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Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome to this episode. To keep it positive. Sweet,

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Speaker 1: I'm Christopher A. Hazlet and today we are talking about

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Speaker 1: Activate your Greatness with my dear friend Alex two sons.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe on him. So how going to be

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Speaker 2: here with you?

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Speaker 3: I can't believe you here?

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Speaker 4: I told y'all will make the promise like I wasn't

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Speaker 4: gonna flake on you. I'm had to come through for

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Speaker 4: a real one. I had to come through.

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Speaker 3: You did that. You got it early this morning, caught

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Speaker 3: a six am flight to be here today. Wow.

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Speaker 4: You know why because you would do the same, absolutely,

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Speaker 4: without question. Anybody that knows you know you would do

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Speaker 4: the same.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: I guess it's got to return the blessing. That's it.

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Speaker 3: I love you, I.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate I appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: I like you.

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Speaker 2: You know that period period.

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Speaker 1: So we start every episode with a song girl quote,

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Speaker 1: and I can't start.

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Speaker 3: This episode without your quote. Feel good, look good, do better.

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Speaker 3: That's what you live by.

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Speaker 1: And for those who do not know, Alex is a

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Speaker 1: Pelot instructor, which most of the world knows him as

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Speaker 1: you are a Puma athlete, you're a businessman, you work

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Speaker 1: in the fitness tech music, sports and entertainment industry and

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Speaker 1: off the bike, you have a foundation to do better foundations.

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Speaker 1: I met you virtually in twenty twenty during the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: I didn't have any workout equipment in my house and

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Speaker 1: I was like, I need something, so a purchase a.

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Speaker 3: Pelo Time Listen. I got the Pilot Time bike.

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Speaker 1: And from there I fell in love with the way

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Speaker 1: you instruct I was like, this guy lights a fire

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Speaker 1: under my ass, Like you don't take no mess with anybody.

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Speaker 1: And to learn your background, having a military background, it

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Speaker 1: made me understand your way of training and how you

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Speaker 1: talk to us through that bike. But you touched so

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Speaker 1: many lives through that. And then we met personally. We

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Speaker 1: connects on Instagram that we met personally at a Hawks game.

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Speaker 1: We share a common love for sports. I feel like

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Speaker 1: we've always run to each other. Yeah game and literally

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Speaker 1: the rest has been history. And I'm just so happy

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Speaker 1: that I passed across. You are such an amazing human

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Speaker 1: being and I'm lucky to get to.

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Speaker 3: Know you beyond the bike.

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Speaker 4: No, not lucky, blessed, one hundred percent blessed. You know

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Speaker 4: that I say, I'm thankful that you purchased the Felton

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Speaker 4: Bike because there's people who come into this community and

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Speaker 4: become members, but there's some people who come in and

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Speaker 4: become family members outside the platform, and obviously you're one

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Speaker 4: of those people that became a family member instantly for me.

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Speaker 4: So I'm honored you joined the Fealton community.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you. Going back to your childhood you

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Speaker 1: talk about in your book, Activate your Greatness, I'm so

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Speaker 1: proud of you for this as well. You talk about

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Speaker 1: your upbringing and the journey to getting to the Alex

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Speaker 1: Towson that we all know today and that we admire

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Speaker 1: so much. Tell us a little bit about your childhood

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Speaker 1: and what really molded you to be who you are.

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Speaker 4: To first off, my parents. I got to start off

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Speaker 4: with the two people like the pioneers of this, my.

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Speaker 2: Mom and dad. My dad being an oil engineer and

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Speaker 2: I'm going to face stuff for a second, would Branson.

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Speaker 4: My dad served, maybe had so many military family members

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Speaker 4: and so hardy to keep up sometimes. My dad served

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Speaker 4: for thirty something years. So all I've ever known in

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Speaker 4: my entire life has just been family, sacrificing, always sacrificing

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Speaker 2: Better of others around you.

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Speaker 4: As a kid, I was an extreme knucklehead though I've

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Speaker 4: been kicked out of every school I've ever been to,

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Speaker 4: as well. And that's just because I wasn't a bad kid.

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Speaker 4: I just had an issue with authority, and to be

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Speaker 4: honest with you, the most authoritative figure in my household

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Speaker 4: being my father, just that clashing NonStop. But I tell

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Speaker 4: people all the time, like, I'm a product of somebody

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Speaker 2: And beyond, same with my mother to make sure I

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Speaker 4: I just never understood it and always took it as

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Speaker 4: I think to my so all the time, like, how

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Speaker 4: I just never was able to live to the excellence

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Speaker 4: so many different things back in the seventies and eighties,

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Speaker 4: and I fast forwards as a young adult, and I'm like,

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Speaker 4: I understand it. I understand that you guys did the

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Speaker 4: what I'm trying to do right now is rewrite that

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Speaker 4: and trying to validate my parents sacrifices every single day.

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Speaker 4: So this book is like one of the steps of

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Speaker 4: me validating everything they implemented.

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Speaker 2: From my brothers and myself.

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Speaker 1: You did a really good job with this and telling

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Speaker 1: the story. Once you got you went and you got

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Speaker 1: kicked out of school, and your parents.

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Speaker 2: Were fed up.

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Speaker 4: Let's kep him closed. Like I'm the baby of the family,

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Speaker 4: that's wolder brothers. So my mom was like, let's keep

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Speaker 4: him close. My dad was like, nah, I'm shipping you

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Speaker 4: out of here. Sixth grade, it was either Haitian.

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Speaker 2: Military school, and I mean I think I got the

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Speaker 3: Of the stick, yeh of the stick, yes, but military

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Speaker 4: It was one of those things in life that like

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Speaker 4: I felt as if I wasn't I don't know, you

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Speaker 4: want to use the word abandon because there's people who

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Speaker 4: go through that actual stage in life. But it did

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Speaker 4: feel like a sense of I'm not even worthy enough.

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Speaker 4: So instead of my dad leaving obviously like he was like,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And at the time that broke my heart.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And you talk about it in the book about

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Speaker 2: Just something about it that I was so young.

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Speaker 4: At the time. I was in sixth grade. I was

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Speaker 4: So when I think about it, I'm just like, damn,

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Speaker 4: But we've been able to obviously push through and breakthrough

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Speaker 3: An amazing job with that.

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Speaker 1: How does Alex work through those dark moments? Because I know,

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Speaker 1: like me and therapy, I've learned that those things that

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Speaker 3: How do you deal with that?

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Speaker 4: Two things therapy like actually speaking to somebody, and thankfully

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Speaker 4: my job as a former therapy for me as well

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Speaker 4: as somebody who's been in the industry now eleven years,

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about the story too.

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Speaker 3: We gotta talk about that because people see that all the.

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Speaker 2: They don't realize where it started.

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Speaker 3: They don't you know. Yeah, we got to talk about

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Speaker 4: Through movement, though, movement of the mind in the body

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Speaker 4: has allowed me to have a new perspective of life.

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Speaker 4: And I didn't understand that until I started moving my

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Speaker 4: body on a bike that went absolutely nowhere, but mentally

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Speaker 4: I was pushing pedal strokes from the day one eleven

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Speaker 4: it allows you to carve out who you want to

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Speaker 4: be every single time. And if you miss a pedal

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Speaker 4: you want to be long term. So I try every

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Speaker 4: single day, Like even within the classes that I teach. Now,

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Speaker 4: know what I mean. I'm be honest with you because

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Speaker 4: it's been such a form of therapy for me for

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Speaker 3: That's amazing.

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Speaker 1: I know we've talked about some warnings where you like,

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Speaker 1: I just you don't always feel like yeah, absolutely, But

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Speaker 2: That red light clicks on. There's just something like gratitude.

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Speaker 4: I'm not trying to caught myself out of the book,

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Speaker 4: but like gratitude cancels out my negativity and fear and

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Speaker 4: I'm just like, damn, I get to do this for

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Speaker 4: thousands of people show up to listen to my crazy

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Speaker 4: self talk and like or just unscripted, unfiltered, just like

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Speaker 4: if I'm in a bad mood, I can tell people

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Speaker 4: also breakthrough with people in real time.

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Speaker 2: That is a blessing.

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Speaker 4: That's why I'm so thankful for the Peloton community and

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Speaker 4: the people that support every single day because as an instructor,

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Speaker 2: Thank you changed my life, thank you changed my life.

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Speaker 4: Yes, And for a lot of the members that read

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Speaker 4: this book now they're like, oh, it makes sense. I'm like, no,

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Speaker 4: thank you because this has helped me change my life.

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Speaker 4: So it's reciprocated at all times.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about the journey to walk

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Speaker 1: us through the steps that it took to get to

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Speaker 1: where you are today, because I think it's so important.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I went to school for audio and video production.

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Speaker 4: My dream job if you look at my high school yearbook,

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Speaker 4: was to be a ESPN cameraman.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that was my dream job. So I always loved

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Speaker 4: I loved film, and I went to school and I

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Speaker 4: I truly did, and that was to try to being that.

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Speaker 4: My mother was an educator, my brother's an educator, and

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Speaker 4: my dad was like, if you don't work, we go

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Speaker 4: to school, you ain't living.

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Speaker 2: In this house.

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Speaker 4: It was no option. I went through a dark period

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Speaker 2: And I was somewhat joking, but I'm like close mops

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Speaker 2: They called Ruth. They don't call me directly, they go

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Speaker 4: She's like, listen, you've reached somewhat of a ceiling here.

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Speaker 2: So that gave me the opportunity to be like, you know,

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Speaker 2: But that's why I say it's not lucky. Yes, blessing,

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Speaker 1: But there's so many nuggets I took from there that

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Speaker 1: doing this. You honored that. And then when you got there,

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Speaker 1: you spoke about you. You did like me, I told Tyler, hey,

444
00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:18,880
Speaker 1: I really want to do this. You had the guts

445
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Speaker 1: to tell Ruth, this is what I want to do.

446
00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:23,520
Speaker 2: Sometimes you have to speak up, speak up close, don't

447
00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:23,800
Speaker 2: get fat.

448
00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:26,000
Speaker 4: Somebody may not know to provide you an opportunity unless

449
00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:27,360
Speaker 4: you actually want it.

450
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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, And then even when you got that position,

451
00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,919
Speaker 1: you were still eager to mop afterwards.

452
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Speaker 3: But it comes to the point in your life that

453
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Speaker 3: once you have to know when to let the past.

454
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Speaker 2: I have to know when to let it go.

455
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Speaker 3: I took a lot from that.

456
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Speaker 2: Goodness.

457
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Speaker 4: It's one of those I guess, like so many quotes

458
00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:43,639
Speaker 4: pop up in my mind with me and you have

459
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Speaker 4: conversations and like within that just now like it's you

460
00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:51,040
Speaker 4: can't shrink yourself in environments you've outgrown. I was put

461
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Speaker 4: in a position to continue to evolve and grow, and

462
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Speaker 4: part of me wanted to keep that left foot in

463
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Speaker 4: while the right foot was going. And I was like,

464
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Speaker 4: you have to let that go in order to step

465
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Speaker 4: into that new shell, that new align. They knew you

466
00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,520
Speaker 4: you got to remove yourself in the environments you've outgrown.

467
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Speaker 4: And it's not to say outgrowing the mop it's a

468
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Speaker 4: bad thing. It was just more or thot like you did.

469
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Speaker 3: That, you did it, and you did that. Season's over.

470
00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:13,600
Speaker 2: It's over, so no one, no one to changed seasons.

471
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Speaker 2: It's a big here, no one to change seasons. A

472
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Speaker 2: big king in life. Thank you for that.

473
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Speaker 3: We always we talk is like, Yo, that was good,

474
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna use that.

475
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Speaker 2: I'm using that one. Wow, I'm using that one.

476
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Speaker 3: I love that.

477
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Speaker 1: And from being a peloton being in everyone's home. We

478
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Speaker 1: talked about you being the first black you know what

479
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Speaker 1: I'm saying.

480
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Speaker 3: So what was that like? And what weight does that carry?

481
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Speaker 1: Because I know for me it was important when I

482
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Speaker 1: got on that bike to see a black man and

483
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Speaker 1: a black woman.

484
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Speaker 3: You and Ali love and to they were my favorites.

485
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Speaker 1: Always wanted to see something that reflected myself And what

486
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Speaker 1: was it like? I do want to know because I'm

487
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Speaker 1: sure being that that was a startup company and you

488
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Speaker 1: were the first black man.

489
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Speaker 3: To be on that bike, what was that? Did that

490
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Speaker 3: carry any weight for you?

491
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Speaker 2: It carried weight? The weight shifted throughout the years.

492
00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:04,120
Speaker 4: When I joined, it was more of excitement of like, Yo,

493
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Speaker 4: I'm the token black guy, and it's like you think

494
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Speaker 4: it's a cool thing to be like the only black person,

495
00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:11,560
Speaker 4: and you soon to realize that, like, wait a minute,

496
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Speaker 4: I don't have all the information and the knowledge to

497
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Speaker 4: provide this community, the understanding of the black community solely

498
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Speaker 4: by myself. I'm a black man. I can't speak from

499
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Speaker 4: the black woman's perspective. You know what I'm saying, Like,

500
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Speaker 4: that's not something I could relate to. So I realized

501
00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:28,679
Speaker 4: early early on that like, yo, I'm in for uphill battle,

502
00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:30,800
Speaker 4: a lot of resistance because I'm not apologetic.

503
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Speaker 2: You know, I'm straight with it. I don't.

504
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Speaker 4: I'm very like I'm gonna take my drag off to

505
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Speaker 4: go on. But I wanted people to understand that, like, listen,

506
00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:44,359
Speaker 4: I come from a certain level of respect, integrity, the

507
00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:46,879
Speaker 4: foundation of my family, the morals, the principles are so

508
00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:50,320
Speaker 4: pure that it's hard for me to allow somebody else

509
00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:51,960
Speaker 4: to be like, Yo, what you're doing is crazy.

510
00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:53,719
Speaker 2: Somebody's gonna take that offensive way. I'm like, well, that's them,

511
00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:55,520
Speaker 2: because I know where my heart is, I know how

512
00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:57,360
Speaker 2: pure it is. And when you play these like.

513
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Speaker 4: I'm trying to give them that real atl hip hop

514
00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,080
Speaker 4: hip to let people know ya we hear. In order

515
00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:05,240
Speaker 4: for my community to be here, I got to showcase

516
00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:06,080
Speaker 4: that we are here.

517
00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:09,160
Speaker 2: Her presentation matters. I didn't realize how.

518
00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:13,600
Speaker 4: Important me being the first black instructor was until Ali

519
00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:17,800
Speaker 4: Loved joined. And I say that because when she joined,

520
00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:19,480
Speaker 4: it felt like one of the biggest weights off of

521
00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:21,720
Speaker 4: my shoulder because I'm like, cool, I don't have to

522
00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:23,840
Speaker 4: do this by myself now, and in the same space,

523
00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:26,600
Speaker 4: we're gonna be running together, and you, being a black woman,

524
00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:28,960
Speaker 4: excuse me, has a completely different perspective of life that

525
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Speaker 4: I could actually learn from in real time.

526
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Speaker 2: Now.

527
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Speaker 4: Ali also was a different individual. She is one of

528
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Speaker 4: the most badass people I know on this planet, like

529
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Speaker 4: one of the most inspirational, most loving, like heartfelt people

530
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Speaker 4: that I know. But she don't play by business. So

531
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Speaker 4: she helped me understand that, like, yo, this isn't a job,

532
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Speaker 4: this is your career. Like turn this into a career

533
00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,639
Speaker 4: out of this, then Tune it comes along, then just

534
00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:56,680
Speaker 4: Simmons comes along. And I truly didn't realize the responsibility

535
00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:58,520
Speaker 4: or sorry, I didn't realize.

536
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Speaker 2: I got a little lost in the hustle of what

537
00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:03,120
Speaker 2: we were doing until.

538
00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:08,439
Speaker 4: George Floyd got killed and like the world stopped and

539
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,879
Speaker 4: I still got to go to work as a black

540
00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,320
Speaker 4: man and people are like, what are you going to say?

541
00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:14,240
Speaker 2: What are you going to do?

542
00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:16,119
Speaker 4: Like I'm like, wait a minute, I didn't realize that

543
00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,760
Speaker 4: it all fell on me in that moment. I'm trying

544
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,200
Speaker 4: to call my dad, like, YO, Dad, this is crazy

545
00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:23,280
Speaker 4: what's going on right now? Like as a black many

546
00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,000
Speaker 4: to call my dad for safety and peace and like YO,

547
00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:28,720
Speaker 4: buy me understanding. And I felt like people were knocking

548
00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,760
Speaker 4: at my door like YO, like what are you going

549
00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:32,040
Speaker 4: to say? I'm like, I don't know what the hell

550
00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,359
Speaker 4: to say. So that was like the point where I

551
00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 4: realized how important this is and how much responsibility I

552
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,239
Speaker 4: do have to show up because in that moment, I'm like,

553
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,439
Speaker 4: how I interact on that camera, how I articulate on

554
00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,640
Speaker 4: that camera, or the stories that I tell will allow

555
00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,359
Speaker 4: people in their households and their communities to be like.

556
00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,919
Speaker 2: That's Alex Tucson's perception as a black man. That may

557
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:56,760
Speaker 2: be everybody's reality, and that's not the case.

558
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Speaker 4: That's why I was so thankful for Ali Love Tune

559
00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:01,520
Speaker 4: Digest through the Door, because it's like, we need to

560
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,480
Speaker 4: tell our stories in all different perspectives. Yes, that's how

561
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,240
Speaker 4: we organically build our community here at Pollo Time.

562
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:09,159
Speaker 2: So that probably was a.

563
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,719
Speaker 4: Turning point of me realizing how important this job was

564
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,600
Speaker 4: and I had to take it that much more serious

565
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:14,400
Speaker 4: at that point for sure.

566
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Speaker 1: For sure, Well, and I mean I watch you like

567
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,280
Speaker 1: whenever you're preparing, you're like, I'm getting my mees my playlist.

568
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,639
Speaker 1: How many times you listen to it and you really

569
00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:24,880
Speaker 1: take it very serious?

570
00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it shows. It definitely shows.

571
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Speaker 1: I remember in twenty twenty when George Floyd died and

572
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 1: we had to sit in that and because you were

573
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Speaker 1: one of the people that we watched every day just

574
00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,920
Speaker 1: to like be active and do something, we were looking.

575
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Speaker 3: Like what are you going to say?

576
00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,960
Speaker 1: And that falls on us sometimes in celebrities, like we

577
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 1: want to hear why aren't you speaking up about this?

578
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,639
Speaker 4: That moment helped me understand how much responsibility that I

579
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 4: have those who care must. In that moment, I realized

580
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 4: I was like, all right, this is a call of duty. Like, yes,

581
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 4: this is my career, this is my job, but I

582
00:22:55,720 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 4: have to, like I have to organically remain myself and

583
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,919
Speaker 4: inspire others that don't look like me so they can

584
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:03,919
Speaker 4: communicate with me.

585
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,199
Speaker 2: That has to be the key. That has to be

586
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:07,719
Speaker 2: the key. I don't need you to I don't need

587
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,399
Speaker 2: you to love my classes. I actually don't like.

588
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 4: Some of the biggest top Quick top chair compliments that

589
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:14,159
Speaker 4: I received is hey, at I take Monday night hip

590
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 4: hop I'm like you do, and they're like, yeah, I don't.

591
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 2: Take it for the music though, I take it for

592
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 2: the message.

593
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 4: And when I walk away from that, I'm like, they

594
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,199
Speaker 4: don't understand how much of a validating top chair compliment

595
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,640
Speaker 4: that is. That means that we can have a difference

596
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,879
Speaker 4: of music, but the understanding of love and the purpose

597
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,680
Speaker 4: in the intent of the message is received for that. Hey,

598
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,640
Speaker 4: I'm doing my job. I'm doing my job.

599
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 1: Speaking of how you've turned this into a business, Ali

600
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 1: told you, Hey, this is your career, this is a business.

601
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Speaker 1: I remember I took my family to last year from

602
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 1: went to New York, went to the Brooklyn game.

603
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,639
Speaker 3: I saw you there, and I'm catch you.

604
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:55,600
Speaker 4: Course, matter what city, I'm gonna catch you course signe.

605
00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: And I remember waking up because we stayed at the

606
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 1: addition in Times Square because my family had been in

607
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 1: New York, so you gotta stay in Time Square the

608
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 1: first time we know where to stay.

609
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 5: We're gonna tell you, Okay, it's too loud, But I

610
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 5: remember waking up, opening up my window and there was

611
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:20,120
Speaker 5: this huge Nevado and I see your face pop up.

612
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 3: Then I look to the left.

613
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: It's a huge smart Water add in your face stuff

614
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 1: and I'm like video, I'm like, you're.

615
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,159
Speaker 2: Everywhere and I didn't see it yet, so you sending this.

616
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 2: It was the first time I saw it and I

617
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 2: was like, yo, it was crazy.

618
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 3: Then you drop past peloton you see your face?

619
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Speaker 2: What is that like till this day doesn't get old.

620
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 2: I'm just like we made it to billboard and.

621
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Speaker 4: Times Square before we made it to the police blodder

622
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 4: at our local town, you know, all honesty like yeah,

623
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 4: stuff like that, Like it seems crazy still to be

624
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 4: honest with you all from pushing pedals on a bike,

625
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 4: But then when it occurs, I'm like, it's not crazy.

626
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 4: You feel so like it was supposed to happen like

627
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 4: this the entire time. But yeah, seen your face on

628
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 4: the billboard a Times Square. I'm not gonna lie. I

629
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 4: don't get old.

630
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was away.

631
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,440
Speaker 2: And it's more importantly like.

632
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 4: It gives me like hope to be like yo, keep going,

633
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 4: like think bigger, like keep up, open up your aperture

634
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,160
Speaker 4: for other things that you didn't even think were possibly

635
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,640
Speaker 4: in your scope vision. I never thought I was gonna

636
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 4: be getting paid to drink water.

637
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 2: Like a lot of speaking.

638
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,159
Speaker 3: Let me honestly, something that you should be doing anyway.

639
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:27,879
Speaker 4: I asked my friend one day at my manager, I

640
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:28,879
Speaker 4: was like, Yo, can you just do me a favorite?

641
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:30,120
Speaker 4: Can you g have cases of water for the house,

642
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 4: like you drinking as much as I do?

643
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 2: Like?

644
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 4: And he was like, yeah, I got you. A couple

645
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,440
Speaker 4: of days goes by, he was like, yo, I got

646
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,159
Speaker 4: the cases of water. But like I thought about it,

647
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:38,280
Speaker 4: we should have a water deal.

648
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 2: I reached out to smart Water and I was just like,

649
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, bro, So to see.

650
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 4: You go from that to then like a global partnership

651
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 4: to then help me announce me getting on the tread

652
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,439
Speaker 4: at Peloton to now, it's like it's all.

653
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 2: Working the way it's supposed to work, and it never

654
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 2: feels like actually work. That's the best part.

655
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 1: Well, speaking the trade, I remember you called and you

656
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,120
Speaker 1: were like, don't say nothing yet, but I'm about to video.

657
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,640
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my goodness, like.

658
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,400
Speaker 3: You literally have taken over everything.

659
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,199
Speaker 1: It's unreal like too and people don't understand that to

660
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,639
Speaker 1: be a trainer the way you are, you have to

661
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: keep your body toss tier as well. You wake up

662
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Speaker 1: every morning you're in your gym working out before you

663
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Speaker 1: go work.

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Speaker 3: I'm about to die on the bike.

665
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Speaker 1: And I like to think that you're doing something before

666
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Speaker 1: that's even prepare for.

667
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Speaker 3: That is insane.

668
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 2: Mindset has always been out work, it's always ever known.

669
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Speaker 2: But the tread, you know what it is.

670
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Speaker 4: The tread has helped me eleven years in the cycling,

671
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Speaker 4: eleven years in the fitness industry.

672
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Speaker 2: This feels like a rookie all over again.

673
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,160
Speaker 4: This feels like a new battery of new like jumpstart

674
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Speaker 4: on the cables of being like I have to learn.

675
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 4: I'm at the top tier tread instructure. I'm not like

676
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 4: I'm learning every single day, every single class.

677
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Speaker 2: So it feels great. It feels great.

678
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Speaker 3: I love it. What does a morning for Alex?

679
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Speaker 2: You sound look like there's no two days out of

680
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Speaker 2: the team because I wake up.

681
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 4: I wake up every single day at like six seven am.

682
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Speaker 4: That's probably the one thing I do. But depending on

683
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 4: the day, depending on my energy, I may knock out

684
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Speaker 4: of work out right when I wake up, I may

685
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 4: be like you know what, I'm a chill reset, walk outside,

686
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,479
Speaker 4: take time to be with the dogs, knock out my meetings,

687
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 4: and then do a workout. But if any every morning

688
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,719
Speaker 4: that I wake up starts with gratitude, gratitude cancers at

689
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,120
Speaker 4: my negativity, my attitude's I'm a firm believer of that.

690
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 2: So wake up, eyes, open up. He touched the ground.

691
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 4: I do this in your inhal your confidence, exhil your doubt,

692
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 4: and I do it three times just to like mentally

693
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 4: reset and emotionally reset for the day, whether it's a class.

694
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Speaker 2: In the morning or meetings.

695
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 4: There's got to be a workout before twelve o'clock somehow,

696
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 4: Like just I got to get into the gym before

697
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 4: twelve o'clock because I know I'm gonna get back into

698
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 4: the gym at four five o'clock.

699
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 2: Because there's two workouts a day right now.

700
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 4: It's by regiment, but there's no two days out of

701
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,679
Speaker 4: the same my peloton schedule bouncing crazy, me working with

702
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,400
Speaker 4: Puma Havy for flying out crazy right now. So there's

703
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 4: the only thing that's the same every single day is

704
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Speaker 4: the gratitude check.

705
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Speaker 3: That's so amazing.

706
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: I saw where Lebron and Stiff take your classes.

707
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 6: What is it?

708
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: Because you're a huge basketball fan and you let's go

709
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 1: ahead and give your flowers.

710
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 3: You play in the you played in the All Star.

711
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: Game two years, two years, the MVP twenty twenty two.

712
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 2: Like baller crazy. Listen, I can tell you something about that.

713
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 4: As somebody who grew up playing basketball, like I'm a

714
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 4: die hard basketball and that was the first one with

715
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 4: therap my entire life when they offered me the opportunity

716
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 4: to play in the game. Peloton will tell you this

717
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 4: flat out all the members that were in class. I

718
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 4: looked into the camera. I was flying out on Thursday.

719
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:32,360
Speaker 2: I taught on.

720
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 4: Wednesday night, and I said, Yo, I'll see y'all back

721
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 4: next week with the trophy.

722
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 3: Wow.

723
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 4: And it wasn't to be cocky. It was it was

724
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 4: more so of stay ready so you don't have to

725
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 4: get ready. I played basketball behind the scenes and stay

726
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 4: in physical shape. And I told myself, if I ever

727
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 4: had the opportunity to play on the NBA floor, it's

728
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 4: non negotiable.

729
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 2: I'm going all for it. Not to be.

730
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 4: Like, hey, I could play basketball, but to always let

731
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 4: kids know, yeah, you could have a dream of being

732
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 4: a pro athlete, you could have regiam of being a

733
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 4: rap whatever the case may be, but where you are

734
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 4: today could be the platform to where you're trying to

735
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 4: take it. And because I taught every single class with

736
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 4: the mindset of moving like a pro athlete. It attracted

737
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 4: the pro athletes, which put the NBA in in my scope,

738
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 4: in my vision, which allowed me then to have that opportunity.

739
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 4: So that wasn't by accident. That was more so like

740
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 4: because I taught every single class as an athlete with

741
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 4: that mindset, it attracted the athletes would have allowed me

742
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 4: to play on that for for sure.

743
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 3: That's good. That's good.

744
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: You talk about how you found your identity on the bike,

745
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: What did you discover.

746
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 3: In that time?

747
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 4: I discovered in order to succeed, in order to grow,

748
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 4: you gotta fail. My dad, like I said, my dad

749
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 4: had a different method of madness. All growing up. He

750
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 4: never accepted failure. It was always looked down upon. So

751
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 4: because the failure was looked down upon, I was scared

752
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 4: to even attempt.

753
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 2: So I did a lot of just existing.

754
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 4: I never really was able to live my true childhood

755
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 4: and attempt things because I was scared to fail.

756
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 2: Knowing the refeverd cushions of my dad.

757
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 4: Now where I am as an adult, I realized, I've

758
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 4: only learned, I've only became successful. I've only evolved through failure.

759
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 4: The first attempt in learning fail I got this from

760
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 4: will Smith fail fast failed, now fail here fell forward.

761
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 4: I realized everything that I do is a failure that's

762
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Speaker 4: turned into a lesson, which is turned into a blessing.

763
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Speaker 2: I'm rapping right now. I shouldn't be doing that.

764
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 4: That's one thing that I realized from my career on

765
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,479
Speaker 4: moving on a bike is attempt new things because you're

766
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 4: going to learn about yourself in ways that you never

767
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 4: thought you could.

768
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Speaker 2: I never thought I would write a book. I'd be

769
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 2: very transparent with you.

770
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,959
Speaker 4: I failed English in eleventh grade, not because I can't

771
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 4: read or write, because I just didn't apply myself. So

772
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 4: the scope of me writing a book was never I

773
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 4: never even thought about that. So when the opportunity to

774
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 4: present itself, at first, I was like, yo, nah, But

775
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 4: then I was like, you know what, I'm okay failing.

776
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 4: I'm okay being vulnerable because I realized that's my ultimate strength.

777
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 4: I'm okay being in that space of like I guess

778
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 4: for a lot of people that are like, especially the

779
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 4: black men that say Peloton classes, they're like, yo, thank

780
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 4: you for your vulnerability, And I'm like, I didn't realize

781
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 4: I was bringing vulnerable, right, But I'm just like, you

782
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 4: know what if that's what's received.

783
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 2: Then let's teach with that space.

784
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 4: Because I see a lot more people now of color,

785
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 4: especially the older black men that like really didn't focus

786
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 4: on their mental focusing on it a lot more now

787
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 4: and have any sort of like roll in that space.

788
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean everything to me.

789
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,719
Speaker 4: So I learned that you mayly be in a position

790
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 4: and inspire a lot of other people and not even

791
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 4: know it. So as long as you wake up every

792
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 4: single day and keep your faith forward and move with

793
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 4: the purpose and execute with the attention, you could be

794
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 4: saving lives and not even realizing it.

795
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 2: But you got to save your life first.

796
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that you taught.

797
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: We talked about you still being on the bike but

798
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: still having to mind as well, or feeling like you

799
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: had to mind?

800
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 3: Did you deal with a scartoo mind.

801
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: Said in that moment, because I know you're still sleeping

802
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: on your friends floor and you're like, I got to

803
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: prove this.

804
00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 3: To my dad.

805
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 2: I just didn't. I thought that that psyche thing was

806
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 2: too good to be true.

807
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 4: I was like, there's no way that an opportunity can

808
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 4: present itself so fast and get executed and like, my

809
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 4: life change.

810
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 2: And I'm firm.

811
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 4: Believer of the as fast as things come into your

812
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 4: life is as fast as you can go. So yeah,

813
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 4: Actually part of it was the scarcity of being like,

814
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 4: let me not let this go in case this doesn't

815
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 4: go right and I have something to fall back onto.

816
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 4: I think Ruth being like listen, I got you you

817
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 4: straight like was the level of comfort that I needed

818
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 4: to be like, I can let this thing go. But

819
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 4: there was definitely a sense of like, yo, don't let

820
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 4: it go because it's like the one he's ever went

821
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 4: from mopingorce to teaching before. So like it's when it's

822
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 4: never been done and you're the one doing it, it's

823
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 4: so scary because you're like, I'm creating the path in

824
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 4: front of me. There's nothing, there's no path to follow.

825
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:43,959
Speaker 4: I have to create it. So sometimes it's it's definitely

826
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 4: scary in that space. But having people like Ruth that

827
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 4: provide a level of comfort, provide you assistance instead of resistance,

828
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 4: such a key in life, Such a key in life.

829
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Speaker 1: The goats, so you became the first black instructed at Peloton,

830
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: and then we have the George Floyd death happened, which

831
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: affected everybody in the world in that moment. What parallels

832
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 1: and what did you feel similarities from your childhood being

833
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 1: mainly the only black, which is the predominantly white town

834
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: where you were mainly the black and only black in school.

835
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: Were there any similarities in the area where you feel like

836
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: I'm living this all over again.

837
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 2: There was one thing in particular.

838
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 4: I wanted to give a lot of credit to the

839
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 4: East Hampton community, to be honest with you, because they

840
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 4: accepted my family and a lot of the black families

841
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 4: out there with open arms and love.

842
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 2: I want to be very clear about that. I came

843
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 2: to Eastampton in nineteen ninety eight.

844
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 4: My dad bought a plot of land and built the

845
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 4: house up, and my mom was working out there for

846
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 4: seven years. At the time, I was going to school

847
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 4: out there for a little bit. So they definitely welcomed

848
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 4: us with open arms, the teachers, the community, my friend's parents.

849
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 4: But there was one person in particular who did not,

850
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 4: and that was our next door neighbor.

851
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 2: The person who lived right next to.

852
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 4: Us all growing up, would call the cops on us

853
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 4: for the most outrageous thing. It was one of those

854
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 4: you know when you have a neighbor like one of

855
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 4: those people like me walking in the neighborhood d draggon.

856
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,240
Speaker 4: Cops called me coming down the block, car music, cops

857
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 4: called me playing basketball outside in the cops called to

858
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 4: the point that the East Hampton police would come by

859
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 4: the house and be like, Yo, what up the eteen

860
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 4: you good?

861
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 2: Like it became.

862
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 4: It became that relationship where the cops are like, yo,

863
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 4: we just have to do our due diligence and drive by,

864
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:26,879
Speaker 4: but we understand what you're dealing with.

865
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 2: So they actually would give me grace.

866
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 4: So that's why, honestly, I shout out all the cops

867
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 4: out there, because they understood what I was dealing with.

868
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 4: I was the only black hid on my block. My

869
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:37,720
Speaker 4: mom would be like, do not go to the mailbox

870
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 4: with you?

871
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 2: Do drag on?

872
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 4: And I'm like, why you talk about we're geting the mails.

873
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 2: Neighbor's gonna see us.

874
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 4: And I'm like, Mom, you've worked your entire life, you

875
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,919
Speaker 4: sacrifice to build this entire beautiful home, raise us here

876
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 4: to not feel comfortable in your own environment because somebody

877
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 4: else doesn't want you to live here. And I remember

878
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 4: when the George Floyd happened. The only way I could

879
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 4: explain it to the Peloton members is hypothetically speaking, I

880
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 4: get into an interaction with a police officer. He's having

881
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 4: a bad day. I may be having a bad day.

882
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 4: That tension can cause a little bit of escalated an

883
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 4: escalated situation. And now my ego gets in the way

884
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,439
Speaker 4: of me making it home safe. And now the only

885
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 4: way you're gonna understand is when you click onto the

886
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 4: bike on Friday morning and it's like, Yo, where's at Oh?

887
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't even think I can.

888
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 4: I'm not exempt from this just because I ride a bike,

889
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 4: just because I want a platform, because people know me,

890
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 4: does not mean I'm exempt from the everyday struggles of

891
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 4: black men in America to black people in general in America.

892
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 4: And I use the example of at the time I

893
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 4: lived in Brooklyn, when I started Peloton, I drive across

894
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 4: the bridge in Brooklyn, I'm viewed as a drug dealer

895
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 4: due to my nice car and because I wear sweats

896
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 4: and I have a drag on. But the minute I

897
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 4: crossed the bridge into Manhattan, Oh, you're an athlete, You're good.

898
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 4: So I tell people all the time like those I've

899
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 4: been pulled out of my car driving across Brooklyn at gunpoint,

900
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,280
Speaker 4: not because I did anything wrong, because the cop thought

901
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 4: I had something.

902
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 2: In the car.

903
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 4: Thankfully due to my training at military school and understanding

904
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 4: how to talk to authority. The minute the cop pulls

905
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 4: up on me, I know how to make him aware

906
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 4: that I respect the rank, I respect the situation, and

907
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 4: I want to make sure that I'm safe and you're safe.

908
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,879
Speaker 4: So certain things like that that like my dad, that's

909
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 4: why I give credit to him sending me in to

910
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 4: military school, because I was super hot headed as a

911
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 4: young kid, where like I could say the wrong thing

912
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 4: and it could go up right. And because of military school,

913
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,280
Speaker 4: when when you spend so much time with somebody yelling

914
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 4: in your face telling you what to do and you

915
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 4: can't do a damn thing about it, it allows you

916
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 4: to be disciplined in a space where it can make

917
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 4: you allow you to get home safe. So to just

918
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 4: bring him all back, that was the only way I

919
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 4: could articulate it to the Peloton community to help them

920
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 4: understand what I go through on an everyday basis, which

921
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 4: means that's what other black individuals go through on every

922
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 4: day basis. And honestly, the community was extremely receptive to it. Yeah,

923
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 4: because for me, I don't need you to People are

924
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 4: saying I stand with you, I stand with you. Nah,

925
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,800
Speaker 4: I'm moving, move with me. We ain't got to stand. No,

926
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 4: I'm trying to move somewhere, and I need you to move.

927
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 4: I need you to move within your household. Move your

928
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 4: kid's mind, help them, help change their perspective. So when

929
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 4: they deal with somebody in their school system that looks

930
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 4: like me, they're comfortable because their parents provide them information,

931
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 4: help them understand that.

932
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 2: Like, yo, that's eight people, they're good.

933
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 3: Yeah.

934
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 2: If we can do that, if I could reach one,

935
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 2: I could teach one. So that's why I show up

936
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 2: to work every single day.

937
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 4: With that level of I have to because I understand

938
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 4: that for somebody out there, I may be the first

939
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 4: interaction with the black person, which may be the difference

940
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,720
Speaker 4: in them raising their kids and interacting within their community.

941
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 2: So that was that moment for me for sure.

942
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 3: I love that.

943
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 1: And speaking of community, you started a foundation, Yes, I

944
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: want to talk about that because you started in twenty

945
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: Did this have anything to do with what was going on?

946
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 3: Or do you have more downtime?

947
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,240
Speaker 4: Is that why you It was a combination of downtime.

948
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 4: It was also a combination of.

949
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 2: I like.

950
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 4: After my grandmother passed away in twenty eighteen, I went

951
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 4: to Haiti for the first time as an adult, I

952
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 4: was able to identify where I came from. I was

953
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 4: able to identify in real time the sacrifices that were implemented.

954
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 4: I was able to identify as one sacrifice away from

955
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 4: growing up and Haiti. To be honest with you, But

956
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 4: then I also understood that once again, those who can

957
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 4: must I've been provided so many of blessing, so many opportunities,

958
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 4: so many connections, so many resources.

959
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 2: What's the point of holding those in?

960
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 3: Right?

961
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 2: The goal is to.

962
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 4: Extend your hand that do better, that feel good, that

963
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 4: look good, that do better. This is the part where

964
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,439
Speaker 4: you've reached a certain space in life where you're moving

965
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 4: out of frequency, in the space where your cup is overflowing,

966
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 4: and within those overflowing gifts and blessings, you got to

967
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 4: provide it to other people, otherwise they go waste it.

968
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 4: So the Do Better Foundation was founded twenty twenty with

969
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 4: two of my best friends who are my managers, one

970
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 4: n uh Nigerian American, one Korean American, and I'm Haitian American. Right,

971
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 4: we all have the immigrant mindset and that level of

972
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 4: understanding and how we grew up and we just came

973
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 4: to this conclusion of being like Yo, We're so fortunate

974
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 4: to be raised how we were raised, to have the

975
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 4: parents that we have, for the sacrifices that they did.

976
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:01,399
Speaker 4: We got to look out for the kids that look

977
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 4: like us from the environments that we come from and

978
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 4: from the environments that we don't come from. Where that's

979
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 4: kids of the inner city community, kids from haity, kids

980
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 4: for career kids in Nigeria, people that are in the military.

981
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 2: That's close to my heart.

982
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 4: To Do Better Foundation was created to provide people opportunities

983
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 4: to wellness resources that they just truly may not have

984
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:25,800
Speaker 4: everything that I was afforded, therapy, after school programs, nutrition, mentors, guidance,

985
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 4: like everything that I realized that like those small details

986
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 4: which all compile them to make me who I am today.

987
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to give that to other kids, simply put.

988
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 4: Simply put, and it feels great to do it with

989
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,760
Speaker 4: your friends who are your managers. But friends family first,

990
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So it's definitely a validating

991
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 4: thing to wake up and be like Yo. On Thanksgiving,

992
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 4: we got to go give out Turkey City the kids

993
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 4: in Brooklyn, but we're going to make sure we do

994
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 4: it with the public school system. That way, there's things

995
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 4: like that feel so purposeful because then when we go

996
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 4: court side at the NETS game, it feels validating to

997
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 4: be like, yo, we're course side, were chilling now, but

998
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:00,320
Speaker 4: look at all the purposeful things that we did together.

999
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 4: So it makes the friendship purposeful as well. So I

1000
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:05,280
Speaker 4: love the fact that I got to do with my boys.

1001
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 4: It HiT's different. I love them, I love it.

1002
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: I love that you've accomplished all these things. What is

1003
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: next for Alex's Tussons?

1004
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 4: Oh man, I don't know what's next because one of

1005
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 4: the hardest things for me to do is think that forward,

1006
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 4: being that I never thought I would be where I

1007
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 4: am today.

1008
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 2: I don't know what's next, but I.

1009
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 4: Can tell you that my aperture has opened up for

1010
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 4: me to test new things. So I'm not going to

1011
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 4: block a blessing due to pride and ego. I'm not

1012
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 4: going to tell myself what I can't do. I'm more

1013
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 4: gonna tell myself what I should try to do. So

1014
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 4: I don't know what's next. I actually can't even tell you,

1015
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 4: Like even off came, I can't tell you what's next

1016
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 4: because I'm in the space right now, being like we

1017
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 4: dropped the shoe, we dropped the book, we did the foundation.

1018
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 4: I just want to take time to just like accept

1019
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 4: those blessings and then have an understanding of where we

1020
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 4: want to go next without rushing it. So I truly

1021
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 4: don't know, and that's okay not knowing, but I know

1022
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 4: that I'm not going to block the blessing when once

1023
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 4: it presents itself.

1024
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1025
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: So my last question, this is from my ladies, because

1026
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: everybody they.

1027
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 3: Want to know. I've had people like literally hear me,

1028
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 3: you know him? Is he single? Now? You're very private about.

1029
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 1: Your personal life, so we don't have to get into.

1030
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 3: That, but I do want to know what does Alex

1031
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 3: look for in a woman.

1032
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 2: I mean to be very transparent with you.

1033
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 4: I don't want to say my mother, but I was

1034
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 4: raised from a woman that did everything Popscott sick, Dinosa

1035
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 4: coin cancer mom, went back to school, got a PAHD,

1036
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 4: became the breadwinner of the family, became like a boss

1037
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 4: asked woman, but always has family time Like so you

1038
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 4: gottah man, I didn't even never had I never had

1039
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 4: a question. I got to look at you and be

1040
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 4: able to know that you could raise a family on

1041
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 4: the same morals and principles, and even if they're different,

1042
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:02,280
Speaker 4: they're still aligned.

1043
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 2: I have to know that.

1044
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 4: Even on my worst days, you're gonna cheat me like

1045
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 4: it's my best days. And I gotta know that you

1046
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,439
Speaker 4: take care of yourself because in order to be present

1047
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 4: with me, you got to be present with yourself. You

1048
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 4: got to do all the invisible work to make sure

1049
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 4: you arrive every single day feeling like the best version

1050
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 4: of you in that way that would allow me to

1051
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 4: take care of you the best way that I know possible.

1052
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 1: All Right, Well that's what he's looking for in a woman,

1053
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 1: all right, because they really.

1054
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 3: You know him, And I'm.

1055
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, they're like, you know, you know what, we

1056
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 4: give so much of ourselves publicly that like, there's parts

1057
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 4: of myself, my life that I'm like, I just keep

1058
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 4: private because it protects my peace. So I try to

1059
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 4: tell people like, yo, I'm all for sharing your relationships

1060
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 4: and whatever you got going on social media, but like,

1061
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 4: just because I know how much my piece means to me,

1062
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 4: I want to be able to go home at night

1063
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 4: and know that my piece is protected, whether it's like

1064
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 4: family relationship, growl from relationships, whatever, Like there's certain things

1065
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 4: that I keep close to the heart for sure, because

1066
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 4: what you give people they can take away so hardway.

1067
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, that's that's really good. That's good, Alex.

1068
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 3: Thank you.

1069
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,720
Speaker 2: I appreciate you. I love you.

1070
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: Your story is phenomenal.

1071
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 3: Thank you for sharing it with us.

1072
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,359
Speaker 1: Guys, make sure you go get his book, Activate Your Greatness.

1073
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: It is available everywhere. We want to make this a

1074
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: New York Times bestseller. I know you're well on the

1075
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: way to that, but definitely want to make that.

1076
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 2: I appreciate you so much.

1077
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely so.

1078
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:36,919
Speaker 1: At the close of our show, we do what's called

1079
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 1: positive outcomes, where our listeners right into us and we.

1080
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 3: Give them advice.

1081
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 2: Love it all right, So.

1082
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: This one says Dear Crystal. I battled with so many

1083
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: demons in my life. But as I held through all

1084
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:53,959
Speaker 1: the traumatic life experiences, I have triggers and I'm still

1085
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: working on myself. I am dealing with something that I

1086
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: have never experienced in my forty six years of.

1087
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 3: Life, self esteem issue.

1088
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: I have gained weight in my stomach area, lost a

1089
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 1: front tooth, and just feel so unpretty and unattractive. I

1090
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 1: hate looking in the mirror and getting dressed. It's too

1091
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: much for me, I feel like a whale in everything

1092
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: I've been there, girl, like nothing is fitting right now,

1093
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 1: So I know where you are. I don't have the

1094
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: motivation and discipline to do anything about it because I'm

1095
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: a stress eater. I am overwhelmed with being the breadwinner

1096
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: of my family, taking care of my sick parents as

1097
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: best I can, and I'm working a job with a

1098
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: team who relies on me for everything. Self care is

1099
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: very important, But what do you do when everyone thinks

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Speaker 1: you are the shei ro and the fixer like Olivia Pope?

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Speaker 1: What do you do when you are smiling on the

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Speaker 1: outside and drowning in darkness on the inside, but masking

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Speaker 1: it all because you can't change the purpose God placed

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Speaker 1: on you to be the fixer?

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Speaker 3: How do you balance? How do you find balance? Because

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Speaker 3: you can't question God's.

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Speaker 4: Plan for you, definitely can't question God's claim wow wow.

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Speaker 4: To provide feedback on that, yeah, I'm a firm believer

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Speaker 4: of breakdown to breakthrough. If you're going through that dark

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Speaker 4: space instead of trying to avoid it, honestly accept it.

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Speaker 4: But like hear what I'm saying, though, break down to

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Speaker 4: break through a lot of the times it's hard for

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Speaker 4: a lot of people. When you look into the mirror

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Speaker 4: and identify yourself from that external it goes back to

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Speaker 4: feel good look a letter. When you identify yourself from

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Speaker 4: that external look, you forget what's inside of you. I

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Speaker 4: think for that young that young queen, I don't say

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Speaker 4: soul searching is the right word, but going back to

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Speaker 4: that internal perspective and understanding how beautiful you are on

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Speaker 4: the inside, Well, she just said that God put her

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Speaker 4: in a position. There's a reason as to why she's

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Speaker 4: a chosen one. You got to go back and look

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Speaker 4: at yourself internally and find that internal light of being

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Speaker 4: like I am the chosen one before you look into

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Speaker 4: the mirror, because if I look into the mirror first

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Speaker 4: thing in the morning, I'm not going to be proud

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Speaker 4: of what I see, regardless what's going on the light.

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Speaker 4: You got to identify the feel good aspect, yes, then

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Speaker 4: you could go from to the look good aspect within

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Speaker 4: that space. Though while you're identifying that internal light, I

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Speaker 4: would say, find accountability partners that are gonna help uplift

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Speaker 4: you and not outshine you. I realize in my darkest

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Speaker 4: of all days, for the days I can't get up

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Speaker 4: for the days I don't feel motivated, to the days

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Speaker 4: that I'm like, yo, exactly what she's saying.

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Speaker 2: That like you look into the mirror, you like question yourself.

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Speaker 4: The people around me keep me floating when I feel

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Speaker 4: like I'm drowning.

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Speaker 2: I like to quote Jay Z.

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Speaker 4: If everybody in your click is rich, you click is rugged,

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Speaker 4: nobody would fall because everybody would beat each other's crutches,

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Speaker 4: rich with integrity, rich with perspective, rich with love, rich

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Speaker 4: with purpose. If the people around you understand what you lack,

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Speaker 4: they can help provide it for you when you can't

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Speaker 4: provide it for yourself. That accountability. That won'ta hit me,

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Speaker 4: that wanta.

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Speaker 1: Hit right now.

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Speaker 3: I got a friend when I need some help.

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Speaker 1: The next thing we through is what I'm going through,

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Speaker 1: in what I'm growing through, and I'll start this one.

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Speaker 3: I am going through really seeing what.

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Speaker 1: Else is for me because I'm asking you what's next

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Speaker 1: for Alex. I'm trying to figure out what's next for Crystal,

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Speaker 1: you know, and making sure that I'm not putting all

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Speaker 1: my eggs in one basket. I'm growing through, walking through

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Speaker 1: seasons of uncertainty, you know, and it's kind of hard

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Speaker 1: when I'm much.

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Speaker 3: I like to control things.

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Speaker 1: I like to know, Okay, this is where I'm going,

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Speaker 1: this is what's next, is what I'm doing. But walking

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Speaker 1: and having faith is what I'm growing through right now.

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Speaker 2: So it's going going through and growing.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes it's the same for people. Sometimes whatever you're

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Speaker 1: going through, you're growing.

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Speaker 3: At the same time.

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Speaker 4: So to piggyback, I'm going through an evolution stage.

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Speaker 2: I don't even know what's happening. I just all honestly,

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Speaker 2: every workout that I did.

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Speaker 4: Last week I cried in my workouts, really break down

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Speaker 4: and break through. I don't know what evolution is happening.

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Speaker 4: But God is like, yo, you're gonna take this next step.

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Speaker 4: In order to take it, you're gonna have to shed

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Speaker 4: some weight throughout the process. I'm gonna have you break

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Speaker 4: down and I'm gonna have you break through. So I

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Speaker 4: have no idea what this evolution stage is. I just

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Speaker 4: know it's happening in real time. Yeah, so that's what

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Speaker 4: I'm going through. I guess that's what I'm going through.

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Speaker 3: To the Yeah, that's amazing. I have moments where I

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Speaker 3: literally like break down in my.

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Speaker 4: Workouts too, like tears of joy, like not sad I'm

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Speaker 4: talking like tears of joy, where I'm just likefulness, hatefulness,

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Speaker 4: really thankful for the opportunity. I don't even see but

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Speaker 4: I feel it's coming, you know what I'm saying. I

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Speaker 4: wanna see it, but I feel it. God's like, Yo,

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Speaker 4: you have to keep moving towards it. Get up and

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Speaker 4: get out, keep executing. I'm gonna give it to you,

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Speaker 4: but you just can't. I'm throw in your lap.

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Speaker 2: You got to go get it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that.

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Speaker 1: The next thing we do is keep it blank, Sweetie.

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say, for this episode, keep it pushing,

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Speaker 1: sweety Okay.

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Speaker 2: Keep it pushing, keep it pure. I love it, Keep

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Speaker 2: it pure.

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Speaker 3: I love it. That's good. Alex has been amazing.

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Speaker 2: Seriously, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you guys so much for tuning into this episode.

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Speaker 3: To keep it positive, Sweetie.

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Speaker 1: If you want to write into our Positive Outcomes listener letter,

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Speaker 1: you can write in to keep it Positive Sweete at

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Speaker 1: gmail dot com and that's Sweetye with an Ie. You

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Speaker 1: can follow kIPS on all platforms at keep it Positive, Sweetie,

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Speaker 1: and you can follow me on all platforms at Love

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Speaker 1: Chris Orine and that's l u V.

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Speaker 3: Alex.

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Speaker 2: Tell the people where they can find you, Alex twenty

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Speaker 2: five on Instagram and a social media platforms.

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Speaker 3: That's all right, you guys, do not forget to get

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Speaker 3: his books.

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Speaker 2: You get your coffree.

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Speaker 3: That's right. You not be disappointed.

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Speaker 1: Alex is always I'm so proud of you and I

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Speaker 1: love you, my friend.

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Speaker 3: You. Thank you for coming.

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Speaker 4: Come on, we gotta do this again next season. Well

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Speaker 4: and we go through the next chapter of life and evolution.

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Speaker 4: I can sit down and be like, remember, here's what

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Speaker 4: I want this, here's what I want Right now.

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Speaker 3: I would love now know the audience with to thank you.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate you so good.

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Speaker 6: Look you guys, thank you so much for this fellowship.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for letting Alice get here safely. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for him keeping his promise to come on this episode.

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Speaker 1: I know that's going to touch many lives. He's already

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Speaker 1: done that, and I asked that you continue to watch

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Speaker 1: over him, watch over everyone that has their hand on

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Speaker 1: this podcast.

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Speaker 3: I asked that.

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Speaker 1: Everything that we talk about today just help somebody in

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Speaker 1: some type of way.

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Speaker 3: In your name, we pray amen, let's do it.