Ally Love
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115 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Ally Love’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I want to be as fluid and my abilities to think beyond what is right now. But also I want to be pretty diligent in what I have going on. So I'm dedicated to Love Squad. to hosting for the Brooklynettes, Adidas Global Ambassador, being a Peloton instructor.
As I continue to pursue those fields because I can identify progress in all of those areas, I just know it'll lead me to that point of, okay, if there is a next move that I need to make in the next couple years, it will come through my curiosity and diligence for working really hard in those areas because they have great, again, great exposure, great platforms, and I can identify progress.
Well, first I want to say thank you so much to your friend for suggesting me. I appreciate it. It never gets old. And thank you. I mean, on behalf of my colleagues, we have definitely the best instructors in the world. And I always say it's because of their level of humanity that just sets them apart. I love, love, love my fellow instructors. But in terms of now being at home, what ended up
happening was with the pandemic and everything happening with COVID, we end up teaching from home. Many of us, Peloton, I will say our production techs have some magic in their fingertips, where as to quote Jen Sherman, I like opened my door and there was a production studio in front of my door.
They packaged everything up, sent it to some of our homes who had the space, and we were able to set up a studio and be able to stream content live from home. And I think one of the one of our members made a really good statement. They're like, are you really social distancing? And if so, how are you doing it? Because you usually have 25,000 people live in your living room.
And I thought that was so funny. And I thought it was a clear, clear kind of like a picture of what's going on. But Peloton is uniquely positioned in the intersectionality of media, of technology, of fitness and The real, I say, engine for us is our community, is our humanity, is the fact that we understand that while we didn't know, I mean, I didn't know exactly what a pandemic felt like.
This is the first of my lifetime. I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know what to do and do it correctly. But I did the best that I could. And with that being said, it's like to continue to stay connected on social, on Facebook, taking rides, swarming, being able to.
I also just like you, Heather, I end up getting a bike right at the top of pandemic so that I could engage with our community so I can hop on in my living room and take a ride. And many of you are like, Ali, why didn't you have a bike already? Aren't you an instructor? Let me put it this way. I was very close. I am very close to the studio. So if I wanted to ride, it's I can do that.
I'm also not always like if once I bring work home, I'm on it all the time, which was my fear. But it's a reality now, which I love because I'm not in the studio as much. So, no, I didn't have a bike because there were bikes at our studio in our locker rooms that we could, you know, we could utilize. So I got my riding in. But becoming a home rider at the top of the pandemic. I was able to swarm.
I still ride at 6 a.m. with my 6 a.m. hitters on a Tabata ride. We pick a ride. I post it on my stories. I get about 200 people that'll swarm in the mornings Tuesday at 6 a.m. Even though there's nothing on the schedule, I will take the same ride from five months ago.
And so I will say like, it has been a life changer for me, not only just as an instructor, but recently as a home rider, being able to transition and offer new content to our members because they are handling life just as much as we are. You know, you know how it feels to hop on that bike and say, all right, I kind of, you know, I'm frustrated today. I'm confused. There's a level of uncertainty.
I'm anxious. And while Peloton is not a cure by any means, it is definitely been an outlet for me and many of my family. to handle what's going on, to get on and brighten up your day.
If you get on a Cody ride or an Alex ride, or you get one of my feel good rides or any instructor, really, it's a way to just not only get your workout in, but to add some levity to maybe what you're going through, give you an extra boost. And so. I'm always shocked when I tell the story of how there is a production studio in my living room and it magically streams to people globally.
Like across the world, people will be in my living room Sunday at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. And I'm like, this is incredible. That is just to tell the incredible people that we work with at Peloton. Like it's not just one instructor. It's not just six instructors. It's not all 33. It's our organization. It's our company. It's real.
This is a turning point for Black Lives Matter in terms of it's been around for seven years. And this is not the first time this situation has happened. But when you talk about this racial unrest that's accelerated, I think it's just more of it being, again, I kind of always use the word a turning point. It's been recognized largely.
And I can't speak in terms of for my other instructors or fellow instructors. But what I can say is that for me, I talk about bringing your whole self to the bike. I talk about bringing your whole self to work. It's something that our company is really has really encouraged. You know, it is one of the best companies, if not the best company that I've ever worked for.
And in any place that we talk about it in Love Squad, at any place you go, you want to feel like you belong there and you want to feel like you can bring your whole self there and that you can be your authentic self. And so I don't think that the expectation was set that anything otherwise was going to happen at any point, no matter what's going on when we get on the bike or on the mat.
And so in terms of how I handled it, I know for me, it was it still is an emotional process. But most importantly, it is a learning experience in the sense of leaning into resources, really leaning into listening and learning, even as a black woman. of what is going on, what's the history? How do we speak about this? What are people going through?
And again, the upside of our community is that we are in contact. People will hop on when I'm on Instagram Live and ask questions or slide in my DMs. And now with that being said, not every question is gonna feel good. And that is okay. That's what creates dialogue.
And not to say I engage with every single DM or every single question, but I'm aware, my ears to the street because my community is a part of me. And in order to cultivate and really truly be a part of a community, we have to listen to each other. We have to know, we have to at least have a pulse of what's going on.
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