Latest / Hurdle with Emily Abbate / Episode 19: Nicole Winhoffer, Celebrity Trainer
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Hurdle. Emily a body here.
- 0:05Speaker 1: Big week for the podcast. Hurdle's been featured on runners
- 0:09Speaker 1: World's list of top podcasts to listen to while you
- 0:12Speaker 1: work out, which is kind of crazy because if you've
- 0:15Speaker 1: listened to episode one, and if you haven't, I encourage
- 0:18Speaker 1: you to do so. This podcaster used to barely be
- 0:21Speaker 1: able to run a mile and now I'm currently training
- 0:24Speaker 1: from my seventh marathon New York City November fourth, So yeah, huge.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Thanks to Runners World for the honor. Quick shout out
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- 0:58Speaker 1: Today's guest is no Coal win offer. Nicole's a celebrity
- 1:02Speaker 1: trainer extraordinaire, well known for working with the one and
- 1:06Speaker 1: Only Madonna. She calls herself a global fitness artist and
- 1:11Speaker 1: created her signature NW method classes using her background and dance.
- 1:16Speaker 1: In this episode, went Offer talked about her Hurdle moment,
- 1:19Speaker 1: dancing in Wicked on Broadway and realizing that she truly
- 1:22Speaker 1: wasn't happy in her life or in her body and
- 1:25Speaker 1: needed to make a change. Let me tell you, Nicole
- 1:28Speaker 1: is like a pint size burst of energy. She was
- 1:31Speaker 1: so fun to sit down with when she was in
- 1:33Speaker 1: town for Propel's collapse last month, and when she walked
- 1:36Speaker 1: outside of the studio after recording, we were greeted by
- 1:39Speaker 1: this bus of cute kids. So naturally she decided that
- 1:43Speaker 1: she should immediately start dancing, until every single kid on
- 1:46Speaker 1: the bus watching her dance in middown Manhattan started smiling.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Another exciting thing to share. We have a date for
- 1:53Speaker 1: the next Hurdle Live. It's gonna be October third, back
- 1:56Speaker 1: at the Arlow Hotel. More deeds to come soon, But
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- 2:29Speaker 1: please take a second to do that. And last, but
- 2:32Speaker 1: not least, email me. I've been so blown away lately
- 2:36Speaker 1: by all the stories that come in these listener emails.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Are my why, and I can't stress that enough. A
- 2:41Speaker 1: listener named Kate emailed me at the beginning of the
- 2:44Speaker 1: week saying, and I'll read this one, she says, So
- 2:47Speaker 1: I just wanted to say thanks for all of you
- 2:48Speaker 1: do and put that out there. I listen to your
- 2:50Speaker 1: podcast now when I do my long runs, and even
- 2:53Speaker 1: on the days when my legs don't want to move anymore.
- 2:55Speaker 1: Your interviews keep me going. Please also make more. I'm
- 2:59Speaker 1: about to come and I don't know what I'll listen to. Also,
- 3:02Speaker 1: I told my friend about you, and we're both like
- 3:05Speaker 1: total fangirls. Now, Thanks Kate, You're the best. I promise you.
- 3:09Speaker 1: If you email me, I will email you back. That's
- 3:11Speaker 1: how it works Emily at Hurdle US. And that's it.
- 3:16Speaker 1: Let's get to hurdling team. I'm sitting here today with
- 3:29Speaker 1: the Coole win offer first and foremost. Before we really
- 3:32Speaker 1: get into it, I've got to disclaim this voice is
- 3:36Speaker 1: in rough shape, so hurdlers, thank you for sticking with me.
- 3:40Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Here with the cool win offer. She
- 3:44Speaker 1: is trainer to the stars. She has worked with some
- 3:47Speaker 1: awesome celebrities including Stella McCartney, Jennifer Connelly and probably the
- 3:53Speaker 1: biggest of them all, Madonna. I'm so happy to have
- 3:56Speaker 1: you here today. Thank you for having me.
- 3:58Speaker 2: And I think your voice is a secondest thing I
- 4:00Speaker 2: ever heard in my life.
- 4:02Speaker 1: I hope everyone feels that way. When we were chatting
- 4:05Speaker 1: on the phone before sitting down today, you told me
- 4:09Speaker 1: that one of the goals in your classes is to
- 4:13Speaker 1: help your clients stop thinking, stop the thinking brain, excuse
- 4:17Speaker 1: me from thinking, and move closer to their own physical truth.
- 4:20Speaker 1: And you described a class of yours like and I quote,
- 4:24Speaker 1: an underground late eighties banging nightclub with loud music. Everyone's sweaty,
- 4:30Speaker 1: there's lights, dancing, You're infinite, A cooler modern version of
- 4:35Speaker 1: a Tony Robbins seminar.
- 4:36Speaker 2: I loved that. There go. Why don't you tell me
- 4:38Speaker 2: a little bit about your classes. Absolutely, the classes are
- 4:43Speaker 2: the most effective way to balance your energy, get your
- 4:48Speaker 2: muscles working in a new way. I counteract habitual movement
- 4:52Speaker 2: patterns that we do in everyday life. We're always moving forward, repeating, running, cycling.
- 4:58Speaker 2: It's all repetition of movement and one way. And I
- 5:01Speaker 2: like to challenge the body in new ways, get people
- 5:04Speaker 2: to think outside of what they're used to about breaking
- 5:07Speaker 2: old habits, breaking old habits. I like that.
- 5:10Speaker 1: And I would say from someone who hasn't had the
- 5:13Speaker 1: opportunity to take your class yet, that if you like
- 5:18Speaker 1: dance based classes, you would enjoy your class.
- 5:21Speaker 2: Is that correct? Absolutely? Yeah, all right. I was a
- 5:25Speaker 2: professional dancer growing up, and I think inside every human
- 5:29Speaker 2: body is a little dancer that just wants to come
- 5:32Speaker 2: out and play. And so I totally encourage movement and
- 5:36Speaker 2: freedom of expression.
- 5:38Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about your background and dance.
- 5:40Speaker 1: I know you grew up in the Bronx, Yes, so
- 5:44Speaker 1: talk to me about what that was like.
- 5:46Speaker 2: Well, that was my New York experience. It was my
- 5:49Speaker 2: j Lo experience. You know. I'm proud to say that
- 5:52Speaker 2: I grew up in the Bronx. That's where my dad
- 5:54Speaker 2: was raised. He's of German descent but born in the Bronx,
- 5:59Speaker 2: and my mom came over to America from the Philippines
- 6:02Speaker 2: when she was sixteen. So growing up in the Bronx,
- 6:05Speaker 2: I was exposed to the streets multicultural looking people, although
- 6:10Speaker 2: I always felt confused about what I looked like because
- 6:13Speaker 2: no one really looked like me. You were either one race,
- 6:17Speaker 2: not a mixture of multiple races. So I found dance
- 6:21Speaker 2: to be really soothing for me in allowing me to
- 6:24Speaker 2: express myself freely when there was no right or wrong.
- 6:28Speaker 2: And the Bronx was also the start of commerce in
- 6:33Speaker 2: arts in music. Music was huge back then. My dad
- 6:36Speaker 2: is a big music buff, and I just felt like
- 6:41Speaker 2: it was a really lucky time for me to arrive
- 6:44Speaker 2: and experience life.
- 6:45Speaker 1: So you grew up dancing, yes, and then you told
- 6:49Speaker 1: me that you became a professional dancer, so you went
- 6:53Speaker 1: down and started to get after it on Broadway.
- 6:56Speaker 2: Yes. So I was lucky enough to book a my
- 7:00Speaker 2: first Broadway show at sixteen, my senior year of high school,
- 7:05Speaker 2: and I wanted to be an artist and I wanted
- 7:09Speaker 2: to make lots of money and most importantly prove to
- 7:13Speaker 2: my parents as a rebellious teenager, that I will be
- 7:16Speaker 2: successful not going to college or being a doctor. And
- 7:20Speaker 2: so I kind of gave myself no choice but to
- 7:23Speaker 2: make it happen, and luckily enough, I made it happen.
- 7:26Speaker 2: So I did forty second Street, which is a tap
- 7:28Speaker 2: show that was your first one, yes, okay, And it
- 7:32Speaker 2: was really fun. And also I was like, Wow, I'm
- 7:35Speaker 2: making money and dancing and I get to go out
- 7:38Speaker 2: and drink. But it definitely, you know, was my first
- 7:41Speaker 2: experience in the real world at sixteen.
- 7:44Speaker 1: And I can't even imagine, like I wanted to I
- 7:48Speaker 1: went to college and Connecticut, but I wanted to go
- 7:51Speaker 1: to Boston University, and Boston is so much lesser than
- 7:54Speaker 1: New York. And I think about what that experienced that age,
- 7:58Speaker 1: even at eighteen, how I would have handled living in
- 8:01Speaker 1: a city versus what I ended up doing in Connecticut.
- 8:04Speaker 1: Like I had a hard time adjusting at twenty two
- 8:07Speaker 1: when I moved into New York.
- 8:10Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the adjustment period. I think for me,
- 8:14Speaker 2: I'm being a dancer it kind of teaches you your
- 8:17Speaker 2: feelings and how you feel and in your body. So
- 8:20Speaker 2: I knew that that freedom that I did find was
- 8:23Speaker 2: like really really big. But what I felt the most
- 8:26Speaker 2: scared about was what am I going to do after
- 8:30Speaker 2: that kind of the thinking ahead? Okay, I booked my
- 8:33Speaker 2: first show, now what? And then like the fear can
- 8:36Speaker 2: set in if you're not really trusting where you are
- 8:39Speaker 2: in the moment and knowing that the universe will bring
- 8:42Speaker 2: to you if you're open to it, the possibility of
- 8:46Speaker 2: new experiences that you might not even imagine. So what
- 8:49Speaker 2: happened after forty second Street. I auditioned for Bombay Dreams,
- 8:54Speaker 2: which was an Andrew Lloyd Weber ar Raman Balywood show
- 8:59Speaker 2: on Broadway. And I booked that show. So it was
- 9:02Speaker 2: my first actual Broadway show. So I moved back to
- 9:05Speaker 2: the city and I understudied some of the leads. I
- 9:08Speaker 2: got to learn the Bollywood culture, I got to work
- 9:11Speaker 2: with air Ramon and Andreeloyd Webber pardoned me, and I
- 9:15Speaker 2: tried to go back to college. So a huge thing
- 9:18Speaker 2: in my family was what's your backup plan? What's your
- 9:19Speaker 2: backup plan? So I went to Fordham Lincoln Center also
- 9:22Speaker 2: full time and lived in the dorms at eighteen while
- 9:26Speaker 2: doing a Broadway show with two roommates on it with
- 9:30Speaker 2: a bump bed, and I was like, I was like
- 9:33Speaker 2: the anal, like responsible person and I'd be like, stop
- 9:36Speaker 2: you making too much noise. I can't concentrate. And it
- 9:40Speaker 2: was tough, but it taught me a lot the city
- 9:43Speaker 2: and trying to go back to school.
- 9:45Speaker 1: And it was a great experience. So you did the
- 9:48Speaker 1: Broadway show, Yes, and then what?
- 9:52Speaker 2: And then I did another show, Wicked, and it was
- 9:56Speaker 2: the best experience of my entire life because the choreographer
- 10:01Speaker 2: Wayne Cilento and the Tony winning director Joe Mantello brought
- 10:08Speaker 2: in this whole new world that was kind of like
- 10:10Speaker 2: not Broadway. And I also never really studied acting, and
- 10:14Speaker 2: Joe Mantello is one of the best of the best
- 10:17Speaker 2: of the best in the field. And I would just
- 10:19Speaker 2: go to the principal rehearsals and just hear him talk
- 10:22Speaker 2: and to the actors and how he was actually teaching
- 10:25Speaker 2: us about life and not really just acting. But these
- 10:28Speaker 2: are life experiences.
- 10:30Speaker 1: Don't you feel like that you have those great opportunities
- 10:33Speaker 1: and when you're teaching that it's not just about the workout.
- 10:36Speaker 2: It's so much bigger than that.
- 10:37Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, I feel like, I mean, that's why my
- 10:40Speaker 1: voice is like this. I was teaching spin this morning,
- 10:42Speaker 1: and sometimes you just realize that you're really hitting home
- 10:45Speaker 1: with people and it's like you want to speak with them,
- 10:47Speaker 1: and it's obviously in that moment, maybe not a two
- 10:50Speaker 1: way conversation, but you just know, like you know how
- 10:53Speaker 1: special that time together and what you have the opportunity
- 10:58Speaker 1: to help them do both in your.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Class, Yeah, and out of it.
- 11:02Speaker 1: It's so great. Absolutely, it's so great. Okay, so Wicked,
- 11:06Speaker 1: that's outstanding. It's definitely one of my favorite Broadway shows.
- 11:09Speaker 1: You do Wicked and then dot dot Dot.
- 11:13Speaker 2: And then I was selected to go to Michael Howard Conservatory,
- 11:16Speaker 2: which is allowing actors to study body workshops to help
- 11:23Speaker 2: their skills. So I learned Alexander Technique, feld In Christ
- 11:29Speaker 2: Lucid body chakra work and then I use again the voice.
- 11:33Speaker 2: We're talking about the voice a new way to communicate
- 11:37Speaker 2: because being a dancer, you communicate with your body. So
- 11:41Speaker 2: if I was angry, I would crump it to you.
- 11:43Speaker 2: If I was sad, I would lyrical it to you.
- 11:46Speaker 2: But actors use their voice, So it was a totally
- 11:49Speaker 2: new way to communicate, to express yourself totally.
- 11:53Speaker 1: And I think you were telling me a little bit
- 11:55Speaker 1: before you walked in here about how along this kind
- 11:59Speaker 1: of you started to struggle a little bit with exactly
- 12:04Speaker 1: what the next step was for you. I think in
- 12:07Speaker 1: a lot of professions, but especially as a dancer, you're
- 12:10Speaker 1: really constantly thinking what's next, what's this pathway?
- 12:14Speaker 2: Like, yes, as you tell that story, I'm like, the
- 12:19Speaker 2: anxiety just sets in remembering memory. But yeah, dancer's life
- 12:24Speaker 2: is like you train your body and your discipline because
- 12:28Speaker 2: you love it, because you love the art. And it's
- 12:31Speaker 2: also highly addicting to see how to manipulate your body
- 12:34Speaker 2: through how good your feet can get, your turnout, your presence,
- 12:37Speaker 2: how many piroetes you can do taking class, And it's
- 12:40Speaker 2: a totally big community. It's an underground community of art,
- 12:46Speaker 2: of dancers, of choreographers. But when you start to become
- 12:50Speaker 2: a professional dancer, you start to learn the field and
- 12:54Speaker 2: you start to get acquainted with money and survival and understanding,
- 12:58Speaker 2: oh my god, like I'm actually doing this as a profession,
- 13:01Speaker 2: So you start to think about what's the next thing.
- 13:04Speaker 2: They call it in dance terms, what's the next gig?
- 13:08Speaker 2: Are you working or not working? And so when I
- 13:10Speaker 2: left Wicked and went to this acting school, I had
- 13:14Speaker 2: no job. I was co checking at mister Childs and Tribeca,
- 13:17Speaker 2: I was bartending at Chiprianni's. I was a cater waiter.
- 13:20Speaker 2: I was broke. But I knew that I left Wicked
- 13:24Speaker 2: because I was no longer happy in myself. So I
- 13:27Speaker 2: find that when I'm not happy in myself that the
- 13:30Speaker 2: more actions I take or try a different thing, it
- 13:34Speaker 2: can teach me to figure out what makes me happy.
- 13:38Speaker 1: Right, So essentially this is kind of your hurdle moment
- 13:43Speaker 1: right before you went to this it's a conservatory, you said, correct, Yeah,
- 13:47Speaker 1: right before you went to the conservatory, it's what's going
- 13:50Speaker 1: on from here?
- 13:51Speaker 2: Where am I going next?
- 13:52Speaker 1: If you weren't happy on one of the biggest shows
- 13:55Speaker 1: on Broadway, how are you going to keep going like that?
- 14:00Speaker 2: Yeah, it was definitely a hurdle moment. And in fact
- 14:02Speaker 2: I called my parents to tell them, like, which is scary,
- 14:07Speaker 2: Like I'm not happy and I like gained all this weight,
- 14:10Speaker 2: and my costumes like weren't exactly fitting, and my partner
- 14:15Speaker 2: was like having problems lifting me. But it's because I
- 14:20Speaker 2: wasn't being inspired, Like my creativity wasn't being inspired, and
- 14:24Speaker 2: so I got the support that I had asked for,
- 14:27Speaker 2: and going to the school inspired me. I wasn't making money,
- 14:31Speaker 2: I wasn't on Broadway, I wasn't doing things that were
- 14:34Speaker 2: getting me recognized. But I was like, Wow, I feel
- 14:37Speaker 2: like a kid. I'm exploring. I'm so happy. This is fun,
- 14:40Speaker 2: and I think that is something that people and I
- 14:43Speaker 2: have lost. Sometimes. It's like that creativity what brings you joy?
- 14:47Speaker 1: And so how does one go from this conservatory to
- 14:51Speaker 1: finding joy and then along that way finding celebrity clientele.
- 14:56Speaker 2: Yeah. I think if I were to put it in
- 14:59Speaker 2: terms for your followers on Hurdle, it was I'm doing something,
- 15:03Speaker 2: I'm really good at it. I know what I'm doing,
- 15:07Speaker 2: but something's missing. Okay, what is missing? I have no idea,
- 15:12Speaker 2: And then you start to try doing things differently. So
- 15:16Speaker 2: going to that school was super different. So I learned
- 15:19Speaker 2: things about myself that I never knew, Like I'm actually
- 15:22Speaker 2: really insecure. So like me going up to do a
- 15:24Speaker 2: scene in front of people, I was like, oh my god,
- 15:26Speaker 2: I hope no one sees me. I actually felt scared
- 15:30Speaker 2: because I had no money. So putting myself in these
- 15:33Speaker 2: new life experiences built a stronger self, trust in myself
- 15:37Speaker 2: and put less emphasis on like what I was doing
- 15:40Speaker 2: in the physical world, and more on taking care of myself.
- 15:43Speaker 2: I was reading Eckertol's The Power of Now. He said
- 15:47Speaker 2: in the book, there actually is no problem, just keep
- 15:50Speaker 2: saying yes to the universe and that then I just
- 15:54Speaker 2: found myself becoming a personal trainer.
- 15:57Speaker 1: Right, And I think, actually, I would say some of
- 16:00Speaker 1: the trainers I know in the city here especially, a
- 16:04Speaker 1: lot of them have passed acting and dancing on Broadway
- 16:07Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, definitely translates.
- 16:09Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the performance aspect, and you know, when
- 16:13Speaker 2: you're a teacher and you're in front of the class,
- 16:15Speaker 2: there's definitely you're on stage. And I like to think
- 16:20Speaker 2: of it as a performance as well. And I know
- 16:24Speaker 2: that in the arts you develop a type of self expression,
- 16:28Speaker 2: a confidence, and a knowing in yourself that people actually
- 16:32Speaker 2: look up to. So I definitely see the parallel. Definitely.
- 16:37Speaker 1: Okay, so you become a personal trainer and then what happens.
- 16:42Speaker 2: And then I end up going on tour. I went
- 16:46Speaker 2: on Madonna's Sticking in Sweet tour for two months to
- 16:48Speaker 2: train her dancers.
- 16:50Speaker 1: And how did you even get that gig? I bet
- 16:52Speaker 1: people are like, I would die for that gig.
- 16:54Speaker 2: Oh. I don't know if I could lose a life
- 16:57Speaker 2: over anything in this world to TV eight, to be honest,
- 17:01Speaker 2: but yeah, she was looking for a trainer to train
- 17:05Speaker 2: her dancers, and in the dance community, my name came up.
- 17:09Speaker 2: She had an audition, she chose me, and I ended
- 17:13Speaker 2: up going on tour with her, and then from there
- 17:16Speaker 2: I fell in love with dancing again because I hadn't
- 17:19Speaker 2: danced in a while and I was like, oh my god,
- 17:22Speaker 2: I miss dancing. So then I went back to New
- 17:24Speaker 2: York and then I did the MTV Music Awards with Shakira,
- 17:29Speaker 2: and then I started doing commercial work as a dancer
- 17:31Speaker 2: because broadway dancing is different to commercial work. And then
- 17:35Speaker 2: she asked me to be her trainer full time. So
- 17:37Speaker 2: I ended up working with her full time and it
- 17:40Speaker 2: was one of the most challenging experiences of my life
- 17:44Speaker 2: because I had to relearn or learn a brand new
- 17:48Speaker 2: industry and become the best at it. And then I
- 17:51Speaker 2: started training all of these amazing people like Stella McCartney,
- 17:54Speaker 2: who was like the head fashion designer of the world,
- 17:57Speaker 2: and Spike Jones, who's a great director, and bertual Leone
- 18:00Speaker 2: who's the creative director of Kenzo, and Jennifer Connolly, Rachel
- 18:05Speaker 2: Weiss and all of these amazing artists. I was able
- 18:08Speaker 2: to get to work with them, to be able to
- 18:10Speaker 2: be in charge of their energy, their bodies and learn too.
- 18:14Speaker 1: This makes me wonder, I'm super curious doing that. Did
- 18:17Speaker 1: you ever feel like you had a little bit of
- 18:19Speaker 1: imposter syndrome?
- 18:21Speaker 2: What's that?
- 18:22Speaker 1: So I sat down to breakfast with someone once and
- 18:25Speaker 1: I told him I was about to go on a
- 18:27Speaker 1: Good Morning America and lead a workout segment. I was
- 18:30Speaker 1: the fitness editor itself in the time, and we had
- 18:32Speaker 1: partnered up, and so I said to him, I was like,
- 18:34Speaker 1: I'm a certified trainer. I do this all the time.
- 18:36Speaker 1: But like I'm like, why are these people listening to me?
- 18:39Speaker 1: Like why am I going to be on morning television?
- 18:42Speaker 1: And he said, he looked at me, and he said,
- 18:44Speaker 1: You've got to put the imposter syndrome to the side
- 18:47Speaker 1: and just believe that you're doing this because you're supposed
- 18:50Speaker 1: to be doing it, because you're good at what you do.
- 18:53Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I never heard the imposter syndrome. I didn't
- 18:56Speaker 2: question it. It was just I was having dream after
- 18:59Speaker 2: dream after dream after dream come true, Like I would
- 19:02Speaker 2: like even sitting with you in your studio today and
- 19:05Speaker 2: you're asking me these amazing questions and I'm sharing my
- 19:09Speaker 2: answers with you. I'm having like an out of body
- 19:11Speaker 2: experience talking to you that, oh you like care about
- 19:15Speaker 2: what I have to say. It's not just me.
- 19:17Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's awesome, regardless of whether you know you've
- 19:23Speaker 1: worked with Madonna or if you're just walking down thirty
- 19:26Speaker 1: fourth Street right now. Like, everyone has a story that's
- 19:28Speaker 1: worth telling, and sometimes people feel like the things that
- 19:31Speaker 1: they have taken to accomplish aren't good enough. But the
- 19:35Speaker 1: reality is that this is your reality, and your story
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- 20:50Speaker 1: was reading something in a Forbes article, and you told
- 20:54Speaker 1: Forbes once you said, I went on two of Madonna's
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- 21:04Speaker 1: exact same experience for her no matter where we were.
- 21:07Speaker 1: It was intense as I needed to communicate with people
- 21:10Speaker 1: that didn't speak English and operate in countries that had
- 21:13Speaker 1: different products, within environments that had different temperature extremes. I
- 21:18Speaker 1: had to be well prepared and always always have a
- 21:21Speaker 1: backup plan. Lessons learned, Prepare, be patient, arrive early. Would
- 21:28Speaker 1: you say that those are three of the biggest lessons
- 21:31Speaker 1: you've learned with working with these high brow clients, these
- 21:35Speaker 1: celebrity clients.
- 21:36Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you just gave me the chills because
- 21:39Speaker 2: you're reminding me of those lessons that I often forget.
- 21:44Speaker 2: It's simple, like life is simple, and sometimes in when
- 21:47Speaker 2: I attract abundance, then I forget to be patient to
- 21:51Speaker 2: arrived on time because there's so much going on. But yeah,
- 21:56Speaker 2: those lessons were definitely important, and I was able to
- 22:00Speaker 2: work with all of these great mentors that I learned from,
- 22:03Speaker 2: and I'm currently seeking out new mentors. But they say
- 22:07Speaker 2: when the student is ready, the teacher appears. So I
- 22:12Speaker 2: definitely think that I'm in the right place at the
- 22:15Speaker 2: right time. And I never take anything for granted. I
- 22:20Speaker 2: work hard. I also accept myself more and patience is
- 22:26Speaker 2: something I think is going to be a life lesson
- 22:28Speaker 2: for me because even the slower I go and the
- 22:31Speaker 2: more I relax in my life, the more the universe
- 22:34Speaker 2: is telling me even more patient, even more patient, even
- 22:37Speaker 2: more patient.
- 22:38Speaker 1: I totally know that. It's actually interesting. I was having
- 22:41Speaker 1: a conversation with a few women, including my mentor, the
- 22:46Speaker 1: other day and the question kind of came up. Do
- 22:50Speaker 1: you ever get to a point where you're a mentor
- 22:54Speaker 1: and you feel like you don't have mentors anymore? And
- 22:57Speaker 1: I think when you have been so successful, people are like, well,
- 23:01Speaker 1: who do you look to? And some people would say, like,
- 23:04Speaker 1: I realize that now I'm just meant to be the mentor.
- 23:07Speaker 1: But the thing is is, I don't know if I
- 23:09Speaker 1: exactly agree with that.
- 23:11Speaker 2: I have to yeah. I mean, you're such a great
- 23:13Speaker 2: entrepreneur too, and I think that I have to agree
- 23:15Speaker 2: with you that. I think I have viewed myself in
- 23:20Speaker 2: an in between space of having mentors. I have one
- 23:25Speaker 2: in business and one in psychology, but I'm looking for
- 23:31Speaker 2: a mentor, a female mentor that's actually in the spotlight
- 23:34Speaker 2: because I had Madonna for so long and then now
- 23:38Speaker 2: I'm mentoring others. I have mentoring people under me as well,
- 23:43Speaker 2: So I feel often pulled in different directions. You know,
- 23:46Speaker 2: it's different. How do you find the time?
- 23:48Speaker 1: I think that's a really popular question, actually, people say
- 23:51Speaker 1: how do you find the time to give back? Obviously
- 23:53Speaker 1: you've been given so much at this point, you had
- 23:56Speaker 1: Madonna as a mentor for so long, and I think
- 23:59Speaker 1: people struggle sometimes being in the act of service to others.
- 24:03Speaker 1: So how do you find the time to get back
- 24:05Speaker 1: to the people that look up to you.
- 24:07Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good question. I think by you offering
- 24:11Speaker 2: me this opportunity to speak my story is one way,
- 24:14Speaker 2: So participating with people like you, I think. Secondly, my
- 24:18Speaker 2: job is I make people feel good, so I'm lucky
- 24:22Speaker 2: that I'm attracting financial abundance as well as helping people
- 24:28Speaker 2: in my service to them. And lastly, I think when
- 24:32Speaker 2: you ask me how do I have the time, I've
- 24:34Speaker 2: been consciously intentionally creating time in my calendar and the
- 24:38Speaker 2: first person I give back to is me and I
- 24:41Speaker 2: never used to do that. And the more I schedule
- 24:45Speaker 2: wake up time, drink water time, relaxation time, massage time,
- 24:49Speaker 2: hike time, alone time, less phone time, the more people
- 24:54Speaker 2: come back to me, and the better I can be
- 24:55Speaker 2: to give more. Whereas before, I think in my twenties,
- 24:59Speaker 2: I was like, I have to do this, and I
- 25:00Speaker 2: have to do that, I have to do that, and
- 25:02Speaker 2: it was depleting my energy, not realizing when I'm selfish
- 25:05Speaker 2: with my time, I'm actually being better.
- 25:09Speaker 1: What's interesting, I think is a lot of people they
- 25:12Speaker 1: hear what you just said, and you're like, I'm scheduling
- 25:14Speaker 1: time for these eight activities, which should not be stressful activities,
- 25:19Speaker 1: But I feel like that's almost sometimes the barrier to
- 25:22Speaker 1: entry for some people to take me time is they
- 25:24Speaker 1: feel like it's almost kind of stressful to like figure
- 25:27Speaker 1: out when it's going to happen. So what would you
- 25:29Speaker 1: say to someone who feels like they just can't make
- 25:33Speaker 1: the time to make it all happen.
- 25:36Speaker 2: That they're moving too fast and doing too much. Yeah,
- 25:39Speaker 2: I think that that was a huge lesson that my
- 25:42Speaker 2: mentor taught me was integration of experiences, like the time
- 25:48Speaker 2: like after we have this podcast talk, I'm definitely going
- 25:51Speaker 2: to take twenty five minutes to integrate what I've learned
- 25:54Speaker 2: from you, what I think happened in my experience here
- 25:59Speaker 2: with you, and then like closing that and then going
- 26:02Speaker 2: to meet my next appointment.
- 26:04Speaker 1: I think that a really good tool that I started
- 26:08Speaker 1: using is in the mornings and the things I've scheduled.
- 26:11Speaker 1: One of them is taking about like five to ten
- 26:14Speaker 1: minutes to write three things that made me feel fulfilled
- 26:18Speaker 1: or happy down in a gratitude journal. And since doing that,
- 26:22Speaker 1: I feel like it makes me realize especially on the
- 26:24Speaker 1: days where I have a hard time maybe writing down
- 26:27Speaker 1: those three things?
- 26:28Speaker 2: What could I do differently?
- 26:30Speaker 1: How could I have tweaked something that it would have
- 26:32Speaker 1: put me in a better place, just a little you know,
- 26:35Speaker 1: personal reflection.
- 26:36Speaker 2: I love that it's special. It's really special. I forget
- 26:39Speaker 2: those simple things. Like you said, you have your gratitude journal,
- 26:43Speaker 2: like I feel like a huge lesson for me too,
- 26:46Speaker 2: is I didn't appreciate the things that I had until
- 26:49Speaker 2: they were gone. So I think you just reminded me
- 26:52Speaker 2: to remember to write those things down in the morning,
- 26:55Speaker 2: because you never know. We get so used to the
- 26:56Speaker 2: way our lives are and sometimes feel a lot better
- 26:59Speaker 2: at like those types of rituals. At night. I'm such
- 27:01Speaker 2: an early bird. Yeah, I'm like, well time you wake up?
- 27:04Speaker 1: God, three thirty, Thank god, it's not that extreme by
- 27:09Speaker 1: six every day?
- 27:11Speaker 2: Wow? What about you? Uh more seven thirty? You know,
- 27:15Speaker 2: And some people function better that way.
- 27:16Speaker 1: For me, I also go to bed typically speaking like
- 27:19Speaker 1: the four ten nice so I'm getting eight hours, and
- 27:23Speaker 1: I'll feel it on the days that I don't, I'll uh.
- 27:26Speaker 1: I had been teaching for the past year or a
- 27:29Speaker 1: six am class on Tuesdays. Oh so I'm alarms four
- 27:34Speaker 1: forty five. Subway is five twenty one, so I'm out
- 27:38Speaker 1: the door at five eleven to make that train.
- 27:42Speaker 2: It's been rough.
- 27:42Speaker 1: It's been rough, but it's taught me something right like,
- 27:45Speaker 1: so you take a step back and you think about
- 27:47Speaker 1: what you've learned from the experience that has taught me
- 27:50Speaker 1: diligence beyond and it's taught me that again being in
- 27:54Speaker 1: service of others. There were so many people that would
- 27:57Speaker 1: show up to that class and feel so think that
- 28:00Speaker 1: I was there to help them at that time, and
- 28:02Speaker 1: so you know what you learned something I learned to
- 28:05Speaker 1: be thankful in that being a little drowsy.
- 28:07Speaker 2: Uh have so much energy. I feel like if we
- 28:11Speaker 2: went out together, we would like turn up.
- 28:13Speaker 1: To turn up, turn up the town. I told I
- 28:16Speaker 1: told h Nicole before we started this podcast that I
- 28:18Speaker 1: used to teach dance. But what I didn't tell you
- 28:21Speaker 1: is I used to teach hip hop, which is a
- 28:22Speaker 1: little known about.
- 28:24Speaker 2: Emily.
- 28:25Speaker 1: What is some of the best advice that you have
- 28:27Speaker 1: been given in your career to not save the world
- 28:32Speaker 1: and what do you mean by that?
- 28:34Speaker 2: I had an experience with one of my mentors who
- 28:38Speaker 2: I was actually working with in business. And after that
- 28:44Speaker 2: experience ended, we reconnected three years later and he told
- 28:51Speaker 2: me the thing about you, Nicole is you don't need
- 28:55Speaker 2: to save the world. And I think I took it
- 28:58Speaker 2: as in my ambitious, strong fortitude, willing attitude of I'm
- 29:06Speaker 2: building a business and I have to do this now,
- 29:09Speaker 2: I had to do this yesterday. In my entrepreneurial spirit,
- 29:12Speaker 2: I would not take no for an answer. You will
- 29:15Speaker 2: not bully me man in business finance field. I am
- 29:18Speaker 2: going to do this. It's like it's actually going to
- 29:22Speaker 2: happen and I don't need to will it. So I
- 29:25Speaker 2: think when he told me, Nicole, you don't need to
- 29:27Speaker 2: save the world, it was like trust it's going to happen,
- 29:30Speaker 2: and you can relax and know it's going to happen.
- 29:35Speaker 2: And the more I relaxed and slowed down and breathed,
- 29:39Speaker 2: it made it so much easier. Like my life is
- 29:42Speaker 2: so easy now because things just come to me. So
- 29:45Speaker 2: I think that was the best piece of advice.
- 29:48Speaker 1: It's so funny, be guys, you work your tail off
- 29:52Speaker 1: and you're like, things are so easy now, But it's
- 29:56Speaker 1: easy because you become accustomed to this lifestyle. This grind
- 30:00Speaker 1: wouldn't you say, because maybe before you started working at
- 30:04Speaker 1: this capacity, you were, you know, on the other side
- 30:07Speaker 1: of your comfort zone. But once you pushed your comfort zone,
- 30:11Speaker 1: well you just pushed it forward a little bit, more
- 30:13Speaker 1: like you pushed it to the right. So it's like,
- 30:15Speaker 1: all right, I just got comfortable with this level. So
- 30:18Speaker 1: I've dial I've turned the dial to the right. We
- 30:21Speaker 1: pushed the volume up, and now I'm cool with this volume.
- 30:24Speaker 2: That's so true. But you didn't. You weren't there before.
- 30:28Speaker 2: That's such a wise perspective. I never even thought about that.
- 30:31Speaker 2: I had David Seek on the podcast.
- 30:34Speaker 1: He's the creator of a program at Equinox called Precision Running. Uh,
- 30:38Speaker 1: and he said, Uh, you can do a lot of
- 30:41Speaker 1: things good, but if you're so busy doing so many
- 30:44Speaker 1: things good, you'll never do one thing great.
- 30:47Speaker 2: Oh.
- 30:47Speaker 1: I just got the chills. Oh, David Sikh, He's a bomb.
- 30:50Speaker 1: So great career advice. We love that you mentioned one
- 30:54Speaker 1: book before. Do you have a favorite book that you
- 30:56Speaker 1: like to give people?
- 30:58Speaker 2: M I have three. Ooh, I like that. I like
- 31:03Speaker 2: that you come prepared. One is The Thinking Body by
- 31:07Speaker 2: Mabel Todd. It's a very famous kind of kinesiology, kinetics
- 31:12Speaker 2: anatomy book, very simple read, one of Marilyn Monroe's favorites.
- 31:17Speaker 2: The second one would be The Alchemist by Paulo Coelo classic,
- 31:23Speaker 2: and the third is Unleash the Power Within by Tony Robbins.
- 31:31Speaker 2: I think those three books would pretty much sum up
- 31:35Speaker 2: anybody who's looking for a good, easy, inspiring read. I
- 31:40Speaker 2: love that you're on the Tony Robins dream. I'm about it.
- 31:45Speaker 1: I actually have a girlfriend right now that's at one
- 31:47Speaker 1: of his seminars. Really, it's in Chicago. Who do you
- 31:52Speaker 1: look up to?
- 31:52Speaker 2: Now?
- 31:54Speaker 1: Big question aside from you know, mister Robbins himself, Yeah.
- 32:00Speaker 2: Yeah, or where? Or maybe a little bit.
- 32:03Speaker 1: More loosely like where do you draw inspiration from?
- 32:10Speaker 2: All right, I'll answer that question first. So inspiration comes
- 32:13Speaker 2: to me by through art, going to museums. I was
- 32:17Speaker 2: at Reagan Projects in LA. They were just showing Marilyn
- 32:20Speaker 2: Minter work, one of my favorite artists. Going to the MoMA.
- 32:24Speaker 2: Cindy Sherman's another favorite artists. I love psychology. Freud is
- 32:30Speaker 2: a huge inspiration to me and just the connection between
- 32:33Speaker 2: mind and body, so I'll watch documentaries about him. I
- 32:37Speaker 2: love fashion. My favorite right now is Virgil for off White.
- 32:45Speaker 2: I also love Margiella and I get my inspiration visually
- 32:50Speaker 2: just from seeing pictures or seeing magazines. And also traveling
- 32:54Speaker 2: is huge. Whenever I go to different countries, I pull
- 32:58Speaker 2: from different cultures. In Brazil and the favelas and in
- 33:03Speaker 2: Soul Korea, all of the different types of cuisine I
- 33:08Speaker 2: just pulled from everywhere.
- 33:09Speaker 1: Where's your favorite place you've been lately aside from this studio.
- 33:16Speaker 2: Only, I must say like, you're great being. I love
- 33:20Speaker 2: spending time with you. Ed. I think Rio dejian Eio Basil. Oh, yeah,
- 33:25Speaker 2: the moll Brazil has this energy about it. Granted I
- 33:29Speaker 2: haven't been there in two years, but I love the
- 33:32Speaker 2: energy there. I also love Budapest. I think it's really special.
- 33:37Speaker 2: And I would say those are my top two.
- 33:41Speaker 1: You said before that you like to provide your clients
- 33:44Speaker 1: when they come in for a class, the ability to
- 33:49Speaker 1: stop using their thinking mind. Yes, what else do you
- 33:52Speaker 1: want to give them when they come in to see you?
- 33:55Speaker 2: I want them to realize that they have all the
- 33:58Speaker 2: answers and the power within themselves, and to stop seeking
- 34:03Speaker 2: outside themselves for the answers or the solutions, that it's
- 34:08Speaker 2: within them. And lastly, I want to give them the
- 34:12Speaker 2: power of trusting their intuition. I think so often our
- 34:17Speaker 2: rational brains talk us out of things. We feel like
- 34:20Speaker 2: the mom who thinks that their child is smoking cigarettes
- 34:24Speaker 2: and she's like, oh, my child would never do that.
- 34:25Speaker 2: My child would never do that. My child like the
- 34:27Speaker 2: avoidance of what they feel. So the intuition of knowing
- 34:33Speaker 2: that you know that you know what you want, that
- 34:35Speaker 2: you know what's going to happen, and to continue taking actions.
- 34:39Speaker 1: We're all constantly you know, a work in progress, so
- 34:42Speaker 1: to speak. What's something that you are consciously working on
- 34:46Speaker 1: right now?
- 34:48Speaker 2: Who I'm working on a lot of things. One is relaxation.
- 34:53Speaker 2: The more I relax, the more I know what I need.
- 34:56Speaker 2: I'm working on asking for what I want and ask
- 35:00Speaker 2: for what I need. I'm working on giving direction to
- 35:05Speaker 2: my team and telling them what needs to happen. I'm
- 35:10Speaker 2: working on slowing down. I'm working on growing my business
- 35:15Speaker 2: in a way that feels comfortable to me, not just
- 35:19Speaker 2: thinking what growing a business is supposed to be about.
- 35:23Speaker 2: I'm working on choosing to spend my time with people
- 35:27Speaker 2: that make me feel good and not just because it's
- 35:30Speaker 2: been like this for years.
- 35:32Speaker 1: I love that it's important. It's so important, it's so important,
- 35:36Speaker 1: and it's this idea. Like I said to someone the
- 35:39Speaker 1: other day, I'm working on spending my time with people
- 35:43Speaker 1: that feel more like a faucet and less like a drain.
- 35:47Speaker 1: I love that You're we're walking out of here like
- 35:49Speaker 1: better people, better people.
- 35:51Speaker 2: I just high vibd uh. Okay.
- 35:55Speaker 1: So that's what you're working on. What are you working
- 35:57Speaker 1: on professionally? What's next for you guys? What's sex for Professionally?
- 36:01Speaker 2: I'm working on opening my first studio, which involves many
- 36:06Speaker 2: skills and leadership tach qualities that I guess the universe
- 36:11Speaker 2: is calling upon me because I've never opened a studio
- 36:14Speaker 2: before my own. I've opened different Madonna's studios at Hard
- 36:19Speaker 2: Candy Fitness, but taking the responsibility of that professionally, quick pause,
- 36:24Speaker 2: what's hard? Talk to them about what Hard Candy Fitness is.
- 36:27Speaker 2: Hard Candy Fitness was a global brand in fitness that
- 36:32Speaker 2: comprised of Madonna's workouts that I created with her, and
- 36:38Speaker 2: they opened up eight global gyms in countries like Chile,
- 36:42Speaker 2: in Berlin, in Sydney, Australia, in Mexico, and my role
- 36:49Speaker 2: there was creative director of the program and also to
- 36:52Speaker 2: train the trainers in each of these countries that also
- 36:54Speaker 2: did not speak English in the method that I created
- 37:00Speaker 2: with Madonna.
- 37:01Speaker 1: So, now opening this new studio and obviously having taught
- 37:06Speaker 1: your method for the last few years, you've actually certified
- 37:10Speaker 1: a lot of people to teach what you teach.
- 37:12Speaker 2: Is that correct? Yeah? Not a lot? Actually only five.
- 37:19Speaker 2: Oh that's less than I thought. Yeah, so I have
- 37:23Speaker 2: scaled my business. The teachers that are officially certified or
- 37:29Speaker 2: spent a lot of hours watching my ten years of
- 37:32Speaker 2: videos and manuals and studying and it's like a two
- 37:35Speaker 2: year kind of process. Wow, and then they're like officially
- 37:40Speaker 2: a trainer. But because I have so many followers and
- 37:43Speaker 2: fans around the world from the Madonna brand, there were
- 37:46Speaker 2: trainers in these countries that wanted to teach. So they're
- 37:50Speaker 2: not doing privates like they're not training my private celebrity
- 37:53Speaker 2: clients under me, but they are teaching the dance program
- 37:56Speaker 2: by a certification primarily like Zoomba. It does exist.
- 38:01Speaker 1: So I have two follow up questions. The first one
- 38:03Speaker 1: is this studio that you're opening, where is it.
- 38:06Speaker 2: It's going to be downtown in New York City. Awesome
- 38:09Speaker 2: to hear.
- 38:10Speaker 1: Yeah, the second question, and you mentioned social media. So
- 38:14Speaker 1: how has I mean, you've been doing this for so
- 38:16Speaker 1: long now, how has your business changed since social media
- 38:20Speaker 1: has become such a force.
- 38:25Speaker 2: Wow, I mean social media has taught me that nothing
- 38:28Speaker 2: stays the same and the world is in constant expansion,
- 38:33Speaker 2: and also that I need support on my team to
- 38:37Speaker 2: keep up with the expansion word because I'm slowing down.
- 38:41Speaker 2: But it's taught me that when I started out in
- 38:45Speaker 2: this business in two thousand and nine, like there was
- 38:48Speaker 2: no social media. So all of the things I was
- 38:51Speaker 2: doing were in a connection with Madonna, with Stella McCartney
- 38:55Speaker 2: in a private room that no one really knew about.
- 38:57Speaker 2: And how people would receive this information us through press,
- 39:01Speaker 2: through stories and press. Now with social media, there's an
- 39:04Speaker 2: ability for people to communicate more to being connection more
- 39:08Speaker 2: with me. I'm trying to move away from technology, so personally,
- 39:13Speaker 2: it's been something that my business is struggling with because
- 39:17Speaker 2: it's part of my business. So I doubled. Yeah, because
- 39:21Speaker 2: I'm stopping. I don't really use my phone, So it's
- 39:25Speaker 2: been I'm still in it, I'm still learning from it,
- 39:28Speaker 2: and I'm do you think about just having someone else
- 39:31Speaker 2: do that for you. Yeah, I actually am thinking about
- 39:35Speaker 2: hiring someone full time to help me whose genius work
- 39:38Speaker 2: is social media. There are many of them. There are
- 39:42Speaker 2: many of them.
- 39:43Speaker 1: You also mentioned something that I think is interesting about
- 39:48Speaker 1: how things are different from being a trainer to being
- 39:51Speaker 1: a trainer who opens a business. And I was having
- 39:54Speaker 1: a call with the one and only Gunnard Peterson.
- 39:58Speaker 2: I know you know him well.
- 40:00Speaker 1: We were talking on the phone and he told me
- 40:02Speaker 1: that a big misconception is people that are trainers think
- 40:05Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I'm just gonna go out on my own.
- 40:07Speaker 1: But he's like, are you thinking about not only just
- 40:10Speaker 1: the rent, that you're gonna need, towels, that you're gonna need, parking,
- 40:13Speaker 1: that you're gonna need all of these things that go
- 40:16Speaker 1: into sustaining having your own place. And he says, that's,
- 40:20Speaker 1: you know, a big struggle for people. What would you say,
- 40:25Speaker 1: looking back on that time when you were a little
- 40:27Speaker 1: lost before that conservatory is one huge piece of advice
- 40:32Speaker 1: now looking back on it, that you would have given
- 40:35Speaker 1: yourself then, oh.
- 40:36Speaker 2: My god, to welcome the lostness. I think so often
- 40:43Speaker 2: people are like, you are what you're saying, don't say
- 40:47Speaker 2: that you're lost, because then you will be lost. Don't
- 40:50Speaker 2: say you're disorganizers and you're gonna be disorganized. What's the saying.
- 40:53Speaker 2: It's whether you think you can or you can't. You
- 40:56Speaker 2: can't You're right, yes, And I was lost at the time,
- 41:01Speaker 2: And I think that because I welcomed it and admitted
- 41:05Speaker 2: to myself that I was, then I was able to
- 41:07Speaker 2: move from that. But I think so often people don't
- 41:09Speaker 2: admit the truth. So I think a good piece of
- 41:12Speaker 2: advice is to get really honest with yourself and admitting
- 41:18Speaker 2: to yourself, like are you happy? Is this making you happy?
- 41:23Speaker 2: Do you need a change? What do you really want
- 41:25Speaker 2: to do? What brings you ultimate joy? Because ninety nine
- 41:28Speaker 2: times out of ten it has to either do with singing, music, drawing, dancing,
- 41:35Speaker 2: doing something more joyous that's like in our creative spirit.
- 41:39Speaker 2: And I think that the advice I would give is like,
- 41:43Speaker 2: ask yourself are you happy? Like are you truly happy?
- 41:47Speaker 1: I think that's a really great note to end on. Actually, Nicole,
- 41:50Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming to Bay with me.
- 41:52Speaker 1: This is amazing. Please take a moment to leave a
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- 42:01Speaker 1: want to hear about yours. Reach out to me at
- 42:04Speaker 1: Emily at hurdle dot us. Connect with the podcast on
- 42:07Speaker 1: Instagram and Twitter at Hurdle podcast Nicle.
- 42:10Speaker 2: Where do they find you? What's the DS? I just
- 42:14Speaker 2: wanted to compliment to you on how amazing you are
- 42:16Speaker 2: at your job, Like this woman right here sitting next
- 42:19Speaker 2: to me is so on it. I can't even begin
- 42:22Speaker 2: to explain her on points. You're sweet. So you can
- 42:26Speaker 2: find me Nicolewinhoffer at Nicolewenhoffer on Instagram, Nicolewinhoffer dot com
- 42:32Speaker 2: on my website where you can find videos and private
- 42:34Speaker 2: training and classes with me. I'm so happy we did this.
- 42:37Speaker 1: I am thank you at Emily Abodi on Instagram.
- 42:41Speaker 2: Another hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time