Melanie
Appearances
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
There wasn't a lot of talk about how to deal with that kind of attention. There was a professionalism that was pushed on us about our role in the room and how to be in control of the room and command the room.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
We have a very specific role that wasn't necessarily about seducing the rider so much as it was creating an atmosphere and an environment for them to feel really comfortable and relaxed and engaged in what we were doing and with us.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
In the beginning, they're very much like, just stay on the bike. Don't try to get on and off the bike. Just stay on the bike. Teach from the bike. But as we start to get more comfortable with ourselves and with being in the space, there definitely is that encouragement to start connecting more. There's a lot of ways to connect with the riders that you can't really do from on that podium.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
You want to get on the level with them. You want to look them in the eyes. You want to seek people out.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
So my very first class on the schedule was December 31st of 2013, New Year's Eve. I got the assignment that my first class was gonna be a New Year's Eve class. And watching that class fill up on the back end to the point where it was a completely sold out class was kind of mind blowing for me that like my first class on the schedule was going to be like a completely packed room.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
And I was terrible at it. I was absolutely terrible at it. I kind of loved hated it because here is this thing where like the instructor looks so amazing and like they're riding to the rhythm and I'm a dancer and I'm like, I should be able to do this. Like, why can't I do this?
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
Because at this point, you're not used to teaching to that many people. And so I just remember being so absolutely nervous that I could throw up. And the energy in the room was just so high because it was New Year's Eve. Everyone was there to get in their last workout of the year. And it just felt so magical to be able to be on the schedule for the first time in that way.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
Because I think I had an out-of-body experience just like being up there for the first time where the reins have been handed over to you. Like up until that point, there's been somebody like watching you over your shoulder.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
I went back because I just, I couldn't be bad at it. Like it wasn't an option. And to be honest with you, like I would have panic attacks on my way to the train. I was like, I don't know that I can physically do this. You know, I was used to pushing myself as a dancer, but again, like I was not in dancing shape.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
It wasn't like I was still performing and I would literally like have to talk myself into going to class. because I would start walking to the train and I'd be like, oh my God, I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this. I'm going to die on that bike.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
There was a lot of nervous energy in the room. I remember we had to do like three songs. So we like got up on the bike. They would just like put the music on and we just had to go and teach. No direction, no like nothing. I don't know, 30 seconds or a minute to like teach their song and then they would switch the song and you'd have to switch your whole vibe immediately. You picked your own music.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
So like I went in there with Gavin DeGraw. pink and like Beyonce. It was like kind of like a whiplash. It was fun. I think it was like one of the most fun audition experiences I've ever had.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
We leave in a month. But then it's kind of like, you're kind of waiting for your life to start at that point, right? You're kind of like, you're so excited about this thing that you just accomplished that I think from my audition, only two, like of those like 30 something people that were in the room, I think only two of us were accepted into the training at that point.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
And they were also scouted people. Like one of the people that was in my training group, Janet was like, he was Janet's waiter. And Janet was like... Do you want to be a soul cycle instructor? Like, come to this audition. Like, she just, like, plucked him out of the restaurant.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
A lot of the way that we were taught how to maintain control over the room was to be really specific with what we were saying, how we were speaking, the language that we were using. There's this idea that it's just like going up on a bike, being cute, like doing the workout and like spouting off mantras. Yeah. And that's not what it is.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
And it's not just about cueing in and out of choreography. It's also about the tone that you're setting. It's about helping them create a purpose and an intention for themselves in the room. So I think when we're taught to kind of be that discerning about the way that we're leading, that's what fosters that ability to be able to have control over the room.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
And then we would have other different kinds of workshops, like we had to do a CPR class, like branding and hospitality, which was like super cool to be enmeshed in the culture of it, like how it all started. Some of the other top instructors would come in to give us workshops, like Lori Cole.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
I remember we did like mic training, but then it also like turned into her taking pictures of like all the supplements that she was taking.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
Yeah, so the riders are either going to want to be you or fuck you was essentially the message that we got in training. What we do on the bikes is very sexual.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
What we now know as a parasocial relationship that we're having with all of these people on the internet, it wasn't like, make sure you're seducing your riders. It wasn't coming across that way. It was more about understand your position in this room.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
And there was really this expectation that we were, you know, turning ourselves into these like athletes who could do this job. And it was a very, it's a very demanding job. I think that, you know, the breaking down just kind of happened as a result of the schedule that we were keeping. I never really found that they were in our faces trying to like... break us?
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
They wanted us to like kind of cut the bullshit. Like they would call it like dipped in soul. Like someone who had just been like such a fanatic and like had found their person and like was sort of like a carbon copy of the person that they aspired to be. And so I think there is a level that like we needed to be broken of habit. We needed to be broken of life.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
our idea of what we thought this thing was so that we could actually do what it really is. And it's not this frivolous thing that we're doing that we can just like look cute on the bike.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
You know, at the time, getting picked to be an instructor was this holy grail kind of a thing, right? They were very, very particular about who got into the training program. And if you got a spot in that training program, like, you were it. Like, you were the shit.
Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories
Seashells in the Sand
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Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories
Seashells in the Sand
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Murder With My Husband
271. The Missing News Anchor
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Murder With My Husband
271. The Missing News Anchor
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Otherworld
Episode 124: Off Trail
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Introducing: Campus Files
I'm a senior at this point. We're very low involvement in the rush process. So I'm very not involved, but I live in the house at this time, so I'm hanging out at the house. And there's girls crying and just really upset. And this one girl I'm close with that's younger was like... Did you hear like, you know, there's like this girl that everyone wants, this black girl.
The Commercial Break
Introducing: Campus Files
And like, they're not taking because she's black. Like they're automatically nixing her. And everyone's like, isn't that crazy? And it's not going to be talked about. So I'm like getting fired up.
The Commercial Break
Introducing: Campus Files
They don't want this to be discussed. They just are kind of like moving things along and they're like, okay, we're going to do this and this and, you know, this wraps up a great day. And I was like, are we not going to talk about the black girl that everyone has been talking about in the house all day?
The Commercial Break
Introducing: Campus Files
Meaning that somebody wrote a letter saying, you know, this girl is not good for your sorority. She did something bad. She's in bad news. Something like that. Which is just like a lie or she wrote it or someone wrote it because they didn't want a black woman in the sorority.
The Commercial Break
Introducing: Campus Files
So then like all these girls start speaking up and like saying all these things like, you know, we would love to be the first sorority to have a Black woman. We would like stand up for her. You know, if fraternities didn't want to have parties with us, because that was always a big concern, you know, we wouldn't want to have parties with that fraternity anyways.
The Commercial Break
Introducing: Campus Files
But it just, it kept going and going and it was going nowhere. And at the end of the day, like the alumni, older women were the ones that handle the paperwork and like send it in. So there's really nothing we could do.
The Commercial Break
Introducing: Campus Files
There's just a general feel of like the old South. You would drive by some of the fraternity houses. They have a giant Confederate flag hanging in a window. You hear people actually say the N-word in a way that isn't like in a rap song or something. Like it could be a very scary place for a Black person. And I remember... bringing a friend from high school that was black to visit.
The Commercial Break
Introducing: Campus Files
And I was like, honestly nervous for her to like come into the sorority because it was entirely white women and black women were the women that served food to us. And it's just like, I was just worried for how she would feel.
The Commercial Break
Introducing: Campus Files
Up until that moment, I think that most people wanted to believe that It wasn't because they were black that they weren't getting in. It was just because like they didn't have a mother, a great grandmother that went there. They didn't have close friends that were in the sorority. Like there were other reasons that they weren't getting in.
The Commercial Break
Introducing: Campus Files
But this particular situation, it was so black and white that it was because it was the color of her skin, because she had every other criteria to get in than that, that it was like hard to shy away from at this point.
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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
CEO Diaries: The Brutal Mistake That Almost Crippled Snapchat!
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The Planet Reigate Podcast
52: The LoveWorks food charity, the world-famous local artist who etched a view that you know so well… and more
I'm Melanie.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
52: The LoveWorks food charity, the world-famous local artist who etched a view that you know so well… and more
I'm the packing team leader today.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
52: The LoveWorks food charity, the world-famous local artist who etched a view that you know so well… and more
Well, I wouldn't say that. It's very much teamwork here, but we do all have different roles. I get the list of who we're going to be packing for today, and then I have to find all their individual sheets that they're now packing from. I get the bread from Gail's last night, so I pack that up, and obviously the allergy stuff needs to be marked up.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
52: The LoveWorks food charity, the world-famous local artist who etched a view that you know so well… and more
I pack the fresh veg, and then every week we have a special. So this week our special is washing powder and washing up liquid.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
52: The LoveWorks food charity, the world-famous local artist who etched a view that you know so well… and more
One time we had a tin of jackfruit and suddenly said, I'm a chef, I know what to do with that. And so we have weird and wonderful things. That's why they get the choice.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
52: The LoveWorks food charity, the world-famous local artist who etched a view that you know so well… and more
No, absolutely. I mean, there's lobster bisque soup and all sorts of things because give them the choice. It's not just basic food. We want to give them the chance to enjoy something and have a treat as well.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
52: The LoveWorks food charity, the world-famous local artist who etched a view that you know so well… and more
Five.
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52: The LoveWorks food charity, the world-famous local artist who etched a view that you know so well… and more
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