Tag: Stephanie McMahon

Stephanie McMahon believes developing a connection with the audience is the most important thing for any aspiring WWE wrestler.

A new episode of McMahon’s “What’s Your Story?” podcast debuted today with Bayley appearing as the guest. It was recorded before Bayley held her Lodestone Women 2025 seminar at the end of last year — and Bayley asked McMahon if she had any advice to share with the indie wrestlers who would be attending the camp.

“I guess what I’ll say is: the most important thing you can do is make the audience feel,” McMahon responded. “You want to elicit an emotion. And you do that with your reactions. You do it with your face. You do it with your eyes. You do it by selling. You know, that is the purest form of it, right? My husband’s quoted this many times, but Maya Angelou said, ‘People will never remember what you said, they’ll never remember what you did, but they’ll always remember how you made them feel.’ And it’s true.”

McMahon added that fans might not remember a particular match, but they’ll always remember the emotions of how wrestling made them feel. Strong positive and negative emotions are what resonates with people most strongly.

“I would say to these girls, you need to find a way to make people feel something for you,” McMahon said. “And that’s not easy. People will give lots of different advice on how to do that. But whether it’s with your words, your face, your body, you have to make people feel.”

Storytelling is what McMahon believes WWE is based around — and she thinks selling is critically important to telling stories in the ring.

“Selling is the most important,” she said. “I mean, it just is.”

Along with this, McMahon shared that — when WWE holds tryouts at the Performance Center — her husband Paul “Triple H” Levesque is looking for people who show leadership and encourage the other attendees.

McMahon does not currently hold an executive role with WWE, but her podcast is part of the WWE & Fanatics network. McMahon is set to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame during WrestleMania 42 week in Las Vegas this April.

On the latest episode of her “What’s Your Story?” podcast, Stephanie McMahon opened up about a difficult situation she once went through.

A new edition of “What’s Your Story?” premiered today with Natalya discussing her recently released memoir. McMahon commended Natalya for how open she is in the book, which covers the mental health struggles her father Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart faced stemming from head trauma.

McMahon shared that, at one point in her life, she suffered a miscarriage. McMahon believes there is value in sharing the difficulties you’ve faced because, at the end of the day, we’re all human and have to navigate these kinds of struggles.

“I had a miscarriage at one point, and it’s devastating,” McMahon said. “You never really know until you tell someone that you had a miscarriage — and then you find out tons of women that you know who have had miscarriages. And it’s just something we don’t share that I think if we did talk about more, it would be helpful.

“From a mental health standpoint as well, you know, it’s very hard to go through that. When you find out that people you love, relate to, look up to — that really, truly, we all have problems. We’re here to help one another, because at the end of the day all we have is each other.”

When former WWE star Carmella suffered pregnancy loss a few years ago, she said McMahon reached out to her several times and was “so supportive” through the situation.

McMahon and her husband Paul “Triple H” Levesque have three daughters together who are now 19, 17, and 15 years old.

Stephanie McMahon would fully support her daughters if they wanted to become WWE wrestlers — but she knows how hard they would have to work to prove themselves given who their parents are.

McMahon and Paul “Triple H” Levesque have three daughters who are now 19, 17 and 15 years old. Their eldest daughter Aurora is studying physical therapy in college and hopes to earn a doctorate’s degree. But McMahon doesn’t rule out Aurora or any of her children entering the family business someday, even in an in-ring role.

“Oh, totally,” McMahon said on her “What’s Your Story?” podcast when asked if she would support her daughters becoming wrestlers. “I mean, they would have to work really hard, right? And I think, you know, when you are the child of, you have to earn it more, quite frankly, in order to appreciate the business, appreciate the people in the business. Respect is earned, not given. And you have to earn it every day. And I think it would be harder for them in that respect, but I would completely support it.”

For herself, McMahon considers growing up in pro wrestling to have been a privilege. It allowed her to be around so many different types of people and develop a sense of family with them.

“We’re a family. And I feel even our fans are a part of this family,” she said. “And wrestling fans are my people, you know, that’s what I feel like anyway. And I just feel it’s such a special environment of people who, you know, really are down to earth, just have a particular set of values and they know what they believe in. And I just feel very fortunate to be a part of it. And I would definitely encourage my kids if they wanted to be a part of it.”

McMahon recalled that, when she was young, Aurora told her that she didn’t want her mother’s job or her father’s job — she wanted Vince McMahon’s job of running WWE. Aurora later even trained in the ring with Natalya and Charlotte Flair. But Aurora started to see WWE as less of a viable path after everything that went down with her grandfather’s alleged sexual assault and trafficking scandal that led to him resigning from the company.

“She’s naturally gifted, like in the ring,” Stephanie said about Aurora. “Nattie used to train her. She did, you know, a long time ago, like, and then everything happened, you know, with my dad and the business and I left.

“And I think I don’t realize necessarily the impact that it had, especially on Aurora, but on all of my kids, because Aurora always saw a path forward through the business. And when everything happened suddenly, that wasn’t there anymore. And she had to shift her focus and what she thought she was going to do. And that happens in life anyway. I mean, you constantly change and all of that. But it was a path that she felt suddenly wasn’t there anymore. So who knows? She might find her way back to it. But Charlotte had a couple of matches with her, trained with her. Nattie trained her. And they both said what a natural in the ring she was.”

Stephanie does not currently have any kind of executive role with WWE but makes occasional appearances and hosts her podcast for the WWE & Fanatics podcast network. She is set to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame next year.

Triple H runs WWE creative with the job title of Chief Content Officer.