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Turning the Page with Jess Sims, Peloton Instructor · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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Speaker 1: When you have your next hurdle, remind yourself that you've
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Speaker 1: trained for this, this is what you're built for, this
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Speaker 1: is what you're here for, and never forget that in
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Speaker 1: order to build yourself up, you have to break down first,
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Speaker 1: So don't be afraid of that breakdown.
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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, Emily Evadi here bringing you another installment of
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Speaker 2: Turning the Page, a special five episode series from Hurdle,
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Speaker 2: a wellness focused podcast where I sit down with inspiring
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Speaker 2: individuals to talk about everything from their big wins to
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Speaker 2: To inspire you to be your best self, move with intention,
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Speaker 3: Here's the deal.
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Speaker 2: I know, like I said yesterday in the episode with
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Speaker 2: Coach Bennett, that twenty twenty has had its fair share
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Speaker 2: of hardships. Some may even refer to it as a
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Speaker 2: dumpster fire. I get it, It's been a lot, but
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Speaker 2: we can do hard things and together we can get
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Speaker 2: through it all. And that's why I am reconnecting with
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Speaker 2: some of my favorite guests to date.
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Speaker 2: Some unbelievable humans to give you the inspiration you need
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Speaker 2: to keep on keeping on and start twenty twenty one
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Speaker 2: with a fresh perspective. Today, I am connecting with none
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Speaker 2: other then Jess Sims. She is a Peloton instructor, a
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Speaker 2: dear friend of mine, and this conversation and just Jess
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Speaker 2: period makes me so happy. We actually caught up irl
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Speaker 2: this past weekend over some delicious holiday themed drinks shout
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Speaker 2: out to the Garrett And you know, you know when
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Speaker 2: you just walk away from a conversation and you feel
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Speaker 2: happy and whole and good like, that is how Jess
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Speaker 2: makes me feel. I'm so grateful to have her in
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Speaker 2: my life, and there's just nothing better. I'm also one
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Speaker 2: of those people that really loves seeing my friends do
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Speaker 2: good and succeed, and I get no greater joy than
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Speaker 2: hyping them up and cheering them on and just just
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Speaker 2: makes me feel excited because I just see her and
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Speaker 2: the good that she's doing and it's just it's great.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, today's episode me and Jess getting after. We're
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Speaker 2: getting honest about what twenty twenty has been like for
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Speaker 2: her and the strang that she's gained from the Peloton
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Speaker 2: members and the community during an insane, insane time. She
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Speaker 2: also talks to me about the first thing that she's
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Speaker 2: gonna do when life feels a little bit more normal,
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Speaker 2: what she's looking forward to in the new year, the
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Speaker 2: product that helped her get through twenty twenty, and her
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Speaker 2: best advice as we navigate life's hurdles today, tomorrow, the
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Speaker 3: Today.
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Speaker 2: I am sitting down with Jess Simms. She is a
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Speaker 2: peloton instructor, an extraordinary human.
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Speaker 3: Jess, how you doing?
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Speaker 1: Always better when I get to talk to you.
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Speaker 2: Emily, Oh, I gush I watched I just this makes
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Speaker 2: my day.
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Speaker 3: I've been looking forward to this conversation all day.
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Speaker 2: Here on Hurdle, I am catching up with some of
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Speaker 2: my all time favorite guests from the last couple of years.
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Speaker 2: A way to round out the year, and so naturally
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Speaker 2: one of the most listened to episodes of Hurdle in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty.
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Speaker 1: Fun Fast really, yes, stop it, You're a star, Jess.
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Speaker 2: You're making me blush things that you can't see on
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Speaker 2: the podcast. So I'm bringing Jess Sims into the mix. Jess,
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Speaker 2: how our loaded question to start us off? How are
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Speaker 2: you doing?
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Speaker 1: I love me a loaded question right now. I'm doing well.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for asking. It is my day off, and yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm like getting to all the adult things that I
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Speaker 1: like to push aside on my busy workdays and just enjoying.
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Speaker 1: It's snowing actually for the first time in New York
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Speaker 1: City today.
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Speaker 2: See technically speaking, it's been snowing for a few hours,
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Speaker 2: so I will take the like send with like for
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Speaker 2: the first time, with a grain of salt. I've definitely
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Speaker 2: seen snow this year, but this is like a day
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Speaker 2: of snow. Yes, I mean, nobody teaching and inspiring.
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Speaker 1: Oh you're so sweet, I mean, okay, fine, but yes,
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Speaker 1: fair Like I looked out the window and all I
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Speaker 1: see is just white, So it's a it's officially a
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Speaker 1: good snow day.
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Speaker 3: I'm into it. I'm into it.
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Speaker 2: So I mean we're talking about snow now, but what
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Speaker 2: we've been talking about for the last year is the
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Speaker 2: fact that this year is unlike any other.
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Speaker 3: So give the hurdlers the details.
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Speaker 2: Catch me up a little bit, talk to me about
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Speaker 2: how your twenty twenty has been.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, twenty twenty, what a year it has been.
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Speaker 1: It blows my mind that it's December. Let me start
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Speaker 1: off by saying that I feel like the last before
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Speaker 1: before twenty twenty BT, I'm going I'm going to coin
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Speaker 1: that officially right here. The last like memory I have
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Speaker 1: before pre pandemic was Black History Month at Peloton, and
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Speaker 1: so it's wild because now we're revving up for Black
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Speaker 1: History Month twenty twenty one, and so I'm like, wait
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Speaker 1: a minute, Like, I just feel like it's been a
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Speaker 1: time travel. But it's been a year full of a
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Speaker 1: lot of stuff, a lot of alone time, a lot
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Speaker 1: of reflection, a lot of community, a lot of realization
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Speaker 1: that I'm really excited to dive into with you today.
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Speaker 1: And I wouldn't have traded, of course, this year has
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Speaker 1: been brutal for so many reasons, for so many people.
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Speaker 1: But I wouldn't trade this year because it's done so
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Speaker 1: much for me personally, it's.
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Speaker 2: Also got to be really interesting. I mean, especially with
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Speaker 2: what you do. So many people around the country, around
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Speaker 2: the world are looking toward Peloton this year for inspiration
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Speaker 2: and motivation and like sanity, and you are the person
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Speaker 2: that is providing that sanity to so many people. So
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Speaker 2: I would imagine that although what a beautiful opportunity to
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Speaker 2: connect with these people, like pressure is on. At least
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Speaker 2: that's how I would see it from my point point
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Speaker 2: of view, Like I would imagine that for you, maybe
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Speaker 2: more than ever, being really honest about what you need
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Speaker 2: and where you're at is so important to show up
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Speaker 2: for your community.
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Speaker 1: Totally, and I think that that's one of the things
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Speaker 1: that I pride myself on, is always being very real.
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Speaker 1: So I even was just talking a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 1: You might have heard it in class. By the way,
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Speaker 1: I thank you for taking classes that I love the
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Speaker 1: phrase amplify the positive, because it's not You don't want
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Speaker 1: to be overly optimistic to the point where you're annoying
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Speaker 1: and to the point where you're like, okay, but you're
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Speaker 1: undermining the pain and the suffering that so many people
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Speaker 1: are going through. But you can always find the positive
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Speaker 1: and by using the word amplify, it's acknowledging that life,
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Speaker 1: you know, is not all roses, but there are some
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Speaker 1: beautiful things and let's choose to put those up higher
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Speaker 1: and focus on those. And for me personally, it's the secret.
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Speaker 1: As you were just saying this whole thing, secret thing
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Speaker 1: that I would thinking about in my head was yes, Wow,
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Speaker 1: I am doing so much for other people. You know,
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Speaker 1: we're almost at four million members worldwide with at Peloton,
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Speaker 1: and I don't take that role lightly whatsoever. But the
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Speaker 1: secret is that y'all have done more for me than
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Speaker 1: you could ever imagine. Because there was a point in
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Speaker 1: time where I was not working out unless I was teaching,
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Speaker 1: I couldn't get myself to be motivated enough to get
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Speaker 1: up and teach. And because I didn't want to do
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Speaker 1: it for myself, I was like, oh, it's easy to
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Speaker 1: just you know, hang in today. It's easy today to
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Speaker 1: just you know, forget about those goals and forget about
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Speaker 1: the things I said I wanted to do. But because
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Speaker 1: it's my job, because I need to show up, I
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Speaker 1: find my strength in the stories of our members. And
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Speaker 1: so when you get a DM or a comment or
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Speaker 1: you're tagged in a post of someone saying, Jess, you're
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Speaker 1: the only bright spot. Peloton is the only bright spot
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Speaker 1: in my twenty twenty. I'm a central worker, my mom
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Speaker 1: is sick, I'm a single parent, I have three kids
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Speaker 1: under three. Like there's the stories never seems to amaze me.
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Speaker 1: And on my tough as dark as day, I'm like,
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Speaker 1: these people need me, and I'm able to like transcend
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Speaker 1: myself and realize that it's bigger than me, and I'm
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Speaker 1: able to get up there and perform. And it helps me,
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Speaker 1: I hope, just as much as it helps others.
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Speaker 3: Oh for sure. For sure.
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Speaker 2: And I mean when we talk about like twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: as a whole and the lessons that you've learned, I mean,
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Speaker 2: showing up has to be a big one, Like to
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Speaker 2: keep showing up when stuff isn't going to plan, when
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Speaker 2: stuff feels hard, when you don't wanna yes.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and something. A big lesson that I learned this
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Speaker 1: year is that I've been saying this for a minute now,
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Speaker 1: but it has a whole new you know, idea behind it.
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Speaker 1: Now with this year is that life is happening for me,
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Speaker 1: it's not happening to me. And it goes with that
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Speaker 1: saying that, you know, the saying drives everyone nuts. Right
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Speaker 1: When someone says to you, oh, and something happens to you,
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Speaker 1: and someone says, oh, Emily, everything happens for a reason,
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Speaker 1: You're like, please do not speak to me. You are
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Speaker 1: in time out, Like that's what you want your original
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Speaker 1: thing to say. But I was talking to one of
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Speaker 1: my girlfriends a couple of weeks ago, maybe even a
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Speaker 1: month now, and she said that she heard the phrase
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Speaker 1: reframed as everything happens for an opportunity. And I loved
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Speaker 1: that because you can always, no matter how tough the
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Speaker 1: situation is, you can find some sort of opportunity for something.
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Speaker 1: Whether it's an opportunity for you to step up, it's
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Speaker 1: an opportunity for you to sit down, it's an opportunity
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Speaker 1: for you to be grateful, it's an opportunity for you
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Speaker 1: to accept something you know, like, there's an opportunity for
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Speaker 1: all of that. And I think that that has been
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Speaker 1: reaffirmed this year so much for me personally.
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Speaker 2: When we think about the opportunities then that have come
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Speaker 2: your way this year, what have you maybe been able
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Speaker 2: to make more space for because of the circumstance that
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Speaker 2: you wouldn't have been able to find space for before.
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Speaker 1: Oh that is a good question. I think this old
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Speaker 1: me wouldn't have said something like this because I would
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Speaker 1: have said, oh, that's selfish or something. But I found
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Speaker 1: space for myself, for me because I am so my
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Speaker 1: first thought was, oh, well, we have so many new
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Speaker 1: members at Peloton and I've given space. But I would
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Speaker 1: have done that regardless. But because of this time, I
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Speaker 1: have been able to give myself, you know, the space
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Speaker 1: to really listen to what my mind and my body needs.
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Speaker 1: Like I meditate every morning. Now I have a morning ritual,
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Speaker 1: which I didn't have before this because my schedule looks
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Speaker 1: so different on any given day and I didn't prioritize it.
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Speaker 1: And so I've been able to take a step back
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Speaker 1: to really think bigger picture for myself. And that's been
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Speaker 1: such a blessing.
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Speaker 3: I love that.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so one of our lessons here, make time for myself,
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Speaker 2: see things as an opportunity.
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Speaker 3: What's another lesson that you have learned this year?
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Speaker 1: So something that I have learned is that there is
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Speaker 1: no such thing as failure. I think that I've always
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Speaker 1: I've loved the phrase failure is just feedback and I
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Speaker 1: believe in that too, but I must have been in
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Speaker 1: a podcast or something or a book I read in
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Speaker 1: the past few months. But failure is relative, and so
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Speaker 1: we live our lives and moving forward, but we only
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Speaker 1: understand our lives when we look back. And so with that,
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Speaker 1: failure is not anything but a redirection. So right now,
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Speaker 1: if something happened to me something you know, I wanted
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Speaker 1: this gig that I really wanted, and that I didn't
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Speaker 1: get it, well, guess what, Yes, I would consider that
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Speaker 1: right now to be a failure. Five years from now,
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Speaker 1: who knows, maybe something a competing company you know, wanted
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Speaker 1: to work with me, and I wouldn't have been able
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Speaker 1: to do that if I had done. You know, just
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Speaker 1: all these little things that you take for granted because
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Speaker 1: in the moment you're sucking it, you're living life, moving forward,
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Speaker 1: and you're like, damn, I really wanted that. But then
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Speaker 1: later down, down, later on down the line, you're like, actually,
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Speaker 1: that wasn't a failure at all. That was just a
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Speaker 1: redirection that helped put me where I should be.
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Speaker 2: For the person who gets rejected or doesn't get the
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Speaker 2: thing that it is that they wanted, whether that has
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Speaker 2: anything to do with work, or in their personal life
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Speaker 2: or what have you. And they are in this circumstance
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Speaker 2: and feeling just really stuck and unmotivated and unsure. What
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Speaker 2: advice do you offer them in that hurdle moment?
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Speaker 1: Great question, I would say, dig into your arsenal of whys.
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Speaker 1: I often hear a lot of trainers and non trainers,
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Speaker 1: just to anyone in any field, talk about how important
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Speaker 1: your why is. But I would actually argue how important
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Speaker 1: your whys are. I think that something that crushes us
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Speaker 1: is that sometimes we put all of our whys in
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Speaker 1: one basket, or or our basket is just one why.
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Speaker 1: But if your basket is full of whys, you're able
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Speaker 1: to say, okay, let's talk about you know, because fitness
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Speaker 1: stay on brand.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: If your only reason why you work out is because
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Speaker 1: it makes you feel good, well guess what you might
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Speaker 1: make up one morning and be like, I don't feel
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Speaker 1: like feeling good today, I'm actually good with not feeling
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Speaker 1: good today. Then you're not going to work out. But
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Speaker 1: if you have otherwise, of I want to set a
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Speaker 1: good example for my kids. I know that I'm nicer
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Speaker 1: to other people when I work out. I you know,
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Speaker 1: like I'm training for a marathon. I'm training for some
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Speaker 1: sort of You can go into that basket of wise
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Speaker 1: and choose the one that is going to get you
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Speaker 1: into that discipline headspace to do what you wanted to do.
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Speaker 1: So to that person that has that quote unquote failure
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Speaker 1: or who doesn't get what they wanted, I would ask
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Speaker 1: why do you want it? And do you really want it?
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Speaker 1: Because sometimes we get caught up in oh, I want this,
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Speaker 1: but then we can't say why. If you don't have
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Speaker 1: an arsenal of whys for what you're going after, then
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Speaker 1: maybe you don't actually want that thing. And that's okay.
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Speaker 2: If you had to pick one product that helped you
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Speaker 2: live a healthy and happier life in twenty twenty, what
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Speaker 2: is that product?
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Speaker 1: I can't say. Dogs. Dogs aren't a product. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I mean like dog, not really, you've had grace.
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Speaker 1: One of my other life lessons though, is we don't
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Speaker 1: deserve dogs. Dogs are like the best thing ever. I've
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Speaker 1: always appreciated Siana Grace, but she has single handedly helped
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Speaker 1: me get through this pandemic in a much better positive way.
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Speaker 1: I'm so jealous, and just listen, you gotta get yourself
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Speaker 1: a Siana grace sasty but worth it. This is gonna
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Speaker 1: sound so cliche, but I'm really sorry. I'm not sorry.
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Speaker 1: The number one product that has literally transformed everything mind, body,
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Speaker 1: heart work, ethic is Peloton.
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Speaker 3: Can I tell you?
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Speaker 2: And I'm actually I mean, I'm not surprised that you
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Speaker 2: said this, but I asked this question recently on social
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Speaker 2: media and I was blown away at how how many
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Speaker 2: other people also said Peloton.
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Speaker 3: Like, if I got.
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Speaker 2: Maybe two hundred and fifty responses, which is like a
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Speaker 2: decent chunk of responses, I would say like a third
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Speaker 2: at least of those people, out of all of the
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Speaker 2: things they could have said or thrown into the mix,
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Speaker 2: said Peloton.
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Speaker 1: Well, Emily, like, think about this. We are a global company,
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Speaker 1: and for the first time, at least in our lives,
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Speaker 1: but in most people, I mean pretty much almost everyone's lives.
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Speaker 1: We are all going through the same thing together at
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Speaker 1: the same time. Of course, it looks different for every person,
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Speaker 1: and depending on where you are, there's lots of different intricacies,
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Speaker 1: but globally, we are all going through this pandemic, and
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Speaker 1: there's something to be said. When you are isolated, you
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Speaker 1: feel physically alone, but then you hop into a class,
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Speaker 1: and there are Robin had her turkey burn. This year
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Speaker 1: had fifty thousand plus people live emily sharing this experience
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Speaker 1: live I thought the first ever live fit family class
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Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving morning and Alex Dussant jumped in. There were
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Speaker 1: over three thousand families, not people, families that were connecting
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Speaker 1: with each other, whether together in their own household. But
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Speaker 1: do you know how many dms I got of people
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Speaker 1: saying that they did that class together on FaceTime or
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Speaker 1: they did that class with their aunt across the country
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Speaker 1: in a different country on zoom so peloton. Like I said,
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Speaker 1: it gives you that great sweat. Obviously, you're always going
19:29
Speaker 1: to get a great sweat and that always boosts your mood.
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Speaker 1: But you're doing it with the community of people, and
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Speaker 1: you're doing it with people all over the world. So
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Speaker 1: in a time where you feel so lonely and so
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Speaker 1: unmotivated and so so many different adjectives I could throw
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Speaker 1: in there, you are not alone and during this period,
19:48
Speaker 1: that is the most comforting feeling.
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Speaker 2: To have all one hundred percent and I can totally,
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Speaker 2: totally really, I mean, it was funny the other day
19:57
Speaker 2: when I went to go when I went and I'm
19:59
Speaker 2: you air.
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Speaker 3: Quotes, which doesn't help on a podcast.
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Speaker 2: But when I went to go take Robin Spin class,
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Speaker 2: like at five o'clock on a Friday, and I also
20:08
Speaker 2: took your boot Camp class at ten am on a Saturday.
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Speaker 2: And this is the first time in so long that
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Speaker 2: I've said like, oh, well, I'm taking a class at
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Speaker 2: five where I'm taking a class at ten And multiple
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Speaker 2: friends that I was chatting with they were like, wait,
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Speaker 2: where are you going to take a class?
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Speaker 3: I was like, no, it's just me. I have to
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Speaker 3: show up at this time. Wow.
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Speaker 1: Well no. But that's the thing about live classes is
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Speaker 1: it kind of likes that fire under You're like, okay, wait,
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Speaker 1: I want this live experience. I want to see you know, Tunday,
20:37
Speaker 1: I want to see Ali. I want to see Emma,
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Speaker 1: like live in action, and because you feel it gives
20:41
Speaker 1: you that heightened sense of being together. And the other
20:44
Speaker 1: thing is this is something that blew my mind. And
20:46
Speaker 1: I actually texted her the other day. Can I tell
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Speaker 1: you one of the closet experiences I've had with Peloton
20:51
Speaker 1: is that I went I do sleep meditations pretty much
20:55
Speaker 1: every night, and I put on a DT's newest I
20:58
Speaker 1: think it was a twenty minute sleep meditation. I was
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Speaker 1: feeling anxious. I was having one of those moments that
21:05
Speaker 1: we all have, but I was like, let me just
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Speaker 1: do this meditation and put myself to sleep. At ten
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Speaker 1: pm on a random let's call it Wednesday night, over
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Speaker 1: a thousand people meditating together to go to sleep, and
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Speaker 1: that feeling was sure. Like I said, I've taken so
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Speaker 1: many live classes, even not live you know, the thousands
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Speaker 1: of people. But to hear these wonderful words by such
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Speaker 1: a calming, beautiful force like a DT, and knowing that
21:33
Speaker 1: other people are probably having those similar anxieties that I
21:36
Speaker 1: was having before going to sleep, it was such a
21:39
Speaker 1: beautiful way to end the day.
21:42
Speaker 2: What excites you about twenty twenty one Hugs?
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna hug everyone. You get a hug, and you
21:52
Speaker 1: get a hug, and you get a hug, everyone gets
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Speaker 1: a girl. I'm hugging everyone like everyone's getting.
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Speaker 3: It, like everybody's getting it.
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Speaker 1: So that is the main thing that I'm looking forward to.
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Speaker 1: Other things I'm looking forward to, for sure, traveling I
22:07
Speaker 1: would love to. I have so many places now that
22:10
Speaker 1: I would love to go see and spend time. And
22:13
Speaker 1: then surprisingly I'm going to say that I'm really looking
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Speaker 1: forward to not forgetting this year. I really want to
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Speaker 1: remember the strength that I have gained this year through
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Speaker 1: the experiences that I've had this year, and I don't
22:25
Speaker 1: want to take them for granted. I don't want to
22:27
Speaker 1: forget this year.
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Speaker 3: Beautiful perspective.
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Speaker 2: Right now, Jess, in this very moment, you, as you
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Speaker 2: are right now, have an opportunity to offer the Justs
22:38
Speaker 2: who is feeling probably a little bit scared back in
22:42
Speaker 2: March at the beginning of all of this, a piece
22:47
Speaker 2: of advice.
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Speaker 3: What do you tell her looking back on that right now?
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Speaker 1: Two things. The quick answer, cook more. I wish that
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Speaker 1: I cook sometimes to be like Jess, this is your
23:02
Speaker 1: time to chef it up, because I definitely cooked, but
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Speaker 1: not as much as I would have liked. The longer answer,
23:08
Speaker 1: what I would tell Jess at the beginning of the
23:12
Speaker 1: year is find joy in the ordinary. I feel like
23:18
Speaker 1: my whole life I have thrived in the highs and
23:22
Speaker 1: the lows. I love those polarizing Okay, this is such
23:27
Speaker 1: a great day, this is such a bad day. This
23:28
Speaker 1: is and I would throw those labels good day, bad day.
23:31
Speaker 1: And if I didn't have a good day, bad day,
23:33
Speaker 1: I would be like, eh, someone say how's your day,
23:35
Speaker 1: and I'm like eh, and it's like, why is it? Eh?
23:38
Speaker 1: And it's just when I think about it, I'm like, actually,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't. It's just that nothing high or low, no
23:43
Speaker 1: peaks and valleys. But guess what, the flatland is beautiful.
23:46
Speaker 1: There's a lot of beauty in the flatland, because not
23:50
Speaker 1: every day needs to have the zigzags. And so that's
23:54
Speaker 1: what I would tell myself because that was something that
23:57
Speaker 1: I have never experienced, especially as an adult. Is that
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Speaker 1: flat land and there's nothing wrong with There's actually so
24:04
Speaker 1: much goodness in it.
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Speaker 2: Any vibe you're ride in through twenty twenty one, anything
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Speaker 2: you like yourself are like, this is my mindset? Aside
24:13
Speaker 2: from I'm gonna hug everyone, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, outside of that, that's a good question. I would
24:20
Speaker 1: say that.
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Speaker 3: You know what mine is?
24:23
Speaker 2: Oh yes, all right, let me let me let me
24:25
Speaker 2: tell you where I'm at my twenty twenty one vibe.
24:27
Speaker 2: Aside from equally feeling the same way about hugs, is
24:32
Speaker 2: work smarter, not harder? All of twenty twenty and I
24:38
Speaker 2: think large in part because of the circumstance.
24:41
Speaker 3: But let's not play the victim.
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Speaker 2: Here, I was just working my butt off to spin
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Speaker 2: my wheels over and over and over to not get
24:49
Speaker 2: nearly as far as I felt like I used to
24:51
Speaker 2: be able to get. And so I did get to
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Speaker 2: a place where I could do that without judgment. But
24:57
Speaker 2: now I'm reflecting upon twenty two twenty as a whole
25:00
Speaker 2: and asking myself, now that this is where I am,
25:04
Speaker 2: how can I use what I have learned to work
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Speaker 2: smarter and not harder and not keep spinning my wheels
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Speaker 2: going forward?
25:12
Speaker 1: I love that. Good for you.
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Speaker 3: Thanks, Wait, I.
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Speaker 1: Really love well. I mean but that I think that
25:18
Speaker 1: speaks to even what I just mentioned, because it's so
25:21
Speaker 1: good to it used to feel so good to just
25:23
Speaker 1: be busy, like it felt natural. That was my baseline.
25:26
Speaker 1: My baseline was busy. And now it's not cool to
25:28
Speaker 1: be busy, you know, like it's not I love that vibe. Okay, Wow,
25:33
Speaker 1: why are you busy sitting in your apartment all day? Like?
25:35
Speaker 3: Do the stuff that matters?
25:37
Speaker 2: Work on the stuff that matters, like, don't just be
25:39
Speaker 2: busy to be busy?
25:41
Speaker 3: Yes?
25:42
Speaker 1: And so my vibe, I would say, is because the
25:45
Speaker 1: first word that came to mind when you when you
25:47
Speaker 1: said this is freedom. I think that another thing that
25:51
Speaker 1: I had to let go of this year was timelines.
25:54
Speaker 1: I feel like everything from what you ordered online to
25:58
Speaker 1: what age you wanted to get. I already and have
26:00
Speaker 1: kids that like those timelines. Screw them, forget about them,
26:06
Speaker 1: freedom from them.
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Speaker 2: You know, almost used an expletive here, but I stopped
26:10
Speaker 2: myself to keep this PG for the Peloton families that
26:13
Speaker 2: might be listening.
26:14
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Well it's funny. I haven't cursed either,
26:16
Speaker 1: and I'm very shocked. I'm proud of myself. I'm not
26:18
Speaker 1: cursing yet, so wow. But yeah, I think that that's
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Speaker 1: what that's what my vibe is going to be is
26:24
Speaker 1: is breaking some rules, having some freedom, and being less
26:28
Speaker 1: rigid with timelines.
26:30
Speaker 2: Any wisdom you want to leave the hurdlers with going
26:33
Speaker 2: in to a new year.
26:37
Speaker 1: The thing that I just want you to really really
26:40
Speaker 1: remember going into this new year is that you can
26:42
Speaker 1: do hard things.
26:43
Speaker 3: How do you know?
26:44
Speaker 1: Because you've done them and you've survived all of those
26:46
Speaker 1: hard things, all those hard days. And so when you
26:50
Speaker 1: have your next hurdle, when you have your next struggle,
26:54
Speaker 1: remind yourself that you've trained for this. This is this
26:57
Speaker 1: is what you're built for. This is what you're here for,
26:59
Speaker 1: and never forget that in order to build yourself up,
27:02
Speaker 1: you have to break down first, So don't be afraid
27:04
Speaker 1: of that breakdown killing In.
27:05
Speaker 3: At the end of this, Justins, what a home run.
27:09
Speaker 3: I love you too, Okay, you know it. You know
27:12
Speaker 3: what's coming.
27:13
Speaker 2: The hurdlers want to keep up with you. How do
27:14
Speaker 2: they keep up with you? Give me the details.
27:17
Speaker 1: Take all my classes on Peloton. I got family classes.
27:21
Speaker 1: I have like boot camps, I have walks, runs, stretches, strengths,
27:25
Speaker 1: all of that good stuff. But you can also follow
27:27
Speaker 1: me on Instagram at Jason's Fit and also find me
27:29
Speaker 1: on Facebook Justin's dash Peloton.
27:32
Speaker 3: I've got to ask you.
27:33
Speaker 2: I should have asked you this when you first mentioned
27:35
Speaker 2: but I know the family classes are like a project,
27:39
Speaker 2: a labor of love because of your background in teaching,
27:42
Speaker 2: which you talk about in your episode of Hurdle I
27:46
Speaker 2: think it was episode one twelve, So talk to me
27:48
Speaker 2: about how that's been for you.
27:49
Speaker 3: I'm just so curious.
27:51
Speaker 1: It's been really amazing because it's something that we at
27:55
Speaker 1: Peloton have been wanting to do for so long. But
27:57
Speaker 1: of course, when everyone was stuck at home. At the
27:59
Speaker 1: beginning of the year, it was like a little bit
28:01
Speaker 1: more of a sense of urgency, like, let's put this
28:03
Speaker 1: out there because kids are missing out on social time,
28:05
Speaker 1: they were missing out on pe the education part and
28:08
Speaker 1: the movement part. And so we launched three different classes
28:12
Speaker 1: that I teach fit fun, which is like like modern
28:16
Speaker 1: or easy to moderate class I would say fits Strong,
28:19
Speaker 1: which is all body weight, by the way, is more moderate.
28:24
Speaker 1: And then brain breaks. They're five minutes, a little wiggles.
28:27
Speaker 1: And the thing that has surprised me the most we're
28:30
Speaker 1: actually launching this month the third round of them already,
28:33
Speaker 1: which is pretty wild, is that is the unique ways
28:38
Speaker 1: that families and teachers shout out to the teachers always
28:42
Speaker 1: have been using them with their kids and with their students.
28:46
Speaker 1: That has been such a cool thing to watch. And
28:50
Speaker 1: the best thing for me is when people tag me
28:53
Speaker 1: in photos of their kids and their students saying the
28:56
Speaker 1: little mantrac the end, they say, I am strong, I
28:59
Speaker 1: am confident, and I'm gonna make it a really great day.
29:02
Speaker 1: Just those mantras. I know, I live for it.
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Speaker 3: Wait, maybe I need a brain break?
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Speaker 1: You do let me Can you take the brain break?
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Speaker 1: One hundred percent if you if you want a tough one,
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Speaker 1: take what was the A tough brain break, A tough one.
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Speaker 1: This will this will have you working. Don't sleep on
29:21
Speaker 1: the brain breaks, y'all. Don't sleep on them.
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Speaker 2: Don't sleep on them. Amazing, all right? I am over
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Speaker 2: at Emily A Baddi at Hurdle Podcast. Another hurdle conquered.
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Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time