What made you decide to become a wrestler?
It's hard to say why. It boils down to I love trying new things, but I have to be the best at it. It was another thing at life I really wanted to try and see if I could succeed; see if I could do something that I had never done in life.
I had never stepped in a ring before I went to Lance Storm Wrestling Academy, so it was my first time being around the wrestling industry. I had seen Kelly Kelly, but in Victoria there aren't many opportunities to do things outside the box. We don't have a wrestling school. We have one wrestling promotion on the Island that I didn't even know about until now.
When I arrived in Calgary, I was looking for something different to challenge myself with and that's how I found this wrestling school. It's the best wrestling school in the world. If I can't succeed at Lance's, I couldn't succeed anywhere. It was the best way to try it. You either sink or swim and I like to think I swam.
Advice for someone wanting to be a pro wrestler?
Appearance is a huge factor. If you want to make it big, you have to be aware of the way you look. You have to go to the gym. You have to be really fit. You have to decide if you're going to go for being small and skinny, or for being athletic looking and ripped. If you're going to be one of those big guys like Big Show, you better be massive.
Then you have to get really amazing training. There is a lot of training out there that puts you through training and then leaves you on your own. Lance Storm's training facility is the best because he trained the WWE. He was their trainer for a little bit, so he knows what he's doing.
Along with wrestling training, what other training do you do?
I workout about six days a week. I do everything from weightlifting to cardio. We're just starting hot yoga in wrestling because you do have to be pretty limber.
On top of that I usually try and make it to at least three in-ring training sessions a week. I would like to be there five times a week, but we don't always have that opportunity.
I make sure that every single day I do something physical. If it's on my day off, I might not make it to the gym, but I'm going to go for a walk, or for a bike ride or something where I get my butt off the couch. Usually I train seven days a week.
What do you do for fun and hobbies?
I love going for hikes. I'm a big hiker, which is exactly what I do on my days off. I love to travel. I've traveled around the world. I have so many places on my list to go to.
Last year I went to Mexico, Australia, and twice to Vegas. The year before that I was in Europe. The year before that I was in Australia. I just got back from Cayman Islands in January.
What's the hardest part about being a pro wrestler?
The hardest part at the moment - and it's not really that difficult - but being a female in this industry, I get the craziest looks. I get people that like me because I'm a female and there's not many out there and they want to quickly use me and get me in wherever they can. Then I have people that look down on me and think that I can't do what they can do. Then I have people that think because I'm a female, I'm just getting ahead of everyone else. There's only a couple of girl wrestlers in BC so of course I'm probably going to get places faster.
That being said, I think I work my butt off to get to where I am.
For guys and girls, the hardest part is probably fitting everything in to your life. If you want to be a wrestler, you better be training all the time; you better be in the ring all the time; you better be studying all the time. You better get videos and old tapes of footage. You're constantly in that mind set. How am I going to make a matchup? What's going to be my new move? What's going to get the crowd going?
How do you find time to have a job, to have a life and to have a wrestling life? Really hard.