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248. Olivia Amato, Peloton Instructor · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: The actions you take create the life you're living. Take
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  Speaker 1: a hold of it and it's yours.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on, everyone, Emily Abadi Here. You are listening
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  Speaker 2: to episode two hundred and forty eight of Hurdle, a
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  Speaker 2: wellness focused podcast where I connect with everyone from your
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  Speaker 2: favorite athletes to top experts and industry CEOs about their
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  Speaker 2: highest hies, toughest moments, and everything in between. We all
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  Speaker 2: go through hurdles in life, and my goal through these
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  Speaker 2: discussions is to empower you to better navigate yours and
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  Speaker 2: move with intention so that you can stride towards your
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  Speaker 2: own big potential and of course have some fun along
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  Speaker 2: the way. For today's episode two forty eight, I am
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  Speaker 2: elated to bring you my conversation with Olivia Amato. She's
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  Speaker 2: a Peloton instructor who was living a very different life
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  Speaker 2: just five years ago. In today's episode, she talks to
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  Speaker 2: me about making the major career shift from working in
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  Speaker 2: finance to working in fitness, what the conversation was like
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  Speaker 2: with her boss when she gave her resignation, and how
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  Speaker 2: she adjusted from the nine to five life to more
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  Speaker 2: of a regular grind with no two days being exactly
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  Speaker 2: the same. Signing on with a modeling agency early on
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  Speaker 2: and paving her own way within the fitness space here
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  Speaker 2: in New York City. Olivia also gets really vulnerable today
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  Speaker 2: about what it is like for her to be a
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  Speaker 2: public person and how she manages to protect her peace
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  Speaker 2: and take time for herself, knowing that that is such
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  Speaker 2: a critical component to showing up both on the bike,
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  Speaker 2: on the tread and for her family and friends. And
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  Speaker 2: of course I would have been remiss if I didn't
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  Speaker 2: take this opportunity to talk to Olivia about her personal style,
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  Speaker 2: something that I personally have loved following along with over
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  Speaker 2: the past few years. She talks both about how she
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  Speaker 2: would classify her own style and offers up some really
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  Speaker 2: helpful tips on how to cultivate and create yours as well.
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  Speaker 2: Really loved this one. It was nice to sit down
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  Speaker 2: with live in the studio, and after this chat I
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  Speaker 2: can say that I am certainly really excited for everything
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  Speaker 2: that Olivia was talking about when it comes to the
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  Speaker 2: next evolution of her coaching. Olivia two point zero, I'm
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  Speaker 2: here for it. Make sure you're following along with Hurdle
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  Speaker 2: this podcast. That's it for now. With that, let's get
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  Speaker 2: to it. Let's get to hurdling today. I'm sitting down
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  Speaker 2: with Olivia Motto. She's a peloton instructor. How are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm so I'm doing well.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to say I'm doing well instead of I'm
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  Speaker 1: so good.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's why? Okay, why is there a reason for that? No?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it just sounds a bit nicer.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm good, you know, But I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we say I'm good and it's not
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  Speaker 2: actually yes, it's not an.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly like I could be terrible and I'm like I'm good,
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  Speaker 1: Like there's no intention behind it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so wait, let's bring that a level deeper. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Really, I'm a little bit stressed right now. Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going through a move, which is great, it's all good things,
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  Speaker 1: but just a lot going on, a lot of like
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of time for me to get myself
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  Speaker 1: in my own space and clear my head. It's just go, go,
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  Speaker 1: go right now. Right, So yeah, just a little bit overwhelmed,
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  Speaker 1: if you will.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's so nice to be able to give
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  Speaker 2: all of your energy to a move. It only happens
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  Speaker 2: like so often, right exactly. Ideally you're not picking up
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  Speaker 2: and doing that every year, so it's such a consuming
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  Speaker 2: process and not to be able to be at home
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  Speaker 2: and unboxing totally.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the other thing. I'm boxing, Like, I have
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  Speaker 1: so many things that I have to do this week,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm trying to like pick out my outfits for
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  Speaker 1: it so I can kind of like that's one thing
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  Speaker 1: out of the way, and then I'm like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know where this is. I don't know where that is.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm like running like a chicken with that head
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: I know the feeling. Did you do the movers pack?
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  Speaker 2: You though they did.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I did that game changer.
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  Speaker 2: Game changer. I did that for the first time coming
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  Speaker 2: to this home, okay, and I don't think I'll ever
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  Speaker 2: be able to go back.
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  Speaker 1: Did they unpack you? No? Okay, would you do that
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  Speaker 1: or no? You know?
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  Speaker 2: I So it's funny because obviously, before they packed me,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know how great it was to have someone
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  Speaker 2: pack you, So I obviously don't know how great it
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  Speaker 2: is for someone to unpack me.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I did like the opportunity to really go through my
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  Speaker 2: things once. I don't think i'd need to do it twice.
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  Speaker 2: So I didn't mind that they didn't unpack me. And
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  Speaker 2: I honestly had all of the boxes out of my
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  Speaker 2: apartment within forty eight hours. Like I was still organizing,
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  Speaker 2: but the boxes were gone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I have about six boxes of shoes that need
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  Speaker 1: home right now, six bocks literally, And my husband's like,
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  Speaker 1: why don't you just give them away? I was like,
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  Speaker 1: and I donate and give away like so much stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But like I'm a shoe girl, Like I can't.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't. You're kind of known for that.
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  Speaker 1: I love my shoes.
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  Speaker 2: You're kind of known for being a shoe girl.
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  Speaker 1: I am a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Does that make you feel any kind of way like
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  Speaker 2: that people have an opinion about your shoe collection.
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  Speaker 1: It makes me be like, wow, I am turning into
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  Speaker 1: my mother, so that's for sure. But I feel like shoes.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I just there's something about them that
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  Speaker 1: they like add something to an outfit. They make me happy.
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  Speaker 1: So like, if it brings any happiness or like inspiration
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  Speaker 1: to anybody else, great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah why not? Yeah? What else is bringing you happiness
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  Speaker 2: right now? What else is bringing me happiness?
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  Speaker 1: So being that we moved, one of the big reasons
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  Speaker 1: we moved was one of my dogs, my recent rescue
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  Speaker 1: Roue has a very bad urban fear. So anytime she
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  Speaker 1: goes out into the city, she like her legs tremble
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  Speaker 1: and she gets really scared and like she won't basically move.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that's not the happy part. But we
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  Speaker 1: have outdoor space now, so she's living her best life.
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  Speaker 1: We have a dog, like a little dog run in
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  Speaker 1: our building. So like just seeing her be able to
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  Speaker 1: like go outside and be happy and not super stressed
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  Speaker 1: has really brought me a lot happiness.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have dogs before you got into this relationship
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  Speaker 2: and got married? Yes, you did. Yes, Okay. People ask
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  Speaker 2: me all the time, like, oh, don't you want a dog,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm like, I'm listening to your story, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I want a dog. My eyes like water instantly when
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  Speaker 2: you bring her up. But I just don't feel like
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  Speaker 2: I have the capacity with all of my travel to
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  Speaker 2: take care of a dog on my own.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I it is so much work, and it is
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  Speaker 1: great and like for it definitely outweighs all of the
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  Speaker 1: things that you have to do, but there are so
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  Speaker 1: many stresses that come along with it. Like even now
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  Speaker 1: we're going away for our honeymoon in two weeks, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: who's gonna watch them? Oh my god, I forgot to
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  Speaker 1: like figure out, you know, all of that stuff. It
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  Speaker 1: definitely comes with a lot of stress, and I do
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  Speaker 1: feel like I did it alone for a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot harder. Yeah, not saying you can't. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: you could do it total, but it's just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: being able to split the responsibility with somebody else is
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  Speaker 1: definitely helpful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, where you go around your honeymoon if you
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  Speaker 2: don't going to Greece, Oh my god, I know it's
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  Speaker 2: so excited. Have you been before I have.
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  Speaker 1: I've been once, my husband has not been. So it's
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  Speaker 1: just I mean, Greece is probably my favorite place in
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  Speaker 1: the world.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my love, I love that. Have you been? I
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  Speaker 2: have not been yet. Okay, that's how I currently feel
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  Speaker 2: about Italy, maybe until I go to Greece.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but I love Italy too. I mean, just there's
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  Speaker 1: so many beautiful places.
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  Speaker 2: It's true, It's true. Okay, I'm going to real us in.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, real us in. Please, we just like dogs.
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  Speaker 2: You know, hit the ground running. Here. So excited to
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  Speaker 2: have you in the studio. I feel like it's been
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  Speaker 2: a long time coming and it's one of the long
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  Speaker 2: requested episodes that hasn't been in the feed yet to
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  Speaker 2: hear from.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thanks for having me. I'm so happy to be here.
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  Speaker 2: You now are one of the few. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: like jack of all trades at Peloton, like you teach
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  Speaker 2: a lot of variety. Do you enjoy that?
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  Speaker 1: I do? I think for me, growing up, I taught,
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  Speaker 1: I did all the sports. I was always kind of
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  Speaker 1: like I need to be stimulated in different ways, So
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  Speaker 1: being able to teach different types of classes just keeps
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  Speaker 1: me interested and motivated and like trying. I'm always trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out ways to level up and make my
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  Speaker 1: classes different and interesting to have people come back and
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  Speaker 1: enjoy it. So I think, you know, me being able
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  Speaker 1: to switch it up is an opportunity for everybody else
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  Speaker 1: to switch it up, and you know, we kind of
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  Speaker 1: get to do it together, which is nice.
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  Speaker 2: In terms of switching it up. I know that you
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  Speaker 2: went to Peloton after starting off like your professional career
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  Speaker 2: working in finance. Did you always feel like excited by
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  Speaker 2: this like new level of challenge or was making that
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  Speaker 2: career pivot a little bit intimidating for you?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? It was totally intimidating. I was excited for sure,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't have as much support in the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: You know, my parents, I love them, but they were like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing? Like how are you leaving this
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  Speaker 1: stable job in finance and going to something that they've
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  Speaker 1: never heard of? You know, it wasn't really a big thing,
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  Speaker 1: So that was really nerve wracking, you know. You know,
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  Speaker 1: getting the approval for my parents is something that I
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  Speaker 1: It's something I've obviously spoke about in therapy and you know,
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  Speaker 1: have been dealing with and figuring out and moving on
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  Speaker 1: from that and being able to kind of like pivot
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  Speaker 1: and do my own thing was a huge like I
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  Speaker 1: felt very alone at times, I felt very uncertain and
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  Speaker 1: just like did I do the right thing? I deep
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  Speaker 1: down I knew I did the right thing, but it
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  Speaker 1: was still scary.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I got into podcasting after getting let go
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  Speaker 2: from a job eventually, So for me, like that transition,
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  Speaker 2: like I didn't have much of a choice in it.
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  Speaker 2: It was like, Okay, well I'm just going to run
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  Speaker 2: at this thing and see how it works, and et cetera,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera. For you, were there like certain benchmarks or
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  Speaker 2: things you wanted to have in place so that you
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  Speaker 2: could feel a little bit more comfortable about jumping at
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  Speaker 2: this passion.
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  Speaker 1: Realistically, yes, but I remember my emotions kind of got
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  Speaker 1: the best to me. I was at a point in
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  Speaker 1: my career where they wanted me to do more and
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  Speaker 1: start to take more tests. So like in finance, you
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  Speaker 1: take like a series seven and then I forget if
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  Speaker 1: it's like a fifty four or fifty like different tests
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  Speaker 1: to kind of enable you to do different things. And
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  Speaker 1: I was getting to the point where I just was like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to study for this, Like I knew
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  Speaker 1: if I'm passionate about something, I'm gonna put everything into
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  Speaker 1: every you know, everything I do, and I couldn't care less.
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  Speaker 1: So I remember coming back from vacation and it was
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  Speaker 1: a Sunday and I was supposed to go to work
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  Speaker 1: the next day, and I was hysterically crying, like and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, what am I doing? Why, Like you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to be this miserable, Like this is a choice.
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  Speaker 1: So I literally went in the next day and I resigned.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, I mean that was after a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of like thinking about it, and you know, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just one night.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, two things to double click on. One, I've
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  Speaker 2: got to hear about how that resignation went. So let's
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  Speaker 2: start there. Oh, tell me about the resignation.
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  Speaker 1: So basically, again, I loved everyone I worked with. I
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  Speaker 1: went into my boss and I was like, listen, I
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  Speaker 1: am unhappy and I love you all, but I am
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  Speaker 1: going to pursue a different career and something that I'm
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  Speaker 1: really passionate about and I really hope you can understand.
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  Speaker 1: And he kind of looked at me. There's not much
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  Speaker 1: emotion going on in the finance world, or at least
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  Speaker 1: where I was, so he's kind of like are you sure,
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  Speaker 1: And I was like yeah, I'm sure. He's like, I
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  Speaker 1: think you should take a walk around the block, like
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  Speaker 1: go get a bacon, egg and cheese, like think about
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  Speaker 1: it a little bit. And I was like okay, So
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  Speaker 1: like I literally did that just to kind of appease him,
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  Speaker 1: and I came back and I'm like, I definitely want.
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  Speaker 2: To do this.
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  Speaker 1: So he basically said like, listen, I believe in you,
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  Speaker 1: like I hope you like do really well in this
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  Speaker 1: and like if you open up a gym all invested in.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, great, okay, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god for the bacon, egg and cheese.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Right that was like, you know, that was such a
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  Speaker 2: phase for me in my New York corporate life. Like
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell you the last time I went out,
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  Speaker 2: like from my apartment because I work from home now.
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  Speaker 2: Right like that, I left and was like, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to get a bacon, egg and cheese.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's one of those things that like
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  Speaker 1: once you get it, it's like becomes a routine. Oh totally,
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, even I think I would get them
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  Speaker 1: at like that little truck on like the little trucks
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  Speaker 1: on the corner and it just became like a morning ritual.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, Oh my god, wow, Wow that's nuts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was. It was crazy. And I remember
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  Speaker 1: leaving and being like and I took like my little
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  Speaker 1: desk name with me, and I was like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: like what did I just do? Did I do? Like?
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  Speaker 1: Did I do the right thing? I did the right thing?
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  Speaker 1: Like I was just all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, waking up the next day, how did you feel?
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  Speaker 1: I felt free?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I was still a bit scared, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: but things were happening very quickly. So I actually started
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  Speaker 1: teaching at a gym while I was still working at
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  Speaker 1: Finance in finance, so I was doing it like after
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  Speaker 1: whenever I could kind of get it in, and then
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  Speaker 1: things just kind of like yeah, I didn't even have
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  Speaker 1: time to think.
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  Speaker 2: It's so funny though, because that's like how alignment works, right.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you make a decision that feels right for you,
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  Speaker 2: and then you'll start to notice that things start to
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  Speaker 2: happen for you. Is how it feels. Yeah, So so
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  Speaker 2: what started to happen for you?
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  Speaker 1: So I was kind of I went full time. I was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, teaching one or two classes a week if
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  Speaker 1: I could at that one gym, and then I wound
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  Speaker 1: up getting into so you auditioned for another company, and
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  Speaker 1: I wound up getting into their program to like start,
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  Speaker 1: and it was like a really extensive like training program,
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  Speaker 1: so I was, you know, basically starting in like three
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  Speaker 1: weeks or something. So it was good because I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have been able to do both at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: I wound up weirdly getting signed with Wilhelmina Fitness. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a fitness modeling board, their fitness modeling, which is
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  Speaker 1: like I'm very petite, so I'd never in a million
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  Speaker 1: years thought like that would be something I'd be doing.
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  Speaker 1: And that came with you know, I learned a lot
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  Speaker 1: of good things and a lot of bad things from that.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it was kind of just like I was
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  Speaker 1: like faking it till I make it kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of thing, super interested in the bad things about Wilhelmina. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean not about Wilhelmina, but maybe like your learnings
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  Speaker 2: from like about your side that way. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just like inecurities I'd never had before
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  Speaker 1: we're now existing and there were things that I could
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  Speaker 1: not change that were an issue for my agent or
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  Speaker 1: whoever that you know, became like a part of my
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  Speaker 1: like everyday thinking. And it's just kind of you know,
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  Speaker 1: things like that, once you're in your head, you can
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  Speaker 1: you have It's crazy how our thoughts work and how
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  Speaker 1: manifestation works, like we can completely build ourselves up or
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  Speaker 1: tear ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Down, like totally.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that must be I mean that's like a
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  Speaker 2: whole other level of frustrating when it's part of like
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  Speaker 2: your how you're making money in your job.
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  Speaker 1: I've learned how to kind of block out the noise
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  Speaker 1: and can you know, let go of what I can't
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  Speaker 1: control and what other people say or think. But it's
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: still you know, everyone's human.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone's human. So you go into this new chapter,
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: going through the training program and such a different schedule
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: as well. How what did that work on your mental
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: side of things?
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: I think that really helped me. Part of what I
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: didn't like about working in finance was sitting at a
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: desk all day, Like I would literally leave to go
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: pee and they'd be like, where are you going, Like,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: I think you cannot leave your desk. So I think that, Yeah,
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: I think that was super helpful for me kind of
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: being able to move around more and get more creative
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: and just be more with myself and thinking about, Okay,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: what do you want to do, what's going to make
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: you happy, what's going to inspire you?
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, in the quote unquote free time that you had,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: how did you start to find yourself filling up that time?
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I would say, to be honest, I didn't have
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of free time. I was kind of running
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: around from studio to studio or from a studio to training,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: and but I did make it a point to kind
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: of whether it was reading a book. I remember reading
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: do you know that? Do you remember the book? Is
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: it You Are a Badass?
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah? You know Yellow Book?
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: The Yellow Book? Yes, I remember reading that and I
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: had there somebody took a picture of me and reading
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: it in my chair, and I remember being like, wow,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: I didn't know anything then, Like I was just so
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: And that was a big one for me because it
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: gave me a lot of confidence to kind of, you know,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: that I was doing the right thing and following what
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: I wanted to do.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: So yeah, reading books, just kind of looking around and
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: being like what what makes me happy? Like what makes
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: you tick?
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: I'll get to the why I'm asking you this, But
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: do you remember, like what your happiest one of your
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: happiest moments from that time was. Yeah.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I remember I had a day off from like all
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: of the training and I didn't have classes that day,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: and I went to Central Park and I was just
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: kind of like sitting there. It was sunny out, and
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: I was reading a book and I was looking around,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: and I was like, I would never be able to
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: do this and have this moment of just like peace
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: if I didn't give myself the opportunity.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: To, like if you hadn't been okay taking the leap, Yeah, totally.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: The way that you're describing this, like it makes me
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: think of like my hustle, my strong hustle fee It's
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: like my first year of just like freelance writing. And
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I was also teaching at a spin studio ironically and
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: just crazy. And I think to that year and like,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: I feel as though I have very few memories because
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I was never actually like truly present where I was.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Yes, do you feel that way all your person? Yeah,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: And that's why there's like a very few core memories
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: that stick out. And you know, it could be like
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the first class I ever taught to people when people
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: were in the room or that moment where I was
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: just kind of sitting there. But very few, Yeah, very few.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Now you are very busy and also running around constantly,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: how do you ground yourself amidst all of the to
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: doos and the chaos and you know, the unsolicited feedback
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: and everything.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it varies day to day or week
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: to week. But some weeks, for example, or some days
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I want to have a call with my best friend
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: and just you know, one of my best friends is
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: just super inspiring. I think I actually told you about her.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: She she just motivates me to be better, and she's
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: like one of those people you always want to kind
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: of have in your pocket. So like some days I
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: want to have a conversation with her, and other days
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I just want to be by myself and like be
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: my own thoughts and be in my own like how
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: are you actually doing? Yeah, so I think it depends.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: It could be like literally doing nothing or going on
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: a bike ride outside, or you know, calling a friend
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: and having a really deep conversation with them, spending time
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: with family. Again, it really depends, but I definitely know
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: my like about myself that I've learned is I need
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: my alone time.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: So much of your work, like your job is showing
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: up for other people. So knowing what Olivia needs to
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: take care of Olivia is literally absolutely critical.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: One hundred percent. Otherwise I cannot physically or mentally show
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: up for other people.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I mean also part of your job is
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: getting up early. We're often there bright and early when
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, I should have and the peloton happen,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: see what's happening, and it's like, oh, you're already halfway
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: through whatever you have going on. How do you make
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: that work for you?
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is something that's a continuous journey for me.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I definitely go to bed way like early, Like I
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: try to go to bed by nine o'clock latest when
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I have to be up because I'm up at four am.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I am a morning person, which helps. I prefer to
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: work out in the morning. I always have, so once
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: I'm up, I'm pretty good. But it does also take
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: a level of like for me, I know, I need
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: to teach like a fitness first class in that early
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: in the morning, because there's not like I feel like
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: people who are taking that class anyway, like no one
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: really cares about like my ride to the studio or
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: like what, like they want to work out, they want
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: to get a good workout in, and like I get that,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: and so I'm kind of catering to that audience as well.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: When it's that early in the morning.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I think that's a really smart approach and that's probably
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: why you're the person that's on the schedule of that time. Yeah,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I think, so, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I'm like
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: not showing up just to like say that I showed
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: up at that time. No, Now, like.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: No one's coming here to just chill, like we are
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: working out. We're probably gonna get a pr and then
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: we're gonna go on with our day.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Oh my, you know what I mean? Yes, I do. Okay,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: So then let's go back to you getting your feet wet.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: In the fitness industry, you start to gain a broader
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: understanding that you're like, Okay, I've definitely made the right choice.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Talk to me about how you start to feel the
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: opportunities that come your way.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I did notice there was a time where
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I was like, okay, and this is something my mom
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: always said to me. She's like, you can't be everything
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: to everyone. You can't do everything, like and I always
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: wanted to do everything. I wanted to do ice, skating, lacrosse, cheerleading.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I literally wanted to do everything. And I realized when
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I do everything, I can't put my all into everything.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: It's just physically not like it's impossible. So for me,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I like to do everything one hundred percent. And I
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: was like, I need to kind of narrow down what
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: it is I really want to do so I can
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: do it really well. And that's when I be a
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: little bit more specific about how it would fill my
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: time and what I would be doing. So there were
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: people who would reach out and say, oh, I'm starting this,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: this and that, and I you know, I would have
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: conversations with every single one of them. But I trusted
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: my gut in what felt right and what really was
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: interesting to me. And it wasn't like a shiny new toy.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: It was like, am I going to actually enjoy doing this?
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: And why not just Oh this is new? It could
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: be like the next big thing. So I think that's
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: kind of where what separated Peloton from all the other
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: opportunities that were kind of coming at the time.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so interesting, right, And you said that you
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: got that piece of advice from your mom. Yes, yeah, yes,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: because it is exciting to like see the shiny new
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: thing and be like, let's jump out an was Peloton
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: not the shiny new thing?
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Well it was, but there were other companies being like, hey,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: we would love for you to be our master trainer
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: and this is going to be your salary. And it
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: all looks and sounds really great, but do you believe
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: in the product? Do you believe in what they're selling
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: or are you just jumping at the first thing that's
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: coming because it seems like it's going to be this big.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Thing, right, and you set a buzzword that I think
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: a lot of individuals who may be working in fitness
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: don't get to hear all the time, and that's the
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: word salary. Right. So you leave this extremely corporate job
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: and you start to take on different projects that may
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: not offer you that kind of security. So when something
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: like that comes your way that offers you security and
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: also empowers you to do something that you're really passionate about,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: that must have been really exciting.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, meaning Peloton or the.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Other ones, I mean whatever whoever says that.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: To you, right, hundred percent and which is why again,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: like I had to some of these places, and again
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: it was it was a great opportunity or it looked
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: really good on paper, but looking back, if I would
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: have taken that, it would have it wouldn't have.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Been good, right, you know, wouldn't have been the right move.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: No, not the right one for me.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: When do you sign on full time at Peloton.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Four and a half five years ago now.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: And the pandemic started like two years after that? Yeah, okay,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: so you had like a moment before the pandemic.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we So I started on the tread so
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: we me I guess it was me and Rebecca Maddie.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Wow TBT and that Christopher Street studio.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, us three, like in the basement of that studio,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: you know, for all hours, you know, trying to figure
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: out what you know. You know, Rebecca was the one
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: who made all the programs and everything, but we were
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: all in it and spent so much time together. Uh.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: And I think I was there for about eight months
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: before it launched, so we were kind of doing everything
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: behind the scenes, right. And then a year after that
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: is when I had a non compete at the old
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: cycling studios at so I started cycling a year.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: After Got It. Got It. When you kind of stepped
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: onto the Peloton scene, what were your reactions like from
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: let's say, like the community obviously like a exposure in
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: a whole new way, Like first reactions, what were they?
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I knew that it was where fitness
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: was going for sure. I because the tread was new.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: It was different because you had all of these all
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: of the people from the Peloton community showing up, but
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: they obviously didn't know who you were, so people taking
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: your class for the first time. I think one of
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the main things I saw was how passionate the members
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: were and how much they wanted to be there, and
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: how they not only showed up for themselves but for
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: everybody else that was like a part of the community,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: which I thought was super super cool. And then also
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I remember one of my first experiences kind of before
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: you know, things changed, was I went to California with
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Matt Woopers to a showroom and you know, people were
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: showing up. I was kind of standing with him and
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: no one really knew who I was, but everyone knew
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: who he was, and everyone was showing up with their
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: power zone graphs in literally Binders and like it was
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: like he was this superhuman and he is. Yeah, but
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: like I was like, wow, like this is so crazy,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: like people, it almost it hit me kind of then
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I knew what we were doing, but I saw the
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: impact in person, and I was like, that's really cool.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like wow, And now five years in, how does
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: that feel to you?
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: It feels surreal for sure. Like even if somebody sees
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: me on the street and says hello, I'm like what,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: how how do you Like? It's still crazy, but it's
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: so amazing. Like I used to say, when people are like,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: what do you want to do, I'd be like, I
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: want to impact people in a positive way and make
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: them feel strong and confident, and I want to impact
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: as many people as possible. Like that's literally what I'm doing.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: So it's crazy yeah to me still, and I'm like
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I'm really grateful.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, as many people as possible. You know, when I
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: started the show, I think that I kind of had
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: that same mentality, and then I started to realize for
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: myself that I personally could be more effective if I
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: dialed in on my totally ish Like I knew that
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: if I didn't start speaking to young women or women
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: between like let's say like twenty and forty twenty thirty five,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: that I couldn't be as powerful with my messaging.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Do you a really good point?
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: When you're like creating your classes, you're like you're teaching
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: the roadmap for your classes. Are you thinking about like
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: a certain level of athlete?
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Totally? So that's a really good point, because yes, we
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: are reaching so many people. I mean, we have millions
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: of members now, but different members gravitate towards different people.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: So that is one thing I don't try to do
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: is I know that there are going to be people
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: who don't want to take my class specifically, but there
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: are people who do. So I'm catering to the people
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: who want to show up early, who want to get
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: a hard workout in, who want to get out of
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: their comfort zone, or people who want to be an athlete,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: and like I want them to know that they are.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: You may not know yet, but like we're going to
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: tap into that athlete together. So I think, yes, I
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: totally agree with you. You can And that's the thing.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: You can't be everything to everyone. Yeah, Like that's that
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: phrase again.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: That is challenging, right because you have to then get
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: upfront with yourself about the things that excite and motivate
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: you totally.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: And there's a level of boundaries which are so hard
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: and they're hard to put in place, they're hard to
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: keep stay true to. Yeah, but coming back to and
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: that's why I like to be like, Okay, what are
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: my core values? What excites me? What makes me? You
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: don't want to just be constantly drained and drained? And yeah,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: because again then you're what good are you to yourself?
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Even talk to me about boundaries? Yeah?
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, was there like a moment where you had
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: to like really ask yourself what are my boundaries? When? Yeah?
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Do you remember that?
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I think it's something I still need to ask myself.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: And it comes about in different ways throughout different parts
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: of my life.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: So a boundary that I may have had a few
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: years ago maybe different now and vice versa. And I
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: think constantly checking in with yourself and being like is
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: this still serving me? Do I need to create a
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: new boundary? Maybe you know this is too harsh of
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: a boundary. Whatever it may be, Like, it's okay to
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: change it and to you know, shift that a little bit,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: like it's your life, it's your you are like fully
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: responsible for what you want to do in the boundaries
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: that you create.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Right, So, okay, an example here, you told me that
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: you like to go to sleep at the latest by nine,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: if you're going to be up at four and going
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: to teach class. Give me an example of like a
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: boundary you set so that happens. Yeah.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: So, I mean sometimes people are like, can we go
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: out to dinner this day? And I really want to
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: go and I want to see my friends. I'm like, no,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I need to put this boundary in place because I'm
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: not going to be able to function if I go.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: So I'm so sorry, but I need, like to my friends.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I need you to understand because otherwise it's not good
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: for me for the rest of the week. Like right,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: let's make plans else elsewhere or if Dan, for instance,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: wants to stay up and watch TV or do something else,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I need to set that boundary of like, okay, you
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: can do that, but like I'm gonna go to bed,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: like please try not to wake me up. Yeah, and
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: following those you have to follow through otherwise there's no point, right,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: For the person listening to this that wants to do
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: that but feels like other people may think it's selfish.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: What do you tell them?
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I would say that the people who truly care about
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: you and have your best interests will one hundred percent
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: value that and support that. And again, if there are
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: people who are not, I don't it's hard to say
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: like person by person, but they probably don't have your
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: best interests at heart. Yeah.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I feel like we all have to go
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: through a moment or a situation or an experience that
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: like teaches us the importance of upkeeping our boundaries right,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Like you have like one bad morning when you wake
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: up and you're like, I shouldn't have done that. And
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: it's like when you're young and you go to the
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: stove and you touch the stove and you learn that
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: it's hot and you're like, okay, I can't do that again.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: The same thing happens with our boundaries one hundred percent.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: And also the people in your life, they may be
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: a little bit like wait, what what's going on at first,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: but again, if they have your best interest and they
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: love you and want what's best for you, they're going
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: to adapt to it as well, and they're going to
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: understand it.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: We often hear that we are a summary of the
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: people that we spend the most time with. Tell me
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: what it is about your husband that made you know
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: that he was the person that you wanted to spend
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: the most time with. Yeah.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: So, well, we met in COVID, so I had no choice,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and I'm just kidding. No, no, no, he is. We
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: are so different. But all of the things that like
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I wish I possessed a little bit more, he has.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: So he's so like chill and patient, and he's just
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: kind of like like anybody who's ever met him is
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: just like he's just easy, like you can throw into
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: anything and he'll adapt. Like he's so loving and just
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: he's just a really good nice person.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, are you insinuating that you're not a really good, nice,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: chill person.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I'm really crazy and I'm horrible.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: No, I mean I am a.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Good person, for sure. It's more so like the way
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know, he just makes me think about that,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Like I'm kind of like go go, go, go out,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: like whatever, yes, and he's like, let's sit down for
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: a second and like think about it.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: That's kind of where he balances me out a little bit.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: And then there's also like there's times where I just
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: may be in my own feelings and not want to
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: do anything, and it's not necessarily a boundary. So there's
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: no reason why I'm just sitting in bed on a
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Friday night and he's like, come on, let's let's go
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: do something like it could be going down the street.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: But it makes me feel so much better than I
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: would have if I was just.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: You mentioned COVID the sea word. Talk to me about
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: how your mental state was during let's say, like the
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: brunt of the pandemic.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: My mental state was. It was confusing, for sure, because
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I was teaching from home and we weren't living together yet,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: so I had an entire like studio set up in
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: my apartment. So I just felt I was, like what,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: I was very confused. I was also nervous and anxious.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: My dad he's okay now, but he has had lymphoma,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: So I was just very anxious about that all the time,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: and like I didn't want to go see them because
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to compromise the fact that I, you know,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: it was just it was a very uncertain time and
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: it was scary, Like I think I was definitely, you know,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: there were days where I didn wouldn't see people for
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: so were you know, weeks, and I was, you know,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: it was definitely feeling it for sure.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's so interesting because you're from New York, right, Yeah,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: so being so close to our parents my parents are
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: in Connecticut, and yet being so far removed. I remember
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: my dad came once and we weren't allowed to hug,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: and we stood like six feet apart the entire time,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: and he brought me like things from Costco as dads too.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Totally totally. It was so yeah, like we would go
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: drive by and like wave in the window. It's like, okay,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: you know, it was just it was it was strange.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Do you believe that the pandemic was good for you?
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: I do think it was good for us. I think
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I was at a point in my life where I
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: was for the first time, I was really figuring out
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: what it was like to be on my own, and
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: I was well into it. So it wasn't like, you know,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I jumped right back into a relationship, but I was
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: finally happy being by myself. And I don't know if
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: it would have moved as quick or you know, if
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: the pandemic didn't happen. So I think that it wouldn't
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: have moved as quick, and it definitely, you know, deep
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: into our connection in terms of like we were the
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: only people that we would see.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: So it's so great. It feels like forever ago, but
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: also it wasn't forever ago.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I know, and it feels like things are like completely
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: back to how they were before.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Like it's like nothing ever happened, I know, except you
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: walk out on the street and you still see the
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: masks and you're like, nope, yeah, still here's something still out.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: For sure.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: You did just touch on the fact that your father
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: had been sick. When you're navigating something that you're not
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: talking about on camera, how does that impact how you
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: show up on camera.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's also something that's kind of changed throughout the years.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I think I used to try to just like completely
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: shut it off and like the camera would go on
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: and like none of that existed, right, and then the
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: camera would go off and it existed again. I think
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: that's kind of how I used to do it, and
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know how healthy that really was.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: For myself totally.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Now that being said, I'm not going on camera crying
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: and telling everybody, you know, because that's not you know,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: my job is to uplift people and motivate people. But
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: if I'm showing up in a way that's like, that's honest,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, all right, I'm not feeling great today,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: but we're here together and we're going to do it.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: There is something about that honesty and that vulnerability that
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: you know other people are dealing with things too, and
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: it makes other people feel not as alone in yourself.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that there's a really beautiful thing
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: about that vulnerability, but it can be challenging as someone
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: who is a public facing person to like let them
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: in a little and then still feel like you're really
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: not showing up as your full self.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, it is probably the most challenging thing I find
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: about the job, to be honest.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Interesting.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, for sure, I think not knowing like giving
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: a little and then I'm like, oh, maybe I shouldn't
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: like and again you want to open up. But then
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: the more you open up, the more you're opening yourself
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: up to that you know, everything else that comes with it.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, talk to me about that, everything else that comes
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: with it, what comes with it?
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know, there are so many amazing people, truly,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: but there's always going to be people who also want
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: to just bring you down, and that could be you know.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Another thing that I learned was the way people treat
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: other people as a really big reflection of how they
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: feel about themselves and how they treat themselves. So that's
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: something that's helped me. But yeah, you get the negative
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: people who want to say something mean, just to say
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: something to me and just to hurt you. And again
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: it's that is noise. But there are things sometimes that
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: make you a question like, oh wait, did you know?
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: And that's a.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Struggle that you know, or learning process, a learn in progress, yeah,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: a learning right learn.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: We are really on a roll, a work in.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Progress progress, thank you. Oh my god.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: This is like wheel of fortune literally live, nearly live
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: wheel of fortune today, constant work in progress. But all
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: of us are right. But I think the thing is
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: is that, especially with what you do, individuals and the members,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: by no fault of their own, but they tend to
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: put all of you on this pedestal, right, and it's
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: as though you feel as though and I'm not trying
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: to put words in your mouth, but just from the
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: conversations that I've had with so many of the other instructors,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: it's like you feel as though you're not supposed to
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: have any flaws, like you're not supposed to mess up, Like,
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: oh I am like that everyone's following me like I
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: can't mess this up, and it's like that wouldn't be
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: realistic totally.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, which is again like I've learned that that no
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: one wants, like it's not good to be like robotic
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: any Like people want to feel like there's a connection
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: between you two, and how to feel a connection is like, oh,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: we're both feeling the same way or going We're both
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: you know, going through the same thing but in different ways.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: What would you say is the part of your job
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: that you like the most. We've talked about like the
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: most challenging part of your job, But what do you
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: like the most?
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I really love teaching, So like when the camera goes
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: on and I'm teaching, like and anything that happened before,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of like whatever, Like it could be like
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: I was, you know, my car was laid or whatever.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Like I really enjoy it and like I feel so
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: good during and after. It's just something I love to do.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you block out a little bit when you're teaching?
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, for.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Sure, And sometimes I'll say things like what what did
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I just say? Or like how did I like this
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Wheel of fourteen?
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Like it could be yeah, but I do. And one
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: of my favorite things is like meeting actually meeting members
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: in real life and them telling you, like I ran
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: a marathon and listen to the like things that are
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: you know, life changing moments that I get to be
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: a part of that I have no idea about, and
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: then they tell me it's really cool.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: What is exciting you the most? About what's to come?
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: What's exciting me the most? I would say I am
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: at a point where I am kind of looking to
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: my next like evolution of me and who I am
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: as an instructor and you know, marinating the two of them.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: So I feel like I'm excited about, you know, the
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: new me that I can bring, not new me, but
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: like what else can I How can I like level
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: up to show everybody else like look like I can
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: do that too sort of thing, and you know, bring
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: new things to the table and just keep people interested
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: in keep people wanting to show up for themselves.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So when you say level up, what does that
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: look like?
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: So I think for me, it's not about like a
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: physical it's more about being able to be more of
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: myself because it's so funny, like people who really know
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: me are like, oh my God, like, yes, that's you,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: and like it's not like I'm put but it's the
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: serious me. And then there's like this whole other part
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: of me that like no one else knows because I
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: don't know, Like I'm just not really like my goofy,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: funny self when I'm on there because I'm so focused.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: But I feel like there are ways to kind of
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: incorporate a little bit more of me into it so
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: that people can get to know me a little more.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: I think that that is It's so funny, right because
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: you you're five years into this journey, but you're still
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: figuring out how to like be your most authentic self.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: And that is a testament, I believe, of how much
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: you care about the product that you're creating totally and
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: it's beautiful, You're welcome Aside from work, What else are
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: you excited about right now?
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: I am excited about So I'm actually coming out with
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: a Puma collection, like a collection, which I'm really excited
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: about because fashion is a huge, huge, passion of mine.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: I love it and I get to kind of I
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: do get to, you know, bring the two together and
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: deliver something that I'm hoping people are going to really like,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: so that I'm very excited about. And my honeymoon, which
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I'm amped. It's like a year overdue, but I'm so
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: excited to you know, just get in the sun and
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: kind of chill.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, your followers and like the
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Peloton members really got to see how excited you were
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: about fashion during your whole wedding process. Does it feel
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: like you still have the opportunity to express yourself like
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: you did back then.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, for sure. Obviously the wedding was like I could
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: do the most with it the most, but I still
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: feel like, you know, we're always doing things and we
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: have events to go to, and I get to express
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: it in different ways. So maybe it's not a wedding dress,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: but it could be even on camera. Like I love
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: to change up my looks. I love to make it interesting.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Like I feel like when I feel good in what
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: I'm wearing, it just makes me kind of like show
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: up better.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, are you working with a stylist currently?
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: No?
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, currently no, This whole week.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I have things coming up and like they are requiring
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: specific looks, and I'm like, oh my god, what am
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: I gonna do? What am I gonna wear it?
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: If you had to describe your sense of personal style,
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: like what words would you use?
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I think it's kind of like casual, tomboy.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Chic, oh love the sheeic thrown in there, you know
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: what I mean?
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Like yeah, because it's like yeah, I think I think
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: that's what it would because it's very like street stylely,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: but like then sometimes it can be elevated or like
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: tomboy elevated.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Kind of for someone who's trying to home in on theirs,
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: what advice do you have for them?
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: I think wearing what makes you feel good, So like colors,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: like I know everyone's talking about like the color palette,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: but like if color Palett's telling you to wear hot
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: pink and you don't like it and you don't feel
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: good in it, like don't wear it. Yeah, kind of
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: channeling in on something that makes you feel good and
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: then like adding to it from there. And I also
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: don't think there's anything wrong with like if I find
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: a pair of ants that fit me really well, like
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: I'm getting every color. Yeah, literally every color, and yeah,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: like that's a wardrobe, Like find your staples and then
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: you can build from those staples.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Love that, But great advice here, great advice. Speaking of advice,
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: we've talked about some highs and lows from the last
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: few years from you. During one of the lows, what
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: would you say as some of the best advice that
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: you or offered that helped you get over that hurdle.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: I think something that resonates with me still that was
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: a really solid piece of advice was actually from a
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: friend of mine, and she said, you got to take
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: full responsibility for your life. And to me, that resonated
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: in every sense. So like it could be taking responsibility
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: for how I'm feeling for you know, changes that I
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: want to make for actions that I've done. So it
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: could be owning up to something and be like, you
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: know what that was wrong of me, I'm sorry, But
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: it could also be like, Okay, what you're feeling right
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: now is valid, so let's change it up, let's change
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: the direction. And I think that is something that still
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: resonates with me because I'm the one in control. Like
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: the actions you take create the life you're living. Take
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: a hold of it and it's yours. So you could
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: choose to be miserable and negative, and that's going to
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: create the life, this kind of negative life, right, Well,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: you choose to be positive, and that is going to
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: be a ripple effect of you know what happens.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I feel like I've said this analogy
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: on the show, But it's like choosing to be a
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: positive or an optimistic versus a pessimistic person. And it's
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: like as simple as walking out your door and noticing
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: what you see on the street. You either notice like
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: this puddle of dirty water because you're a pessimist, or
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: you notice like the cute elderly couple crossing the street.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Together one hundred percent. And I think I have to
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: check myself too sometimes because I can be one, I
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: could be both of those. But being like, you're responsible
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: for your life. When I tell myself that and I
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: instead of going along with that negative thought and continuing
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: that for the rest of the day, that makes me
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: switch and pivot and then I'm you know, looking for
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: the positive.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: When you feel like you're in a pattern of seeing
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: only the negatives, what can you do to shake that up?
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: It could be literally sitting down and taking a couple
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: of deep breaths and being like getting yourself together. It
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: could be meditating, like sometimes I'll throw on one of
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: our meditations five minutes and I feel like I genuinely
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: feel like a brand new human being. And you know,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of it with me is self
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: talk and just being like why are you what's going
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: on here? Why are you feeling this way? Why are
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: you being negative? And figuring it out? You know, maybe
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: it's something deeper, let's look into it, you know.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Thing, I've definitely been in some patterns as of
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: lately that I'll say these things to myself that we're
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: talking talking about, right, Like, I'll say, you're in control.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Today's the first day you can take ownership of this.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: But then I still find myself in this like not
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: so positive loop. Have you ever been in something like that?
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Totally? Yes.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: And the only way that I know how to get
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: out of it that has worked for me in the
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: past and is literally what I'm doing right now is
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: like being okay asking for help from friends.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I think that's what that's the difference there
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: is like maybe you do need help, and it's not
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: about you're not being negative. You just need help with something, yeah,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: And that's okay, yeah, ask for help. Totally figuring out
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: the difference between Okay, I'm being negative or I actually
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: need help with something, you know.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: And I think it's so easy not to want to
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: ask for help always, right, Like we want to do
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: everything on our own, yes, And oh my god, I
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: have to like be better about being like hey, yeah.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: And once you do it, you're like, oh, I'm really
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: glad I did that. That was like so beneficial and
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: I'm you know y, but the act of doing it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh so hard. I have never regretted being like, hey,
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: this thing's really important to me and I could really
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: use you to back me up on this one percent.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: But that was like something that took years for me
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: to like get over. Definitely like a childhood thing, like
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: I can handle this on my own. I don't need anybody.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: I mean saying, someone goes to your Instagram page, they
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: see this like Peppi Peloton instructor with over like something
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: like five hundred thousand followers. When you look in the mirror,
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: what is it that you see looking back at you.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: That's a question.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: I'm already sweating.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: I know, what do I see looking back at me?
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: I see I'm not good at complimenting myself or any
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: like all of that stuff which I am working on.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: But I think, yeah, when I look at myself, I
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: see a normal person. I don't see you know, yeah,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: I see myself as just a normal person living in
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: New York, working my ass off, doing it, doing the thing.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: What are you proud of that you see?
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: I'm proud that I have. This is also something that
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: I feel like I've been more aware of that I am,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: and it is making me appreciate my body. That I
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: have a body that is capable of doing things and
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: able to move and able to like that is something
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: that motivates me more than anything. So I think acknowledging
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: that and having an appreciation for my body that's not like,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: it's not all about looks. It's not. It's really barely
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: it's you know, it's like not even a fraction of it. So, yeah,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: just appreciating what I'm capable of doing physically and that
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: I'm able to do it.
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: What would you say is one of the qualities about
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: yourself that you love the most?
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: I love my sense of humor, Like when I'm around
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: people who get my humor and we're you know, we're
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: kind of going at it. I love that, Like I'm
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: just happiest when I'm laughing. Yeah, so yeah, I think
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: it'd have to be that.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Right now, you have an opportunity to offer yourself a
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: piece of advice back when you were in the transition
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: from corporate America to what you're doing now, knowing what
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: you know now, what would you tell yourself?
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: I think it would have to be the you can't
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: be everything to everyone piece of advice, because back then
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: I would have been, like, I want everyone to like me,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Why doesn't this person like like? It would have been
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: more focused on wanting to be like everything to everybody,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: And I think knowing that back then may have made
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: the try transition a little bit easier and may have
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: allowed me to be more authentic, not that I was inauthentic,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: which is less robotic, more of me and quicker.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, quicker Yeah. Would you have told yourself that?
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Though?
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: Looking back?
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: I don't think I would though, because I feel like
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: it's a lesson that I learned and I'm still learning
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: and it's allowing me to kind of evolve from who
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: I was to who I am now and who I'm
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: going to be. You know, what's the fun if it
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: just all happens at once?
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what's the fun of it. Yeah. I'm
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: so happy that we were able to do this, me too.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for coming in. For the hurdlers
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: that don't follow along with you just yet, how do
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: they keep up with you? Give us all your details.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: You can follow me on at Olivia Moato on Instagram
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: and Twitter.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: As well, and Twitter and talk and TikTok. I'm over
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: at Emily Body and at Hurdle Podcast Another Hurdle Conquered.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time.