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Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Emily a body here with another episode of Hurdle,

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Speaker 1: a podcast that dots to everyone from entrepreneurs to top

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Speaker 1: CEOs and athletes about how they've gotten through tough times

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Speaker 1: hurdles of sorts by leaning in to wellness. Today, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to be chatting with Ali Love. She is a

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Speaker 1: the founder of Love Squad, a host for the Brooklyn Nets,

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Speaker 1: Love that Ali is a total girl boss. Not only

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Speaker 1: She's also an Adidas Global Ambassador. She is the founder

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Speaker 1: of Love Squad, which you'll hear all about in today's episode,

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Speaker 1: and also a Peloton instructor. But at the age of

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Speaker 1: nine years old, Love experienced our hurdle moment when she

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Speaker 1: was involved in a car accident that left her in

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Speaker 1: and the thought of playing sports was out of the picture.

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Speaker 1: But well to this day, I can tell you this

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Speaker 1: woman is impossible to be stopped, and she was determined

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Speaker 1: to prove them wrong. Years later, she moved to New

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Speaker 1: for the New York Knicks. And then eventually she found

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Speaker 1: for fitness all began. She started doing some fitness modeling

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Speaker 1: and then eventually made her way to Peloton. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: I've got a lot of Peloton fans listening right now.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you this conversation is truly special. Ali

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Speaker 1: is inspiring a woman. We talk about where she gets

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Speaker 1: her tenacity from the importance of a stellar support system.

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Speaker 1: We also talk about her faith and how that guides

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Speaker 1: her through her day to day decisions and what life

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Speaker 1: is like trying to fit absolutely everything in as someone

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Speaker 1: who can relate as someone who's constantly running around. Let

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Speaker 1: me tell you, it was pretty therapeutic to have some

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Speaker 1: time just to chat the two of us. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to bring you our convo. You guys know

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Speaker 1: the Drill at Hurdle podcast at Emily a body. Let

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Speaker 1: me know what motivational tidbit you love from this episode,

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Speaker 1: and like I said, there are a lot. If you

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Speaker 1: just want to say hi, you guys know how to

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Speaker 1: reach me. It's Emily at Hurdle dot us and exciting

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Speaker 1: news for anyone in the Chicago area. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be doing a five K shakeout on Friday, October eleventh.

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Speaker 1: She is a Brooklyn Nets host. She's the founder and

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Speaker 2: It's like I always say, I'm a part of the

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Speaker 1: I mean, right now, we're recording this right after the

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Speaker 1: US Open, We're coming off of an exciting time for

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Speaker 1: you. You did some hosting there, so first of all, tell

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Speaker 2: So actually, I started off in New York City modeling.

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Speaker 2: And the only way to do that was to maybe

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Speaker 2: took some classes on camera classes and they offered hosting

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Speaker 2: And I was just like, Okay, I'm gonna I'm taking

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Speaker 2: And it was my first hosting class that I fell

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Speaker 1: Ah, this is what I was made to do.

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Speaker 2: I thought it was me doing like an All of

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Speaker 1: I love that And is that kind of what triggered

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Speaker 1: what Love Squad is as well. Yeah, totally.

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Speaker 2: It was one of those things where I enjoy sitting

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Speaker 2: great changes for most people. And I knew that after

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Speaker 2: there's a lot to have in conversations with people that

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Speaker 2: And it's one of those things that when Love Squad

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Speaker 2: where we it's an inclusive collective around encouraging and inspiring

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Speaker 1: And is Love Squad a collective that's obviously New York

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Speaker 2: So we're young, we're Strappie. It's two other women that

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Speaker 2: Ideally, Yes, I would love to think of us as

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Speaker 1: Going on personally, I love the term you just use

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Speaker 2: my friend's Christine she is her instagrams, I am, I can't,

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Speaker 2: please do. And while you're there, Massajaise.

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Speaker 1: I love something that you posted a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: You put up this post it that said put your

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Speaker 2: I'll reach out to my community at Peloton and say,

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Speaker 2: And so when asking for help, I have to ask

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Speaker 2: You're working hard. People need to know about you. So

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Speaker 2: you know, and I think that that's something that I

436
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Speaker 2: truly love about this city.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you did you know you wanted to go

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Speaker 1: to Fordham or how did that?

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that I wanted to go to Fordham.

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Speaker 2: But my mom did the right thing. My parents did

441
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Speaker 2: the right thing. My mom and dad was like, you

442
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Speaker 2: have to go to college. You can do dance, you

443
00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:18,440
Speaker 2: can go be a dancer, you can move to New York,

444
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Speaker 2: can do whatever you want, but one request is you

445
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Speaker 2: have to graduate. And they were right. It gave me

446
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Speaker 2: a safe haven, a safe bubble to experience a big

447
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Speaker 2: city in so you know, you're protected. In college, you

448
00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:31,600
Speaker 2: have things to do, their structure. Instead of moving up

449
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Speaker 2: here alone and saying, oh my god, what do I

450
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Speaker 2: do do I keep auditioning and things like that. A

451
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Speaker 2: lot of people do that and they do very well.

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Speaker 2: I am very grateful that I went the route of school.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so in school, when you moved to the big city,

454
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Speaker 1: what's different when you move here full time versus when

455
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Speaker 1: you're coming to like visit. Does it hit you in

456
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Speaker 1: this big way that you're like, oh my god, this

457
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Speaker 1: is actually my home.

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Speaker 2: It was the yeah, it hit me that way, but

459
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Speaker 2: it was actually the opposite in terms of, OMG, I

460
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Speaker 2: have a shot, this is my shot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I truly felt when I got I came one way ticket.

463
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Speaker 2: Your family drops you off at the airport, tries not

464
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Speaker 2: to cry. You're like, mom, stop crying. My dad's the worst.

465
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Speaker 2: He's the one that cries the worst. He cried, and

466
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Speaker 2: he was just like, you can do this, and I

467
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Speaker 2: think you were built for this. And so wa one

468
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Speaker 2: way ticket to New York City came here and I

469
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Speaker 2: was just like, no one's going to stop me. No

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Speaker 2: one's going to stop me. And I think that no

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Speaker 2: one has.

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Speaker 1: I've had.

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Speaker 2: I've had some rough times like we all have, and

474
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Speaker 2: just like being get hit by a car, I would

475
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Speaker 2: never change that in a million years. But I one

476
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Speaker 2: of the things that I always say, like, there's something

477
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Speaker 2: truly beautiful and being basic and going back to the basics,

478
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Speaker 2: and it's humbling to think of that experience in times

479
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Speaker 2: that I'm sad and overwhelmed, and times that I get

480
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Speaker 2: those no's, and times that I have to start over,

481
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Speaker 1: Like nothing's working out for me.

483
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Speaker 2: When it of course rains, it pours, it floods, I

484
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Speaker 2: have to think of that moment of just being grateful

485
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Speaker 2: that was a moment you could have died and you're

486
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Speaker 2: living in. Yes, it's hard, but you keep pressing cold.

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Speaker 1: college and you're dancing, are you firm on the idea

512
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Speaker 1: that you're going to graduate and do this full time? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Hi, Yeah, you're Her face just lit up.

514
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Speaker 1: It was Christmas morning.

515
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Speaker 2: I yes, I love dancing. I loved it so much.

516
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Speaker 2: It was not until so I had that like, yes,

517
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Speaker 2: this is it for me. It was not until I

518
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Speaker 2: was about to graduate my senior year I was doing

519
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Speaker 2: like these internships with companies and performing that I realized

520
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Speaker 2: how hard and challenging it was to live in New

521
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Speaker 2: York City on a dancer's salary. I we need to

522
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Speaker 2: change that. One two dancers are not wrecking their body,

523
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Speaker 2: but putting their body through so many challenges to do

524
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Speaker 2: what they love and not being able to afford sometimes

525
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Speaker 2: their apartment alone, like you have to have a roommate,

526
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Speaker 2: and not all dancers. Everything's different, but for the most part,

527
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Speaker 2: once I realized that, I was just like, you know what,

528
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Speaker 2: I don't think that I need to I want to

529
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Speaker 2: go down that path of being a starving artist. It

530
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Speaker 2: can be fulfilling, but it's not I don't think it

531
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Speaker 2: was my lot in life. And so I found I

532
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Speaker 2: met someone who was like a friend of mine who

533
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Speaker 2: was like, models, make this, this and this. And I

534
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Speaker 2: was like, you're telling me that not moving my body

535
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Speaker 2: but using my body to take photos, not necessarily have

536
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Speaker 2: live art, is going to yield me more income to

537
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Speaker 2: able to live in the city and continue to create

538
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Speaker 2: the life that I want and to continue to dance

539
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Speaker 2: on the side. And they were like yes, And so

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Speaker 2: I went down the modeling route. I went into a

541
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Speaker 2: friend of a friend recommended me. I went into Wilhelmina

542
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Speaker 2: and they gave me a contract and it was one

543
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Speaker 2: of those things like not that doesn't happen all the time,

544
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Speaker 2: But I also reached out to like a ton of

545
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Speaker 2: agencies and my research and was like, hey, I'm this

546
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Speaker 2: non model trying to be a model and make money,

547
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Speaker 2: and somebody said yes, after really knocking down a lot

548
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Speaker 2: of doors.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember your first modeling job.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. I actually went into fitness modeling because you one

551
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Speaker 2: of the things when you're building a brand and building

552
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Speaker 2: a business. One of the things that I didn't realize

553
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Speaker 2: that I did at that age, but was great that

554
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Speaker 2: I did was find a pocket, find an area and

555
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Speaker 2: a niche that worked for me. So I didn't have

556
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Speaker 2: this dream of becoming like Victoria's secret supermodel, because there

557
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Speaker 2: was an aesthetic that went along with that. Whether right

558
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Speaker 2: or wrong, there is, you know, a way to get there.

559
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Speaker 2: It's not impossible. But I knew that because I was dancer,

560
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Speaker 2: I was athletically built.

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Speaker 1: There was a new arise of.

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Speaker 2: Athletic modeling, of sports modeling, and I was like, you

563
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Speaker 2: know what, this is a way, this is an area

564
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Speaker 2: that I could potentially make a market. It's something I

565
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Speaker 2: could potentially flourish at. And so I went in to

566
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Speaker 2: become a fitness model and that was how I found

567
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Speaker 2: my Yes, it wasn't like I'm going to all of

568
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Speaker 2: a sudden become some high fashion model or hands model

569
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Speaker 2: or whatever, which I really want to be one day.

570
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Speaker 2: But my first client I went in. I remember going

571
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Speaker 2: into my it was my first casting, just got signed

572
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Speaker 2: to an agency, went into the agency. There were legit

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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty models in this room, stunning people

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Speaker 2: like you walk in and I was super blonde at

575
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Speaker 2: the time. I had big blonde, curly atro and it

576
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Speaker 2: was under armour, and I remember sitting in this meeting

577
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Speaker 2: and I guess, again, it's like brandings. Some of the

578
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Speaker 2: things you think about you don't think about when branding

579
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Speaker 2: are so essential. I went into an area of fitness

580
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Speaker 2: that I knew that I could do well in. I

581
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Speaker 2: sat in that room and I said, what makes me

582
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Speaker 2: different than these people sitting here? Everyone's super nice most

583
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Speaker 2: of them. People are probably nervous. Everyone looked good, everyone's

584
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Speaker 2: a model. What's the outlier here? What is the one

585
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Speaker 2: thing they don't expect from models? And it was to

586
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Speaker 2: have a great personality. So I had sat there for

587
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Speaker 2: an hour and a half and I was like, I'm

588
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Speaker 2: going to go into this meeting and I'm going to

589
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Speaker 2: be human. I'm going to introduce myself and talk to

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Speaker 2: them like they're real people. That's gonna sit on the

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Speaker 2: other side of the table. And I remember walking into

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Speaker 2: my first casting and I was like, hey, everybody, how

593
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Speaker 2: are you? How are you doing today? And then I

594
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Speaker 2: kind of made a joke. I was like, I don't

595
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Speaker 2: know how you are handling looking at all these beautiful

596
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Speaker 2: people and making a decision, so like, God bless you,

597
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Speaker 2: and they started laughing. And it was that moment. And

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Speaker 2: I will later find out they became my longest client

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Speaker 2: I've ever had in my career. I probably worked for

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Speaker 2: under Armour for five six years, modeling with them, but

601
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Speaker 2: it helped me live in New York financially. And I

602
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Speaker 2: remember having a conversation maybe a year or two later

603
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Speaker 2: with those same women who hired me, and they said,

604
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Speaker 2: you were different. You walked in, you had a personality,

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Speaker 2: You looked at us like we were human, and that's

606
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Speaker 2: why we wanted to work with you. Everyone looked beautiful

607
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Speaker 2: and was fit the type we wanted to work with,

608
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Speaker 2: someone who was easy to work with and that we

609
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Speaker 2: did enjoy working with.

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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of the time when people

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Speaker 1: walk in for some sort of interview that they're like

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Speaker 1: so scared, and it's hard to put that fear to

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Speaker 1: the side, and that can also then mask a little

614
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Speaker 1: bit of your personality. So to be so open and

615
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Speaker 1: just treating them like it's a normal conversation, that's nine

616
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Speaker 1: times out of ten again in your situation, especially going

617
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Speaker 1: to give you a leg up, which is critical. All right,

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Speaker 1: So we book under Armour, and then we book other things,

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Speaker 1: and now we're just modeling and dancing, and so we're dancing.

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Speaker 2: I was dancing for the nixt I got. I went

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Speaker 2: to a cast an audition five hundred girls. I wanted

622
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Speaker 2: to continue to dance, and while I was trained in

623
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Speaker 2: concert dance and it wasn't necessarily trained in like this

624
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Speaker 2: commercial world, I went into the audition and booked the

625
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Speaker 2: job and it was about twenty two women on the team.

626
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Speaker 2: Was amazing because I created friends once I was out

627
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Speaker 2: of college, created friends during college and out of college,

628
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Speaker 2: and lifelong friends from there. And then I was performing

629
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Speaker 2: at Madison Square Garden, one of the biggest stages in

630
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Speaker 2: the world, one of the best arenas in the world,

631
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Speaker 2: and that too afforded me an opportunity to do what

632
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Speaker 2: I love, continue to model because the games were at night.

633
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Speaker 2: Continue to model and shoot during the day and make

634
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Speaker 2: some money. So I found that that was a hybrid.

635
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Speaker 2: And during that time I would dance for Beyonce. I

636
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 2: dance with pit Bull, I danced with White Cleth. I

637
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 2: would pick up these odd jobs, commercial dancing, doing what

638
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Speaker 2: I loved.

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Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, what was it like to dance with Beyonce?

640
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 2: It was speechless, given that is how songs you write.

641
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Speaker 2: But I've never one of the things. I remember being

642
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Speaker 2: in a room with her, having a one on one

643
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Speaker 2: with her and the choreographer. Choreographer and watching Beyonce work

644
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 2: is unlike anything I've ever seen. She came in the

645
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Speaker 2: room in the morning at eight am and didn't leave.

646
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Speaker 2: This is by herself. She didn't leave the rehearsal space

647
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Speaker 2: and until like eleven o'clock at night rehearsing. And it

648
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 2: wasn't like we stopped for lunch. It wasn't she ate,

649
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Speaker 2: but it was like, oh, someone brought in food. She

650
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Speaker 2: ate and she got back and it was like quite

651
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Speaker 2: like she I've never seen someone so hard working in

652
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 2: a personal space that up close in my life.

653
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: It's really special, very special, and it's like when someone

654
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: you can see truly brings like makes their passion their purpose.

655
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you can relate to that in so

656
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: many levels with what you're doing with the Love Squad.

657
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: But it's like when you see that in someone, you

658
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: see like the light in their eyes, and it's so

659
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: much different than someone that's just going through their day

660
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: to day an autopilot.

661
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 2: And I mean she allowed me in that space with

662
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 2: her as a young woman, Like as a young girl

663
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 2: trying to create my career. She could have been like, no,

664
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 2: I just need the choreographer. She was like, no.

665
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: Problem, Like Ali can come in.

666
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 2: It was just like she was human. It was that human,

667
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 2: approachable element of Beyonce that also gave me that wild

668
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 2: factor of her And that's something that I do try

669
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,719
Speaker 2: to remind it and how I navigate Love Squad, it's

670
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 2: that approachability. No matter how big we are, we need

671
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 2: women to sit on a stage and give you those

672
00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 2: tools and concepts that you can and how to most important,

673
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 2: how to do some things so that we can help

674
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 2: other women and other people in general find their path

675
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 2: and continue to create their space.

676
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: I think, And that's a really important note to hit

677
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: on as well. It's like, how can I help build

678
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,239
Speaker 1: up other people, and how can I offer what I

679
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: know to enrich somebody else. It's never going to be

680
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: about oh well, if I offer this to someone, then

681
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: they might do X, Y Z. Well that you're looking

682
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: at it the wrong way. Then it's like, all right,

683
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: I'm willing and ready to help someone else, not because

684
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: I'm necessarily looking for anything in return or scared of

685
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: what they might do with that intel. I'm doing it

686
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: because I know that I have the opportunity to do so.

687
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: That's so powerful.

688
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 2: It's a gift, and it reminds me I'm going to

689
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 2: really bring like butcher this a little bit. But there's

690
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 2: like some parable in the Bible where like God gives

691
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 2: this guy some talents and he instead of using the talent,

692
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 2: he buries the talents. And it's when you bury the talent,

693
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 2: you have your talentless. And then he gives other talents

694
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 2: to another person, another guy, and he uses those talents

695
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 2: and from using those talents, he gain greater talents. So

696
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,959
Speaker 2: his talents only multiply and he creates a life for himself.

697
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 2: And I think that that is the reality helping others,

698
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 2: the art of helping others. Is that a true art,

699
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 2: and the more you help others and get information out there,

700
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 2: the more your talents will increase. The more you know,

701
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 2: opportunity said, you get from that.

702
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: So let's talk about adding to the talent roster for

703
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: you then, because you're modeling and you're dancing with the

704
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: next and then when does fitness become an even bigger

705
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: part of your life.

706
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 2: It's the moment that everything gets hard. It was the

707
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 2: moment where, at this time, a part of what I

708
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 2: was doing, I kept my night job, not necessarily at CBS,

709
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 2: but I also did bottle waitressing in New York City.

710
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 2: I kept the night hustle. It continued, like outside of

711
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 2: modeling and then dancing for the Knicks, I was a

712
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 2: bottle waitress. I was able to kind of like stack

713
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 2: my paper and make sure I was living a comfortable

714
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 2: life to continue to pursue the things I loved. But

715
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 2: it came to a point in my life where you

716
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 2: can know longer, and I'm sure some people can identify

717
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,239
Speaker 2: that are listening. You get to a point in your

718
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 2: life and you're like, why am I doing this? And

719
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 2: you no longer have an answer, and if you don't,

720
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 2: you can't answer the questions of why and how when

721
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 2: it comes to what you're doing in life and who

722
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 2: you are, that's a moment you.

723
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: Got to stop.

724
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 2: So I had to make the decision where I stopped

725
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 2: dancing for the nixt I had to make the decision

726
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 2: where I stopped bottle waitressing. And it was a moment

727
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 2: where I wasn't doing anything. I was still modeling, but

728
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 2: as you know, modeling seasonal, so there were weeks where

729
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 2: I'd have one casting, some that i'd have none, you know.

730
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 2: So it was one of those moments where I had

731
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 2: a lot of time on my hands. I was confused

732
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 2: on what I wanted in life, who I was, And

733
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 2: there's a difference between being busy and being productive and

734
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 2: I knew that, and I had to take a moment

735
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 2: where I was saying, there's no longer, this isn't the

736
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 2: season to continue.

737
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: To be busy. I need to produce.

738
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 2: I need to be productive, and the only way to

739
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 2: do that is to sit still for a moment, be sad.

740
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 2: Struggle a little bit in terms of asking myself these

741
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 2: questions that were super answerless, and I didn't have the answer.

742
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 2: So I'm all about the how to. I got three

743
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 2: books around three people that I looked up to that

744
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 2: I ultimately wanted to model my career. After I read

745
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 2: their books, I read articles, I sat home a lot,

746
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 2: I looked up a lot of information. At that time,

747
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 2: podcasts were just coming in, but not to the extent

748
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 2: they are now. But I listened to a lot of speeches,

749
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,760
Speaker 2: a lot of Ted talks, and I ended up getting

750
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 2: into yoga. I started praying a lot, and during this

751
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily meditate. I pray and doing my prayers,

752
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 2: I started wanting to move a little bit. So I

753
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 2: started going to hot yoga. And it was the time

754
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 2: of stillness, in the time of movement and finding that

755
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 2: stillness internally that I figured out, wait a minute, there's

756
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 2: something here. I love this. So I started running with

757
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 2: a friend and through running, I was just like, I

758
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 2: love moving my body in a different way. How can

759
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 2: I do this? And I was still hosting. I was

760
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 2: still putting myself out there. I was taking That was

761
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 2: when I started taking hosting classes. It was getting being

762
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 2: still that I was like, I want to do on

763
00:34:58,239 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 2: camera work. I want to have a voice, I want

764
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 2: to I want to magnify, I want to be on

765
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 2: a bigger platform. And I created a reel that was

766
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 2: really janky and sent it to everyone. It was like,

767
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 2: I will host your kids' birthday parties. I will, and

768
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 2: this is all. These things would come to me while

769
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 2: I was doing yoga, while I was running, and I

770
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 2: was just like, I gotta do things for free to

771
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 2: get something for money. And I don't have this skill

772
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 2: set yet. I can practice all day, but doing it

773
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 2: for real is Doing it for real is experience. And

774
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 2: it was a friend who said, they're looking to Brooklyn.

775
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,399
Speaker 2: Nets move to Brooklyn. You were just in the NBA.

776
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 2: You stopped dancing for the next you know how this works.

777
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,439
Speaker 2: They're looking to phill a spot because the girl that's

778
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 2: currently doing it their first season wants to change. And

779
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,760
Speaker 2: she's like, I'm going to move your resume and reel

780
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 2: along to our senior vice president of entertainment. And I

781
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, go for it. Yeah sure, like I

782
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 2: could do that, absolutely terrified. She sent it along and

783
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 2: they called me in for a meeting and they were like, okay, great,

784
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 2: we want to offer you the job. And I was

785
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:53,760
Speaker 2: like no, no, no, no, like I don't have any experience

786
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 2: and that They're like, yeah, it's okay. You know how

787
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 2: the NBA works, You've done your research, you have a

788
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,959
Speaker 2: great personality. Let's give it a go. So it's only

789
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 2: like half a season left, let's bring you in. And

790
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 2: I went from speaking to zero people to speaking to

791
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 2: eighteen thousand people at Barclay Center. And it was because,

792
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 2: and I really it was because four months of just

793
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 2: being by myself, of being productive, of getting the word out,

794
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 2: of figuring out answering those questions of what I want

795
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 2: to do, taking those hosting classes, finding the aha moment

796
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 2: after my first hosting class and saying like, oh, no, no, no,

797
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 2: this is it. This is what I meant, this is

798
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:28,919
Speaker 2: what I'm born to do. And I know it wasn't

799
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 2: the only thing, but it was one of those things

800
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 2: that I was like, I have to pursue this to

801
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 2: make sure. And I encourage anyone that in this moment

802
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 2: of just being busy. I'm not telling anyone to quit

803
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 2: their nine to five. You got to pay your bills.

804
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 2: What I am saying is taking moment to scale back

805
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 2: on going out, scale back on doing the odd jobs,

806
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 2: scale back on just doing things because you just said

807
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 2: yes and saying no to a lot of things and

808
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 2: saying no to yourself sitting home and finding that moment

809
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 2: of stillness or those moments of stillness, maybe through yoga,

810
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 2: maybe through fitness. And it was like fitness that brought

811
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 2: me to those moments of I know what I want

812
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 2: to do now.

813
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: First follow up question, what are the three books?

814
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 2: Oh? So it was Ryan Seacrest because I was like

815
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 2: Ryan Seacrest's host extraordinaire. Oh yeah, yeah, I read his book.

816
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 2: I read I always Padma lashed me book because she

817
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 2: was a TV host from a model, so Ryan was

818
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:24,320
Speaker 2: a host. I wanted to be a host. Padima was

819
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 2: a model turned TV host. She did cooking more so

820
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 2: like food was her lane. And then of course Oprah

821
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 2: and I knew. I knew Obrah was in there, like

822
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 2: everyone should read everything about Oprah. And it was one

823
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 2: of those things where I was like, this is the

824
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 2: hybrid of everything that I want to do or want

825
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 2: to be. So and I remember my boyfriend, who is

826
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 2: very pivotal in my store. I always say, you have

827
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 2: to find an Andrew. There's this thing of like, I

828
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 2: don't know. I read a book and the chapter was

829
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 2: find your Andrew, and I was like, oh, I found mine.

830
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 2: But it was someone who changed that person's life. But

831
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 2: find your Andrew is truly a part of my story.

832
00:37:58,400 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 2: Find that person that's going to give it to you real,

833
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,839
Speaker 2: give it to your right and not back down. And

834
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 2: he's that person still in my life. And he was like,

835
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 2: you got to stop doing what you're doing. It's okay

836
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 2: not to make money right now. It's okay to not

837
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 2: have an answer when your friends say, so what are

838
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 2: you up to. It's okay to say nothing, that you're

839
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 2: figuring it out.

840
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:16,720
Speaker 1: It's okay.

841
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,359
Speaker 2: So, yeah, I found my Andrew and that where he

842
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 2: was just like, this isn't the first You're not the

843
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 2: first person to be lost. Read a book on someone

844
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 2: who's doing what you want to do.

845
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: When did you guys meet?

846
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 2: We met? I think it was me when I first

847
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 2: started dancing for the Knicks. We met. We met in

848
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 2: a club. I get that because people are just like,

849
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:37,839
Speaker 2: how did you meet? I stay in the club. Let

850
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 2: me keep it real. We met at a club, and

851
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 2: that's how funny enough, that's how my mom and dad met.

852
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, I know you knew it was okay, it

853
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: was happy.

854
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we met in the club, and yeah, we've

855
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,240
Speaker 2: been slumming it ever since.

856
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: Okay, then the second follow up question is talk to

857
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 1: me about that feeling you got when you walked out

858
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 1: on the court for the first time, because I'm sure

859
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: with a microphone in your hand, it's very different than

860
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: when you were dancing with the next So dancing from

861
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,320
Speaker 1: the next I was chop boss.

862
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 2: I was like, you walk out, you have the comfort

863
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 2: level of being with like sixteen other women. In my mind,

864
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 2: everyone's just in all of our minds, everyone's just watching us.

865
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 2: But like, if you miss the step, you can follow

866
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 2: someone else, but when you're on the court, when you're alone,

867
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 2: you're truly alone. I walked out, and honestly, it was

868
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 2: the worst ever. It was probably the worst hosting anyone

869
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 2: has ever done. But I remember having an earpiece in

870
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 2: and someone saying you're going in ten, You're going in

871
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 2: five and four. And I walked out on that court

872
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 2: and I was terrified, extremely scared, but I knew I

873
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 2: had to do it. And of course Andrew's advice. Right

874
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 2: before I went on, he had texted me, this is

875
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 2: the worst. I don't and this could be good or red.

876
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 2: It was great to hear this is the worst you're

877
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:57,800
Speaker 2: ever going to do. That's okay, and I was like, Okay,

878
00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:59,439
Speaker 2: this is going to suck. I'm going to be bad,

879
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 2: and that's okay because I'd never done it before. And

880
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 2: obviously the first time you do anything, it's your worst time.

881
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 2: Most times it's your worst time, and it can only

882
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 2: grow from there. And that's what you want, truly. You

883
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 2: want to come in doing anything average at best, so

884
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,919
Speaker 2: that your story is like I was the comeback kid.

885
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 2: I did okay. So I did absolutely terrible and I

886
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 2: was terrified and I was reading this paper. The paper

887
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 2: was covering my face. But my shoes were cute and

888
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 2: my outfit was nice and my hair was laid. So

889
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 2: I will say that made me feel better about the pictures,

890
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:34,359
Speaker 2: not necessarily the video pictures looked great.

891
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 1: I looked fabulous doing that.

892
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 2: You gotta find the upside of it. My risks are

893
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 2: my wrists are pretty today? I don't know.

894
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: I mean this morning, I walked out of the house

895
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: and I opened my airpod's case and one of the

896
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 1: air pods was missing. And in my head, I was like,

897
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 1: it's been three years and I haven't lost an AirPod.

898
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: So I mean, let's find upside. Upside. Yeah, maybe it's

899
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,720
Speaker 1: time for me to pay my dues seventy nine dollars

900
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 1: single AirPod replacement fee. Googled that real quick. Okay, so

901
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 1: you're hosting, Yes, and things get better because they have to.

902
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:03,359
Speaker 2: They do.

903
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: They have to.

904
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Speaker 2: Things get better. I practice a skill, I fall in

905
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,839
Speaker 2: love with it even more. The Brooklyn Nets couldn't give

906
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 2: them more of a shout out. Afforded me the comfort

907
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 2: without being breathing down my neck. In terms of every

908
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 2: time I'd come up the court, they were like, great job,

909
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 2: good job.

910
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: Like they build me up.

911
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,919
Speaker 2: They allowed me space to build my confidence and something

912
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,720
Speaker 2: that I had never done. And it was a unique

913
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 2: and it's still unique because I still do it to

914
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 2: this day. I'm one person in New York City that

915
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Speaker 2: does that. I own a court, I own an arena.

916
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 2: I'm the only woman on that court. I walk out

917
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 2: with heels every single time, and I speak to the arena.

918
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 2: I do in game hits, live hits every time out

919
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 2: where the it's marketing plug, interviewing someone, interviewing a coach,

920
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 2: interviewing a player, interviewing a celebrity, or just doing a

921
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,280
Speaker 2: fun game with some of the fans. That are happening.

922
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 2: That's happening, and it's just like it gave me experience

923
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 2: and it put me in positions to get jobs. People

924
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 2: are like, oh, allie does that here? Who's that girl?

925
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 2: Let me hire her for this or let's find out

926
00:41:59,040 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 2: more about her.

927
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 1: I offered your name to someone the other day who

928
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Speaker 1: asked me to do a hosting job that I couldn't do.

929
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about it, we'll talk about app Thanks for.

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00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:09,919
Speaker 1: The flub, but yeah, seriously, it's like it's the same thing,

931
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: like with podcasting or like with moderating panels, like you

932
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: do it once and someone's like, well, this person does

933
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 1: this thing, so maybe they can do this thing for

934
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Speaker 1: our thing that we need to do, you know, so

935
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Speaker 1: to your testament of do it once and get it again.

936
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you might have to do it for free,

937
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 2: and that's okay.

938
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:25,760
Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember when I sat down with Gunnar Peterson.

939
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: He said he said, never do something for free, and

940
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 1: I said, I asked to him, well, what about when

941
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: someone asks that of you? He's like, well, then ask

942
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 1: yourself a beyond money, what are you gaining from this opportunity?

943
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 1: Because it's not always like someone's going to hand you

944
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: a stack of hundo's and be like thank you.

945
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 2: So much.

946
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Speaker 1: But who do you get to meet from this opportunity?

947
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: What do you get to do? Like, what do you gain?

948
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: What do you learn? Think about it that way before

949
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 1: you think all money.

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Speaker 2: And that's exactly That's exactly how I weigh options to

951
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 2: this day. When I mentioned earlier about making a decision.

952
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 2: In making decisions, the upside is either a capital gain

953
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 2: where you're saying, like, I'm going to make some income

954
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 2: from this, this is justifiable, or it's a platform game

955
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:05,760
Speaker 2: where it's like I'm going to get exposure to new people,

956
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 2: I'm going to get to practice my craft, I'm going

957
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 2: to get more experience. I'm gonna like You're able to

958
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 2: leverage this in two ways financial gain or platform gain gain,

959
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 2: and that is really important. So nothing is necessarily free

960
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 2: because you're getting that platform.

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Speaker 1: Taking a quick break from today's episode to give Athletic

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Speaker 1: Let's get back to it. You are hosting for the

982
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Speaker 1: nets and it's going really well. When does Peloton come

983
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 1: into the picture?

984
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 2: So hosting for the nets? What ends up happening first

985
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 2: was I started getting into the Instagram game and was like,

986
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 2: you know what, I want to continue to brand myself

987
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 2: as fitness model and I would I remember doing a

988
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,320
Speaker 2: shoot doing some Adidas, wearing some Adidas. I was like,

989
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:58,879
Speaker 2: I want to play the angle of Adidas. I've never

990
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 2: worked with them and any of my modeling jobs, and

991
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 2: I'd like to get in with them. So I got

992
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:05,320
Speaker 2: a guy to take some photos of me and Adidas

993
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 2: posted them. Adidas reached out and they had it. Kind

994
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:10,879
Speaker 2: of was a trifecta. At this point, Adidas reached out

995
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 2: in terms of we want to you to build some content.

996
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 2: I had created love Squad in order to be a

997
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 2: great host. As I mentioned, I wanted to make sure

998
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 2: that I was expanding my vocabulary and gaining writing skills.

999
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,800
Speaker 2: So I started writing about fitness, writing about my yoga sessions,

1000
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 2: writing about running, writing about you know, doing waking up early,

1001
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 2: getting these things done, being a boss at that moment

1002
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 2: or in that time. And it was then that they

1003
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 2: hired me for a campaign their offices in Germany. At

1004
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:38,360
Speaker 2: that point, I wanted looked for an host in New

1005
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 2: York City, a woman, and they hired me for a

1006
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 2: soccer event to host, and then on top of that,

1007
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 2: they reached out for me to do some content. They

1008
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,360
Speaker 2: started out what I was doing on lovesquad Dot com

1009
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 2: asked me to do content for Adidas, and so I

1010
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 2: started creating content for them. So it was one of

1011
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 2: those things where I shot their campaign in Miami. Shortly after,

1012
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 2: I created some content for their California team and hosted

1013
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 2: an event for their Germany team in New York, and

1014
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 2: we had that conversation of like, we want you to

1015
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 2: be an ambassador, a global ambassador for us. It all

1016
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 2: ended up working out where I was the perfect one

1017
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 2: of the perfect persons to represent the brand globally. And

1018
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 2: it was from there that I met Robin Arzan and

1019
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 2: I became fast friends, very close friends to this day.

1020
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 2: And she saw what I was doing with Love Squad

1021
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 2: and I was hosting co hosting an Adidas event in

1022
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 2: the Hamptons, and I had invited her. She was on

1023
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 2: the list of like invites because we each ambassador, she

1024
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 2: was a global ambassador at the time, will get these

1025
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,359
Speaker 2: one off events, and so she was like sitting next

1026
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 2: to me on dinner and she was just like, you

1027
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 2: have to do peloton and I was like, oh, nope,

1028
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,840
Speaker 2: I'm good girl. I'm gonna take these shots and dance

1029
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,240
Speaker 2: like we were having like a party at that point,

1030
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:44,879
Speaker 2: and she was like no, no, no, no. What you're

1031
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 2: doing with Love Squad and how you're empowering the community,

1032
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 2: and how you are athletic in terms of you run,

1033
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:54,280
Speaker 2: you can host, you have on camera skills, you're athletic,

1034
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 2: and you're empowering the community. People need to hear about

1035
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 2: Love Squad and what you're doing, and Peloton's a platform

1036
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 2: for that. And I was like, I'm good, don't want

1037
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 2: to cycle. Sincerely, thank you, but no, thank you. And

1038
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 2: of course, if anyone knows Robin, she doesn't really take

1039
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 2: no for an answer. Very get back to New York

1040
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 2: going into one of uh I was fit modeling at

1041
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 2: the time for Victoria's Secret, going to my job and

1042
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 2: I get a text from someone at Peloton was like, great,

1043
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 2: we have you for an audition. We have you set

1044
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 2: up for an audition like next week. We want to

1045
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:30,959
Speaker 2: meet you before and I was like, wow, thanks Rob,

1046
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 2: thanks thanks my girl.

1047
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: That no did not really happen.

1048
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 2: So I was like, you know what, why not?

1049
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: I know that?

1050
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 2: I know in life you get your career, or of

1051
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 2: finding out what you want to do in life comes

1052
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 2: through two ways. Either you know it since you're born,

1053
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 2: and no one can deviate, No one you don't deviate

1054
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 2: from that plan or someone tells you what you're good

1055
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 2: at and what you should be doing. And so I

1056
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 2: trusted the instinct and I trusted her and more so

1057
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 2: and said, you know what, she's my friend.

1058
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 1: I do trust her.

1059
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 2: And I went in for the meeting, went in for

1060
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 2: the audition, got on that bike. Was not a cyclist,

1061
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 2: was not a fitness instructor. Now mind you. I was

1062
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,359
Speaker 2: running and taking some fun yoga hot yoga class looms

1063
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 2: and that was it. And of course I took dance,

1064
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 2: and I was a dancer. Was not teaching anyone anything,

1065
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 2: and nor did I want to. But I got on

1066
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 2: that bike, and I realized in that moment or shortly

1067
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 2: after that moment, there were four cameras, there was a

1068
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 2: producer downstairs. It was live, It was broadcasted to thousands

1069
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:26,879
Speaker 2: of people at that time. And I was like, wait

1070
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 2: a minute, you're telling me I can empower, I can

1071
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 2: work out, and I can do things where their cameras involved.

1072
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: That's such a mod option.

1073
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 2: Yes, And I ended up realizing the opportunity set and

1074
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 2: what they were offering, and I said yes to it,

1075
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 2: and I was like, Okay, I need an assistant now

1076
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 2: because I'm not giving up anything. I'm doing Love Squad,

1077
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 2: I'm hosting for the NETS, I'm keeping Peloton, and I'm

1078
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:50,839
Speaker 2: going to be a Didas Global Ambassador continuously. And that's

1079
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 2: kind of how it all came together. One of the

1080
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 2: things I will say before your next question is I

1081
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 2: get this often. What do all those things have in common?

1082
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 2: One of the things that I've always wanted to do

1083
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 2: was be in the Lime Live, hence being a dancer.

1084
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:06,239
Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with them, any of that. If that,

1085
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 2: if you are that person, own it. I'm always want

1086
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 2: to be front and center.

1087
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: I love on camera work.

1088
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 2: I love being in front of the camera, and I

1089
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:17,360
Speaker 2: love speaking every one of those things, whether it's an

1090
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 2: Adidas Global Ambassador, I moderate panels, I'm in campaigns, I'm

1091
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 2: talking about my story of how fitness has influenced and

1092
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 2: changed me. Peloton instructor, I'm empowering real time through fitness.

1093
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 1: While you're on the bike.

1094
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 2: I get to say the things that are really truly

1095
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 2: inspirational to thousands of people. Nets live on camera that

1096
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 2: eighteen thousand people. You can't take that back. Love Squad

1097
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 2: panel discussions around in empowerment building businesses, things giving offering,

1098
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:45,400
Speaker 2: how to's, all of those things. Have those things in

1099
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 2: common live on camera encouragement.

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00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: I love it. Where do you gain your inspiration from

1101
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 1: When you're inspiring so many other people, It's really.

1102
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 2: Important that you listen to other people's journeys so you

1103
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:02,760
Speaker 2: cannot This is why I say, sit down with people,

1104
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 2: ask them, not only ask them for help, but ask them.

1105
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 1: What you can do for them.

1106
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 2: So whenever you're feeling in those moments of feedback, when

1107
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 2: I have those bi annual feedback sessions that I have

1108
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 2: with internal and externally personally and professionally, I sit down

1109
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 2: with those people and I learn about their stories, I

1110
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 2: ask them for advice, I take their advice, and then

1111
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 2: I'm truly inspired by them. And so in those times

1112
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:29,320
Speaker 2: where it gets tough, I'm overwhelmed, I'm ran down, I'm tired,

1113
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 2: I remember those words of Wisdoms, just like you quote it.

1114
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 2: You quote someone that has truly.

1115
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 1: Touched you because they've afforded you time.

1116
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:40,319
Speaker 2: And that's really important. So when I think of how

1117
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 2: I'm inspired, I do listen to a lot of podcasts.

1118
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 2: I do listen to a lot of sermons. So Stephen

1119
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,880
Speaker 2: Ferdick is a pastor of Elevation Church. And I would say,

1120
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 2: at this point in my life, he has been Outside

1121
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 2: of Andrew, my boyfriend, has been the most influential voice.

1122
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:03,800
Speaker 2: And he doesn't know this influential voice in my head

1123
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 2: when it comes to inspiring people, he.

1124
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 1: Gets it.

1125
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 2: He gets it. He's truly blessed by God. He gets it.

1126
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 2: And whenever I'm down, whenever I'm up, I listen to him.

1127
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 2: He reminds me of what God has done for me.

1128
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 2: He reminds me of what God is doing, how God

1129
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 2: is moving in my life. And one of the things

1130
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 2: I learned is it's not always how do you say

1131
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:31,240
Speaker 2: fun or welcoming to maybe talk about religion or spirituality.

1132
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:33,359
Speaker 2: But I think it's my lot in life is that

1133
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:35,240
Speaker 2: we get so caught up in what.

1134
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:38,280
Speaker 1: Someone should look like, or what a religious.

1135
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 2: Person might sound like, or I mean, what someone with

1136
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 2: curly hair acts like, or what a black person should

1137
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 2: do or what a white We get so caught up

1138
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 2: in these stereotypes, and it's important that we break those

1139
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 2: stereotypes down. And so, yeah, I'm religious, and yeah I

1140
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 2: believe in God, and some of the things that we

1141
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 2: hear aren't truly what it looks like to be a

1142
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 2: religious person.

1143
00:51:56,960 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 1: Those are just Takemas, those are just Sarah types.

1144
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:03,759
Speaker 2: So I think that it's important that I that's a

1145
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:05,839
Speaker 2: part of my journey and a part of my conversation

1146
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:08,799
Speaker 2: because yeah, I think we get caught up in what

1147
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 2: these people look like or what they believe and how

1148
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 2: they hate us or hate that, Like that's not who

1149
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 2: I am. I'm inclusive.

1150
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:17,960
Speaker 1: I mean parallel that to the social media life, like

1151
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: I mean the highlight reel that is Instagram, Facebook, whatever,

1152
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 1: wherever you're consuming that kind of content. It's you see

1153
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:26,920
Speaker 1: that and it's like, this is how I should be

1154
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 1: or how I should act, or what I should do,

1155
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 1: Like if I'm not doing this much running or if

1156
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 1: I'm not doing this much whatever it is, then you

1157
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:37,799
Speaker 1: have this inferiority complex that you're messing something up. But

1158
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:40,359
Speaker 1: the beauty is is that you get to define every

1159
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:42,440
Speaker 1: day who it is that you are, and by offering

1160
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: your authentic self to the world, like there's only one you.

1161
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 1: So then what like if you're trying if you're spending

1162
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 1: all your time trying to be somebody else or trying

1163
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 1: to fit some type of mold that you're perceiving from

1164
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: somebody else, like you're wasting your time and also.

1165
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:57,600
Speaker 2: Getting caught up and being nervous to be who you are,

1166
00:52:57,960 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 2: because I know I did deal with the fear of

1167
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 2: like should I tell people that I believe in God?

1168
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 2: Did I even say Jesus is the name to it?

1169
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 2: And it's like, at the end of the day, people

1170
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 2: are going to love me, and some people aren't gonna

1171
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 2: love me, and they're gonna love me whether I am

1172
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 2: myself or not. It's just that that's just the nature

1173
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,479
Speaker 2: of life. And I truly encourage anyone who's listening own

1174
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:16,759
Speaker 2: all areas of you. I'm not saying I'm perfect. I'm

1175
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 2: not saying I will ever be, because I subscribe to

1176
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 2: being real beyond being perfect. I'm not saying I'm the

1177
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 2: perfect this, or that I'm not the perfect peloton instructor

1178
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 2: just like I'm not the perfect like Christian, Like I'm

1179
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,320
Speaker 2: not any the perfect anything. I'm not the perfect girlfriend.

1180
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 2: Like however, I'm okay with being basic sometimes i am

1181
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:36,239
Speaker 2: and I'm okay with bossing up and other times. And

1182
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 2: I think that if you're ever struggling with not only

1183
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 2: just what it should look like, but struggling with exposing

1184
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,919
Speaker 2: who you are completely. I really encourage you to think

1185
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 2: about it and.

1186
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 1: Do it.

1187
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 2: Take a risk on yourself, because no one else is.

1188
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 1: I think also, it's like that important saying that says,

1189
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 1: if you try to be a leader or a person

1190
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 1: for everyone, then you're a leader or a person for

1191
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: no no one, for no one, not at all. Noll boy. Now, okay,

1192
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:05,959
Speaker 1: So how do you then, when you're taking so much

1193
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 1: time to give back to your partner, to peloton, to

1194
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 1: the hosting, to everything you're constantly giving and giving and giving,

1195
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: how do you give back to you? What do you

1196
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 1: do for you? Oh?

1197
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 2: I'm glad you didn't ask me. What's self care?

1198
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: What do you just do something for you? Yeah?

1199
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 2: What do I do for me? I think all of

1200
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 2: those things are pretty selfish. I'm gonna be honest, I'm

1201
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 2: gonna be super real and transparent. I think that everything

1202
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:32,480
Speaker 2: that I do is selfish, and I'm okay with admitting that.

1203
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 2: I just talk about being your whole self. I think

1204
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:37,839
Speaker 2: when you can admit who you are and what you're

1205
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 2: doing and why you're doing it, you get yourself to

1206
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 2: People love you more in terms of they feel safe.

1207
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 2: They love you more because they feel safe with you

1208
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:47,799
Speaker 2: because they're like, she's not hiding, she's not living in

1209
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:51,520
Speaker 2: this like false reality. So for me, all of those

1210
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 2: things are for me. I do these things because I

1211
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 2: love them. They feed me. They are a part of

1212
00:54:57,040 --> 00:55:00,760
Speaker 2: who I am since I was a kid. They afford

1213
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:04,399
Speaker 2: me the best opportunity set to bring a family into

1214
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 2: this world to live a comfortable life. I'm truly going

1215
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:10,359
Speaker 2: to be honest in that, and I think, so when

1216
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:11,759
Speaker 2: I think of it, what am I doing for me?

1217
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 2: I'm doing those things for me. I'm doing those things

1218
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:16,399
Speaker 2: because if I didn't do those things, I'd be doing

1219
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:17,879
Speaker 2: things that were for everyone else.

1220
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 1: And right now, when you're on the biker obviously on Instagram,

1221
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: you have a great following there. When you take a

1222
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 1: second and step back, the people that follow you, they

1223
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 1: see who you are from that lens. They see this

1224
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,399
Speaker 1: business woman and a Peloton instructor and a Brooklyn Net's

1225
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 1: host and all the things. But when you look in

1226
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,280
Speaker 1: the mirror, what is it that you see?

1227
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:38,320
Speaker 2: I see a woman who's ready to change the world.

1228
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 2: And I don't have all the answers on how to

1229
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:42,080
Speaker 2: do that, but I know one of the things that

1230
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:44,840
Speaker 2: I speak about is bossing up, creating a standard, establishing

1231
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 2: a tone. You can walk in any room and change

1232
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 2: a tone, whether for good or for bad. You can

1233
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:50,799
Speaker 2: create a standard. No need to worry about the rules

1234
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 2: when you're setting standards. And it's one of those things

1235
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 2: where I truly subscribe to that. Personally, I truly believe

1236
00:55:56,840 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 2: in the good, the bad, the unknown about myself, listening

1237
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 2: to feedback from people implementing those things. But when I

1238
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:06,840
Speaker 2: look in the mirror, I do see myself as a

1239
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 2: game changer. I do see myself as someone who is

1240
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:13,399
Speaker 2: going to blaze a trail of redefining and recreating what

1241
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 2: an entrepreneur looks like, what a woman of this century

1242
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 2: looks like, and what it means to really inspire the

1243
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 2: next generation. Again, not don't have all the answers, but

1244
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 2: that's what that's who I see myself as when I

1245
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 2: look in the mirror. Not easy comes with a lot

1246
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 2: of responsibility, But I.

1247
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:31,759
Speaker 1: Don't choose easy.

1248
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:32,399
Speaker 2: So good.

1249
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 1: On the days where you wake up and maybe you've

1250
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:38,360
Speaker 1: gotten like a no or someone has like really knocked

1251
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: you down, what do you do or what have you

1252
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 1: changed to be able to still see that person in

1253
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:45,719
Speaker 1: the mirror, Because I think That's what a lot of

1254
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:49,239
Speaker 1: people struggle with, right, It's like what one rejection, that

1255
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:52,240
Speaker 1: one problem, that one person that makes them feel lesser

1256
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:55,399
Speaker 1: than or without? What do you tell that person who

1257
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: feels without at that moment?

1258
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:01,760
Speaker 2: So, yeah, it's not always like cotton, Kenny Drummond, whatever

1259
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 2: is it? Cotton, candy, rain, drafts and doughnuts.

1260
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 1: In my life, on.

1261
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 2: Those moments that I am sad and that when I

1262
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:11,360
Speaker 2: do look in the mirror and I can't find that girl,

1263
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:14,360
Speaker 2: I can't find that woman, I can't find that person,

1264
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 2: I allow myself to just be. I know that sounds

1265
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 2: so crazy, but I always say, feel all the feels.

1266
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:23,400
Speaker 1: So if you want to cry, cry and I do cry.

1267
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 2: I cry a lot. Actually I don't cry because I'm

1268
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 2: always sad, but I cry because I need to get

1269
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 2: it out. I don't want to hold it in. I

1270
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 2: don't want to like pretend. That's also a form of pretending.

1271
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 2: Like if I keep practicing this and preaching like be

1272
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 2: your full self, like be who you are, it's like

1273
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 2: I have to be that person too. And some days

1274
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 2: when I feel lost and I definitely want to give up,

1275
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 2: a lot of times I feel that way. I get

1276
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 2: into that mood and allow myself to feel that way.

1277
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:54,080
Speaker 2: And I also reach out to friends, like I need

1278
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:56,440
Speaker 2: to vent. I'll send a voice note quick to somebody

1279
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 2: like here's a vent, here's a rant. Feel free to

1280
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:00,840
Speaker 2: turn it off at any but I need to get

1281
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:03,080
Speaker 2: this out. Obviously someone that I feel safe with or

1282
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:05,920
Speaker 2: that I built a relationship with. But I I tell

1283
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 2: anyone around me feel all the feels, Yeah, allow yourself.

1284
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 1: You can't.

1285
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 2: The worst advice is when someone says you should just

1286
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 2: feel confident, you should.

1287
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 1: Just be this. I'm like, if I could be, if

1288
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:18,640
Speaker 1: I could feel that, I would.

1289
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 2: So it's like I can't push myself to a point

1290
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 2: to feel something or be something that I'm not ready

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Speaker 2: to feel or be. So sometimes, yeah, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: get out of the slump. Maybe in a day. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: it's gonna take me a month. Sometimes I'm gonna sometimes.

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Speaker 2: I mean this year, earlier, this year I dealt with

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Speaker 2: it was month of February, six weeks, I would say,

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Speaker 2: February to March anxiety AF I could not get myself together.

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Speaker 2: Imagine running a business having two women, like two employees,

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Speaker 2: So what should we be doing? I'm like, honestly, I

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Speaker 2: can't even answer. I don't know. I didn't brush my

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Speaker 2: teeth today. I can't roll out of bed right now,

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Speaker 2: like and then have to do that where yeah, I

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Speaker 2: do push through when it's on peloton, but even in that,

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Speaker 2: when I'm on that bike, I'm like, anybody in this

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Speaker 2: room stuff right now, please put your HANDU because I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna raise my hand.

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Speaker 1: I want you to know that.

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Speaker 2: And there's it breaks down that wall. Let's be real

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Speaker 2: about it. I don't have the again, I don't have

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Speaker 2: the answer. Is there gonna be days I feel strong

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Speaker 2: and powerful, and there's gonna be days where I'm just like, okay,

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Speaker 2: you are strong and powerful, just not right now, you

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Speaker 2: don't feel that way. So I encourage myself to feel

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Speaker 2: the feels. I don't push myself to be something or

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Speaker 2: to feel something that I don't. And I do get

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Speaker 2: a little antsy when I do have those bouts of

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Speaker 2: like anxiety or mild depression or sadness, I do get

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Speaker 2: a little antsie like, and I do tell myself, I'm like,

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Speaker 2: well that when you get on Instagram, you're like, well,

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Speaker 2: that person's always doing well, and this person has everything

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Speaker 2: going for them and they're so skinny and pretty and

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Speaker 2: their hair is gray and they know all the right

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Speaker 2: things to say. And then I like stop. And one

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Speaker 2: of the things you said earlier, you were.

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Speaker 1: Like, you should do this. I get in my head

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Speaker 1: you should do this, you should do this.

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Speaker 2: And I always tell myself stop shouting on yourself, girl, stop.

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Speaker 1: Stop it, stop it.

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Speaker 2: So, yeah, it's not I don't again, don't have the

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Speaker 2: answer for it. It's not a pretty like read this

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Speaker 2: book and you're going to say this, say this mantra

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Speaker 2: and you're gonna be fine. Look in the mirror and

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Speaker 2: spend around three times. Don't have the answer. But what

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Speaker 2: I do allow myself to do is take the time

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Speaker 2: that I need to be in the place that I

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Speaker 2: need to be at that point.

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Speaker 1: And you mentioned the worst piece of advice. But when

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Speaker 1: you look back on your career so far in this

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Speaker 1: like mini empire, let's call it, let's call it an

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Speaker 1: empire empire that you are building, what would you say

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Speaker 1: has been one of the best pieces of advice that

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Speaker 1: someone has offered.

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Speaker 2: You so many Oh my gosh, I could I think

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01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:35,800
Speaker 2: that one of the things I remind myself and I

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Speaker 2: guess I'm having like a brain free zone on like

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Speaker 2: the best advice that I have ever gotten, because I

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Speaker 2: I feel like I've getten gotten so many great things.

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Speaker 2: But one of the things I do remind myself of

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Speaker 2: is that most times, no one knows what they're doing. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that makes me feel better about it. In a room

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Speaker 2: where decisions or conversations are being had, no one knows

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Speaker 2: what they're doing. Running a business, no one knows really

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Speaker 2: what they're doing title sweet sea sweet people c sweet level.

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Speaker 2: They don't know what they're doing, Like even the most

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01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:08,320
Speaker 2: expert of them of all don't always know what they're doing.

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Speaker 2: So it makes me feel good that I don't have

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Speaker 2: to know what I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: And someone had to be the first to set the

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Speaker 1: president anyway, right. I hate just this idea that like, well,

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Speaker 1: this is the industry standard for this, or this is

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Speaker 1: how much someone should be paying you to do X

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Speaker 1: or Z, or this is how you should act in

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Speaker 1: this situation. Like No, so many times I'm just like, well,

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Speaker 1: this is where I'm at. So if you want to

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Speaker 1: work together, if you want to do this, if you

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Speaker 1: want X or Z, this is where I'm coming from.

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Speaker 1: So we can either meet there or meet in the middle.

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Speaker 1: But if you don't want to like take my fork

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Speaker 1: in the road, then like take yours and find somebody else.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think that's I think that's a

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Speaker 2: great approach. I also think like in that moment of

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Speaker 2: just realizing that no one knows what they're doing, it's

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Speaker 2: really important that you articulate why. So one of the

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Speaker 2: things that I realized, like going to a lot of conferences,

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Speaker 2: speaking on a lot of panels and building a business,

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Speaker 2: is people do it and they always say, oh, because

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Speaker 2: I love it. It's not a reason, it's not the

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Speaker 2: reason why. The reason why is deeper than that. You

1378
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:09,920
Speaker 2: can love a lot of things. So I think that

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Speaker 2: when you're asking yes for more money, set in precedents.

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Speaker 2: When you are when you realize that no one has

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Speaker 2: the answers, if you're able to aubum solve, offer a

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Speaker 2: solve and say that this is what you think should

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01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:24,560
Speaker 2: be happening, you need to articulate why, and you don't

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Speaker 2: have to have that answer right away.

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Speaker 1: What is it that you're not doing right now that

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Speaker 1: you want to do?

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Speaker 2: So I'm not running for president. I'm so sorry everyone

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01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 2: not just vote love twenty twenty. Throwing my hat in

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01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 2: a ring now oh, I came on your podcast to

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Speaker 2: announce my presidency.

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Speaker 1: You imagine that Hurdle is now a platform that's national news.

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Speaker 2: That would be awesome. So there's so many things and

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01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 2: I have to I really do have to reul myself

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01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 2: in sometimes. I got to like wrangle my my imagination

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01:02:57,160 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 2: in sometimes. One of the things that I really want

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01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:02,080
Speaker 2: to do is I do want to write a book.

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Speaker 2: So I have started, but again, asking myself the why

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01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 2: is really important, so I know that I want to

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Speaker 2: do this. So I have started the process and it's

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Speaker 2: going well, and there's interest and it's awesome, and it's

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01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:17,960
Speaker 2: helping me to refine what I believe and I'm articulating

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01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:21,560
Speaker 2: it better. So it is helping, but I don't know

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01:03:21,640 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 2: exactly why I'm doing it just yet outside of oh

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01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 2: I love it and I could help people. There has

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01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:29,439
Speaker 2: to be a deeper why. So I am doing that

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01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:32,760
Speaker 2: and again still working out the why. So when it

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01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:36,640
Speaker 2: is or if it does get published, there's a story

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Speaker 2: of like, here's.

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Speaker 1: Why I really did this. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many things that I really want

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Speaker 2: to do at this point. Yes, I want to have

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Speaker 2: a podcast. I'm working on that, but it's like a

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01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:49,480
Speaker 2: mini mini podcast, nothing like really amazing that you're doing.

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Speaker 2: So congratulations, by the way, I heard all this is exceptional.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Oh thank you.

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01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 2: I should have said that sooner. So we just started up,

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01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 2: like we'll just start all over right now.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's how.

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Speaker 2: So I do want to do book and podcast, but

1421
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 2: I think right now my focus is I'm in that

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01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:07,240
Speaker 2: feedback session that I talk about. I'm in that stage

1423
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:12,360
Speaker 2: of getting advice taking my brand to another level personally,

1424
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 2: professionally and with love squad. So I've been in this

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01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:18,760
Speaker 2: feedback session where I'm asking people for advice and how

1426
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:20,080
Speaker 2: do you see me? How do you see my brand?

1427
01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 2: What am I doing? What am I not doing? Because

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01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:24,280
Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to that yet. Outside of yes,

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01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:26,720
Speaker 2: everyone wants a book, everyone wants a podcast, and not

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01:04:26,760 --> 01:04:28,720
Speaker 2: that saying everyone shouldn't get what they want. I just

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01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:30,240
Speaker 2: got to be able to answer the why a little

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Speaker 2: bit more. In order to do that, I need more

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Speaker 2: information than I outside of my own head.

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Speaker 1: It's really special that you understand the value of asking

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01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:41,840
Speaker 1: for that. That really special. Okay, So the last question

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Speaker 1: I ask on the pod every time, if you had

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Speaker 1: the opportunity right now to offer the alli post accident,

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Speaker 1: in that Hurtle moment, a little piece of advice when

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01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 1: she's going through that tough time. Looking back on it now,

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01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:58,280
Speaker 1: something maybe you wish you knew then, or maybe you

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01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:01,320
Speaker 1: know as the years have gone on, you offer her

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01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 1: something when she's going through those tough times. What do

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01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 1: you tell her?

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Speaker 2: This might sound. I don't even want to judge how

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01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:15,360
Speaker 2: it's going to sound. I wouldn't tell her anything because

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01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:20,280
Speaker 2: her mindset was way better off than sometimes my man

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01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:22,720
Speaker 2: said is right now, knowing all the things I know,

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01:05:23,680 --> 01:05:27,560
Speaker 2: I think sometimes we get into this thing of like

1449
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:31,400
Speaker 2: we should have done this sooner or faster. And Homegirl

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01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:33,680
Speaker 2: at nine years old, like, I don't know who that

1451
01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:37,720
Speaker 2: was sometimes and I know that was me, but she

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01:05:38,200 --> 01:05:41,680
Speaker 2: was boss. And I say that because she was fearless,

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01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:48,880
Speaker 2: She relied on her own intuition, she trusted herselves, her ability,

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01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 2: and it really has carried me to the point that

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01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:54,160
Speaker 2: I am now. So I wouldn't mess not necessarily mess

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01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:57,200
Speaker 2: that up. I wouldn't tamper with that. And I think

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01:05:57,240 --> 01:06:00,520
Speaker 2: that I try to get back to that space a lot.

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01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:03,560
Speaker 2: I don't I'm not always successful, but there are moments

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01:06:03,560 --> 01:06:06,800
Speaker 2: that I am I get back to that trusting my gut,

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01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 2: trusting that that inner boss, trusting that fearlessness, that without consequences,

1461
01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:19,280
Speaker 2: I'm going forward mentality that most times youth the youth

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01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:22,240
Speaker 2: possess and I think I possessed at nine years old,

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Speaker 2: and I wouldn't I wouldn't tell her anything.

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Speaker 1: Your story is really special, Ali, Oh thanks, thanks so

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01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:31,280
Speaker 1: much for having to hang out with me.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, thank you for thanks for working this out,

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01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 2: because schedule is great, and thanks for having me. I

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01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:38,000
Speaker 2: truly appreciate it, of course.

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Speaker 1: And please take a moment and leave a quick review

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Speaker 1: by clicking the link or the description to this episode.

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Speaker 1: We all face multiple hurdles in life. I want to

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Speaker 1: hear about yours. Reach Out to me at Emily at

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Speaker 1: Hurdle dot us. Connect with the podcast on Instagram and

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Speaker 1: Twitter at Hurdle Podcast. Ali. Where do they find you?

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Speaker 1: How do they keep up with you? Give me all

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Speaker 1: of the details.

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Speaker 2: I am Ali, miss Love and I ss Ali Love

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Speaker 2: on Instagram, Follow love Squad at love Squad, Same on

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Speaker 2: Twitter and of course same at my website alilove dot

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Speaker 2: com and lovespod dot com. And on the bike and

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Speaker 2: on the bike, Oh, Ali mislove.

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Speaker 1: If you are a Peloton rider, follow me.

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Speaker 2: If you're not, please download the app at this moment

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Speaker 2: and really enjoy. If you don't enjoy me, I have

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Speaker 2: so many colleagues that are exceptional that I stand shoulder

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Speaker 2: to show with, and I'm proud to represent the Peloton family.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure if they've gotten to this point in

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Speaker 1: the episode, and they must like you just a little bit, oh,

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Speaker 1: just a little another hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.