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Speaker 1: And it's something that I will never forget because decisions

436
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Speaker 1: like that at nine years old has never left me.

437
00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:21,359
Speaker 1: When you come to New York, think about where you

438
00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,840
Speaker 1: are in life. You have to make huge decisions, and

439
00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,000
Speaker 1: making decisions aren't easy, and making no decision is still

440
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,199
Speaker 1: making a decision. So at nine years old, I had

441
00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,480
Speaker 1: to make a decision and I never stopped. I never

442
00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,920
Speaker 1: stopped making that decision to choose the life, so choose

443
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Speaker 1: to live.

444
00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,960
Speaker 2: So choose to live, and then choose to dance. And

445
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,679
Speaker 2: so absolutely you knew from those summers coming up to

446
00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:42,479
Speaker 2: New York that you wanted to come here as soon

447
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:44,320
Speaker 2: as you got the chance. For a much longer period

448
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Speaker 2: of time.

449
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Speaker 1: Well, as you can tell, do you speak fast? I

450
00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,120
Speaker 1: do a lot of things fast, and so does New York.

451
00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,400
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, I've found a rhythm that

452
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,919
Speaker 1: match is my heartbeat. And I was like, this is

453
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:59,160
Speaker 1: where I belong. I found my tribe of go getters,

454
00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:01,560
Speaker 1: of people that are determined that yeah, we get down.

455
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,360
Speaker 1: At times, we cry, you know, we eat a lot

456
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:06,360
Speaker 1: of donuts, and then we move on. We boss up

457
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:09,080
Speaker 1: after that, you know, and I think that's that's something

458
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:10,639
Speaker 1: that I truly love about this city.

459
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you did you know you wanted to go

460
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:14,359
Speaker 2: to Fordham or how did that?

461
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 1: I didn't know that I wanted to go to Fordham.

462
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 1: But my mom did the right thing. My parents did

463
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:20,359
Speaker 1: the right thing. My mom and dad was like, you

464
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Speaker 1: have to go to college. You can do dance, you

465
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:24,840
Speaker 1: can go be a dancer, you can move to New York,

466
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Speaker 1: you can do whatever you want, but one request is

467
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Speaker 1: you have to graduate. And they were right. It gave

468
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Speaker 1: me a safe haven, a safe bubble to experience a

469
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 1: big city in so you know, you're protected. In college,

470
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,879
Speaker 1: you have things to do, their structure, instead of moving

471
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Speaker 1: up here alone and saying, oh my god, what do

472
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,239
Speaker 1: I do? Do I keep auditioning and things like that.

473
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Speaker 1: A lot of people do that and they do very well.

474
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Speaker 1: I am very grateful that I.

475
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,320
Speaker 2: Went the route of Okay, so in school, when you

476
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,360
Speaker 2: move to the big city, what's different when you move

477
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,920
Speaker 2: your full time versus when you're coming to like visit.

478
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Speaker 2: Does it hit you in this big way that you're like,

479
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 2: oh my god, this is actually my home.

480
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,080
Speaker 1: It was the yeah, it hit me that way, but

481
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,919
Speaker 1: it was actually the opposite in terms of, OMG, I

482
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 1: have a shot, like this is my shot. I truly

483
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 1: felt when I got I came one way ticket. Your

484
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:14,920
Speaker 1: family drops you off at the airport, tries not to cry.

485
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,680
Speaker 1: You're like, mom, stop cry. My dad's the worst. He's

486
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:21,920
Speaker 1: the one that cries the worst. He cried, and he

487
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 1: was just like, you can do this, and I think

488
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,960
Speaker 1: you were built for this. And so one way ticket

489
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 1: to New York City came here, and I was just like,

490
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 1: no one's going to stop me. No one's going to

491
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,880
Speaker 1: stop me. And I think that no one has I've had.

492
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 1: I've had some rough times like we all have, and

493
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,440
Speaker 1: just like being hit by a car, I would never

494
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 1: change that in a million years. But I one of

495
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 1: the things that I always say, like, there's something truly

496
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: beautiful and being basic and going back to the basics.

497
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 1: And it's humbling to think of that experience in times

498
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 1: that I'm sad and overwhelmed, and times that I get

499
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 1: those no's and times that I have to start over,

500
00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,959
Speaker 1: in times where I feel like nothing's working out for me.

501
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: When it of course rains, it pours, it floods. I

502
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 1: have to think of that moment of just being grateful,

503
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,679
Speaker 1: like there was a moment you could have died and

504
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 1: you're living and yes, it's hard, but you keep pressing forward.

505
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 2: So when you're in college and you're dancing, are you

506
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,679
Speaker 2: firm on the idea that you're going to graduate and

507
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 2: do this full time?

508
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,200
Speaker 1: Yeah?

509
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 2: Her faces lit up. It was Christmas morning.

510
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 1: I yes, I love dancing. I loved it so much.

511
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 1: It was not until so I had that like, yes,

512
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 1: this is it for me. It was not until I

513
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 1: was about to graduate my senior year and I was

514
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:41,239
Speaker 1: doing like these internships with companies and performing that I

515
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 1: realized how hard and challenging it was to live in

516
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:51,400
Speaker 1: New York City on a dancer's salary. I we need

517
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 1: to change that one two dancers are not wrecking their body,

518
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 1: but putting their body through so any challenges to do

519
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,160
Speaker 1: what they love and not being able to afford sometimes

520
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: their apartment alone, like you have to have a roommate,

521
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 1: and not all dancers. Everything's different, but for the most part,

522
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: once I realized that, I was just like, you know what,

523
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 1: I don't think that I need to. I want to

524
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 1: go down that path of being a starving artist. It

525
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 1: can be fulfilling, but it's not I don't think it

526
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: was my lot in life. And so I found I

527
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: met someone who was like a friend of mine who

528
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,679
Speaker 1: was like, models, make this, this and this. And I

529
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:29,919
Speaker 1: was like, you're telling me that not moving my body

530
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 1: but using my body to take photos not necessarily have

531
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 1: live art, is going to yield me more income to

532
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 1: be able to live in the city and continue to

533
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,159
Speaker 1: create the life that I want and to continue to

534
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 1: dance on the side. And they were like yes, And

535
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 1: so I went down the modeling route. I went into

536
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 1: a friend of a friend recommended me. I went into

537
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:50,679
Speaker 1: Ailhelmina and they gave me a contract and it was

538
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,719
Speaker 1: one of those things like not that doesn't happen all

539
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,199
Speaker 1: the time. But I also reached out to like a

540
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 1: ton of agencies get my research and was like, hey,

541
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Speaker 1: I'm this not model, trying to be a model and

542
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: make money, and somebody said yes, after really knocking down

543
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: a lot of doors, do.

544
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Speaker 2: You remember your first modeling job?

545
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 1: Absolutely. I actually went into fitness modeling because one of

546
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,400
Speaker 1: the things when you're building a brand and building a business.

547
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,439
Speaker 1: One of the things that I didn't realize that I

548
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 1: did at that age, but was great that I did

549
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 1: was find a pocket, find an area and a niche

550
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 1: that worked for me. So I didn't have this dream

551
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 1: of becoming like a Victoria's Secret supermodel, because there was

552
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 1: an aesthetic that went along with that. Whether right or wrong,

553
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: there is you know, a way to get there. It's

554
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 1: not impossible. But I knew that because I was a dancer,

555
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: I was athletically built. There was a new arise of

556
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,680
Speaker 1: athletic modeling, of sports modeling, and I was like, you

557
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 1: know what, this is a this is an area that

558
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 1: I could potentially make a market. It's something I could

559
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: potentially flourish at. And so I went in to become

560
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 1: a fitness model and that was how I found my Yes,

561
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:55,160
Speaker 1: it wasn't like I'm going to all of a sudden

562
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,880
Speaker 1: it become some high fashion model or hands model or whatever,

563
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,679
Speaker 1: which I really want to be one day. But my

564
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 1: first tid I went in. I remember going into it

565
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: was my first casting, just got signed to an agency,

566
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: went into the agency. There were legit one hundred and

567
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,360
Speaker 1: fifty models in this room, stunning people like you walk

568
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 1: in and I was super blonde at the time. I

569
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: had big, blonde, curly atro and it was under armor.

570
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 1: And I remember sitting in this meeting and I guess, again,

571
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 1: it's like brandings. Some of the things you think about

572
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 1: you don't think about when branding are so essential. I

573
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: went into an area of fitness that I knew that

574
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: I could do well in. I sat in that room

575
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 1: and I said, what makes me different than these people

576
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 1: sitting here? Everyone's super nice most of them. People are

577
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 1: probably nervous. Everyone looks good, everyone's a model. What's the

578
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: outlier here? What is the one thing they don't expect

579
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 1: from models? And it was to have a great personality.

580
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: So I had sat there for an hour and a

581
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 1: half and I was like, I'm going to go into

582
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:48,399
Speaker 1: this meeting and I'm going to be human. I'm going

583
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: to introduce myself and talk to them like they're real people.

584
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: That's going to sit on the other side of the table.

585
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: And I remember walking in into my first casting and

586
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 1: I was like, Hey, everybody, how are you? How are

587
00:27:58,119 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 1: you doing today? And then I kind of made it.

588
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know how you are handling

589
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 1: looking at all these beautiful people and making a decision

590
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,239
Speaker 1: so like, God bless you, and they started laughing, and

591
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: it was that moment. And I will later find out

592
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 1: they became my longest client I've ever had in my career.

593
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 1: I've probably worked for under Armour for five six years

594
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: modeling with them, but it helped me live in New

595
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: York financially. And I remember having a conversation maybe a

596
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: year or two later with those same women who hired me,

597
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 1: and they said, you were different. You walked in, you

598
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 1: had a personality. You looked at us like we were human,

599
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: and that's why we wanted to work with you. Everyone

600
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: looked beautiful and was fit the type we wanted to

601
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: work with, someone who was easy to work with and

602
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: that we did enjoy working with.

603
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 2: And I think a lot of the time when people

604
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 2: walk in for some sort of interview that they're like

605
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 2: so scared, and it's hard to put that fear to

606
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 2: the side, and that can also then mask a little

607
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 2: bit of your personality. So to be so open and

608
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 2: just treating them like it's a normal conversation, that's nine

609
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 2: times out to ten again in your situation, especially going

610
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 2: to give you a light up, which is absolutely critical,

611
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 2: all right, So we book under armour and then we

612
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 2: book other things and now we're just modeling and dancing

613
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 2: and where so where are we?

614
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: I was dancing for the next I got. I went

615
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: to a casting an audition five hundred girls. I wanted

616
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: to continue to dance. And while I was trained in

617
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: concert dance and it wasn't necessarily trained in like this

618
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: commercial world, I went into the audition and booked the

619
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: job and it was about twenty two women on the team.

620
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: Was amazing because I created friends once I was out

621
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: of college, created friends during college and out of college,

622
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: and lifelong friends from there. And then I was performing

623
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden, one of the biggest stages in

624
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: the world, one of the best arenas in the world,

625
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: and that too afforded me an opportunity to do what

626
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 1: I love, continue to model because the games were at night,

627
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: continue to model and shoot during the day and make

628
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: some money. So I found that that was a hybrid.

629
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: And during that time I would dance for Beyonce, I

630
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: danced with Pitbull, I danced with Why Cleth. I would

631
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: pick up these odd jobs commercially dancing doing what I loved.

632
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, what was it? Like to dance with Beyonce.

633
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: It home speechless, given that is how songs you write.

634
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: But I've never one of the things that I remember

635
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: being in a room with her, having a one on

636
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: one with her and the choreographer. Choreographer and watching Beyonce

637
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: work is unlike anything I've ever seen. She came in

638
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: the room in the morning at eight am and didn't leave.

639
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: This is by herself. She didn't leave the rehearsal space

640
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: and until like eleven o'clock at night rehearsing. And it

641
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: wasn't like we stopped for lunch. It wasn't she ate,

642
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: but it was like, oh, someone brought in food. She

643
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: ate and she got back and it was like quite

644
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: like she I've never seen someone so hard working in

645
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: a personal space that up close in my life.

646
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 2: It's really special, very special. And it's like when someone

647
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 2: you can see truly brings like makes their passion their purpose.

648
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 2: And I'm sure you can relate to that in so

649
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 2: many levels with what you're doing with the Love Squad,

650
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 2: but it's like when you see that in someone, you

651
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 2: see like the light in their eyes and so much

652
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 2: different than someone that's just going through their day to

653
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 2: day on autopilot.

654
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: And I mean she allowed me in that space with

655
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Speaker 1: her as a young woman. Like as a young girl

656
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: trying to create my career. She could have been like, no,

657
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: I just need the choreographer. She was like, no problem,

658
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: Like Ali can come in. It was just like she

659
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: was human. It was that human, approachable element of Beyonce

660
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: that also gave me that wow factor of her. And

661
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: that's something that I do try to remind and how

662
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: I navigate Love Squad. It's that approachability. No matter how

663
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: big we are, we need women to sit on a

664
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: stage and give you those tools and concepts that you

665
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: can and how to most importantly, how to do some

666
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: things so that we can help other women and other

667
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: people in general find their path and continue to create

668
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: their space. I think.

669
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Speaker 2: And that's a really important note to hit on as well.

670
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 2: It's like, how can I help build up other people?

671
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 2: And how can I offer what I know to enrich

672
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 2: somebody else. It's never a going to be about oh

673
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 2: well if I offer this to someone then they might

674
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 2: do X, Y Z. Well you're looking at it the

675
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 2: wrong way. Then it's like, all right, I'm willing and

676
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 2: ready to help someone else, not because I'm necessarily looking

677
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 2: for anything in return or scared of what they might

678
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 2: do with that intel. I'm doing it because I know

679
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 2: that I have the opportunity to do so that's so powerful.

680
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: It's a gift, and it reminds me I'm going to

681
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: really break like butcher this a little bit. But there's

682
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: like some parable in the Bible where like God gives

683
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: this guy some talents and he instead of using the talents,

684
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: he buries the talents, and it's when you bury the talent,

685
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: you are talentless. And then he gives other talents to

686
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: another person, another guy, and he uses those talents and

687
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: from using those talents, he gains greater talents. So his

688
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: talents only multiply and he creates a life for himself.

689
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: And I think that that is the reality helping others.

690
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: The art of helping others. Is that a true art?

691
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: And the more you help others and get information out there,

692
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: the more your talents will increase. The more you know,

693
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 1: opportunity said you get from that.

694
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 2: So let's talk about adding to the talent roster for

695
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 2: you then, because you're modeling and you're dancing with the

696
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 2: next and then when does fitness become an even bigger

697
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 2: part of your life.

698
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Speaker 1: It's the moment that everything gets hard. It was the

699
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: moment where, at this time, a part of what I

700
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: was doing I kept my night job, not necessarily at CVS,

701
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: but I also did bottle waitressing in New York City.

702
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: I kept the night hustle. It continued, like outside of

703
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: modeling and then dancing for the Knicks, I was a

704
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: bottle waitress. I was able to kind of like stack

705
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: my paper and make sure I was living a comfortable

706
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: life to continue to pursue the things I loved. But

707
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: it came to a point in my life where you

708
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: can no longer and I'm sure some people can identify

709
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: that are listening. You get to a point in your

710
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: life and you're like, why am I doing this? And

711
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 1: you no longer have an answer, and if you don't,

712
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: you can't answer the questions of why and how when

713
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: it comes to what you're doing in life and who

714
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 1: you are. That's a moment you got to stop. So

715
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: I had to make the decision where I stopped dancing

716
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: for the Knicks. I had to make the decision where

717
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: I stopped bottle waitressing. And it was a moment where

718
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: I wasn't doing anything. I was still modeling, but as

719
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: you know, modeling seasonal, so there were weeks where I'd

720
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: have one casting, some that i'd have none, you know.

721
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: So it was one of those moments where I had

722
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: a lot of time on my hands. I was confused

723
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 1: on what I wanted in life, who I was, And

724
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: there's a difference between being busy and being productive, and

725
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:20,240
Speaker 1: I knew that, and I had to take a moment

726
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: where I was saying, there's no longer, this isn't the

727
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 1: season to continue to be busy. I need to produce.

728
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 1: I need to be productive, and the only way to

729
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 1: do that is to sit still for a moment, be sad,

730
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: struggle a little bit in terms of asking myself these

731
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: questions that were super answerless, and I didn't have the answer.

732
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: So I O, I'm all about the how to. I

733
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: got three books around three people that I looked up

734
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,280
Speaker 1: to that I ultimately wanted to model my career. After

735
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,879
Speaker 1: I read their books, I read articles. I sat home

736
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: a lot, I looked up a lot of information. At

737
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: that time, podcasts were just coming in, but not to

738
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 1: the extent they are now. But I listened to a

739
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: lot of speeches, a lot of Ted talks and I

740
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,240
Speaker 1: ended up getting into yoga. I started praying a lot,

741
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: and during this I don't necessarily meditate. I pray and

742
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: doing my prayers, I started wanting to move a little bit.

743
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: So I started going to hot yoga and it was

744
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 1: a time of stillness in the time of movement and

745
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 1: finding that stillness internally that I figured out, wait a minute,

746
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: there's something here. I love this. So I started running

747
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 1: with a friend and through running, I was just like,

748
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: I love moving my body in a different way. How

749
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: can I do this? And I was still hosting. I

750
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: was still putting myself out there. I was taking That

751
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: was when I started taking hosting classes. It was getting

752
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: being still that I was like, I want to do

753
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:35,800
Speaker 1: on camera work. I want to have a voice. I

754
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 1: want to I want to magnify, I want to be

755
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 1: on a bigger platform. And I created a real that

756
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: was really janky and sent it to everyone. It was like,

757
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: I will host your kids' birthday parties. I will, and

758
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:47,879
Speaker 1: this is all These things would come to me while

759
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: I was doing yoga, while I was running, and I

760
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: was just like, I gotta do things for free, to

761
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 1: get something for money, and I don't have this skill set.

762
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 1: Yet I can practice all day, but doing it for

763
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: real is doing it for real is experience as a

764
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:04,280
Speaker 1: friend who said they're looking to Brooklyn. Nets move to Brooklyn.

765
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 1: You were just in the NBA. You stopped dancing for

766
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: the next you know how this works. They're looking to

767
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 1: Phillis Spot because the girl that's currently doing it their

768
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 1: first season wants to change. And she's like, I'm going

769
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: to move your resume and reel along to our senior

770
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: vice president of entertainment. And I was like, yeah, go

771
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: for it. Yeah sure, like I could do that, absolutely terrified.

772
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: She sent it along and they called me in for

773
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: a meeting and they were like, okay, great, we want

774
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 1: to offer you the job. And I was like, oh no, no, no, no,

775
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: like I don't have any experience and that. They're like, yeah,

776
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:32,959
Speaker 1: that's okay. You know how the NBA works, You've done

777
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: your research, you have a great personality. Let's give it

778
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: a go. It's only like half a season left. Let's

779
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 1: bring you in. And I went from speaking to zero

780
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 1: people to speaking to eighteen thousand people at Barclay Center.

781
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: And it was because and I really it was because

782
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: four months of just being by myself of being productive,

783
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: of getting the word out, of figuring out, answering those

784
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: questions of what I want to do, taking those hosting classes,

785
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: finding the aha moment after my first hosting class and

786
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: saying like, oh no, no, no, this is it. This is

787
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 1: what I'm meant, this is what I'm born to do.

788
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: And I know it wasn't the only thing, but it

789
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: was one of those things that I was like, I

790
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: have to pursue this to make sure and I encourage

791
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: anyone that in this moment of just being busy. I'm

792
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: not telling anyone to quit their nine to five. You

793
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 1: got to pay your bills. What I am saying is

794
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,919
Speaker 1: taking moment to scale back on going out, scale back

795
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: on doing the odd jobs, still, scale back on just

796
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: doing things because you just said yes and saying no

797
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: to a lot of things and saying no to yourself,

798
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: sitting home and finding that moment of stillness or those

799
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: moments of stillness, maybe through yoga, maybe through fitness. And

800
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: it was like fitness that brought me to first follow

801
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 1: up question, what are the three books? Oh? So it

802
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 1: was Ryan Seacrest, because I was like Ryan Seacrest's host Extra. Yeah,

803
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: I read his book. I read I always pad Me

804
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: Lashed Me book because she was a TV host from

805
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: a model, so Ryan was a host. I wanted to

806
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: be a host. Padima was a model turned TV host.

807
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: She did cooking more so like food was her lane.

808
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 1: And then of course Oprah and I knew you knew

809
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: Obrah was in there, like everyone should read everything about Oprah.

810
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: And it was one of those things where I was like,

811
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: this is the hybrid of everything that I want to

812
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: do or want to be. So and I remember my boyfriend,

813
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: who is very pivotal in my store. I always say,

814
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 1: you have to find an Andrew. There's this thing of like,

815
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. I read a book and the chapter

816
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: was find your Andrew, and I was like, oh, I

817
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:32,240
Speaker 1: found mine, but it was someone who changed that person's life.

818
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: But find your Andrew is truly a part of my story.

819
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: Find that person that's going to give it to you real,

820
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: give it to your right and not back down. And

821
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 1: he's that person still in my life. And he was like,

822
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: you got to stop doing what you're doing. It's okay

823
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 1: not to make money right now. It's okay to not

824
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 1: have an answer when your friends say, so what are

825
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: you up to? It's okay to say nothing that you're

826
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 1: figuring it out. It's okay. So, yeah, I found my

827
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: Andrew and that where he was just like, this is

828
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 1: the first You're not the first person to be lost.

829
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: Read a book on someone who's doing what you want

830
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: to do.

831
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 2: When did you guys meet?

832
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 1: We met? I think it was me when I first

833
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: started dancing for the Knicks. We met. We met in

834
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:12,799
Speaker 1: a club. I get that because people are just like,

835
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: how did you meet? I stay in the club. Let

836
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: me keep it real. We met at a club, and

837
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,399
Speaker 1: that's how funny enough, that's how my mom and dad met.

838
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 2: Really, yeah, I know I knew it was okay, that was.

839
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: Yeah. So we met in a club and yeah, we've

840
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:31,359
Speaker 1: been slumming it ever since.

841
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 2: Okay. Then the second follow up question is, talk to

842
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,879
Speaker 2: me about that feeling you got when you walked out

843
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 2: on the court for the first time, because I'm sure

844
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 2: with a microphone in your hand, it's very different than

845
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 2: when you were dancing with the Knicks.

846
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: So dancing from the Knicks, I was chop boss. I

847
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: was like, you walk out, you have the comfort level

848
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,359
Speaker 1: of being with like sixteen other women. In my mind,

849
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 1: everyone's just in all of our minds. Everyone's just watching us,

850
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: but like, if you miss the step, you can follow

851
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 1: someone else, but when you're on, when you're alone, you're

852
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: truly alone. I walked out, and honestly, it was the

853
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: worst ever. It was probably the worst hosting anyone has

854
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: ever done. But I remember having an earpiece in and

855
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: someone saying you're going in ten, You're going in five

856
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,359
Speaker 1: and four. And I walked out on that court and

857
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 1: I was terrified, extremely scared, but I knew I had

858
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: to do it. And of course Andrew's advice. Right before

859
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: I went on, he had texted me, this is the

860
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,839
Speaker 1: worst I don't and this could be good or bad.

861
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: It was great to hear this is the worst you're

862
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: ever going to do, that's okay. And I was like, Okay,

863
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: this is going to suck. I'm going to be bad,

864
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 1: and that's okay because I'd never done it before. And

865
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Speaker 1: Most times, it's your worst time, and it can only

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Speaker 1: grow from there. And that's what you want, truly, you

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Speaker 1: want to come in doing anything average at best, so

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Speaker 1: that your story is like I was the comeback kid.

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Speaker 1: I did okay, So I did absolutely terrible, and I

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Speaker 1: was terrified, and I was reading this paper. The paper

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Speaker 1: was covering my but my shoes were cute and my

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Speaker 1: outfit was nice and my hair was laid. So I

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Speaker 1: will say that made me feel better about the pictures,

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Speaker 1: not necessarily the video.

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Speaker 2: That shures looked great. I looked fabulous doing you gotta.

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Speaker 1: Find the upside of it. My risks are my wrists

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Speaker 1: are pretty today? I don't know. I mean this.

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Speaker 2: Morning, I walked out of the house and I opened

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Speaker 2: And in my head, I was like, it's been three

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Speaker 2: years and I haven't lost an AirPod. So I mean,

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Speaker 2: love's find upside upside. Maybe it's time for me to

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Speaker 2: pay my dues seventy nine dollars single AirPod replacement fee.

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Speaker 2: I google that real quick. Okay, So you're hosting, yes,

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Speaker 2: and things get better because they have to.

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Speaker 1: They do they they have to. Things get better. I

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Speaker 1: practice a skill. I fall in love with it even more.

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Speaker 1: The Brooklyn Nets couldn't give them more of a shout out.

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Speaker 1: Afforded me the comfort without being breathing down my neck.

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Speaker 1: In terms of every time I'd come up the court.

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Speaker 1: They were like, great job, good job. Like they they

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Speaker 1: build me up. They allowed me space to build my

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Speaker 1: do it to this day. I'm one person in New

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Speaker 1: York City that does that. I own a court, I

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Speaker 1: I walk out with heals every single time, and I

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Speaker 1: hits every time out. Whether it's marketing plug, interviewing someone,

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Speaker 1: just doing a fun game with some of the fans.

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Speaker 1: That are happening. That's happening. And it's just like it

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907
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Speaker 1: Who's that girl? Let me hire her for this or

908
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Speaker 1: let's find out more about her.

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Speaker 2: I offered your name to someone the other day who

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Speaker 2: asked me to do a hosting job that I couldn't do.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about it.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk about ass Thanks for the flow, thanks to

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Speaker 2: the but yeah, seriously, it's like it's the same thing

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Speaker 2: like with podcasting or like with moderating panels, like you

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Speaker 2: do it once and someone's like, well this person does

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Speaker 2: our thing that we need to do, you know, so

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Speaker 2: to your testament of do it once and get it again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you might have to do it for free,

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Speaker 1: and that's okay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember when I sat down with Gunnar Peterson,

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Speaker 2: he said, he said, never do something for free, and

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Speaker 2: someone asks that of you? He's like, well, then ask

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Speaker 2: yourself a beyond money, what are you gaining from this opportunity?

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Speaker 2: Because it's not always like someone's going to hand you

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Speaker 2: But who do you get to meet from this opportunity?

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Speaker 2: What do you get to do? Like, what do you gain?

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Speaker 2: What do you learn? Think about it that way before

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Speaker 1: And that's exactly That's exactly how I weigh options to

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Speaker 1: this day. When I mentioned earlier about making a decision.

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Speaker 1: In making decisions, the upside is either a capital gain

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Speaker 1: I'm going to get to practice my craft, I'm going

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Speaker 2: the nets and it's going really well. When does Peloton

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Speaker 2: come into the picture?

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Speaker 1: So hosting for the nets? What ends up happening first

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Speaker 1: was I started getting into the Instagram game and was like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I want to continue to brand myself

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Speaker 1: as fitness model, and I would I remember doing a

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Speaker 1: shoot doing some Adidas wearing some Adidas. I was like,

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Speaker 1: I want to play the angle of Adidas. I've never

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Speaker 1: worked with them in any of my modeling jobs, and

982
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Speaker 1: I'd like to get in with them. So I got

983
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Speaker 1: a guy to take some photos of me and Adidas

984
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 1: posted them. Adidas reached out and they had it. Kind

985
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Speaker 1: of was a trifecta. At this point, Adidas reached out

986
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:36,840
Speaker 1: in terms of, we want you to build some content.

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00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: I had created Love Squad in order to be a

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Speaker 1: great host. As I mentioned, I wanted to make sure

989
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:44,919
Speaker 1: that I was expanding my vocabulary and gaining writing skills.

990
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: So I started writing about fitness, writing about my yoga sessions,

991
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Speaker 1: writing about running, writing about you know, waking up early,

992
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Speaker 1: getting these things done, being a boss at that moment

993
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Speaker 1: or in that time. And it was then that they

994
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Speaker 1: hired me for a campaign. Their office is in Germany.

995
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: At that point wanted looked for an host in New

996
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Speaker 1: York City, a woman, and they hired me for a

997
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Speaker 1: soccer event to host, and then on top of that,

998
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 1: they reached out for me to do some content. They

999
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: started out what I was doing on lovesquad dot com

1000
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: asked me to do content for Adidas, and so I

1001
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Speaker 1: started creating content for them. So it was one of

1002
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 1: those things where I shot their campaign in Miami shortly

1003
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Speaker 1: after it, created some content for their California team, and

1004
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Speaker 1: hosted an event for their Germany team in New York,

1005
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 1: and we had that conversation of like, we want you

1006
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Speaker 1: to be an ambassador, a global ambassador for us. It

1007
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 1: all ended up working out where I was the perfect

1008
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Speaker 1: one of the perfect persons to represent the brand globally.

1009
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Speaker 1: And it was from there that I met Robin Arzon

1010
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Speaker 1: and I became fast friends, very close friends to this day.

1011
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 1: And she saw what I was doing love Squad and

1012
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 1: I was hosting co hosting an Adidas event in the Hamptons,

1013
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 1: and I had invited her. She was on the list

1014
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Speaker 1: of like invites because we each ambassador, she was a

1015
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Speaker 1: global ambassador at the time, will get these one off events,

1016
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Speaker 1: and so she was like sitting next to me on

1017
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Speaker 1: dinner and she was just like, you have to do

1018
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: Peloton And I was like, oh, nope, I'm good girl.

1019
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take these shots and dance like we were

1020
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Speaker 1: having like a party at that point. And she was like, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 1: What you're doing with Love Squad and how you're empowering

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Speaker 1: the community and how you are athletic in terms of

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Speaker 1: you run, you can host, you have on camera skills,

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Speaker 1: you're athletic, and you're empowering the community. People need to

1025
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Speaker 1: hear about Love Squad and what you're doing, and Poloton's

1026
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Speaker 1: a platform for that. And I was like, I'm good,

1027
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Speaker 1: don't want to cycle. Sincerely, thank you, but no, thank you.

1028
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Speaker 1: And of course, if anyone knows Robin, she doesn't really

1029
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Speaker 1: take no for an answer. So get back to New

1030
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Speaker 1: York going to one of I was fit modeling at

1031
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Speaker 1: the time for Victoria's Secret. Going to my job and

1032
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Speaker 1: I get a text from someone at Peloton was like, great,

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Speaker 1: we have you for an audition. We have you set

1034
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Speaker 1: up for an audition like next week. We want to

1035
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Speaker 1: meet you before and I was like, wow, thanks Rob,

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Speaker 1: thanks my girl. That no did not really happen. So

1037
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Speaker 1: I was like, you know what why I know that

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Speaker 1: I know in life you get your career or of

1039
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Speaker 1: finding out what you want to do in life comes

1040
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Speaker 1: through two ways. Either you know it since you're born

1041
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Speaker 1: and no one can deviate, no one you don't deviate

1042
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Speaker 1: from that plan, or someone tells you what you're good

1043
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Speaker 1: at and what you should be doing. And so I

1044
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Speaker 1: trusted the instinct, and I trusted her and more so

1045
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Speaker 1: and said, you know what, she's my friend. I do

1046
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Speaker 1: trust her. And I went in for the meeting, went

1047
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Speaker 1: in for the audition, got on that bike. Was not

1048
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Speaker 1: a cyclist, was not a fitness instructor. Now mind you,

1049
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Speaker 1: I was running and taking some fun yoga hot yoga

1050
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Speaker 1: class looms and that was it. And of course I

1051
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Speaker 1: took dance, and I was a dancer. Was not teaching

1052
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Speaker 1: anyone anything, and nor did I want to. But I

1053
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Speaker 1: got on that bike, and I realized in that moment,

1054
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Speaker 1: or shortly after that moment, there were four cameras, there

1055
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Speaker 1: was a producer downstairs. It was live. It was broadcasted

1056
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Speaker 1: to thousands of people at that time. And I was like,

1057
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, you're telling me I can empower, I

1058
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Speaker 1: can work out, and I can do things where their

1059
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Speaker 1: cameras involved such a most option, yes, And I ended

1060
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Speaker 1: up realizing the opportunity he set and what they were offering,

1061
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Speaker 1: and I said yes to it, and I was like, Okay,

1062
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Speaker 1: I need an assistant now because I'm not giving up anything.

1063
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Speaker 1: I'm doing Love Squad, I'm hosting for the NETS, I'm

1064
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Speaker 1: keeping Peloton, and I'm going to be a DIDAS Global

1065
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Speaker 1: Ambassador continuously. And that's kind of how it all came together.

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Speaker 1: One of the things I will say before your next

1067
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Speaker 1: question is, I get this often. What do all those

1068
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Speaker 1: things have in common. One of the things that I've

1069
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Speaker 1: always wanted to do was be in the limelight. Hints

1070
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Speaker 1: being a dancer. There's nothing wrong with them in any

1071
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Speaker 1: of that. If that, if you are that person, own it.

1072
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Speaker 1: I'm always want to be front and center. I love

1073
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Speaker 1: on camera work, I love being in front of the camera,

1074
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Speaker 1: and I love speaking every one of those things. Whether

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Speaker 1: it's a DIDAS Global Ambassador, I'm moderate panels, I'm in campaigns,

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about my story of how fitness has influenced

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Speaker 1: and changed me. Peloton instructor, I'm empowering real time through

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Speaker 1: fitness while you're on the bike. I get to say

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Speaker 1: the things that are really truly inspirational to thousands of people.

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Speaker 1: NETS live on camera that eighteen thousand people. You can't

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Speaker 1: take that back. Love Squad panel discussions around imperilmpowerment, building, businesses, things, giving, offering,

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Speaker 1: how tos. All of those things have those things in common,

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Speaker 1: live on camera. Encouragement I love it.

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Speaker 2: Where do you gain your inspiration from When you're inspiring

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00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:15,879
Speaker 2: so many other people.

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Speaker 1: It's really important that you listen to other people's journeys

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Speaker 1: so you cannot This is why I say, sit down

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Speaker 1: with people, ask them, not only ask them for help,

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Speaker 1: but ask them what you can do for them. So

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Speaker 1: whenever you're feeling in those moments of feedback, when I

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00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: have those bi annual feedback sessions that I have with

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00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: internal and externally personally and professionally, I sit down with

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00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 1: those people and I learn about their stories, I ask

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00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: them for advice, I take their advice, and then I'm

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Speaker 1: truly inspired by them. And so in those times where

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Speaker 1: it gets stuff, I'm overwhelmed, I'm ran down, I'm tired.

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Speaker 1: I remember those words of wisdoms, just like you quote it.

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00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,439
Speaker 1: You quote someone that has truly touched you because they've

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00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: afforded you time. That's really important. So when I think

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Speaker 1: of how I'm inspired. I do listen to a lot

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Speaker 1: of podcasts. I do listen to a lot of sermons.

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Speaker 1: So Stephen Ferdick is a pastor of Elevation Church, and

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Speaker 1: I would say, at this point in my life, he

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Speaker 1: has been outside of Andrew, my boyfriend, has been the

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Speaker 1: most influential voice. And he doesn't know this influential voice

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Speaker 1: in my head when it comes to inspiring people, he

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00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:33,240
Speaker 1: just he gets it. He gets it. He's truly blessed

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Speaker 1: by God. He gets it. And whenever I'm down, whenever

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Speaker 1: I'm up, I listen to him. He reminds me of

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Speaker 1: what God has done for me. He reminds me of

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00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: what God is doing, how God is moving in my life.

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Speaker 1: And one of the things I learned is it's not

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Speaker 1: always how do you say fun or welcoming to maybe

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00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: talk about religion or spirituality. But I think it's my

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00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: lot in life is that we get so caught up

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Speaker 1: in what someone should look like, or what a religious

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00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 1: person might sound like, or I mean, what someone with

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Speaker 1: curly hair acts like, or what a black person should

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00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 1: do or what a white We get so caught up

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Speaker 1: in these stereotypes, and it's important that we break those

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00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 1: stereotypes down and so yeah, I'm religious, and yeah I

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00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 1: believe in God, and some of the things that we

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00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 1: hear aren't truly what it looks like to be a

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Speaker 1: religious person. Those are just tigmas, Those are just stereotypes.

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Speaker 1: So I think that it's important that I that's a

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Speaker 1: part of my journey and a part of my conversation

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00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: because yeah, I think we get caught up in what

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Speaker 1: these people look like or what they believe, and how

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00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:36,719
Speaker 1: they hate us or hate that, Like that's not who

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Speaker 1: I am. I'm inclusive.

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00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 2: I mean parallel that to the social media life, like

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00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,840
Speaker 2: I mean the highlight reel that is Instagram, Facebook, whatever,

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00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:47,879
Speaker 2: wherever you're consuming that kind of content. It's you see

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00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 2: that and it's like this is how I should be

1135
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 2: or how I should act, or what I should do.

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Speaker 2: Like if I'm not doing this much running or if

1137
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 2: I'm not doing this much whatever it is, then you

1138
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 2: have this inferiority complex that you're messing something up. But

1139
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 2: the beauty is is that you get to define every

1140
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 2: day who it is that you are, and by offering

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00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:07,880
Speaker 2: your authentic self to the world, like there's only one you,

1142
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 2: So then why like if you're spending all your time

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00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 2: trying to be somebody else or trying to fit some

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00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 2: type of mold that you're perceiving for somebody else, Like

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00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 2: you're wasting your time.

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00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 1: And also getting caught up and being nervous to be

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00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 1: who you are, because I know I did deal with

1148
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 1: the fear of like should I tell people that I

1149
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:26,279
Speaker 1: believe in God? Did I even say Jesus is the name?

1150
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:27,839
Speaker 1: And it's like, at the end of the day, people

1151
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:29,879
Speaker 1: are going to love me and some people aren't gonna

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00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:31,759
Speaker 1: love me, and they're gonna love me whether I am

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00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:33,840
Speaker 1: myself or not. It's just like that's just the nature

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00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: of life. And I truly encourage anyone who's listening own

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Speaker 1: all areas of you. I'm not saying I'm perfect. I'm

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00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: not saying I will ever be, because I subscribe to

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00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:44,400
Speaker 1: being real beyond being perfect. I'm not saying I'm the

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Speaker 1: perfect this, or that I'm not the perfect peloton instructor,

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Speaker 1: just like I'm not the perfect like Christian, Like I'm

1160
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 1: not any the perfect anything. I'm not the perfect girlfriend.

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Speaker 1: Like However, I'm okay with being basic sometimes i am

1162
00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 1: and I'm okay with bossing up and other times and

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Speaker 1: I think that if you're ever struggling with not only

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00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:05,800
Speaker 1: just what it should look like, but struggling with exposing

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00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,759
Speaker 1: who you are completely, I really encourage you to think

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Speaker 1: about it and and.

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Speaker 2: Do it.

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Speaker 1: Take a risk on yourself, because no one else is.

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Speaker 2: I think also, it's like that important saying that says,

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Speaker 2: if you try to be a leader or a person

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Speaker 2: for everyone, then you're a leader or a person for.

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Speaker 1: No one, no one, for no one, not at all.

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Speaker 2: Noo. Okay, So how do you then, when you're taking

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Speaker 2: so much time to give back to your partner, to peloton,

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Speaker 2: to the host, in to everything you're constantly giving and

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Speaker 2: giving and giving, how do you give back to you?

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Speaker 2: What do you do for you?

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Speaker 1: Oh? I'm glad you didn't ask me. What's self care?

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00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 2: You just do something for you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? What do I do for me? I think all

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00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:48,879
Speaker 1: of those things are pretty selfish. I'm gonna be honest,

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00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be super real and transparent. I think that

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00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 1: everything that I do is selfish, and I'm okay with

1184
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 1: admitting that. I just talk about being your whole self.

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Speaker 1: I think when you can admit who you are and

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Speaker 1: what you're doing and why you're doing it, you get

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Speaker 1: yourself to people love you more in terms of they

1188
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:07,919
Speaker 1: feel safe. They love you more because they feel safe

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00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 1: with you, because they're like, she's not hiding, she's not

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Speaker 1: living in this false reality. So for me, all of

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Speaker 1: those things are for me. I do these things because

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Speaker 1: I love them. They feed me. They are a part

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Speaker 1: of who I am since I was a kid. They

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Speaker 1: afford me the best opportunity set to bring a family

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Speaker 1: into this world to live a comfortable life. I'm truly

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Speaker 1: going to be honest in that, and I think so

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Speaker 1: when I think of it, what am I doing for me?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing those things for me. I'm doing those things

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Speaker 1: because if I didn't do those things, I'd be doing

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Speaker 1: things that were for everyone else.

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Speaker 2: And right now, when you're on the biker obviously on Instagram,

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00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 2: you have a great following there. When you take a

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00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:49,719
Speaker 2: second and step back, the people that follow you, they

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00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:52,560
Speaker 2: see who you are from that lens. They see this

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00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 2: business woman and a peloton instructor and a Brooklyn Net's

1206
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:56,880
Speaker 2: host and all the things. But when you look in

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00:56:56,920 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 2: the mirror, what is it that you see?

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00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: I see a woman who's ready to change the world,

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00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 1: and I don't have all the answers on how to

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00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 1: do that, but I know one of the things that

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Speaker 1: I speak about is bossing up, creating a standard, establishing

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00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 1: a tone. You can walk in any room and change

1213
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:11,839
Speaker 1: the tone, whether for good or for bad. You can

1214
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:13,640
Speaker 1: create a standard. No need to worry about the rules

1215
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:15,959
Speaker 1: when you're setting standards. And it's one of those things

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00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: where I truly subscribe to that. Personally, I truly believe

1217
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 1: in the good, the bad, the unknown about myself, listening

1218
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 1: to feedback from people implementing those things. But when I

1219
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 1: look in the mirror, I do see myself as a

1220
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 1: game changer. I do see myself as someone who is

1221
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:36,240
Speaker 1: going to blaze a trail of redefining and recreating what

1222
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 1: an entrepreneur looks like, what a woman of this century

1223
00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: looks like, and what it means to really inspire the

1224
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 1: next generation. Again, don't have all the answers, but that's

1225
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 1: that's who I see myself as when I look in

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Speaker 1: the mirror. Not easy comes with a lot of responsibility,

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Speaker 1: but I don't choose easy.

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Speaker 2: So on the days where you wake up and maybe

1229
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 2: you've gotten like a no or some one has like

1230
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 2: really knocked you down, what do you do or what

1231
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 2: have you changed to be able to still see that

1232
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 2: person in the mirror, Because I think that's what a

1233
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:11,720
Speaker 2: lot of people struggle with, right, It's like, what one rejection,

1234
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,560
Speaker 2: that one problem, that one person that makes them feel

1235
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:17,920
Speaker 2: lesser than or without? What do you tell that person

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00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 2: who feels without at that moment?

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, it's not always like cotton Kenny, drummon, whatever'

1238
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 1: is it? Cotton Kenny, rain, drafts and doughnuts in my

1239
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:31,720
Speaker 1: life on those moments that I am sad and that

1240
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 1: when I do look in the mirror and I can't

1241
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: find that girl, I can't find that woman, I can't

1242
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: find that person, I allow myself to just be. I

1243
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 1: know that sounds so crazy, but I always say, feel

1244
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:45,320
Speaker 1: all the feels. So if you want to cry, cry,

1245
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 1: and I do cry. I cry a lot. Actually I

1246
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:51,160
Speaker 1: don't cry because I'm always sad, but I cry because

1247
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 1: I need to get it out. I don't want to

1248
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,760
Speaker 1: hold it in. I don't want to like pretend. That's

1249
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 1: also a form of pretending. Like if I keep practicing

1250
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:01,440
Speaker 1: this and preaching like be your full self, like be

1251
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 1: who you are, it's like I have to be that

1252
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: person too. And some days when I feel lost and

1253
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:08,960
Speaker 1: I definitely want to give up a lot of times

1254
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 1: I feel that way, I get into that mood and

1255
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 1: allow myself to feel that way, and I also reach

1256
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: out to friends, like I need to vent. I'll send

1257
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:19,960
Speaker 1: a voice note quick to somebody like here's a vent,

1258
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:22,600
Speaker 1: here's a rant. Feel free to turn it off at

1259
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 1: any point, but I need to get this out. Obviously

1260
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:26,360
Speaker 1: someone that I feel safe with or that I built

1261
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:29,760
Speaker 1: a relationship with. But I tell anyone around me feel

1262
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 1: all the feels. Yeah, allow yourself. You can't. The worst

1263
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:36,880
Speaker 1: advice is when someone says you should just feel confident,

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00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 1: you should just be this. I'm like, if I could be,

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00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:42,600
Speaker 1: if I could feel that, I would. So it's like

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00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 1: I can't push myself to a point to feel something

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00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: or be something that I'm not ready to feel or be.

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00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 1: So sometimes, yeah, I'm going to get out of the slump.

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Speaker 1: Maybe in a day. Sometimes it's gonna take me a month.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm going to Sometimes I mean this year, earlier,

1271
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: this year I dealt with it was month of February,

1272
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:01,320
Speaker 1: six weeks I would say February to March anxiety AF

1273
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 1: I could not get myself together. Imagine running a business

1274
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:08,920
Speaker 1: having two women, like two employees, so what should.

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01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:09,120
Speaker 2: We be doing?

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01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:11,880
Speaker 1: I'm like, honestly, I can't even answer. I don't know.

1277
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: I didn't brush my teeth today, I can't roll out

1278
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 1: of bed right now, like and then have to do

1279
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:19,280
Speaker 1: that where yeah, I do push through when it's on peloton,

1280
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 1: but even in that, when I'm on that bike, I'm like,

1281
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 1: anybody in this room suffering right now, please put your

1282
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:25,080
Speaker 1: handu because I'm gonna raise my hand. I want you

1283
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:27,920
Speaker 1: to know that. And there's it breaks down that wall.

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Speaker 1: Let's be real about it. I don't have the again,

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Speaker 1: I don't have the answer. Is there gonna be days

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Speaker 1: I feel strong and powerful, and there's gonna be days

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Speaker 1: where I'm just like, okay, you are strong and powerful,

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Speaker 1: just not right now, you don't feel that way. So

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Speaker 1: I encourage myself to feel the feels. I don't push

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Speaker 1: myself to be something or to feel something that I don't.

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Speaker 1: And I do get a little antsie when I do

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Speaker 1: have those bouts of like anxiety or mild depression or sadness,

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Speaker 1: I do get a little antie like, and I do

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Speaker 1: tell myself, I'm like, well that when you get on

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Speaker 1: Instagram you're like, well, that person's always doing well, and

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Speaker 1: this person has everything going for them and they're so

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Speaker 1: skinny and pretty in their hair is gray and they

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Speaker 1: know all the right things to say. And then it

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Speaker 1: like stop. And one of the things you said earlier,

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Speaker 1: you were like, you should do this. I get the

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Speaker 1: head you should do this, you should do this. And

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Speaker 1: I always tell myself stop shooting on yourself, girl, stop.

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Speaker 2: Stop it, stop it.

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, it's not I don't again, don't have the

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Speaker 1: answer for it. It's not a pretty like read this

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Speaker 1: book and you're gonna say this, say this mantra and

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be fine. Look in the mirror and spend

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Speaker 1: around three times. Don't have the answer. But what I

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Speaker 1: do allow myself to do is take the time that

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Speaker 1: I need to be in the place that I need

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Speaker 1: to be at.

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Speaker 2: That And you mentioned the worst piece of advice. But

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Speaker 2: when you look back on your career so far in

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Speaker 2: this like mini empire, let's call it, oh that's as

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Speaker 2: let's call it an empire empire that you are building, boss,

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Speaker 2: what would you say, has been one of the best

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Speaker 2: pieces of advice that someone has offered you?

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Speaker 1: So many Oh my gosh, I could. I think that

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Speaker 1: one of the things I remind myself, and I guess

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Speaker 1: I'm having like a brain freezone on like the best

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Speaker 1: advice that I have ever gotten, because I I feel

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Speaker 1: like I've getten gotten so many great things. But one

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Speaker 1: of the things I do remind myself of is that

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Speaker 1: most times, no one knows what they're doing. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: makes me feel better about it. In a room where

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Speaker 1: decisions or conversations are being had, no one knows what

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Speaker 1: they're doing. Running a business, no one knows really what

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Speaker 1: they're doing title sweet sea sweet people c sweet level.

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Speaker 1: They don't know what they're doing. Like even the most

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Speaker 1: expert of them of all don't always know what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: So it makes me feel good that I don't have

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Speaker 1: to know what I and.

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Speaker 2: Someone had to be the first to set the president anyway, right.

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Speaker 2: I hate just this idea that like, well, this is

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Speaker 2: the industry standard for this, or this is how much

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Speaker 2: someone should be paying you to do X or Z,

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Speaker 2: or this is how you should act in this situation.

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Speaker 2: Like No, so many times I'm just like, well, this

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Speaker 2: is where I'm at. So if you want to work together,

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Speaker 2: if you want to do this, if you want x

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Speaker 2: or Z this is where I'm coming from. So we

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Speaker 2: can either meet there or meet in the middle. But

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Speaker 2: if you don't want to like take my fork in

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Speaker 2: the road, then like take yours and find somebody else.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think that's I think that's a

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Speaker 1: great approach. I also think, like in that moment of

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Speaker 1: just realizing that no one knows what they're doing, it's

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Speaker 1: really important that you articulate why. So one of the

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Speaker 1: things that I realized, like going to a lot of conferences,

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Speaker 1: speaking on a lot of panels and building a business,

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Speaker 1: is people do it and they always say, oh, because

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Speaker 1: I love it. It's not a reason. It's not the reason why.

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Speaker 1: The reason why is deeper than that. You can love

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Speaker 1: a lot of things. So I think that when you're

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Speaker 1: asking yes for more money, set in precedence when you

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Speaker 1: are when you realize that no one has the answers,

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Speaker 1: if you're able to album solve, offer a solve and

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Speaker 1: say that this is what you think should be happening.

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Speaker 1: You need to articulate why, and you don't have to

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Speaker 1: have that answer right away.

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Speaker 2: So what is it that you're not doing right now

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Speaker 2: that you want to do?

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Speaker 1: So I'm not running for President. I'm so sorry everyone,

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Speaker 1: not just yet Love twenty twenty the throw on my

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01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:04,960
Speaker 1: hat in the ring. Now, Oh, I came on your

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Speaker 1: podcast to announce my presence.

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Speaker 2: Platform that national news.

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Speaker 1: That would be awesome. So there's so many things and

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Speaker 1: I have to I really do have to reule myself

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Speaker 1: in sometimes. I got to like wrangle my my imagination

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Speaker 1: in sometimes. One of the things that I really want

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Speaker 1: to do is I do want to write a book.

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Speaker 1: So I have started, but again, asking myself the why

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Speaker 1: is really important, So I know that I want to

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Speaker 1: do this. So I have started the process and it's

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Speaker 1: going well, and there's entries and it's awesome and it's

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Speaker 1: helping me to refine what I believe and I'm articulating

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Speaker 1: it better. So it is helping. But I don't know

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Speaker 1: exactly why I'm doing it just yet outside of oh

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Speaker 1: I love it and I could help people. There has

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Speaker 1: to be a deeper why. So I am doing that

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Speaker 1: and again, so working out the why so when it

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Speaker 1: is or if it does get published, there's a story

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Speaker 1: of like, here's why I really did this. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's so many things that I really want to do

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Speaker 1: at this point. Yes, I want to have a podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm working on that, but it's like a mini mini podcast,

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Speaker 1: nothing like really amazing that you're doing. So congratulations by

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Speaker 1: the way, and heard how this is exceptional and thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I should have said that sooner. So we just started off.

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Speaker 2: We'll just start all over right now.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so I do want to do book and podcasts,

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Speaker 1: but I think right now my focus is I'm in

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Speaker 1: that feedback session that I talk about. I'm in that

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Speaker 1: stage of getting advice taking my brand to another level personally,

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Speaker 1: professionally and with love squad. So I've been in this

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Speaker 1: feedback session where I'm asking people for advice and how

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Speaker 1: do you see me? How do you see my brand?

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Speaker 1: What am I doing? What am I not doing? Because

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Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to that yet. Outside of yes,

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Speaker 1: everyone wants a book, everyone wants a podcast, and not

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Speaker 1: that saying everyone shouldn't get what they want. I just

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Speaker 1: got to be able to answer the why a little

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Speaker 1: bit more. In order to do that, I need more

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Speaker 1: information than I outside of my own head.

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Speaker 2: It's really special that you understand the value of asking

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Speaker 2: for that. Thank you. Really special. Okay, So the last

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Speaker 2: question I ask on the pod every time. If you

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Speaker 2: had the opportunity right now to offer the alley post accident,

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Speaker 2: in that Hurtle moment, a little piece of advice when

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Speaker 2: she's going through that tough time looking back on it now,

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Speaker 2: something maybe you wish you knew then, or maybe you

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Speaker 2: know as the years have gone on. You offer her

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Speaker 2: something when she's going through those tough times. What do

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Speaker 2: you tell her?

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Speaker 1: This might sound. I don't even want to judge how

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Speaker 1: it's going to sound. I wouldn't tell her anything because

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Speaker 1: her mindset was way better off than sometimes my mindset

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Speaker 1: is right now, knowing all the things I know, I

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Speaker 1: think sometimes we get into this thing of like we

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Speaker 1: should have done this sooner or faster, and Homegirl at

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Speaker 1: nine years old, like, I don't know who that was

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Speaker 1: sometimes and I know that was me, but she was boss.

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Speaker 1: And I say that because she was fearless, she relied

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Speaker 1: on her own intuition, she trusted herselves, her ability, and

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Speaker 1: it really has carried me to the point that I

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Speaker 1: am now. So I wouldn't mess not necessarily mess that up.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't tamper with that. And I think that I

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Speaker 1: try to get back to that space a lot. I

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Speaker 1: don't I'm not always successful, but there are moments that

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Speaker 1: I am. I get back to that trusting my gut,

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Speaker 1: trusting that that inner boss, trusting that fearlessness, that without consequences,

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Speaker 1: I'm going forward. Mentality that most times youth the youth

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Speaker 1: possess and I think I possessed that at nine years old,

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Speaker 1: and I wouldn't I wouldn't tell her anything.

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Speaker 2: Your story is really special, Ali. Oh thanks, thanks so

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Speaker 2: much for having to hang out with me.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, thank you for thanks for working this

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Speaker 1: out because the schedule is pray and thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: I truly agree it, of course. Thankase take a moment

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Speaker 2: and leave a quick review by clicking the link or

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Speaker 2: the description to this episode. We all face multiple hurdles

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01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:09,919
Speaker 2: in life. I want to hear about yours. Reach out

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Speaker 2: to me at Emily at Hurdle dot us. Connect with

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Speaker 2: the podcast on Instagram and Twitter at Hurdle Podcast. Ali.

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Speaker 2: Where do they find you? How do they keep up

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Speaker 2: with you? Give me all of the details.

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Speaker 1: I am Ali miss Love and my ss Ali Misslove

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Speaker 1: on Instagram. Follow love Squad at love Squad, Same on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: and of course same at my website alilove dot com.

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Speaker 1: Mislovespod dot com and on the bike and on the bike,

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Speaker 1: oh Ali mislove. If you are a Peloton rider, follow me.

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Speaker 1: If you're not, please download the app at this moment

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Speaker 1: and really enjoy. If you don't enjoy me, I have

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Speaker 1: so many colleagues that are exceptional that I send Shoulder

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Speaker 1: to show to with and I'm proud to represent the

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Speaker 1: Peloton family.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure if they've gotten to this point in

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Speaker 2: the episode, then they must like you just a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Oh, just a little.

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Speaker 2: Another hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.

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Speaker 1: Imping my