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141. Charlee Atkins, Trainer & Founder Le Sweat TV · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: I think we're all lost, We're all looking for something.
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  Speaker 1: And when something clicks, when something makes sense, whenever we're
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  Speaker 1: able to have something in our lives that you know,
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  Speaker 1: makes us hopeful or makes us happy, that is something
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  Speaker 1: that not very many people get to do career wise,
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  Speaker 1: and so for me, I'm like so grateful, and that
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  Speaker 1: is why at the age of thirty five, I'm still
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  Speaker 1: in the fitness industry.
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  Speaker 2: Hang Hurdlers, Emily A body here bringing you episode one
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  Speaker 2: of Hurdle, a wellness focus podcast where I sit down
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  Speaker 2: with inspiring individuals to talk about everything from their big
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  Speaker 2: from top athletes to aspiring entrepreneurs on what it really
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  Speaker 3: My mission is simple to.
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  Speaker 2: and have some fun along the way. Today I am
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  Speaker 2: chatting with Charlie Atkins. She is a certified strength and
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  Speaker 2: conditioning coach and also the founder of Illa Sweat TV.
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  Speaker 2: This episode has been such a long time coming. I
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  Speaker 2: have worked with Charlie on so many articles, whether it
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  Speaker 2: be for Well and Good or Men's Health or GQ.
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  Speaker 2: As an expert before, she is an absolute delight and
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  Speaker 2: I am so amped to bring you her story today.
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  Speaker 2: In our episode, she tells me all about her beginnings.
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  Speaker 2: She's from a small town in New Mexico, but ultimately
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  Speaker 2: ended up living in Hawaii and then La when she
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  Speaker 2: was approached by the team at Soul Cycle when they
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  Speaker 2: only had five studios. As someone who always loved the
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  Speaker 2: science of exercise, she actually got her bachelor's in exercise science.
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  Speaker 2: She has taken loads of workshops, She's acquired a ton
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  Speaker 2: of different wellness centric certifications, and so transitioning into a
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  Speaker 2: full time career in fitness was a no brainer and
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  Speaker 2: it's where she found her happy. After years and years
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  Speaker 2: of teaching at Soul and rising up the ranks as
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  Speaker 2: a Master instructor, she went out on her own to
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  Speaker 2: start her own venture. And that adventure is less sweat.
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  Speaker 2: We talk all about the sweat today. We talk about
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  Speaker 2: what makes it unique, why she's got one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: sixty thousand plus people following along with her over on Instagram,
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  Speaker 2: and what it's been like being an entrepreneur over twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 3: What I love about Charlie.
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  Speaker 2: Is she's not only so just a wealth of knowledge,
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  Speaker 2: but she's also herself and personable and real and god refreshing.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Charlie so much for giving me your time today.
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  Speaker 3: Today.
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  Speaker 2: I am sitting down with Charlie Atkins. She is a
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  Speaker 2: certified strength and conditioning coach. She's also the founder and
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  Speaker 2: creator of lys Sweat.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Hello, Hello.
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  Speaker 3: I feel so special when I get to say the
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  Speaker 3: name of your thing.
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  Speaker 1: You were probably the first person who debuted lay sweat.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever we were on Lessweat, I said, Lee, it's lesswet.
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  Speaker 1: When we were on Well and Good back in I
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  Speaker 1: want to say, like twenty sixteen, I think.
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  Speaker 3: It might have.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was probably the new year of twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: So Charlie and I worked together on a project for
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  Speaker 2: editorial site Welling Goood where we created a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: workouts in celebration of the new year.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and that was where you got to say, let's
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  Speaker 1: sweat for the first time.
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  Speaker 3: The first time.
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  Speaker 2: So well, why don't we just kick this off with
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  Speaker 2: you talking to me about what it is that is
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  Speaker 2: less sweat.
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  Speaker 4: Well, a sweat has evolved since twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: It started out as I thought I was going to
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  Speaker 1: be a fitness blogger. I quickly pivoted because I realized
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  Speaker 1: and by fitness blogger, I was wanting to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the active lifestyle, but not talk about fitness and exercise itself.
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  Speaker 1: If that makes sense, it probably doesn't really make sense,
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  Speaker 1: but at the time.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know what less what was supposed to be.
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  Speaker 1: So it started out as a fitness blog and since
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  Speaker 1: then it's evolved into an app. I focus on at
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  Speaker 1: home workouts, and my whole goal is to make working
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  Speaker 1: out at home as easy as singless and as fun
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  Speaker 1: and challenging as possible.
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  Speaker 4: So that is what LIS what is today.
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  Speaker 2: I love that, and it's actually been really interesting to
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  Speaker 2: watch your evolution, at least from where I sit, because
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  Speaker 2: knowing you, knowing that you've been building this thing. People
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  Speaker 2: that don't know that I know you will always, like
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  Speaker 2: friends of mine, reach out to me and be like,
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  Speaker 2: do you know Charlie Atkins.
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  Speaker 3: I really love what she does.
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  Speaker 4: I love to hear that.
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  Speaker 3: I know, and I mean, I think what's special about
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  Speaker 3: what you do.
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  Speaker 2: If I can be your hype woman for a second,
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  Speaker 2: is that you are really good at giving the why,
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  Speaker 2: and I think so often in the grind that is
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  Speaker 2: like all of us trying to follow along at home
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  Speaker 2: with fitness. It's like we just do things because we're told.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes it's nice to have someone explain exactly why
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  Speaker 2: it is that something is happening in a workout, or
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  Speaker 2: the methodology or the thought process behind something, because ninety
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  Speaker 2: nine percent of the time I'm just like half asleep,
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  Speaker 2: ready to just do something and I don't even know.
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  Speaker 1: That is what I love to hear because that is
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  Speaker 1: exactly what I try to do when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: coaching and training, and just teaching and educating people is
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  Speaker 1: the way that I learn. And the curious child that
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  Speaker 1: I was, I always asked way too many questions and
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  Speaker 1: I always wanted to know why.
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  Speaker 4: Like I just was always like, what is the why
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  Speaker 4: beneath the why?
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  Speaker 1: And I believe I might have stolen that from Simon
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  Speaker 1: Sinek his book which is called Start with Why, which
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  Speaker 1: most people at this point have heard of his book
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  Speaker 1: because almost every company uses it as kind of their
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  Speaker 1: gold standard.
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  Speaker 4: Of customer service.
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  Speaker 1: I remember reading his books Start with Why, Simon Sinek,
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't heard of it, fantastic book, and I
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  Speaker 1: just loved his whole thought process of you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you are a company or if you are a human
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  Speaker 1: in general, if you have something that you are trying
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  Speaker 1: to sell, and not necessarily a product, but in general,
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  Speaker 1: just like kind of getting at the root of what
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  Speaker 1: you are talking about and kind of understanding why you
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  Speaker 1: do the things that you do, why you sell the
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  Speaker 1: things that you sell, why you know, what is the
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  Speaker 1: why beneath the why? And since then, as my coaching
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  Speaker 1: has evolved, one of the things that I do, specifically
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  Speaker 1: in nutrition coaching, is we always try to ask the
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  Speaker 1: client why, you know, you kind of build on why,
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  Speaker 1: Like if I was like, why did you go shopping
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  Speaker 1: today and you'd say I was looking for something new,
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  Speaker 1: and I would say, well, why are you looking for
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  Speaker 1: something new? And eventually it's to get to that what
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  Speaker 1: is the why beneath the why to kind of understand
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  Speaker 1: why you're doing what you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: That's so interesting And I love that book. I've read
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  Speaker 3: it as well.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's like I actually, if something tells
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  Speaker 2: me that we may have chatted on this book when
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  Speaker 2: we were sitting inside of bar pre MEI like last year,
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  Speaker 2: but Yeah, Simon Sinek is like such a brilliant, brilliant,
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  Speaker 2: brilliant mind. So much took over here, so excited about
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  Speaker 2: the success that you've seen so far with less wet
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  Speaker 2: But I would love to dial it back because you
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  Speaker 2: didn't just start building this massive digital community overnight. So
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  Speaker 2: talk to me about your upbringing. Were you always interested
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  Speaker 2: in health and wellness? Were you active as a kid?
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  Speaker 1: So I grew up it was my sister, my dad,
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  Speaker 1: and myself. I grew up in a very small town
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  Speaker 1: in Colorado. It's called Duck Creek, Colorado, population less than
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  Speaker 1: one thousand people. Yeah, so I grew up in a really,
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  Speaker 1: really small town. Like I said, it was just me
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  Speaker 1: and my sister and my dad, and the only thing
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  Speaker 1: that there was to do was play sports.
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  Speaker 4: And so I played sports. And the school was so.
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  Speaker 1: Small I had twenty five people in my class. So
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  Speaker 1: the cheerleading squad was the track team, which was the
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  Speaker 1: volleyball team, which was the basketball team.
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  Speaker 4: And I'll tell you why.
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  Speaker 1: I was one heck of a benchwarmer, Like I was
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  Speaker 1: so good at not playing on the court or getting
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  Speaker 1: on the field.
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  Speaker 4: I just wasn't like good. I just was not a
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  Speaker 4: good athlete.
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  Speaker 1: But I will say everything that I learned in life
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  Speaker 1: started in those early years of playing sports, and so
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  Speaker 1: I have always been active. I've not been good at
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  Speaker 1: what I do. I'm not, like I said, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a very athletic person. And so after let's see, I
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  Speaker 1: went to my parents were split up.
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  Speaker 4: I moved in with my mom.
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  Speaker 1: She was in New Mexico, and to be honest, I
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  Speaker 1: accidentally went to college. I never like saw college. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't see that it was something that I need to do.
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  Speaker 1: Mind you, I grew up in, like I said, a
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  Speaker 1: very small community where it wasn't a very nurturing community,
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  Speaker 1: if you will. Not that my parents were not amazing.
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  Speaker 1: They kind of were just like, whatever you want to do,
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  Speaker 1: whatever makes you happy. So I accidentally went to college,
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  Speaker 1: and when I went, I went to the career councilor
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  Speaker 1: because I was like, I don't know what I want
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  Speaker 1: to do, and I kind of explained to her.
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  Speaker 4: That I enjoyed going.
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  Speaker 1: When I was in high school, we went into a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of nursing homes and we would just sit and
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  Speaker 1: talk with the people who lived in these nursing homes,
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  Speaker 1: and I just loved where working with the elderly population.
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  Speaker 1: And so I was like, I think I want to
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  Speaker 1: work with the elderly population. Long story short, she threw
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  Speaker 1: me into a chemistry major. So here I am accidentally
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  Speaker 1: in college as a chemistry major at Colorado State University.
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  Speaker 1: This did not work out, as you can tell, and
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  Speaker 1: so I went back to their career counselor and she
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  Speaker 1: was like, what do you want to do? And I
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  Speaker 1: told her the same thing. I was like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I really want to work with the older population. I just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it makes me feel good. And she was like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's put you in sports medicine. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: no way, I don't want to be with all those
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  Speaker 1: jocks and athletes. You know, they're not exactly the nicest people.
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  Speaker 1: And she's like, well, you have to claim a major.
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  Speaker 1: So threw me into this sports medicine degree. You had
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  Speaker 1: to take these prerequisite courses. And one of the courses
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  Speaker 1: was three days a week, an hour at a time.
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  Speaker 1: It was an aerobics class. And I kid you not,
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  Speaker 1: it was like step aerobics. It was.
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  Speaker 4: It was. It was the best thing that ever happened
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  Speaker 4: to me.
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  Speaker 1: And so from there I became completely hooked on extra
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  Speaker 1: science and sports medicine and how the body works, not
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  Speaker 1: even from like an athletic like an athletic perspective, but
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  Speaker 1: just in general. Like I was so fascinated. I became
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  Speaker 1: completely enveloped in my major, which was sports medicine. I
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  Speaker 1: became like a tutor for the gross anatomy classes, which
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  Speaker 1: is why I'm completely obsessed with explaining the muscles of
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  Speaker 1: the body and what muscles are working from a fitness perspective.
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  Speaker 1: And then once I graduated from gross anatomy and went
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  Speaker 1: into physiology, these were like three hundred level courses on
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  Speaker 1: a scale of four hundred, I became a tutor for
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  Speaker 1: the physiology class, and so I just became really good
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  Speaker 1: at explaining complex science functions to people that you know,
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  Speaker 1: like didn't necessarily care about physiology, but they had to
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  Speaker 1: take the class to graduate.
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  Speaker 4: And so that is kind of where I started.
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  Speaker 2: Just casual, like accidentally ended up in college. Now I'm
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  Speaker 2: like taking step aerobics. I mean, it sounds like the
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  Speaker 2: standard thing that happens when one goes off to higher
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  Speaker 2: education learning.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when I moved to New York, just hearing
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  Speaker 1: of the accomplishments of everybody in New York a lot
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  Speaker 1: of like Ivy League students and you know, like hearing
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  Speaker 1: about their upbringing, including my boyfriends where He's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I was taking AP classes when I was like twelve
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  Speaker 1: or whatever it is, And I'm like, what is an
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  Speaker 1: AP class? Like the fact that I was completely abilivious
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  Speaker 1: to this like higher education, but somehow I made it,
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  Speaker 1: and I honestly attribute it to just my love of
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  Speaker 1: what I do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so when you graduated from college, you mentioned obviously
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  Speaker 2: coming to New York City. Did you know while you
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  Speaker 2: were in university that you wanted to make the move
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  Speaker 2: out east?
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  Speaker 1: So I, like I said, I grew up in Colorado.
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  Speaker 1: I went to college in Colorado. We are right on
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  Speaker 1: the border. So my family actually lives in New Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: And I claim that I'm from New Mexico more than
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  Speaker 1: I do Colorado, although I lived right on the border.
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  Speaker 4: If anybody's listening, that is from that part of the world.
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  Speaker 1: It's like right on the border of Durango, Colorado and Farmington,
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico.
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  Speaker 4: It's literally twenty miles in.
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  Speaker 1: It is, whether you're a Colorado person or a New
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  Speaker 1: Mexico person.
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  Speaker 4: And so I'm right on the border. But I do
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  Speaker 4: love New Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: So I graduated college from Colorado State, and I actually
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  Speaker 1: graduated college early. I graduated in three and a half
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  Speaker 1: years as opposed to four. I really excelled at college,
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  Speaker 1: the accidental drop in, you should say.
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  Speaker 4: And then I was.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of lost because I went to school for sports
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  Speaker 1: medicine to be a physical therapist. And my dad actually
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  Speaker 1: passed away when I was in college, but he was
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  Speaker 1: much older, so was completely expected. And once I was
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  Speaker 1: free of having to take care of him and having
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  Speaker 1: to I don't want to say raise him, but because
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of like just basically taking care of
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  Speaker 1: him in his older years, I had all of this freedom,
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  Speaker 1: and so I actually moved to Hawaii. So I graduated college,
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  Speaker 1: spent a year in New Mexico just getting myself out
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  Speaker 1: of debt and finding my soul, if you will. Ended
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  Speaker 1: up in Hawaii. That didn't work out because I just
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  Speaker 1: was not for me. The island life was not for
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  Speaker 1: me as much as I wanted it to be. And
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  Speaker 1: dated somebody that was going to school in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: so I just was like, of course, I moved to
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  Speaker 1: LA and from LA I landed at the front desk
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  Speaker 1: of a Spin Studio Soul Cycle was recruiting. They found
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  Speaker 1: me and they were like the founders were said, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: you're amazing. Please come to New York. And that is
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  Speaker 1: the very very quick version, and that is that is
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  Speaker 1: how I ended up in New York. I guess when
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  Speaker 1: I was twenty I moved here when I was twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thirty five in December, so I'm coming up on
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  Speaker 1: my decade here.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. I mean, you just put me in
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  Speaker 2: like the diamond lane on the Highway. But let's just
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  Speaker 2: slow down for a quick second, because I need to know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you said the island life wasn't for you.
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  Speaker 2: But when it comes to your time in Hawaii, what
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  Speaker 2: would you say was your favorite part about that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very fond of my upbringing up until everything that
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  Speaker 1: I've done in retrospect has been absolutely amazing. I would
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  Speaker 1: not give my upbringing for the world. In Hawaii, I
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: was working at California Pizza Kitchen. I was slinging those pizzas.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Love me a chopp salad. That was my favorite thing
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: to eat there.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: But I just became acquainted with the locals and a
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: bunch of the people that I worked with are from Hawaii,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: and they took me on all these fantastic hikes, like
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: we would go hike once a week. They showed me
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: just local eats, and one of them try to teach
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: me how to surf. That did not end well. I'm
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: deathly scared of the ocean now because of surfing. And
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: so while I was there, I just was kind of
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: finding myself and I don't know, I kind of got
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: to spend a year as a waitress knowing that I
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: wanted more, but wasn't completely sure what that more was.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: And I think that's what pulled me out of leaving
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: the island life, was that I just knew that there
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: was more to what I wanted to do and what
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: I wanted to be, And so that was kind of
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: what brought me back to the mainland.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: First impressions of moving to Los Angeles.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Oh so small town girl was like the idea of
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: being surrounded by celebrities was like, okay, So I was
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: obsessed with red hot chili peppers and I was, I mean.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Who wouldn't be, They're amazing.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: And I moved to Silver Lake and I had heard
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: that Flea like lived in the area.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Flea is the basis for red hot chili peppers.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: For anybody who doesn't know. And I remember, I'm living
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: in Silver Lake. I'm walking around, and who do I
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: see on the street, like day two of living in
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles is Flee with his like blue hair, and
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I was speechless. So initially moving to LA, I just
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: was like, oh my gosh, celebrities, like that's how I
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: associated LA. And then the second day and there I
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: see Flea. But then what I quickly started to realize
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: is that when you're in these larger cities, you know.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Like it's a community as much as anything that.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: You do, and so you start to see a lot
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: of familiar faces who just so happened to be celebrities,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: if you will. But these cities, including New York, they're
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: not as big as you think they are whenever you
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: live in them, if that makes sense, right. So that
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: was my first I guess that was my first thought
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: of LA. I love driving, and so to me, like
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the traffic, I was kind of like, Okay, I'll sit
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: in my car whatever.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: No big deal, it's fine, it's all good.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: So and then I mean the next first impressions question
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: would be, uh, talk to me about how you felt
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: about cycling at first.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: So I dated a guy who was a cyclist. He
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: was from Seattle. It's the same guy that brought me
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: to that. I well brought me to La that you know,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: when I say he did not bring me to La,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I'm saying that, like the part of my life is
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: what brought me to La. He was an outdoor cyclist,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: and so I actually got a bike. It was a
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: bright it was a lime green Canon Dell, and I
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: was doing outdoor cycling. And meanwhile, I have what they
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: call a pre professional degree, which is where you have
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: to go and do something else to become anything.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: And so I couldn't do much with my sports med degree.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: It was always either you have to go to school
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: to be a chiropractor, a physical therapist pre med. It
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: wasn't something that you could just have and graduate and work,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: much like a business degree or something. And so I
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: was going to the gym a lot just because I
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: was active, you know, And that's just kind of I
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: never really struggled getting into the gym per se, but
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: that's just kind of what I did. And so I
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: actually had taken a spin class when I lived in
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: New Mexico, and my kind of transition between college and
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: moving to Hawaii, and so I knew that spin classes
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: were like cool and I had so much fun and
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: it was like a great workout. And so here I
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: was this waitress at CDK, trying to figure out what
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: else I could do, and I was like, well, maybe
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I'll go back into my degree. I'll try to become
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: a personal trainer. And so I was studying for what
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: is the most challenging personal training certification, which is the NSCA,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: which is the National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Strength
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: and Conditioning Specialist, which is NSCA CSS A lot of letters,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and I've always kind of like to challenge myself, so
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: of course I decided I was going to take the
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: most challenging personal training certification, which was the one that
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I currently hold. Mind you, I failed it three times.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: And so I decided that maybe I should try to
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: get a job at a gym. Moved to Silver Lake
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: softly from Red Hot Chili Peppers, and also saw that
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: there was a spin studio that was hiring front desk
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: and so I went there and got a job there.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: And to me, this is when indoor cycling was like,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: you know, it was right before the bubble popped. On
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the East coast, Soule Cycle was happening, and on the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: West coast people were kind of like, what is soul Cycle?
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: And that was whenever Julian and Elizabeth, the founders of
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Soul Cycle, we're looking for talent, which is how they
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: found me. And so my initial thoughts of spinning was like, Wow,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: this is awfme. But all of these instructors played terrible
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: music and I could do a way better job. So
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: from a workout perspective, it was phenomenal. From a musical perspective,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I was always just kind of like, Wow, you guys
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: are good, but I could probably do a better job.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: The first follow up question I have from that shtick
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: was what kept you going back to keep retesting for
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: the CSCs exam Because three times it's a lot of
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: times to feel like you're just not hitting it right.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: So I was studying when I lived in LA and
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: like I said, it was a really it was a
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: really challenging test.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: I honestly don't remember.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I feel like I blacked out the test itself, because
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: it's one of those tests that you take and it's
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: like you have to know the three layers.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: To answer the one question. If that makes sense.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: It's like you they ask you a question, and it's
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: very it's an indirect question because you have to know
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: the three underlying foundational things to get to the answer.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: So what stopped me? Or because there was?
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: There was probably like five years, I will say I
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: started working at soul Cycle, which was my first and
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: only job other than slaying pizzas, slinging pizzas at California
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Pize's kitchen.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: But also slaying them in your spare time.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Yes, slaying them and sling them got it?
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Yes, So I took the test the first time and
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I failed miserably, like I had no practical application.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I had never trained anybody.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I just you know, ran on the treadmill and did
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the stairstepper and like picked up a dumbbell and did
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: a bicep girl, and these, you know, these questions were
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: like how do you progress an athlete who's hit a plateau?
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, it's a great question. I don't know.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: So I failed this test, and luckily I was, you know,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I was, I was kind of going with the flow.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I got this job at the Spin studio. Soul Cycle
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: hired me, and so I didn't need to have a
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: certification to be a spin instructor. And I'll say that again,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: if you are looking to become a spin instructor, you
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: do not need any sort of training certification unless your
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: company makes you. So I was coasting in regards to
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: my certifications and my continuing education for the almost eight
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: years that I was working at soul Cycle, and it
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: was actually five years because I ended up getting my certification.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: While I was at soul Cycle.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I became really good at at my job, as most
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: people do whenever you're there for eight years. It became
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: really good at what I did, and I was always
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: just looking for something more challenging, which is why I
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: was like, hey, remember that test that I completely failed.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Maybe I should try that again. And so I tried
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: it again and I was like, wow, awesome, failed it again.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: But there was a part of me that was like, no, no, no, no,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: you can't come this far and take it two times
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and then just give up on yourself. And another motivating
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: factor is of the CSCs certification. The last time I checked,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: only forty percent of the certifications are females, and so
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I was like, hey, female over here, need to, you know,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: take the statistic up a little, get some more, get
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: some more women in the field.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: I love that, and I think it's like really special
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: because it reminds me of my favorite quote that you
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: kind of just riffed on, which was you didn't come
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: this far to only come this far.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I've never thought of it that way, but it falls
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: back on It's similar to another quote that I also love,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: which is, if anybody could do it, anybody would do it.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Oh man, I'm just sitting here like having a personal moment,
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: like the fact that we could probably go, like quote
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: her quote, for like fifteen to twenty minutes and they'd
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: all like water fallen, cascade.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Into one another.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: But we will save the hurdlers from that and we
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: will stay on track. So you finally take it for
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: the fourth glorious time and you pass it, And how
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: does it feel, Charlie.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I went out for drinks that night. I honestly was like, yeah,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I was like, this is awesome. They gave im so
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I had to go in that day. It's like a
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: four hour test on a computer, and you know, like
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: at that point out all I was doing was staring
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: at sixty bikes. I had never stared at a computer
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: for that long, like I had never taken a test.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I had never challenged myself intellectually in that way to
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: take a test, or not intellectually, just I'd never challenged
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: myself in that way to sit in front of computer
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: for four hours and take a test.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: And so I was feeling rugged.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I looked rugged, not that it matters, but I had
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: like my glasses on, I feel like my hair was
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: sideways at that point. It was not an easy test,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and I took a selfie looking real rugged, but just passed,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: and I remember I posted it because I was so
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: ecstatic about it. I was so ecstatic that I had passed, because,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: like you know, I had tried to take this test
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: multiple times and failed it, and so to finally pass
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: it was like, heck, yus, I've made it to the
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: other side.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Let's go get some rose.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, I won't do this, but the temptation
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  Speaker 2: is so real for me to find that photo and
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• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Okay, so we passed the test and we're in LA.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: And we're working at soul Cycle, and so how do
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: you feel about life at the moment and does this
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: change in your mind like anything that you have going
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: on and swirling in the pot.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: It's kind of going back to the upbringing of accidentally
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: going to college successfully graduating college. Same thing with my career.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: You moved to New York and everybody knows the steps,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: they know how they want Most people are I'd say
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: most people know. You know, I want to go to
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: this college, I want to get this job. I'm going
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: to work at this place for three years and then
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go to this job so that I
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: can get this role. That is very much what I
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: discovered when I landed in New York. And quick correction,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I actually came to New York to work for Soul Cycle,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: so they just relocated me from LA after finding me
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: at the front desk. So I was in New York
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: this whole time, and I was at soul Cycle, and
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I was getting on
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: a bike and I was peddling nowhere, and I was
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: teaching the same ex that class, same exact class, with
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: some odd number of different playlists, but nothing was changing.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: And so for me, it was that same itch that
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I felt in Hawaii, where I knew that there was more.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: I didn't know what that more was, but.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I you know, I was going to throw some spaghetti
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: on a wall and I was going to see what sticks.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: And for me, it was getting the certification. And as
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I start to do a lot more coaching and I
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: start to do more research into coaching, I start to
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: realize that what motivates people are intrinsically it comes down
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: to like about three things, which is, you know, the
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: main thing being is people want to survive, like survive
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: and thrive. You want to be loved and you want
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: to love, so we'll we'll say that those are the
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: top three. And when it came to excelling in my industry,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: I looked around at my peers and not bear any
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: people that were spinn instructors were certified trainers.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: And so for me, I was like, okay, well I
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: would like to set myself apart.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: So I did that, and not only were once you
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: kind of get the certification, I also wanted to set
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: myself apart in the way that I was like, okay, well,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: anybody could get ex certification, but I want to get
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: this certification. I want to get the hardest certification that
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I have already failed three times, Like I must get
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: this certification.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: And so for me.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Is you know, like I just want to challenge myself
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: to literally do the best that I can. And so
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I got that itch riding on a bike. I wanted more,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: and so I did the training certification and then not
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: many of my peers were training outside of teaching indoor cycling,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: and so I was like, well, I'd really like to
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: step outside of that, and so I created what became
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: La Sweat.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: I love that, okay, And where does the name uh
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Las swat come from before we keep going on the
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: journey to this.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: So before the sweat was the sweat, she was called
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: the fitness Bitch.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so I when I wanted to start my blog,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I was going to be the fitness Bitch because I was,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: you know, I was just like kind of like cheeky
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: girl at Tap Fitness. And you know, like if you
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: go out to a friend's house or you go and
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: you like meet new people and a friend introduces a
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: friend or they point to you from across the room,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: they'll be like, oh, there's that girl.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: She's the fitness Bitch. She's like, you know, you.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Say something like along those lines nowadays that that is
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: not not cool.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: But wait, I have to know, like when you first
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: came up with this name for yourself, did you have
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: the moment that was like that is it?
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Or was this just you? Did you?
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you how far I got so the
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Fitness Bitch was it? Like own the website, own the domain,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: go daddy dot com, Let me just the finness Bitch
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: dot com owns it. Charlie Atkins owns the fitness Bitch
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: dot com. You know what, I'm going to pay thousands
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: of dollars to trademark this, because trademarks are not are
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: not cheap.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: But I'm going to go down. I'm going to go
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: down the road to trademark this.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I go down the road to trademark the Fitness Bitch,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: only to find out somebody else's trademark the Fitbitch and
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: therefore you can't get a trademark because they're too similar.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: So I made it pretty far down.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I would say I was three months into The Fitness
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Bitch whenever I had to completely pivot. I was with
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: my best friend Meredith Miller, who actually helped me start
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: the sweat formerly known as The Fitness Bitch. She helped
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: me kind of get it off the ground running, and
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: she is obsessed with sex in the city and I've
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: never really watched sex in the city, but her and
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: I were out one night for dinner at a restaurant.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: Called The Turtle's.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: It was like a French restaurant in the Lower East Side,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: and I had just found out that day that I
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: could not be called the Fitness Bitch because it was trademarked,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: and I mean that was very like, oh that sucks, okay,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: So now I.
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: Have to, like, you know, rebrand and rename yourself.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: So we're having our pre dinner drinks and we're just
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: kind of sitting there and we're looking at the menu
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: and it's like everything was La like turtle, we'll say,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: it was like La Cosmopolitan or whatever it was.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: It was totally a spin on.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: You know, it was a French beaster, so they were
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: using lah the French term or the French I don't
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: know what that first were as a conjugate maybe, and.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Mind you, Meritis obsessed with sex in the City.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Apparently there's an episode where Carrie is talking too big
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: and she was like, he's getting ready to go to Paris.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know this episode, but apparently she says, I'm
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: such ale bitch.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: So Meredith puts the Fitness Bitch li Turtle together and
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: is like, what if we call it La Sweat And
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: at first I was like, I actually do not like that.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: That's so far away from the Fitness Bitch. I just
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: don't like it.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: And at this point we had to rename the company something,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: and so I was like, you know what, let's just
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: try it.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: We can always change it later.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: And then I quickly realized that it was actually a
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: fantastic name, because what I wanted to do was elevate
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: this conception, or this misconception of sweat being like raw
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: and dirty and grungy. Like I really just wanted people,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: specifically women, to feel good about going to the gym
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: and working out and breaking a sweat. And now that's
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: kind of what Les Sweat is today.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: I don't mean to rag on whoever was helping you
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: in your trademark search, but like that is probably like
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: preliminary before preliminary, before you give anyone any money, like
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: something they should have told you about the fit.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no offense. I have a great t.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: If you ever need another trademark attorney, I've got a
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: great one.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: I have found a fantastic one. He and I have
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: been together for let's see twenty twenty, for four years now.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, So we've moved on from this moment, and I'm
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: so happy that you're not calling yourself a bitch and
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: that we're just like better better for it really if
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: you're asking me. Okay, So, but you're still when you
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: are concepting all of this and you make that pivot
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: with your name, and you're living like your best Carrie
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Bradshaw life, you are still working at Soul Cycle.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: Yes, I am an overachiever.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: I do not know what free time means, and I
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: am always I always think that there's something else that
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: I should be doing.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: Like I said, I was, I was very good at
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: my job.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: And mind you, I'm teaching up to fifteen spin classes
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: a week at this point, and I just knew.
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: That there was more.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: And so whenever you're teaching and or cycling for that long,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: it's not like you have to go home and you know,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: like study up, or you could go home and study up.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: I should say that, but I was not going home.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: I was not studying up. The only thing that I
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: really had to do was music research, which I became
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: really good at that, and so there just was a
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: lot of time. And one thing that people maybe don't
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: understand about being in the fitness industry is that it's
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: a very lonely job for multiple reasons. Number one is
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: you spend most of the day by yourself, because if
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: you are a personal trained to, your clients are typically
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: in the morning and in the evenings, and you have
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: a few throughout the day.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Saying goes with being a fitness instructor.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: You teach your classes at like five six, seven am,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: which is way too freaking early, and you're at the
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: gym from five to nine pm, either teaching your classes
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: or training your clients, and so you have the entire
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: work day where most people are like glued to their
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: computers or on the phone or in meetings, and you know,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: it's like they're very busy during the day and you
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: are by yourself. You have nobody to talk to other
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: than other fitness professionals, and so it's a very isolating industry.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: And because, for whatever reason, the fitness industry in our minds,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: the trainers were all I would say that most of
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: us are pretty competitive in our heads with other people
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: and what other people are doing. It's an industry that
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: you could very easily, you know, get get into your
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: head too much. And I definitely had that problem when
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: I was working at soul Cycle, and so for me,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: I just needed an outlet, and La Sweat or you know,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: the La Sweat at that point was my outlet, which
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: is why blogging sounded like a good idea, even though
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I'm a terrible writer. That's you know, it just gave
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: me something to do and I was passionate about it.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: It was me, it was my life, and so that
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: you know, it kind of filled that void.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so you.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: I feel like before we really can move on, we
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: have to at least do a little bit of justice
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: to like the tenure and the excellence you found at
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: soul Cycle. I think it speaks to your character and
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: a lot of what you're talking about, Like you're not
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: someone that shows up and half ass as anything. You're
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: definitely like the kind of woman who is like, I'm
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: gonna go into this and I'm going to give it
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: my all. So I can imagine, especially toward the end,
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: when you're trying to give your all to so many things.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: It was overwhelming.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: But in New York City is what I can only
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: speak to, Like, you were a soul Cycle legend. Thank you,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Like I mean, you were like a master soul Cycle
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: instructor who like sold out her classes immediately.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: I am very blessed to have come into the company
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: when I did, and to have left the company. To
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: have the ability to leave the company, I should say
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: so I jumped on the group fitness instructor trained early on,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: and it always reminds me of this. Another saying is
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: right right place, right time, but also the right frame
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: of mind. I was very open to whatever life had
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: to offered me at that point. And I came into
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: a company with the two most amazing women ever. I
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: cannot speak of the leadership qualities that Julia Rice and
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Cutler.
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: They're the two most.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Like fantastic women. I cannot thank them enough for all
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: the opportunities that they gave me because of the leadership
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: that they provided at soul Cycle. And this is two
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: thousand and eleven, twenty twelve, when soul Cycle had five studios.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: I started when they had five studios. I left when
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: they had ninety. And starting at a company and having
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: a leader that made you feel like you were building
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: their dream, like every day we went to work because
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: and I should actually rephrase that, it's we were building
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: their dream. But they were like, this is our project,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: this is our dream. And so showing up to work
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: and being like, I want to do this for us
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: was nothing I've ever experienced other than a Soul Cycle.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: And so to have the support of your leadership team
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: and to feel like you're in it with the other instructors,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: that all of you guys are contributing to building this beautiful,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: amazing thing. It made working at Soul Cycle absolutely like
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: the most fulfilling thing I've done. I loved it, and
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: it was such an exciting ride, and I saw so much,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: I learned so much, and because I was so happy
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: with where I was growing my growing myself within the brand,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: it was easy because you know, like you've seen it,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: the people that we look up to when they love
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: what they do, you can see it, you can feel it,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: and I feel that I can only hope that my
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: writers saw that in me, because that's how I felt.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: And I mean, I think it's a really special opportunity then,
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: as you mentioned, to not only learn from such great talent,
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: but then to during that process gain a knowledge and
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: understanding that would eventually help you to come into your
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: own as a woman building her own thing.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: And to tab two women leaders was you know. I
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: love my mom, I love her with everything. However, like
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Julie Elizabeth just showed me what is possible for a
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: female business entrepreneur. And I say I love my mom
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: because it's not that she did not teach me a
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: bunch of things growing up, but just to be that
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: close to those two to see what was possible for
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: women was amazing. I cannot express how amazing those two
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: women are.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: And I mean, you're allowed to have more than more
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: than one woman to to look up to and to
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: build to build from. Okay, So then talk to me
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: about how you felt the day after you let two
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: of your biggest inspirations know that you were going to
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: have to step aside from Soul Cycle.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Well, the founders of Soul Cycle left in two thousand
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: and I think I want to say it was like
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: twenty fifteen or two.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: That's sixteen.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't even remember the date, but I do
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: remember how I felt.
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: I was crushed.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: I got a phone call that morning and Julian Eazabeth
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: were like, hey, we're actually leaving. And another woman was
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: coming in who had worked for the company. Her name
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: is Melanie Wheland. She has since left the company. And
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: I remember two things. I cried, and I had to
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: teach a class at one o'clock. I think I got
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: the phone call at ten o'clock and I couldn't even
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: put myself together for a one o'clock class, which was
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: three hours later. And it was pun intended. It was
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: soul crushing when they left. It was devastating because it's,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: you know, like it just it took the wind out
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: of the sails, and I remember the air was flat
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: that day, and it just like teaching felt different. Just
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: knowing that those two women weren't going to be there.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: It was the craziest, you know, the craziest experience ever.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: So I actually didn't have to tell them that I
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: was leaving.
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: When I did leave, I.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Had to tell the writers, and I will say that
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: that was very emotional because at that point people had
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: been writing with me for over seven years and to
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: be like, hey, so I know that we've been doing
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: this thing like a couple times a week for the
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: last you know, five to seven years, but I'm actually leaving,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: so you're gonna have to figure something else out. That
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: a lot of I got to see, you know, a
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: lot of people wrote me some very amazing letters to
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: say like, here's how you change my life. So that
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: was what the most challenging part was leaving Soul Cycle
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: was leaving all of the people behind because I was
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: not going to be teaching groupfuitness after Lessel's Cycle.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Talk to me about what goes through your head when
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: someone tells you the girl who accidentally went to college,
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: shumbled into taking a CSCs exam because she thought that
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: it was the right thing to do, ended up being
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: at the front desk, and now like has such a
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: legacy at this unbelievable company. What goes through your head,
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: as that girl, when someone tells you that you have
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: had a profound impact on their life.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: That's a deep question. Honestly, That's why I do what
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: I do. And I'm not going to get emotional, even
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: though like I feel like you're tugging at my heart strings.
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: But.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: That you know, because the way that Julian Elizabeth have
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: changed in my life. I mean, let me take a
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: sip of my tea. To have somebody come into your
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: life and change it in whatever way from a fitness
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: perspective or even from a business or just you know,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: like a life partner, the lasting impression that they leave
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: on you is so powerful. Like I still think about
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: my first yoga teacher. I actually don't even like yoga anymore,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: but I think about my first yoga teacher and I
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: have such fond memories of her, and I just like
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: love spending time in the yoga room with her, and
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: I liken that too. What I was able to do
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: for you know, like hundreds thousands of people at Soul Cycle,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: And to me, that is why I do what I do,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: because I think we're all lost, We're all looking for something,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: and when something clicks, when something makes sense, whenever we're
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: able to have something in our lives that you know,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: makes us hopeful or makes us happy, that is something
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: that not very many people get to do career wise,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: and so for me, I'm like so grateful, And that
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: is why, at the age of thirty five, I'm still
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: in the fitness euchree.
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• 49:55
  Speaker 3: Don't you have a two hundred ye hour yoga certification?
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: I'm the very I'm a very curious soul from a
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: training certification I have. I just went to Bali last year. Actually,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: I wanted to understand so after teaching on the bike
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: at the age of twenty seven, so two and a
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: half years after I started at Soul Cycle, my body
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: started to fall apart. No injuries, knock on wood at
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: that point, but it just hurt. Waking up was terrible,
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Like getting on the bike fifteen times a week was terrible,
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: you know, like pain really just puts you down. And
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: I could not figure out what was wrong with me.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, come to find out, I was not eating enough.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: I was not you know, I wasn't fueling myself properly.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: I wasn't taking care of myself, you know. Come to
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: find out, apparently you can't ride the bike fifteen times
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: a week for three and a half years straight or
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: two and a half years straight and be okay.
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: Like there's stuff that you have to do to take
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: care of yourself.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: And so I actually really got into stretching, and so
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: that's like something that has always been a part of
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: me or a part of my my my toolbox. I
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: really really enjoy stretching, and I the first time I
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: did yoga, I got into Kundalini in La with a teacher.
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: Named Taeje take Tej.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: At Golden Bridge. She since has left and started her
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: own thing. But like I said, that yoga teacher that
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: was amazing. When I was stretching, I always knew that
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: there was like something somewhere else other than just doing
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: these like active and passive stretches, and so for me
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: understanding how workouts are put together from a science perspective,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: I wanted to, you know, like I wanted to see
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: how workouts were put together from a spiritual perspective. And
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: so obviously I'm going to go do yoga. And so
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: I went to Bali last year and I did my
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: two hundred yoga sert. And the why beneath my why
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: for going to do that certification was, first of all,
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: I wanted to be a better teacher, and you know,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: being like being able to answer questions in multiple different
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: types of workout formats makes you obviously very good at
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: what you do.
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: But also I was looking for something.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: Because you know, I never since that last since Tage,
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: I hadn't had a teacher or somebody in my life
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: much how I was to a lot of my former
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: writers at Soul Cycle. I was looking for, you know,
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: that that person or that thing, and that's kind.
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: Of what led me to Bali.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so now I just I just needed to
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: like put that into the universe, because you can't say, like, oh,
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: I just do not like yoga, and then I'm like,
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: you spent two hundred hours doing yoga and you have
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: a certification, So just making sure we're all like putting
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: it all out there here, just so we're clear while
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: we're throwing it all out here. Aside from that cert
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: and your CSCs, what else you got in the bag here?
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: So I got my undergrad sports Medicine. I have css
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: OR from the NSCA. I have the Certified Functional Strength Coach,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: which if anybody is looking for a fantastic introduction into programming.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: So if you you are a trainer, or if you
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: are looking to be a trainer and you just want
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: to understand how to put workouts together, I highly recommend
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Certified Functional Strength Coach.
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: It's by an industry leader. His name is Mike Boyle.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: His training philosophy is so simple and it just makes sense.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: And so I actually have his level one and his
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Level two, and then I also have nutrition. I'm currently
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: in level two for precision Nutrition. Try saying that five
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: times fast precision nutrition. I'm currently in level two training
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: for them. I you know, nutrition just wasn't something that
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: I dove into. I get questions about nutrition, and I
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: was never felt comfortable answering those questions, even though to
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: ignore the marriage between fitness and nutrition is completely ignorant
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: from a trainer in my perspective. So for me, I
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: didn't want to be that ignorant trainer ignoring that relationship
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: between fitness and nutrition.
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: And so that is why I went on to get
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: precision nutrition.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Like I said, I really loved stretching mobility, so I
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: took FRC, which is Functional Range Conditioning. I have two
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: certifications from them. I have the FRC Start and I
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: did the Kinstretch class. I didn't get certified per se,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: but I did take the workshop and the continuing education,
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: and so I have that. I have my two hundred yoga,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: my two hundred yoga training, and I think that's it.
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: Just that, just that's it, you know, That's fine. Okay.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: So now we are in Lea's sweat full time, and
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: I mean that has certainly iterated over the last few years.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: So talk to me about when you started to feel
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: as though you finally found your footing doing your own thing.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Well, I will say the past few months have been
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: really awesome because I started doing digital training back to
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: whenever you and I first met twenty sixteen Slash two
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen December January was the first time that I
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: ever did an online training class. And if you think
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: of it, I mean I tat thousands of classes at
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: soul Cycle, so I was always live and whenever you
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: do it that many times, at some point it just
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: becomes very natural for you. From the experience that I
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: had with teaching in person like classes at soul Cycle
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: and kind of always being I guess on camera if
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: you will, I was very easily. I was very easily
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: able to transfer over to digital training. Now for anybody
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: that has had to transition over to being digital because
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: of March twenty twenty when COVID hit hit the world,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: you know that it is a completely different experience being digital.
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: And through the years that.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: I was teaching online classes from twenty seventeen up until today,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: I really I kind of learned the tips and train
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: I figured out what works, what doesn't work, and I
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: really have honed in on my skill of being an
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: online trainer in addition to getting and having all my
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: certification and just having the knowledge to kind of train
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: any level athlete that is on the other side of
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: the phone or the computer, whether you're on training mobile
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: or web.
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: So I would say that Les what really found her groove.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: This year twenty twenty has been the year of less
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: wet and I could not be more grateful for everything
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: that is, all the opportunities that have come to me
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: and just really you know, like having the chance to
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: help people through what has been COVID.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: It's interesting to see and watch from my point of
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: view because I feel like because of COVID and because
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: of the stress on digital training, like some people have
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: maybe floundered would be kind of like a drastic term,
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: but maybe not taken advantage as much as I feel
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: as though you have. And in doing that, it just
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: seems from my perspective, although I totally understand and know
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: the work that is going on on your side of
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: things to make it all happen like this, but it
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: seems like this is like the best thing that could
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: have happened for your business, but the worst thing that
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: happened for the world.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And honestly, that's it exactly. And so when COVID
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: hit in March of twenty twenty, I actually had just
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: got off the plane from a fitness re treat in Bali.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: I was hosting a fitness retreat. We had almost twenty people.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: We went to Bali right before everything got shut down,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: which the fact that we were able to do that,
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: I'm so grateful for that. I was able to spend
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: time with other humans other than my boyfriend's slash roommate
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: before all this went down, traveling, which is nothing that
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: I love to do. But what I realized was I
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: saw everybody was teaching classes, and you know, just having
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: been in the industry for quite a few years, seeing
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: mistakes that were being made, but then also so watching
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: participants take these classes from other people and be like,
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you are going to injure yourself, or
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: there's a better way or an easier way, or you know,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: like there's a better and easier way to do what
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: you're trying to do.
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: And that is why when covid hit Ice.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: Went on and I actually was teaching two classes a day,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: six days a week on Instagram Live for a few reasons.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: I knew that people wanted to move and I wanted
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: to teach. I knew that my app was coming out,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: and so I wanted to kind of get people used
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: to my coaching style because it was a time where
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: you know, like people were on their phones and they
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: were looking for fitness, and so my whole goal when
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: I was teaching my classes was first of all, to
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: get people used to my coaching style and to second
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: of all make people realize that working out from home
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: does not have to be as complicated as we make it.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: And so that's kind of been where I'm living now,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: is you know, just doing that thing.
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: Doing that thing.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, So then when you are not teaching and editing
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: and promoting and building your brand here, what is it
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: that you like to do in your free time?
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm actually I eat, sleep, breatheless, weat. And that
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: is because I at thirty four, thirty five years young,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: I get to do what I love, and everything about
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: what I do I love. I love learning about cameras
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: and editing, which doesn't really have to do with fitness,
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: but it does, you know, it's my business.
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: I love Final Cut Pro.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: I'm terrible at it, but I like watching YouTube videos
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: and I like training myself how to do it. I'm
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: constantly trying to educate myself on the body and fitness principals,
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: like right now I'm studying too. In addition to doing
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: nutrition school, I also just want to understand a little
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: bit more of how hormones affect females and training, and
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: so I've been like reading books on that and yes,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: again it helps my business, it helps me, but I
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: actually enjoy doing that sort of stuff. And so outside
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: of doing the sweat, everything behind the scenes with Sweat,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: not only teaching the fitness classes, but editing the videos,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: you know, finding music that I can play. I you know,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: I read books on fitness and science. I watch videos
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: on editing and best practices.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 4: I just love what I do.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: I just love it. It's really just that simple.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: So then, in building this thing and giving it so
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: much of your time and energy, obviously at times you
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: have to lean into the advice and counsel of others.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: When you think about the best piece of advice that
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: you have received in the last three years of building
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: this brand, what would it be?
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: Wow?
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: I think of something that my dad said many years ago.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: When I was a young girl, when I was in kindergarten,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: I had one best friend. Her name was Chandra, and
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: every other week she was mad at me for some reason.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: And I remember my dad was like, you can't have
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: more than one best friend, and I was like, excuse me.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: You know, like six year old me is like, no, no, no, no,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: this is life or death. I have to have one
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: friend and she has to like me back. And he
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: told me that. And how that's kind of, you know,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: made its way into my life today is that you
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: can't you know, it kind of contradicts a few things,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: but you can't have just one thing. You can't have
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: just one hustle. So for me, fitness seems like it
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: may be my one hustle. But really on the back end,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: what you guys, what most people don't see is you know,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: the editing, the business stuff that I learn, you know how,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: the camera there. So I do have a bunch of
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: different stuff that I focus on that is not fitness related.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 4: Fitness is just my avenue. I will say. The quote
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 4: that has just stuck with me.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: Is, you know, just try not to put all of
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: your eggs into one basket, or don't have just one
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: best friend, have a lot of different friends, have a
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: few different friend groups that allow you to do different things,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: and you know, get yourself out there as much as
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: you can. Although it sounds like I am not doing that,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: that's kind of my philosophy.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: I guess I wanna bring us back for a moment
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: into the Soul Cycle studio, because I know that a
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: lot of what happens on that bike, maybe a little
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: bit more so than what happens when you're coaching and
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: training today, is coming from a place of building others
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: up and giving them sometimes what it is that they
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: might really need to hear when you're inside of that
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: dark room. So I know when I taught spin, I
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: certainly had kind of like a basket that I would
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: pull from when you were coaching on the bike, would
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: you pull from personal experience or did you have like
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: any sort of places that you were reaching for inspiration
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: so that you could help to build others up.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: Teaching indoor cycling was very emotional. Had to put yourself
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: out there. And I feel like some of the best
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: teachers that I've encountered in my industry have been those
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: that have really gone through.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 4: Something that's changed them, and you know, you've really had to.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: I don't say you have to like figure out, just
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: something that you go through that absolutely changes you, and
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: it kind of makes you a better teacher and a
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: better leader, I think, because you know what it's like
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: to hit rock bottom and to have to come back
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: out on the top. My rock bottom was. You know,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: I really feel that I had to raise myself in
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: the sense that you know, like I went to college
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: by accident, and you know, I moved all over I
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: sling in pizzas, and then you know, I was working
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: at the front desk, and somehow I always made my
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: way to the top. So as far as teaching classes
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: and motivating others, I think that the messages that we deliver,
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: the ones that I would at least always came from
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: personal experiences. But I mean, teaching class in a dark
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: room is as close to intuition as I've ever gotten,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: in the sense that there's a moment that hits, a
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: moment that clicks, that hits you out of nowhere, and
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: the right words come out, or the wrong words come out,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: some words come out, and it really is something that
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: passes through you. And that's how I always felt whenever
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: I was teaching at Soul Cycle, was that in most classes,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: I would say not all of them, but in most classes,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: there was always some message somewhere that came through me.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: I do not know where it came from. It might
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: have been something I was reading, or something that I saw,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: or something that I experienced, but I will say that
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: all of the motivations that I speak are things that
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: I have gone through personally, and you know, I think
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: of the way that they made me feel and the
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: words that I had maybe wanted to hear during those moments,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: and that is kind of what I like to coach
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: to anybody that's on the other side of that.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: What excites you right now?
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: I am excited to honestly just grow. LA's what I'm
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: in the process of bringing on a few different trainers.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: And the reason why that excites me is because the
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: opportunities that Julie and Elizabeth gave me while working at
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: soul Cycle was amazing and I never probably would have
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: had those opportunities otherwise. And so I really like to
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: find trainers that specifically, I'd really like to find fitness
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: trainers that I think just need that exposure, or they
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: just need that push, or they just need somebody to
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: be like, hey, you got this, just do it. Because
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: I really feel like that's what those two saw in me.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: So that's very exciting to me is to be able
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: to kind of pay it forward for some other fitness
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: trainers in the industry.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: You have an opportunity.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: Charlie right now to offer yourself a piece of advice,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: probably after the third time that you failed your CSCSI xam.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: You're in the sling of things, working at the front
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: desk at that spin studio. You have an opportunity right
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: now to offer yourself one piece of advice going through
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: that hurdle moment.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: What do you tell yourself.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: If you don't do it, somebody else will. That's that's
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: I'm very motivated by competition. I would say a healthy competition.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: It's a healthy competition, health healthy motivation. I think the
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: way that my mind works, and in all the times
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: whenever I've started something and then just decided to give up,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: I you know, like I see other people do what
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: I wanted to do, and to me, that's very frustrating.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: I get down and I get mad at myself because
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: I'm like, dang, why did you quit? Like you were
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: so close. All you had to do is take the
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: test one more time. You could have you know, you
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: could have passed it. And I just really, you know,
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: I constantly tell other trainers in the fitness entry because
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: I do get a lot of questions about how to
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: grow the business, and I just say, you know what
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: if you don't do it, somebody else will. And if
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: you are that passionate about what you're doing, and if
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: you really feel that you are great and you love
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: what you do, then why would you stop doing it
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: and to kind of kick it into athlete competition mode?
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: To me, in my opinion, I'm like, look if somebody
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: if I don't do this, somebody else is going to
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: do it. And if I see that somebody else succeeded
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: at something that I could have done and that I
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: gave up on, I will be so upset with myself.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 4: Has nothing to do with the other person. It just
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 4: has everything to do with me.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: And you know, given myself that pep talk to be
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: like come on, just one more door that we have
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: to go through.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: I also think that that what you just said about
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: like it has nothing to do with them. So often,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: like individuals struggle with this concept that it's hard to
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: be somebody else's cheerleader because you're thinking about the fact
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: that like they might be doing something that you could
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: be doing. And it's like really valuable perspective that you
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: have to that effect, because especially I mean every industry
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: has its fair share of competition, but especially today in
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: the wellness industry with it all being digital, Like what
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: a it's a great I don't know, it's a great
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: take to have.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: What's that one saying where it says, uh, success is
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: right on the other side of failure. Yeah, yeah, that
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: saying comes up a lot in my mind too. Is
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: that so often? And we see it a lot as in,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: you know, I refer back to a reference back to
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: fitness a lot. But when you're training somebody, you often
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: see that they're so close to getting it. You know,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: it's like you're so close to getting the bench press
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: or the squat or you know, like running an extra
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: you know, a little bit quicker, and you see when
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: people give up, like you see it in you see
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: it change and then like you watch it happen and
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: you just want to be like you were so close,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: like if you had just stayed committed and watched and
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: saw the finish line and just ran through, you would
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: have had it. And sometimes I think that's why it's
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: fantastic that you have a coach, because whenever you're in it,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: you're not able to see that. So it's nice to
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: have somebody on the sidelines that it's like, hey, man,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: don't give up, just keep going. And I think that
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: that goes back to the friend groups and the people
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: that you surround yourself with and just you know, having
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: people that are always in your corner.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: To really close us out here, you've mentioned a couple
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: of the mantras that you go back to time and
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: time again when you have to think about, like maybe
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  Speaker 2: one of the biggest ones that you lean into, what
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  Speaker 2: can you leave us with?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I so much that I trademarked it. I
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  Speaker 1: was on the bike was so cycle for almost eight
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  Speaker 1: years and my quote from day one was yes or yes.
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  Speaker 1: So as you know, that is transferred into a sweat
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  Speaker 1: and I say yes or yes because when I moved
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  Speaker 1: to Hawaii, I was really open to kind of doing whatever.
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  Speaker 1: And I told my friend, I said, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I'm on this island. I am going to say yes
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  Speaker 1: to everything, yes or yes. And so that was why
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  Speaker 1: I went surfing and it didn't really end up so well,
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  Speaker 1: but it's fine. But to me, you know, you can
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  Speaker 1: say no sometimes, so I always say yes or yes
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  Speaker 1: or no. But I really like to say yes to
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  Speaker 1: things because again, if you don't do it, somebody else will.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're capable of doing it, why not give
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  Speaker 1: it a try.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks so much for your time today, Charlie.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so grateful that we finally had the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: get this on the books.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.
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