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333. TURNING THE PAGE: Robin Arzón Talks 2025 Goal Setting & The Power Of Embracing 'Boring' Moments To Really Move The Needle · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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Speaker 1: Excited to see where this year takes us.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's going on everyone, Emily A body here. You
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Speaker 2: are listening to season nineteen of Hurdle.
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Speaker 1: Wow, Wow Wow, Happy New Year.
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Speaker 2: Hope everyone is doing so so well.
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Speaker 3: I cannot believe I'm saying this.
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Speaker 2: Seven years of Hurdle cusping ten million downloads and we
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Speaker 2: are breaking in the new year with my favorite annual
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Speaker 2: series called Turning the Page.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure there are some veteran hurdlers listening. I know
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Speaker 2: there are some new hurdlers listening. That's what I call
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Speaker 2: my listeners. And so a little recap on A what
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Speaker 2: the pod is and b turning the pages the pod
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Speaker 2: a while. On this focus podcast, I talk to inspirational
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Speaker 2: people about everything on it, from their highest highs and
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Speaker 2: toughest moments to essential tips on how to live a healthier, happier,
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Speaker 2: more motivated life. One thing is for certain. We all
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Speaker 2: go through our fair share of hurdle moments, and my
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Speaker 2: goal through these discussions is to empower you to better
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Speaker 2: navigate yours, to move with intention so that you can
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Speaker 2: stride towards your own big potential and of course have
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Speaker 2: some fun along the way. Now, when it comes to
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Speaker 2: the annual Turning the Page series. This is me catching
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Speaker 2: up with some of my favorite humans to talk about
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Speaker 2: what went well for them in the past three sixty five,
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Speaker 2: what they're looking forward to in the next three sixty five,
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Speaker 2: what they're going to stop, start and keep doing in
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Speaker 2: the new year, and really gathering some best practice advice
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Speaker 2: from these outstanding women to help you jumpstart your best
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Speaker 2: year yet. Now, of course I had to kick things
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Speaker 2: off with v One, the only Robin our Son. You
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Speaker 2: know her as the vice president of fitness Programming over
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Speaker 2: at Peloton. She's also a New York Times best selling author,
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Speaker 2: a mama to two beautiful kiddos, and the chief of
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Speaker 2: Superior Starts over at Joo Formulas. Now, if there's one
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Speaker 2: thing we know about Robin is that you cannot walk
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Speaker 2: away from a conversation with her without feeling empowered to
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Speaker 2: really go after your big goals. And this conversation is
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Speaker 2: absolutely no exception. I love her vulnerability in today's episode,
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Speaker 2: talking about what's working for her, opening up about what's not,
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Speaker 2: Her excitement about her upcoming cookbook is contagious. Just so
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Speaker 2: much goodness in this conversation. This series, wouldn't it be
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Speaker 3: Today.
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Speaker 2: I am sitting down with my dear friend Robin Arson.
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Speaker 2: She's the VP of fitness Programming over at Peloton. She's
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Speaker 2: also the chief of Superior Starts for Gerro Formulas, a
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Speaker 2: twenty seven time marathonor Yeah.
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Speaker 3: She's got a lot going on.
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Speaker 2: How you doing, Robin, Hi, good to see you, Go
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Speaker 2: to see you too. I'm so happy to have you
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Speaker 2: back here. I am so elated to be catching up
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Speaker 2: with you at this festive but busy for both of
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Speaker 2: us time of year. How are you feeling right now
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Speaker 2: heading into twenty twenty five?
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Speaker 4: I am, I am hopeful, I am excited, but I'm
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Speaker 4: also you know, my theme going into twenty twenty five
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Speaker 4: is ease and softness.
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Speaker 1: I've got some intense goals.
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Speaker 4: I've got some races coming up, so I know I'm
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Speaker 4: going to get the badass element, but what I need
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Speaker 4: to plan for is actually the ease.
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Speaker 1: So I'm trying. We'll see talk to me in a
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Speaker 1: year and we'll see how it went.
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Speaker 2: Are you open to talking a little bit about what
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Speaker 2: some of these goals are?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know the ones that aren't. The goals
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Speaker 4: that get tricky for me are the ones that aren't
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Speaker 4: necessarily measurable. Right, Like, you give me a plan, and
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Speaker 4: I know you're the same way. Give me a plan,
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Speaker 4: give me a split, give me I will execute it
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Speaker 4: till to.
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Speaker 1: My darnest. The stuff that's a little bit more like
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Speaker 1: murky or is tough.
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Speaker 4: So for me, it's going to look like putting down
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Speaker 4: my phone when I'm not actively intentionally using it. Obviously,
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Speaker 4: that's heart easier said than done, but in that replacing
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Speaker 4: it with things like immediately picking up my book that
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Speaker 4: I'm reading for pleasure, not like a nonfiction book that
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Speaker 4: I then want to create into like an interview topic
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Speaker 4: or you.
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Speaker 1: Know what I mean that.
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Speaker 4: So one way that I've done this is kind of
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Speaker 4: find like different fantasy series and like sci fi series
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Speaker 4: that I'm excited about reading in twenty twenty five. And
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Speaker 4: then the second is I've gotten better at this, but
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Speaker 4: I could be even better. Is taking my recovery days
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Speaker 4: with the freedom that it's supposed to entail. And that's
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Speaker 4: going to be you know, hopefully that'll look like Sunday's
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Speaker 4: for me because I don't teach, but yeah, it's so
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Speaker 4: it's a work in progress. So it's gonna be taking
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Speaker 4: recovery even more seriously and then trying to deliberate myself
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Speaker 4: from my phone in like eat little five to ten
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Speaker 4: minute chunks and just like get back into my book
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Speaker 4: because I tell myself, I know I've embraced shorter workouts.
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Speaker 4: I know that I can reclaim five to ten minute
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Speaker 4: blocks of time and do more with movement. So I'm
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Speaker 4: trying to apply that same practice with ease and with
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Speaker 4: like my for me reading it becomes pleasurable, right, So
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Speaker 4: that's my plan.
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Speaker 3: That's the plan. That's the plan.
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Speaker 2: Do you have a name of a fantasy series that
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Speaker 2: we should drop for the hurdlers.
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Speaker 4: Well, listen, I'm late to the game on this one,
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Speaker 4: but I started a Katar so I'm in the first
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Speaker 4: a guitar book, so I've got few to go. And
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Speaker 4: then I mean, I'm I'm also a fourth wing girly,
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Speaker 4: like give me a dragon, and I'm pretty much in.
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Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.
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Speaker 2: I'm not personally a fantasy girly, but I have respect
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Speaker 2: and appreciation because I think like ninety five percent of
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Speaker 2: the women that I know, oh are.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fun. I like getting lost in worlds.
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Speaker 4: I'm totally down for a ya like I don't need
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Speaker 4: it to be toll story.
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Speaker 3: Like I'm good, I gotcha, I got you.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited that we're already talking about what you
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Speaker 2: have on tap for twenty twenty five. But before we
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Speaker 2: really dive in there, I want to talk about twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty four and about where you're at now. So how
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Speaker 2: are you doing, really, Robin, I'm really you know, I'm.
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Speaker 1: Doing pretty well. Like I think it's chaotic.
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Speaker 4: You know, you mentioned this is I think for a
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Speaker 4: lot of hustlers, like this is a big time of year.
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Speaker 4: I'm raising two young kids. I feel really strong in
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Speaker 4: my body. I have a great relationship, like as chaotic
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Speaker 4: as it is, and it often is in my house
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Speaker 4: and especially in the mornings and at night, like all
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Speaker 4: parents know, like getting kids out of the house and
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Speaker 4: bedtime seem to be just oh my gosh, what do
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Speaker 4: we sign up for? But I think I'm going to
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Speaker 4: look back at this season of my life and think, gosh,
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Speaker 4: those were the days.
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Speaker 1: So I'm trying not to fast forward through those moments,
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Speaker 1: you know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, understandable, and like you said, so much going on.
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Speaker 2: So good on you to be able to come back
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Speaker 2: to this gratitude and be really present with what you
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Speaker 2: have and all the good things that are around you.
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Speaker 1: That's the goal.
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Speaker 4: It doesn't and you know, listen, like when I'm in
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Speaker 4: the middle of a storm, I'm not necessarily that zen master,
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Speaker 4: but thankfully, you know, we've got practices and tools that
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Speaker 4: kind of bring us back.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you've certainly done a ton in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you started contributing to GMA this year, which
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Speaker 2: is super fun.
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Speaker 3: How has that been going for you?
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I love it. I mean, Robin Roberts
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Speaker 1: is just my queen.
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Speaker 4: Anything I can learn from her is deeply humbling and
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Speaker 4: I love it.
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Speaker 1: I seeing that kind.
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Speaker 4: Of production obviously, as a as a storyteller, it's you
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Speaker 4: can't get better than that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it is morning TV.
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Speaker 4: They've been in this game for decades, but seeing all
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Speaker 4: the moving pieces behind the scenes as a creator is
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Speaker 4: really has been a privilege to be a part of.
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Speaker 2: Beyond adding that to the resume, talk to me about
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Speaker 2: other highlights from twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 4: For you, partnering with Jara Formulas was great, like being
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Speaker 4: I never thought I would have a C suite title
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Speaker 4: as Chief of Superior Starts, which is all about goal
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Speaker 4: setting and partnering, you know, with a supplement brand that's
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Speaker 4: been in the game for forty seven years, So that
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Speaker 4: was really exciting. You know. I think for me, the
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Speaker 4: way I approach supplements is, you know, I believe in
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Speaker 4: like whole food, food and fueling intentionally, but sometimes you
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Speaker 4: need a supplement game to keep you optimized, and that's
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Speaker 4: certainly been what this partnership has looked like for me.
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Speaker 4: And what else am I excited about? Oh, working on
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Speaker 4: a cookbook and working at a plant based cookbook that
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Speaker 4: will be out in twenty twenty six, So that's really
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Speaker 4: that's a twenty twenty five project for real, for real,
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Speaker 4: that's going to be like the line's share of my
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Speaker 4: year getting ready for that and trying to explore different
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Speaker 4: elements of play, Like it's interesting when you have released
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Speaker 4: projects and books and have had partnership. The natural question
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Speaker 4: from folks is like, Okay, what's next? And I'm trying
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Speaker 4: to meet myself where I am as much as possible,
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Speaker 4: which isn't necessarily like an exciting, interesting answer, but it
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Speaker 4: is where my headspace is at.
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Speaker 2: But it's a real answer. And I think that it's
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Speaker 2: also very beautiful to hear someone who has done so
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Speaker 2: many fun things in their career, things that many people
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Speaker 2: aspire to do, being very vulnerable about Hey, I'm going
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Speaker 2: to play a little bit and I'm going to figure
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Speaker 2: it out. I don't have all of my ducks in
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Speaker 2: a row in this very moment, but there are things
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Speaker 2: that I'm looking forward to, and there's even more that's
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Speaker 2: going to happen that I don't know exactly what that
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Speaker 2: is yet.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's it, girl, that's it.
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Speaker 3: That's it.
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Speaker 2: Well, you said that part of this title with Jarrow
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Speaker 2: is about goal setting, and I know at the turn
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Speaker 2: of the year a lot of people are thinking about
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Speaker 2: what it is that they want to accomplish in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty five. For someone that is approaching goal setting and
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Speaker 2: feeling a little over whelmed, what do you tell them?
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Speaker 4: Oh, start small, like ridiculously small. I use the analogy
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Speaker 4: of the kid on the monkey bars. Like, you know,
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Speaker 4: study show that in goal setting you want to take
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Speaker 4: yourself like four to five, four to seven percent out
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Speaker 4: of your comfort zone. And that's like a weird percentage,
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Speaker 4: but you kind of can picture it if you're looking
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Speaker 4: at a kid on the monkey bars, like there's you're
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Speaker 4: out stretching your hand like a little bit in front
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Speaker 4: of your body to get to that next rung. You're
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Speaker 4: not flinging yourself from the first one to the last one.
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Speaker 4: That is how you're gonna fall flat on your face.
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Speaker 4: And that analogy has actually really helped me. It's like,
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Speaker 4: what is what feels like a stretch? If it's too easy,
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Speaker 4: you're not going anywhere, and if it's too hard, you're
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Speaker 4: falling flat on your face. So what's something that's in between.
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Speaker 4: Usually it's a smaller increment than you think. When we're
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Speaker 4: looking at the highlight reel, Especially when we're comparing our
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Speaker 4: goal to somebody else's, like expertise, you're usually comparing yourself
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Speaker 4: like less that you want to write a book. You're
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Speaker 4: not usually comparing yourself to the other person who's also
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Speaker 4: just right their first chapter. You're like, how can I
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Speaker 4: be the New York Times bestseller? And it's like, okay,
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Speaker 4: great goal, No dream is too big, but let's keep
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Speaker 4: the goals actually small.
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Speaker 3: Right right.
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Speaker 2: Doing something that is a little bit smaller also helps
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Speaker 2: you learn and feel what it's like to achieve, right,
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Speaker 2: because when you start achieving, then you have that motivation
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Speaker 2: to keep going and keep building. To your point about
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Speaker 2: the monkey bars and aspiring to be the next New
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Speaker 2: York Times bestselling author. I am sure when you started
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Speaker 2: writing years ago, shut up and Run, you had those aspirations, right.
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Speaker 2: You looked to big name authors and you thought, I
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Speaker 2: want to be just like her.
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Speaker 3: But you learn along the way.
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Speaker 4: For sure, for sure, And it's the meandering road to success.
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Speaker 4: Sometimes it's frustratingly meandering, but it's it's.
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Speaker 1: Your own at least.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know it. I love that it's your own
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Speaker 3: at least.
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Speaker 2: So now, then, looking back on twenty four, if you
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Speaker 2: had to articulate maybe a word of the year, I
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Speaker 2: know we talked about ease going into twenty five, but
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Speaker 2: reflecting on the last twelve months, Robin, what would you
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Speaker 2: say your word of twenty twenty four was?
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Speaker 4: I would say strength because it was a year that
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Speaker 4: I got really physically strong, like I have never been
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Speaker 4: physically stronger.
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Speaker 1: And it's also a year.
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Speaker 4: Out from having my son, so it was a fun
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Speaker 4: year of strength training for me. Like it was I was.
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Speaker 4: I literally felt like I was rebuilding my body. I
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Speaker 4: guess it's kind of weird, like rebuilding a car. Like
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Speaker 4: That's how I approached training. I was like, Okay, cool, what.
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Speaker 1: If I do this? What if I do this? What
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Speaker 1: if I do this?
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Speaker 4: And they weren't big, sweeping things, and they weren't even
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Speaker 4: interesting things, but it was like, literally the little bit
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Speaker 4: of adding one little change plate, one kilo one pound
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Speaker 4: of weight, you know, to push made me really really
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Speaker 4: excited this year.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: Again, we're talking about small, doable things, right and you're
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Speaker 2: in this place now where you are different than the
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Speaker 2: person that you were two years ago, three years ago,
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Speaker 2: five years ago, ten years ago. Right, you're different than
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Speaker 2: the woman that was running her first marathon now that
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Speaker 2: you've run twenty seven. You're different than the woman before
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Speaker 2: you had two kids that you had two kids. Right now,
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Speaker 2: can you talk a little bit about the evolution of
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Speaker 2: meeting yourself with where you're at, because I know that
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Speaker 2: for so many it's so hard not.
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Speaker 3: To compare yourself to a previous version of yourself.
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Speaker 4: Mm hmmm, Oh totally. It really is hard not to
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Speaker 4: compare to who you were. But I try to have new.
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Speaker 1: Finish lines in mind, right, so sometimes they're literal finish lines.
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Speaker 4: But okay, this is what I've gotten pretty good at
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Speaker 4: romanticizing the boring stuff, like trying to romanticize like the
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Speaker 4: little invisible moments that nobody is going to see. Whether
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Speaker 4: it's like literally putting my supplements in a pretty piece
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Speaker 4: of pottery that like, I just like, and I enjoy
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Speaker 4: putting my pills in that and nobody sees that, right,
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Speaker 4: Or it's getting an awesome water bottle and I enjoy
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Speaker 4: picking out my water bottle for the day and that's
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Speaker 4: what and then I take that around with me, you know,
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Speaker 4: throughout the day. And these are like silly things, but
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Speaker 4: I like them and it matters to me. And same
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Speaker 4: with getting my gear, Like I like setting up my
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Speaker 4: workout clothes. I like putting on clothes that make me
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Speaker 4: feel good. And these are ways that I kind of
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Speaker 4: romanticize moments of my day.
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Speaker 1: And for some folks it's maybe that cup of coffee, or.
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Speaker 4: It's the journaling or you know, so it's these are
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Speaker 4: little moments in my day where I feel like I
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Speaker 4: can make my routine a moment.
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Speaker 2: You know what I learned that They call that now,
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Speaker 2: they call that soft wellness, Robin, like soft wellness things
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Speaker 2: that are part of our routine that we can really integrate,
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Speaker 2: versus like hard wellness, which is like pushing the sled
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Speaker 2: and competing in a high rocks, trying all of your data,
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Speaker 2: that kind of thing.
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Speaker 1: Oh interesting, Okay, well, yeah, I've been doing that.
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Speaker 3: I've been a much friend for a long time now.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so we know a little bit about the value
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Speaker 2: of romanticizing the small things in the day to day.
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Speaker 2: Maybe to some the mundane, but to you, a very
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Speaker 2: important part of the bigger picture. Beyond that importance, what
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Speaker 2: else would you say was really critical that you learned
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four, whether it be about yourself, about
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Speaker 2: your wellness practices, about how you interact with your children.
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Speaker 3: Give us a lesson that you learned in the past
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Speaker 3: three sixty five.
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Speaker 4: Ooh, Parenting is a lot of just reparenting yourself, like
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Speaker 4: learning how to mother. I've learned how to mother myself,
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Speaker 4: and thankfully I was already on that path.
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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of the tools.
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Speaker 4: That that I'm teaching my kids are things that I've
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Speaker 4: had to teach myself, and I've taught, you know, through
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Speaker 4: the various platforms that I'm a part of, like Peloton
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Speaker 4: and otherwise. You know, it's self talk, it's breath work,
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Speaker 4: it's moving your body, it's filling your cups, it's self care,
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Speaker 4: and these are all principles that are obviously easier said
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Speaker 4: than done when you're in the throes of like all
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Speaker 4: the stuff I'm really proud to have taught my daughter,
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Speaker 4: like breathwork, like what to do when you feel like
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Speaker 4: when you're frustrated.
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Speaker 1: You know, even in something that she brought.
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Speaker 4: Home was tapping, you know, like tapping like these things
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Speaker 4: that we might learn, like in a therapist office. She's
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Speaker 4: learning at three years old, and I'm like, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 4: Like the future is bright if you kids have these tools.
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Speaker 4: You know that I didn't even know about nil I
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Speaker 4: was like twenty so those I think it's I think
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Speaker 4: it's the humbling nature of motherhood and parenthood for me
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Speaker 4: that but thankfully, like everything is figure outable and I'll
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Speaker 4: figure it out.
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Speaker 2: Amen to that, And oh good on a fun for
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Speaker 2: being a little tapper. That's so cute, so cute, and like,
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Speaker 2: what a great opportunity it is also to then learn
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Speaker 2: through my but then also learn from your kids, Like
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Speaker 2: such a beautiful two way street that you have the
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Speaker 2: chance to be on.
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Speaker 3: Mm hm.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I'm just getting started, you know.
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Speaker 4: And I know obviously there are folks listening who are
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Speaker 4: not caregivers, that have no interest in parenting.
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Speaker 1: But it really is the idea that like.
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Speaker 4: We're putting tools in our toolkit that we never don't
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Speaker 4: even realize when we're going to bring them out. Like
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Speaker 4: I didn't know becoming a parent that I was then
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Speaker 4: going to be relying so much more on my own
18:26
Speaker 4: self care to get it done.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And so for you that self care, when you
18:31
Speaker 2: think about what it looks like, is that the trying
18:35
Speaker 2: to be on your phone a little bit less picking
18:37
Speaker 2: up the book, is that what falls into that bucket
18:39
Speaker 2: for you?
18:40
Speaker 4: It does, but it's because Okay, so I realized, like
18:45
Speaker 4: when my kids go to bed, I am just like,
18:48
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, that whole day was really intense. And
18:51
Speaker 4: I'm trying to play with this idea of like if
18:55
Speaker 4: I have a few other moments throughout the day where
18:58
Speaker 4: I don't actually need to be on my phone, like
19:00
Speaker 4: even if it's five minutes, if I can read two
19:02
Speaker 4: pages in a book, well, I have felt like I
19:06
Speaker 4: had a mini escape, right, like like if I'm like
19:11
Speaker 4: letting the pressure out of the safety valve for literally
19:14
Speaker 4: two minutes.
19:15
Speaker 1: Like if somebody asked me, would I feel better?
19:18
Speaker 4: Like asking me Robin, would I feel better if I
19:20
Speaker 4: did sixty seconds of air squats?
19:22
Speaker 1: I would say absolutely yes.
19:24
Speaker 4: So I'm experimenting with if I read two pages of
19:28
Speaker 4: a book instead of mindlessly scrolling, would I feel better?
19:33
Speaker 4: I think yes, even if it doesn't, even if I
19:36
Speaker 4: would love to read a whole chapter, you know, like
19:38
Speaker 4: that's I'm trying to apply the methodology to something else.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate that, and as someone else who is also
19:45
Speaker 2: super active, I have over the last two years really
19:48
Speaker 2: had to work on finding coping mechanisms that had nothing
19:52
Speaker 2: to do with moving my body because I needed to
19:54
Speaker 2: give myself a break.
19:56
Speaker 1: Totally totally get it, totally.
19:58
Speaker 2: Get it, always up like a you know, eighty five
20:01
Speaker 2: pound barbell and be.
20:03
Speaker 3: Like screw all of this, like it's funny, Like I can't.
20:06
Speaker 3: I physically cannot.
20:07
Speaker 2: So I remember years and years ago I started, and
20:10
Speaker 2: this is a bigger time commitment, but I would like
20:12
Speaker 2: book dates with myself just to go see a movie
20:14
Speaker 2: and get out of the house. Like you don't need
20:16
Speaker 2: to be at the movies with another human being. You
20:18
Speaker 2: can literally just escape for an hour and a half
20:21
Speaker 2: and do something different that doesn't require you to literally
20:25
Speaker 2: go run eight to ten miles outside.
20:27
Speaker 1: A man girl. You know Wicked.
20:29
Speaker 4: So I saw Wicked alone at the earliest showing available
20:34
Speaker 4: in Manhattan. I literally had to get a babysitter to
20:37
Speaker 4: go to the movies by myself, happy to do it,
20:40
Speaker 4: and I bought like one of the last seats available,
20:42
Speaker 4: and it was the nine a m. Showing in Manhattan
20:45
Speaker 4: of Wicked, and it was the most delightful two hours
20:48
Speaker 4: and forty minutes for you. It was great, So highly recommend,
20:54
Speaker 4: highly recommend solo movie date.
20:55
Speaker 3: We love a solo movie date.
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Speaker 2: checkout at A six dot com. Today, I'm gonna put
22:17
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22:19
Speaker 2: talk about start, stop, and keep doing. You have an
22:25
Speaker 2: opportunity to start doing something, keep doing something, and stop
22:30
Speaker 2: doing something.
22:31
Speaker 3: I'm gonna start with start. Where do we begin, Robin.
22:35
Speaker 4: Start really recovering, treating my recovery days like a guilt
22:42
Speaker 4: free recovery day where I'm not trying to plan and
22:45
Speaker 4: plot and add last minute like I'm the Queen of
22:49
Speaker 4: taking taking a recovery day. And then it's, oh, I'll
22:53
Speaker 4: just do like a little pilates, I'll just do a
22:55
Speaker 4: little yo, you know, I'll just do a little little
22:57
Speaker 4: and then it ends up being like a forty five
22:58
Speaker 4: minute full workout. And it's like, girl, that you are
23:01
Speaker 4: not even taking the advice that you know is like
23:03
Speaker 4: heavily backed by science and research.
23:05
Speaker 2: How do you cultivate that like positive conversation with yourself
23:09
Speaker 2: that it's okay to do that? Because I know and
23:11
Speaker 2: I'm sure you do as well, that a lot of
23:13
Speaker 2: people struggle with like offering themselves that grace.
23:16
Speaker 1: Okay, so I have been rooting it in.
23:21
Speaker 3: Okay.
23:21
Speaker 4: I have a visualization exercise that I've been doing now
23:24
Speaker 4: on my recovery days, well right now, right now, I'm
23:26
Speaker 4: not taking recovery, but it's only for the month because
23:28
Speaker 4: I'm doing three for thirty one.
23:30
Speaker 1: But when I resume them, it is the Sundays. Mind
23:36
Speaker 1: recovery days are on Sundays.
23:37
Speaker 4: The Sunday version of Robin talking to the Wednesday version
23:40
Speaker 4: of Robin, who is going to be under the barbelle,
23:42
Speaker 4: and the Wednesday version of Robin wants to be recovered
23:45
Speaker 4: enough to be to go heavy in the back squad,
23:48
Speaker 4: to go heavy in the deadlift, to go heavy in
23:50
Speaker 4: the bench press, and that version of Robin loves a
23:54
Speaker 4: recovered body because that is and I see it, I
23:57
Speaker 4: see it, I can go heavier when I have the
24:00
Speaker 4: recovery day. And so I toy with kind of that
24:03
Speaker 4: visualization of like version one, version two verb, Sunday version,
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Speaker 4: Wednesday version, and that is kind of how I'm trying
24:12
Speaker 4: to like enter that space.
24:13
Speaker 2: I'm imagining like like a little Robin, like a little Robin,
24:18
Speaker 2: and like a she's like girl.
24:22
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then it's also planning things that don't Okay,
24:28
Speaker 4: so you know what I'm so in my painted pottery moment,
24:32
Speaker 4: I took a ten to a painted pottery place and
24:36
Speaker 4: it was two hours of just like delightful taller girl talk,
24:43
Speaker 4: but girl talk nonetheless, and it was painting and it
24:46
Speaker 4: was so fun. And now we have these like really
24:49
Speaker 4: cute little painted things that we get to put on
24:51
Speaker 4: our shelves. And it was an it was a sit
24:54
Speaker 4: down and do nothing but do something moment. So I
24:58
Speaker 4: think arts and crafts might be my new Sunday vibe.
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Speaker 2: I love that and quality times so special, exactly, so
25:05
Speaker 2: special to be able to do both of them. Okay,
25:07
Speaker 2: So we are going to really start recovering fully in
25:11
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. In twenty twenty five, we are going
25:14
Speaker 2: to keep doing.
25:15
Speaker 1: What keep my routine.
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Speaker 4: I love my routine, my movement practices, my supplement game,
25:22
Speaker 4: that's all staying.
25:23
Speaker 3: Yeah.
25:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, what would you say is one thing that you
25:26
Speaker 2: added this year to your routine that you're excited to
25:29
Speaker 2: keep specifically, So obviously the routine is locked in, it's loaded,
25:33
Speaker 2: but maybe a relatively new aspect to it that really serves.
25:37
Speaker 4: You I might be kind of late to this, but
25:42
Speaker 4: cooling sheets, oh wow.
25:44
Speaker 3: Yeah.
25:45
Speaker 4: And a sleep mask that goes like all the way around.
25:49
Speaker 1: It is like it envelops my eyes and my ear.
25:53
Speaker 3: Wait, I love this. Do you happen to know the
25:55
Speaker 3: name of this?
25:56
Speaker 4: Yeah? I got it in like a pr package. But
25:57
Speaker 4: I'll I'll take a picture and I'll send it to you.
25:59
Speaker 2: Oh my god, amazing. Yes, we love, we love a
26:02
Speaker 2: sleep mask. I am like a no light sleeper. I
26:04
Speaker 2: need it to be black. So I'm on team sleep mask. Yes, yes, okay.
26:09
Speaker 2: And then, last but not least, stop doing In twenty
26:13
Speaker 2: twenty five, what's on the list for Robin?
26:15
Speaker 1: I stopped taking I'm a no kid's birthday party girly.
26:24
Speaker 3: Oh wait, this is a hot take.
26:28
Speaker 4: My husband takes Athena to the kids' birthdays and the
26:31
Speaker 4: and the social invites that if it's a kids specific thing,
26:35
Speaker 4: Like I listen, my nephew had a birthday, I obviously
26:37
Speaker 4: went he is my godson. Like I'm not like, you know,
26:40
Speaker 4: you know, a tyrant, but you know, there's a lot
26:43
Speaker 4: of invites come in my kid's way, and I just
26:48
Speaker 4: don't know if I have like the social battery for
26:50
Speaker 4: that life.
26:51
Speaker 1: So it's either a no thank you or my or
26:54
Speaker 1: my husband's doing it.
26:55
Speaker 2: Okay, so we have stop, start and keep on lock.
26:59
Speaker 2: No more kids, my partners. Oh my god, you're not alone.
27:05
Speaker 2: But yeah, listen, I got to protect my peace somehow
27:08
Speaker 2: and listen.
27:08
Speaker 4: And also, to be fair, Latina's not yet at the
27:11
Speaker 4: age where she's like, mom, I must hang out with
27:13
Speaker 4: so and so, Like clearly she has a great social life, Like,
27:16
Speaker 4: I'm not going to keep her from her friends. We
27:18
Speaker 4: got to find a way that, like, I'm not going
27:20
Speaker 4: crazy on its Saturday at two pm at like a
27:23
Speaker 4: playhouse with seventy five kids and in a sensory overload,
27:27
Speaker 4: like it's just a lot on my nerdly understand.
27:29
Speaker 3: I totally understand.
27:31
Speaker 2: Looking back at the last twelve months, I know you
27:33
Speaker 2: talked about that you're feeling maybe stronger than ever in
27:36
Speaker 2: your body in this moment. What else would you say
27:38
Speaker 2: that you're really proud of yourself for in twenty twenty four.
27:42
Speaker 2: I know Atlas is growing rapidly but had a very
27:46
Speaker 2: big growth year in twenty twenty four as well.
27:48
Speaker 3: So what I'm all proud of right now?
27:51
Speaker 1: I am?
27:53
Speaker 4: I am really proud of my team at Peloton. I'm
27:57
Speaker 4: really proud of my fellow instructors. I think that that,
28:00
Speaker 4: you know, we continue to build a Pelton brand and
28:04
Speaker 4: do it from a place of like super genuine desire
28:08
Speaker 4: to see people get stronger and you know, step into
28:12
Speaker 4: their lives and all the ways that moving allows us
28:15
Speaker 4: to do.
28:15
Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 1: I'm really really proud of the instructor team.
28:17
Speaker 3: I love that.
28:18
Speaker 2: And as you know, in your position, a lot of
28:21
Speaker 2: people looking to you as they start the new year
28:24
Speaker 2: for motivation inspiration. A part of the reason why three
28:27
Speaker 2: for thirty one is so awesome is because it really
28:29
Speaker 2: gets that ball rolling for you. Now as you begin
28:33
Speaker 2: a new chapter in twenty twenty five, for someone that
28:36
Speaker 2: is seeking that little bit of extra motivation, what do
28:40
Speaker 2: you say to them as they're starting this next chapter.
28:44
Speaker 4: I would say, you know, a practical tip is think
28:49
Speaker 4: about the write the goal down right, like the dream,
28:55
Speaker 4: and then write a second column of all of the
28:58
Speaker 4: verbs that you're entails. Because I think that we get
29:03
Speaker 4: into and I love it. I'm a full proponent of
29:05
Speaker 4: like dream big, like paint the most robust picture ever,
29:10
Speaker 4: like no limits, But then we get like caught in
29:14
Speaker 4: that ethereal space and then like, well, we'll tell a
29:17
Speaker 4: friend or we'll post about that ethereal space and then
29:20
Speaker 4: we like get the dopamine hit as if we've done it.
29:22
Speaker 4: And I just want folks to like root themselves in
29:25
Speaker 4: the action. So break out the action verbs and then
29:31
Speaker 4: create a plan or schedule, send the email, then do
29:35
Speaker 4: one of those things like actually do it something that
29:38
Speaker 4: takes two minutes or less, right, like James clear vibes,
29:40
Speaker 4: like do it and then do it again, and then
29:43
Speaker 4: do it again, and then do it again, and just
29:45
Speaker 4: it's just forever. Like I don't mean sorry to burst
29:48
Speaker 4: the bubble, but it's just forever. Consistency creates legends.
29:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, practically speaking, if you were to look back on
29:56
Speaker 2: the year, is there a goal that you achieved personally
30:00
Speaker 2: you're really proud of.
30:02
Speaker 4: Yeah, my first solo high rocks was awesome, and now
30:05
Speaker 4: I want to get you know, faster, stronger, all the things.
30:08
Speaker 1: But in that sense, like it never ends, but I
30:11
Speaker 1: really did it.
30:12
Speaker 4: I think it did a good job being proud of
30:16
Speaker 4: the accomplishment in the moment in the window, right. I
30:19
Speaker 4: don't think that we spend enough time giving ourselves credit
30:22
Speaker 4: for the small wins or the big wins for that matter.
30:26
Speaker 1: So like give yourself credit.
30:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, aside from actually giving yourself credit, what does that
30:30
Speaker 2: celebration period look like for you? How do you make
30:35
Speaker 2: sure that you're really giving yourself the kudos that you deserve.
30:38
Speaker 1: I actually sent myself.
30:41
Speaker 4: I recorded this is like super awkward, but I recorded
30:45
Speaker 4: a voice memo that was just for me, like, not
30:48
Speaker 4: for social media, not for like whatever after I that weekend,
30:52
Speaker 4: so I could remember like the pride in my voice.
30:55
Speaker 1: And it was just for me.
30:57
Speaker 4: And I don't know if I'll ever listen to it again,
30:59
Speaker 4: but I have it so on a rainy day or
31:03
Speaker 4: maybe like my race of high rocks again and I
31:05
Speaker 4: don't get the time or whatever, like just to like
31:07
Speaker 4: remember the pride in my voice. So I highly recommend,
31:11
Speaker 4: like put a voice memo in your phone for a
31:13
Speaker 4: rainy day.
31:15
Speaker 1: You never know when you might need to remember like
31:17
Speaker 1: who you were in that moment.
31:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, and let's be real, although the exciting moments are wonderful,
31:25
Speaker 2: a lot of the moments don't feel as shiny or
31:29
Speaker 2: bright and brilliant, right, So to have that in those
31:33
Speaker 2: moments that are feeling really tough gives you the opportunity
31:36
Speaker 2: to remind you that there is a light reading for
31:38
Speaker 2: you with all of the hard work that you're putting in,
31:40
Speaker 2: whether it's going after another high Rocks or it's something
31:43
Speaker 2: completely unrelated.
31:45
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
31:46
Speaker 4: And I think, I mean, I don't know, maybe twenty
31:48
Speaker 4: twenty five can be the year where we really start
31:51
Speaker 4: like celebrating the invisible work and the boring moments, Like
31:56
Speaker 4: we're so seeking the highlight reel and I understand I
32:00
Speaker 4: do too. I'm like, wow, this would be great for Instagram,
32:02
Speaker 4: this would be a cool clip for blah blah blah,
32:03
Speaker 4: Like we all have a tendency to do that. But
32:07
Speaker 4: I'm like down to celebrate the boring stuff because that's
32:10
Speaker 4: actually the boring, consistent stuff is actually what's going to
32:13
Speaker 4: move the needle more.
32:14
Speaker 2: I actually want to ask you about a goal that
32:18
Speaker 2: you had and now that you're executing, which is writing
32:21
Speaker 2: this cookbook, because what I think that people might not
32:25
Speaker 2: understand is you likely had that goal before you started
32:29
Speaker 2: necessarily creating content that you started sharing with everyone about cooking.
32:34
Speaker 3: Is that correct?
32:36
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
32:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've had a goal of having a cookbook for
32:38
Speaker 4: like over a decade and low key like I'm the
32:43
Speaker 4: person always getting down in my kitchen. And then it
32:45
Speaker 4: was the pandemic where I was like, oh, okay, well
32:47
Speaker 4: i'm home, I might as well like show people what
32:49
Speaker 4: I affectionately call, you know, the royal kitchen. And then
32:53
Speaker 4: the cookbook came about, and I'm so grateful. It's such
32:56
Speaker 4: a cool projects. It's like the highlight of my week
32:59
Speaker 4: is working on that cookbook.
33:01
Speaker 2: And I think that's really awesome, right, because this is
33:04
Speaker 2: exemplifying what it looks like to work backward from a goal.
33:08
Speaker 2: It's like, Okay, the ultimate goal is to work on
33:10
Speaker 2: this cookbook. So what are the things that are within
33:12
Speaker 2: my control that I can do to start manifesting to
33:16
Speaker 2: make it happen and making those smaller doables that when
33:19
Speaker 2: they're happening, you know, two three, four years out, it's like,
33:23
Speaker 2: is this ever going to happen? Am I ever going
33:24
Speaker 2: to get a cookbook deal? And then it happens because
33:27
Speaker 2: you set the stones into place to build the road
33:32
Speaker 2: that gets you to where you want to be.
33:34
Speaker 4: Exactly, and it feels so far off like sometimes or
33:39
Speaker 4: like when you're you almost have to start doing sometimes
33:44
Speaker 4: the actions back to the action verbs to convince yourself
33:49
Speaker 4: that you're worthy of that thing. Like I am not
33:53
Speaker 4: Martha Stewart. I don't even have a mixer. I don't
33:56
Speaker 4: even have the right stuff, like, honest to goodness, I
33:58
Speaker 4: was just adding things to my cart because I was like, well,
34:00
Speaker 4: I guess now that I'm writing a cookbook, I probably
34:01
Speaker 4: need this kind of pan Like I just wing it,
34:05
Speaker 4: And that's part of the cookbook is like I'm a
34:06
Speaker 4: remixed artist in the kitchen, Like this is like how
34:08
Speaker 4: practical can we make it?
34:10
Speaker 1: Yes? Pretty, yes, delicious, But like this is truly like
34:13
Speaker 1: if you were coming over to my house. But I
34:16
Speaker 1: had to start doing.
34:18
Speaker 4: The thing to convince myself that I was like worthy
34:20
Speaker 4: of that story.
34:22
Speaker 2: I had friends that were making chicken parm last night
34:25
Speaker 2: and I said to her. I was like, I'm kind
34:27
Speaker 2: of impressed that you have. I don't know what the
34:30
Speaker 2: for a mallet like a chicken pounder, and she's like,
34:32
Speaker 2: oh no, we fully use wine bottles for that, okay, exactly.
34:38
Speaker 4: Like like cheers to the low key, you know, the
34:41
Speaker 4: chefs with a lowercase C.
34:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fine, that's so funny. It's so funny.
34:47
Speaker 2: Well, I, for one, am super excited about the Cokebook,
34:50
Speaker 2: and so grateful to have a dose of inspiration from
34:53
Speaker 2: you going into the new year. As we wind down here,
34:58
Speaker 2: you have an opportunity to offer you yourself a piece
35:00
Speaker 2: of advice looking back at the last twelve months, knowing
35:04
Speaker 2: what you know now, anything you tell yourself at the
35:06
Speaker 2: beginning of twenty twenty four, looking now down the pipe
35:09
Speaker 2: at twenty twenty five, I.
35:11
Speaker 4: Would probably tell twenty twenty four Robin that you are
35:15
Speaker 4: deserving of the love you give to others.
35:18
Speaker 1: I think I forgot that for a bit.
35:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, going back to the themes that we've really talked
35:22
Speaker 2: about here, it's super refreshing to hear someone who often
35:26
Speaker 2: is saying it's so important to love on yourself. It's
35:29
Speaker 2: so important to prioritize self, Like we still need to
35:33
Speaker 2: be reminded of that time and time.
35:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, and also for anyone who's like loves a to
35:38
Speaker 4: do list, loves a calendar, just because it feels good
35:41
Speaker 4: to accomplish all those things doesn't mean you shouldn't continue
35:45
Speaker 4: to distinguish between busyness and productivity, between self care and achievement.
35:51
Speaker 4: And I think, like, for what, for a minute, my
35:54
Speaker 4: self care became achievement and I was like, wait, this
35:58
Speaker 4: is not the same thing.
36:00
Speaker 1: So yeah, just unpacking.
36:02
Speaker 3: That, dude. I am right there with you.
36:07
Speaker 2: But in the process of impacking that, I have to ask, like,
36:10
Speaker 2: was there a part of time or was there a
36:12
Speaker 2: period of time where you had to get used to
36:15
Speaker 2: maybe what felt like achieving a little bit less.
36:19
Speaker 4: Yes, and allowing things to breathe like I don't mean
36:23
Speaker 4: I mean not literally my own breath, like allowing things
36:27
Speaker 4: to breathe, like it's okay if the email doesn't go
36:31
Speaker 4: out right now, it's okay.
36:32
Speaker 1: If you don't have an answer on that deal right now,
36:33
Speaker 1: it's okay if you don't have a deal right now.
36:35
Speaker 4: And like, yes, I gret Yeah, these are like privileged conundrums,
36:39
Speaker 4: but it's absolutely where my head goes.
36:41
Speaker 3: Yeah.
36:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, thank you for sharing that. I'm so happy
36:44
Speaker 2: again that we were able to catch up.
36:45
Speaker 3: Robin.
36:46
Speaker 2: I know that so many of the people listening to
36:47
Speaker 2: this follow you right now, But for those of you
36:49
Speaker 2: that aren't keeping up with you, just yet, give us
36:52
Speaker 2: the details.
36:53
Speaker 4: Where can we find you on the socials? Yeah, I'm
36:55
Speaker 4: Robin and YC on all platforms, of course. You can
36:58
Speaker 4: find me a peloton. Yeah, excited to see where this
37:01
Speaker 4: year takes us.
37:02
Speaker 3: Y'all.
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Speaker 2: Amen, I'm over at Hurdle Podcast and at Emily a Body,
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Speaker 2: Another hurdle conquered.
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Speaker 3: Catch you guys next time.