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75. Ally Love, Founder LoveSquad, Instructor Peloton & Boss · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Emily a body here with another episode of Hurdle,
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  Speaker 1: going to be chatting with Ali Love. She is a
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  Speaker 1: total rock star and a boss, an instructor at Peloton,
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  Speaker 1: Love that Ali is a total girl boss. Not only
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  Speaker 1: is she the in arena host of the Brooklyn Nets,
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  Speaker 1: She's also an Adidas Global Ambassador. She is the founder
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  Speaker 1: of Love Squad, which you'll hear all about in today's episode,
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  Speaker 1: and also a Peloton instructor. But at the age of
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  Speaker 1: nine years old, Love experienced our hurdle moment when she
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  Speaker 1: was involved in a car accident that left her in
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  Speaker 1: critical condition. The accident left her with cracked teeth and
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  Speaker 1: a broken femur, to which doctors told her that she
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to walk for a very long time
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  Speaker 1: and the thought of playing sports was out of the picture.
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  Speaker 1: But well to this day, I can tell you this
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  Speaker 1: woman is impossible to be stopped, and she was determined
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  Speaker 1: to prove them wrong. Years later, she moved to New
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  Speaker 1: York to go to college, and she became a dancer
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  Speaker 1: for the New York Knicks. And then eventually she found
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  Speaker 1: running in hot yoga and that's really where her love
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  Speaker 1: for fitness all began. She started doing some fitness modeling
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  Speaker 1: and then eventually made her way to Peloton. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: I've got a lot of Peloton fans listening right now.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you this conversation is truly special. Ali
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  Speaker 1: is inspiring a woman. We talk about where she gets
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  Speaker 1: her tenacity from the importance of a stellar support system.
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  Speaker 1: We also talk about her faith and how that guides
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  Speaker 1: her through her day to day decisions and what life
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  Speaker 1: is like trying to fit absolutely everything in as someone
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  Speaker 1: who can relate as someone who's constantly running around. Let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you, it was pretty therapeutic to have some
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  Speaker 1: time just to chat the two of us. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to bring you our convo. You guys know
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  Speaker 1: me know what motivational tidbit you love from this episode,
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  Speaker 1: and like I said, there are a lot. If you
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  Speaker 1: have a hurdle moment of your own to share or
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  Speaker 1: the area, and I'm really looking forward to it. With that,
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  Speaker 1: let's get to hurdling today. I'm sitting down with Ali Love.
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  Speaker 1: She is a Brooklyn Nets host. She's the founder and
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  Speaker 1: CEO of the Love Squad. She's an instructor at Peloton
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  Speaker 1: and also an Adidas Global ambassador. Hey, hey, I love
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  Speaker 1: introducing people with the laundry life of accolades.
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  Speaker 2: It's like I always say, I'm a part of the
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  Speaker 2: slash generation, if not like forging the way for it,
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  Speaker 2: where it's like you're this slash.
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  Speaker 1: This slash can you give you many things in life?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's fun, especially in the fitness world, when
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  Speaker 1: people start to concept their own ideas and grow businesses
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  Speaker 1: and things. I remember in episode two, I interviewed Alex
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  Speaker 1: Silverfagan and she calls herself a fitness entrepreneur.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I love her by the way, she's exceptional a jem.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, right now, we're recording this right after the
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  Speaker 1: US Open, We're coming off of an exciting time for
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  Speaker 1: you. You did some hosting there, so first of all, tell
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  Speaker 1: me how did you get into hosting?
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  Speaker 2: So actually, I started off in New York City modeling.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to be a model, signed with Wilhelmina after
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  Speaker 2: modeling for a couple of years. It was this moment
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  Speaker 2: where it was just like, I want to use my voice.
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  Speaker 2: I love the fact that we're taking photos and I'm
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  Speaker 2: you know, doing these campaigns, but I want to have
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  Speaker 2: a point of view. I want to have a POV.
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  Speaker 2: And the only way to do that was to maybe
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  Speaker 2: do commercials where you're like learning to get familiar with
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  Speaker 2: a camera in the different way. And it was from
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  Speaker 2: took some classes on camera classes and they offered hosting
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  Speaker 2: as another as to go in tandem with these commercial classes.
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  Speaker 2: And I was just like, Okay, I'm gonna I'm taking
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  Speaker 2: these I'm taking all the classes I can take right now.
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  Speaker 2: And it was my first hosting class that I fell
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  Speaker 2: in love when I was like.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, this is what I was made to do.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was me doing like an All of
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  Speaker 2: the Lake commercial, like your Skin's clear, you know, like chras,
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  Speaker 2: like absolutely favorite toothpaste. No, it was me sitting down
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  Speaker 2: discussing topics that were meaningful and learning about people through conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I love that And is that kind of what triggered
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  Speaker 1: you to want to do a lot of the live
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  Speaker 1: events with Love Squad? And we can also break into
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  Speaker 1: what Love Squad is as well. Yeah, totally.
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  Speaker 2: It was one of those things where I enjoy sitting
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  Speaker 2: down having conversation. I think conversation changes people's lives. It
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  Speaker 2: gets your thought processes going. It really puts you in
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  Speaker 2: a position to reconsider or sometimes to consider where you
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  Speaker 2: are in your life. And it's a catalyst to many changes,
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  Speaker 2: great changes for most people. And I knew that after
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  Speaker 2: doing this hosting a basic hosting class where I was
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  Speaker 2: just like interviewing fun people on the street as our
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  Speaker 2: end of this hosting class challenge. And it was just
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  Speaker 2: in this moment that I realized, like, Hey, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot to have in conversations with people that
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  Speaker 2: are doing things in their lives, both personally and professionally.
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  Speaker 2: And it's one of those things that when Love Squad
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  Speaker 2: was birth, it was like, Hey, in order to get
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  Speaker 2: better at hosting, I got to get better at writing.
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  Speaker 2: In order to get better at writing, I got to
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  Speaker 2: get better at like talking to people about the things
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  Speaker 2: that I'm writing about. And so I created love Squad
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  Speaker 2: where we it's an inclusive collective around encouraging and inspiring
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  Speaker 2: and empowering people specifically around things that affect women through conversation,
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  Speaker 2: having those panel discussions, giving tools and tips on how
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  Speaker 2: to be effective in your personal and professional life.
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  Speaker 1: And is Love Squad a collective that's obviously New York
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  Speaker 1: City based but nationwide international or how are you activating
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  Speaker 1: in that way?
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  Speaker 2: So we're young, we're Strappie. It's two other women that
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  Speaker 2: work on the team. And yes, we are based in
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  Speaker 2: New York. And since we're a small team and we're
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  Speaker 2: still growing, our hands really reach the backs of the
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  Speaker 2: New Yorkers and those that are coming and visiting. We've
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  Speaker 2: done some of it in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: We've done some things.
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  Speaker 2: Ideally, Yes, I would love to think of us as
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  Speaker 2: a global brand, but I don't want to get too
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  Speaker 2: big for my britches in a sense of being honest
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  Speaker 2: of where we are and what we do. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're mostly in New York, and I'd say most of
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  Speaker 2: North America would know us a little bit more given
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  Speaker 2: the reach of what I have.
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  Speaker 1: Going on personally, I love the term you just use
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  Speaker 1: our hands reach the backs of New York career.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I actually ael that, you know what, I actually
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  Speaker 2: got to give a shout out. That's one of my friends,
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  Speaker 2: my friend's Christine she is her instagrams, I am, I can't,
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  Speaker 2: I will I do? And she always says that, like
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  Speaker 2: let me put my hands on your back, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: please do. And while you're there, Massajaise.
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  Speaker 1: I love something that you posted a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: You put up this post it that said put your
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  Speaker 1: ego aside and ask for help. No one has ever
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  Speaker 1: made it to the top alone. Obviously we just listed
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  Speaker 1: a ton of accolades. You're a busy, busy lady. I
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  Speaker 1: feel you very hard. So is that what you do
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  Speaker 1: when you get overwhelmed? Do you reach out to people?
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  Speaker 1: Do you ask for help? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. One of the things I do often in my
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  Speaker 2: personal life is that I'll take a feedback session, internal
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  Speaker 2: feedback session, take note of like who my friends are,
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  Speaker 2: take note of how I'm spending my time outside of work,
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  Speaker 2: take note of like how's my boyfriend and I doing?
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  Speaker 2: Like how am I doing with my family? And I
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  Speaker 2: kind of ask for feedback from those people that I
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  Speaker 2: am affecting that I'm building relationships with. So I'll ask
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  Speaker 2: my friends like how do you feel about this relationship?
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  Speaker 2: Like how can I support you better? And then do
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  Speaker 2: the exact same thing I would say bi annually professionally,
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  Speaker 2: I'll reach out to my community at Peloton and say,
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  Speaker 2: how can I service you better? What am I doing
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  Speaker 2: that you love? What am I doing that you don't
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  Speaker 2: particularly like? You want a crowd source information about what
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  Speaker 2: you're offering and who you are. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: the same thing goes for love squad. What do you
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  Speaker 2: like at these events? What do you love talking about?
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  Speaker 2: And so when asking for help, I have to ask
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  Speaker 2: for what I'm doing well so I can continue to
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  Speaker 2: do that, but also what I'm not doing well. And
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  Speaker 2: I think when I get to a point when I
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  Speaker 2: get that information, I end up reaching out to friends
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  Speaker 2: or people. I always say it's low hanging free, not
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  Speaker 2: to kind of make it sound less than what it is,
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  Speaker 2: or reach out to those people that are easy to
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  Speaker 2: connect you that I may have not connected with yet
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  Speaker 2: and asked them advice. I just sat down with someone
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  Speaker 2: I slid in their DMS who I respect and was like, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you do a lot of writing, you do a lot
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  Speaker 2: of media. How can I get more people to editors
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  Speaker 2: to write about me? How can I set myself self up?
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  Speaker 2: What are you looking for? And it's one of those
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  Speaker 2: things in a feedback session that I got with a
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  Speaker 2: friend and was like, you need more press, girl, People
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  Speaker 2: You're working hard. People need to know about you. So
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  Speaker 2: again taking that crowdsourcing information that I've crowdsourced that information
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  Speaker 2: and putting it to work and reaching out sliding into
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  Speaker 2: those dms to say, hey.
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  Speaker 1: Can you help me?
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  Speaker 2: Because again, yeah, no one's made it to the top alone, Like.
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  Speaker 1: Have you gotten to a point sometimes because I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: when you first started asking for the feedback and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it was negative, it was hard for you to deal
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  Speaker 1: with it. So how did you kind of flip the
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  Speaker 1: script to be okay with getting that negative feedback and
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  Speaker 1: then proactively doing something about it instead of internalizing it
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  Speaker 1: and maybe feel and kind of heard about it.
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  Speaker 2: I have to say it is a skill set. It's
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  Speaker 2: not about getting thicker skin. It's just switching the lens
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  Speaker 2: to which you receive information. You're gonna sit down with someone,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you respect them, maybe you know them, maybe you don't,
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  Speaker 2: and they may be a little brasher than other people
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  Speaker 2: and give it to you straight. But the reality at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day is this person's offering time
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  Speaker 2: and insight that you didn't have otherwise. So I look
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  Speaker 2: at it as personally, I respect their time enough to
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  Speaker 2: say what they're telling me they've thought about. And then
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  Speaker 2: number two, oftentimes we hear follow your heart. Most times
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  Speaker 2: I'm confused about that. I'm like, my heart's wants chipople
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  Speaker 2: and donuts. I'll follow it. But it's like knowing the
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  Speaker 2: difference of following your heart and getting feedback that may
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  Speaker 2: not be applicable to you at that moment, So differentiating
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  Speaker 2: and distinguishing feedback that you can apply right now and
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  Speaker 2: some things that you may need to just put a
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  Speaker 2: pin in for later. And that's when I would say yes,
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  Speaker 2: in that moment, gut check, take inventory of where you
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  Speaker 2: are physically, emotionally and spiritually, where you want your business
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  Speaker 2: or your personal life to go, and then make sure
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  Speaker 2: that that information is applicable at that time.
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  Speaker 1: I also think it's important. So have you ever had
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  Speaker 1: like a typical nine to five job, No.
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  Speaker 2: I needed a moment. I did have a college job,
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  Speaker 2: a job in college, and it was actually overnight. I
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  Speaker 2: worked at CVS. It was one of my first Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: homegirl had to make a living and talk about muscles real.
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  Speaker 2: I went to Fordham University and I studied. I got
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  Speaker 2: a bachelor's in Fine Arts, and through that you have
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  Speaker 2: to do academics and you have to dance, and so
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  Speaker 2: your ballet classes are used at seven am in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes six am wow. And you needed to have a
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  Speaker 2: job because you needed to be able to do school
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  Speaker 2: work to pass your classes. You need to be there
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  Speaker 2: for rehearsals for any of the additional dance pieces that
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  Speaker 2: you're part of, and of course your curriculum for dance.
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  Speaker 2: So I needed to make money and the only other
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  Speaker 2: time was to cut out a little bit of sleep
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  Speaker 2: and work at CBS from eleven to six am.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I know, this is like a twenty four or
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  Speaker 1: pharmacy or yes, wow, it's kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of like your Duane read like you're yes. And so
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  Speaker 2: I work the counter there and I would bring my
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  Speaker 2: laptop sit there because obviously it's not as much traffic
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  Speaker 2: at night, and I would sit there doing writing my
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  Speaker 2: papers and waiting, like you know, people would come in
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  Speaker 2: and purchase whatever they're to purchase. I ring them up
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  Speaker 2: for whatever how many hours that was. And I did
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  Speaker 2: that a few days a week because I needed to
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  Speaker 2: make cash. I think that was my closest to a
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  Speaker 2: nine to five. And I'm not mad about it.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, well you've been like an entrepreneur for quite
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  Speaker 1: some time. Is like what I'm trying to get at here,
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of people, I think they step into
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  Speaker 1: this path of entrepreneurship are going out on their own
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  Speaker 1: or being our contractor, and they just expect to have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these insights that you are just kind
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  Speaker 1: of throwing down right now. And what I think is
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  Speaker 1: important to drive home is that it's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: trial and error. Oh yes, and it's taken you a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time to learn and obviously every single day
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  Speaker 1: to grow and to be better. It's not like it
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  Speaker 1: just happens overnight when you're like, I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: and do all this stuff on my own.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't work like that. And I think, yes, it's
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  Speaker 2: one of again quoting a Malcolm Gladwell book, is like
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  Speaker 2: ten thousand hours before you become an overnight success, right,
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  Speaker 2: you have to put in the work. But the reality
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  Speaker 2: of the situation is on those and I set you
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  Speaker 2: birth an idea. I would strongly encourage someone to make
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  Speaker 2: sure every day you're having a meaningful conversation with someone
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  Speaker 2: that you do not know or reading something that you
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  Speaker 2: haven't read or that you would normally read, of implementing
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  Speaker 2: some advice that you wouldn't normally implement or you wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: you would in most cases disregard because you don't feel
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  Speaker 2: like it's fitting for you. Trying something new every day
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  Speaker 2: is really important. It's not about just I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: try a new food or I'm going to do bungee
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  Speaker 2: jumping something like that, but trying something new in terms
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  Speaker 2: of let me read, let me pick up the economists
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  Speaker 2: and read it. Even though my business has nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with the numbers particularly, but hey, growing a business
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  Speaker 2: affects the economy. The economy affects a growing business as
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  Speaker 2: an entrepreneur, so having some of those elements of trying
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  Speaker 2: something new every day does help your business, does help
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  Speaker 2: your idea of potentially creating a business or becoming the entrepreneur.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's scary.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's it's scary, that's all right. It's like
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  Speaker 1: I get a political newsletter in my inbox every day
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  Speaker 1: and I only subscribed for the first time because a
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  Speaker 1: man that I went to summer camp with when we
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  Speaker 1: were like eight is one of the names on the masthead,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, I'll subscribe to this newsletter. I
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  Speaker 1: read it every day on the subway. I know like
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  Speaker 1: twenty percent of what actually any of it means, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, eh, better for it. Like maybe I'll learn something,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'll start to understand something that I didn't know before.
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  Speaker 1: But politics, man, it's a tough world out there. It's
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  Speaker 1: a tough world out there. Okay. So what I'd love
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  Speaker 1: to do with you, now that we've gotten so many
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  Speaker 1: good nuggets of wisdom in the first ten minutes, is
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  Speaker 1: to kind of dial it back and hear a little
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: bit more about where you come from and then how
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: you you know you mentioned going to Fordham, so how
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: we even got there? So where did you grow up?
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: I grew up in Miami, Florida three h five all day,
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: so you're proud of it all day?
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I grew up there, Okay. And did you
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: always know that you wanted to go to school and
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: relocate to New York.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: I always knew that I wanted to become a New Yorker, absolutely,
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: so grow before I became a dancer. I got hit
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: by a car at the age of nine years old
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: and broke my left femur and almost died. So I
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: was in a hospital, and I remember like the doctor
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: was like, oh, she'll never really run, telling my parents like,
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: she'll walk, but she will never be as an athlete, like,
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: so make sure you're positioning her for a lane of
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: success that's possible. So almost I came out of the
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: hospital seven days later, and the next summer of my
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: mom's best friend put her daughter into this summer camp
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: where they offered dance, and I was like, I want
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: to get into that summer camp. And I was homeschool
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: for a year, so I was really in need of
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: socializing at the age of ten, and so I went
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: in this summer camp. They offered dance or started dancing,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: nothing too serious, and I remember the teacher was saying,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: tell my mom at one of the performances, like your
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: daughter is really talented. And my mom was like, absolutely not.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: She has no rhythm. She's not going to be a dancer.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: And I was like, actually, Mom, I love this thing.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: I want to do it more.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: And so when I was younger, every summer after that,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: I went to a ballet school where they sent a
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: group of girls and young boys to New York to
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: dance to get a scholarship. In one of the schools,
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: so like Alvin Ailey to like dance here of Harlem,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: sab So. I went to dancing of Harlem every summer
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: growing up up until high school. Throughout high school where
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I came here, I lived six weeks in New York,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: maybe it was eight weeks in New York with a
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: group of girls at my age, and we got to
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: experience New York relatively young, and I fell in love
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: with the city.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: So regardless of running after the accident, you must have
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: been moving fine.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: I was. When my mom said to the dance teacher
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: that she was not a great dancer, I think at
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: that moment she was right. I couldn't really move as
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: well as everyone else. But it was one of those
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: things where I was super determined. I fell in love
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: with dance, and I was like, this is what I
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: want to do for the rest of my life. And
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: it wasn't a matter of I of being the best
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: one in the class, who or anything like that. It
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: was just like I loved it so much that this
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: was it for me moving my body, especially when someone
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: said I would I couldn't and that I wouldn't. At
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: that age, I was pretty resilient and I mean, my
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: mom instilled it in me because I remember laying in
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: the hospital bed in the hospital and after the accident
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: had just happened and I was losing a lot of blood.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: I might need it a blood transfusion, and you know,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: think about your parents that like your little girl got hit.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: By a car.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I like a hit by car, flew up in the air,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: landed on the hood of the car and rolled off,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: and my hip was broken and broke my teeth. It
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: was just one of those things that you don't see
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: at that age, or just you don't see in life.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: And I remember having this conversation. Some things never leave
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: you as a kid, as we all know, having this
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: conversation and my mom told me, there's nothing I can
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: do for you at this moment in life. I wish
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I could trade places. There's nothing I can do for
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: you at all. However, there's something you can do for yourself.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: And we're religious people and we believe in God. And
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: she's like, you have to pray to God to save
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: your life, and you have to trust him and believe
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: him that he's going to and you have to have
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: you need to have a will to live. So if
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: you want to live it's possible, but you are going
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: to need that will and you have to make that decision.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: So giving life or death to a nine year old
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: in a bed after being going through something that was
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: devastating was a huge responsibility and undertaking and it was
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: something that my mom offered me, and it's something that
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: I will never forget because decisions like that at nine
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: years old has never left me. When you come to
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: New York, think about where you are in life. You
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: have to make huge decisions and making decisions aren't easy,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: and making no decision is still making a decision. So
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: at nine years old, I had to make a decision
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: and I never stopped and never stopped making that decision
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: to choose the life, to choose to live.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: So choose to live, and then choose to dance. And
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: absolutely you knew from those summers coming up to New
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: York that you wanted to come here as soon as
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: you got the chance. For a much longer period of time.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Well, as you can tell, I do speak fast. I
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: do a lot of things fast, and so does New York.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, I've found a.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Rhythm that match is my heartbeat.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: And I was like, this is where I belong. I
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: found my tribe of go getters, of people that are
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: determined that, yeah, we get down at times, we cry,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: you know, we eat a lot of donuts, and then
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: we move on and we bossed up at to that,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: you know, and I think that that's something that I
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: truly love about this city.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you did you know you wanted to go
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: to Fordham or how did that?
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that I wanted to go to Fordham.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: But my mom did the right thing. My parents did
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: the right thing. My mom and dad was like, you
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: have to go to college. You can do dance, you
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: can go be a dancer, you can move to New York,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: can do whatever you want, but one request is you
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: have to graduate. And they were right. It gave me
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: a safe haven, a safe bubble to experience a big
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: city in so you know, you're protected. In college, you
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: have things to do, their structure. Instead of moving up
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: here alone and saying, oh my god, what do I
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: do do I keep auditioning and things like that. A
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: lot of people do that and they do very well.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I am very grateful that I went the route of school.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, so in school, when you moved to the big city,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: what's different when you move here full time versus when
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: you're coming to like visit. Does it hit you in
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: this big way that you're like, oh my god, this
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: is actually my home.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: It was the yeah, it hit me that way, but
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: it was actually the opposite in terms of, OMG, I
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: have a shot, this is my shot.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: I truly felt when I got I came one way ticket.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Your family drops you off at the airport, tries not
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: to cry. You're like, mom, stop crying. My dad's the worst.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: He's the one that cries the worst. He cried, and
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: he was just like, you can do this, and I
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: think you were built for this. And so wa one
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: way ticket to New York City came here and I
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: was just like, no one's going to stop me. No
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: one's going to stop me. And I think that no
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: one has.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I've had.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I've had some rough times like we all have, and
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: just like being get hit by a car, I would
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: never change that in a million years. But I one
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: of the things that I always say, like, there's something
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: truly beautiful and being basic and going back to the basics,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: and it's humbling to think of that experience in times
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: that I'm sad and overwhelmed, and times that I get
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: those no's, and times that I have to start over,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: in times where I feel.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Like nothing's working out for me.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: When it of course rains, it pours, it floods, I
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: have to think of that moment of just being grateful
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: that was a moment you could have died and you're
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: living in. Yes, it's hard, but you keep pressing cold.
• 22:10
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  Speaker 1: that you're going to graduate and do this full time? Yeah?
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Hi, Yeah, you're Her face just lit up.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: It was Christmas morning.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: I yes, I love dancing. I loved it so much.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: It was not until so I had that like, yes,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: this is it for me. It was not until I
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: was about to graduate my senior year I was doing
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: like these internships with companies and performing that I realized
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: how hard and challenging it was to live in New
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: York City on a dancer's salary. I we need to
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: change that. One two dancers are not wrecking their body,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: but putting their body through so many challenges to do
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: what they love and not being able to afford sometimes
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: their apartment alone, like you have to have a roommate,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: and not all dancers. Everything's different, but for the most part,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: once I realized that, I was just like, you know what,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: I don't think that I need to I want to
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: go down that path of being a starving artist. It
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: can be fulfilling, but it's not I don't think it
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: was my lot in life. And so I found I
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: met someone who was like a friend of mine who
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: was like, models, make this, this and this. And I
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: was like, you're telling me that not moving my body
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: but using my body to take photos, not necessarily have
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: live art, is going to yield me more income to
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: able to live in the city and continue to create
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: the life that I want and to continue to dance
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: on the side. And they were like yes, And so
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I went down the modeling route. I went into a
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: friend of a friend recommended me. I went into Wilhelmina
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: and they gave me a contract and it was one
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: of those things like not that doesn't happen all the time,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: But I also reached out to like a ton of
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: agencies and my research and was like, hey, I'm this
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: non model trying to be a model and make money,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: and somebody said yes, after really knocking down a lot
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: of doors.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Do you remember your first modeling job.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I actually went into fitness modeling because you one
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: of the things when you're building a brand and building
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: a business. One of the things that I didn't realize
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: that I did at that age, but was great that
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I did was find a pocket, find an area and
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: a niche that worked for me. So I didn't have
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: this dream of becoming like Victoria's secret supermodel, because there
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: was an aesthetic that went along with that. Whether right
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: or wrong, there is, you know, a way to get there.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: It's not impossible. But I knew that because I was dancer,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I was athletically built.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: There was a new arise of.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Athletic modeling, of sports modeling, and I was like, you
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: know what, this is a way, this is an area
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: that I could potentially make a market. It's something I
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: could potentially flourish at. And so I went in to
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: become a fitness model and that was how I found
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: my Yes, it wasn't like I'm going to all of
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: a sudden become some high fashion model or hands model
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: or whatever, which I really want to be one day.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: But my first client I went in. I remember going
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: into my it was my first casting, just got signed
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: to an agency, went into the agency. There were legit
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty models in this room, stunning people
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: like you walk in and I was super blonde at
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: the time. I had big blonde, curly atro and it
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: was under armour, and I remember sitting in this meeting
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: and I guess, again, it's like brandings. Some of the
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: things you think about you don't think about when branding
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: are so essential. I went into an area of fitness
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: that I knew that I could do well in. I
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: sat in that room and I said, what makes me
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: different than these people sitting here? Everyone's super nice most
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: of them. People are probably nervous. Everyone looked good, everyone's
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: a model. What's the outlier here? What is the one
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: thing they don't expect from models? And it was to
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: have a great personality. So I had sat there for
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: an hour and a half and I was like, I'm
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: going to go into this meeting and I'm going to
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: be human. I'm going to introduce myself and talk to
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: them like they're real people. That's gonna sit on the
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: other side of the table. And I remember walking into
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: my first casting and I was like, hey, everybody, how
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: are you? How are you doing today? And then I
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: kind of made a joke. I was like, I don't
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: know how you are handling looking at all these beautiful
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: people and making a decision, so like, God bless you,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: and they started laughing. And it was that moment. And
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: I will later find out they became my longest client
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: I've ever had in my career. I probably worked for
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: under Armour for five six years, modeling with them, but
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: it helped me live in New York financially. And I
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: remember having a conversation maybe a year or two later
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: with those same women who hired me, and they said,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: you were different. You walked in, you had a personality,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: You looked at us like we were human, and that's
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: why we wanted to work with you. Everyone looked beautiful
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: and was fit the type we wanted to work with,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: someone who was easy to work with and that we
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: did enjoy working with.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: And I think a lot of the time when people
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: walk in for some sort of interview that they're like
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: so scared, and it's hard to put that fear to
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: the side, and that can also then mask a little
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: bit of your personality. So to be so open and
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: just treating them like it's a normal conversation, that's nine
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: times out of ten again in your situation, especially going
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: to give you a leg up, which is critical. All right,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: So we book under Armour, and then we book other things,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: and now we're just modeling and dancing, and so we're dancing.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: I was dancing for the nixt I got. I went
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: to a cast an audition five hundred girls. I wanted
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: to continue to dance, and while I was trained in
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: concert dance and it wasn't necessarily trained in like this
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: commercial world, I went into the audition and booked the
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: job and it was about twenty two women on the team.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Was amazing because I created friends once I was out
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: of college, created friends during college and out of college,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: and lifelong friends from there. And then I was performing
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: at Madison Square Garden, one of the biggest stages in
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: the world, one of the best arenas in the world,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: and that too afforded me an opportunity to do what
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I love, continue to model because the games were at night.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Continue to model and shoot during the day and make
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: some money. So I found that that was a hybrid.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: And during that time I would dance for Beyonce. I
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: dance with pit Bull, I danced with White Cleth. I
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: would pick up these odd jobs, commercial dancing, doing what
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I loved.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, what was it like to dance with Beyonce?
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: It was speechless, given that is how songs you write.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: But I've never one of the things. I remember being
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: in a room with her, having a one on one
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: with her and the choreographer. Choreographer and watching Beyonce work
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: is unlike anything I've ever seen. She came in the
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: room in the morning at eight am and didn't leave.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: This is by herself. She didn't leave the rehearsal space
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: and until like eleven o'clock at night rehearsing. And it
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: wasn't like we stopped for lunch. It wasn't she ate,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: but it was like, oh, someone brought in food. She
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: ate and she got back and it was like quite
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: like she I've never seen someone so hard working in
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: a personal space that up close in my life.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: It's really special, very special, and it's like when someone
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: you can see truly brings like makes their passion their purpose.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure you can relate to that in so
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: many levels with what you're doing with the Love Squad.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: But it's like when you see that in someone, you
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: see like the light in their eyes, and it's so
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: much different than someone that's just going through their day
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: to day an autopilot.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: And I mean she allowed me in that space with
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: her as a young woman, Like as a young girl
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: trying to create my career. She could have been like, no,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: I just need the choreographer. She was like, no.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Problem, Like Ali can come in.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: It was just like she was human. It was that human,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: approachable element of Beyonce that also gave me that wild
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: factor of her And that's something that I do try
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: to remind it and how I navigate Love Squad, it's
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: that approachability. No matter how big we are, we need
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: women to sit on a stage and give you those
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: tools and concepts that you can and how to most important,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: how to do some things so that we can help
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: other women and other people in general find their path
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: and continue to create their space.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: I think, And that's a really important note to hit
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: on as well. It's like, how can I help build
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: up other people, and how can I offer what I
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: know to enrich somebody else. It's never going to be
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: about oh well, if I offer this to someone, then
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: they might do X, Y Z. Well that you're looking
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: at it the wrong way. Then it's like, all right,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I'm willing and ready to help someone else, not because
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I'm necessarily looking for anything in return or scared of
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: what they might do with that intel. I'm doing it
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: because I know that I have the opportunity to do so.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: That's so powerful.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: It's a gift, and it reminds me I'm going to
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: really bring like butcher this a little bit. But there's
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: like some parable in the Bible where like God gives
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: this guy some talents and he instead of using the talent,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: he buries the talents. And it's when you bury the talent,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: you have your talentless. And then he gives other talents
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: to another person, another guy, and he uses those talents
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: and from using those talents, he gain greater talents. So
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: his talents only multiply and he creates a life for himself.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: And I think that that is the reality helping others,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: the art of helping others. Is that a true art,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: and the more you help others and get information out there,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: the more your talents will increase. The more you know,
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: opportunity said, you get from that.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: So let's talk about adding to the talent roster for
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: you then, because you're modeling and you're dancing with the
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: next and then when does fitness become an even bigger
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: part of your life.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: It's the moment that everything gets hard. It was the
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: moment where, at this time, a part of what I
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: was doing, I kept my night job, not necessarily at CBS,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: but I also did bottle waitressing in New York City.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: I kept the night hustle. It continued, like outside of
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: modeling and then dancing for the Knicks, I was a
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: bottle waitress. I was able to kind of like stack
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: my paper and make sure I was living a comfortable
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: life to continue to pursue the things I loved. But
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: it came to a point in my life where you
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: can know longer, and I'm sure some people can identify
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: that are listening. You get to a point in your
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: life and you're like, why am I doing this? And
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: you no longer have an answer, and if you don't,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: you can't answer the questions of why and how when
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: it comes to what you're doing in life and who
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: you are, that's a moment you.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Got to stop.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: So I had to make the decision where I stopped
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: dancing for the nixt I had to make the decision
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: where I stopped bottle waitressing. And it was a moment
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: where I wasn't doing anything. I was still modeling, but
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: as you know, modeling seasonal, so there were weeks where
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: I'd have one casting, some that i'd have none, you know.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: So it was one of those moments where I had
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: a lot of time on my hands. I was confused
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: on what I wanted in life, who I was, And
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: there's a difference between being busy and being productive and
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: I knew that, and I had to take a moment
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: where I was saying, there's no longer, this isn't the
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: season to continue.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: To be busy. I need to produce.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: I need to be productive, and the only way to
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: do that is to sit still for a moment, be sad.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Struggle a little bit in terms of asking myself these
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: questions that were super answerless, and I didn't have the answer.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: So I'm all about the how to. I got three
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: books around three people that I looked up to that
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: I ultimately wanted to model my career. After I read
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: their books, I read articles, I sat home a lot,
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: I looked up a lot of information. At that time,
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: podcasts were just coming in, but not to the extent
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: they are now. But I listened to a lot of speeches,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: a lot of Ted talks, and I ended up getting
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: into yoga. I started praying a lot, and during this
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily meditate. I pray and doing my prayers,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: I started wanting to move a little bit. So I
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: started going to hot yoga. And it was the time
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: of stillness, in the time of movement and finding that
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: stillness internally that I figured out, wait a minute, there's
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: something here. I love this. So I started running with
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: a friend and through running, I was just like, I
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: love moving my body in a different way. How can
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I do this? And I was still hosting. I was
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: still putting myself out there. I was taking That was
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: when I started taking hosting classes. It was getting being
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: still that I was like, I want to do on
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: camera work. I want to have a voice, I want
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: to I want to magnify, I want to be on
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: a bigger platform. And I created a reel that was
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: really janky and sent it to everyone. It was like,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: I will host your kids' birthday parties. I will, and
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: this is all. These things would come to me while
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: I was doing yoga, while I was running, and I
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: was just like, I gotta do things for free to
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: get something for money. And I don't have this skill
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: set yet. I can practice all day, but doing it
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: for real is Doing it for real is experience. And
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: it was a friend who said, they're looking to Brooklyn.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Nets move to Brooklyn. You were just in the NBA.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: You stopped dancing for the next you know how this works.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: They're looking to phill a spot because the girl that's
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: currently doing it their first season wants to change. And
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: she's like, I'm going to move your resume and reel
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: along to our senior vice president of entertainment. And I
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: was like, yeah, go for it. Yeah sure, like I
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: could do that, absolutely terrified. She sent it along and
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: they called me in for a meeting and they were like, okay, great,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: we want to offer you the job. And I was
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: like no, no, no, no, like I don't have any experience
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: and that They're like, yeah, it's okay. You know how
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: the NBA works, You've done your research, you have a
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: great personality. Let's give it a go. So it's only
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: like half a season left, let's bring you in. And
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: I went from speaking to zero people to speaking to
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: eighteen thousand people at Barclay Center. And it was because,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: and I really it was because four months of just
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: being by myself, of being productive, of getting the word out,
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: of figuring out answering those questions of what I want
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: to do, taking those hosting classes, finding the aha moment
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: after my first hosting class and saying like, oh, no, no, no,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: this is it. This is what I meant, this is
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: what I'm born to do. And I know it wasn't
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: the only thing, but it was one of those things
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: that I was like, I have to pursue this to
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: make sure. And I encourage anyone that in this moment
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: of just being busy. I'm not telling anyone to quit
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: their nine to five. You got to pay your bills.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: What I am saying is taking moment to scale back
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: on going out, scale back on doing the odd jobs,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: scale back on just doing things because you just said
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: yes and saying no to a lot of things and
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: saying no to yourself sitting home and finding that moment
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: of stillness or those moments of stillness, maybe through yoga,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: maybe through fitness. And it was like fitness that brought
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: me to those moments of I know what I want
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: to do now.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: First follow up question, what are the three books?
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Oh? So it was Ryan Seacrest because I was like
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Ryan Seacrest's host extraordinaire. Oh yeah, yeah, I read his book.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: I read I always Padma lashed me book because she
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: was a TV host from a model, so Ryan was
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: a host. I wanted to be a host. Padima was
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: a model turned TV host. She did cooking more so
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: like food was her lane. And then of course Oprah
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: and I knew. I knew Obrah was in there, like
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: everyone should read everything about Oprah. And it was one
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: of those things where I was like, this is the
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: hybrid of everything that I want to do or want
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: to be. So and I remember my boyfriend, who is
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: very pivotal in my store. I always say, you have
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: to find an Andrew. There's this thing of like, I
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: don't know. I read a book and the chapter was
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: find your Andrew, and I was like, oh, I found mine.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: But it was someone who changed that person's life. But
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: find your Andrew is truly a part of my story.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Find that person that's going to give it to you real,
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: give it to your right and not back down. And
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: he's that person still in my life. And he was like,
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: you got to stop doing what you're doing. It's okay
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: not to make money right now. It's okay to not
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: have an answer when your friends say, so what are
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: you up to. It's okay to say nothing, that you're
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: figuring it out.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: It's okay.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I found my Andrew and that where he
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: was just like, this isn't the first You're not the
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: first person to be lost. Read a book on someone
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: who's doing what you want to do.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: When did you guys meet?
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: We met? I think it was me when I first
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: started dancing for the Knicks. We met. We met in
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: a club. I get that because people are just like,
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: how did you meet? I stay in the club. Let
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: me keep it real. We met at a club, and
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: that's how funny enough, that's how my mom and dad met.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Really, yeah, I know you knew it was okay, it
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: was happy.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So we met in the club, and yeah, we've
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: been slumming it ever since.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, then the second follow up question is talk to
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: me about that feeling you got when you walked out
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: on the court for the first time, because I'm sure
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: with a microphone in your hand, it's very different than
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: when you were dancing with the next So dancing from
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: the next I was chop boss.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: I was like, you walk out, you have the comfort
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: level of being with like sixteen other women. In my mind,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: everyone's just in all of our minds, everyone's just watching us.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: But like, if you miss the step, you can follow
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: someone else, but when you're on the court, when you're alone,
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: you're truly alone. I walked out, and honestly, it was
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: the worst ever. It was probably the worst hosting anyone
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: has ever done. But I remember having an earpiece in
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: and someone saying you're going in ten, You're going in
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: five and four. And I walked out on that court
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: and I was terrified, extremely scared, but I knew I
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: had to do it. And of course Andrew's advice. Right
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: before I went on, he had texted me, this is
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: the worst. I don't and this could be good or red.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: It was great to hear this is the worst you're
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: ever going to do. That's okay, and I was like, Okay,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: this is going to suck. I'm going to be bad,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: and that's okay because I'd never done it before. And
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: obviously the first time you do anything, it's your worst time.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Most times it's your worst time, and it can only
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: grow from there. And that's what you want, truly. You
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: want to come in doing anything average at best, so
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: that your story is like I was the comeback kid.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: I did okay. So I did absolutely terrible and I
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: was terrified and I was reading this paper. The paper
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: was covering my face. But my shoes were cute and
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: my outfit was nice and my hair was laid. So
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: I will say that made me feel better about the pictures,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: not necessarily the video pictures looked great.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I looked fabulous doing that.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: You gotta find the upside of it. My risks are
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: my wrists are pretty today? I don't know.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I mean this morning, I walked out of the house
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: and I opened my airpod's case and one of the
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: air pods was missing. And in my head, I was like,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: it's been three years and I haven't lost an AirPod.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: So I mean, let's find upside. Upside. Yeah, maybe it's
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: time for me to pay my dues seventy nine dollars
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: single AirPod replacement fee. Googled that real quick. Okay, so
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: you're hosting, Yes, and things get better because they have to.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: They do.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: They have to.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Things get better. I practice a skill, I fall in
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: love with it even more. The Brooklyn Nets couldn't give
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: them more of a shout out. Afforded me the comfort
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: without being breathing down my neck. In terms of every
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: time I'd come up the court, they were like, great job,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: good job.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Like they build me up.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: They allowed me space to build my confidence and something
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: that I had never done. And it was a unique
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: and it's still unique because I still do it to
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: this day. I'm one person in New York City that
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: does that. I own a court, I own an arena.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: I'm the only woman on that court. I walk out
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: with heels every single time, and I speak to the arena.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: I do in game hits, live hits every time out
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: where the it's marketing plug, interviewing someone, interviewing a coach,
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: interviewing a player, interviewing a celebrity, or just doing a
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: fun game with some of the fans. That are happening.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: That's happening, and it's just like it gave me experience
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: and it put me in positions to get jobs. People
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: are like, oh, allie does that here? Who's that girl?
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Let me hire her for this or let's find out
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: more about her.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: I offered your name to someone the other day who
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: asked me to do a hosting job that I couldn't do.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about it, we'll talk about app Thanks for.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: The flub, but yeah, seriously, it's like it's the same thing,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: like with podcasting or like with moderating panels, like you
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: do it once and someone's like, well, this person does
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: this thing, so maybe they can do this thing for
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: our thing that we need to do, you know, so
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: to your testament of do it once and get it again.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you might have to do it for free,
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: and that's okay.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember when I sat down with Gunnar Peterson.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: He said he said, never do something for free, and
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: I said, I asked to him, well, what about when
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: someone asks that of you? He's like, well, then ask
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: yourself a beyond money, what are you gaining from this opportunity?
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Because it's not always like someone's going to hand you
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: a stack of hundo's and be like thank you.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: So much.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: But who do you get to meet from this opportunity?
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: What do you get to do? Like, what do you gain?
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: What do you learn? Think about it that way before
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: you think all money.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: And that's exactly That's exactly how I weigh options to
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: this day. When I mentioned earlier about making a decision.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: In making decisions, the upside is either a capital gain
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: where you're saying, like, I'm going to make some income
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: from this, this is justifiable, or it's a platform game
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: where it's like I'm going to get exposure to new people,
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: I'm going to get to practice my craft, I'm going
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: to get more experience. I'm gonna like You're able to
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: leverage this in two ways financial gain or platform gain gain,
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: and that is really important. So nothing is necessarily free
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: because you're getting that platform.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get back to it. You are hosting for the
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  Speaker 1: nets and it's going really well. When does Peloton come
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  Speaker 1: into the picture?
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: So hosting for the nets? What ends up happening first
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: was I started getting into the Instagram game and was like,
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: you know what, I want to continue to brand myself
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: as fitness model and I would I remember doing a
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: shoot doing some Adidas, wearing some Adidas. I was like,
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: I want to play the angle of Adidas. I've never
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: worked with them and any of my modeling jobs, and
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: I'd like to get in with them. So I got
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: a guy to take some photos of me and Adidas
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: posted them. Adidas reached out and they had it. Kind
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: of was a trifecta. At this point, Adidas reached out
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: in terms of we want to you to build some content.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: I had created love Squad in order to be a
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: great host. As I mentioned, I wanted to make sure
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: that I was expanding my vocabulary and gaining writing skills.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: So I started writing about fitness, writing about my yoga sessions,
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: writing about running, writing about you know, doing waking up early,
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: getting these things done, being a boss at that moment
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: or in that time. And it was then that they
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: hired me for a campaign their offices in Germany. At
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: that point, I wanted looked for an host in New
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: York City, a woman, and they hired me for a
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: soccer event to host, and then on top of that,
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: they reached out for me to do some content. They
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: started out what I was doing on lovesquad Dot com
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: asked me to do content for Adidas, and so I
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: started creating content for them. So it was one of
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: those things where I shot their campaign in Miami. Shortly after,
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: I created some content for their California team and hosted
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: an event for their Germany team in New York, and
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: we had that conversation of like, we want you to
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: be an ambassador, a global ambassador for us. It all
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: ended up working out where I was the perfect one
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: of the perfect persons to represent the brand globally. And
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: it was from there that I met Robin Arzan and
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: I became fast friends, very close friends to this day.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: And she saw what I was doing with Love Squad
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: and I was hosting co hosting an Adidas event in
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: the Hamptons, and I had invited her. She was on
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: the list of like invites because we each ambassador, she
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: was a global ambassador at the time, will get these
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: one off events, and so she was like sitting next
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: to me on dinner and she was just like, you
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: have to do peloton and I was like, oh, nope,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: I'm good girl. I'm gonna take these shots and dance
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: like we were having like a party at that point,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: and she was like no, no, no, no. What you're
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: doing with Love Squad and how you're empowering the community,
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: and how you are athletic in terms of you run,
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: you can host, you have on camera skills, you're athletic,
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: and you're empowering the community. People need to hear about
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: Love Squad and what you're doing, and Peloton's a platform
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: for that. And I was like, I'm good, don't want
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: to cycle. Sincerely, thank you, but no, thank you. And
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: of course, if anyone knows Robin, she doesn't really take
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: no for an answer. Very get back to New York
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: going into one of uh I was fit modeling at
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: the time for Victoria's Secret, going to my job and
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: I get a text from someone at Peloton was like, great,
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: we have you for an audition. We have you set
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: up for an audition like next week. We want to
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: meet you before and I was like, wow, thanks Rob,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: thanks thanks my girl.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: That no did not really happen.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: So I was like, you know what, why not?
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: I know that?
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: I know in life you get your career, or of
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: finding out what you want to do in life comes
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: through two ways. Either you know it since you're born,
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: and no one can deviate, No one you don't deviate
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: from that plan or someone tells you what you're good
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: at and what you should be doing. And so I
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: trusted the instinct and I trusted her and more so
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: and said, you know what, she's my friend.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: I do trust her.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: And I went in for the meeting, went in for
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: the audition, got on that bike. Was not a cyclist,
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: was not a fitness instructor. Now mind you. I was
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: running and taking some fun yoga hot yoga class looms
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: and that was it. And of course I took dance,
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: and I was a dancer. Was not teaching anyone anything,
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: and nor did I want to. But I got on
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: that bike, and I realized in that moment or shortly
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: after that moment, there were four cameras, there was a
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: producer downstairs. It was live, It was broadcasted to thousands
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: of people at that time. And I was like, wait
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: a minute, you're telling me I can empower, I can
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: work out, and I can do things where their cameras involved.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: That's such a mod option.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, And I ended up realizing the opportunity set and
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: what they were offering, and I said yes to it,
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: and I was like, Okay, I need an assistant now
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: because I'm not giving up anything. I'm doing Love Squad,
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: I'm hosting for the NETS, I'm keeping Peloton, and I'm
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: going to be a Didas Global Ambassador continuously. And that's
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: kind of how it all came together. One of the
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: things I will say before your next question is I
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: get this often. What do all those things have in common?
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: One of the things that I've always wanted to do
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: was be in the Lime Live, hence being a dancer.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with them, any of that. If that,
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: if you are that person, own it. I'm always want
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: to be front and center.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: I love on camera work.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: I love being in front of the camera, and I
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: love speaking every one of those things, whether it's an
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: Adidas Global Ambassador, I moderate panels, I'm in campaigns, I'm
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: talking about my story of how fitness has influenced and
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: changed me. Peloton instructor, I'm empowering real time through fitness.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: While you're on the bike.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: I get to say the things that are really truly
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: inspirational to thousands of people. Nets live on camera that
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: eighteen thousand people. You can't take that back. Love Squad
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: panel discussions around in empowerment building businesses, things giving offering,
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: how to's, all of those things. Have those things in
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: common live on camera encouragement.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: I love it. Where do you gain your inspiration from
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: When you're inspiring so many other people, It's really.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: Important that you listen to other people's journeys so you
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: cannot This is why I say, sit down with people,
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: ask them, not only ask them for help, but ask them.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: What you can do for them.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: So whenever you're feeling in those moments of feedback, when
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: I have those bi annual feedback sessions that I have
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: with internal and externally personally and professionally, I sit down
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: with those people and I learn about their stories, I
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: ask them for advice, I take their advice, and then
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: I'm truly inspired by them. And so in those times
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: where it gets tough, I'm overwhelmed, I'm ran down, I'm tired,
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: I remember those words of Wisdoms, just like you quote it.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: You quote someone that has truly.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Touched you because they've afforded you time.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: And that's really important. So when I think of how
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: I'm inspired, I do listen to a lot of podcasts.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: I do listen to a lot of sermons. So Stephen
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Ferdick is a pastor of Elevation Church. And I would say,
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: at this point in my life, he has been Outside
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: of Andrew, my boyfriend, has been the most influential voice.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: And he doesn't know this influential voice in my head
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: when it comes to inspiring people, he.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Gets it.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: He gets it. He's truly blessed by God. He gets it.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: And whenever I'm down, whenever I'm up, I listen to him.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: He reminds me of what God has done for me.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: He reminds me of what God is doing, how God
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: is moving in my life. And one of the things
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: I learned is it's not always how do you say
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: fun or welcoming to maybe talk about religion or spirituality.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: But I think it's my lot in life is that
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: we get so caught up in what.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Someone should look like, or what a religious.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: Person might sound like, or I mean, what someone with
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: curly hair acts like, or what a black person should
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: do or what a white We get so caught up
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: in these stereotypes, and it's important that we break those
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: stereotypes down. And so, yeah, I'm religious, and yeah I
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: believe in God, and some of the things that we
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: hear aren't truly what it looks like to be a
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: religious person.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: Those are just Takemas, those are just Sarah types.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: So I think that it's important that I that's a
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: part of my journey and a part of my conversation
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: because yeah, I think we get caught up in what
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: these people look like or what they believe and how
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: they hate us or hate that, Like that's not who
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: I am. I'm inclusive.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: I mean parallel that to the social media life, like
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: I mean the highlight reel that is Instagram, Facebook, whatever,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: wherever you're consuming that kind of content. It's you see
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: that and it's like, this is how I should be
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: or how I should act, or what I should do,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Like if I'm not doing this much running or if
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not doing this much whatever it is, then you
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: have this inferiority complex that you're messing something up. But
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: the beauty is is that you get to define every
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: day who it is that you are, and by offering
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: your authentic self to the world, like there's only one you.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: So then what like if you're trying if you're spending
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: all your time trying to be somebody else or trying
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: to fit some type of mold that you're perceiving from
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: somebody else, like you're wasting your time and also.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: Getting caught up and being nervous to be who you are,
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: because I know I did deal with the fear of
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: like should I tell people that I believe in God?
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: Did I even say Jesus is the name to it?
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: And it's like, at the end of the day, people
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: are going to love me, and some people aren't gonna
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: love me, and they're gonna love me whether I am
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: myself or not. It's just that that's just the nature
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: of life. And I truly encourage anyone who's listening own
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: all areas of you. I'm not saying I'm perfect. I'm
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: not saying I will ever be, because I subscribe to
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: being real beyond being perfect. I'm not saying I'm the
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: perfect this, or that I'm not the perfect peloton instructor
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: just like I'm not the perfect like Christian, Like I'm
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: not any the perfect anything. I'm not the perfect girlfriend.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: Like however, I'm okay with being basic sometimes i am
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: and I'm okay with bossing up and other times. And
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: I think that if you're ever struggling with not only
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: just what it should look like, but struggling with exposing
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: who you are completely. I really encourage you to think
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: about it and.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Do it.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: Take a risk on yourself, because no one else is.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: I think also, it's like that important saying that says,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: if you try to be a leader or a person
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: for everyone, then you're a leader or a person for
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: no no one, for no one, not at all. Noll boy. Now, okay,
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: So how do you then, when you're taking so much
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: time to give back to your partner, to peloton, to
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: the hosting, to everything you're constantly giving and giving and giving,
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: how do you give back to you? What do you
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: do for you? Oh?
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: I'm glad you didn't ask me. What's self care?
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: What do you just do something for you? Yeah?
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: What do I do for me? I think all of
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: those things are pretty selfish. I'm gonna be honest, I'm
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: gonna be super real and transparent. I think that everything
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: that I do is selfish, and I'm okay with admitting that.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: I just talk about being your whole self. I think
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: when you can admit who you are and what you're
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: doing and why you're doing it, you get yourself to
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: People love you more in terms of they feel safe.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: They love you more because they feel safe with you
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: because they're like, she's not hiding, she's not living in
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: this like false reality. So for me, all of those
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: things are for me. I do these things because I
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: love them. They feed me. They are a part of
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: who I am since I was a kid. They afford
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: me the best opportunity set to bring a family into
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: this world to live a comfortable life. I'm truly going
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: to be honest in that, and I think, so when
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: I think of it, what am I doing for me?
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: I'm doing those things for me. I'm doing those things
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: because if I didn't do those things, I'd be doing
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: things that were for everyone else.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: And right now, when you're on the biker obviously on Instagram,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: you have a great following there. When you take a
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: second and step back, the people that follow you, they
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: see who you are from that lens. They see this
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: business woman and a Peloton instructor and a Brooklyn Net's
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: host and all the things. But when you look in
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: the mirror, what is it that you see?
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: I see a woman who's ready to change the world.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: And I don't have all the answers on how to
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: do that, but I know one of the things that
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: I speak about is bossing up, creating a standard, establishing
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: a tone. You can walk in any room and change
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: a tone, whether for good or for bad. You can
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: create a standard. No need to worry about the rules
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: when you're setting standards. And it's one of those things
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: where I truly subscribe to that. Personally, I truly believe
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: in the good, the bad, the unknown about myself, listening
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: to feedback from people implementing those things. But when I
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: look in the mirror, I do see myself as a
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: game changer. I do see myself as someone who is
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: going to blaze a trail of redefining and recreating what
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: an entrepreneur looks like, what a woman of this century
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: looks like, and what it means to really inspire the
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: next generation. Again, not don't have all the answers, but
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: that's what that's who I see myself as when I
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: look in the mirror. Not easy comes with a lot
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: of responsibility, But I.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: Don't choose easy.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: So good.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: On the days where you wake up and maybe you've
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: gotten like a no or someone has like really knocked
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: you down, what do you do or what have you
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: changed to be able to still see that person in
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: the mirror, Because I think That's what a lot of
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: people struggle with, right, It's like what one rejection, that
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: one problem, that one person that makes them feel lesser
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: than or without? What do you tell that person who
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: feels without at that moment?
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, it's not always like cotton, Kenny Drummond, whatever
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: is it? Cotton, candy, rain, drafts and doughnuts.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: In my life, on.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Those moments that I am sad and that when I
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: do look in the mirror and I can't find that girl,
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: I can't find that woman, I can't find that person,
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: I allow myself to just be. I know that sounds
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: so crazy, but I always say, feel all the feels.
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: So if you want to cry, cry and I do cry.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: I cry a lot. Actually I don't cry because I'm
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: always sad, but I cry because I need to get
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: it out. I don't want to hold it in. I
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: don't want to like pretend. That's also a form of pretending.
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: Like if I keep practicing this and preaching like be
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: your full self, like be who you are, it's like
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: I have to be that person too. And some days
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: when I feel lost and I definitely want to give up,
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: a lot of times I feel that way. I get
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: into that mood and allow myself to feel that way.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: And I also reach out to friends, like I need
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: to vent. I'll send a voice note quick to somebody
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: like here's a vent, here's a rant. Feel free to
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: turn it off at any but I need to get
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: this out. Obviously someone that I feel safe with or
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: that I built a relationship with. But I I tell
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: anyone around me feel all the feels, Yeah, allow yourself.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: You can't.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: The worst advice is when someone says you should just
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: feel confident, you should.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: Just be this. I'm like, if I could be, if
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: I could feel that, I would.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: So it's like I can't push myself to a point
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: to feel something or be something that I'm not ready
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: to feel or be. So sometimes, yeah, I'm going to
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: get out of the slump. Maybe in a day. Sometimes
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: it's gonna take me a month. Sometimes I'm gonna sometimes.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: I mean this year, earlier, this year I dealt with
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: it was month of February, six weeks, I would say,
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: February to March anxiety AF I could not get myself together.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: Imagine running a business having two women, like two employees,
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: So what should we be doing? I'm like, honestly, I
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: can't even answer. I don't know. I didn't brush my
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: teeth today. I can't roll out of bed right now,
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: like and then have to do that where yeah, I
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: do push through when it's on peloton, but even in that,
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: when I'm on that bike, I'm like, anybody in this
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: room stuff right now, please put your HANDU because I'm
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: gonna raise my hand.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: I want you to know that.
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: And there's it breaks down that wall. Let's be real
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: about it. I don't have the again, I don't have
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: the answer. Is there gonna be days I feel strong
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: and powerful, and there's gonna be days where I'm just like, okay,
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: you are strong and powerful, just not right now, you
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: don't feel that way. So I encourage myself to feel
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: the feels. I don't push myself to be something or
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: to feel something that I don't. And I do get
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: a little antsy when I do have those bouts of
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: like anxiety or mild depression or sadness, I do get
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: a little antsie like, and I do tell myself, I'm like,
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: well that when you get on Instagram, you're like, well,
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: that person's always doing well, and this person has everything
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: going for them and they're so skinny and pretty and
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: their hair is gray and they know all the right
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: things to say. And then I like stop. And one
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: of the things you said earlier, you were.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: Like, you should do this. I get in my head
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: you should do this, you should do this.
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  Speaker 2: And I always tell myself stop shouting on yourself, girl, stop.
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  Speaker 1: Stop it, stop it.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, it's not I don't again, don't have the
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  Speaker 2: answer for it. It's not a pretty like read this
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  Speaker 2: book and you're going to say this, say this mantra
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  Speaker 2: and you're gonna be fine. Look in the mirror and
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  Speaker 2: spend around three times. Don't have the answer. But what
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  Speaker 2: I do allow myself to do is take the time
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  Speaker 2: that I need to be in the place that I
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  Speaker 2: need to be at that point.
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  Speaker 1: And you mentioned the worst piece of advice. But when
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  Speaker 1: you look back on your career so far in this
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  Speaker 1: like mini empire, let's call it, let's call it an
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  Speaker 1: empire empire that you are building, what would you say
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  Speaker 1: has been one of the best pieces of advice that
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  Speaker 1: someone has offered.
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  Speaker 2: You so many Oh my gosh, I could I think
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  Speaker 2: that one of the things I remind myself and I
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  Speaker 2: guess I'm having like a brain free zone on like
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  Speaker 2: the best advice that I have ever gotten, because I
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I've getten gotten so many great things.
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  Speaker 2: But one of the things I do remind myself of
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  Speaker 2: is that most times, no one knows what they're doing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that makes me feel better about it. In a room
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  Speaker 2: where decisions or conversations are being had, no one knows
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  Speaker 2: what they're doing. Running a business, no one knows really
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  Speaker 2: what they're doing title sweet sea sweet people c sweet level.
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  Speaker 2: They don't know what they're doing, Like even the most
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  Speaker 2: expert of them of all don't always know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: So it makes me feel good that I don't have
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  Speaker 2: to know what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 1: And someone had to be the first to set the
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  Speaker 1: president anyway, right. I hate just this idea that like, well,
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  Speaker 1: this is the industry standard for this, or this is
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  Speaker 1: how much someone should be paying you to do X
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  Speaker 1: or Z, or this is how you should act in
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  Speaker 1: this situation. Like No, so many times I'm just like, well,
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  Speaker 1: this is where I'm at. So if you want to
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  Speaker 1: work together, if you want to do this, if you
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  Speaker 1: want X or Z, this is where I'm coming from.
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  Speaker 1: So we can either meet there or meet in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: But if you don't want to like take my fork
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  Speaker 1: in the road, then like take yours and find somebody else.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think that's I think that's a
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  Speaker 2: great approach. I also think like in that moment of
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  Speaker 2: just realizing that no one knows what they're doing, it's
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  Speaker 2: really important that you articulate why. So one of the
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  Speaker 2: things that I realized, like going to a lot of conferences,
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  Speaker 2: speaking on a lot of panels and building a business,
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  Speaker 2: is people do it and they always say, oh, because
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  Speaker 2: I love it. It's not a reason, it's not the
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  Speaker 2: reason why. The reason why is deeper than that. You
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: can love a lot of things. So I think that
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  Speaker 2: when you're asking yes for more money, set in precedents.
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  Speaker 2: When you are when you realize that no one has
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  Speaker 2: the answers, if you're able to aubum solve, offer a
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  Speaker 2: solve and say that this is what you think should
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  Speaker 2: be happening, you need to articulate why, and you don't
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  Speaker 2: have to have that answer right away.
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  Speaker 1: What is it that you're not doing right now that
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  Speaker 1: you want to do?
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not running for president. I'm so sorry everyone
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  Speaker 2: not just vote love twenty twenty. Throwing my hat in
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: a ring now oh, I came on your podcast to
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: announce my presidency.
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  Speaker 1: You imagine that Hurdle is now a platform that's national news.
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  Speaker 2: That would be awesome. So there's so many things and
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  Speaker 2: I have to I really do have to reul myself
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  Speaker 2: in sometimes. I got to like wrangle my my imagination
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  Speaker 2: in sometimes. One of the things that I really want
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  Speaker 2: to do is I do want to write a book.
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  Speaker 2: So I have started, but again, asking myself the why
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  Speaker 2: is really important, so I know that I want to
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  Speaker 2: do this. So I have started the process and it's
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: going well, and there's interest and it's awesome, and it's
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: helping me to refine what I believe and I'm articulating
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: it better. So it is helping, but I don't know
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  Speaker 2: exactly why I'm doing it just yet outside of oh
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  Speaker 2: I love it and I could help people. There has
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: to be a deeper why. So I am doing that
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: and again still working out the why. So when it
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  Speaker 2: is or if it does get published, there's a story
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: of like, here's.
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  Speaker 1: Why I really did this. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many things that I really want
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  Speaker 2: to do at this point. Yes, I want to have
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  Speaker 2: a podcast. I'm working on that, but it's like a
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  Speaker 2: mini mini podcast, nothing like really amazing that you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: So congratulations, by the way, I heard all this is exceptional.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I should have said that sooner. So we just started up,
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  Speaker 2: like we'll just start all over right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's how.
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  Speaker 2: So I do want to do book and podcast, but
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  Speaker 2: I think right now my focus is I'm in that
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: feedback session that I talk about. I'm in that stage
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: of getting advice taking my brand to another level personally,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: professionally and with love squad. So I've been in this
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: feedback session where I'm asking people for advice and how
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  Speaker 2: do you see me? How do you see my brand?
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  Speaker 2: What am I doing? What am I not doing? Because
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to that yet. Outside of yes,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: everyone wants a book, everyone wants a podcast, and not
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: that saying everyone shouldn't get what they want. I just
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: got to be able to answer the why a little
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: bit more. In order to do that, I need more
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  Speaker 2: information than I outside of my own head.
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  Speaker 1: It's really special that you understand the value of asking
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  Speaker 1: for that. That really special. Okay, So the last question
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  Speaker 1: I ask on the pod every time, if you had
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity right now to offer the alli post accident,
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  Speaker 1: in that Hurtle moment, a little piece of advice when
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  Speaker 1: she's going through that tough time. Looking back on it now,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: something maybe you wish you knew then, or maybe you
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: know as the years have gone on, you offer her
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: something when she's going through those tough times. What do
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  Speaker 1: you tell her?
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  Speaker 2: This might sound. I don't even want to judge how
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: it's going to sound. I wouldn't tell her anything because
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: her mindset was way better off than sometimes my man
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: said is right now, knowing all the things I know,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: I think sometimes we get into this thing of like
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: we should have done this sooner or faster. And Homegirl
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  Speaker 2: at nine years old, like, I don't know who that
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: was sometimes and I know that was me, but she
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  Speaker 2: was boss. And I say that because she was fearless,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: She relied on her own intuition, she trusted herselves, her ability,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: and it really has carried me to the point that
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  Speaker 2: I am now. So I wouldn't mess not necessarily mess
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  Speaker 2: that up. I wouldn't tamper with that. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that I try to get back to that space a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I'm not always successful, but there are moments
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  Speaker 2: that I am I get back to that trusting my gut,
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  Speaker 2: trusting that that inner boss, trusting that fearlessness, that without consequences,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: I'm going forward mentality that most times youth the youth
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  Speaker 2: possess and I think I possessed at nine years old,
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  Speaker 2: and I wouldn't I wouldn't tell her anything.
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  Speaker 1: Your story is really special, Ali, Oh thanks, thanks so
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  Speaker 1: much for having to hang out with me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, thank you for thanks for working this out,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: because schedule is great, and thanks for having me. I
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  Speaker 2: truly appreciate it, of course.
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