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Speaker 1: Hey, Hurdlers.

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Speaker 2: Emily of Badi here chiming into your feeds today with

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Speaker 2: episode eighty nine of Hurdle, a podcast that talks to

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Speaker 2: everyone from entrepreneurs to top CEOs and athletes about how

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Speaker 2: they've gotten through tough times hurdles of sorts by leaning

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Speaker 2: in to wellness. Today, I am reaching back into the

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Speaker 2: vault one last time for twenty nineteen to bring you

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Speaker 2: my conversation with the One, the Only, Robin Arzon. Robin

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Speaker 2: is the vice president of fitness Programming and head instructor

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Speaker 1: All right, now, let's chat about Robin.

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Speaker 2: You guys have had the opportunity to hear from her

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Speaker 2: a couple of times on the podcast, and that's why

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Speaker 2: I'm bringing you back this classic episode from twenty eighteen. Now,

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Speaker 2: it's hard to imagine a time when activity wasn't a

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Speaker 2: part of her everyday life, but after a near death

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Speaker 2: experience at age twenty, where she was held hostage at

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Speaker 2: gunpoint in New York City's East Village, she leaned into

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Speaker 1: Process the trauma.

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Speaker 2: Soon enough, the then lawyer turned away from her conventional

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Speaker 2: nine to five with hopes to turn her passion for

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Speaker 2: sweat into her career, and that is when she found Peloton.

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Speaker 1: She's a twenty six time.

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Speaker 2: Marathoner, and in today's episode, the Adidas a Global brand

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Speaker 2: ambassador gets honest about how tough times have shaped her

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Speaker 2: perspective and helped her home in on her inner swagger.

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Speaker 2: She also offers essential, actionable advice for runners of all

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Speaker 2: levels on things like race day best practices and tips

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Speaker 2: on how to take your stride to a whole other level.

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Speaker 2: You all know the Drill at Hurdle podcast at Emily

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Speaker 2: a Body. If you have a hurdle moment of your own,

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Speaker 2: share you just want to say Hi, hit me up.

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Speaker 2: It's Emily at Hurdle dot Us. I've got an extra

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Speaker 2: special episode coming to you this Wednesday, a year in review,

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Speaker 2: and I'm just feeling all sorts of grateful that today's episode,

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Speaker 2: episode eighty nine, is on the birthday eve two years

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Speaker 2: in of hurdle. You guys, you make me feel the

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Speaker 2: luckiest with that. Let's get to hurdling in the studio

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Speaker 2: today with Robin Arzon. She is the best selling author

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Speaker 2: of Shut Up and Run, also the head instructor and

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Speaker 1: Hey, Robin, what's up? What's up? Girl, Thanks for coming

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Speaker 1: in today. I feel like the first thing.

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Speaker 2: We to do is like address the onsom that's happening

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Speaker 2: in front of me. Robin's got on like the silver

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Speaker 2: Doc Martins, a pretty dope leather and like a sports bra,

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Speaker 3: I'm glad at leisure is in fashion because that's the

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Speaker 2: Well, and I mean it kind of has to be

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Speaker 2: when you're going from workout to workout, to work out

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Speaker 3: And you know some precevent sandwiched in between, and it's

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Speaker 1: We live it, we do.

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Speaker 2: So what I'd love to get into right from the

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Speaker 2: snippet of maybe, quote unquote, a normal New York City

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Speaker 3: I love when other people answer these questions, and I'm

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Speaker 3: riveted by like morning routines and how people spend their time,

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Speaker 3: I would say it's at least two to three hours

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Speaker 3: But I'm that's not naturally my cadence. I would sleep.

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Speaker 3: So you're the kind of person that could, like work

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Speaker 3: I actually have my my most effective lifting sessions.

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Speaker 3: Then you're adrenaline is going and you're all screwed. Up,

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Speaker 2: Go shit, same, I wish twelve hours. But so you're

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Speaker 2: get up in the morning, green juice, macha, you're out

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Speaker 1: You know, probably usually twelve to fourteen hour days. You know.

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Speaker 1: And I'm the head instructor, so I have a lot of.

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Speaker 3: we I am now more than that, Wow, over twenty

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Speaker 3: I was heading into my senior year at n YU

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Speaker 1: I was twenty and so who were you there with?

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Speaker 1: What were you doing? I was there with friends underage

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Speaker 3: Scrap book and then that kind of you know, create

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Speaker 3: had a life of its own.

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Speaker 1: Was that your first? My first? Yeah, New York City,

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Speaker 1: New York City, twenty ten.

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Speaker 3: I was raising money for MS research and because my

447
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Speaker 3: mom has MS, and that became that. That was it,

448
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Speaker 3: That was the game, That was the game changing race.

449
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Speaker 3: I crossed that finish line. I was like, Okay, this

450
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Speaker 3: is what I'm meant to do forever.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, truly.

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Speaker 3: So while I was while I was in London at

453
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Speaker 3: the Games, I ended up receiving a job opportunity to

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Speaker 3: work on the agency side for Nike Women. So Nike

455
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Speaker 3: Women was the client of the agency and I was

456
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Speaker 3: going to be working on that team, working on their

457
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Speaker 3: social media accounts. And it was I mean, I thought like,

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Speaker 3: oh my gosh, this is a few bigsceps when I

459
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Speaker 3: left my law job. I'm actually going to get some

460
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Speaker 3: kind of paycheck doing something that I find it interesting.

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Speaker 3: But then about six months later, six months into it,

462
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Speaker 3: I thought, oh, man, like I'm still not telling my

463
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Speaker 3: story as an athlete. I really feel like I have

464
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Speaker 3: a point of view that it's not being told. You know,

465
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Speaker 3: this unapologetic voice of a female athlete who was not

466
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Speaker 3: always an athlete, and I wasn't necessarily seeing people like

467
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Speaker 3: us represented in that story, and so I had to

468
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Speaker 3: pivot again. And the second pivot was scarier than the first,

469
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Speaker 3: because the first one was like, all right, I'm jumping

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Speaker 3: off the cliff, and then the second is like, well,

471
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Speaker 3: you haven't even built your rings yet and you're about

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Speaker 3: to jump off the other one. Yeah, but that was

473
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Speaker 3: the right choice because I was forced situationally to kind

474
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Speaker 3: of really think hard about what my dream job would be.

475
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Speaker 3: It'd be like, what kind of partnerships and collaborations would

476
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Speaker 3: be your dream job? And on my vision board, I

477
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Speaker 3: had that I wanted to work with a modern company

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Speaker 3: with like amazing hardware and technology first, and literally a

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Speaker 3: year later Peloton. You know, I read about Pelton and

480
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Speaker 3: John Polly, So this is like, none of this is accidental,

481
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Speaker 3: but I had to create. I had to exercise the

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Speaker 3: right no in order for the right yes to appear. Right,

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Speaker 3: I think there's a I think there's a lot of

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Speaker 3: things I want to jump into.

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Speaker 2: First of all, I think a lot of people struggle

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Speaker 2: with this idea and do I want to pursue my

487
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Speaker 2: personal brand or do I want to put my skill

488
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Speaker 2: set into another brand. You obviously felt super passionate about

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Speaker 2: telling your story. Do you think that was kind of

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Speaker 2: the jumping off point, like that was why you knew

491
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Speaker 2: you had to do it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean I think coming off the heels of

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Speaker 3: wrestling excess dentially honestly with like why am I here?

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Speaker 3: Why do I survive this? Just having a gun to

496
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Speaker 3: my head? So I was still wrestling with that kind

497
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Speaker 3: of spiritual thing. And I started telling my story on

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Speaker 3: social media and people, you know, handfuls of the time

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Speaker 3: started paying attention on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook whatever,

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Speaker 3: and that community really felt like a community to men.

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Speaker 3: I was like, wow, like there are people in this

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Speaker 3: world who who also want to show up to you know, a.

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Speaker 1: Race, wearing whatever they want to wear.

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Speaker 3: And they might have like lipstick or rings, or they

505
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Speaker 3: might work in a band, or they might be in fashion,

506
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Speaker 3: and they're still doing this thing, and we can uncheck

507
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Speaker 3: all of these other ways that we've been siloed and

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Speaker 3: come together and creator a movement.

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Speaker 2: Right And did you know at the time that you

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Speaker 2: could monetize that girl? The day I stopped accepting free shoes,

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Speaker 2: my life changed.

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Speaker 3: I said, no, my this meeting is now and now

513
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Speaker 3: comes with a consultant fee. Yeah, this pick your brain

514
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Speaker 3: moment is no longer a pick your brain moment. I

515
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Speaker 3: will be invoicing you for this talk, because then my

516
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Speaker 3: idea is be taken and use for photo shoots and

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Speaker 3: use for campaigns and use for marketing pitches.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, nah, that's not how this is working.

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Speaker 3: So I had to snatch my power back in that moment,

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Speaker 3: and a lot of people said no. A lot of

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Speaker 3: people said no, and I just had to accept that

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Speaker 3: and know that within time.

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Speaker 1: It would come.

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Speaker 2: Did you get did you ask other I guess maybe

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Speaker 2: people in similar positions or other consultants to get a

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Speaker 2: better idea of like what you should be charging for

527
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Speaker 2: that kind of stuff? I completely made you totally went it,

528
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Speaker 2: completely made it up. I love hearing that and it

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Speaker 2: makes me laugh because I sat down. Hayden Slater from

530
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Speaker 2: Press Juicery was on the podcast and he was on

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Speaker 2: a phone call and he tells me that the web

532
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Speaker 2: developer is like, so, how much is the juice? And

533
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Speaker 2: he's like, one second, let me check my notes, and

534
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Speaker 2: he puts the mute button on. He looks to his

535
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Speaker 2: cool founder's like, how much is the juice? He's like

536
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Speaker 2: maybe seven to fifty. He goes that sounds too expensive.

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Speaker 2: He's like, how about five dollars? She goes, no, They're

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Speaker 2: like six fifty sounds good.

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Speaker 1: It's six fifty.

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Speaker 2: And like, I feel like that's such a common theme

541
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Speaker 2: with with young entrepreneurs or I mean old onentrepreneurs as

542
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Speaker 2: entrepreneurs in general. It's like when you start understanding what

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Speaker 2: your true worth is, that's when people are gonna offer

544
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Speaker 2: you your true worth. When you're gonna when you're gonna

545
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Speaker 2: speak up and say it. And sometimes you know you're

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Speaker 2: gonna have to be okay with being told no. But

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Speaker 2: those aren't the people that you want to mess with anyway, exactly. Oh, curate,

548
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Speaker 2: curate the collaborations that you want to work with. Don't

549
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Speaker 2: just say yes to any.

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Speaker 3: Old client who comes to the door or any old

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Speaker 3: person who's willing to sign a check for you, Like

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Speaker 3: that could be like I really believe the energy is

553
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 3: it is frequency, right, and I and I really give

554
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Speaker 3: energy and with Pelton collaboratively like sell my energy on

555
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Speaker 3: the bike and content in classes and in instruction and

556
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Speaker 3: that needs to be in order for it to feel real.

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Speaker 1: It's got to You've got to find the right partners

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Speaker 1: you got.

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Speaker 3: It's just like a radio frequency, like not that that

560
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Speaker 3: that that radio frequency doesn't rock with me.

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Speaker 1: I gotta keep it moving. And there's no shame in

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Speaker 1: saying no.

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Speaker 3: It's very very good opportunities that other people would be like, oh,

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Speaker 3: how could you not take that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I don't, that wasn't my vibe.

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Speaker 2: What I would love to hear about is now you

568
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Speaker 2: getting started with Peloton. So you also you mentioned that

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Speaker 2: you have this vision board. Something else I want to

570
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Speaker 2: talk about. Let's talk about your vision board before we

571
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Speaker 2: even get to Peloton. A lot of people talk about

572
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Speaker 2: having a vision board, and it feels so daunting to

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Speaker 2: create it.

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Speaker 1: How long have you had it? What's on it? What

575
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Speaker 1: was on it?

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Speaker 3: Then?

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Speaker 1: What's on it now?

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Speaker 3: Talk about this is actually this conversation is inspiring me

579
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Speaker 3: to do a new one. But the vision board that

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Speaker 3: I had when I was really having that post agency,

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Speaker 3: pre any other any other income coming in moment, was

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Speaker 3: really just like I needed to see, not just think

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Speaker 3: about or talk about. I needed to physically see on paper.

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Speaker 3: This might be also the analytical lawyer in me a plan,

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Speaker 3: and so I just went through magazines and kind of

586
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 3: pulled out whatever jumped out at me, and then specific

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Speaker 3: things like, for example, like I loved how modern and

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Speaker 3: sleep Apple products looked.

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Speaker 1: So I literally just put up like.

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Speaker 3: The Apple logo, like little things like that, like what

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Speaker 3: kind of brand partnerships would make me feel proud?

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Speaker 1: Like what kind of like Oprah's obviously on there?

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Speaker 3: Still, hey girl, you know Beyonce is on there, like

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Speaker 3: people who I admire and respect, people I want to

595
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Speaker 3: work with words words that I feel like are my

596
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 3: brand values. It really is just like the visual conversation

597
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 3: and then slapping it up. And of course you can

598
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 3: do this digitally, but for me, the tactile feeling of

599
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 3: like writing things out and cutting things out was very

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Speaker 3: cathartic for me. I really do believe I manifested things

601
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Speaker 3: that I have in my life now because I was

602
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Speaker 3: able to fine tune, you know, speaking of radio frequency,

603
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Speaker 3: like that was fine tuning my antenna so people could

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Speaker 3: find me.

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Speaker 1: I know, and I mean and shut up and rotten.

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Speaker 2: One of your tips for getting out the door is

607
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Speaker 2: surround yourself with inspiration. So you're saying that This is

608
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Speaker 2: how you surround yourself with inspiration on a regular basis.

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Speaker 3: I still do my alarm clock says do epic shit,

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Speaker 3: My I have post its on my mirror.

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Speaker 1: I've got I mean, I'm covered, I am wearing.

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Speaker 3: If I could wear, you know, inspiration in like a cloak,

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Speaker 3: I would because I believe that that that keeps that

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Speaker 3: keeps my intentions pure.

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Speaker 2: So Peloton, how does it happen?

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Speaker 1: That is like how does it happen?

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Speaker 2: Like how do you like one day you're just like

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Speaker 2: on the street, You're wearing like some Doc Martins, and

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Speaker 2: someone's like, I think you should probably get on a bike.

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Speaker 3: So I I read about John Foley and I thought

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Speaker 3: this company is And this was like when John Foley's

622
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Speaker 3: articles were a blurb, not you know, front page right,

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Speaker 3: So but you know the company. The company was formed

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Speaker 3: and and they definitely had some money and they were

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Speaker 3: going to be opening up the New York City studio.

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Speaker 3: And I emailed him directly and I was like, hmmm,

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Speaker 3: pretty sure our visions are aligned.

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Speaker 1: Let me work for you. What were you doing at

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Speaker 1: this point?

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Speaker 3: At this point, I was teaching at a very small

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Speaker 3: studio in Union Square called Revolve, and I was writing,

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Speaker 3: you know, I was just writing like blog content and

633
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 3: pitching articles that nobody ever read, and you know, just

634
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,239
Speaker 3: rarely trying to like Hustle's journalists and for the and

635
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 3: of course running a ton and running coaching, but that

636
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 3: never really made any money.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: It was just more like I had I had passions,

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Speaker 3: but if you're not getting paid, it's not a job.

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Speaker 3: So you know, I was really in this wrestling with like,

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Speaker 3: how the hell am I going to make this work?

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Speaker 1: I know what I love and I don't know how

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Speaker 1: to get paid for it yet.

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Speaker 3: And the consultancies were great, but they were not consistent,

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Speaker 3: so you know, it was it was how how do

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Speaker 3: I really like have an income stream that makes it?

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Speaker 3: And things kind of hit all at the same time.

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Speaker 3: I started getting like modeling gigs, I got an agent

649
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 3: at WMA. You know, Peloton happened, and like it was

650
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Speaker 3: all the seeds I had planted for about a decade,

651
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 3: we're finally sprouting. So you know, you got to plan

652
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 3: all those seeds and if you don't know what's going

653
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Speaker 3: to come from it, because.

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Speaker 1: Literally people aren't calling me.

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Speaker 3: Now who I met in London who didn't you know

656
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Speaker 3: they were very nice, but they didn't know who I was.

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Speaker 1: And now now I'm getting the phone calls.

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Speaker 2: So what happened after he's on the email? And also

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Speaker 2: like how many times did you read the email before

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Speaker 2: you said it? Because sometimes I do like a twelve,

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Speaker 2: like a cycle of twelve and then I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 2: this is good to go.

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Speaker 1: I forgot, you know. I think I.

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Speaker 3: Remember being so sure that this was the right marriage

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Speaker 3: of sorts, you know, Pelton, myself and Pelton, that I

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Speaker 3: just pres sent. I was brazen. I was just like,

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Speaker 3: this is my these these are my people mm hmm,

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Speaker 3: or at least this is my vision. Like wow, like

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Speaker 3: on a global scale, I can it can be involved

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Speaker 3: in the technology company that produces fitness.

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Speaker 1: This is amazing. So yeah, it happened pretty quickly.

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Speaker 3: I email John Pollie and I was in the office

673
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Speaker 3: what we used to call the closet.

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Speaker 1: Where we produce.

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Speaker 3: We produce our very first cycling episodes. Within five days,

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Speaker 3: I was the third instructor hired.

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Speaker 2: Wow, and you are hired within five days. Like it

678
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Speaker 2: was like, hey, nice to meet you, Let's do this. Yes, wow, Yeah,

679
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Speaker 2: it was it like a pinch me moment.

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Speaker 3: Pinch me, Yeah, for sure, but also it was still

681
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Speaker 3: it was very scrappy, so it wasn't like walking into

682
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Speaker 3: this glossy thing. And I felt everyone anyone who's still

683
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Speaker 3: the company, who was with us then believed and still believes.

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Speaker 3: And I was literally just telling John this morning when

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Speaker 3: we were at the Treade Experiential event, I'm like, not

686
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Speaker 3: only do we like drink the kool Aid, we like

687
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,719
Speaker 3: we're making the kool aid, Like we believe in this stuff.

688
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Speaker 3: And I do believe that Peloton is gonna be the

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Speaker 3: greatest fitness brand in the world.

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Speaker 2: All right, So at that time, we're like so far

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Speaker 2: away from where the brand is now. So what I

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Speaker 2: would love for you to do, just for people that

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Speaker 2: might not be familiar with the Peloton brand, is talk

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Speaker 2: a little bit about what the Peloton brand used to

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Speaker 2: offer and what they've added to the brand since.

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Speaker 1: So when you signed on, it was cycling. Yes, so

697
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Speaker 1: it was a cycling So we sell hardware, which.

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Speaker 3: Is a bike equipped with a beautiful screen that streams

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Speaker 3: live and on demand classes from our New York City

700
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Speaker 3: studio fourteen hours a day of live programming and tune

701
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Speaker 3: out gosh ten thousand plus classes on demand of Spin

702
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 3: of spin classes, and we've now since launched our tread

703
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Speaker 3: which has boot camp classes running only classes a combination

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Speaker 3: of the two. And we have floor we have stretching,

705
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Speaker 3: we have warm Upe, we have cool Down, we have yoga,

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Speaker 3: we have it's a one step shop at this point.

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Speaker 3: And on digital, Pelton Digital also launched and now with

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Speaker 3: the Pelton App, our members can access that content from anywhere.

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Speaker 2: And so can you have just a Peloton Digital membership

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Speaker 2: without owning any of the Peloton equipment.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and a lot of a lot of It's it's

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Speaker 1: cool for now.

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Speaker 3: Like people who do not have either the financial means

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Speaker 3: or access to a bike or a tread, they can

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Speaker 3: still work out with me around the world.

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Speaker 1: And I'm I'm happy that that.

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Speaker 3: Digital family is being built because that's that's access. You

718
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Speaker 3: can just jump on the app and you don't you

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Speaker 3: don't ever have to buy.

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Speaker 1: The hardware, although we'd love you too. I'm sure. I'm sure.

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Speaker 2: So when you started, like, did you have any concept

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Speaker 2: of exactly like how big that this brand was going

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Speaker 2: to grow? I mean, and you knew obviously that eventually

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Speaker 2: you would be in homes quote unquote around the country,

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Speaker 2: But did you anticipate this.

726
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Speaker 3: I gotta be honest, Yes I did, because I'm a

727
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Speaker 3: dreamer and a hustler and this company is comprised of

728
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Speaker 3: dreamers who are willing to work.

729
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Speaker 1: Their asses off.

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Speaker 3: So I knew not in the ways you never know

731
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Speaker 3: the path. The path to success is absolutely circuitous. But

732
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Speaker 3: you know, if you're climbing a mountain, you're get up

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Speaker 3: to that mountaintop. And the analogy I use is that

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Speaker 3: we are we're building, We're literally building the path to

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Speaker 3: the Emerald City as we're walking to the Emerald City and.

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Speaker 1: Then people join us.

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Speaker 3: And truly, like that Wizard of Oz, analogy is like

738
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Speaker 3: I'm building the yellow brick Road and I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 3: I'm okay with building the yellowriick road because my we

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Speaker 3: are getting there. So yeah, I did believe that we

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Speaker 3: would get to this point, and I believe we're going

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Speaker 3: to get.

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Speaker 1: Far, far, further, far further.

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Speaker 2: Can you remember some of those early interactions you had

745
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Speaker 2: with at home writers and for people that are following

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Speaker 2: a lot, obviously to know is that there is the

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Speaker 2: New York City studio on twenty third Street for the

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Speaker 2: bike and then the Tread Studio, which is down in

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Speaker 2: the West Village technically the best pillage yep one fifty Christter. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So there's the tread studio in the West Village, and

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Speaker 2: so there are rids and runners in the studio, but

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Speaker 2: then there are also the people at home. It's probably

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Speaker 2: a lot to handle, like handling and managing that in class. Ye,

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Speaker 2: making sure that you feel like no one's neglected at home.

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Speaker 2: Did that take you a little while to kind of

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Speaker 2: figure out, like how to balance the two of them.

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Speaker 3: I mean absolutely, I would probably cringe if I if

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Speaker 3: I saw footage of my very first classes. I mean,

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Speaker 3: we were all evolving. If we didn't, we wouldn't see

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Speaker 3: where we are. Teaching at Pelton is truly the hardest

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Speaker 3: job of instruction within the fitness industry period And that's

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Speaker 3: why it's a very small bullseye in recruiting our team,

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Speaker 3: and I really feel like we recruit, we're recruiting like

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Speaker 3: a team of the Avengers or like superheroes, you know,

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Speaker 3: where each person is kind of bringing their own flavor

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Speaker 3: in their own point of view and their own training

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Speaker 3: style and esthetic conversation and musical stylings.

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Speaker 1: And that I'm very, very proud of that because It's super.

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Speaker 3: Hard to find people who can negotiate not only the fitness,

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Speaker 3: credibility and authenticity, but look amazing doing it, working out

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Speaker 3: the entire time that we walk the walk, we run.

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Speaker 1: The run, we cycle, we bike the bike.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's real what we're doing up there, but

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Speaker 3: it's what's even more real are the relationships that we

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Speaker 3: have with our members, you know, hundreds of thousands around

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Speaker 3: the world.

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Speaker 2: You said something that I think is really interesting in

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Speaker 2: the like we look great doing it.

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Speaker 1: I think it's stressful.

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Speaker 2: As someone who was for a long time and instructor

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Speaker 2: herself and kind of took a step back recently, I

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Speaker 2: was stressed out a little bit, feeling like I maybe

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Speaker 2: had to look a certain way or wanted to present

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Speaker 2: myself in a certain way for the people that were

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Speaker 2: coming to take my class.

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Speaker 1: Does that ever weigh on you when you're up there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, honestly, I would be lying if I

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Speaker 3: didn't have a constant awareness of the visual conversation I

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Speaker 3: am having with the world. I mean when you are

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Speaker 3: in and I think honestly a lot of people are

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Speaker 3: feeling this simply just because you always have a camera

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Speaker 3: in your face, whether you're literally in front of five

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Speaker 3: cameras like you are at Peloton, or whether it's just

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Speaker 3: your iPhone or your cell phone or your camera.

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Speaker 1: Or you know, your computer. I wrestle with that too.

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Speaker 1: I think everybody does.

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Speaker 3: And I'm happy that you bring that up because it's

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Speaker 3: I want to be honest with people who then will

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Speaker 3: go to my Instagram and be like, comment, how do

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Speaker 3: I get those abs?

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Speaker 1: How do I get that?

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Speaker 3: And say, I work out four hours a day and

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Speaker 3: my job is literally to be healthy and.

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Speaker 1: Lead by example.

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Speaker 3: I don't expect everyone to have the same results if

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Speaker 3: they're not putting in the same amount of time. That's

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Speaker 3: important for people to understand is that we can unlock

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Speaker 3: potential in you, but you can't expect the same results

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Speaker 3: as someone who's literally.

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Speaker 1: Just putting in their entire life's work into this. How

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Speaker 1: do you keep that mental conversation healthy?

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Speaker 2: And I guess also I mean, like wall working out

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Speaker 2: four hours a day, like keeping like a reasonable expectation

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Speaker 2: of what you're foremant should be because recovery has to

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Speaker 2: be a big piece of this.

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Speaker 1: So I guess there's two questions here.

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Speaker 2: The first part is how do you keep the mental

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Speaker 2: dialogue and like, maybe body positivity a part of your

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Speaker 2: whole shtick here, because it's got to be a big

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Speaker 2: part of the conversation.

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Speaker 1: Well, thankfully there's been such it's been so buzzy.

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Speaker 3: Like thankfully that conversation has been buzzy at the time

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Speaker 3: when I selfishly have needed it, you know. So I

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Speaker 3: look at people who I really admire, like SHANEI we

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Speaker 3: were just talking about Shane Alexander, you know, like people

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Speaker 3: like that, like people who I get to work with

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Speaker 3: on the Adidas Women and Creator Network, who are just

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Speaker 3: standing in their power in whatever like way that means

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Speaker 3: and whatever shape size story that unfolds. And it's important

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Speaker 3: for me to see examples of that because we all

831
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Speaker 3: have that little inner hater and it's so loud. But thankfully,

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Speaker 3: my biggest way to exercise that muscle of willpower and

833
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Speaker 3: discipline and self love has always been movement. So I

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Speaker 3: usually I can quiet it by joining a class or

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Speaker 3: having a run, where that's my reset fund. So when

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Speaker 3: I'm running, I'm not thinking about how I'm looking. When

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Speaker 3: I'm running, I'm feeling the run, right, So when I'm lifting,

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Speaker 3: I'm thinking, gosh, I'm so strong. I don't care how

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Speaker 3: big my thighs are, they are powerful, and so that

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Speaker 3: that really really helps.

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Speaker 1: That's my tool for sure.

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Speaker 2: An interesting thought that I've been having a lot lately

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Speaker 2: is we are the people that talk to ourselves the

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Speaker 2: most every single day. So like, would I talk to

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Speaker 2: you the way that I talk to myself? Like sometimes yeah,

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Speaker 2: but sometimes no, Like I wouldn't say like what the

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Speaker 2: hell are you wearing right now?

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Speaker 1: Or what? Like I would never say that to someone else.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I tell people, you know, when they ask what's

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Speaker 3: your biggest race day what's your biggest piece of race

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Speaker 3: day advice? I say, talk to yourself like you would

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Speaker 3: have loved one I asked somebody in class the other day,

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Speaker 3: or ask the members if your inner thoughts are on

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Speaker 3: a loudspeaker right.

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Speaker 1: Now, would you be proud of them? That ability to.

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Speaker 3: Coach yourself is so important, and I think especially when

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Speaker 3: you have young young eyes and young ears paying attention,

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Speaker 3: like parents really need to pay attention what they're saying

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Speaker 3: to the saying out loud about themselves when their kids

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Speaker 3: are watching. Thankfully, my mother and father showed such amazing

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00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:23,879
Speaker 3: examples of strength and confidence and resilience growing up that

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Speaker 3: that has been a through line throughout my entire life.

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Speaker 3: But like, we can really be leading examples of positivity

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Speaker 3: and it all starts with the voice in our head

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Speaker 3: for sure.

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Speaker 2: So what is your go to piece of advice for

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Speaker 2: someone who's ready to get started but doesn't even know

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Speaker 2: how to begin.

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Speaker 3: I would say two things. No goal is too small.

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Speaker 3: We tend to hear or perceive overnight success stories like

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Speaker 3: the person who lost three hundred pounds or like the amazing,

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00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 3: and it's like amazing, They're incredibly inspiring, but it's daunting

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00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,919
Speaker 3: to look at someone who's already who started their race

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Speaker 3: at a different start line and now you're looking at

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Speaker 3: their finish line and you're thinking, damn, how do I

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Speaker 3: do that?

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Speaker 1: So I would say no goal was too small.

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Speaker 3: I think keeping keeping goals like specific and measurable. You

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00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 3: know that acadym smart, specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time bound.

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Speaker 3: That that is essential and honestly, that is how I

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Speaker 3: live my life, like, it's not just I'll have like

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Speaker 3: weekly goals, monthly goals, six month goals, five year goals,

884
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Speaker 3: and that that makes it more palatable and digestible. So

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Speaker 3: start with one small thing you don't have to do

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Speaker 3: an overhaul of your entire fridge and your schedule and

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Speaker 3: your sleep time.

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Speaker 1: And it's like start with one thing. Maybe tomorrow you

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Speaker 1: just go to bed a little earlier, and then you

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Speaker 1: do that in the.

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Speaker 3: Next dent, you know, like unpacked, how to set yourself

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Speaker 3: up for success. We are so so tough on ourselves

893
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Speaker 3: specific to running, and I would I would say, go

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Speaker 3: out in minutes, not miles. Don't worry about like all

895
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Speaker 3: the technology. Just get a pay of running shoes and

896
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Speaker 3: a sports bra and like, go for ten minutes. You

897
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Speaker 3: got this girl, people. That's why I wrote my book.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to demystify the entire running experience. It's like

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Speaker 3: you can just shut up and run, just go do it.

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Speaker 3: To say it is intimidating. I do get that, and

901
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Speaker 3: I was intimidated at first as well. But if you

902
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Speaker 3: lace up for five and then ten and then fifteen minutes,

903
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Speaker 3: your life will change.

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Speaker 1: You get that. I hear that. I totally hear that.

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Speaker 1: I definitely do.

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Speaker 2: I think the sheer act of starting is what prevents

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Speaker 2: so many people from doing it in the first place.

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Speaker 2: But you realize it's like a band aid, whether it's

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Speaker 2: a run, or it's asking for a meeting, or it's

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00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,399
Speaker 2: sending that email to John Foley, or whatever the case

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Speaker 2: may be. It's today, I'm going to rip off the

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Speaker 2: band aid. Yeah, and then look at all the other

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Speaker 2: band aids you're able to rip off everywhere else in

914
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Speaker 2: your life, and you'll see that it's magical.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, truly magical.

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Speaker 3: They're paralyzed by fear, and I always I think you

917
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Speaker 3: have to act it out, not figure it out.

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Speaker 1: All the time.

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Speaker 3: There are only somebody lists in books and podcasts, and like,

920
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Speaker 3: let's not just do it, just go and do the thing,

921
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Speaker 3: because there is only so much planning before action just

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Speaker 3: has to take over.

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Speaker 2: I've got to ask you, then, so what is one

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Speaker 2: of the goals on like maybe your month list?

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Speaker 3: Okay, so I'm trying to say, really committed to one

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Speaker 3: day completely off a week.

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Speaker 1: I love that goal. I think it's really hard. I

928
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Speaker 1: think it's kind of intimidating.

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Speaker 2: In the wellness industry, especially in New York City, it's

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Speaker 2: like we all offer this advice for people like not

931
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Speaker 2: to overtrain, and now, especially as recovery is becoming more

932
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Speaker 2: and more buzzy, we're like, you've got to recover, you've

933
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Speaker 2: got a fair gun, you've got a phone, blah blah

934
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Speaker 2: blah blah. But it's like then I'm watching you on

935
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Speaker 2: Instagram and you're on our four of your workout, and

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Speaker 2: I'm like, practice what you preach?

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Speaker 1: Women?

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Speaker 3: Like what do you do it? And I you know

939
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Speaker 3: my name. My rhetoric is often like just go and

940
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Speaker 3: more and hustle. And I believe that and I live that.

941
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Speaker 3: But more is not always more, and I'll take and

942
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Speaker 3: you know, and you know with the long runs for

943
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Speaker 3: marathons and all this stuff. And I'm not complaining, but

944
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Speaker 3: it's like, I definitely overtrained. I would not advise people

945
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Speaker 3: to do necessarily when I do, but this.

946
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Speaker 1: Is my job and I love it.

947
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Speaker 3: But there are days when I'm like, ugh, do I

948
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Speaker 3: do what's in my training schedule? Or do I actually

949
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 3: sleep and rest? Because I know that's the advice I

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Speaker 3: would get to somebody else. I'm trying to create very

951
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Speaker 3: strict guardrails around my sundays.

952
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Speaker 1: What are you doing?

953
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 3: Hang out with my fiance? Like planning my wedding, you know,

954
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 3: just like little breathing. You know, I find that I

955
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Speaker 3: can talk about wellness and ease and all these things,

956
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 3: but I'm not necessarily always feeling that, So I know

957
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Speaker 3: how to tune into the conversation verbally. But how the

958
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Speaker 3: hell am I feeling physically? No, I'm probably like literally

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Speaker 3: physically running from here to a spin class, which I am,

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Speaker 3: and then it's going to my own training session, and

961
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Speaker 3: then it's going to do another interview, and then it's

962
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Speaker 3: teaching another class, and then I'm collapsing. I'm doing it

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Speaker 3: again tomorrow, and it's like the adrenaline keeps me going,

964
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Speaker 3: but I have to create the same guardrails around my

965
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Speaker 3: rest that I would advise someone else to do.

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Speaker 1: Usually people have issues ramping up. I have issues ramping down.

967
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Speaker 1: I feel you. I'm the exact same way.

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Speaker 2: You have an opportunity tomorrow. You here, you get the

969
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Speaker 2: tip the inside scoop. Instagram's going away tomorrow, and if

970
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 2: it goes away, you have a chance to leave one

971
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Speaker 2: more piece of epic shit on your Instagram, like one

972
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Speaker 2: last thing that you want your community, your people to

973
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Speaker 2: read every single day.

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Speaker 1: What do you tell them? I would say to ask themselves,

975
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Speaker 1: why not me? Why not me? Why not you? Why

976
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:23,879
Speaker 1: not you to get that job?

977
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Speaker 3: Why not you to have that amazing partner, Why not

978
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Speaker 3: you to get paid what you should be worth?

979
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Speaker 1: Why not you?

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Speaker 3: I think we tend to see other people's success stories

981
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Speaker 3: as somebody else's success story. And the moment I started

982
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Speaker 3: asking why not me? Is really when everything that was

983
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Speaker 3: the tipping point. So that's what I would submit to

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Speaker 3: your listeners.

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Speaker 1: The last thing and then the last thing real talk.

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Speaker 2: You have a chance right now looking back on that

987
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Speaker 2: twenty year old on Second Avenue and you get the

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Speaker 2: opportunity to offer her at her hurdle moment one.

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Speaker 1: Piece of advice.

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Speaker 2: What is the thing that you tell your twenty year

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Speaker 2: old self now looking back on.

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Speaker 3: It, I would say, trust your struggle because you will

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Speaker 3: have the ability to turn pain into power.

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Speaker 1: I love it. Robin, Thank you so much for coming

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Speaker 1: in here today. Thank you so so fun, so fun.

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Speaker 2: Please take a moment to leave a quick review by

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Speaker 2: all face multiple hurdles in life. I want to hear

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Speaker 2: about yours. Reach out to me at Emily at Hurdle

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Speaker 2: at Hurdle Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Robin, Where did they find you? Where do they find Peloton?

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Speaker 1: Give me the whole scoop.

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Speaker 3: So at one, Peloton one, peloton dot com, and at

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Speaker 3: robin NYC thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: I am at Emily a body on Instagram. Another hurdle conquered.

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Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time.