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219. Callie Gullickson, Peloton Instructor · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Being consistent and showing up, you can get so much stronger,
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  Speaker 1: and then it affects the rest of your life. It
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  Speaker 1: flows over.
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  Speaker 2: What is going on Emily Abadi.
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  Speaker 3: Here you are listening to episode two hundred and nineteen
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  Speaker 3: of Hurdle, a wellness focused podcast. Reconnect with everyone from
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  Speaker 3: your favorite athletes to top experts and industry CEOs about
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  Speaker 3: their highest highs, toughest moments, and.
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  Speaker 2: Everything in between.
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  Speaker 3: We all go through hurdles in life, and my goal
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  Speaker 3: through these discussions is to empower you to better navigate
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  Speaker 3: yours and move with intention so that you can stride
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  Speaker 3: towards your own big potential and of course have some
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  Speaker 3: fun along the way. For today's episode, I am chatting
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  Speaker 3: with favorite Peloton instructor of many, Calli Gullickson. You know,
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  Speaker 3: every so often I'll share an Instagram story shortly after
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  Speaker 3: recording with an upcoming guest, and I shared the story.
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  Speaker 2: Of Calli and my session. Let me just.
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  Speaker 3: Say, got a lot of exciting feedback from all of you,
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  Speaker 3: so I am aware that this is an episode that
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  Speaker 3: many of you hurdlers have been looking forward to for
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  Speaker 3: a while, so happy to bring it to the feed today.
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  Speaker 3: In our chat, Callie and I talk about what it
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  Speaker 3: was like for her to grow up in an athletic family,
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  Speaker 3: to say the least. Her father, Bill was a Major
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  Speaker 3: League baseball pitcher. Callie herself took to dance from a
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  Speaker 3: young age and knew that she was destined to be
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  Speaker 3: living in New York City. She gets really open and
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  Speaker 3: honest about what that was like for her trying to
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  Speaker 3: make it as a dancer here the challenges that came
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  Speaker 3: hand in hand with that, including the pressure to have
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  Speaker 3: a certain body type. Kelly shares about her journey to
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  Speaker 3: finding fitness, going from cross training to lifting weights and
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  Speaker 3: knowing early on that strength training was going to be
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  Speaker 3: a gift in her life that would keep on giving.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, she also gives us all of the details
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  Speaker 3: about landing her job at Peloton, what the audition process
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  Speaker 3: was like, the difficult decisions she had to make in
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  Speaker 3: order to take the job, and shares what some of
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  Speaker 3: her biggest struggles were from the get go, opening herself
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  Speaker 3: up to trying new things, embracing her true self, being authentic,
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  Speaker 3: and showing up on the regular, both for herself and
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  Speaker 3: of course for Pelotons. Many many members again amped on
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  Speaker 3: this Conbo grateful for Kelly's time. Happy to make all
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  Speaker 3: of you happy. That's part of the goal here. So
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  Speaker 3: if you have someone else you want to hear from
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  Speaker 3: on the show a dream guest, I am all ears,
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  Speaker 3: at Hurdle Podcast, and I am also over at Emily
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  Speaker 3: a Body. Now, if you've been a hurdler for a while,
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  Speaker 3: you know that Kelly is not the first.
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  Speaker 2: Polopon instructor to be on the show.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to link a slew of other excellent episodes
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  Speaker 3: featuring some of her teammates, including Jess Simms, Beck's gentry,
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  Speaker 3: Cody Rigsby, and a few more in the show notes.
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  Speaker 2: And with that, let's get to hurdling Today.
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  Speaker 3: I am sitting down with Callie Gullicksen. She is a
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  Speaker 3: Peloton instructor.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing today, cal.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing pretty good. I did have a don't tell
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  Speaker 1: anyone well, I am saying it now, but just to
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  Speaker 1: give you insight of what my morning is like, I
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  Speaker 1: went two Dunkin Donuts and there definitely was a pump
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  Speaker 1: of pumpkin in my ic coffee. I know, I know,
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  Speaker 1: but it was just one of those days. And I'm yah,
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  Speaker 1: the first one makes me excited too.
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  Speaker 3: But I just need to let the listeners know because
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  Speaker 3: I'm not entirely positive when this episode is dropping. It
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  Speaker 3: will be soon, but today's date on recording is August seveneenth,
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  Speaker 3: So this is where Cali stands with pumpkin period.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little too excited, but I know it's a
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  Speaker 1: little premature. So that's how my morning's going.
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  Speaker 2: I love this for you.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I get a little excited the first pumpkin
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  Speaker 3: of the year, but then I find that every year
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  Speaker 3: as time goes on, I'm like less and less enthusiastic
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  Speaker 3: about it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I wish I wish I was like that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a little embarrassing how into it I am, So.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it's okay, you get no shade from me. I
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  Speaker 3: also just need to throw this out there. Is this
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  Speaker 3: your first podcast it is.
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  Speaker 1: It is? Can you believe it?
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  Speaker 3: I know it surprises me because you are such a
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  Speaker 3: social media connoisseur and that you're very active over on
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  Speaker 3: Instagram and TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: So I felt as though.
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  Speaker 3: I I'm sure, let's say this, I'm sure the requests
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  Speaker 3: have been there. So I am honored that you have
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  Speaker 3: decided to give me some of your time so I
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  Speaker 3: can bring you into this new space.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, I mean I'm excited. I also feel like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for the past year I've been with Poloton,
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to like truly settle into that and
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  Speaker 1: to be honest, I would get like nervous to be
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  Speaker 1: on podcasts, And the other day I was thinking, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, when I saw that, you were like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you want to be on my podcast?
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  Speaker 4: I said, absolutely, just because I'm like, that's it's just
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  Speaker 4: my brand to kind of like not have it figured out,
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  Speaker 4: like I kind of just go with the flow.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, you know what, if I just show
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  Speaker 1: up as myself, there's nothing to be afraid of, so
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  Speaker 1: here I am.
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  Speaker 3: I feel as though a lot of people struggle with
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  Speaker 3: that mentality though I love that takeaway. If I just
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  Speaker 3: show up as myself, then there's nothing to be afraid of.
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  Speaker 3: But sometimes showing up as you are and being your
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  Speaker 3: authentic self can be a little bit scary.
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  Speaker 1: So true, so true, But I mean I do think
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  Speaker 1: that with the help of Peloton and like literally showing
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  Speaker 1: up and being like, well, this is me, I've definitely
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  Speaker 1: gotten a lot more comfortable in my skins. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: so excited to be here to chat all the things.
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  Speaker 3: I also have to disclaim that last night, in preparation
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  Speaker 3: for this conversation, I may or may not have stopped
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  Speaker 3: at Trader joe. Now, if there is one thing about
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  Speaker 3: Callie on the Internet, it is that there are articles
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  Speaker 3: talking about you and your love for Trader Joe's. How
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  Speaker 3: does it feel that that's the thing that comes up
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  Speaker 3: when someone googles your name?
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  Speaker 1: It makes me so happy. I mean I remember literally
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  Speaker 1: in college, I went to school downtown at Pace University,
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  Speaker 1: and I'd never heard of Trader Joe's before, and then
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  Speaker 1: someone showed me the Speculo Sputter, and I was just like,
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  Speaker 1: what is this hitting my taste buds? And then slowly,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I would go to the one in Union
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  Speaker 1: Square and it was so packed, and then slowly over
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  Speaker 1: the years. I just you know, as you get older,
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  Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, I can buy more stuff from my fridge.
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  Speaker 1: I can fill it up because you're not going out
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  Speaker 1: as much as you're staying in. I'm such a homebody,
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  Speaker 1: so going to Trader Joe's is just the highlight of
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  Speaker 1: my week. I can't hide it, so to have you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you research my name on the internet and see
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  Speaker 1: Callie Trader Joe's day, my week, my month is made truly.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever been contacted by Trader Joe's, Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 3: I wish.
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  Speaker 1: And it's so funny because people are literally like I
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  Speaker 1: sometimes read give Kelly an endorsement for Trader Joe's. Like
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  Speaker 1: I see all these comments, I'm like, Okay, you guys,
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  Speaker 1: I love that you're really supporting me in this sort
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  Speaker 1: of way. But this is just like I feel like
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  Speaker 1: if I did get an endorsement, which I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they do, to be honest, like, that's not what I'm
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  Speaker 1: striving for. Like, I truly love it, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: I enjoy making content about it because I'm like, people
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  Speaker 1: need to know about this.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to give us at least three to four
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  Speaker 3: on your weekly must have list, and let's do it
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  Speaker 3: time sensitive for where we are at in the calendar year.
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  Speaker 2: So you mentioned pumpkin at the top of this.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna hate on you if there's something seasonal
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  Speaker 3: pumpkin in these four picks from you.
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  Speaker 1: Totally okay, So here we go. When when I also
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  Speaker 1: choose my picks, I always have to visualize myself and
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  Speaker 1: like the route I take in Trader Joe's very important.
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  Speaker 1: So here we go. We're going to walk by the salads.
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  Speaker 1: The salads in the bag are the best. I love
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  Speaker 1: the maybe Mediterranean one. Boom. Then you're gonna walk around.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see, there is the pasta, the caccio pepe Ravioli's amazing. Recently,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna go around to the dairy section. I've been
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  Speaker 1: loving the dairy free brown sugar creamer. I've been loving it.
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  Speaker 1: It's so good. And then freezer section for the fourth
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  Speaker 1: thing I'm gonna go with. I love the veggie or no,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they're veggie. I think just their their
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  Speaker 1: keenewa Cowboy Burgers so good.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Wow, now we have a shopping list.
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  Speaker 3: I will add all of these to my next grocer
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  Speaker 3: hall that that creamer sounds delicious.
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  Speaker 1: Oh especially be like froth it a little bit and
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  Speaker 1: then you put it in your coffee. So good.
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  Speaker 2: Love being in at home Barista, well so good.
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  Speaker 3: And I would assume that maybe someone listening to this
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  Speaker 3: here's just those four things and wonders, hmm, I wonder
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  Speaker 3: what her diet looks like if she's constantly training all
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  Speaker 3: of the time. Have you had to modify or tweak
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  Speaker 3: that over the years as you've dabbled in different fitness
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  Speaker 3: modalities and training at different locations.
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  Speaker 1: For sure, I think that my diets have been all
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  Speaker 1: over the place, and now I'm at like this stage
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  Speaker 1: in my life where I'm like, I just do honestly
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  Speaker 1: what feels good. People are like, do you have any restrictions?
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  Speaker 1: I have zero whatsoever. I feel like I'm in this
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  Speaker 1: like this kind of food of freedom where if I
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  Speaker 1: want something, I'm gonna eat it. But then I also
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  Speaker 1: know that if I you know, I have sometimes when
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  Speaker 1: I teach at like seven thirty am, I'm like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I know if I have a lot of sugar right
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  Speaker 1: now or something super heavy, I'm gonna feel awful in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. And that's going to not allow me to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy my job. So it definitely like is revolved around
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  Speaker 1: like how my body's going to react to certain foods.
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  Speaker 1: But when it comes to diets or you know, anything
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  Speaker 1: that I don't eat, I truly eat it all.
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  Speaker 3: You're like me, I'm the same way, at least in
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  Speaker 3: moderation anyway, right, Like, it's not like I think I
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  Speaker 3: sent you last night a photo of my like little
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  Speaker 3: ice cream cone. Like it's not like every single day
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  Speaker 3: I'm buying the big ice cream cones.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I've got.
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  Speaker 3: A box of the twelve Trader Joe's Minis in the
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  Speaker 3: freezer ready for whenever I need one.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they're perfect.
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  Speaker 2: They are perfect. Good to know.
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  Speaker 3: Also, in my perusing of the internet on you, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think I even concepted or understood how many like
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  Speaker 3: quote unquote lives you've had teaching in fitness. So I
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  Speaker 3: want to dial it back and talk about you deciding
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  Speaker 3: to come to New York. You mentioned college. Did you
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  Speaker 3: always know that you wanted to come here?
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  Speaker 1: Truthfully? Yes, So I grew up in a family of athletes.
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  Speaker 1: My dad was a professional baseball player, and then I
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  Speaker 1: am one of six kids, so there's five girls, one boy.
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  Speaker 1: And so my dad retired when I was I think one,
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  Speaker 1: So I literally don't know him as a baseball player,
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  Speaker 1: but he definitely instilled everything that he learned and hard work,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, prior preparation prevents poor performance, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in all of us. So my oldest sister, you know,
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  Speaker 1: my parents were very strict on us in that sense,
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  Speaker 1: like after school we had to go to our sport
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  Speaker 1: you know, we had to do all of those activities,
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  Speaker 1: trained super super hard. But me, I was like, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, sports is not my thing. And I loved
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  Speaker 1: like being no, I'm going to be different. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be a dancer. So literally, in middle school, I
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  Speaker 1: auditioned for this summer camp called School of American Ballet.
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  Speaker 1: They accept around two hundred kids to go to New
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  Speaker 1: York and basically it's the school that is threaded or
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  Speaker 1: filtered into New York City Ballet. So basically sixth grade
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  Speaker 1: I went for six or seventh grade. I went for
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  Speaker 1: three consecutive summers for about six weeks, and I loved it.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, by mom and dad, see I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to New York. And then after that, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: was auditioning for colleges, and it was hard because I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to. I did so much ballet growing up, and
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  Speaker 1: I also like my I feel like my personality didn't
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  Speaker 1: match ballet like I wanted to be like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I loved tap growing up. Fun fact, I also clogged,
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  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, which was really fun. It basically is
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  Speaker 1: like your tap shoes are just like cut in half
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  Speaker 1: at the bottom. And I was like an eight year
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  Speaker 1: old in a class with all adults, just just clogging away,
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  Speaker 1: just clogging away. I still remember, like my dance to
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  Speaker 1: men in Black, Here Come Men in Black. So when
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  Speaker 1: it came to auditioning for colleges, you know, when you audition,
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  Speaker 1: there's no program that's truly you know, has tap, hip hop, jazz,
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  Speaker 1: and includes ballet and modern. Most of them are just
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  Speaker 1: ballet and modern. So I was kind of torn. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, you know what, I was auditioning for all
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  Speaker 1: these schools for their ballet and modern program, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, Okay, this is great. But also I was
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  Speaker 1: like I want a football team. But then I said,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, if I go to school in New York,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if it has a football team. So
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  Speaker 1: I actually found this school Pace University Downtown. They had
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  Speaker 1: a commercial dance program, which was the first dance program
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  Speaker 1: like of its kind, and we literally took ballet, jazz, tap,
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  Speaker 1: hip hop, modern point, ballroom. We also had voice lessons,
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  Speaker 1: acting lessons, So it really prepared us for if we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do a company work, which I originally thought
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do when I was younger, but also
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  Speaker 1: if you wanted to do Broadway, if you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: do like the Music Video Awards, that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm very thankful for that program, and so that's
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  Speaker 1: basically what brought me to New York.
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  Speaker 3: Wow wow, Okay, so you thought that you wanted to
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  Speaker 3: do company work, But what happened that maybe dissuaded you
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  Speaker 3: from that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, one I was I'm so stink and tall and
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  Speaker 1: so like I just knew like even like I was
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  Speaker 1: so I feel like I was so good at ballet
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  Speaker 1: because I trained so hard in it. But even so,
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  Speaker 1: I was like I would always be in the background.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I would never be a soloist or
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  Speaker 1: a principle because no guy was tall enough. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I know I was pretty good, but also there were
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  Speaker 1: other women who were much better and they would you know,
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  Speaker 1: if it came down to being the tallest, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: being the best out of the tall people, they would
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  Speaker 1: probably you know, get it over me. And I honestly
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  Speaker 1: also like kind of started to I don't know, I
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  Speaker 1: just I also think that the ballet it has you're
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  Speaker 1: really really hard on yourself. So I think I truly
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  Speaker 1: started to lose my love for ballet and wanted to
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  Speaker 1: you know, I tried to go the rocket route, which
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  Speaker 1: I did like the summer camp, and I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I want to be a rocket. And then during the
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  Speaker 1: summer camp, I was like, Wow, this is so hard
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  Speaker 1: or do you have to really really love this in
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  Speaker 1: order for me to do this for like four to
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  Speaker 1: five consecutive months. And that's when I also knew. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, Okay, maybe the rocket route isn't for me.
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  Speaker 1: So whenever people in college were like, so what's your
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  Speaker 1: end goal, I honestly didn't know. And that was the
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  Speaker 1: moment that I kind of questioned, h Okay, well maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to be dancing if I don't even
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  Speaker 1: have like one, if I don't vision myself somewhere dancing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you mentioned that being a dancer can come hand
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  Speaker 3: in hand with some pretty like maybe restrictive behaviors.
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  Speaker 2: Did you ever struggle with any of that?
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  Speaker 1: You know? It's funny, like, so the perfect ballet body
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  Speaker 1: was my body when I was younger, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: very thin, tall, long, lean lines like they say, And
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  Speaker 1: so initially I didn't, but then as I got older,
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  Speaker 1: as my body started to change, I definitely did struggle.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think even people who have that body
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  Speaker 1: type that you know is quote unquote the ballet body type,
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  Speaker 1: they still struggle to be even skinnier. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I look back on photos and I was like, oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, isn't it. It's It's nuts. How at that
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  Speaker 1: time I looked at myself and I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: need to be skinnier, which is just so not good
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  Speaker 1: for your mental space.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And it's a hard place to get out of, right.
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  Speaker 3: How did you get to a place where you understood like,
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  Speaker 3: this isn't healthy behavior, not necessarily the actions that you
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  Speaker 3: were taking, but even just the way that you were
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  Speaker 3: talking to yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Absolutely, I think it was one just
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  Speaker 1: getting out of that space. And also it's about who
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  Speaker 1: you kind of spend your time with. You become like
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  Speaker 1: the people that you surround yourself with. And I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even know that I was in you know, that my
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: confidence was so low. I just thought that was a
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: way that, you know, you're spoke that so much any
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: other people talk to themselves, because that's how the people
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: who I was surrounding myself with talked about themselves. So,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: you know, and in ballet, you're always there's a mirror.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: In dance, there's always a mirror, and you're literally in
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: this just small little leotard pink tights that show everything,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: and not only do you see your yourself and your
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: peripheral religion, but you see everyone else. And it's just
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: such a comparison game. And I hated that. And then
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: so when I started getting out of school and auditioning it,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I think that's when I was like, this is not
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: for me, because then you go and you are so
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: hard on yourself and you could have been perfect for
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: the job, but maybe the one spot that was open
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: they needed someone who is exactly this size to fit
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: the costume. You know, there's so many other factors that
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: went into it, and at that time I wasn't thinking
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: in that sort of way, So I got really hard
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: on myself, and I think I kind of started to
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: flip the switch when I got out of the dance realm,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: when I started finding a different group of friends, and
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: truly when I started finding fitness.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Was that lonely for you at first? When you were
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: making these decisions. I can't imagine that the decisions themselves
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: were easy, especially because you had invested so much time
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: in this thing that you were coming to realize wasn't
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: exactly the thing for you anymore.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it was. It was very lonely, but
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: it also gave me so much time to In a
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: place like New York, where I had this huge family,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I came alone, knowing no one really and I truly
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: never never settled into learning who I am. I kind of,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: you know, molded into who I hung around with in college,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and so this was actually a moment where I could truly,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: like hone in on who I am as a person
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: and learning to say no to things that don't feel
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: good and people who don't want the best. So it
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: was very lonely, but also it made me truly appreciate
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: alone time. And I do think that time that I
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: kind of transitioned, because it did turn me into the
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: person that I am today.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Truly, I always think about what it would be like
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: to go to college in the city and then stay
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: in the city. How long have you I know you
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: live in New Jersey now, but how long were you
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: in New York proper?
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, okay, let's see those four years? Then I
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: want to say seven, and then I lived in Williamsburg
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: for two. So I think when you go to school
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: in New York City, you're kind of like thrown into
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: so many different personalities and so many people who grew
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: up a different way than you. And truthfully, I do
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: feel like I kind of like lost myself, you know,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: as a kid, I think that you have like so
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: much confidence in yourself and you're like your own person
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: and like you don't care what other people think. And
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you like get away from
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: what you know, away from your family, and you start,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: you know, meeting new people, and you do kind of
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: lose yourself. But then again, I'm so thankful for those
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: years because it made me. It definitely my college years
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: made me grow up quicker and made me let go
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: of things that were not good for me, which, you know,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: if I didn't go to college here, I would have still,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: you know, perhaps moved here, and then I would have
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: gone through that whole dilemma again and trying to do
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the dance route and learning that it wasn't for me
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't making me happy anymore.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, good on you for making that decision, and
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: also good on you for perspective that definitely comes with time. Right, Like,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: when we go through hard things, it's not out of
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: the normal to like be frustrated and angry and have
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: all of these feelings in the moment. In fact, you should, right, like,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: you should experience all those feelings, that's part of it.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: But to then be able to look back on the
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: things that we've been through and these hurdles, so to speak,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: and then say, oh, okay, now I have the perspective
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: on why this happened for me. That's so important, so important.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: You said, then you started to find fitness. What did
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: finding fitness look like for you, Kelli?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So in college I did start to cross train,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: so like every night we would have rehearsals, and then
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: the days that I wouldn't have rehearsals, I would be
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: going to these group fitness classes, which I loved I
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: was like, oh my gosh, all these people are so wonderful,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Like you know the classes that you go to where
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: they turn off the lights and you're in the moment
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and you're like you're finding yourself and these like motivational moments.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I loved that. And then once you know, I was
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: auditioning and stuff outside, I had an dance agent and
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: it just like wasn't going anywhere, and I was like, well,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I do have to make a living somehow. So I
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: was also taking classes at a group fittest studio, and
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I started working at the front desk there and I
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: kind of also loved it because I feel like I
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: find it. When I was younger, I did want to
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: be different than my family, but also put a lot
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: of pressure on me because they all of my siblings
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: went to school on scholarships and then there was me,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and from my knowledge, I kind of had to like
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: figure out the way to getting to college by myself
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: because my parents were just so used to, oh, recruiting,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: this is you know, how all your siblings did it,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: and like it didn't really work that way for dance.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: So basically it made me feel like, you know, I
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: was kind of athletic like my family. And even though
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: the dancers are you know, they say that the athletes
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: of God, and they truly are. But you know, I
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: felt like more connected to my family and I loved it,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: and I was like, look, look at me. I could
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: be athletic too, like I'm doing sprints and stuff. And
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I do think that the community of fitness is so
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: so great, just like you and I like that's how
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: we know each other and that you can meet so
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: many wonderful people. And I honestly, I think looking it
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: made me flip the switch, whereas I could look at
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: my body in a different way than what I'm used
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: to for dance. For dance you just have to be
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: a certain body type and move a specific way. And
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I think for when I found fitness, I was like,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I can kind of I don't have to be so perfect,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: and I can do this in different ways and I
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: can move my body not to look a certain way,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: but to feel a certain way. So once I made
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: that switch, like I found myself, you know, no longer
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I found myself, like ditching my auditions for dance stuff
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: to go and take a fitness class like that was
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: the one thing that I needed to do, and I
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: felt like I was finding myself again.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Finding yourself again. We love that.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: I can't even fathom how liberating that must have felt,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: to not feel as though you need to be in
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: this one type of box anymore.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: But I can imagine that it also may.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Have come with some conflicting feelings, right because you don't
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: know your body to be any other way. So was
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: that adjustment period different or difficult when you started to
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: you know, see muscles and maybe get a little bit
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: quote unquote bigger than you were previously.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, for sure. I think it's it's normal
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: for any human. Like even still now, I'm like confident
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: in my skin, but then like I try on something,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh gosh, this is anymore, And all of
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: a sudden you get into like this dark hole and
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: this tunnel that you can't get out of, and there's
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: a ceiling and you're like, help them stuck. But I
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: honestly I truly tuned into I think that, you know,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I did find lifting weights and I felt like, again
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I was just moving my body in a way that
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I wasn't used to, And there was always that struggle.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure, like what quite got me out of it.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I think it was. I like to think of it
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: as like, you know when you have that like one
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: you know, your first love, and then you break up
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: and you're like, gosh, I think about this person every
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: single day, like will there ever be a day where
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I don't think about them? And then time passes and
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: then you go to bed one night and you're like, oh,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I didn't even think about that person today, Oh my gosh.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I think that's kind of how my outlook on my
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: body seems like. It seemed like such a bigger deal
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: to where like I would be out with friends or
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: in conversations and I would be so in my head about,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: oh if I order this, I can't do that because
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I ordered that earlier, and you're you're not even like
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: enjoying life. And I think that also, once I got
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: that freedom of not caring what I look like, I
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: felt like my relationships got so much better, not only
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: with myself but with my friends. We all go through
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: moments of not being confident in ourselves, and anything that
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: we have going on with ourselves we kind of projected
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: on other people. So I feel like any any bit
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: of jealousy that I had that disappeared, and I just
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: truly found this, like wow, I love the life that
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I'm living. I'm grateful for the body that I am in.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: So it's definitely been a journey, but I think it
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: is like that scenario like your first love, like one
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: day you literally you constantly work on it and then
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: you just won't think about it and you'll be like, wow,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I didn't say anything bad about my body today. I
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: didn't care that I was putting down my pants were
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: super tight, you know, or I looked at a picture
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: and I was you know, because I feel like when
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: you're not happy with who you are on the inside,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and lifting weights made me feel confident. So there were
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: moments where I looked in the mirror and no matter
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: what I looked like, you'll always see something wrong if
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: you don't feel confident in yourself. And then so that's
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: why in my continence, I truly am like lift for
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: a feeling, because once you have that good feeling and
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: that confidence, you're gonna look in the mirror and you're
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: going to like what you see. But if we focus
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: too much on what we look like, we're never gonna
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: be happy.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: That's so true, and I love this idea focusing on
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: a feeling and moving based on a feeling. I feel
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: as of this conversation, and it can't be the first
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: time that you've heard this before. Because you have such
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: a massive platform, over two hundred thousand followers just on
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Instagram alone, I'm sure there are people that say, like, well,
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: it's great that you can say things like that, but
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: kind of come back and skinny shame you a little bit.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: They're like, well, of course you feel good doing whatever
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: because you look like that.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Like what do you say to that?
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's it's always a struggle because I think that
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: it's I look back on when I was okay. So
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: when I was younger, I was so skinny. I would
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: come home from it and people would I was called
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: daddy long legs, and like I was just like, oh
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: my god, people like I'm so skinny. So I would
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: tell my dad and said, death have a protein shake
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: ready for me when I get done with dance, and
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: I want to eat a full cheesecake from publics. So
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: like I was trying to gain weight, and then when
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I got in college, I wanted to be skinnier. So
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I'm like, there's always no matter what size you are,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: You're always gonna the grass is always gonna seem greener
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: on the other side, which is why we should not
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: compare ourselves. We should not doubt anyone else's insecurities, like
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: they're always there. So I think, I obviously don't react
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: to those, but I'm like, oh, I wish that we
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: could all just you know, be there for each other
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and lift each other up. And we all have our
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: own issues, so I try not to let them get
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to me, because you know, everyone's going through something. But
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: that's just the way it goes. You're you're gonna get,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: you know, skinny, and then you're gonna be like, well,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I want a booty and I want I want that.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: But then you get the booty and you're like, oh,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: but I want abs, and you know, so it's like
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: we need to just stop trying to trying to get
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: abs and trying to get bust and biceps, and you know,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: just literally do what feels good for you and then
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: you're going to enjoy the body that you're in.
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  Speaker 3: journey in fitness through a bunch of different studios in
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  Speaker 3: New York that you coached at, You've always been on
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  Speaker 3: the strength track, the same track that you're on now
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: at Peloton. So when you started lifting weights, was it
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  Speaker 3: just like this is the feeling I'm sold on, this
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: is the thing that I want to commit to, or
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: how you ebbed and flowed in terms of the different
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: modalities that you really enjoy.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Let me first started, I definitely ebbed and flowed, and
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: then when I found strength training, I was like, wow
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: it also I think that's what also gave me the
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: confidence because truly I was like I think it was
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: in high school, like for our dance warmups, we would
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: do push ups and I'd be like, yeah, my body,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: you know, I blame on my body. My body's just
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: not meant to do this. You know, I can't do this.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, when people were like
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: everyone can do this, like what do you mean? And
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I started working out my push ups and I got
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: my pushups, and like that little thing like that, like
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: just being consistent and showing up, you can get so
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: much stronger and then it affects the rest of your life.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: It flows over. So I do think that when I
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: found strength training, I mean I initially started, you know
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: obviously with like I went through the whole cycling, and
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: then i'd go through running, and then I think it's
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: normal for us to like get bored with things, but
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: I know that now I always come back to my
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: strength training. And even when I was younger, you know,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I do have scoliosis and I wasn't strong, and I
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: would always get such bad lower back pain. And then
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: when I started lifting weights, I was like, wow, all
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: of those little things went away. And I kind of
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: blamed it on my scoliosis. I blamed it on you know,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: my long limbs. And then once I started strength training,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: like all the small little injuries went way. And the
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: other thing I love about strength training is it does
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: it has such like a technical aspect to it, which
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: is also kind of brings in my dance background because
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: form is so so important. So it gave me a
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: little bit of that which I loved, like a little
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: bit of structure that I still needed and wanted, but
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: not as structured as ballet and its technique.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: So yeah, as you know, I'm huge on running.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: And when I first started running, the thing that I
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: loved was that I could make playlists that had a
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: certain bpm so that I could run specifically on the beat,
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: because I too a fun fact, not as nearly as
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: serious as you, but like had a background as a dancer.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Yes, shout out to all the runners out there. Because
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I am not a runner. I got some phases where
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I like really try to and then I don't. But
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I do think that I need to definitely work on
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: my form and it is so mental. But I do
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: also feel like when I do go on runs, the
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: moments that I decide to, I have such these moments
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: of like I have these epiphanies and all these amazing
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: ideas that come through, and so maybe maybe I should
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: get back into running.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: I'm like, maybe maybe I need some more epiphanies and
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: good ideas. Something I love about you, Cally is your
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: bright personality, your optimism. It's like everything that you share
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: it's really I mean, you go to your Instagram profile
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: and like everything's yellow, like it's bright like your personality.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: You also, you know, have this tagline your bff in fitness.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: How do you show up on the days where you
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: don't feel so bright and so sunny? Mm hmm.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Well, okay, So when I first got this job, I
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: was in Florida. We actually, like in March of twenty twenty,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Chris and I went my husband, we went to Florida
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: for wedding planning stuff. We ended up staying with my
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: parents for three months. We bought a place in Florida.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: We ended up living in Florida for six months while
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: I was going through the whole Peloton process. And when
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I got the offer, I basically was like, oh my gosh,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: like this is such an amazing opportunity, but I don't
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: know if I want to do this. I don't know
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: if I want to do this. And Chris is like
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Chris looked at me and I was like Kelly, and
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: he started like tearing. He's like, literally we started dating
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: when I was teaching at a group fitness studio. That's
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: how we originally met. And He's like, for so long
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: you said you joined fitness because one day there was
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: just a flip of a switch and you felt confident
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: in yourself and you felt like your personality could shine.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: He's like, imagine what you can do for others. Imagine
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: how many lives you can change sharing your story. And
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, you're right.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: So I think it's so amazing that I have this
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: opportunity and I'm at and it came at the right
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: time when I was feeling. When I came back to Florida,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: I kind of got away from the New York City
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: hustle and kind of got to find myself again and
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: my Florida self and be with my family, my parents,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: and be with one of my best friends. And it
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: was the perfect timing because now I can show up
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: on the platform as my authentic self. And what that
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: means for me is even in my classes, I don't
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: like to write notes on like stories that I need
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: to tell, Like I even tried to once, like and
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: I was just like, what am I doing? Like this
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: is not me? So I think it's so special that
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: I love my work because I can show up however
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I want, and it makes it more enjoyable too. Like
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: some people are like, how Kelly, that's your job working
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: out and I'm like, I know. So that's why I
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: have to be as authentic. That's why I have to
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: truly tell the members when i'm working out how I
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: am feeling, so that I don't feel like I have
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: to go in and I'm forced to act a certain way.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: So that's the way that I've found teaching. And just
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: if something's hard for me, I'm like, you got you, guys,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: I'm dying, this is hard. Please stay with me because
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: it makes them more enjoyable.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: That way, when you first started on the platform, did
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: you feel like you had to show up a certain
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: way at the get go?
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, for sure. I mean, I work with
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: so many incredible people who have such an amazing story
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: and I feel like they have it all figured out.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: But the truth is no one truly has it figured out.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: And I felt like I needed to. This is what
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: I stand for. This is you know, this is my tagline.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: You know you feel that pressure. And then initially I
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: would show up and like I would get so nervous
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: before class and still, you know, I still even do
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: because you know, being nervous is a good sign that
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: you care. But I think now a year in, I
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: think it takes that long that I can literally go
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: in and I have a sense of, you know, what
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: my mission is, what I want to do, and how
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: you know, members react to it, and it's it's something
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: that's truly, so so special, And even though it's taken
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: a year to get here, I'm so thankful to be here,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: even though it took it took a year for me
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: to like finally settle in. But I think that's the
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: whole process of it.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: I would say that a year isn't that long at all,
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: And I would also then follow that up by asking,
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: what is your mission.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Truly to show people that moving your body is not
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: just so many people look at it like some people,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: you know, when they hear my peloton track, they come
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: up to me and they're like, oh, oh gosh, I
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: hate this today. This is that many calories. I'm like,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: that's not the point.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: That's not the point.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: It's like, you should move your body so that you
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: can show up in all different aspects of your life,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: and you can that is your you time where you
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: can truly work on your self esteem. You can see
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: small little building blocks that you're doing push ups on
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: your knees and then one day you can finally do
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: push ups, and that all spills over into your life
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: and your relationships. And I feel like my life truly
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: came into fruition when I found strength training and when
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: I found my confidence, like my relationship with Chris came,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: I would have never you know, I feel like Chris
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: came at a time when I was confident myself and
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I didn't, you know, doubt any bit of feelings he
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: had for me, any feelings I had for myself, or
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: any feelings I had for him. You know, it came
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: at the perfect time, and I just want to show
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: others that building strength can truly truly change your life
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: from the inside out.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: I know that recently it was your one year wedding
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: anniversary and you shared that he was an hour late.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: I'm your second date, Drew or false, that's true.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I would have stayed Kelly, I know,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I know, but like I just felt in my gut.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: And also Chris is just so like you could tell,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: like you know, in his textans just he's like, I'm
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: so sorry because there was a race happening and he
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: was coming from Brooklyn, and you know how they closed
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: down every single street so he was in a cab
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: coming over to the East Village. It was at this
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: place called Feast, which is closed now, I believe, But
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: and I sat down and I was like, oh gosh,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: and he's like, I'm gonna be a little late every
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: ten minutes. I'm so sorry. Then he's like, you can
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: leave and never talk to me again. I'm so sorry.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: He ended up getting out of the cab, taking the
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: train walking from Union Square to there, and I also
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: was like, I can't leave now. I literally got a water,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: I got a coffee, Like there's a menu sitting out
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: for him, Like, you know, I gotta be to the waiter.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Someone's coming, I promise, And he ended up showing up
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: and then yeah.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: And then here we are.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: Do you feel as though it's been a challenge for
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: you to kind of see the uptick of both your
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: career and build this like beautiful new chapter for you
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: and your husband at the same time.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Definitely, for sure. But he does like keep me so grounded,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: and I do like to keep my work and well, honestly,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say I like to keep them separate,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: but yet again, I'm so I feel like I like
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: overshare on Instagram and everything, Like so many people know
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: so many things about my life. But yet again, like
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: that's that's just me being authentic, you know, Like I
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: feel like for me, I just need, like need to
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: share everything just because that's how I'm feeling in the
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: moment and this is what's going on in my life
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: and this is what you should know. But it's so
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: rewarding too, because Chris we started dating when I was
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: I was teaching at five am in the morning, so
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: I would wake up at three twenty and four to
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: five times a week, and then like I would go home,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: I would take a nap, maybe go on to a
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Trader Joe's, you know the deal, and then I would
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: go back and I would teach later. And like Chris
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: saw this like whole transformation of where I'm at now.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: So it's also so rewarding that we're at this place
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: where I'm like wow, and we like sometimes sit down,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: we're like wow, remember when I was doing that? Remember
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: when you were doing that? Like it's so cool and
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: we're so thankful, and it's nice that we definitely like
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: keep each other grounded, and I have my family to
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: keep me grounded. Two And just finding those friends who
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: have been with me from the beginning to be like
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: to keep me you know, I know, like Peloton is
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: so well known to people, so like even yesterday I
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: was at the dog park and I'm just like chilling,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: like Jarley, gimme here, and then someone post to me
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: It's like, wait, are you Cali, And I'm like yes,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my gosh, I forgot I'm
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: and I'm sitting there. I'm like, oh my gosh, they've
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: probably seen me in the worst like outphit Like, you know,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh gosh, but I forget. But I also, like,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: you know, I like being very relatable in that sort
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: of way.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: So was it an adjustment for you to get more
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: open to sharing so much of yourself on social And
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: then the follow up to that question is have you
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: had a moment where you thought like I need to
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: completely retreat from this, because I know that I have.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Was there a moment I honestly feel like when again
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: it's going to go back to my confidence when I
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: no longer you know, allowed other people's opinions to affect me.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: I truly would, and even now, like I post stuff
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: and I don't even look back, like like people you know,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: send me messages and like I sometimes I don't even
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: look at them, like I post and then I get
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: on with my day, and I think that's the best
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: way to do it. Sometimes we get so sucked into
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: this like social media that's not reality, you know. And
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: even though I do share so much, there's also so
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: much that I don't share. So I think it's you know,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of if there was a switch.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: I think I just started going for it, and I
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: think that's when actually people just started relating to me
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: a little bit more, and you know, we've started finding
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: things in common.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: People forget I see, like some sort of curated timeline
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: that you've put out for your day, and there's so
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: much that's happening that isn't there.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Yes, Like there's so much going on in our lives
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: that it's also like why would I share that with people?
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: You know? And I do try to. I do try
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: to be as authentic as possible and show what's happening
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: in my life. But yet again, it's like, you don't
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: know what happened during those three hours. You don't know
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: the phone call that I had with one of my
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: siblings that I'm in a bad mood from and like
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: I can't fall asleep because of it, you know, like
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: that those little things that I'm sure that would make
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: me more relatable, But yet again it's like I just
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: need to I need a moment to process all of
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: that before I tell other people, you know. And I'm
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: trying to think if there was a time where I
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: posted something and I like retracted it, I don't think,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: I mean probably, but I don't think it was anything
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: too big of a deal where I remember.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: A year now into your journey at Peloton, what would
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: you say has been one of the biggest hurdles for
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: you so far?
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Well, one was making the decision to move back here
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: because I think I think New York truly sucks you in.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: And then you're like, I'm never going to leave this place.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: And then COVID happened, and you're kind of like, okay, okay,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: this is a major hurdle. What do I do now?
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: And like I made the decision to go back to Florida,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: and I told myself I would never live back there again.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: But then there was just something pulling me back. And
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: my poor husband was like, what he's from Pennsylvani he's like,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: we're moving to Florida what so, like I dragged him
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: down there and then like we created this like wonderful
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: life together and I was like visioning, you know, us
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: having kids down there and like being close with my
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: family again and all this stuff. And then this job
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: opportunity came and like I could not pass it up whatsoever.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: So it was also making the decision to like, wow,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: I thought that I like got out of New York
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: and it was such a hard decision, and now I
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: have to go back and I already kind of made
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: some roots here. I think that was like one of
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: the biggest hurdles. And I of course miss Florida so
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: so much, but I'm also so young and I have
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: so much life to live, and I knew that if
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: I didn't take this opportunity, I would literally look back
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: and regret it for the rest of my life. For
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: the rest of my life. It would literally like I
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: would go to bed at night and be.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: Like, what did I do?
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: And I'm so happy that we chose to, you know,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: move back here, and it's been a wonderful experience. So
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: that was, you know, the first one when this initially started.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: This second one I would say, hmm, you do get
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: so much. The members are all so wonderful. But it's
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: also you know, when I first started, I think it
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: was I started to creep back into that having to
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: be perfect and having to say certain things and have
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: to be light. And I think that's what makes Peloton
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: so special, is that there is an instructor for every
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: single person, no matter what you're feeling today. You know,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: the music, you like, the type of class you want
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: to take. And so I think it was a hard
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: pill to swallow at first, because you know, I would
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: read things and be like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: like that's what they think, and I would like try
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: to change myself, and then I would go like the
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: next class, I would try to change myself, and then
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, what am I doing. I'm sinking into
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: like my young like you know how I was in
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: my you know, early and mid twenties, Like what am
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: I doing? And so I think that was the biggest hurdle.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: And here we are again a year later, and that
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: stuff doesn't even phaze me.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: I'm just you know, yeah, And you clearly surround yourself
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: with a lot of people who have dealt with the
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: same thing when it comes to not taking some of
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: this feedback. So personally, what would you say some of
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: the best advice has been for you to help get
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: over that specific hurdle.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: It's funny. My husband's always like, CALLI, you literally read
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: ten good things about you, and you're not focusing on that.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: You're literally focusing on the one bad thing. I'm like,
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: you're so right. So it's so funny because you know,
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: people do say I have this like sunshine energy and
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: like so happy all the time. But I'm like, oh gosh,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: those do get to you. So I would say the
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: best advice I would have is honestly, not not even
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: to look at the stuff. Sometimes you're like out looking
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: for it. You know, you're which is why do we
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: do that to ourselves? We like want to know what
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: people are saying. Who cares? Who cares? You know, I
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: can say that as many times. I can say that
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: so many times, but yet again, we are human. We
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: are human, and so no matter how confident feeling about myself,
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: no matter how happy I am with myself at the moment,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: we're always we're always gonna you know, we are humans.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: We have emotions, and it's normal, And I think that's
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: that's the most important thing too. Everyone everyone deals with
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: these emotions. So it's also like feel sad, yes, but
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: also do not let that ruin your day. You have
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: so many other wonderful things happening for you. You got pumpkin
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: in your coffee, You're going to Trader Joe's later, Like,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: let's be honest, you can carry three bags instead of
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: two bags.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: Three bags is a big undertaking.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. It really is. Like even sometimes I'm like,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: what did I do this? What did I do? Is
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: like my biceps I have, they're burning, I have sweat
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: dripping down my back. But it's worth it, you know, it's.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: So worth it. It's so worth it, you know.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: To the one more note on the negative talk negative
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: moments thing. I remember when I say down with Tunday
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: one of the times that she was on the show,
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: and she said when she started at Peloton that someone
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: gave her the advice saying and asking her a question,
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: and the question was would you ever write something nasty
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: on someone's Instagram? And Tunday was like, no, why would
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: I do that? And the person asked her again, like
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: would you ever write something nasty? On somebody's Instagram and
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: tun Day was like no, and this person said to her, well,
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: then why would you ever take something that someone that
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: would do that would say to you to heart.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, that is such a good point.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: You even said it earlier when you were talking about
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: the circle of individuals that you surrounded yourself with when
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: dance was such a big part of your life, and
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: how the way that they were speaking to themselves and
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: about others didn't really influence you. Well, like, just because
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: these people may not be around you in person doesn't
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: mean that we can't be influenced by what we're seeing
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: of course on social So be smart about who you're
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: letting into your space and what you're doing with that
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: information in your space, and surrounding yourself to the best
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: of your ability with the best thing that you can.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I also heard one thing. Oh gosh, I forget
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: which instructor has said it before, but they're saying, you
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: know what if we post something and we lose followers
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: and and you know, these people no longer want to
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: take our classes, they no longer you know, relate to us,
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: or you know, they're mad at us for some reason.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: And they said, well, you know, what Those people were
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  Speaker 1: never on your side, They were never part of your community,
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  Speaker 1: if that's the case, like they're you know, And I
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: was like, that's so true. They were they were never
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: meant to be there, and they were never meant to
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: be in your comments section writing that mean thing about you,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: you know. So I'm like, you're right, you're you're You're
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: people who want to who are on your side, who
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: are rooting for you, are going to be there for you.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: So why even let you know the ones who somehow
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: get in and that affect your entire day?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, totally totally.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: Again a year back in New York area, how does
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: it feel now compared to how it felt when you
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: had all that anxiety about taking the job in the
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: first place.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, so much better because when I so, I
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: had to go from Florida to New York to audition,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: and I had to quarantine for two weeks, and so
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: I was quarantining literally like by Harold Square, and I
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: went into I've never had like, I started feeling homesick,
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: I literally because they were just Harold Square was I
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: felt unsafe. I've never seen it the way it was.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: And this was in August of twenty twenty, and I
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: was terrified and I had to stay in that hotel
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: room for two weeks, and I remember calling my parents
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: and crying and being like what did I do? Like
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I could. I don't know if
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: I could live back here. This is this is not
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: the New York that I know. And you know, my
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: parents are so like, you know, they like love me,
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: they loved me living by them, but also they like
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: know that they always pushed us to go after our
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: dreams and you know all of that. So my dad
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: was like, just come home, just come home, it's fine,
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: and I was like I was like, Dad, what, and
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: like that's not even an option, Like I'm going to stay,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: but like this is so hard. I don't know if
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: like this is the New York that I know. And
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: so I ended up staying. Chris actually came and surprised
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: me and stayed with me for a few days just
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: to call my nerves a little bit, and I auditioned it.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: I'm so happy that I stayed and had my my audition,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: And then yeah, where were you.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: When you found out that you were part of everything?
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: I was in Florida in my house and it was
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: you know I had. I had a feeling it was
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: such a long You know, everyone's process is all different
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: lengths of time based on what they need at the moment,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: so mine was super super long. And so I remember
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: when I would be waiting, I would check my email
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: every single day, check my phone every second, like I
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: was just paralyzed. I couldn't do anything else. But yet again,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: I was so happy with where I was at that
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: I was like, you know what. I also think that's
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: what made me honestly get through the process because guy
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: kind of had like a care free like I'm also
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: so happy with what I'm doing now. So if I
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: don't get it, it's okay. But I think just not
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: knowing living in a state of am I going to
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: stay here? Like I would decorate an entire room and
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: then be like what am I doing? I may move
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: like what's happening? So Chris always tells this story how
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: he would see me. I would to get my mind
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: off things. I would listen to Gabrielle Bernstain the Universe
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: has your back in my ears, and I would have
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: these like hand weights and like I would literally have
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: the armband on, you know, with my phone hooked in
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: and I would be walking. He said. One day he
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: looked outside and there's this lady with a high blonde ponytail,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: and I'm literally like with my arms swinging back and
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: forth like fast walking. Chris looks out the window, he said,
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: what is she doing it to do a double take,
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: and he's like, yeah, remember when you go on those walks.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my gosh, you're right. I would just
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: go on these walks just to clear my head and
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: truly just know that. You know, the gabriel Bernstein books,
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: they really held it was like the universe does in
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: my back, whatever happens, it's like, you know, meant to
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: be truly.
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think we can all relate to having
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: these moments where we're like constantly checking our inbox, We're
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: constantly waiting for the thing. But to go back to
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: what you reiterated was your perspective, you were like, yes,
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: I really want this, but also I have so much
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: good in my life. So it's that idea that you know,
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: just like Gabrielle says, like the universe has your back,
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: So what is meant to happen will happen. Easier said
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: than done. Sometimes to accept that mentality. But when you do,
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: it just makes things.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: A little later, you know, Yes.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Like sometimes we just stress out about things a little
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: too much. I think that's like also my my saying
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: that I say in classes, b yo, bring your own
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: energy because we always have things happen to us. And
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: I did hear someone. I forget where I heard it,
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: but I heard we all have things happen to us.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: But it's what we do with those things that happen
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: to us our next step. Are we going to decide
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: to let that ruin our entire day or are we
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: just gonna go at the flow, let it affect us
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, have it on our mind,
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: but not completely change you know, our energy, and you
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: know you always have. You have two paths. You can
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: go down the path where you're just sad and negative,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: or you can choose to see the bright side of
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: things and know that either way you're going to get
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: through it because we always do. We always do, and
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: it sucks in the moment, and then you always look
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: back and you're like, Okay, I did that, Okay.
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: Perfect, I did that, And that prepares you for and
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: informs what you do going forward.
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: You can take those experiences and use them to your benefit.
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: But you have to make that choice that that's exactly
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: how you're going to utilize the experience. When some times
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: your Instagram page again they see someone with over two
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: hundred thousand followers their fitness BFF. When you look in
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: the mirror, what is it that you seeing looking back
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: at you?
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: Keli M, I.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: See someone who is goofy, which I haven't. You know,
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: when I was younger, people used to say I was weird,
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: and then I lost that bit of me that made
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: me weird, and I try to conform and try to
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: be like everyone else. And so now when I look
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: at myself in the mirror, I'm I see myself as
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: I am. I'm this tall, like you know, I used
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: you know, I used to not wear heels because I
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: was so tall. Like how that's so not okay? Oh,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: Like I used to make myself smaller. You know. I
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: used to hide in the back in dance class, and
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: my dance teachers would say, what are you doing? You
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: need to get in the front, and I wouldn't get
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: in the front because I was so afraid of my
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: other friends in class, thinking that I had like an
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: ego standing front and center, like what like that's and
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: I'm like, these people know you, Kelly, Like why would
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: you ever why would you ever think that these people
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: would you?
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: Know?
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: So I'm so happy that I now look in the
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: mirror and I don't care what anyone else thinks. I
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: know who I am and I love who I am.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: And for a long time I didn't love who I was.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: I wanted to change what I looked like. I wanted
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: to be someone I wasn't. I wanted to conform to
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: I saw other people's success and thought that was gonna
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: be my way of success. And I think now looking
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: at myself in the mirror, I'm like, Okay, I see
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: this confident gal who loves Trader Joe's who it knows
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: that there's definitely gonna be some hurdles in life and
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: we're gonna get through them.
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: And yeah, yeah, and yeah, I love it.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: I'm like just so happy that we were able to
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: make this happen. My final question for you, right now,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: my friend, you have an opportunity to offer yourself a
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: piece of advice. Let's go back to your dance era,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: looking back at the girl who feels all sorts of
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: unsure in her body and lacking a little bit of
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: that self confidence. You have an opportunity to offer her
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: one piece of advice back at that hurdle moment right now,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: What do you tell her?
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: You have so much to offer, that is what makes
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: you you so stand in that there is no other you.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: So stand in that space, take up that space and
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: own that space, because there's never going to be another, Cali,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: and so be CALLI.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: Beigger Bigger.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: I love it, Cally. I'm so happy that we were
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: able to make this happen. How do the hurdlers follow
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: along with you? If they don't just yet, how do
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: they keep up with you? Give us your details?
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: Ooh, let's see. You can follow me on Instagram at
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: Calie galliksin c A l l I E g U
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: l l I c K s O N same thing
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: on TikTok. Let's see. I have a YouTube. I think
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: you can just search my name. I'm new to it.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know who knows, but yeah, that's about it.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: And of course take classes on the Palatine there.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, on platon, I teach strength classes, cardio classes and
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: bike boot camp. Baby, we love it.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: I'm over at Emily A Body and at Hurdle Podcast,
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  Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time.