanted to be prepared, so if we ever got called up on the road, we went and had like these three beautiful outfits, very Britney Spears inspired, because we loved her at the time. And we just wanted to have gorgeous TV outfits made, and so if we ever got the call, we were gonna be like, look so well put together.

• 15:34Brie Bella?

  But, the girls didn't allow us to wear, which I understand, it's being a new girl, and you have to deal with the veterans, and at the time, like, WWE isn't like that anymore, and I think it's because a lot of us, where now the veterans went through it. And I feel like there's no reason to put someone through that. But they just had a lot of rules. It was like sorority. We walked in, nope, nope, nope. We're like, okay. And we actually got dressed. Yeah, you changed way down.

• 15:58Nikki Bella?

  You changed in the public bathroom, down the hall.

• 16:01Brie Bella?

  So we had no idea what to do. And we weren't about to like rock the boat with the other girls. So the seamstress at the time were like, what do you have in your bag? We're like, we have a tini and our workout pants from earlier. They're like, so they cut our tini, they sew it on. Workout pants that we wore earlier that day, and that's how we debuted.

• 16:19Ed Mylett?

  No way.

• 16:20Brie Bella?

  Yeah, I look back at those pictures and I'm like, oh geez.

• 16:24Ed Mylett?

  But it worked.

• 16:24Brie Bella?

  But it worked.

• 16:26Ed Mylett?

  So they call your name, you went blurry though.

• 16:27Brie Bella?

  I did. I remember I was like in Gorilla and everyone's like staring at me like, you got this, you got this. And then I hear my music and they announce me and then I hear the crowd go dead quiet. Like who's that? And I think they were all like, is she local? And I come out and like smiling. And I'm just like, my heart was about to explode.

• 16:45Nikki Bella?

  I was underneath the ring watching on the monitor. I'm like, okay, what's the spot? What am I doing? Like this is, my nerves were like so bad. And I had to get loaded under. So they put me in like sweatpants and a sweatshirt. And then I go out with the crew and I'm hiding. But I was so nervous, I'm like, I can't even get the sweat.

• 17:03Brie Bella?

  And because we're twins, she's nervous for me too. Because if I don't perform good, it's on her as well.

• 17:09Nikki Bella?

  And I heard the quiet, like, or the crowd get dead quiet. I'm like, oh no.

• 17:14Ed Mylett?

  But it pulled off though, it worked.

• 17:15Brie Bella?

  It worked, actually.

• 17:16Ed Mylett?

  Did you know it worked when you were done, you're like, we did it?

• 17:18Brie Bella?

  Oh yeah, and the crowd actually got into the match. So I actually was like, and I was lucky to work with Victoria. Who honestly like, I was like, she'd been there for so long. And when they're like, you have to beat her, her, Nicole and I were like, wait, we have to beat Victoria? But she was so cool about it. And she helped me out so much in that match. And we got the crowd into it. And when I went under the ring, the crowd loved it.

• 17:42Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 17:42Brie Bella?

  They loved it. And then all of a sudden Nicole, you know, Victoria went under and then she pulled Nicole out. But the crowd didn't know. The crowd loved that. They just loved that Victoria reached under and yanked Nicole out.

• 17:54Nikki Bella?

  She was the perfect person to do it, because not only was she like this powerhouse, but she was so animated.

• 17:59Brie Bella?

  Yeah.

• 18:00Nikki Bella?

  So she really sold the whole like twin thing going under the ring, and I think that also helped people believe in it so much.

• 18:06Ed Mylett?

  See, I think also like what you're doing, also you know those lines that run through other things. I think when you prepare and you prepare, there are points in your life where like you have to hit that moment. Like there's a moment and you gotta deliver, right? And like you guys prepared and prepared and prepared that. If you don't deliver that night, you may never get any heat again, right?

• 18:22Brie Bella?

  Exactly.

• 18:22Ed Mylett?

  Your heat may be gone forever.

• 18:23Brie Bella?

  It's so true.

• 18:25Nikki Bella?

  Because that's so true.

• 18:26Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, you've gotta hit your moment.

• 18:27Nikki Bella?

  You have like that one moment, and we would, we had those actually, and then being like a month straight, because Vince loved the twin switch, and so he would work with us in rehearsals, like this is the timing you have to get. And I'd be like, "Breathe."

• 18:41Brie Bella?

  Yeah, they're like, "Belle, just go to rehearsal."

• 18:43Ed Mylett?

  Did you say Vince worked with you?

• 18:45Nikki Bella?

  Yeah.

• 18:45Ed Mylett?

  Really, directly?

• 18:46Brie Bella?

  He directly with all their twin switches, which was almost like more nerve-wracking than performing.

• 18:51Ed Mylett?

  Sure, sure.

• 18:51Brie Bella?

  Because I wanted to make him so happy.

• 18:53Ed Mylett?

  Of course, you wanted to make him proud, exactly.

• 18:54Brie Bella?

  And, um...

• 18:55Ed Mylett?

  So why does it work, though? Like, why did it work? What do you think it is about you two that's worked?

• 18:59Brie Bella?

  You know what I, that's a good question. I think for Nicole and I, I think because we're twins. And I think for us, the one thing we've noticed, and you can say your part, like add on to it. But, um, as little girls, people would grab us and go, um, like they're like, "Are you guys twins you look like?" And we'd be like, "Yeah." They're like, "No, her nose is this, and her eyes are that, and this and that." They, every day, it would happen to us. And they're like, "But you're all the time getting..." We'd get compared and then picked apart, every day.

• 19:27Ed Mylett?

  Good.

• 19:27Brie Bella?

  So it made us very like, um, confident, because it was like we couldn't never get insecure, because it just happened. We got used to it. So I felt like we never were in competition, because I always rooted her on and myself on. So then we never got in competition with other people.

• 19:42Ed Mylett?

  So you two don't have that normal rivalry that you would think siblings have?

• 19:45Brie Bella?

  No, so we never waste our energy, I feel like, on going against each, against other people. We only use our energy to like help each other out and push forward.

• 19:56Nikki Bella?

  And I think that's how we made it work backstage. But I think how we made it work as our characters and people getting behind us on one match was... Bree and I have this, I think, natural ability to connect with the audience. And I think sometimes that's what some of our superstars forget is, you can't be a superstar in the WWE if you don't connect with the audience. Because our WWE Universe, they make up all of WWE. So our shows would mean nothing without our crowd.

• 20:22Brie Bella?

  Right.

• 20:23Nikki Bella?

  We'd have no one just boo us, or cheer us, or say, "This is awesome." They make our stories happen.

• 20:28Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 20:29Nikki Bella?

  I think Bree and I just realized that early on. We just had that instant crowd connection.

• 20:34Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 20:34Nikki Bella?

  And then we realized, like, this is about the fans. This isn't even about us.

• 20:38Brie Bella?

  And I think they felt that. Like, I think they felt the respect that we were giving to them, making them a part of the show.

• 20:44Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, so I see that with you guys. Tell me about that. Like, what's this Bella Army whole thing you guys?

• 20:49Nikki Bella?

  They're amazing.

• 20:49Brie Bella?

  They're amazing. And they started it, by the way.

• 20:51Nikki Bella?

  They did. So, very early on, so we had this crowd connection. And Bree and I just started to learn, like, I was like, "Okay, so you mean something here if the crowd believes in you." And it could be booing or cheering, but if they don't make noise, then no one cares. So you need to make them care. And so Bree and I just became very interactive with our fans. We'd always think about them, we'd put matches together. We, at that day and age, it wasn't about, like, how big your moves are. I still feel it isn't about that now. It's about, like, what's gonna draw them in and make them, like, believe this story.

• 21:28Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 21:29Nikki Bella?

  And so then social media came around. And I think Bree and I were just some of the first that were very interactive with our fans online. Like, people like to ignore, play the "too cool", but we're like, "I'm not too cool." Like, "These people are the reason why I am cool." And so, all of a sudden, we were so interactive with them, they started to call themselves the Bella Army. So we embraced it. And then they were giving each other positions. "I'm the leader of this, and I'm that."

• 21:52Brie Bella?

  And then we acknowledged the positions.

• 21:54Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 21:54Brie Bella?

  And I think, like, I'll never forget when we were at the state fair and we saw Reba McEntire perform. And we sprinted to the way back and when she was walking on her bus, there was a crowd of us. She waved and I swore she waved at me.

• 22:05Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 22:06Brie Bella?

  And I was so young, but that wave made me as a little kid.

• 22:09Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 22:10Brie Bella?

  So excited to go to school and tell people all this and I'll never forget that because I want to do that for my fans.

• 22:15Ed Mylett?

  I love that.

• 22:16Brie Bella?

  I want them to know like, I see you, I see what you're saying, I see the help you need, I see the encouragement you give me. And I want to acknowledge that because I want them to feel good.

• 22:25Ed Mylett?

  It's just real with you though, like now that I've met you, like it's how you are. So it's not like some strategy.

• 22:30Brie Bella?

  No.

• 22:31Ed Mylett?

  That's what I love. And that's so important. Like I think the whole, like even with me, with my group that, you know, that I work with or follow me on social media. This whole like old school thing of like you're better or above the group of people is like major old school.

• 22:42Nikki Bella?

  Yeah.

• 22:43Ed Mylett?

  Unless you really think that way, which means you're twisted, right?

• 22:45Nikki Bella?

  Totally.

• 22:46Ed Mylett?

  But like the two of you really are real. I said this earlier, like very few people I meet are really comfortable with fame. Like there really didn't alter you all that much. It magnified you.

• 22:55Nikki Bella?

  Yeah.

• 22:56Ed Mylett?

  Made you even better, which is awesome. It's kind of like alcohol, right? Or money. Money, alcohol and fame are the same things. They're magnifiers. They make you more of what you already are. So if you give a really good person a whole bunch of money, they're typically more generous and more philanthropic and better. You give a curmudgeon a bunch of money, they're cheaper and more mean, right?

• 23:12Brie Bella?

  Right.

• 23:12Ed Mylett?

  You give a good person fame and they, they magnify themselves. They magnify the people and you guys really, really do exemplify that. That's why you're so big.

• 23:19Brie Bella?

  Thank you. That means a lot.

• 23:21Ed Mylett?

  It's true. So like there's all this stuff to talk about. So you, you obviously dominate on that. The show is incredibly popular and then you've split off now and there's now total Bellas, right? So now you've got your show. How, what's it like having, it's gotta be different. You're working at Hooters. You grew up kind of on a, in a kind of a farm kind of environment, right? You told me about your mom who we'll talk about in a minute. What's it like having fame though? Having cameras around you a lot, all the time. Is that natural for you? Is it, is there an adjustment that you had to make and what's that like?

• 23:50Brie Bella?

  A big adjustment for both of us.

• 23:52Nikki Bella?

  Yeah, it's definitely become natural now. But in the beginning, like when the opportunity came to Bree and I, we definitely had to say, it wasn't an immediate yes, and I think it's why it wasn't for us is Bree and I never craved to be famous. So it wasn't like, oh, they're gonna put me on TV. We both, like, let's talk about this. This is our life. This is gonna be our relationships. Do we want this stuff out there? But then we said, if we say yes, we have to put everything out there.

• 24:17Brie Bella?

  Yeah, we have to be an open book.

• 24:20Nikki Bella?

  And so it took us like two weeks to like discuss and...

• 24:23Brie Bella?

  And then I told my husband, well, at the time, we were just boyfriend-girlfriend. He's like, I don't think we're entertaining. I'm like, I think you're right. I don't think we are.

• 24:29Ed Mylett?

  I think we're entertaining. I don't think anybody thinks they're entertaining. Obviously, you are. There's something to it. So you're willing to put it all out there, which is really interesting.

• 24:38Nikki Bella?

  Totally. And I think that's why, like, we got the spin-off Total Bellas and why Total Divas did become such a massive success. Not only because I think the whole world wanted to see behind the scenes of women's wrestling, but Bree and I were so organic. We were just us. And I think the world was craving realness because so many people go to Front Street and they, or they just, they're, they act like there's something they're not.

• 25:04Brie Bella?

  Like Smokey Mirrors.

• 25:05Nikki Bella?

  Right.

• 25:05Ed Mylett?

  100%.

• 25:06Nikki Bella?

  And we're like, no, we're these normal people that live like this, and we do this, and we really like to drink, and...

• 25:12Brie Bella?

  And we don't have filters.

• 25:13Nikki Bella?

  Yeah.

• 25:13Ed Mylett?

  I love it.

• 25:14Nikki Bella?

  And we say what's on our mind, which people laugh, and some people be like, I can't believe you said that. I'm like, wait, what? Was that bad? I don't know.

• 25:21Ed Mylett?

  No, but like, what's on, by the way, I gotta say this to you. What is on people's minds as they watch me and you, like, they would want me to ask you a couple of these things, so I need to do that. So both of your husbands are part of the show too, from Time to Time. They're interesting dudes.

• 25:35Nikki Bella?

  They are.

• 25:35Ed Mylett?

  Both of them are your future husband, your husband. And so, for you, I'm curious. So you've had a lot of change the last few years.

• 25:43Brie Bella?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 25:44Ed Mylett?

  You've had a baby, so talk a little bit about what, I don't, the easy question's like... How's it happen being a mom? That's like a generic, like what surprised you about it? I want to know that. And then secondly, your husband, Brian or Daniel Bryan, he's coming back, right? And so there's been this three-year really struggle in your family between his injury, him being out of the business, you being in the business, having a baby. Tell us about that and then the baby part, what surprised you about it?

• 26:08Brie Bella?

  Yeah, you know, it's crazy with the baby part, I think, especially being a new mom. Um, before having Bertie, I thought Bertie comes, she's gonna walk into my life, I'm still gonna do everything, all these like type of stuff. But what I didn't know is the love that you would feel and that all of a sudden, everything that was important to you just took notches down and Bertie all of a sudden is number one. And we were traveling like for the Royal Rumble and it was right when Bertie first started teething. And then she got a fever and got sick and I all of a sudden thought she was getting RSV and we went to the hospital. And I remember sitting in the hospital with her and she was on my chest sleeping. And I was kind of like, what the hell am I doing? Like my baby's number one. And in that moment, I was willing to almost drop everything.

• 26:53Brie Bella?

  And that's, I was not, I had no idea what that kind of love felt like. Like I love my husband and I love my sister and everything. Your child is, that love is the most... I am unconditional.

• 27:06Ed Mylett?

  No, that's the difference though. I don't think, I think you love your spouse conditionally. They can't cheat, they can't do this or that, right? Your baby could do whatever.

• 27:12Brie Bella?

  I know.

• 27:13Ed Mylett?

  Your child could do, they could, they could kill somebody. You love your baby, right? It's unconditional, it's totally different.

• 27:18Brie Bella?

  I just was not expecting that kind of love. I just never knew it.

• 27:22Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 27:23Brie Bella?

  And it's crazy because it will make you change your whole life.

• 27:27Ed Mylett?

  That's wonderful.

• 27:27Brie Bella?

  And you know, with my husband, I think it was one of the best things for him because when Brian had to retire, um, a couple of years ago from WWE, he had a major breakdown. And the one thing he's been fighting kind of his whole life is depression and that really amplified it. And...

• 27:46Brie Bella?

  In our marriage, it was hard because I have a lot of energy, I'm a very positive person. But the doctors kept telling me, "Bri, you can't change him." Like, you can't say, "But all these other things are so great." Because to someone who deals with depression, it's not.

• 27:59Ed Mylett?

  That's right.

• 28:00Brie Bella?

  And so they're like, "You gotta take a step back. You gotta give him space. You need to let him breathe. He has to find it himself, happiness." And that was really hard on me, because I'm like, I wanna nurture and help everyone. And, um, but you know, like my husband even said in his speech, I kinda was like, "Listen, you wanna wrestle, figure it out." And if WWE won't allow it, maybe someone else will, but go to all the doctors." Like, they had one doctor say no. "Go see the NFL doctor, see this doctor and that." And he did. He paid for his own flights to Denver, to New York, to Jupiter, Florida. We were lucky enough in Phoenix to have the NFL doctor there. Every single doctor was like, "You're healthy. You are..."

• 28:38Ed Mylett?

  You are healthy?

• 28:38Brie Bella?

  Yeah, "You can perform."

• 28:39Ed Mylett?

  Wow.

• 28:40Brie Bella?

  But every time you go to, you know, WWE, they're just like, you know, and I will say, not only was it protocol, but they, WWE cares about Brian.

• 28:47Ed Mylett?

  That's what I was gonna say.

• 28:48Brie Bella?

  And they kept telling Brian, "We're looking at your next 20 years."

• 28:51Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 28:51Brie Bella?

  "We're not looking at your next two years in the ring."

• 28:52Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 28:53Brie Bella?

  "We care about your well-being." Which, as a wife, I was like, "I do too, but I'm also looking at my husband, who wants to wrestle." And that's the only thing that makes him happy, and life's too short.

• 29:02Ed Mylett?

  So wonderful. There's a video that y'all can watch on YouTube of when he got back in the ring. And he was in character, but he gets back in the ring and he decides to talk about his comeback, and instantly he leaves character and just starts talking about you and what you did for him.

• 29:13Brie Bella?

  I couldn't believe it.

• 29:14Ed Mylett?

  And by the way, that is a great thing about WWE, because I work with a lot of NFL guys, and their doctors are the reverse, "Oh, you're fine, you're fine, you're fine." Because they just want that product out there.

• 29:21Brie Bella?

  Exactly.

• 29:22Ed Mylett?

  Oddly, it's wonderful that they care about his life that way.

• 29:25Brie Bella?

  Exactly.

• 29:26Ed Mylett?

  The other piece too, that's interesting to watch, and this is for all of you that struggle with depression too. Because a lot of the people I work with do. One of the things that's a catalyst in causing it to exaggerate itself is lack of physical activity.

• 29:38Brie Bella?

  Yeah.

• 29:38Ed Mylett?

  So like, when you already struggle with that, you've gotta move your body regularly. You've gotta work out regularly, because depression is actually a physical move too. And so it can be triggered by a lack of physical activity. So he had like the double whammy going to some extent, where he struggled with it a little bit, and then he's probably not as athletic anymore as he once was when he was hurt. And that'll make it flare. So one of the triggers out is actually working out and moving your body, just so you all know, is a trigger to get out, so.

• 30:02Brie Bella?

  Yeah, well, you know what's crazy is... He, I know he needs workout because the doctors told me that too. But when Bertie first came, I complained and called him like, Brian's at the gym every day for three hours. And I know I can't get mad. Like, I'm here with an infant. But it is, it's crazy how workout makes him change.

• 30:19Ed Mylett?

  Changes your state.

• 30:20Brie Bella?

  Yes.

• 30:21Ed Mylett?

  Changes your state. It's like, it's a major, major trigger for most people. So, so you got good things going, girl. You got the baby, you got Bertie. You're coming back too, right? You're gonna be back soon.

• 30:29Brie Bella?

  I had a match at Royal Rumble and I, that kinda made me think I need to rethink my comeback. And I just wanna wait a little longer until I feel really settled with Bertie and that I can do stuff. It was funny because I told Brian, I'm like, well, the mix match challenge sounds really interesting. And I'm like, maybe I can come back and do a fun story with you on that. So, um, it's definitely in my future. I'm just trying to pick, I thought I could do it quickly and...

• 30:54Ed Mylett?

  Well, you've gotten back in shape quickly.

• 30:55Brie Bella?

  Aw, thank you.

• 30:56Ed Mylett?

  You have, yeah, obviously. Look, you don't look like you've had a baby 11 months ago. But, so you're in a great season of your life though, so you've got the, the programs cranking, you've got, you're, you're kinda coming back. He's come back, the baby, such a great time in your life and I'm happy for you, by the way.

• 31:10Brie Bella?

  Thank you. That means a lot. I'm so blessed.

• 31:12Ed Mylett?

  And then for you, you, your deal's interesting too. So, those of you that don't know, Nikki is getting married to, can't tell you when, but getting married to John Cena.

• 31:20Brie Bella?

  Yeah.

• 31:21Ed Mylett?

  And so it's a great time for you too. And so, um, tell me a little bit about that. What's it like for you, I'm curious, because now there's, you know, you have this too, but now there's two super well-known people. Your travel schedules are bananas, right? So, how do you navigate all that stuff? I'm curious.

• 31:35Nikki Bella?

  It's, um, very difficult. It's taken some therapy. I'm not gonna lie. Yeah. I'm like so for therapy. I think it's just, it's nice to have that neutral person.

• 31:44Ed Mylett?

  Sure.

• 31:44Nikki Bella?

  Because sometimes when, uh, our communication can just get a little lost. Because someone, mainly me, wants to hear one thing in a moment. But, um, John and I have made it work. We've been together five and a half years. It'll be six years in August. And I will say that since we got engaged in April, I mean, it's been almost a year. We have barely have seen each other. I wanna say we have probably have shared our bed. Forty days?

• 32:10Ed Mylett?

  Whoa.

• 32:10Nikki Bella?

  Yeah, maybe a little more. He says a little more and I'm like, I feel like I can count them all. But we've just both been so busy, but I think why we work so well, because we both are so supportive of our careers.

• 32:21Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 32:21Nikki Bella?

  And like, John will be like, should I say no to this movie? Like, I have to be on set this long. And I'm like, absolutely not. Because I don't want you to ever take an opportunity away from me, and I will never take one from you.

• 32:31Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 32:31Nikki Bella?

  But you have to make those sacrifices. Like, okay, I know I could be at home these three days, but I should go to set to see John. Or John's like, these three days I could be in Tampa, but I know I should go all the way to the west coast and see Nicole on her set. And so we both have been really great about that. And I have to say that has helped, especially because I still agree, we're older and like, we've been together a while. So our wedding, like, uh, wedding planning bliss is a little different. I think when you're in that first two years of being together, it's, it's like, whoa, we're getting closer to the seven year itch.

• 33:02Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 33:02Nikki Bella?

  So there's certain things we'll discuss and I'll be like, we've been together a really long time. You guys, I think people would handle this a way differently. Really have, thank goodness, have figured out a way. Because I'm not gonna lie, it gets really tough when you're away from your partner for so long.

• 33:16Ed Mylett?

  Oh, yeah. A lot of people are like, they have a busy spouse. Well, you have two.

• 33:19Nikki Bella?

  Two.

• 33:19Ed Mylett?

  That's magnified. The show is interesting because at least it appears as if you've been real about that dynamic too on the show.

• 33:26Nikki Bella?

  Yeah.

• 33:26Ed Mylett?

  Your relationship with them, like marriage, the whole thing, like whether it was gonna happen, whether he wanted it to happen, whether, you know, all that kinda stuff. Has the show helped, hurt, or neutral the relationship?

• 33:37Nikki Bella?

  Um, I, at times it's definitely hurt because you have to relive those really tough moments.

• 33:43Ed Mylett?

  Yes.

• 33:43Nikki Bella?

  And I, because I am such an open book, John is not an open book.

• 33:48Ed Mylett?

  Yes, that's right.

• 33:49Nikki Bella?

  He is extremely private. So then you put that in the mix.

• 33:52Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 33:52Nikki Bella?

  And he'll be like, I can't believe you talked about that. And I'm like, well, we, I was in a normal conversation with my sister. He goes, but the cameras are rolling. And I'm like, I don't know if they're rolling or not. I'm so beyond that. And that, that's the stuff that will like start an argument when it wouldn't have been an argument. But then there are times where I feel like it's helped because I have a hard time communicating, like, I'm just such a pleaser by nature. So it has forced me to talk about things.

• 34:17Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 34:17Nikki Bella?

  And John will be like, I mean, I guess I have to get the whole world involved to really know how you feel.

• 34:21Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 34:22Nikki Bella?

  But, um, so those are times where I'm like, okay, it's been a plus. It's forced me to communicate with my significant other. But then it's just hard to relive those moments and it was hard to be the girl that like, yeah, hey, I'm that girl that the guy doesn't want to marry or have business with.

• 34:36Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, that's not easy.

• 34:37Nikki Bella?

  That was like really tough and like when I would like see him talk about it too in the media, I'd be like, dang, like, did you really have to go on Today Show and talk about that?

• 34:44Ed Mylett?

  Right, this topic, right.

• 34:45Nikki Bella?

  But so now I'm loving all this media lately because he's like just.

• 34:48Ed Mylett?

  Lovey dovey.

• 34:49Nikki Bella?

  Yeah.

• 34:49Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, I noticed that.

• 34:50Nikki Bella?

  So lovey dovey and talking about this and that. So now I'm like, oh, I like how this.

• 34:53Ed Mylett?

  Because I saw him say in an interview that one of the things on the show that was good for him is watching himself back a little bit too, though, right? Like, what struck me about it was, I'm from the wing, I'm from Massachusetts also originally. So I relate to being one way like on and then privately, I'm really introverted. And when we come from that part of the country, there's this sort of buttoned up-ness that we have.

• 35:12Nikki Bella?

  You guys have that. It's so true.

• 35:14Ed Mylett?

  And I've noticed that in him. He's got this persona and then he's got this other side that he's private and he's introverted. And I think part of that is our personalities, but also where we grew up. I'm from the same area of the country.

• 35:23Nikki Bella?

  That's true.

• 35:24Ed Mylett?

  And so there's an element of that that someone from San Diego or, you know, you're upbringing.

• 35:28Nikki Bella?

  We're like, woo, fruit bird.

• 35:29Ed Mylett?

  It's a little bit different. I just, I just noticed that that's different. So that's cool.

• 35:32Nikki Bella?

  That's actually, it's so true. And it's funny because I always tell him like, you get so corporate. Like loosen up. You're the guy that I get to see and he's like, well, no, I mean, I, I am at times. I'm like, no, you're not.

• 35:44Ed Mylett?

  You can see your face changing. He just did that. That's killer. But I watched that dynamic and I have other friends that are on some reality shows and one of my buddies keeps telling me, he goes, well, they just edit me that way. I'm like, no, dude, you're, you're that way. That's an actual camera and you actually said those things.

• 35:56Nikki Bella?

  Yeah. I don't know, I'm like, you get so stern. I'm like, believe me, I'm in trouble by you.

• 36:02Ed Mylett?

  But it is oftentimes for the male. It is like snippets of moments, whereas it's more a breadth of content with you. So my buddy struggles with that and they usually keep catching, they catch him and they, they catch my buddy sort of in these buttoned up cold moments. And I'm like, you're way warmer and, you know, and I bet you he is too. So.

• 36:19Nikki Bella?

  No, he is. He's so polite. Totally. In the interviews and even in his movies, you see like, John's doing improv, but he's so good at it because that's who he is.

• 36:27Ed Mylett?

  Who he is, yeah.

• 36:28Nikki Bella?

  Hilarious. He's hilarious.

• 36:29Ed Mylett?

  Weird and funny, his Instagram feed is weird and funny.

• 36:33Nikki Bella?

  Right.

• 36:33Ed Mylett?

  You want to go check out a...

• 36:34Nikki Bella?

  He's so proud of it.

• 36:35Ed Mylett?

  You want to check out a... The dude has way more followers than me and you should go check out Cena's Instagram.

• 36:39Nikki Bella?

  It's crazy.

• 36:40Ed Mylett?

  It's kind of crazy. It's... There's not a lot of them like it. I just saw it the other day.

• 36:43Nikki Bella?

  I'd sit home and be like, "Are you okay today?" And he's like, "What?" I'm like, "Your Instagram post, could you always pick something?" I was trying to figure it out, what's he thinking today? And he goes, "Yeah, this is like what it means." And I'm like, "Okay, I was just making sure, like, we're all okay."

• 36:55Ed Mylett?

  It takes me a while when I watch, I have to like process what the heck he's doing there, so...

• 36:59Nikki Bella?

  Yeah, my goodness.

• 36:59Ed Mylett?

  So, so cool. Congratulations to you two.

• 37:01Nikki Bella?

  Thank you.

• 37:02Ed Mylett?

  On the wedding, whenever it ends up happening, we want to tell everybody.

• 37:04Nikki Bella?

  Yeah, soon. Sooner than later.

• 37:05Ed Mylett?

  Let's segue a little bit into biz, because the two of you are... The reason I wanted you on the show is actually not WWE. It was, I think, I want to feature people, but particularly women, that I think are branding, marketing, and business experts that come from wherever they come from. And so, you two exemplify that. I think you're exemplary businesswomen. And even our conversations off-camera, it's obvious to me what you're gonna do. Your career's gonna have legs even beyond this, right? Because you're branding yourself, so...

• 37:34Nikki Bella?

  Yeah.

• 37:35Ed Mylett?

  Let's talk about that just for a second. Just branding in general. Are you guys conscious of a brand that you have? I know the answer to that, but do you think about that? Do you ever talk about like your brand, you know, protecting it and that sort of thing? So, talk about that for a minute.

• 37:50Nikki Bella?

  Oh, 100%. Yeah, I mean, we... Do you want to start? We... Bree and I constantly talk about that. And I feel like we did in the beginning. We... We wanted to be this brand that no matter where it was going, or how it was growing, or where you would see, you'd always recognize it and you'd always know it was Bella Twins. But we also wanted to have this brand that had meaning and had passion, like just how Bree and I live life. And something that can make a great change. And so, that's like when the brand started as these wrestling girls, we knew that a key to growing our brand was always adapting, so always seeing the change of the audience. But then becoming these characters that, um... How kids look at like Wonder Woman or Superman.

• 38:30Ed Mylett?

  Yes.

• 38:30Nikki Bella?

  That when they see a Bella Twin, they're like, "That's Brie Bella, that's Nikki Bella." And so, I feel like our characters were at first how we branded. So when I do an appearance, anytime I'm in my Nikki Bella outfit, because that is immediate kid when they see me, they're like, "Wait, that's Nikki Bella." Like, the snapback and the shoes and the socks and the jersey. And so that was like my first, our first way of branding.

• 38:51Brie Bella?

  Yeah, and it was interesting.

• 38:53Nikki Bella?

  I love that. That gave me a little bit of chills right there. Superman, yeah, he never leaves without his cape or Wonder Woman without her crown. Wow, that's wonderful. Yeah, my snapback is like my crown.

• 39:01Brie Bella?

  Yeah, and the one thing that Nikki and I wanted is, for so long in WWE, we did have to be twins, twins, and dress identical. But because of Total Divas, Vince saw how different we were.

• 39:12Nikki Bella?

  Yeah.

• 39:13Brie Bella?

  And he was like, you guys, we asked, we go, you know, now Total Divas is really showcasing that I'm more earthy and Nicole's more glam. Can we bring that to the ring? And he was very, like, open to it. And we were lucky that Total Divas was so successful, you know, in the first season. And so the minute we did that and we branded ourselves, like, not only are we the Bella Twins, but Bree is this way and Nikki's this way. I felt like it made, like, a bigger connection with the audience and our fans.

• 39:41Nikki Bella?

  Because they got to know who we were. Instead of just these two girls that did everything identical. I mean, they make us talk identical backstage. It was like the worst. Really? And we were grateful for those times. But, so that was definitely our first way of branding. And then it was just bringing it really listening to our fans. So the Bella Army was created. So when I started, when we started to look at that, here we were like, okay, these are Nikki and Bree, these characters, and now they have this army. And that's a part of our brand. What makes our brand is the Bella Army. And so that started, so when we acknowledged the Bella Army, I was getting beat up on TV every week. Because this one got fired by the boss, storyland-wise. Okay. And they started calling me Fearless Nikki. The fans started calling me that. So I was like, you know what?

• 40:26Nikki Bella?

  That needs to be my name. So I went to WWE shop, and I was like, "Hey, guys, who do I talk to about branding myself as Fearless Nikki?" And they're like, "Oh, wow, we never thought of someone like having, you know, their name." And I'm like, "I want this because that's what my fans call me." So all of a sudden, we made a logo, and here's Fearless Nikki, and I thanked the fans, and I cut them a part of it, which started to make the brand bigger. Then naturally, this one gets buzzed on TV. On Total Divas. And I've since high school have called it Bremo. Or I should say college.

• 40:57Brie Bella?

  So, Bremo became a huge deal on the reality show. But then, I noticed the WWE fans would chant it or say stuff. But I was like, I cared a lot about my younger audience. So I was like, with wrestling, how can I make Bremo stand out? Because the fans love it. But it means something to an adult and to a kid. So, I would start screaming it before I do a missile dropkick or my big running knee. So, I kind of started doing Bremo Activated. Like all of a sudden, I would fire up. So, as a good guy, I'd get beat up. And then, all of a sudden, I'd start coming up, coming up. And then, the minute I screamed "Bremo", the crowd knew, like, "Okay, you just hit the wrong button with Bremo." And then, I would do my comeback. And then, it started meaning something to the little kids. And that, like, that's when I get amped.

• 41:41Brie Bella?

  But then, to the mom, they come up and go, "Mm-hmm, I was in Bremo last night, and I'm feeling it."

• 41:46Ed Mylett?

  That's brilliant. But, like, honestly, that's brilliant, how you did that. Because that would be difficult.

• 41:50Brie Bella?

  When we came up with the shirt designs, the first, they're thinking girly. And I go, "No, no, no. It just needs to be unisex."

• 41:58Nikki Bella?

  She knew she would have two different types of customers.

• 42:00Brie Bella?

  I knew I'd have the ones who wanted to wear it to get drunk. And then, the ones who'd wear it because they love my wrestling and would come. And like, so, we made just the red with the big black letters, "Bremo". And, anyone can wear it, and it means something different.

• 42:15Ed Mylett?

  That's brilliant. By the way, I'm so stupid. I actually thought that storyline was true where you were fired. I was actually going to ask you about that.

• 42:20Brie Bella?

  Oh, really?

• 42:21Ed Mylett?

  It's unbelievable, anyway.

• 42:22Nikki Bella?

  They did. They did it very well.

• 42:24Brie Bella?

  I had so much fun working with Stephanie.

• 42:25Nikki Bella?

  Oh, it was so awesome.

• 42:26Ed Mylett?

  That's so funny.

• 42:27Nikki Bella?

  So, we, so then, we have that brand. Here, we now have branded names. And we have our branded looks. And we have this amazing fandom, the Bella Army. And Brie and I wanted to continue to grow it. And that's, I mean, since day one, we've wanted to break barriers as women in this company.

• 42:42Ed Mylett?

  Which you have.

• 42:43Nikki Bella?

  And Total Divas started to help give us that power of really breaking barriers because more women and little girls were coming to the shows to watch the Total Divas. So it started to give women more time on TV and a lot more people to appreciate women's wrestling. And then Triple H just took a huge investment in the women down at NXT. So with the power of Total Divas on the main roster and then the power of what the NXT women were doing, it was like women were just dominating. And so to continue our brand, Bree and I always wanted our brand to have passion and meaning and to continue to grow it and adapt with it. And nothing was more perfect than being a part of this amazing women's revolution. And Bree and I truly have passion and just a big part of our hearts is to even now continue

• 43:28Nikki Bella?

  to help the women like break barriers, whether it's promoting them or giving them advice or just helping them to get to the next level because there's still so much more we could do as women there.

• 43:37Brie Bella?

  Oh, yeah.

• 43:38Nikki Bella?

  But then that's how we came up with Birdie B.

• 43:39Ed Mylett?

  I love it.

• 43:40Nikki Bella?

  Is we're like, how can we branch off and still like have the Bella Twins brand and have these branded superheroes, but then also continue to reach women in a different way and empower them. And so we were sitting on a plane and we were like, okay, so how can we do this without taking bumps? Because we're going to hit a certain age and we're not going to be able to be in that ring as much.

• 44:00Brie Bella?

  Right.

• 44:01Nikki Bella?

  Or the little kids might not think we're that cool, but everyone thinks Superman's still cool. So I don't know, maybe they'll still think we're cool and Wonder Woman. But we came up with Birdie B and what was crazy was we came up with, we were just like looking online about stuff.

• 44:14Brie Bella?

  Well, because at first I said, I don't want to make just any type of product. I want something that's in need because I am hippie and I get anxiety when I see so much stuff out there.

• 44:25Nikki Bella?

  We were so impressed by Tom.

• 44:26Brie Bella?

  Yeah, but I was kind of like, why don't we get into feminine hygiene? Because everyone needs feminine hygiene.

• 44:31Ed Mylett?

  Well, women need feminine hygiene.

• 44:32Brie Bella?

  Yes, well, women.

• 44:36Brie Bella?

  And then Nicole was kind of like, well, we could create a whole big brand around it. Like it doesn't, a community, like it doesn't have to just be those products. And then we started doing some research on the plane.

• 44:47Nikki Bella?

  I was like, well, what's kind of neat because you feel like everything, all the markets are like just oversaturated, like everywhere, there's stuff everywhere, right? But I really was like, not a lot of people are doing like panties where it's like healthy for you. And I'm like, there's nothing direct, at the time when we had this idea, there was nothing really then directed towards working out, that this is the right fabric I should wear working out, or I should wear during the day, or do I wear panties at night? So I started to research what doctors were saying. And I was like, Bree, did you know that we were supposed to be doing this?

• 45:19Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 45:19Nikki Bella?

  And that? I'm like, how am I, I think we're 31 at the time, I'm like, how am I 31 years old? And I'm just learning about all this.

• 45:26Brie Bella?

  And with the rise of all the different, like cervical cancer and breast cancer, Nicole and I were like, is it because the fabrics closest to your body are so cheaply made that we don't realize it? So her and I really like started investigating so much.

• 45:39Nikki Bella?

  And that's, and birdie bees, birds and the bees, that's how we like, we just meshed together.

• 45:44Ed Mylett?

  It's brilliant. And by the way, for the men who do this, this is a brand, like I already just did this. So this is a brand men should be engaged with on behalf of their women and behalf of their daughters too, right? We, we should be consuming this too, because what I love about it is, and I want to say this to everybody, the reason I love you two is like, I love how your brand was acquired. In other words, and I don't mean to demean anybody else, but like, if you're looking for women to believe in, to be something that your daughters or you can be proud of to support their brand, you've heard how they've acquired their fame, how they've acquired their success, it's the right way, right? There's no, and I don't mean this in any other, anyway, but there's not a tape floating around or some sensational thing that took place. These are women who acquired their fame the right way.

• 46:25Ed Mylett?

  And you leverage it the right way. And the brand is awesome because it's, I was looking through everything. It's really a combo of both of you.

• 46:31Nikki Bella?

  Yeah, that's what we wanted.

• 46:32Ed Mylett?

  It's really earthy, yet it's, it's, and, and important for their health, et cetera, but it's glamorous too.

• 46:38Brie Bella?

  Totally. And there's like sexiness to it.

• 46:40Ed Mylett?

  It really is. So it's really awesome. And I, I want to support this brand. I want the The men that are watching this program to understand that the females in your life need to be engaged with them. And the ladies, this is obvious to you. This is something you can be proud of. It's healthy for you and it's good for you. It's gonna grow, just the beginning too. How do they find Birdie Bee though? Let's just make sure they know that.

• 46:58Nikki Bella?

  Oh yeah, go to birdiebee.com.

• 47:00Brie Bella?

  Yes, birdiebee.com.

• 47:01Ed Mylett?

  Make sure y'all go there. And so I'm, I'm super impressed with the way y'all are branding yourselves. Like this is how you're supposed to do it. This is gonna get bigger and bigger and bigger. And I want to help you with it too.

• 47:10Brie Bella?

  Thank you, that means so much.

• 47:11Ed Mylett?

  We need to do that. We need to promote the, the brand on the show a little bit more too. And also what I love, in addition to Birdie Bee, is you guys like wine.

• 47:18Brie Bella?

  Oh, wine, no.

• 47:20Ed Mylett?

  So I'm super, super fired up because we really got that.

• 47:23Nikki Bella?

  Yes.

• 47:24Brie Bella?

  We feel like we should be the mayors of Napa Valley.

• 47:26Ed Mylett?

  Is that right?

• 47:27Nikki Bella?

  That's how we got in the wine business.

• 47:29Ed Mylett?

  Are you there that much?

• 47:30Nikki Bella?

  We literally were killing their vineyards.

• 47:32Ed Mylett?

  You said that slurry like almost went out.

• 47:34Nikki Bella?

  I know, I know. My mouth was just watering with the wine. It was like, I saw that Opus One bottle. It was like, what are we doing with that?

• 47:42Ed Mylett?

  She'll have to do it on the show.

• 47:43Nikki Bella?

  It was, it was, Bree and I were going there so much. We made like such, well, we've made such great friends.

• 47:49Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 47:49Nikki Bella?

  And on the show, we were starting to really get known as winos. And this is another thing that was natural and organic.

• 47:55Brie Bella?

  Sorry.

• 47:56Ed Mylett?

  There they are. I told you. I told you.

• 47:58Brie Bella?

  That is amazing.

• 47:59Ed Mylett?

  So I got you dolphins. Hopefully I'll get you a whale too here in a couple minutes. I told you.

• 48:04Brie Bella?

  And there's two Nicole.

• 48:06Ed Mylett?

  There they are. Yeah, there they are.

• 48:08Nikki Bella?

  That is so huge. I love that. So yeah, we were just going to Napa Valley a lot and everyone knew us as winos. All of a sudden, all our gifts from our Bella Army were turned into wine bottles. It was amazing. And I was like, this is awesome. And so finally it was some of the winemakers that were like, do you guys want to get into the business? And we were like, we thought you never asked.

• 48:33Brie Bella?

  What?

• 48:33Nikki Bella?

  It was also a dream. Like we were like, wait, really? Like us? And then like not the wine snob, but the, the women that appreciate wine. I was like, well, I mean, it's gonna be this cheap wine that we're just gonna throw like Bellas ones on it. Cause I don't want to do that. We don't want to just sell stuff. Like I want to have a great wine. And they're like, do you think we want to do that? We appreciate wine. And I was like, okay, good point. And then next thing you knew, we're working with the son of Hill Family Estate, Ryan Hill. And then I don't know if you know Tuskegee State.

• 49:02Ed Mylett?

  Yes.

• 49:03Nikki Bella?

  Tim Mark Meteska State.

• 49:04Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 49:05Nikki Bella?

  That's your other partner and then his business partner Mark.

• 49:08Ed Mylett?

  Wow, that's awesome.

• 49:09Nikki Bella?

  Yeah. Who engaged branding, all five of us just were like, okay, we're gonna do this and we're all gonna invest some money. We know where to get grapes and then we just worked on the name.

• 49:18Brie Bella?

  And we're boutique, we're small.

• 49:19Ed Mylett?

  I love it. How many cases a year, do you know how many you're gonna do?

• 49:22Brie Bella?

  Well, it's crazy because we've had three test runs and we've sold out. Our red wine sold out within a...

• 49:30Nikki Bella?

  Thirty-eight hours.

• 49:30Brie Bella?

  Thirty-eight hours.

• 49:31Ed Mylett?

  Gee, wow.

• 49:32Brie Bella?

  Yeah, our white...

• 49:33Nikki Bella?

  The white was twelve hours, the Sauvignon Blanc was twelve hours.

• 49:35Brie Bella?

  And our rosé was a minute and thirty seconds.

• 49:37Ed Mylett?

  Get out of here.

• 49:38Brie Bella?

  And so, yeah.

• 49:40Ed Mylett?

  Did you guys buy it all or did other people buy it?

• 49:42Brie Bella?

  No.

• 49:43Nikki Bella?

  This one...

• 49:44Brie Bella?

  I actually didn't even get a bottle of rosé, I was like sad, I'm like...

• 49:47Nikki Bella?

  The computer system wouldn't shut down, so we oversold by so much because so many people hit it. And it over, all, we all weren't, like, we were thinking, because the other one was thirteen hours and thirty-eight or whatever. So we weren't prepped for, like, all of us were off doing our own thing and they were trying to get ahold of us, like, you guys, the system won't shut down. The lady who was running it was freaking out.

• 50:08Ed Mylett?

  That's awesome.

• 50:09Nikki Bella?

  So we all were like, wait, what happened? They're like, we just oversold the rosé. I'm like, it's, we went on sale at nine AM, I'm like, it's nine oh five.

• 50:16Ed Mylett?

  That's crazy, that is crazy.

• 50:18Nikki Bella?

  We were just like, oh my goodness.

• 50:20Brie Bella?

  And it's funny because Nicole and I feel so bad for, because there was a lot of upset fans.

• 50:24Ed Mylett?

  Of course, yeah.

• 50:25Brie Bella?

  So we, yeah, so we printed out like all the stuff and we're signing the stuff to send them, like, just like, sorry.

• 50:32Ed Mylett?

  So tell everybody what the name of the wine is though, just so they know.

• 50:34Nikki Bella?

  The name of the wine is Valeridici, which is beautiful roots in Italian. And the reason why we came up with that name is all of us have some farming roots, all of us partners. So we, and some of us are Italians, but we all were like, we have these beautiful roots and wine brings beautiful conversations.

• 50:51Ed Mylett?

  Absolutely.

• 50:52Nikki Bella?

  And it brings up the roots and that was like why we, we wanted to have a name that captured people, that gave a good conversation, a good topic.

• 51:00Brie Bella?

  We wanted good art for our bottle.

• 51:02Nikki Bella?

  And then our label, we know how many people love labels and when you talk, you like to hold it and show it. So we, we wanted something that had more a high fashion feel, so we got this artist from Paris. And she does like all high fashion. And so she had Bree and I as inspiration, but we didn't want it to like be like us. But I think that's what's so cool about our label is you're like, is that the Bellas? Or are these two women I know? It takes you back, so.

• 51:26Ed Mylett?

  I'm so excited for you guys.

• 51:27Brie Bella?

  Yeah, thank you.

• 51:28Ed Mylett?

  We don't have that much time left, unfortunately. But one of the things, probably my favorite thing about your brand isn't even all of this. And I love all of this. I love watching young, strong business women build their brands, build their companies, and have business minds like the two of you have.

• 51:41Brie Bella?

  Thank you.

• 51:42Ed Mylett?

  But one of the things that I love about WWE particularly, because I've watched the McMahons do this for years, and now you guys do it. And John is the number one giver of Make-A-Wish grants. And it's the philanthro... I get choked up on that, sorry.

• 51:54Brie Bella?

  Oh, I love that.

• 51:55Ed Mylett?

  So, it's the charitable stuff that you all do, that WWE does, and he does as well. John does, and Make-A-Wish is my... I'm involved as well. So, her fiance is the number one giver of wishes to children ever. And so, I love that. I know, me too. I love the philanthropic piece that you all give back. So just talk a second about how important that is to you.

• 52:18Brie Bella?

  I know, right?

• 52:19Ed Mylett?

  Talk about that just for a second, why that's so important to you guys.

• 52:22Brie Bella?

  Well, you know, it's crazy because my husband, WWE works with Connor's Cure. And I was lucky enough to be really close with Connor because he was such a huge fan of my husband. But to see how all that went down, it was a YouTube video, and people kept tweeting Brian about it. And then finally, Justin, he was a ring announcer at WWE, was like, hey, have you seen this? He's like, I have. He's like, I got in touch with the dad, can you do something? And so Brian like showed up and surprised him. And I'll never forget Connor's face, being able to put him in a headlock, and it was this whole ordeal. And, you know, Brian and I always talk about this, and Nicole and I too, when we are connected

• 53:04Brie Bella?

  with that, those fans and those people, it makes you go, this is all... Everything else can go, but this I will do the rest of my life. Because it's the energy, it's the way you feel, and it's the way they make me feel. Like, you know, we always say we put smiles on kids' faces, but they don't realize, they put a smile on our face. And there's times you do walk away and you get upset, and like so many times when you're leaving the hospital, especially now that I'm a mom. But I also think like, I needed that. I needed just such an innocent soul to just refresh my life and make me realize what's truly important in life.

• 53:37Ed Mylett?

  That's wonderful.

• 53:38Brie Bella?

  And I just love giving back because they give so much to us.

• 53:41Nikki Bella?

  Yeah, and I think... For me, and I know Bree feels the same, but I, I, I do all this because I wanna have a purpose. Like, I have to have a purpose when I'm putting so much passion into things. And at the end of the day, for me, it's to make some type of change in this world for the better.

• 53:56Brie Bella?

  Yeah.

• 53:57Nikki Bella?

  It's either to change one person's life that like, the day I leave here, that someone's like, she really helped me. That's why I do reality. Reality can be tough at times, but I can't tell you how many women come up here and go, "Please say no to me for like, so many straight, but you give me hope."

• 54:12Brie Bella?

  Nicole gets more hugs in the Starbucks line than ever.

• 54:15Nikki Bella?

  I do, but it's-

• 54:16Brie Bella?

  They're like, "I'm right there with you, girl. Let's hug it out."

• 54:18Nikki Bella?

  Yeah. But it's, I, I always think like, if I just, if I didn't have a purpose, there'd be no reason. Like, I love the life I live and I'm so grateful for it. And I think that's it at the end of the day is, especially when I see the Make-A-Wish kids, I'm more grateful for my health and happiness. You could take everything else away, but I'm so grateful for that. And they remind me of that, but I also wanna give them that happiness and,

• 54:41Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 54:41Nikki Bella?

  And I just wanna change things because why are we here if we don't?

• 54:44Brie Bella?

  I agree.

• 54:45Nikki Bella?

  You know what I mean? And that's what I'm so grateful to have, such an amazing soon-to-be spouse like John.

• 54:50Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 54:50Nikki Bella?

  Because we both keep each other in check, like, we call our like fake life. And so we'll sit at dinner, like, "Here's this fake life." And then we'll like, talk about things of, "This is real life." And I love it.

• 55:02Ed Mylett?

  I love that.

• 55:02Nikki Bella?

  Yeah, it's so amazing, like, and we just keep each other, like, we do those checks and balances. But like, John, we were at the house and he had literally five hours till he had to leave for the airport. And he was home for, I think, a day and a half. And there was a man that was diagnosed with cancer that lived an hour away. And they're like, "He's your biggest fan. Our neighbor just came over." And she's like, "I don't expect you to go see him, but they give him like, four weeks." And his world got rocked. He had a headache and then they're like, "You have brain cancer and you have four weeks." And he drove an hour-

• 55:31Ed Mylett?

  What a good man.

• 55:32Nikki Bella?

  And spent an hour with him and hung out with him.

• 55:35Ed Mylett?

  What a good man.

• 55:35Nikki Bella?

  And then, yeah, came back, packed his bags, and he was off. And I just am like, that's why we do what we do.

• 55:41Ed Mylett?

  I love that. By the way, I know you mean it. Like, it's interesting. People talk about making their dreams come true, talk about chasing things, talk about giving to other people.

• 55:48Nikki Bella?

  Yeah.

• 55:49Ed Mylett?

  But you actually do it.

• 55:50Nikki Bella?

  Yeah.

• 55:50Ed Mylett?

  Like, that's the difference. Like, you do it. No, and I want everyone to learn that lesson. Talk is kinda cheap.

• 55:55Nikki Bella?

  Yeah.

• 55:55Brie Bella?

  I agree.

• 55:55Ed Mylett?

  Like, you gotta do it, right? And the reason you feel this emotion when they're talking is because they're doing it. There's a power to actually doing it. And so, I got one more question. I want, I got fifty more. I got to like, three of them. But I'm curious for women. Maybe even young women that are watching this.

• 56:11Brie Bella?

  Yeah.

• 56:11Ed Mylett?

  What advice would you give them about their lives, about chasing their dreams? And you can talk directly to them if you want. I'm just curious what you would say to these young ladies who follow you. When I say young, that's all women frankly, right? But I mean, you know this, the women, the Bella Army, but all the people that they may be watching you guys for the first time today.

• 56:27Brie Bella?

  Right.

• 56:27Ed Mylett?

  They've never seen you before. What advice would you give to young women?

• 56:30Brie Bella?

  Well, Nicole and I always have a thing we always say. And it's, you know, we always turn our negatives into positives. We always turn no into yeses. And through our blood, sweat and tears, we realized anything was possible. And, you know, where we're at today, it didn't happen overnight. Took us a little over a decade. And I think now sometimes we expect things to happen fast. We expect to wake up in the morning, have an idea, give a little effort and think, boom, I should be successful. But you have to enjoy the journey because the journey helped us grow as women. Um, the mistakes we made made me realize that, whoa, I just learned something. My mom always say that, like, isn't it fun learning business? And I'm like, it is because there's so many times I failed. And when I failed, I was like, okay, never doing that again.

• 57:15Brie Bella?

  Now I know it's this way. And, um, I just never give up. And it's so important to like, just take that leap of faith and just go for it.

• 57:24Nikki Bella?

  I agree. And I also, you know, I love being called fearless Nikki, but I represent it so much because I truly feel you have to live your life fearlessly.

• 57:33Brie Bella?

  Yeah.

• 57:34Nikki Bella?

  And everything that comes your way, just stay so fearless. And you don't want to have the regrets. And I think also the most, the best advice I could give is use your voice.

• 57:45Brie Bella?

  Yes.

• 57:45Nikki Bella?

  If you feel a certain way, express it and don't be afraid of it. There are times that I wish I communicated better with people or I stood up for myself. And it took me years to learn it. And I was like, I wish I learned this earlier, but I'm happy that I know it now. And that is just such, I think that's the best advice I ever give is just use your voice and use it so strong and so fearlessly.

• 58:06Ed Mylett?

  This was such a dang gum good conversation today. I didn't want it to end.

• 58:10Brie Bella?

  I know.

• 58:10Ed Mylett?

  You two are really unique.

• 58:12Brie Bella?

  Aw, thank you.

• 58:13Ed Mylett?

  No, you are, you're unique. Like, I've never met anybody like the two of you before, so.

• 58:17Brie Bella?

  Aw, that means a lot.

• 58:18Ed Mylett?

  Wow, thank you so much.

• 58:20Brie Bella?

  Aw, thank you.

• 58:20Nikki Bella?

  You, I really appreciate it.

• 58:22Brie Bella?

  Thank you for this view.

• 58:23Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 58:23Brie Bella?

  Oh wait, Nicole, I saw a little blue thing.

• 58:25Nikki Bella?

  No, you didn't.

• 58:26Brie Bella?

  Way back there.

• 58:27Ed Mylett?

  Keep making it up, it's probably another bird.

• 58:28Brie Bella?

  Look at it. Way back there. I am not even kidding.

• 58:32Ed Mylett?

  They're imagining whales, you guys.

• 58:33Brie Bella?

  Oh, it's a bird.

• 58:34Ed Mylett?

  It's a bird. I told you it was a bird.

• 58:35Brie Bella?

  That bird just messed up the whole whale idea.

• 58:38Ed Mylett?

  Those were dolphins.

• 58:39Nikki Bella?

  And thank you for all your advice.

• 58:40Brie Bella?

  Yeah, thank you.

• 58:41Ed Mylett?

  Since the beginning.

• 58:42Brie Bella?

  It's nice to meet people like you too because I feel like it helps our energy and our excitement keep growing when we meet people like you.

• 58:49Ed Mylett?

  Thank you.

• 58:49Nikki Bella?

  You need to coach us.

• 58:50Ed Mylett?

  I'm working on it. I'm here for you. Absolutely.

• 58:52Brie Bella?

  We're gonna start growing a coach.

• 58:53Ed Mylett?

  Hundred percent in. Coach. Hey, listen, everybody. One thing. You can find them on Instagram. You can find them on their YouTube channel is awesome as well.

• 59:00Brie Bella?

  Oh, yeah.

• 59:01Ed Mylett?

  Also, go look for the WWE YouTube channel. And for those of you that are watching this, you know, as usual, I did not charge you for this today. I brought you these amazing women for free. So all I ask for you is some support, is to give a review on iTunes if you're listening to it so it moves up around the world, more people get access to hear this story, and to make a nice like or a comment if you're watching on YouTube or something like that. So thank you, ladies, very much today.

• 59:22Brie Bella?

  Thank you.

• 59:22Ed Mylett?

  All right, everybody. Max out. God bless you.