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Speaker 3: Emily Abadi Here, I am the creator and host of Hurdle,

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Speaker 3: For those of you who don't know me or may

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Speaker 3: to you about that. Hurdle is a wellness focused podcast

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Speaker 3: things out, and then you know immediately upon graduating that

461
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Speaker 3: you want to come back to New York City.

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Speaker 1: Yes, like I said, from that that first summer that

463
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Speaker 1: I came up here with my girlfriend Casey and I

464
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Speaker 1: little in my Kiasophia, I I knew that New York

465
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: was calling me. I had to go back. I knew

466
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Speaker 1: that it was the best situation financially and for my

467
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Speaker 1: education to stay in North Carolina to finish up college there.

468
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Speaker 1: That so that was fine. As soon as I was

469
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Speaker 1: done with my studies there, I already had a job

470
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,679
Speaker 1: lined up, which was a blessing and a miracle. In

471
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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight slash nine, at the height of

472
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Speaker 1: the recession, so I had a job lined up at

473
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Speaker 1: a streetwear brand. I packed up all my things. I

474
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Speaker 1: had an apartment, and I moved here with a hope

475
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Speaker 1: and a dream and a.

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Speaker 5: Prayer and like I think, like two thousand bucks in

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Speaker 5: my bank account.

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Speaker 3: So I was going to say, moving here and having

479
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Speaker 3: an apartment like that in itself is a small victory.

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00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: It is, but it was some very sketchy ness because

481
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 1: my first apartment, well actually my second apartment, I only

482
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Speaker 1: lived in my first apartment for like two months. My

483
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: first apartment in New York City, I lived with four

484
00:27:56,040 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: other artists in I think on like one thirty second

485
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Speaker 1: and Broadway. We didn't pay rent with a check. We

486
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: paid rent with cash in like a box that the

487
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: landlord would come to the to the apartment of the

488
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Speaker 1: first of the month and like get the cash rent.

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Speaker 1: And I was paying I think four hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: dollars for rent, So you you just have to imagine,

491
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 1: like what the apartment looked like. It was definitely a

492
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Speaker 1: crash pad to like sleep at, sleep in, shower change,

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Speaker 1: and that's.

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Speaker 5: Really all I had.

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Speaker 1: But you know, when you first moved to New York,

496
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Speaker 1: especially in your like early twenties, you're barely home. Like

497
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Speaker 1: you're just getting up every day, pumping to the subway,

498
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Speaker 1: going to work and coming back.

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Speaker 5: I was working like twelve fourteen.

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Speaker 1: Hour days even at the even when I when I

501
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: started here, and then even after work, I would go

502
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 1: and take a dance class after every every every day.

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Speaker 5: So I was like barely living there.

504
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Speaker 1: But just to give you like a perspective of where

505
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: I started in New York, it wasn't it wasn't cute.

506
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: It was definitely not Carrie Bradshaw. So get that fantasy

507
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: out of your head. All you people who have never

508
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: been to New York or think that like New York

509
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 1: City is sex.

510
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 5: In the city.

511
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 4: You can dream that it's sex in the city.

512
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 3: I walk up four flights of stairs every day, and

513
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 3: this is my this is my being for now. Okay,

514
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 3: So you live in that crazy place, you start this

515
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 3: first job, you're taking dance after work.

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Speaker 4: How's the first job?

517
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Speaker 5: Huh? So it was. It was fine.

518
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Speaker 1: It lasted I don't know, probably like five months because Okay.

519
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: So also when I moved to New York, so I

520
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: had this, I had this part. I had my full

521
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 1: time job. It was sales and marketing for a streetwear brand.

522
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 1: I also was working retail like two or three days

523
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: nights a week for Ben Sherman. I don't know if

524
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: you remember that brand. I don't think's around anymore. And

525
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: then I shit you not. During the holiday season, I

526
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: was working on the weekends at a TGI Fridays in

527
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Speaker 1: Times Square. So like, let me tell you, I was

528
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: quote unquote living the jerrem.

529
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 5: Yeah. So I was just like hustling.

530
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Speaker 1: We closed for like the weekend or week of Christmas

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Speaker 1: slash New Year's and when I came back, they're like, hey,

532
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: we're going under so we can't afford you.

533
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 5: You don't have a job.

534
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 1: So I went from like having Oh and right before that,

535
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: I quit c Jack Fridays because like I'm fine now.

536
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: So I literally like was fired like five months after

537
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Speaker 1: or laid off five months after I had moved to

538
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Speaker 1: the city.

539
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Speaker 4: So that what happens when you get laid off.

540
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Speaker 1: I filed for unemployment and figured it out, you know,

541
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: like was just scrappy, and figured out how to how

542
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Speaker 1: to make it happen.

543
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Speaker 5: But it was.

544
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Speaker 1: It was truly in a way, you know, all all

545
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: our hardships in retrospect are always blessings. They forced us

546
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: to change, They forced us to move forward and figure

547
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Speaker 1: it out. So that was a tipping point for me

548
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: because I was like, I'm going to focus. I've got

549
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 1: this little underman check, I can afford my rent. I'll

550
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: I'll make everything else work. I started going to dance

551
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Speaker 1: class more, I auditioned and got an agent. I started

552
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: auditioning for work, and that's when I started to really

553
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: move into my dance career, which lasted for about four

554
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: or five years. That's when I was you know, I

555
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: dance for Nicking Minaj Katie Perry did a Mazana video

556
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 1: but you'll never see my face because we're in the

557
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 1: football football uniform Victoria's Secret Show SNL. That was like

558
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: such a proud moment for me because I was doing

559
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: what I was passionate about and did and doing what

560
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Speaker 1: I came to New York City.

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Speaker 4: To do, which is awesome.

562
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 3: And so the dance thing really starts to take off,

563
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 3: and then how do you even start to make your

564
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 3: way toward peloton?

565
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: Peloton landed in my lap. God, the universe was just

566
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: like really looking after me. But I'm always I'm always

567
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: a believer that the things that you do right now

568
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: are secretly or not secretly preparing you for your next step.

569
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: So that I all the business stuff that I learned

570
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: from the fashion world and all of the performance that

571
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: I learned and from being a dancer literally prepared me

572
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: for Peloton. So there was a point in my life

573
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: where I was really tired of dancing because I didn't

574
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: feel like it was a connecting me to purpose, did

575
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: not was not doing anything for me. I felt like

576
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: a moving piece of furniture that was building other people up.

577
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: And I was getting to an age where I was like,

578
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: you're not You're not setting you're.

579
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Speaker 5: Not creating a foundation for yourself.

580
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: So I got to a point where I was like,

581
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Speaker 1: I'm going to kind of take a break. I'm going

582
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: to focus on making money, take every little and little

583
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: small job that I can. So there was a point

584
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: in my life where I was waking up every day

585
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: I was going to the gym. I was going to

586
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 1: a cater waiting job in the city somewhere like serving

587
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: drinks or little appetizers, and then I would make it

588
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: to this club in New York City that has kind

589
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: of like a burlesque show. It's called The Box. It's

590
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: in the Lower East Side. So I was working. I'm

591
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: sure you do and you probably know the show. So

592
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: I was working in front of the house there.

593
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 5: I didn't do any performance there.

594
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: So it was literally a day where I like wake

595
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: up at like nine or ten and then I wouldn't

596
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: get home until like four in the morning or something

597
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: like that, where it was just like I'm here, I'm

598
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 1: making money, I'm putting like that's all I'm focused on

599
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: right now. It was that transitional period that got me

600
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: peloton because there was a choreographer there that knew I

601
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: was a dancer, and he was like, hey, my friend

602
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: is looking for performers that are interested in fitness. I

603
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: was like, okay, cute, like let me do, let me,

604
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: let me get into this this cycling gig. Let me

605
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: make a little bit extra money, Like that's all I

606
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: That's literally all I thought it was going to be.

607
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: I met with the old cheat Content officer and they

608
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: were like, you're hired or you start training next week.

609
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: So I started training with Peloton and it wasn't until

610
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: I kind of got into it. And this is the

611
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: beginning of it. So it was still like kind of

612
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: it was always Peloton was like, Okay, this is a

613
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 1: cool concept, but like this could this could flop, This

614
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: could flop big time, Like it could flop. But the

615
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: further I dove into it and started to see like

616
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: John Foley's leadership and my colleagues as far as instructors

617
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: like you know, Jen Sherman and Robin ars On and

618
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 1: seeing moving into it more and seeing the leadership there,

619
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this has potential, Like this could

620
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: be really this could be really transformative not only for me,

621
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: but for like the world. And that's when I started

622
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: to like kick it into full gear and really put

623
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: all of my energy into Peloton and it's and I

624
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: have not looked back.

625
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 4: I have not looked back.

626
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 3: Before you auditioned for this cycling gig of sorts, what

627
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 3: was your like personal workout routine, like at.

628
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: All, dancing was still part of it. That was kind

629
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: of like my cardio space. I had taken a few

630
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:09,760
Speaker 1: spin classes before, but I was really into strength training.

631
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: My dance career is what got me into fitness. A

632
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 1: choreographer that I had studied under and wanted to work with,

633
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: he wanted to book me for a Victoria's Secret show

634
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 1: and he's like, you're a great dancer, but girl, you

635
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 1: need to get this body together. So fitness for me

636
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 1: started as an aesthetic thing, as a validation piece, not

637
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: only for myself but for my career, and that's when

638
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: I got into strength training and eating more. So that's

639
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:37,320
Speaker 1: the foundation of it. It is very much changed because

640
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: of my position at Peloton and because of the people

641
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 1: I surrounded myself with and the things that they have

642
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: taught me. Has completely shifted from that like aesthetic validation

643
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 1: point into something that you know, I'll say it for

644
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 1: the ninetieth time today, started connecting to me, to my

645
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: purpose and connected me to loving myself fully and acknowledging

646
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: that picking up weights allows me to recognize that I

647
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: can absolutely achieve anything.

648
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 3: When that choreographer was like, Hey, maybe you should kind

649
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 3: of focus on your fitness, was that one of those

650
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 3: moments that you were like, what are you talking about?

651
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 3: Or was it something that you had kind of been

652
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 3: thinking about in the back of your head.

653
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:17,720
Speaker 1: So it's definitely been in the back of my mind.

654
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: But when he said that, it wasn't it wasn't a surprise,

655
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: and it wasn't it wasn't anything that I pushed back on.

656
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 5: I trusted.

657
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:30,240
Speaker 1: I trusted this choreographer and definitely had my heart set

658
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: on a career in dance. So I listened to him

659
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: and I was like, Okay, fine, got it, and so

660
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: I jumped. I jumped right into it.

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Speaker 3: In that first year of joining Peloton. I mean, I

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Speaker 3: reflect on that time. I remember going to the original

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Speaker 3: studio on twenty third, like right at the beginning of everything,

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Speaker 3: and it was just it was such a different time.

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Speaker 3: When you look back on that time, do you have

666
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Speaker 3: any like really big takeaways from the beginning?

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Speaker 1: It was a different world. Like I remember there was

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Speaker 1: a Saturday that I started a Peloton I teach. I

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Speaker 1: taught like a seven thirty or eight thirty class. There

670
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: was literally one person in the class. So not only

671
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: are you fighting like the ability to perform, but then

672
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Speaker 1: you're also feeling nervous because you're like, God, there's only

673
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Speaker 1: one person in this class, Like what is going.

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Speaker 5: On the takeaways.

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Speaker 1: I mean what I've learned is, you know, be scrappy,

676
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Speaker 1: be willing to be willing to fight, you know, fight

677
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: for everything with limited resources. And I think that's really

678
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Speaker 1: true of Peloton, especially from the beginning. I've definitely learned

679
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 1: that from John Foley, who has always had a dream

680
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: and and a vision and has has kept Peloton really scrappy.

681
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: Also a takeaway is tap into those around you and

682
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Speaker 1: surround yourself with good people, good people, good people, good people,

683
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: good people. If you do not have good people in

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Speaker 1: your life. And I don't mean I don't mean like

685
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Speaker 1: rich or people that have things or that are quote

686
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: unquote successful. I mean good people that at their core

687
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: are empathetic and compassionate and care about the world and

688
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:11,320
Speaker 1: care about other people. So surround yourself with good people

689
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Speaker 1: and everything that you want to succeed in. You need

690
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: a team to support you mentally, physically, emotionally, Like you

691
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 1: need a good.

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Speaker 3: Team when you first started out at Peloton, I mean

693
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Speaker 3: definitely a big shift from being in that dance side

694
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Speaker 3: of things. Chat with me about how you made that shift.

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Speaker 1: I am not one to hold on to things really tightly.

696
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: I'm I'm willing to let go, and there I was

697
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 1: already kind of one step out of the dance the

698
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Speaker 1: dance world when Peloton.

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Speaker 5: When Peloton happened for me, I.

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Speaker 1: Think I did like one or two more dance gigs,

701
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Speaker 1: and I was really willing to like just let it

702
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Speaker 1: go and accept. What was a something that followed me

703
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: a toxic trade is that as a dancer, you're constantly

704
00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: thinking that you're competing against people. Because in a dance world,

705
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: you go into an audition, if there's only four gigs

706
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,240
Speaker 1: and there's forty people here, there's still only four gigs,

707
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:06,399
Speaker 1: and you have a what like.

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Speaker 5: Ten percent chance. I hope that math is right ten percent.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm so bad. I'm so glad that

711
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Speaker 1: was right. Someone can factor herself like the no. I mean,

712
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Speaker 1: you know, you come into you come into this world thinking,

713
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: like into the fitness world, and you're like, oh, it's

714
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: you know, I've got to compete.

715
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 5: I've got to compete.

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00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: I've got to be better than so and so, and

717
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: I've got to show up and show out. And I

718
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: would actually say that's pretty that's pretty accurate for a

719
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: lot of other people in the fitness space, just because

720
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: in boutique fitness. You're fighting for you're fighting for you know,

721
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 1: good times, You're fighting for clientele, and it can be

722
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: very competitive. The thing about Peloton is where we were

723
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 1: all in the same playing field and we weren't there

724
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 1: was nothing to compete about. We knew that, we knew

725
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Speaker 1: that if we all worked hard, we were going to

726
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Speaker 1: get to the same successful place, and that there are

727
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Speaker 1: enough seats at the table that we can have everybody,

728
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 1: and everyone can have their own lane, and everyone can

729
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: have an audience and everyone can be heard. And I

730
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Speaker 1: think that's really beautiful, and it's kind of how I

731
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: try to approach life in the sense that, like, we

732
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: have all the resources we need, don't take a chair

733
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Speaker 1: away from the table, don't be scared of someone else,

734
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Speaker 1: Invite them in. You can benefit from somebody else's perspective

735
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Speaker 1: or somebody else's skill sets being in the same sphere

736
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Speaker 1: as you. I always compare it like I always feel

737
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Speaker 1: like I'm standing shoulder to shoulder with like Titans when

738
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Speaker 1: I think of like my colleagues at Peloton. That's what

739
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 1: double like the Avengers like. It just feels like that

740
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Speaker 1: all the time.

741
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Speaker 3: So Peloton obviously starts to pick up, and with that

742
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 3: hand in hand comes obviously more eyes on you. How

743
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 3: do you start dealing with that and possibly the idea

744
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Speaker 3: of unsolicited feedback.

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Speaker 1: Oh, she's a dancer, She's a Gemini. So I definitely

746
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: like attention. Like I'm not even gonna I'm not gonna lie.

747
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: I'm very much, you know. I like the eyes on me.

748
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,439
Speaker 1: I never had a problem with that, and it felt

749
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Speaker 1: like a performance, So it was somewhere. It was a

750
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Speaker 1: space that I thrived. It's interesting you bring this up

751
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: unsolicited to me back. I don't care, Like people will

752
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: roll up in my DMS and like here's a suggestion

753
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: or like I didn't like that, and I'm like, okay, girl, Like,

754
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,240
Speaker 1: well that's good for you. I'm gonna keep pumping over here,

755
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: Like I don't I really, I really don't care, because

756
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:29,919
Speaker 1: like what I've been doing is working, so like, who

757
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: are you to tell me what you think think of me?

758
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: So it's easy for me to block to kind of

759
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: block those things out. But there is this pressure, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's internal, but there is a

761
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 1: pressure to constantly be raising the bar or doing better

762
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 1: than I did before. And maybe that's in performance as

763
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: far as like numbers, but I don't even equate it

764
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: to that. But I just always want to be I

765
00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 1: don't like to be comfortable. I don't like to be

766
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Speaker 1: the same space that I was three months ago, six

767
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Speaker 1: months ago. So I'm always looking for a ways to

768
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Speaker 1: be innovative and bring a different side of me to

769
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Speaker 1: my content or develop a new skill set. So I'm

770
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:17,959
Speaker 1: always looking for that, for something to better myself because

771
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: I want to be the best version of myself. I

772
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Speaker 1: do also believe in having either plateaus or moments to

773
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Speaker 1: land and recognize my recognize our success, like we have to,

774
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: like if we're working hard for three months at something,

775
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:32,839
Speaker 1: we have to land at one point and be like,

776
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Speaker 1: you know what, I did a really good job.

777
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Speaker 5: I'm really grateful for where I am right now.

778
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: I can take a breath and not put so much

779
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 1: pressure on myself and then when I'm ready, I'm gonna

780
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 1: start climbing the next ladder. But there is this immense pressure,

781
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 1: either myself or just from you know the world and

782
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 1: having more eyes on us to constantly be raising the

783
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: bar and bring the best, to bring the best to

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00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 1: the peloton content. And it wasn't until I think in

785
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 1: that same in that same space where I started to

786
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: acknowledge my my situational depression, where I was like.

787
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Speaker 6: Uh, this job can be can be has a lot

788
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 6: of pressure and I'm either being hard on myself or

789
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 6: setting expectations.

790
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Speaker 5: That are not leading me to joy.

791
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: And I've gotta I've got to unpack that and figure

792
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: that out. So definitely, with more eyes there comes more pressure.

793
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: And I don't I don't think it's external. I think

794
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: it's I think it's internal. And I'm really trying to

795
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Speaker 1: focus on I think I'm in a I think I'm

796
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: in a in a I'm I've landed on the stepping

797
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: stone right now, and I'm trying to breathe, acknowledge, acknowledge

798
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:44,320
Speaker 1: what I've done, and take a moment until I until

799
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Speaker 1: I start to think about like my next step.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that landing on the stepping stone

801
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 3: or the plateau so to speak, comes with its fair

802
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,359
Speaker 3: share of challenges. First of all, so many of us

803
00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:01,799
Speaker 3: have problems or like, aren't good at accepting that we

804
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 3: need to take that land, we need to take that

805
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,919
Speaker 3: be and take some time to recognize accomplishment. And then

806
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 3: on the other side of the coin, it's like you

807
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:14,479
Speaker 3: struggle with how long your quote unquote allowed to hang

808
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 3: out on the plateau and like enjoy your work.

809
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 5: Absolutely. I mean we are conditioned to like never be

810
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:22,399
Speaker 5: happy with where we are.

811
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: It's in our it's in our society, and like put

812
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,400
Speaker 1: in put in social media.

813
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 5: Now it's like we're constantly.

814
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:33,399
Speaker 1: A looking for validation and looking to improve, like it's

815
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: got to be it's got to be more, it's got

816
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: to be more, it's got to be better, it's got

817
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: to be this, it all these and we've also conditioned

818
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: that throughout our entire life, with school, with work, with money.

819
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: It just is embedded in our society and we have

820
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: to scrub up. We have to like literally scrub that off.

821
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: Unlearn that and unlearning things are so much harder than

822
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 1: learning things, you know, like to take off all these

823
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:03,720
Speaker 1: bad habits. But it's essential that you take those moments,

824
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: you breathe, you look around yourself, and you start to

825
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: acknowledge what you've accomplished, and don't downplay it. Don't rewrite

826
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: this script and be like, oh, I just did my

827
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: first you know, I just did my first set of squats,

828
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: or I just did a forty five minute ride When

829
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 1: all I could do was the thirty automatically or automatically

830
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: and be like, oh, well you could have gone heavier

831
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,359
Speaker 1: on that squat, or like, well some people are doing

832
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,399
Speaker 1: sixty minute rides, so like why aren't you doing that?

833
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: Get that noise out of here, Sit here in your space.

834
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: Acknowledge your successes, Acknowledge what you've accomplished, have gratitude towards that,

835
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: be happy with that, which is sometimes very hard, and

836
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 1: settle in that and feel the weight of that. Sometimes

837
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 1: don't We just don't even take a part or a

838
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 1: moment to feel I said this in a class, and

839
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Speaker 1: I think I heard it from my colleague Chelsea, who

840
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 1: does yoga meditation. Repelton is like, if you're numbing yourself

841
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: from pain, you're also numbing yourself from joy. So if

842
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: you're numbing yourself in these moments and constantly moving and

843
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: constantly going to the next thing, not only you're not

844
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 1: going to feel the pain, you're not going to feel

845
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 1: the joy. So take a moment, see where you're at,

846
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 1: Acknowledge your success, breathe, feel what it feels like to

847
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: be proud of yourself, to be happy, to be content,

848
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:43,359
Speaker 1: to feel connected to your purpose and then you can

849
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: start to kind of be like, Okay, what's my next step?

850
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: What is an area of improvement? And then you and

851
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: then you go on your next journey.

852
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 5: And that's that's really how I try to go about

853
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 5: my life, my career, my plans.

854
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Speaker 3: wasn't just going to be another cycling studio?

875
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:34,280
Speaker 5: Wow, I'm not sure like the exact moment. It really

876
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 5: comes back to the members. But pre Covid we.

877
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 1: Had people from literally all over the world come to

878
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 1: that twenty that very modest and humble twenty third Street

879
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 1: studio to take classes with us and be part of

880
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 1: the experience that they love so.

881
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:55,840
Speaker 5: Much in their homes.

882
00:48:56,760 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 1: And I'm so grateful and I'm so honored that people

883
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 1: let me into their lives in such an impactful way.

884
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:08,320
Speaker 1: My job is so much about storytelling, telling telling stories

885
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 1: about my life, telling you know, funny or serious, and

886
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:19,360
Speaker 1: when people reciprocate that connection with their story and describing

887
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:22,360
Speaker 1: to me the impact that I've had on their life,

888
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:28,319
Speaker 1: that made it feel very real and that there was

889
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: that momentum and that we were really creating change.

890
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 5: In the world.

891
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 1: You and I we are constantly immersed in different cultures,

892
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:44,439
Speaker 1: different people. Also, we have a bajillion opportunities to move

893
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 1: our bodies and sweat and hear people's stories in boutique

894
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 1: fitness classes or at gyms, Like we're just constantly in that.

895
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: When you think about the rest of the country or

896
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: the rest of the world, there's like very either rural

897
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: or small parts of the world that just don't get that.

898
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 1: So to so for people to have that experience with

899
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 1: me and it be maybe the first time that they're

900
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: connected to their bodies, they're connected to movement, they're connected

901
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 1: to literally being the best version of themselves, they're connecting

902
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: to confronting their BS. It is so powerful and to

903
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 1: hear those stories, that's that's that kind of aha mom

904
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:25,920
Speaker 1: where I'm like, oh Wow, Peloton is literally changing the

905
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 1: world and is an outlet for good and they're so

906
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: a on a global scale and even on a digital

907
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:37,880
Speaker 1: and in a digital scale, there's just nothing that I

908
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: can think of that's like bringing that much joy and

909
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:46,359
Speaker 1: that much confrontation of BS and evolution to the.

910
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 3: World for sure, And I mean the in the evolution

911
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 3: of this brand and in your evolution as an instructor.

912
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 3: When you look back on the last few years of Peloton,

913
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 3: what would you say has been in one of the

914
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 3: biggest turtles in kind of going along and embracing this ride.

915
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: You know, once you start getting any sort of momentum,

916
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: people want to people want to pick you apart, and

917
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 1: people want to either focus on flaws and weaknesses, and

918
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 1: those are there in any individual and any brand or

919
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:20,280
Speaker 1: any company.

920
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 5: So it's.

921
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 1: It's fighting my own frustration with criticism from the criticism

922
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 1: that we may or may not receive and just be

923
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 1: like you're you're not seeing it right, or like the

924
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 1: way you're describing is not what it's supposed to be.

925
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: So it's our job to kind of like change that.

926
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:42,319
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, I'm going to kind of

927
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 1: do a little bit of a shameless plug right now.

928
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 1: I think that the brand being seen as elitist or

929
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: that this is only something that is for people that

930
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: have money, I'm just like, that is not what it is.

931
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: There's so many there's so many entry points into this

932
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:02,319
Speaker 1: world of fitness and this brand. And when I say

933
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 1: you that, when I tell you that nobody has better

934
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: content than Peloton, I mean that, like I we have

935
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:08,799
Speaker 1: the best instructors, we have the best content, Like no

936
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 1: one's doing it like we are. So the app is,

937
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 1: you know, under fifteen dollars. I think it's thirteen dollars.

938
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: And you can get it on your phone, you can

939
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 1: get on your TV, you can get it on your tablet,

940
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 1: you can get it on you know, anywhere you want

941
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 1: to take fitness classes, you can take it on the

942
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: Peloton app. You know, we want to make fitness accessible

943
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: to everybody, and it should and it should be moving

944
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: our bodies and learning what our bodies are capable of

945
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: just teaches us so much respect for ourselves, and it

946
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:39,360
Speaker 1: teaches us that it empowers us to really recognize what

947
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:44,280
Speaker 1: we're what we're capable of. And I'm so proud of

948
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:46,879
Speaker 1: the relationship that I have with my body and its

949
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:52,319
Speaker 1: capabilities that I want everyone to have that relationship with themselves.

950
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 3: Has there been a time over our point over the

951
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 3: last few years where your body is kind of rebelled

952
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:01,880
Speaker 3: about the amount of activity that you're taking on?

953
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,360
Speaker 5: Ooh yes, girl, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, talk to

954
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 5: me about that. Well.

955
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 1: I definitely think there was a point where I was

956
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: just taking on too much stuff. I work with my

957
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 1: therapist like, I don't like being idle. I am constantly

958
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: on the go and trying to like, you know, let

959
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:20,880
Speaker 1: me take on this project, let me do this, let

960
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,360
Speaker 1: me do this, let me do this, And it was

961
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:27,280
Speaker 1: just it was if it wasn't work, it was my workouts.

962
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 1: If it wasn't that, it was you know, stuff on

963
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 1: social media, brand partnerships, taking on a relationship, going through

964
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: a breakup at one point. You know, all of this

965
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:42,440
Speaker 1: takes its toll on yourself. And as a New Yorker

966
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 1: or even as a person constantly going, you do you

967
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:48,839
Speaker 1: don't acknowledge your threshold of pain, but you kind of

968
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:51,840
Speaker 1: just like you just think that it's normal to like

969
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 1: be working and constantly going. But it just takes its

970
00:53:54,760 --> 00:54:01,279
Speaker 1: toll on you where you're physically drained, you're mentally an emotionally.

971
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:06,960
Speaker 5: Tapped out or not even or definitely not tuned in.

972
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:11,719
Speaker 1: And so it takes this toll on on It's taking

973
00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:15,360
Speaker 1: its toll on me and many many occasions. And it

974
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:19,320
Speaker 1: it's a practice for me because I naturally gravitate towards

975
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 1: these like high intensity kind of like days and work cycles.

976
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 1: And it's not until I've beat myself up to a

977
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: place where I'm like, oh wow, I'm so tired. I'm

978
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:35,320
Speaker 1: either sad, or like something's really off, and to be honest,

979
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 1: just yeah, I've seen a massive manifest in really nasty

980
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 1: ways where I kind of lash out towards people that

981
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 1: are close close to me, and I hate that.

982
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:45,440
Speaker 5: So it's been those moments where.

983
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:47,280
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, what do you Why are you snapping?

984
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: Like what's going on? And it's taking that moment, that

985
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 1: breaking point and then breaking it down like oh, you're

986
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:54,759
Speaker 1: working yourself too much or you're doing too much to

987
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 1: your body, And I've gotten better at finding more recovery

988
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 1: moments or more self care moments. I hate saying balance

989
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: because I don't. I don't believe in balance, but to

990
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 1: balance out, balance myself out, I believe in like you're

991
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: you know you're going to be there's gonna be a

992
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:16,200
Speaker 1: demand on you and you're gonna have to give it,

993
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 1: but then you're gonna also have to like reel it

994
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: in to take care of yourself.

995
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:22,960
Speaker 3: Yeah. I feel that, And I also I mean you're

996
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 3: talking about showing up for people.

997
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 4: Obviously, you have to show up for your.

998
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:30,480
Speaker 3: Community and your members very regularly in so many different

999
00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 3: ways when you are going through these times where you're

1000
00:55:33,719 --> 00:55:35,840
Speaker 3: just like I just feel as though I can't like,

1001
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 3: how do how do you actually show up?

1002
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: So the fortunate thing is that I love my job,

1003
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 1: and I love getting on the bike and is and

1004
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 1: I love working like I love the content that I create.

1005
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 1: So that's always a space that I never have a

1006
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:54,560
Speaker 1: hard time feeling good and feeling happy. And it's honestly

1007
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:57,319
Speaker 1: sometimes a therapy session for me because the things that

1008
00:55:57,360 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 1: come out of my mouth are things that I either

1009
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 1: need to hear or things that I'm dealing with just

1010
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 1: kind of in this a little bit more of a

1011
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:05,920
Speaker 1: you know, filtered.

1012
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 5: Kind of way.

1013
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 1: So I'm experiencing a lot of the things that I'm

1014
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: talking about with members. I have no problem at this

1015
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 1: point in my life saying no or creating boundaries. I

1016
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 1: think boundaries that we can all create is a work boundary,

1017
00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 1: Like it's okay to say no and you and if

1018
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:27,879
Speaker 1: it's getting hard for you to say no or you're

1019
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 1: feeling unhappy, you need to communicate that with your you know, director,

1020
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:39,240
Speaker 1: whoever you're reporting to from a workspace. It's also okay

1021
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: to say no to friends. You can say no to

1022
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 1: a night out of the bar, you can say no

1023
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 1: to a maybe I have to say this, but a

1024
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 1: birthday party or a trip or you know this this

1025
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:51,759
Speaker 1: peer pressure, like it's okay to say no and be like,

1026
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:53,240
Speaker 1: you know what I need to I need.

1027
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 5: To do me for for a little bit.

1028
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:58,400
Speaker 1: So it's it's really creating those boundaries so that you

1029
00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 1: don't get overworked or you don't put too much out there.

1030
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 1: And it's also really connecting to what are the things

1031
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 1: that are necessity necessity.

1032
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:12,320
Speaker 4: What excites you right now?

1033
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 5: What excites me right now?

1034
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: Drag Race always excites me because that's like the gape,

1035
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 1: although like, well, no, I was actually gonna say, like

1036
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 1: drag race is not a break, but like, I'm such

1037
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 1: a drag Race fan that I'm even watching drag Race

1038
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 1: Holland right now on Wow Presents. So there's always a

1039
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:33,919
Speaker 1: drag race, so that excites me. I'm really excited about

1040
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:36,480
Speaker 1: my workouts. I'm back in the gym with my trainer,

1041
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:40,960
Speaker 1: so that's been really exciting and just fun. And I

1042
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:42,880
Speaker 1: just feel like it almost feels like I'm working out

1043
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:44,560
Speaker 1: for the first time again because I haven't seen I

1044
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 1: haven't gotten underneath heavyweights like this in a while.

1045
00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 5: What else excites me?

1046
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 1: I Mario Kart always excites me because it's just like

1047
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:58,440
Speaker 1: a fun thing to do. But no, actually, that's what

1048
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: excites me is my so my chosen family. A lot

1049
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 1: of the summers we're all traveling and we're all over

1050
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 1: the place, or we're just like super busy, And it's

1051
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: been really amazing to connect with that chosen family and

1052
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:22,160
Speaker 1: have really simple, yet fulfilling and enriching moments with people.

1053
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 5: That I absolutely love and adore.

1054
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 1: You know, I think all the things that we've taken

1055
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: for granted, we can kind of sit back right now

1056
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:33,680
Speaker 1: and savor.

1057
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 5: And that that really excites.

1058
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 1: Me is really connecting with my friendships and the people

1059
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: that are important in my life.

1060
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 3: A really great takeaway from what some are referring to

1061
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:49,960
Speaker 3: as one hell.

1062
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:50,919
Speaker 4: Of a year.

1063
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 3: When someone when someone goes to your social they see

1064
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 3: three hundred and seventy six thousand plus followers.

1065
00:58:57,680 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 4: They see a peloton.

1066
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:02,000
Speaker 3: Instructor, when you look in the mirror, what is it

1067
00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 3: that you see?

1068
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 1: I see, I see a sun, I see a force

1069
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 1: of power. I see a source of good. I see

1070
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 1: some of them with lots of flaws and imperfections. I

1071
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 1: see a work in progress. I see a kid. You know,

1072
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:42,240
Speaker 1: I just turned thirty three in June. Yet I still

1073
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:44,320
Speaker 1: feel like a kid.

1074
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 5: I don't. I'm like, keep looking around, I'm like, have

1075
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:47,920
Speaker 5: I grown up yet?

1076
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 3: Am I?

1077
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 5: Am? I? Am? I? Am? I a grown up now?

1078
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 5: I think like when I used to be a kid,

1079
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:53,800
Speaker 5: I thought that I would be a grown up now.

1080
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:54,240
Speaker 5: But I don't.

1081
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:56,280
Speaker 1: I don't feel it even though I have all this

1082
00:59:56,680 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 1: you know, responsibility. I see someone who's striving to just

1083
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:07,400
Speaker 1: be a good person and create positive change in the

1084
01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 1: world through movement and living my life authentically.

1085
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 3: You have an opportunity right now to offer yourself one

1086
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:18,040
Speaker 3: piece of advice. Let's go to the guy that is

1087
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 3: prepping to move to New York. He is ready to

1088
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:26,000
Speaker 3: take under this new chapter, give an opportunity to offer

1089
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 3: him one piece of advice. Looking back on that hurdle

1090
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 3: moment right now, what do you tell him?

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Speaker 1: I tell that person to tap in to their purpose.

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Speaker 1: And if you're questioning what your purpose is, you're off

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Speaker 1: to a good start. You're just going to have to

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Speaker 1: do the work to uncover it and start tapping in

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Speaker 1: to who you are, which means loving yourself and creating

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Speaker 1: that relationship with yourself.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for your time today, Cody.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 3: Of course, tell me how do the hurdlers keep up

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Speaker 3: with you, Cody, give me the details.

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Speaker 1: Well, you can always follow me on Instagram at Cody Riggsby.

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Speaker 1: You can jump on the peloton app or bike and

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Speaker 1: take a class with me. There's a free trial for

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Speaker 1: anybody who has never taken a peloton class and maybe

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Speaker 1: you'll just you know, see me out in the streets

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Speaker 1: of New York City.

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Speaker 3: Out in the streets I am at Emily Abadi at

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Speaker 3: Hurdle Podcast. Another Hurdle Conquered. Catch you guys next time.