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Speaker 2: Hang Hurdlers, Emily A body here bringing you episode one

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Speaker 2: of Hurdle, a wellness focus podcast where I sit down

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Speaker 2: with inspiring individuals to talk about everything from their big

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Speaker 2: wins to how they've gotten through some of life's toughest moments.

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Speaker 3: On the show, you can.

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Speaker 2: Expect a vulnerability, motivation, and candid discussion with every one,

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Speaker 2: from top athletes to aspiring entrepreneurs on what it really

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Speaker 3: My mission is simple to.

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Speaker 2: Inspire you to be your best self, move with intention,

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Speaker 2: and have some fun along the way. Today I am

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Speaker 2: chatting with Charlie Atkins. She is a certified strength and

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Speaker 2: conditioning coach and also the founder of Illa Sweat TV.

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Speaker 2: This episode has been such a long time coming. I

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Speaker 2: have worked with Charlie on so many articles, whether it

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Speaker 2: be for Well and Good or Men's Health or GQ.

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Speaker 2: As an expert before, she is an absolute delight and

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Speaker 2: I am so amped to bring you her story today.

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Speaker 2: In our episode, she tells me all about her beginnings.

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Speaker 2: She's from a small town in New Mexico, but ultimately

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Speaker 2: She has taken loads of workshops, She's acquired a ton

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Speaker 2: of different wellness centric certifications, and so transitioning into a

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Speaker 2: it's where she found her happy. After years and years

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Speaker 2: We talk all about the sweat today. We talk about

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Speaker 2: sixty thousand plus people following along with her over on Instagram,

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Speaker 3: What I love about Charlie.

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Speaker 2: Is she's not only so just a wealth of knowledge,

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Speaker 2: Thank you Charlie so much for giving me your time today.

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Speaker 2: I am sitting down with Charlie Atkins. She is a

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Speaker 4: Hello, Hello, Hello.

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Speaker 3: I feel so special when I get to say the

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Speaker 1: You were probably the first person who debuted lay sweat.

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Speaker 1: Whenever we were on Lessweat, I said, Lee, it's lesswet.

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Speaker 2: So well, why don't we just kick this off with

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Speaker 3: That's so interesting And I love that book. I've read

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Speaker 1: from a workout perspective, it was phenomenal. From a musical perspective,

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Speaker 1: I was always just kind of like, Wow, you guys

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Speaker 1: are good, but I could probably do a better job.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: The first follow up question I have from that shtick

446
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Speaker 2: was what kept you going back to keep retesting for

447
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Speaker 2: the CSCs exam Because three times it's a lot of

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Speaker 2: times to feel like you're just not hitting it right.

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Speaker 1: So I was studying when I lived in LA and

450
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Speaker 1: like I said, it was a really it was a

451
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Speaker 1: really challenging test.

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Speaker 4: I honestly don't remember.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I blacked out the test itself, because

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Speaker 1: it's one of those tests that you take and it's

455
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Speaker 1: like you have to know the three layers.

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Speaker 4: To answer the one question. If that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: It's like you they ask you a question, and it's

458
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Speaker 1: very it's an indirect question because you have to know

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Speaker 1: the three underlying foundational things to get to the answer.

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Speaker 4: So what stopped me? Or because there was?

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Speaker 1: There was probably like five years, I will say I

462
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Speaker 1: started working at soul Cycle, which was my first and

463
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Speaker 1: only job other than slaying pizzas, slinging pizzas at California

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Speaker 1: Pize's kitchen.

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Speaker 3: But also slaying them in your spare time.

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Speaker 4: Yes, slaying them and sling them got it?

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Speaker 1: Yes, So I took the test the first time and

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Speaker 1: I failed miserably, like I had no practical application.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I had never trained anybody.

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Speaker 1: I just you know, ran on the treadmill and did

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Speaker 1: the stairstepper and like picked up a dumbbell and did

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Speaker 1: a bicep girl, and these, you know, these questions were

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Speaker 1: like how do you progress an athlete who's hit a plateau?

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Speaker 4: And I'm like, it's a great question. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: So I failed this test, and luckily I was, you know,

476
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Speaker 1: I was, I was kind of going with the flow.

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Speaker 1: I got this job at the Spin studio. Soul Cycle

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Speaker 1: hired me, and so I didn't need to have a

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Speaker 1: certification to be a spin instructor. And I'll say that again,

480
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Speaker 1: if you are looking to become a spin instructor, you

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Speaker 1: do not need any sort of training certification unless your

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Speaker 1: company makes you. So I was coasting in regards to

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Speaker 1: my certifications and my continuing education for the almost eight

484
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Speaker 1: years that I was working at soul Cycle, and it

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Speaker 1: was actually five years because I ended up getting my certification.

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Speaker 4: While I was at soul Cycle.

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Speaker 1: I became really good at at my job, as most

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Speaker 1: people do whenever you're there for eight years. It became

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Speaker 1: really good at what I did, and I was always

490
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Speaker 1: just looking for something more challenging, which is why I

491
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Speaker 1: was like, hey, remember that test that I completely failed.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I should try that again. And so I tried

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Speaker 1: it again and I was like, wow, awesome, failed it again.

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Speaker 1: But there was a part of me that was like, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: you can't come this far and take it two times

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Speaker 1: and then just give up on yourself. And another motivating

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Speaker 1: factor is of the CSCs certification. The last time I checked,

498
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Speaker 1: only forty percent of the certifications are females, and so

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Speaker 1: I was like, hey, female over here, need to, you know,

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Speaker 1: take the statistic up a little, get some more, get

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Speaker 1: some more women in the field.

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Speaker 2: I love that, and I think it's like really special

503
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Speaker 2: because it reminds me of my favorite quote that you

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Speaker 2: kind of just riffed on, which was you didn't come

505
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Speaker 2: this far to only come this far.

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Speaker 1: I've never thought of it that way, but it falls

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Speaker 1: back on It's similar to another quote that I also love,

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Speaker 1: which is, if anybody could do it, anybody would do it.

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Speaker 5: Oh man, I'm just sitting here like having a personal moment,

510
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Speaker 5: like the fact that we could probably go, like quote

511
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Speaker 5: her quote, for like fifteen to twenty minutes and they'd

512
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Speaker 5: all like water fallen, cascade.

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Speaker 3: Into one another.

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Speaker 2: But we will save the hurdlers from that and we

515
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Speaker 2: will stay on track. So you finally take it for

516
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Speaker 2: the fourth glorious time and you pass it, And how

517
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Speaker 2: does it feel, Charlie.

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Speaker 1: I went out for drinks that night. I honestly was like, yeah,

519
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Speaker 1: I was like, this is awesome. They gave im so

520
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Speaker 1: I had to go in that day. It's like a

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Speaker 1: four hour test on a computer, and you know, like

522
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Speaker 1: at that point out all I was doing was staring

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Speaker 1: at sixty bikes. I had never stared at a computer

524
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Speaker 1: for that long, like I had never taken a test.

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Speaker 1: I had never challenged myself intellectually in that way to

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Speaker 1: take a test, or not intellectually, just I'd never challenged

527
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Speaker 1: myself in that way to sit in front of computer

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Speaker 1: for four hours and take a test.

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Speaker 4: And so I was feeling rugged.

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Speaker 1: I looked rugged, not that it matters, but I had

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Speaker 1: like my glasses on, I feel like my hair was

532
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Speaker 1: sideways at that point. It was not an easy test,

533
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Speaker 1: and I took a selfie looking real rugged, but just passed,

534
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Speaker 1: and I remember I posted it because I was so

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Speaker 1: ecstatic about it. I was so ecstatic that I had passed, because,

536
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Speaker 1: like you know, I had tried to take this test

537
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Speaker 1: multiple times and failed it, and so to finally pass

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Speaker 1: it was like, heck, yus, I've made it to the

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Speaker 1: other side.

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Speaker 4: Let's go get some rose.

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Speaker 3: No necessary, Let's get back to it.

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Speaker 2: And I mean, I won't do this, but the temptation

593
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Speaker 2: is so real for me to find that photo and

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Speaker 2: use that as the photo for when I promote this episode.

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Speaker 2: But I will just hunt it down for personal personal

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Speaker 2: fulfillment and encourage everyone listening to do the exact same thing.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so we passed the test and we're in LA.

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Speaker 2: And we're working at soul Cycle, and so how do

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Speaker 2: you feel about life at the moment and does this

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Speaker 2: change in your mind like anything that you have going

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Speaker 2: on and swirling in the pot.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of going back to the upbringing of accidentally

603
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Speaker 1: going to college successfully graduating college. Same thing with my career.

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Speaker 1: You moved to New York and everybody knows the steps,

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Speaker 1: they know how they want Most people are I'd say

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Speaker 1: most people know. You know, I want to go to

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Speaker 1: this college, I want to get this job. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to work at this place for three years and then

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go to this job so that I

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Speaker 1: can get this role. That is very much what I

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Speaker 1: discovered when I landed in New York. And quick correction,

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Speaker 1: I actually came to New York to work for Soul Cycle,

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Speaker 1: so they just relocated me from LA after finding me

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Speaker 1: at the front desk. So I was in New York

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Speaker 1: this whole time, and I was at soul Cycle, and

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I was getting on

617
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Speaker 1: a bike and I was peddling nowhere, and I was

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Speaker 1: teaching the same ex that class, same exact class, with

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Speaker 1: some odd number of different playlists, but nothing was changing.

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Speaker 1: And so for me, it was that same itch that

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Speaker 1: I felt in Hawaii, where I knew that there was more.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know what that more was, but.

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Speaker 1: I you know, I was going to throw some spaghetti

624
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Speaker 1: on a wall and I was going to see what sticks.

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Speaker 1: And for me, it was getting the certification. And as

626
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Speaker 1: I start to do a lot more coaching and I

627
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: start to do more research into coaching, I start to

628
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Speaker 1: realize that what motivates people are intrinsically it comes down

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Speaker 1: to like about three things, which is, you know, the

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Speaker 1: main thing being is people want to survive, like survive

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Speaker 1: and thrive. You want to be loved and you want

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Speaker 1: to love, so we'll we'll say that those are the

633
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Speaker 1: top three. And when it came to excelling in my industry,

634
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Speaker 1: I looked around at my peers and not bear any

635
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Speaker 1: people that were spinn instructors were certified trainers.

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Speaker 4: And so for me, I was like, okay, well I

637
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Speaker 4: would like to set myself apart.

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Speaker 1: So I did that, and not only were once you

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Speaker 1: kind of get the certification, I also wanted to set

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Speaker 1: myself apart in the way that I was like, okay, well,

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Speaker 1: anybody could get ex certification, but I want to get

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Speaker 1: this certification. I want to get the hardest certification that

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Speaker 1: I have already failed three times, Like I must get

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Speaker 1: this certification.

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Speaker 4: And so for me.

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Speaker 1: Is you know, like I just want to challenge myself

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Speaker 1: to literally do the best that I can. And so

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Speaker 1: I got that itch riding on a bike. I wanted more,

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Speaker 1: and so I did the training certification and then not

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Speaker 1: many of my peers were training outside of teaching indoor cycling,

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Speaker 1: and so I was like, well, I'd really like to

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Speaker 1: step outside of that, and so I created what became

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Speaker 1: La Sweat.

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Speaker 2: I love that, okay, And where does the name uh

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Speaker 2: Las swat come from before we keep going on the

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Speaker 2: journey to this.

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Speaker 4: So before the sweat was the sweat, she was called

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Speaker 4: the fitness Bitch.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so I when I wanted to start my blog,

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Speaker 1: I was going to be the fitness Bitch because I was,

661
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: you know, I was just like kind of like cheeky

662
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: girl at Tap Fitness. And you know, like if you

663
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: go out to a friend's house or you go and

664
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: you like meet new people and a friend introduces a

665
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:53,959
Speaker 1: friend or they point to you from across the room,

666
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: they'll be like, oh, there's that girl.

667
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 4: She's the fitness Bitch. She's like, you know, you.

668
00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: Say something like along those lines nowadays that that is

669
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: not not cool.

670
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 2: But wait, I have to know, like when you first

671
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 2: came up with this name for yourself, did you have

672
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,240
Speaker 2: the moment that was like that is it?

673
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 3: Or was this just you? Did you?

674
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: Let me tell you how far I got so the

675
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 1: Fitness Bitch was it? Like own the website, own the domain,

676
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: go daddy dot com, Let me just the finness Bitch

677
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 1: dot com owns it. Charlie Atkins owns the fitness Bitch

678
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,760
Speaker 1: dot com. You know what, I'm going to pay thousands

679
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: of dollars to trademark this, because trademarks are not are

680
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:30,800
Speaker 1: not cheap.

681
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 4: But I'm going to go down. I'm going to go

682
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 4: down the road to trademark this.

683
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: I go down the road to trademark the Fitness Bitch,

684
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: only to find out somebody else's trademark the Fitbitch and

685
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 1: therefore you can't get a trademark because they're too similar.

686
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 4: So I made it pretty far down.

687
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,320
Speaker 1: I would say I was three months into The Fitness

688
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: Bitch whenever I had to completely pivot. I was with

689
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: my best friend Meredith Miller, who actually helped me start

690
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,839
Speaker 1: the sweat formerly known as The Fitness Bitch. She helped

691
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: me kind of get it off the ground running, and

692
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,320
Speaker 1: she is obsessed with sex in the city and I've

693
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 1: never really watched sex in the city, but her and

694
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: I were out one night for dinner at a restaurant.

695
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 4: Called The Turtle's.

696
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 1: It was like a French restaurant in the Lower East Side,

697
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: and I had just found out that day that I

698
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: could not be called the Fitness Bitch because it was trademarked,

699
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: and I mean that was very like, oh that sucks, okay,

700
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: So now I.

701
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 4: Have to, like, you know, rebrand and rename yourself.

702
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: So we're having our pre dinner drinks and we're just

703
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 1: kind of sitting there and we're looking at the menu

704
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 1: and it's like everything was La like turtle, we'll say,

705
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: it was like La Cosmopolitan or whatever it was.

706
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 4: It was totally a spin on.

707
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: You know, it was a French beaster, so they were

708
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: using lah the French term or the French I don't

709
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: know what that first were as a conjugate maybe, and.

710
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 4: Mind you, Meritis obsessed with sex in the City.

711
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: Apparently there's an episode where Carrie is talking too big

712
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: and she was like, he's getting ready to go to Paris.

713
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: I don't know this episode, but apparently she says, I'm

714
00:35:58,640 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 1: such ale bitch.

715
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.

716
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 1: So Meredith puts the Fitness Bitch li Turtle together and

717
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: is like, what if we call it La Sweat And

718
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,399
Speaker 1: at first I was like, I actually do not like that.

719
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 4: That's so far away from the Fitness Bitch. I just

720
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:12,879
Speaker 4: don't like it.

721
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: And at this point we had to rename the company something,

722
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: and so I was like, you know what, let's just

723
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 1: try it.

724
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 4: We can always change it later.

725
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: And then I quickly realized that it was actually a

726
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: fantastic name, because what I wanted to do was elevate

727
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:30,240
Speaker 1: this conception, or this misconception of sweat being like raw

728
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: and dirty and grungy. Like I really just wanted people,

729
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: specifically women, to feel good about going to the gym

730
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: and working out and breaking a sweat. And now that's

731
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 1: kind of what Les Sweat is today.

732
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 2: I don't mean to rag on whoever was helping you

733
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 2: in your trademark search, but like that is probably like

734
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 2: preliminary before preliminary, before you give anyone any money, like

735
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 2: something they should have told you about the fit.

736
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, no offense. I have a great t.

737
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 2: If you ever need another trademark attorney, I've got a

738
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 2: great one.

739
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: I have found a fantastic one. He and I have

740
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: been together for let's see twenty twenty, for four years now.

741
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 2: Okay, So we've moved on from this moment, and I'm

742
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 2: so happy that you're not calling yourself a bitch and

743
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 2: that we're just like better better for it really if

744
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 2: you're asking me. Okay, So, but you're still when you

745
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,800
Speaker 2: are concepting all of this and you make that pivot

746
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 2: with your name, and you're living like your best Carrie

747
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 2: Bradshaw life, you are still working at Soul Cycle.

748
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 4: Yes, I am an overachiever.

749
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: I do not know what free time means, and I

750
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: am always I always think that there's something else that

751
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 1: I should be doing.

752
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 4: Like I said, I was, I was very good at

753
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:51,879
Speaker 4: my job.

754
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 1: And mind you, I'm teaching up to fifteen spin classes

755
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,760
Speaker 1: a week at this point, and I just knew.

756
00:37:58,520 --> 00:37:59,280
Speaker 4: That there was more.

757
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: And so whenever you're teaching and or cycling for that long,

758
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: it's not like you have to go home and you know,

759
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,799
Speaker 1: like study up, or you could go home and study up.

760
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 1: I should say that, but I was not going home.

761
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: I was not studying up. The only thing that I

762
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:15,720
Speaker 1: really had to do was music research, which I became

763
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: really good at that, and so there just was a

764
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: lot of time. And one thing that people maybe don't

765
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: understand about being in the fitness industry is that it's

766
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 1: a very lonely job for multiple reasons. Number one is

767
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: you spend most of the day by yourself, because if

768
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: you are a personal trained to, your clients are typically

769
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: in the morning and in the evenings, and you have

770
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: a few throughout the day.

771
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 4: Saying goes with being a fitness instructor.

772
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: You teach your classes at like five six, seven am,

773
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 1: which is way too freaking early, and you're at the

774
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: gym from five to nine pm, either teaching your classes

775
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 1: or training your clients, and so you have the entire

776
00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 1: work day where most people are like glued to their

777
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: computers or on the phone or in meetings, and you know,

778
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 1: it's like they're very busy during the day and you

779
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: are by yourself. You have nobody to talk to other

780
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: than other fitness professionals, and so it's a very isolating industry.

781
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 1: And because, for whatever reason, the fitness industry in our minds,

782
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 1: the trainers were all I would say that most of

783
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: us are pretty competitive in our heads with other people

784
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: and what other people are doing. It's an industry that

785
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: you could very easily, you know, get get into your

786
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: head too much. And I definitely had that problem when

787
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: I was working at soul Cycle, and so for me,

788
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: I just needed an outlet, and La Sweat or you know,

789
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: the La Sweat at that point was my outlet, which

790
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: is why blogging sounded like a good idea, even though

791
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,879
Speaker 1: I'm a terrible writer. That's you know, it just gave

792
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 1: me something to do and I was passionate about it.

793
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: It was me, it was my life, and so that

794
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: you know, it kind of filled that void.

795
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so you.

796
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 2: I feel like before we really can move on, we

797
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 2: have to at least do a little bit of justice

798
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 2: to like the tenure and the excellence you found at

799
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 2: soul Cycle. I think it speaks to your character and

800
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 2: a lot of what you're talking about, Like you're not

801
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 2: someone that shows up and half ass as anything. You're

802
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 2: definitely like the kind of woman who is like, I'm

803
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 2: gonna go into this and I'm going to give it

804
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 2: my all. So I can imagine, especially toward the end,

805
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 2: when you're trying to give your all to so many things.

806
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 3: It was overwhelming.

807
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 2: But in New York City is what I can only

808
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 2: speak to, Like, you were a soul Cycle legend. Thank you,

809
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,319
Speaker 2: Like I mean, you were like a master soul Cycle

810
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 2: instructor who like sold out her classes immediately.

811
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 1: I am very blessed to have come into the company

812
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: when I did, and to have left the company. To

813
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: have the ability to leave the company, I should say

814
00:40:54,520 --> 00:41:00,839
Speaker 1: so I jumped on the group fitness instructor trained early on,

815
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: and it always reminds me of this. Another saying is

816
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: right right place, right time, but also the right frame

817
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: of mind. I was very open to whatever life had

818
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 1: to offered me at that point. And I came into

819
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: a company with the two most amazing women ever. I

820
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: cannot speak of the leadership qualities that Julia Rice and

821
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Cutler.

822
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 4: They're the two most.

823
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: Like fantastic women. I cannot thank them enough for all

824
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 1: the opportunities that they gave me because of the leadership

825
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 1: that they provided at soul Cycle. And this is two

826
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 1: thousand and eleven, twenty twelve, when soul Cycle had five studios.

827
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: I started when they had five studios. I left when

828
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 1: they had ninety. And starting at a company and having

829
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: a leader that made you feel like you were building

830
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:55,280
Speaker 1: their dream, like every day we went to work because

831
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,720
Speaker 1: and I should actually rephrase that, it's we were building

832
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 1: their dream. But they were like, this is our project,

833
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: this is our dream. And so showing up to work

834
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 1: and being like, I want to do this for us

835
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:14,280
Speaker 1: was nothing I've ever experienced other than a Soul Cycle.

836
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: And so to have the support of your leadership team

837
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 1: and to feel like you're in it with the other instructors,

838
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: that all of you guys are contributing to building this beautiful,

839
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:32,360
Speaker 1: amazing thing. It made working at Soul Cycle absolutely like

840
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: the most fulfilling thing I've done. I loved it, and

841
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,720
Speaker 1: it was such an exciting ride, and I saw so much,

842
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,280
Speaker 1: I learned so much, and because I was so happy

843
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: with where I was growing my growing myself within the brand,

844
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: it was easy because you know, like you've seen it,

845
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:55,799
Speaker 1: the people that we look up to when they love

846
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 1: what they do, you can see it, you can feel it,

847
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 1: and I feel that I can only hope that my

848
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: writers saw that in me, because that's how I felt.

849
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 2: And I mean, I think it's a really special opportunity then,

850
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 2: as you mentioned, to not only learn from such great talent,

851
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 2: but then to during that process gain a knowledge and

852
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 2: understanding that would eventually help you to come into your

853
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 2: own as a woman building her own thing.

854
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: And to tab two women leaders was you know. I

855
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: love my mom, I love her with everything. However, like

856
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: Julie Elizabeth just showed me what is possible for a

857
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: female business entrepreneur. And I say I love my mom

858
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 1: because it's not that she did not teach me a

859
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: bunch of things growing up, but just to be that

860
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: close to those two to see what was possible for

861
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: women was amazing. I cannot express how amazing those two

862
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: women are.

863
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 2: And I mean, you're allowed to have more than more

864
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,319
Speaker 2: than one woman to to look up to and to

865
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 2: build to build from. Okay, So then talk to me

866
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 2: about how you felt the day after you let two

867
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 2: of your biggest inspirations know that you were going to

868
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:16,800
Speaker 2: have to step aside from Soul Cycle.

869
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:22,800
Speaker 1: Well, the founders of Soul Cycle left in two thousand

870
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: and I think I want to say it was like

871
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen or two.

872
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 4: That's sixteen.

873
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,759
Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't even remember the date, but I do

874
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: remember how I felt.

875
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 4: I was crushed.

876
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: I got a phone call that morning and Julian Eazabeth

877
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: were like, hey, we're actually leaving. And another woman was

878
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: coming in who had worked for the company. Her name

879
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 1: is Melanie Wheland. She has since left the company. And

880
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: I remember two things. I cried, and I had to

881
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: teach a class at one o'clock. I think I got

882
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:53,839
Speaker 1: the phone call at ten o'clock and I couldn't even

883
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 1: put myself together for a one o'clock class, which was

884
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: three hours later. And it was pun intended. It was

885
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: soul crushing when they left. It was devastating because it's,

886
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 1: you know, like it just it took the wind out

887
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: of the sails, and I remember the air was flat

888
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: that day, and it just like teaching felt different. Just

889
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: knowing that those two women weren't going to be there.

890
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: It was the craziest, you know, the craziest experience ever.

891
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:24,359
Speaker 1: So I actually didn't have to tell them that I

892
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 1: was leaving.

893
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 4: When I did leave, I.

894
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,319
Speaker 1: Had to tell the writers, and I will say that

895
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: that was very emotional because at that point people had

896
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: been writing with me for over seven years and to

897
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 1: be like, hey, so I know that we've been doing

898
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: this thing like a couple times a week for the

899
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 1: last you know, five to seven years, but I'm actually leaving,

900
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 1: so you're gonna have to figure something else out. That

901
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: a lot of I got to see, you know, a

902
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,799
Speaker 1: lot of people wrote me some very amazing letters to

903
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: say like, here's how you change my life. So that

904
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: was what the most challenging part was leaving Soul Cycle

905
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 1: was leaving all of the people behind because I was

906
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 1: not going to be teaching groupfuitness after Lessel's Cycle.

907
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 2: Talk to me about what goes through your head when

908
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:16,280
Speaker 2: someone tells you the girl who accidentally went to college,

909
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 2: shumbled into taking a CSCs exam because she thought that

910
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 2: it was the right thing to do, ended up being

911
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 2: at the front desk, and now like has such a

912
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,760
Speaker 2: legacy at this unbelievable company. What goes through your head,

913
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 2: as that girl, when someone tells you that you have

914
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 2: had a profound impact on their life.

915
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: That's a deep question. Honestly, That's why I do what

916
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:45,839
Speaker 1: I do. And I'm not going to get emotional, even

917
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:49,240
Speaker 1: though like I feel like you're tugging at my heart strings.

918
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 4: But.

919
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: That you know, because the way that Julian Elizabeth have

920
00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: changed in my life. I mean, let me take a

921
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 1: sip of my tea. To have somebody come into your

922
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 1: life and change it in whatever way from a fitness

923
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 1: perspective or even from a business or just you know,

924
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: like a life partner, the lasting impression that they leave

925
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 1: on you is so powerful. Like I still think about

926
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 1: my first yoga teacher. I actually don't even like yoga anymore,

927
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,359
Speaker 1: but I think about my first yoga teacher and I

928
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 1: have such fond memories of her, and I just like

929
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: love spending time in the yoga room with her, and

930
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 1: I liken that too. What I was able to do

931
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: for you know, like hundreds thousands of people at Soul Cycle,

932
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:50,919
Speaker 1: And to me, that is why I do what I do,

933
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 1: because I think we're all lost, We're all looking for something,

934
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: and when something clicks, when something makes sense, whenever we're

935
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 1: able to have something in our lives that you know,

936
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 1: makes us hopeful or makes us happy, that is something

937
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: that not very many people get to do career wise,

938
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 1: and so for me, I'm like so grateful, And that

939
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: is why, at the age of thirty five, I'm still

940
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: in the fitness euchree.

941
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Speaker 2: to take us out of this emotional and stacky moment, but.

964
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Speaker 3: Don't you have a two hundred ye hour yoga certification?

965
00:49:58,160 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 4: I do.

966
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: I'm the very I'm a very curious soul from a

967
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: training certification I have. I just went to Bali last year. Actually,

968
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:12,959
Speaker 1: I wanted to understand so after teaching on the bike

969
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 1: at the age of twenty seven, so two and a

970
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 1: half years after I started at Soul Cycle, my body

971
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: started to fall apart. No injuries, knock on wood at

972
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:23,800
Speaker 1: that point, but it just hurt. Waking up was terrible,

973
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: Like getting on the bike fifteen times a week was terrible,

974
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:32,399
Speaker 1: you know, like pain really just puts you down. And

975
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 1: I could not figure out what was wrong with me.

976
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: I mean, come to find out, I was not eating enough.

977
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: I was not you know, I wasn't fueling myself properly.

978
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 1: I wasn't taking care of myself, you know. Come to

979
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:44,919
Speaker 1: find out, apparently you can't ride the bike fifteen times

980
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 1: a week for three and a half years straight or

981
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: two and a half years straight and be okay.

982
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 4: Like there's stuff that you have to do to take

983
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 4: care of yourself.

984
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 1: And so I actually really got into stretching, and so

985
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 1: that's like something that has always been a part of

986
00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: me or a part of my my my toolbox. I

987
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 1: really really enjoy stretching, and I the first time I

988
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 1: did yoga, I got into Kundalini in La with a teacher.

989
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:10,839
Speaker 4: Named Taeje take Tej.

990
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,359
Speaker 1: At Golden Bridge. She since has left and started her

991
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,880
Speaker 1: own thing. But like I said, that yoga teacher that

992
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: was amazing. When I was stretching, I always knew that

993
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: there was like something somewhere else other than just doing

994
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 1: these like active and passive stretches, and so for me

995
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: understanding how workouts are put together from a science perspective,

996
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 1: I wanted to, you know, like I wanted to see

997
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 1: how workouts were put together from a spiritual perspective. And

998
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:41,279
Speaker 1: so obviously I'm going to go do yoga. And so

999
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: I went to Bali last year and I did my

1000
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,879
Speaker 1: two hundred yoga sert. And the why beneath my why

1001
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,879
Speaker 1: for going to do that certification was, first of all,

1002
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 1: I wanted to be a better teacher, and you know,

1003
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 1: being like being able to answer questions in multiple different

1004
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 1: types of workout formats makes you obviously very good at

1005
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 1: what you do.

1006
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 4: But also I was looking for something.

1007
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 1: Because you know, I never since that last since Tage,

1008
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 1: I hadn't had a teacher or somebody in my life

1009
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,359
Speaker 1: much how I was to a lot of my former

1010
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: writers at Soul Cycle. I was looking for, you know,

1011
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 1: that that person or that thing, and that's kind.

1012
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 4: Of what led me to Bali.

1013
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:26,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so now I just I just needed to

1014
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,960
Speaker 2: like put that into the universe, because you can't say, like, oh,

1015
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 2: I just do not like yoga, and then I'm like,

1016
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 2: you spent two hundred hours doing yoga and you have

1017
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 2: a certification, So just making sure we're all like putting

1018
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,439
Speaker 2: it all out there here, just so we're clear while

1019
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 2: we're throwing it all out here. Aside from that cert

1020
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 2: and your CSCs, what else you got in the bag here?

1021
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:51,360
Speaker 1: So I got my undergrad sports Medicine. I have css

1022
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:55,080
Speaker 1: OR from the NSCA. I have the Certified Functional Strength Coach,

1023
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 1: which if anybody is looking for a fantastic introduction into programming.

1024
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: So if you you are a trainer, or if you

1025
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 1: are looking to be a trainer and you just want

1026
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 1: to understand how to put workouts together, I highly recommend

1027
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:07,399
Speaker 1: Certified Functional Strength Coach.

1028
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 4: It's by an industry leader. His name is Mike Boyle.

1029
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 1: His training philosophy is so simple and it just makes sense.

1030
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: And so I actually have his level one and his

1031
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: Level two, and then I also have nutrition. I'm currently

1032
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: in level two for precision Nutrition. Try saying that five

1033
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 1: times fast precision nutrition. I'm currently in level two training

1034
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 1: for them. I you know, nutrition just wasn't something that

1035
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 1: I dove into. I get questions about nutrition, and I

1036
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 1: was never felt comfortable answering those questions, even though to

1037
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:44,440
Speaker 1: ignore the marriage between fitness and nutrition is completely ignorant

1038
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: from a trainer in my perspective. So for me, I

1039
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 1: didn't want to be that ignorant trainer ignoring that relationship

1040
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:50,720
Speaker 1: between fitness and nutrition.

1041
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 4: And so that is why I went on to get

1042
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 4: precision nutrition.

1043
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,319
Speaker 1: Like I said, I really loved stretching mobility, so I

1044
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: took FRC, which is Functional Range Conditioning. I have two

1045
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: certifications from them. I have the FRC Start and I

1046
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: did the Kinstretch class. I didn't get certified per se,

1047
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 1: but I did take the workshop and the continuing education,

1048
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: and so I have that. I have my two hundred yoga,

1049
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 1: my two hundred yoga training, and I think that's it.

1050
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:26,720
Speaker 3: Just that, just that's it, you know, That's fine. Okay.

1051
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 2: So now we are in Lea's sweat full time, and

1052
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 2: I mean that has certainly iterated over the last few years.

1053
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:42,680
Speaker 2: So talk to me about when you started to feel

1054
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:48,759
Speaker 2: as though you finally found your footing doing your own thing.

1055
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: Well, I will say the past few months have been

1056
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 1: really awesome because I started doing digital training back to

1057
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 1: whenever you and I first met twenty sixteen Slash two

1058
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:06,239
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen December January was the first time that I

1059
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:09,839
Speaker 1: ever did an online training class. And if you think

1060
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 1: of it, I mean I tat thousands of classes at

1061
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:15,960
Speaker 1: soul Cycle, so I was always live and whenever you

1062
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:18,440
Speaker 1: do it that many times, at some point it just

1063
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: becomes very natural for you. From the experience that I

1064
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:25,360
Speaker 1: had with teaching in person like classes at soul Cycle

1065
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 1: and kind of always being I guess on camera if

1066
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: you will, I was very easily. I was very easily

1067
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 1: able to transfer over to digital training. Now for anybody

1068
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: that has had to transition over to being digital because

1069
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:45,840
Speaker 1: of March twenty twenty when COVID hit hit the world,

1070
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,720
Speaker 1: you know that it is a completely different experience being digital.

1071
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:52,480
Speaker 4: And through the years that.

1072
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:56,320
Speaker 1: I was teaching online classes from twenty seventeen up until today,

1073
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:59,960
Speaker 1: I really I kind of learned the tips and train

1074
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:02,400
Speaker 1: I figured out what works, what doesn't work, and I

1075
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:04,759
Speaker 1: really have honed in on my skill of being an

1076
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:07,480
Speaker 1: online trainer in addition to getting and having all my

1077
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:10,640
Speaker 1: certification and just having the knowledge to kind of train

1078
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,919
Speaker 1: any level athlete that is on the other side of

1079
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:17,720
Speaker 1: the phone or the computer, whether you're on training mobile

1080
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:18,360
Speaker 1: or web.

1081
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:21,840
Speaker 4: So I would say that Les what really found her groove.

1082
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:24,959
Speaker 1: This year twenty twenty has been the year of less

1083
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 1: wet and I could not be more grateful for everything

1084
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 1: that is, all the opportunities that have come to me

1085
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 1: and just really you know, like having the chance to

1086
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 1: help people through what has been COVID.

1087
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 2: It's interesting to see and watch from my point of

1088
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:46,640
Speaker 2: view because I feel like because of COVID and because

1089
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 2: of the stress on digital training, like some people have

1090
00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 2: maybe floundered would be kind of like a drastic term,

1091
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 2: but maybe not taken advantage as much as I feel

1092
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 2: as though you have. And in doing that, it just

1093
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:06,239
Speaker 2: seems from my perspective, although I totally understand and know

1094
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 2: the work that is going on on your side of

1095
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 2: things to make it all happen like this, but it

1096
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 2: seems like this is like the best thing that could

1097
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,280
Speaker 2: have happened for your business, but the worst thing that

1098
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 2: happened for the world.

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00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, And honestly, that's it exactly. And so when COVID

1100
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 1: hit in March of twenty twenty, I actually had just

1101
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 1: got off the plane from a fitness re treat in Bali.

1102
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 1: I was hosting a fitness retreat. We had almost twenty people.

1103
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:35,720
Speaker 1: We went to Bali right before everything got shut down,

1104
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 1: which the fact that we were able to do that,

1105
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 1: I'm so grateful for that. I was able to spend

1106
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 1: time with other humans other than my boyfriend's slash roommate

1107
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 1: before all this went down, traveling, which is nothing that

1108
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:50,960
Speaker 1: I love to do. But what I realized was I

1109
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:54,959
Speaker 1: saw everybody was teaching classes, and you know, just having

1110
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 1: been in the industry for quite a few years, seeing

1111
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: mistakes that were being made, but then also so watching

1112
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 1: participants take these classes from other people and be like,

1113
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you are going to injure yourself, or

1114
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 1: there's a better way or an easier way, or you know,

1115
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:11,280
Speaker 1: like there's a better and easier way to do what

1116
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 1: you're trying to do.

1117
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 4: And that is why when covid hit Ice.

1118
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 1: Went on and I actually was teaching two classes a day,

1119
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:21,800
Speaker 1: six days a week on Instagram Live for a few reasons.

1120
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:26,080
Speaker 1: I knew that people wanted to move and I wanted

1121
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:29,320
Speaker 1: to teach. I knew that my app was coming out,

1122
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 1: and so I wanted to kind of get people used

1123
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:35,720
Speaker 1: to my coaching style because it was a time where

1124
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 1: you know, like people were on their phones and they

1125
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 1: were looking for fitness, and so my whole goal when

1126
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:44,480
Speaker 1: I was teaching my classes was first of all, to

1127
00:58:44,480 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 1: get people used to my coaching style and to second

1128
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 1: of all make people realize that working out from home

1129
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:52,240
Speaker 1: does not have to be as complicated as we make it.

1130
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: And so that's kind of been where I'm living now,

1131
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 1: is you know, just doing that thing.

1132
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:00,120
Speaker 3: Doing that thing.

1133
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 2: Okay, So then when you are not teaching and editing

1134
00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:09,960
Speaker 2: and promoting and building your brand here, what is it

1135
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 2: that you like to do in your free time?

1136
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm actually I eat, sleep, breatheless, weat. And that

1137
00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:23,560
Speaker 1: is because I at thirty four, thirty five years young,

1138
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:27,880
Speaker 1: I get to do what I love, and everything about

1139
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 1: what I do I love. I love learning about cameras

1140
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 1: and editing, which doesn't really have to do with fitness,

1141
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 1: but it does, you know, it's my business.

1142
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 4: I love Final Cut Pro.

1143
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 1: I'm terrible at it, but I like watching YouTube videos

1144
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 1: and I like training myself how to do it. I'm

1145
00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 1: constantly trying to educate myself on the body and fitness principals,

1146
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:52,440
Speaker 1: like right now I'm studying too. In addition to doing

1147
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 1: nutrition school, I also just want to understand a little

1148
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 1: bit more of how hormones affect females and training, and

1149
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 1: so I've been like reading books on that and yes,

1150
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:04,920
Speaker 1: again it helps my business, it helps me, but I

1151
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 1: actually enjoy doing that sort of stuff. And so outside

1152
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 1: of doing the sweat, everything behind the scenes with Sweat,

1153
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: not only teaching the fitness classes, but editing the videos,

1154
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 1: you know, finding music that I can play. I you know,

1155
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:25,440
Speaker 1: I read books on fitness and science. I watch videos

1156
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: on editing and best practices.

1157
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:33,160
Speaker 4: I just love what I do.

1158
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:36,400
Speaker 3: I just love it. It's really just that simple.

1159
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:39,360
Speaker 2: So then, in building this thing and giving it so

1160
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:41,520
Speaker 2: much of your time and energy, obviously at times you

1161
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:45,480
Speaker 2: have to lean into the advice and counsel of others.

1162
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:47,920
Speaker 2: When you think about the best piece of advice that

1163
01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:51,040
Speaker 2: you have received in the last three years of building

1164
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:53,320
Speaker 2: this brand, what would it be?

1165
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 3: Wow?

1166
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:59,000
Speaker 1: I think of something that my dad said many years ago.

1167
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:02,200
Speaker 1: When I was a young girl, when I was in kindergarten,

1168
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:04,440
Speaker 1: I had one best friend. Her name was Chandra, and

1169
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:06,480
Speaker 1: every other week she was mad at me for some reason.

1170
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:09,440
Speaker 1: And I remember my dad was like, you can't have

1171
01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 1: more than one best friend, and I was like, excuse me.

1172
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 1: You know, like six year old me is like, no, no, no, no,

1173
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:16,400
Speaker 1: this is life or death. I have to have one

1174
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:18,640
Speaker 1: friend and she has to like me back. And he

1175
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 1: told me that. And how that's kind of, you know,

1176
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 1: made its way into my life today is that you

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01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:28,360
Speaker 1: can't you know, it kind of contradicts a few things,

1178
01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:31,720
Speaker 1: but you can't have just one thing. You can't have

1179
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:34,760
Speaker 1: just one hustle. So for me, fitness seems like it

1180
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:38,360
Speaker 1: may be my one hustle. But really on the back end,

1181
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:40,640
Speaker 1: what you guys, what most people don't see is you know,

1182
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:44,440
Speaker 1: the editing, the business stuff that I learn, you know how,

1183
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:47,600
Speaker 1: the camera there. So I do have a bunch of

1184
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 1: different stuff that I focus on that is not fitness related.

1185
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 4: Fitness is just my avenue. I will say. The quote

1186
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:56,200
Speaker 4: that has just stuck with me.

1187
01:01:56,200 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 1: Is, you know, just try not to put all of

1188
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 1: your eggs into one basket, or don't have just one

1189
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:04,120
Speaker 1: best friend, have a lot of different friends, have a

1190
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:07,040
Speaker 1: few different friend groups that allow you to do different things,

1191
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:10,400
Speaker 1: and you know, get yourself out there as much as

1192
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:14,080
Speaker 1: you can. Although it sounds like I am not doing that,

1193
01:02:14,080 --> 01:02:15,880
Speaker 1: that's kind of my philosophy.

1194
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:19,240
Speaker 2: I guess I wanna bring us back for a moment

1195
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 2: into the Soul Cycle studio, because I know that a

1196
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:23,919
Speaker 2: lot of what happens on that bike, maybe a little

1197
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:26,880
Speaker 2: bit more so than what happens when you're coaching and

1198
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:31,600
Speaker 2: training today, is coming from a place of building others

1199
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:34,040
Speaker 2: up and giving them sometimes what it is that they

1200
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 2: might really need to hear when you're inside of that

1201
01:02:36,520 --> 01:02:39,600
Speaker 2: dark room. So I know when I taught spin, I

1202
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 2: certainly had kind of like a basket that I would

1203
01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:45,439
Speaker 2: pull from when you were coaching on the bike, would

1204
01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 2: you pull from personal experience or did you have like

1205
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:53,400
Speaker 2: any sort of places that you were reaching for inspiration

1206
01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:55,400
Speaker 2: so that you could help to build others up.

1207
01:02:56,480 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 1: Teaching indoor cycling was very emotional. Had to put yourself

1208
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:03,040
Speaker 1: out there. And I feel like some of the best

1209
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:07,080
Speaker 1: teachers that I've encountered in my industry have been those

1210
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: that have really gone through.

1211
01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 4: Something that's changed them, and you know, you've really had to.

1212
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:16,080
Speaker 1: I don't say you have to like figure out, just

1213
01:03:16,120 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 1: something that you go through that absolutely changes you, and

1214
01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:21,240
Speaker 1: it kind of makes you a better teacher and a

1215
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:25,240
Speaker 1: better leader, I think, because you know what it's like

1216
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 1: to hit rock bottom and to have to come back

1217
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:31,480
Speaker 1: out on the top. My rock bottom was. You know,

1218
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:33,600
Speaker 1: I really feel that I had to raise myself in

1219
01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:36,040
Speaker 1: the sense that you know, like I went to college

1220
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:41,360
Speaker 1: by accident, and you know, I moved all over I

1221
01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 1: sling in pizzas, and then you know, I was working

1222
01:03:43,520 --> 01:03:45,480
Speaker 1: at the front desk, and somehow I always made my

1223
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:49,880
Speaker 1: way to the top. So as far as teaching classes

1224
01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:53,080
Speaker 1: and motivating others, I think that the messages that we deliver,

1225
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:55,720
Speaker 1: the ones that I would at least always came from

1226
01:03:55,760 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 1: personal experiences. But I mean, teaching class in a dark

1227
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:06,520
Speaker 1: room is as close to intuition as I've ever gotten,

1228
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 1: in the sense that there's a moment that hits, a

1229
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:13,959
Speaker 1: moment that clicks, that hits you out of nowhere, and

1230
01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:16,880
Speaker 1: the right words come out, or the wrong words come out,

1231
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 1: some words come out, and it really is something that

1232
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:23,320
Speaker 1: passes through you. And that's how I always felt whenever

1233
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:28,800
Speaker 1: I was teaching at Soul Cycle, was that in most classes,

1234
01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:30,920
Speaker 1: I would say not all of them, but in most classes,

1235
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:34,080
Speaker 1: there was always some message somewhere that came through me.

1236
01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 1: I do not know where it came from. It might

1237
01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:39,120
Speaker 1: have been something I was reading, or something that I saw,

1238
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:41,320
Speaker 1: or something that I experienced, but I will say that

1239
01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:45,120
Speaker 1: all of the motivations that I speak are things that

1240
01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:49,560
Speaker 1: I have gone through personally, and you know, I think

1241
01:04:49,600 --> 01:04:51,920
Speaker 1: of the way that they made me feel and the

1242
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 1: words that I had maybe wanted to hear during those moments,

1243
01:04:55,040 --> 01:04:57,480
Speaker 1: and that is kind of what I like to coach

1244
01:04:57,560 --> 01:04:59,520
Speaker 1: to anybody that's on the other side of that.

1245
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 3: What excites you right now?

1246
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:08,200
Speaker 1: I am excited to honestly just grow. LA's what I'm

1247
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:10,400
Speaker 1: in the process of bringing on a few different trainers.

1248
01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 1: And the reason why that excites me is because the

1249
01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:17,800
Speaker 1: opportunities that Julie and Elizabeth gave me while working at

1250
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:22,400
Speaker 1: soul Cycle was amazing and I never probably would have

1251
01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:25,720
Speaker 1: had those opportunities otherwise. And so I really like to

1252
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 1: find trainers that specifically, I'd really like to find fitness

1253
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:33,600
Speaker 1: trainers that I think just need that exposure, or they

1254
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 1: just need that push, or they just need somebody to

1255
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:39,600
Speaker 1: be like, hey, you got this, just do it. Because

1256
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:42,160
Speaker 1: I really feel like that's what those two saw in me.

1257
01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 1: So that's very exciting to me is to be able

1258
01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:47,200
Speaker 1: to kind of pay it forward for some other fitness

1259
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:48,160
Speaker 1: trainers in the industry.

1260
01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:50,120
Speaker 3: You have an opportunity.

1261
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:55,040
Speaker 2: Charlie right now to offer yourself a piece of advice,

1262
01:05:55,440 --> 01:06:00,480
Speaker 2: probably after the third time that you failed your CSCSI xam.

1263
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:03,520
Speaker 2: You're in the sling of things, working at the front

1264
01:06:03,560 --> 01:06:05,640
Speaker 2: desk at that spin studio. You have an opportunity right

1265
01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:08,320
Speaker 2: now to offer yourself one piece of advice going through

1266
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:09,360
Speaker 2: that hurdle moment.

1267
01:06:09,520 --> 01:06:11,720
Speaker 3: What do you tell yourself.

1268
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:17,400
Speaker 1: If you don't do it, somebody else will. That's that's

1269
01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 1: I'm very motivated by competition. I would say a healthy competition.

1270
01:06:21,880 --> 01:06:25,040
Speaker 1: It's a healthy competition, health healthy motivation. I think the

1271
01:06:25,080 --> 01:06:28,120
Speaker 1: way that my mind works, and in all the times

1272
01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 1: whenever I've started something and then just decided to give up,

1273
01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:35,760
Speaker 1: I you know, like I see other people do what

1274
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:38,560
Speaker 1: I wanted to do, and to me, that's very frustrating.

1275
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:40,320
Speaker 1: I get down and I get mad at myself because

1276
01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:42,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, dang, why did you quit? Like you were

1277
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:44,360
Speaker 1: so close. All you had to do is take the

1278
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:46,200
Speaker 1: test one more time. You could have you know, you

1279
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:51,200
Speaker 1: could have passed it. And I just really, you know,

1280
01:06:51,240 --> 01:06:55,280
Speaker 1: I constantly tell other trainers in the fitness entry because

1281
01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:56,840
Speaker 1: I do get a lot of questions about how to

1282
01:06:56,840 --> 01:06:58,160
Speaker 1: grow the business, and I just say, you know what

1283
01:06:58,200 --> 01:07:02,200
Speaker 1: if you don't do it, somebody else will. And if

1284
01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:05,120
Speaker 1: you are that passionate about what you're doing, and if

1285
01:07:05,160 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 1: you really feel that you are great and you love

1286
01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:11,840
Speaker 1: what you do, then why would you stop doing it

1287
01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 1: and to kind of kick it into athlete competition mode?

1288
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:18,640
Speaker 1: To me, in my opinion, I'm like, look if somebody

1289
01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:20,760
Speaker 1: if I don't do this, somebody else is going to

1290
01:07:20,840 --> 01:07:23,360
Speaker 1: do it. And if I see that somebody else succeeded

1291
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:25,440
Speaker 1: at something that I could have done and that I

1292
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:28,360
Speaker 1: gave up on, I will be so upset with myself.

1293
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:30,480
Speaker 4: Has nothing to do with the other person. It just

1294
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:31,640
Speaker 4: has everything to do with me.

1295
01:07:32,360 --> 01:07:35,240
Speaker 1: And you know, given myself that pep talk to be

1296
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:37,400
Speaker 1: like come on, just one more door that we have

1297
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:37,960
Speaker 1: to go through.

1298
01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:41,120
Speaker 2: I also think that that what you just said about

1299
01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:43,720
Speaker 2: like it has nothing to do with them. So often,

1300
01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:46,320
Speaker 2: like individuals struggle with this concept that it's hard to

1301
01:07:46,360 --> 01:07:50,440
Speaker 2: be somebody else's cheerleader because you're thinking about the fact

1302
01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:52,600
Speaker 2: that like they might be doing something that you could

1303
01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:56,880
Speaker 2: be doing. And it's like really valuable perspective that you

1304
01:07:57,000 --> 01:08:00,640
Speaker 2: have to that effect, because especially I mean every industry

1305
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:03,680
Speaker 2: has its fair share of competition, but especially today in

1306
01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:06,560
Speaker 2: the wellness industry with it all being digital, Like what

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Speaker 2: a it's a great I don't know, it's a great

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Speaker 2: take to have.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: What's that one saying where it says, uh, success is

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Speaker 1: right on the other side of failure. Yeah, yeah, that

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Speaker 1: saying comes up a lot in my mind too. Is

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Speaker 1: that so often? And we see it a lot as in,

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Speaker 1: you know, I refer back to a reference back to

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Speaker 1: fitness a lot. But when you're training somebody, you often

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Speaker 1: see that they're so close to getting it. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's like you're so close to getting the bench press

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Speaker 1: or the squat or you know, like running an extra

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Speaker 1: you know, a little bit quicker, and you see when

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Speaker 1: people give up, like you see it in you see

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Speaker 1: it change and then like you watch it happen and

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Speaker 1: you just want to be like you were so close,

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Speaker 1: like if you had just stayed committed and watched and

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Speaker 1: saw the finish line and just ran through, you would

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Speaker 1: have had it. And sometimes I think that's why it's

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Speaker 1: fantastic that you have a coach, because whenever you're in it,

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Speaker 1: you're not able to see that. So it's nice to

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Speaker 1: have somebody on the sidelines that it's like, hey, man,

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Speaker 1: don't give up, just keep going. And I think that

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Speaker 1: that goes back to the friend groups and the people

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Speaker 1: that you surround yourself with and just you know, having

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Speaker 1: people that are always in your corner.

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Speaker 2: To really close us out here, you've mentioned a couple

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Speaker 2: of the mantras that you go back to time and

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Speaker 2: time again when you have to think about, like maybe

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Speaker 2: one of the biggest ones that you lean into, what

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Speaker 2: can you leave us with?

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Speaker 1: I mean I so much that I trademarked it. I

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Speaker 1: was on the bike was so cycle for almost eight

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Speaker 1: years and my quote from day one was yes or yes.

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Speaker 1: So as you know, that is transferred into a sweat

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Speaker 1: and I say yes or yes because when I moved

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Speaker 1: to Hawaii, I was really open to kind of doing whatever.

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Speaker 1: And I told my friend, I said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm on this island. I am going to say yes

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Speaker 1: to everything, yes or yes. And so that was why

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Speaker 1: I went surfing and it didn't really end up so well,

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Speaker 1: but it's fine. But to me, you know, you can

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Speaker 1: say no sometimes, so I always say yes or yes

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Speaker 1: or no. But I really like to say yes to

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Speaker 1: things because again, if you don't do it, somebody else will.

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Speaker 1: And if you're capable of doing it, why not give

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Speaker 1: it a try.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much for your time today, Charlie.

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Speaker 2: I'm so grateful that we finally had the opportunity to

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Speaker 2: get this on the books.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: Charlie, how do they keep up with you? How do

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Speaker 3: they tune into the sweat? Give me the details.

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Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time.