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Speaker 1: Hello Sunshine, What up Busties? Today? On the bright Side,

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Speaker 1: Superstar Peloton instructor and CEO of the Love Squad, Ali

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Speaker 1: Love is here telling us how she practices positivity on

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Speaker 1: the daily.

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Speaker 2: It's Thursday, May ninth.

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Speaker 1: I'm Simone Boyce, I'm Danielle Robe and this is the

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Speaker 1: bright Side from Hello Sunshine. Mother's Day is this weekend,

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Speaker 1: and Drew Barrymore is making news because she was telling

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Speaker 1: everybody that her favorite gift was actually this questionnaire that

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Speaker 1: her kids put together about all of her favorite things,

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Speaker 1: and she felt so seen.

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Speaker 2: And I was.

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Speaker 1: Thinking about the weirdest gifts.

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Speaker 2: I gave my mom. What was it?

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Speaker 1: I think I made her duct tape slippers one year,

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Speaker 1: like when I was little, and she ended up falling

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Speaker 1: down the stairs because they were slippery, and she wanted

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Speaker 1: to show me she was wearing them, which is awful.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about you, because like Mother's Day is

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Speaker 1: coming up, do you know what your kids are going

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Speaker 1: to give you? Are you in cahoots with Michael about it?

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Speaker 3: First of all, I'm still not over the duct tape slippers.

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Speaker 3: I mean the ingenuity, like the engineer's mind that it

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Speaker 3: took to come up with that idea. But this Mother's Day,

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Speaker 3: I am that walking cliche mom. That's like, sweetie, if

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Speaker 3: you just make me anything, I'll love it.

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Speaker 2: That's me now.

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Speaker 3: And I never thought I would reach to that point,

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Speaker 3: but Michael did ask me what I wanted for Mother's Day,

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Speaker 3: and then he went on to tell me that he

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Speaker 3: had an idea, and he was like, but I don't

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Speaker 3: know if you're gonna like it, so maybe I should

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Speaker 3: just tell you.

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Speaker 1: I love that he ran it by you.

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Speaker 3: He's probably he's well gonna kill me for talking about

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Speaker 3: this right now, but he prefaced it by saying it

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Speaker 3: was really practical and not exactly like a classic Mother's

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Speaker 3: Day gift. It was like a telescope close. It was

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Speaker 1: So, oh my god, that's worse than a vacuum clean

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Speaker 1: I mean, but it.

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Speaker 3: Is really sweet and thoughtful because he's trying to think

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Speaker 2: But I told him, I was like, no, that's okay,

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Speaker 2: I'll just take a spa day. That's fine.

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Speaker 3: You can just give me a gift certificate to Burke

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Speaker 3: Williams please.

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Speaker 2: So he was like, Okay, fine, that's really sweet.

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Speaker 1: Do you prefer a practical gift or a frivolous gift.

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Speaker 3: I'm not really a frivolous person, so I probably would

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Speaker 3: have to choose a practical gift.

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Speaker 2: But I also loved taking a lap of luxury every

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Speaker 2: now and then.

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Speaker 3: One of the best practical gifts that my husband got

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Speaker 3: me was this thing called a Remarkable and it's perfect

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Speaker 3: for creatives because you can write on it and then

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Speaker 3: you can digitize the notes that you take on there

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Speaker 3: and then email it to yourself.

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Speaker 2: It's like been a game changer for my creative process.

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Speaker 3: But how about you practical or frivolous somewhere in between.

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Speaker 1: I actually have this new thing that I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: do with people that are really close to me, because

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Speaker 1: when I was going through a hard time, I had

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Speaker 1: a girlfriend from colle send me an email out of

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Speaker 1: that she loved most about me or noticed that I

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Speaker 1: I needed to hear it so badly, and I realized, like,

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Speaker 1: this is the most thoughtful gift that anybody has given me,

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Speaker 1: and so for Mother's Day, for Father's Day, for birthdays. Now,

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Speaker 1: I try and sit down and write like a full

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Speaker 1: to be a great daughter, I would handwrite it. But

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Speaker 1: I think I'm just doing an email, Danielle.

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Speaker 3: I think that is one of the best gifts that

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Speaker 3: your feelings about them, because we don't do it often enough,

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Speaker 3: and as I get older, I'm like, I don't really want.

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Speaker 2: Gifts, Like around Christmas time.

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Speaker 3: I would love for my family to just move away

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Speaker 3: from from gifts and like, let's put all our money

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that means gifts are not your love language either.

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Speaker 3: I love gifts, I do, but you can only collect

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Speaker 3: so much stuff, you know what I mean, And I

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Speaker 3: just I'm all about reducing the clutter. But your letter

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Speaker 3: idea made me think about this Reese's book Club pick

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Speaker 3: this husband and wife and there's like time travel involved.

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Speaker 3: But they have this tradition of every anniversary they write

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Speaker 2: And so I did that.

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Speaker 3: For Michael's birthday last year, and I was like, this

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Speaker 2: I need to do this every year.

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Speaker 1: That's really sweet. I think it's so meaningful. And then

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Speaker 1: you have them forever and you look back on where

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Speaker 2: Do you journal? Do you write life down?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: But I think that my notepads are full of gems,

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Speaker 1: like all my best ideas and most inner thoughts are there.

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Speaker 1: If my phone ever gets stolen, I'm really screwed.

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Speaker 2: Same.

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Speaker 1: I sort of have this theory that some of our

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Speaker 1: best company ideas, like our best moments are just sitting

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Speaker 1: in our notepads.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is the new restaurant napkin.

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Speaker 3: You know those stories of entrepreneurs who went to dinners

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Speaker 3: and they jotted down their business plan on a napkin.

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Speaker 3: The iPhone notes app, that's the new napkin. After the break,

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Speaker 3: we're getting pumped up by Peloton's resident pep Talk Queen,

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Speaker 3: Ali Love.

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Speaker 1: That's coming up next.

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Speaker 2: Don't miss it.

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Speaker 1: We're back and we're here with Ali Love. She's a

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Speaker 1: Peloton instructor, Today's Show on Air contributor, and the CEO

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Speaker 3: Ali's here talking resilience, building a brand, and the power

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Speaker 2: Ali, Welcome to the bright Side.

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Speaker 4: Welcome, Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Hello, you brought your good energy here.

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Speaker 2: I am ready to rock and roll baby. Oh we'd

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Speaker 2: love to hear that.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 3: Listen, you've built quite the community. So many of our

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Speaker 3: listeners know you from Peloton, but I think a lot

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Speaker 3: of people are less familiar with how you got there.

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Speaker 3: So how did you get started in this whole movement world?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely so. I was a dancer for many years. I

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Speaker 4: went to Fordham a Ley, graduated with the bachelors and

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Speaker 4: fine Arts, and moving to New York as a young woman,

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Speaker 4: I got really curious around my career. It led me

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Speaker 4: it was through that curiosity that landed me more so

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Speaker 4: at the Brooklyn Nets, And it was that exposure where

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Speaker 4: when Peloton was looking for instructors, they had about ten instructors.

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Speaker 4: They were looking to expand they reached out and so

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Speaker 4: I'd host for the Brooklyn Nets up until eleven C

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Speaker 3: I want to know about this whole process, Like do

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Speaker 3: you have to go through this rigorous training certification program

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Speaker 3: or like how does it all work? Yeah, so eight

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Speaker 2: I was there for a while.

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Speaker 4: Then once we started to expand and look for instructors,

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Speaker 4: what happened was we established kind of what a standard

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Speaker 4: is around what makes a Pelton instructor a Pelton instructor.

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Speaker 4: We're fifty eight instructors now. It's a process. It takes

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Speaker 4: months in terms of interviews, in terms of coming in

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Speaker 1: Has Peloton shifted your lifestyle or you were always pretty active?

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Speaker 2: You said you danced.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I was always pretty active. When I was nine

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Speaker 2: I'm from Miami, Florida. Get out. You're from Miami. Three

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, Allie, Wait, where did you grow up

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Speaker 4: I actually didn't know this about you. Yeah, at nine

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Speaker 1: I want to hear more about the Brooklyn Nets because

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Speaker 3: Yes, you're really thoughtful about your transitions in life. Where

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Speaker 3: Oh by yeah, facts, okay, girly pop come correct, you

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Speaker 3: I eat a lot of protein. I mean I left.

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Speaker 3: as a woman, And so I really like feeling strong,

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Speaker 3: you know, like I also like looking strong. I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: be honest, but anyways, I don't want to digress too much.

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Speaker 3: But as one of the most popular coaches fitness coaches

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Speaker 3: in the world, I want to learn from you, Like,

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Speaker 3: how do I bring that like hype girl fitness trainer

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Speaker 3: energies to my everyday life.

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Speaker 2: How do give me some lessons?

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Speaker 4: Well, I think it's like, yes, you have to be

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Speaker 4: your own personal hype woman. Absolutely, But I always go

453
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Speaker 4: back to something that maybe sounds so boring. Is a

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Speaker 4: morning routine and you have to figure out and we

455
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Speaker 4: talk about it like playlists and all these things. Music

456
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Speaker 4: and movement works all of the senses, right, It's like

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Speaker 4: it works all your synapses. So I think it's like

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Speaker 4: figuring out that morning routine and when you get up

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Speaker 4: and you're trying.

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Speaker 2: To get hype for the day.

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Speaker 4: I don't necessarily encourage you to drink coffee right away.

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying don't drink coffee or caffeine, but it's

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Speaker 4: just like you let your natural energy take hold first.

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Speaker 4: Say it some I didn't want to as I look

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Speaker 4: at it across the table. I didn't want to like

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Speaker 4: shame you. But I do think it comes down to

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Speaker 4: your morning routine. It's like get up and one get

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Speaker 4: your mind right before you get your body right.

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Speaker 2: I pray in the morning.

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Speaker 4: I listen to this prayer app where it allows like

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Speaker 4: meditation and prayer. I ask myself this two part question,

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Speaker 4: this one question every day, what or how do I

473
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Speaker 4: want to feel today, and I let that anchor me.

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Speaker 4: So you maybe today you want to feel safe, maybe

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Speaker 4: you want to feel quiet, maybe you want to feel productive.

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Speaker 4: Maybe today you just want to knock heads. And you're

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Speaker 4: coming out and you're like, I'm coming out hot because

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Speaker 4: I need answers from everyone in my life, Like we're

479
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Speaker 4: closing chapters today. And the reason that that's important and

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Speaker 4: so powerful is like that small change creates such a

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Speaker 4: big shift in your day is because you're controlling the

482
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Speaker 4: fact that you are not reactive to people. You're not

483
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Speaker 4: at the mercy of someone triggering you. You're owing your feelings.

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Speaker 4: And so that morning routine is your personal hype station.

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Speaker 4: And if you're looking to like, yeah, we want to

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Speaker 4: amp it up, then you go ahead and start moving

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Speaker 4: your body with good music, whatever music you like, you

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Speaker 4: put that on, you move your body. Yeah, I do

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Speaker 4: want us to move away from like this idea of

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Speaker 4: being strong or working out has to be like an

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Speaker 4: hour or thirty minutes or ten minutes right structured, Like

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Speaker 4: you can just put on music and literally be like

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Speaker 4: I'm going to a five minute song. I'm gonna dance and

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Speaker 4: not stop moving my feet. What's that song?

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Speaker 1: For you. Like recently, I've been listening to Florence in

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Speaker 1: the Machine. The last song on the Sex and the

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Speaker 1: City soundtrack is like you Got the Love.

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Speaker 2: You Got the level.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, that's a good song that makes so I'm

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Speaker 4: happy if I'm dancing, I'm dancing to Beyonce like I'm

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Speaker 4: dancing to Beance.

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Speaker 2: I don't need.

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Speaker 4: I genuinely am so energetic that I don't need hot music.

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Speaker 4: All of my playlists when I run outside are calming playlists.

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Speaker 4: There's slow songs because if I put on a B song,

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Speaker 4: my heart rate goes too high. I go too fast,

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Speaker 4: and then I need to walk it. It's a hot

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Speaker 4: girl rock for the rest of the run. So I've

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Speaker 4: learned from myself is that I have to I have

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Speaker 4: to manage my energy, like bursts of energies are great

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Speaker 4: and controlled environments. As I say, five minute dance track,

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Speaker 4: yeah sure, and then after that just like ease into it.

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Speaker 3: One last question about morning routines. Do you make your

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Speaker 3: bed every morning?

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Speaker 4: I do not. I do not make This is so

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Speaker 4: refreshing my husband. I knew that I that I I

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Speaker 4: don't make it. I do I was like trying to

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Speaker 4: get away with it because I feel like a messy

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Speaker 4: bed made me sound cooler. Because sometimes I don't want

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Speaker 4: to sound too righteous or too square, because I do

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Speaker 4: have my things. But I get up way earlier than

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Speaker 4: he does. I get up at four thirty in the morning.

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Speaker 4: He doesn't have to be up at that time, and

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Speaker 4: so he does make the bed. So when I go

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Speaker 4: to bed, the bed is made, you know.

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Speaker 1: That's the rule. That's the rule, though the last person

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Speaker 1: out of bed has to make it.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it is nice. It is nice to come in

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Speaker 4: the room in the bed is you know.

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Speaker 1: Someone once said to me that life is just a

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Speaker 1: series of pep talks, and it always stayed with me

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Speaker 1: as somebody who other people go to for those pep talks?

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Speaker 1: Who do you go to?

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Speaker 4: Who do I go to? Probably my husband? Oh my god,

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Speaker 4: I'm talking about him way too much. He's all right, y'all. No,

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Speaker 4: he's a vibe.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: Growing up, when I started having those thoughts of what

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Speaker 4: my future home would look like, I just wanted my

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Speaker 4: home to have great conversation. I always say conversation is

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Speaker 4: a catalyst for change, and so, which is like a

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Speaker 4: core value of mine. And I know that it's true

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Speaker 4: because We've never made any big decision in our life

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Speaker 4: without conversation. So a lot of my conversations about life

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Speaker 4: happens in my house. I talk to my husband and

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Speaker 4: he checks me too, like there are times I can

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Speaker 4: get in the lifestyle, Oh my god, this happened, and

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Speaker 4: he's like, yeah, that's that's not who you are, Like,

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Speaker 4: that's not who you want to be, and I'm like, dang, okay,

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Speaker 4: but it's necessary. And in that way too, builds me up,

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Speaker 4: where he's just like, the world is not nice, and

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Speaker 4: that's okay.

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Speaker 2: You still have to be yourself. You still have to

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Speaker 2: do the things that make you happy.

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Speaker 4: So I think when it comes to the pep talks,

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Speaker 4: I think it's it happens in my home and it

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Speaker 4: happens with my husband because that was that was top

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Speaker 4: line priority in a partner for me, and I need

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Speaker 4: a person who can word for word me because Honey,

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Speaker 4: I can talk talk talk talk cop.

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Speaker 1: I love that.

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Speaker 3: I think our husbands would have a lot to talk

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Speaker 3: about because I had talk talk talk talk talk too.

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Speaker 1: Ali.

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Speaker 3: We have a lot of listeners who are interested in entrepreneurship,

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Speaker 3: and that's a big tenet of what Hello Sunshine does.

567
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Speaker 3: As well is valuing female authors and entrepreneurs. So, looking

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Speaker 3: back on how you built a passion into a brand,

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Speaker 3: what's one takeaway that you'd like to leave with our audience.

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Speaker 4: I think the one takeaway is, and this is something

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Speaker 4: that I recognize, especially when I started at Peloton, it's

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Speaker 4: just because someone does something first doesn't mean that they're

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Speaker 4: going to win that category or that that space is

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Speaker 4: already occupied. It's the person that can do it consistently.

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Speaker 4: Consistency equals success, and so you can find people that

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Speaker 4: have done you know, when we talk about podcasts, it's

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Speaker 4: the folks that have consistently done it. It's the folks

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Speaker 4: that are on their two hundred three hundredth episode. And

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Speaker 4: it's recognizing that that consistency and whatever your goal is,

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Speaker 4: and hopefully it's a single goal, because if there are

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Speaker 4: too many, you know, then we don't master anything or

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Speaker 4: we don't become the expert of anything. And so with entrepreneurship,

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Speaker 4: a good idea, and there are a lot of them

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Speaker 4: out there, isn't a good idea without consistent work. And

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Speaker 4: consistent isn't six months, it isn't a year, It's probably

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Speaker 4: like five years.

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Speaker 1: You know, in like exercise or fitness. They call it

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Speaker 1: time under tension, right.

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Speaker 4: Ynger, Have you been taking my classes like intervals and arms?

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Speaker 2: Time undertention?

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Speaker 1: Honey? But that's what you're talking about it. It's really

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Speaker 1: I think it's undervalued. I really like that you said that.

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Speaker 2: No, it's true.

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Speaker 4: I think that we live in a culture and we

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Speaker 4: all want it where it's like, well, that one video

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Speaker 4: that's gonna get the most engagement that the right person

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Speaker 4: is going to see. It used to be called the

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Speaker 4: New York dream before social media, where you like, I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna move to New York, move to LA and I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna walk around that one corner and that one producer

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Speaker 4: is gonna see my face in this random coffee shop

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Speaker 4: and give me my break. That's what going viral we

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Speaker 4: used to be.

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Speaker 2: But the reality is most of those stories don't exist.

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Speaker 4: Is with our search no exactly, it said, I was

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Speaker 4: just working really hard at this and finally, after so

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Speaker 4: many hours and being so consistent, someone saw it.

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Speaker 3: I also know a lot of people who go viral

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Speaker 3: who aren't happy. So I think it's also about just

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Speaker 3: realizing that we romanticize achievement a lot in the society

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Speaker 3: or a certain level of achievement or exposure, and you

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Speaker 3: check in with a lot of these people offline that

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Speaker 3: hasn't actually made them happier because it doesn't stop when

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Speaker 3: we exactly the thing is like where what is the

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Speaker 3: what's the end game?

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Speaker 4: Where is like where's the finish line? The goalpost keeps moving,

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Speaker 4: it's moving. You get you know, you two are hosts

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Speaker 4: of an amazing podcast. I mean like plugged into some

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Speaker 4: of the best women in this industry that are making

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Speaker 4: great change. If I ask you right now, you can

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Speaker 4: probably confirm for the folks that are listening, there's a

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Speaker 4: desire for more, there's a desire for next. And it's

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Speaker 4: not necessarily bad or I'm shaming that. It's just recognizing that.

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Speaker 4: And so when people ask me, and I always get

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Speaker 4: this question, it's just like, so, what's next for you?

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Speaker 4: You know, you're a pelts On instructor, you're on the

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Speaker 4: Today Show. Now, what's next? And I'm like, actually, I'm

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Speaker 4: in a season of my life in the last year

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Speaker 4: and a half where there's no next. There's now, like

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Speaker 4: I'm doing right now and I'm digging in it deep

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Speaker 4: into the things I want, the things that I'm doing

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Speaker 4: to work so deeply and so richly and get so

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Speaker 4: innovative in what I have versus what's next.

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Speaker 3: I think that's what we should be aiming for as

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Speaker 3: the contentment, to say I am happy with where I'm at,

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Speaker 3: like I'm taking stock of where I am, and I

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Speaker 3: know that the me from ten years ago would be

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Speaker 3: so proud of where I am right now. Because if

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Speaker 3: we don't stop and do that, the goalpost just keep moving.

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Speaker 4: Oh it does, and all you have is now, All

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Speaker 4: you have is now, And I will say, like like

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Speaker 4: deep joy for me, I'm very very very joyful right

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Speaker 4: now in my life. I want to have this conversation

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Speaker 4: with you too, right now.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Alie, true so sweet.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your gratitude, and thank you for blessing

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Speaker 1: us on the bright side today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Ali Love is a Peloton instructor and Today's show on

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Speaker 1: air contributor. You can follow her on Instagram and TikTok

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Speaker 1: at Ali Misslove. That's it for today's show. Tomorrow, we

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Speaker 1: have writer, mentor and advocate for teenage girls, Chelsea Goodin.

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Speaker 1: Chelsea will be talking about her new book, Underestimated the

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