Speaker 1: Hello Sunshine, What up Busties? Today? On the bright Side,
Speaker 1: Superstar Peloton instructor and CEO of the Love Squad, Ali
Speaker 1: Love is here telling us how she practices positivity on
Speaker 1: the daily.
Speaker 2: It's Thursday, May ninth.
Speaker 1: I'm Simone Boyce, I'm Danielle Robe and this is the
Speaker 1: bright Side from Hello Sunshine. Mother's Day is this weekend,
Speaker 1: and Drew Barrymore is making news because she was telling
Speaker 1: everybody that her favorite gift was actually this questionnaire that
Speaker 1: her kids put together about all of her favorite things,
Speaker 1: and she felt so seen.
Speaker 2: And I was.
Speaker 1: Thinking about the weirdest gifts.
Speaker 2: I gave my mom. What was it?
Speaker 1: I think I made her duct tape slippers one year,
Speaker 1: like when I was little, and she ended up falling
Speaker 1: down the stairs because they were slippery, and she wanted
Speaker 1: to show me she was wearing them, which is awful.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about you, because like Mother's Day is
Speaker 1: coming up, do you know what your kids are going
Speaker 1: to give you? Are you in cahoots with Michael about it?
Speaker 3: First of all, I'm still not over the duct tape slippers.
Speaker 3: I mean the ingenuity, like the engineer's mind that it
Speaker 3: took to come up with that idea. But this Mother's Day,
Speaker 3: I am that walking cliche mom. That's like, sweetie, if
Speaker 3: you just make me anything, I'll love it.
Speaker 2: That's me now.
Speaker 3: And I never thought I would reach to that point,
Speaker 3: but Michael did ask me what I wanted for Mother's Day,
Speaker 3: and then he went on to tell me that he
Speaker 3: had an idea, and he was like, but I don't
Speaker 3: know if you're gonna like it, so maybe I should
Speaker 3: just tell you.
Speaker 1: I love that he ran it by you.
Speaker 3: He's probably he's well gonna kill me for talking about
Speaker 3: this right now, but he prefaced it by saying it
Speaker 3: was really practical and not exactly like a classic Mother's
Speaker 3: Day gift. It was like a telescope close. It was
Speaker 3: a light for our office that I could like use
Speaker 3: in my studio.
Speaker 1: So, oh my god, that's worse than a vacuum clean
Speaker 1: I mean, but it.
Speaker 3: Is really sweet and thoughtful because he's trying to think
Speaker 3: of like how to make my day easier and how
Speaker 3: to make it easier.
Speaker 2: But I told him, I was like, no, that's okay,
Speaker 2: I'll just take a spa day. That's fine.
Speaker 3: You can just give me a gift certificate to Burke
Speaker 3: Williams please.
Speaker 2: So he was like, Okay, fine, that's really sweet.
Speaker 1: Do you prefer a practical gift or a frivolous gift.
Speaker 3: I'm not really a frivolous person, so I probably would
Speaker 3: have to choose a practical gift.
Speaker 2: But I also loved taking a lap of luxury every
Speaker 2: now and then.
Speaker 3: One of the best practical gifts that my husband got
Speaker 3: me was this thing called a Remarkable and it's perfect
Speaker 3: for creatives because you can write on it and then
Speaker 3: you can digitize the notes that you take on there
Speaker 3: and then email it to yourself.
Speaker 2: It's like been a game changer for my creative process.
Speaker 3: But how about you practical or frivolous somewhere in between.
Speaker 1: I actually have this new thing that I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do with people that are really close to me, because
Speaker 1: when I was going through a hard time, I had
Speaker 1: a girlfriend from colle send me an email out of
Speaker 1: the blue, and she wrote me all of the things
Speaker 1: that she loved most about me or noticed that I
Speaker 1: did well. And I was sobbing reading the email because
Speaker 1: I needed to hear it so badly, and I realized, like,
Speaker 1: this is the most thoughtful gift that anybody has given me,
Speaker 1: and so for Mother's Day, for Father's Day, for birthdays. Now,
Speaker 1: I try and sit down and write like a full
Speaker 1: page of what that person means to me and what
Speaker 1: I see them do and all of the things that
Speaker 1: go unnoticed during the year that I love and I
Speaker 1: really feel like it's meaningful. If I was really trying
Speaker 1: to be a great daughter, I would handwrite it. But
Speaker 1: I think I'm just doing an email, Danielle.
Speaker 3: I think that is one of the best gifts that
Speaker 3: you can give someone is actually articulating your thoughts about them,
Speaker 3: your feelings about them, because we don't do it often enough,
Speaker 3: and as I get older, I'm like, I don't really want.
Speaker 2: Gifts, Like around Christmas time.
Speaker 3: I would love for my family to just move away
Speaker 3: from from gifts and like, let's put all our money
Speaker 3: into an experience together that is so much more meaningful
Speaker 3: to me at this point in my life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that means gifts are not your love language either.
Speaker 3: I love gifts, I do, but you can only collect
Speaker 3: so much stuff, you know what I mean, And I
Speaker 3: just I'm all about reducing the clutter. But your letter
Speaker 3: idea made me think about this Reese's book Club pick
Speaker 3: that I read. Maybe next Time. It's a novel about
Speaker 3: this husband and wife and there's like time travel involved.
Speaker 3: But they have this tradition of every anniversary they write
Speaker 3: each other one of those really beautiful long letters, just
Speaker 3: expressing their love for one another and walking back through
Speaker 3: time down memory lane.
Speaker 2: And so I did that.
Speaker 3: For Michael's birthday last year, and I was like, this
Speaker 3: is a really great tradition.
Speaker 2: I need to do this every year.
Speaker 1: That's really sweet. I think it's so meaningful. And then
Speaker 1: you have them forever and you look back on where
Speaker 1: you were at and what you were thinking about.
Speaker 2: Do you journal? Do you write life down?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: But I think that my notepads are full of gems,
Speaker 1: like all my best ideas and most inner thoughts are there.
Speaker 1: If my phone ever gets stolen, I'm really screwed.
Speaker 2: Same.
Speaker 1: I sort of have this theory that some of our
Speaker 1: best company ideas, like our best moments are just sitting
Speaker 1: in our notepads.
Speaker 2: Well, this is the new restaurant napkin.
Speaker 3: You know those stories of entrepreneurs who went to dinners
Speaker 3: and they jotted down their business plan on a napkin.
Speaker 3: The iPhone notes app, that's the new napkin. After the break,
Speaker 3: we're getting pumped up by Peloton's resident pep Talk Queen,
Speaker 3: Ali Love.
Speaker 1: That's coming up next.
Speaker 2: Don't miss it.
Speaker 1: We're back and we're here with Ali Love. She's a
Speaker 1: Peloton instructor, Today's Show on Air contributor, and the CEO
Speaker 1: of the Love Squad.
Speaker 3: Ali's here talking resilience, building a brand, and the power
Speaker 3: of pep Talks.
Speaker 2: Ali, Welcome to the bright Side.
Speaker 4: Welcome, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Hello, you brought your good energy here.
Speaker 2: I am ready to rock and roll baby. Oh we'd
Speaker 2: love to hear that.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: Listen, you've built quite the community. So many of our
Speaker 3: listeners know you from Peloton, but I think a lot
Speaker 3: of people are less familiar with how you got there.
Speaker 3: So how did you get started in this whole movement world?
Speaker 4: Absolutely so. I was a dancer for many years. I
Speaker 4: went to Fordham a Ley, graduated with the bachelors and
Speaker 4: fine Arts, and moving to New York as a young woman,
Speaker 4: I got really curious around my career. It led me
Speaker 4: into hosting, and it led me into commercial work and
Speaker 4: modeling and all these things in the entertainment world. And
Speaker 4: it was through that curiosity that landed me more so
Speaker 4: at the Brooklyn Nets, And it was that exposure where
Speaker 4: when Peloton was looking for instructors, they had about ten instructors.
Speaker 4: They were looking to expand they reached out and so
Speaker 4: I'd host for the Brooklyn Nets up until eleven C
Speaker 4: this past season. But they reached out because I saw
Speaker 4: the work that I did between hosting and the fact
Speaker 4: that I was an athlete as a form of dancer,
Speaker 4: and they invited me to have a fifteen minute audition.
Speaker 3: I want to know about this whole process, Like do
Speaker 3: you have to go through this rigorous training certification program
Speaker 3: or like how does it all work? Yeah, so eight
Speaker 3: years ago when I was hired, I had a fifteen
Speaker 3: minute audition and I became one of the founding eleven instructors.
Speaker 2: I was there for a while.
Speaker 4: Then once we started to expand and look for instructors,
Speaker 4: what happened was we established kind of what a standard
Speaker 4: is around what makes a Pelton instructor a Pelton instructor.
Speaker 4: We're fifty eight instructors now. It's a process. It takes
Speaker 4: months in terms of interviews, in terms of coming in
Speaker 4: for an on camera test, and then it's like taping
Speaker 4: yourself and then meeting with quite a few people.
Speaker 1: Has Peloton shifted your lifestyle or you were always pretty active?
Speaker 2: You said you danced.
Speaker 4: Yes, I was always pretty active. When I was nine
Speaker 4: years old, I got hit by a car.
Speaker 2: I'm from Miami, Florida. Get out. You're from Miami. Three
Speaker 2: or five all day that I am too. I still
Speaker 2: have a three or five number. Will never change it.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Allie, Wait, where did you grow up
Speaker 3: in Miami?
Speaker 2: So north Miami. I went to New World School the Arts?
Speaker 4: What about you?
Speaker 3: My mom was a teacher at New World for a minute. No,
Speaker 3: but in the acting cart really yes, Yes, she's iconic.
Speaker 2: It's a great school. It's New World.
Speaker 3: Is this incredible conservatory for the arts in Miami? But
Speaker 3: I was down I was further down south.
Speaker 1: Wait, I want to hear about I want to go
Speaker 1: back because you were in a serious accident.
Speaker 4: I actually didn't know this about you. Yeah, at nine
Speaker 4: years old. So every weekend, my family would have cookouts
Speaker 4: and they still do this to this day. My mom's
Speaker 4: one of ten kids, and so we would all get
Speaker 4: together at one aunt's house or our house, and somebody
Speaker 4: cook and everybody plays cards and stuff like that. And
Speaker 4: so it was this particular weekend where you hear the
Speaker 4: magic noise the ice cream truck, you run outside, you
Speaker 4: go to the ice cream truck. And I was buying
Speaker 4: ice cream and I came around from the ice cream truck.
Speaker 4: I looked both ways, as you're taught as a nine
Speaker 4: year old, and I go across the street, and fortunate timing,
Speaker 4: the car was parked behind the ice cream truck zoomed out.
Speaker 2: It hit me.
Speaker 4: I broke my left femur, start up my entire body,
Speaker 4: broke my teeth. I was in the hospital for seven
Speaker 4: days in traction, waiting for a pen because I broke
Speaker 4: my hip, and so they only had machinery for adult
Speaker 4: I had to wait till something was made for a
Speaker 4: smaller kid body. And from that moment it was like
Speaker 4: basically very pivotal in my personal life and also in
Speaker 4: my relationship with my parents, in that trauma that we
Speaker 4: suffered together. And I remember having a conversation with my
Speaker 4: mom and she was just like, listen, you have two options.
Speaker 4: She was like, you can you know, it's really hard.
Speaker 4: Me and your dad would trade places with even a heartbeat,
Speaker 4: but we can't. Like She's like, it's really hard, and
Speaker 4: you're in a lot of pain. So if you want
Speaker 4: to let go, that's fine. She's like, but if you
Speaker 4: want to live, you have to fight and pray for
Speaker 4: your life. And I just remember her saying that, and
Speaker 4: I was like, okay, And I remember looking out of
Speaker 4: the window and I was like, I'm gonna fight and
Speaker 4: I'm gonna pray. And those are two things that I
Speaker 4: still do to this day, and I think many of
Speaker 4: us do. I'm unbeknownst and maybe you didn't have an
Speaker 4: anchoring traumatic incident that happened to you as a kid,
Speaker 4: but we decide how we're going to deal with making
Speaker 4: decision in life. And I remember that at nine years old,
Speaker 4: and I've never stopped doing those two things, and so
Speaker 4: kind of like that all led itself into dance and
Speaker 4: into the art and into movement and not necessarily falling
Speaker 4: in love with fitness, but just always in love with movement.
Speaker 2: Okay, you had to learn to walk all over again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I can't imagine how hard that is, how
Speaker 3: grueling that is, both on a physical level as well
Speaker 3: as an emotional and mental level. How did you find
Speaker 3: the resilience to just keep going day after day.
Speaker 4: I think it's something special about being a kid. I'm
Speaker 4: not sure that if I was forced to face that
Speaker 4: challenge again as an adult, I would have done it
Speaker 4: with such resiliency. I think the curiosity as a kid,
Speaker 4: like kids are so powerful in the fact that they
Speaker 4: don't know a lot, but they know so much about
Speaker 4: themselves and their curiosity or their ability to.
Speaker 2: Want to do more. And so I think it.
Speaker 4: Was like the fact that I was nine years old
Speaker 4: and I knew I wanted to play.
Speaker 2: I wanted to go outside.
Speaker 4: That was the motivation of well, I want to walk
Speaker 4: versus I want to be resilient or I want to
Speaker 4: overcome something. I didn't have the capacity for those big words,
Speaker 4: and I just knew that I wanted to play again.
Speaker 4: And I remember the doctor telling my mom, you know,
Speaker 4: she'll never probably be an athlete. She might have arthritis
Speaker 4: by the time she's a teenager in her hip, so
Speaker 4: just be prepared that she won't be able to live
Speaker 4: that full life. And I just knew when the doctor
Speaker 4: was like, she can't play forever, I was like, I'm
Speaker 4: playing forever.
Speaker 2: I'm a kid.
Speaker 4: So I just it was one of those things where
Speaker 4: I didn't accept no, because on the other side of
Speaker 4: it was play instead of real adulting life. I don't
Speaker 4: think it was enjoyable because there was times that I
Speaker 4: got into fights with my mom and my dad because
Speaker 4: I was so depressed because I wasn't playing, or I
Speaker 4: wasn't able to do things that kids were doing my age,
Speaker 4: or my sister. I'd see her go play with her friends,
Speaker 4: and so it was a tough time mentally where I
Speaker 4: didn't know what I was feeling.
Speaker 2: I just knew that I wanted to go outside.
Speaker 1: Hearing this story makes me understand your rides more. Actually,
Speaker 1: I feel like you're really trying to get other people
Speaker 1: that grit and resilience that you had to build. What
Speaker 1: do you want people to take away when they're in
Speaker 1: class with you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think my mission is like to empower folks,
Speaker 4: especially women, to be able to articulate what they feel
Speaker 4: and what they think right, to give them space to
Speaker 4: do that. I think being empowered is being able to
Speaker 4: understand or operate, or have capacity to process and then
Speaker 4: share with folks what you think and why you think things,
Speaker 4: or what you feel and why you feel. But when
Speaker 4: it comes to peloton classes, I think a lot of
Speaker 4: the foundation is rooted in the fact that I know
Speaker 4: what it feels like for in one second your life
Speaker 4: to be gone, and how we can get caught up.
Speaker 4: And I still get caught up in the little things.
Speaker 4: But it's just I'm always reminding ourselves or reminding the community,
Speaker 4: including myself, that not every day is promised. To make
Speaker 4: the most of it, to continue to find that fun
Speaker 4: and yes there is like let's keep moving forward, and
Speaker 4: I don't think we can get caught up in so
Speaker 4: I'm not at the top or I'm not at the best.
Speaker 4: We all think these things, but let's not get caught
Speaker 4: up in the words of USh. Lets I get caught
Speaker 4: up in those things.
Speaker 1: I feel that. I also think there's an optimism that
Speaker 1: you share and like our show is really about optimism too,
Speaker 1: not toxic positivity, right, Like there is a difference.
Speaker 4: Yet when did this start? Like people are like toxic positivity?
Speaker 4: I think, so, here's my point of view on that.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: Folks will always ask me, how are you so positive?
Speaker 4: And I always say I'm not. I'm negative just like
Speaker 4: the next person. I wake up with the negative thoughts
Speaker 4: about myself, about the world, about the future, all those things.
Speaker 4: But what I do know about myself is that I'm
Speaker 4: committed to practicing positivity, and I don't think that any way,
Speaker 4: shape or form, is that toxic if you walk into
Speaker 4: space and you're practicing being positive instead of leading with
Speaker 4: the negativity. So I think we just have to be mindful, Like, yes,
Speaker 4: it does exist toxic positivity, but I think I'm practicing
Speaker 4: positivity always.
Speaker 2: I don't always get it right, but I try. Well.
Speaker 1: We always say it's a muscle, not a mindset, so
Speaker 1: that practicing idea really fits in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I also talked about stress languages on this show.
Speaker 2: Have you heard of these?
Speaker 3: No, tell me more your response to the five love languages,
Speaker 3: But it's how you handle stress.
Speaker 2: I think she sounds like a denier, like me, what
Speaker 2: do you think? Okay? Okay, so okay.
Speaker 3: So there's the denier, and this is the person who
Speaker 3: always finds the silver lining and kind of like minimizes
Speaker 3: their problems pushes them down. I'm always very positive too,
Speaker 3: so that's kind of how I lean. There's the imploder,
Speaker 3: which is Danielle and someone who internalizes all of their
Speaker 3: stress and they just kind of like spiral down into it.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's the exploder. The exploter does the opposite.
Speaker 1: They just like take all their rage out, get it
Speaker 1: over with and move on.
Speaker 3: The fixer is always looking for solutions. And then there's
Speaker 3: the number who those are the people who use alcohol
Speaker 3: and drugs to self medicate.
Speaker 2: Which one are you?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Which one are you?
Speaker 4: A little bit of everything? Yeah, that's p Yeah. No,
Speaker 4: I think that I don't know if I'm the denier
Speaker 4: because I would say my friends would say that I'm
Speaker 4: a little bit more blunt, like when I'm in public,
Speaker 4: I'm not sitting here like trying to tell hard facts.
Speaker 4: So I think my close friends would say, like, I'm
Speaker 4: definitely not a denier because I don't just I don't
Speaker 4: tend to find the silver lining.
Speaker 2: I don't. That's I say.
Speaker 4: I'm practicing because I don't see it, so I have
Speaker 4: to try to see it. Yeah, because like it's like
Speaker 4: you said, it's like a muscle.
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 4: Yes, clearly, I'm like for every issue that I have,
Speaker 4: I've either looked up what's the source of it and
Speaker 4: do I have a condition, and then do what are
Speaker 4: some great practicing habits that I can embody or you know,
Speaker 4: try out. I think I'm the fixer when it comes
Speaker 4: to things I do like to try to finish and
Speaker 4: fix things.
Speaker 1: We're taking a quick break, but when we come back,
Speaker 1: we're talking to Ali about navigating life's transitions and finding
Speaker 1: joy through it all. We're back on the bright side.
Speaker 2: Ali.
Speaker 1: I want to hear more about the Brooklyn Nets because
Speaker 1: you say you were there for eleven years. That's a
Speaker 1: huge chunk of your career and your life. How did
Speaker 1: you know it was time to move on?
Speaker 2: I knew quite a few years ago. Probably.
Speaker 4: I feel like COVID, just like most things, through a
Speaker 4: wrench in the plans because.
Speaker 2: It took two seasons out of.
Speaker 4: Hosting, and I felt like I was like a little
Speaker 4: bit more obligated once we got back into season to
Speaker 4: continue and meet the ten year anniversary to be there.
Speaker 4: But it was time to go because number one, I
Speaker 4: didn't desire to be on the court. Like there was
Speaker 4: a moment where I was like, well, if I'm not there,
Speaker 4: who's going to be on the court? And then there
Speaker 4: was a shift in me internally where I was like,
Speaker 4: whoever that is, I hope they enjoy it, or I
Speaker 4: hope they do well. I hope the fans are excited
Speaker 4: about them. So I think that shift of being concerned about, well,
Speaker 4: who's going to take my place, and how would that
Speaker 4: look versus Oh, whoever takes my place. I hope they
Speaker 4: have a good time. I hope they can entertain the
Speaker 4: fans and keep that energy. And I think that mindset
Speaker 4: was an indicator for me where I was like, this
Speaker 4: is my time, this is time to go.
Speaker 1: I think that's really interesting because we often don't not
Speaker 1: we but like everyone doesn't know when it's time. You
Speaker 1: go with your gut. Do you make a pro com list.
Speaker 1: So I think that's an interesting thing to note that
Speaker 1: that was your indicator.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the indicator was whoever is next, I'm happy for them,
Speaker 4: that feeling of whoever dates you, this person next, I'm
Speaker 4: happy for them. That's like when you know you're.
Speaker 2: Good, you know, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Wait, did I just hit up? You might have unlocked
Speaker 2: something for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you're like I just want that person to
Speaker 4: be happy genuinely, you know, like I've gotten over that
Speaker 4: breakup or that separation, or like I have a you know,
Speaker 4: we've all had friendships, Like I can assess the relationships,
Speaker 4: but friendships where they haven't last forever, especially girlfriendships, and
Speaker 4: you have some.
Speaker 2: Good girlfriendss and then they.
Speaker 4: Kind of like naturally.
Speaker 2: Part ways.
Speaker 4: What I've learned now is that there are certain girlfriends
Speaker 4: that I genuinely love them. We do not talk anymore,
Speaker 4: but I hope that they're so happy, and I you know,
Speaker 4: even follow them still on social media, and I'm just like,
Speaker 4: good for you. That's how I know. It's not a bad.
Speaker 2: Thing that we're not friends. It's just it was time
Speaker 2: friends from as far are sometimes.
Speaker 3: Yes, you're really thoughtful about your transitions in life. Where
Speaker 3: does that come from?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I never thought about that, So I'm going to take
Speaker 4: that compliment. I'm going to think about it. But I
Speaker 4: try to be thoughtful around everything. Preparedness and thoughtfulness are
Speaker 4: my love languages. I think when people show up at
Speaker 4: a table like we're sitting at now, and they are
Speaker 4: prepared with information or thoughts that they want to share
Speaker 4: in any capacity with the person that's across from them,
Speaker 4: it respects their time. It respects how valuable they are
Speaker 4: in their time is, and it respects the boundaries of
Speaker 4: the relationship, whether it's a personal relationship or work relations
Speaker 4: You notice when someone comes in a meeting and they're
Speaker 4: not prepared, they have no questions, they have no idea
Speaker 4: what the meeting is about.
Speaker 2: You're like, this is not nice?
Speaker 3: Oh by yeah, facts, okay, girly pop come correct, you
Speaker 3: got to come prepared exactly, you know, yes, Okay, so
Speaker 3: Danielle knows this about me. I have a secret dream
Speaker 3: of becoming a personal trainer. Really yeah, yeah, I talk
Speaker 3: about it all the time. Actually, wait, why she loves protein?
Speaker 3: I eat a lot of protein. I mean I left.
Speaker 3: I just love fitness. I'm a I'm a big fitness shocky.
Speaker 3: You know why I wanna Yeah.
Speaker 2: Don't leave with that. Okay, it's true.
Speaker 1: You eat every two hours, like you're in here with
Speaker 1: sacks with protein.
Speaker 4: Where does this come from?
Speaker 2: I like strength? I like strength. I like muscle.
Speaker 3: Probably if I'm going to dig like deep into some
Speaker 3: like capital T trauma, it's strength helps me feel safe
Speaker 3: as a woman, And so I really like feeling strong,
Speaker 3: you know, like I also like looking strong. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be honest, but anyways, I don't want to digress too much.
Speaker 3: But as one of the most popular coaches fitness coaches
Speaker 3: in the world, I want to learn from you, Like,
Speaker 3: how do I bring that like hype girl fitness trainer
Speaker 3: energies to my everyday life.
Speaker 2: How do give me some lessons?
Speaker 4: Well, I think it's like, yes, you have to be
Speaker 4: your own personal hype woman. Absolutely, But I always go
Speaker 4: back to something that maybe sounds so boring. Is a
Speaker 4: morning routine and you have to figure out and we
Speaker 4: talk about it like playlists and all these things. Music
Speaker 4: and movement works all of the senses, right, It's like
Speaker 4: it works all your synapses. So I think it's like
Speaker 4: figuring out that morning routine and when you get up
Speaker 4: and you're trying.
Speaker 2: To get hype for the day.
Speaker 4: I don't necessarily encourage you to drink coffee right away.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying don't drink coffee or caffeine, but it's
Speaker 4: just like you let your natural energy take hold first.
Speaker 4: Say it some I didn't want to as I look
Speaker 4: at it across the table. I didn't want to like
Speaker 4: shame you. But I do think it comes down to
Speaker 4: your morning routine. It's like get up and one get
Speaker 4: your mind right before you get your body right.
Speaker 2: I pray in the morning.
Speaker 4: I listen to this prayer app where it allows like
Speaker 4: meditation and prayer. I ask myself this two part question,
Speaker 4: this one question every day, what or how do I
Speaker 4: want to feel today, and I let that anchor me.
Speaker 4: So you maybe today you want to feel safe, maybe
Speaker 4: you want to feel quiet, maybe you want to feel productive.
Speaker 4: Maybe today you just want to knock heads. And you're
Speaker 4: coming out and you're like, I'm coming out hot because
Speaker 4: I need answers from everyone in my life, Like we're
Speaker 4: closing chapters today. And the reason that that's important and
Speaker 4: so powerful is like that small change creates such a
Speaker 4: big shift in your day is because you're controlling the
Speaker 4: fact that you are not reactive to people. You're not
Speaker 4: at the mercy of someone triggering you. You're owing your feelings.
Speaker 4: And so that morning routine is your personal hype station.
Speaker 4: And if you're looking to like, yeah, we want to
Speaker 4: amp it up, then you go ahead and start moving
Speaker 4: your body with good music, whatever music you like, you
Speaker 4: put that on, you move your body. Yeah, I do
Speaker 4: want us to move away from like this idea of
Speaker 4: being strong or working out has to be like an
Speaker 4: hour or thirty minutes or ten minutes right structured, Like
Speaker 4: you can just put on music and literally be like
Speaker 4: I'm going to a five minute song. I'm gonna dance and
Speaker 4: not stop moving my feet. What's that song?
Speaker 1: For you. Like recently, I've been listening to Florence in
Speaker 1: the Machine. The last song on the Sex and the
Speaker 1: City soundtrack is like you Got the Love.
Speaker 2: You Got the level.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, that's a good song that makes so I'm
Speaker 4: happy if I'm dancing, I'm dancing to Beyonce like I'm
Speaker 4: dancing to Beance.
Speaker 2: I don't need.
Speaker 4: I genuinely am so energetic that I don't need hot music.
Speaker 4: All of my playlists when I run outside are calming playlists.
Speaker 4: There's slow songs because if I put on a B song,
Speaker 4: my heart rate goes too high. I go too fast,
Speaker 4: and then I need to walk it. It's a hot
Speaker 4: girl rock for the rest of the run. So I've
Speaker 4: learned from myself is that I have to I have
Speaker 4: to manage my energy, like bursts of energies are great
Speaker 4: and controlled environments. As I say, five minute dance track,
Speaker 4: yeah sure, and then after that just like ease into it.
Speaker 3: One last question about morning routines. Do you make your
Speaker 3: bed every morning?
Speaker 4: I do not. I do not make This is so
Speaker 4: refreshing my husband. I knew that I that I I
Speaker 4: don't make it. I do I was like trying to
Speaker 4: get away with it because I feel like a messy
Speaker 4: bed made me sound cooler. Because sometimes I don't want
Speaker 4: to sound too righteous or too square, because I do
Speaker 4: have my things. But I get up way earlier than
Speaker 4: he does. I get up at four thirty in the morning.
Speaker 4: He doesn't have to be up at that time, and
Speaker 4: so he does make the bed. So when I go
Speaker 4: to bed, the bed is made, you know.
Speaker 1: That's the rule. That's the rule, though the last person
Speaker 1: out of bed has to make it.
Speaker 4: Yes, it is nice. It is nice to come in
Speaker 4: the room in the bed is you know.
Speaker 1: Someone once said to me that life is just a
Speaker 1: series of pep talks, and it always stayed with me
Speaker 1: as somebody who other people go to for those pep talks?
Speaker 1: Who do you go to?
Speaker 4: Who do I go to? Probably my husband? Oh my god,
Speaker 4: I'm talking about him way too much. He's all right, y'all. No,
Speaker 4: he's a vibe.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: Growing up, when I started having those thoughts of what
Speaker 4: my future home would look like, I just wanted my
Speaker 4: home to have great conversation. I always say conversation is
Speaker 4: a catalyst for change, and so, which is like a
Speaker 4: core value of mine. And I know that it's true
Speaker 4: because We've never made any big decision in our life
Speaker 4: without conversation. So a lot of my conversations about life
Speaker 4: happens in my house. I talk to my husband and
Speaker 4: he checks me too, like there are times I can
Speaker 4: get in the lifestyle, Oh my god, this happened, and
Speaker 4: he's like, yeah, that's that's not who you are, Like,
Speaker 4: that's not who you want to be, and I'm like, dang, okay,
Speaker 4: but it's necessary. And in that way too, builds me up,
Speaker 4: where he's just like, the world is not nice, and
Speaker 4: that's okay.
Speaker 2: You still have to be yourself. You still have to
Speaker 2: do the things that make you happy.
Speaker 4: So I think when it comes to the pep talks,
Speaker 4: I think it's it happens in my home and it
Speaker 4: happens with my husband because that was that was top
Speaker 4: line priority in a partner for me, and I need
Speaker 4: a person who can word for word me because Honey,
Speaker 4: I can talk talk talk talk cop.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 3: I think our husbands would have a lot to talk
Speaker 3: about because I had talk talk talk talk talk too.
Speaker 1: Ali.
Speaker 3: We have a lot of listeners who are interested in entrepreneurship,
Speaker 3: and that's a big tenet of what Hello Sunshine does.
Speaker 3: As well is valuing female authors and entrepreneurs. So, looking
Speaker 3: back on how you built a passion into a brand,
Speaker 3: what's one takeaway that you'd like to leave with our audience.
Speaker 4: I think the one takeaway is, and this is something
Speaker 4: that I recognize, especially when I started at Peloton, it's
Speaker 4: just because someone does something first doesn't mean that they're
Speaker 4: going to win that category or that that space is
Speaker 4: already occupied. It's the person that can do it consistently.
Speaker 4: Consistency equals success, and so you can find people that
Speaker 4: have done you know, when we talk about podcasts, it's
Speaker 4: the folks that have consistently done it. It's the folks
Speaker 4: that are on their two hundred three hundredth episode. And
Speaker 4: it's recognizing that that consistency and whatever your goal is,
Speaker 4: and hopefully it's a single goal, because if there are
Speaker 4: too many, you know, then we don't master anything or
Speaker 4: we don't become the expert of anything. And so with entrepreneurship,
Speaker 4: a good idea, and there are a lot of them
Speaker 4: out there, isn't a good idea without consistent work. And
Speaker 4: consistent isn't six months, it isn't a year, It's probably
Speaker 4: like five years.
Speaker 1: You know, in like exercise or fitness. They call it
Speaker 1: time under tension, right.
Speaker 4: Ynger, Have you been taking my classes like intervals and arms?
Speaker 2: Time undertention?
Speaker 1: Honey? But that's what you're talking about it. It's really
Speaker 1: I think it's undervalued. I really like that you said that.
Speaker 2: No, it's true.
Speaker 4: I think that we live in a culture and we
Speaker 4: all want it where it's like, well, that one video
Speaker 4: that's gonna get the most engagement that the right person
Speaker 4: is going to see. It used to be called the
Speaker 4: New York dream before social media, where you like, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna move to New York, move to LA and I'm
Speaker 4: gonna walk around that one corner and that one producer
Speaker 4: is gonna see my face in this random coffee shop
Speaker 4: and give me my break. That's what going viral we
Speaker 4: used to be.
Speaker 2: But the reality is most of those stories don't exist.
Speaker 4: Is with our search no exactly, it said, I was
Speaker 4: just working really hard at this and finally, after so
Speaker 4: many hours and being so consistent, someone saw it.
Speaker 3: I also know a lot of people who go viral
Speaker 3: who aren't happy. So I think it's also about just
Speaker 3: realizing that we romanticize achievement a lot in the society
Speaker 3: or a certain level of achievement or exposure, and you
Speaker 3: check in with a lot of these people offline that
Speaker 3: hasn't actually made them happier because it doesn't stop when
Speaker 3: we exactly the thing is like where what is the
Speaker 3: what's the end game?
Speaker 4: Where is like where's the finish line? The goalpost keeps moving,
Speaker 4: it's moving. You get you know, you two are hosts
Speaker 4: of an amazing podcast. I mean like plugged into some
Speaker 4: of the best women in this industry that are making
Speaker 4: great change. If I ask you right now, you can
Speaker 4: probably confirm for the folks that are listening, there's a
Speaker 4: desire for more, there's a desire for next. And it's
Speaker 4: not necessarily bad or I'm shaming that. It's just recognizing that.
Speaker 4: And so when people ask me, and I always get
Speaker 4: this question, it's just like, so, what's next for you?
Speaker 4: You know, you're a pelts On instructor, you're on the
Speaker 4: Today Show. Now, what's next? And I'm like, actually, I'm
Speaker 4: in a season of my life in the last year
Speaker 4: and a half where there's no next. There's now, like
Speaker 4: I'm doing right now and I'm digging in it deep
Speaker 4: into the things I want, the things that I'm doing
Speaker 4: to work so deeply and so richly and get so
Speaker 4: innovative in what I have versus what's next.
Speaker 3: I think that's what we should be aiming for as
Speaker 3: the contentment, to say I am happy with where I'm at,
Speaker 3: like I'm taking stock of where I am, and I
Speaker 3: know that the me from ten years ago would be
Speaker 3: so proud of where I am right now. Because if
Speaker 3: we don't stop and do that, the goalpost just keep moving.
Speaker 4: Oh it does, and all you have is now, All
Speaker 4: you have is now, And I will say, like like
Speaker 4: deep joy for me, I'm very very very joyful right
Speaker 4: now in my life. I want to have this conversation
Speaker 4: with you too, right now.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Alie, true so sweet.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your gratitude, and thank you for blessing
Speaker 1: us on the bright side today.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: Ali Love is a Peloton instructor and Today's show on
Speaker 1: air contributor. You can follow her on Instagram and TikTok
Speaker 1: at Ali Misslove. That's it for today's show. Tomorrow, we
Speaker 1: have writer, mentor and advocate for teenage girls, Chelsea Goodin.
Speaker 1: Chelsea will be talking about her new book, Underestimated the
Speaker 1: Wisdom and Power of teenage girls.
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