Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Discover The Courage Within YOURSELF To Follow Your Dreams, With Robin Arzón Vice President Of Fitness Programming & Head Instructor At Peloton
Wed, 04 Dec 2024
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Chapter 1: What is the main theme of confidence?
I think confidence is a side effect of hustle. I definitely had confidence growing up in certain areas. Oh, I see, I got an A on this test, so I must be good at X, Y, Z. There's the external validation points which only go so far. When I realized my ability to be my own inner advocate was through movement. That was when I realized that I am the director of this story.
Chapter 2: How can movement enhance self-advocacy?
And that was really terrifying and exciting at the same time. And the confidence that now really like buttresses like most areas of my life. It's a side effect of the hustle.
Come on this journey with me. Each week when you join me, we are going to chase down our goals, overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow.
I'm ready for my closeup.
Tell me, have you been enjoying these new bonus confidence classics episodes we've been dropping on you every week? We've literally hundreds of episodes for you to listen to. So these bonuses are a great way to help you find the ones you may have already missed. I hope you love this one as much as I do. I'm so excited for you to meet my guest today.
It's Robin Arzon, Vice President of Fitness Programming and Head Instructor at Peloton, New York Times bestselling author. And wait till you hear the other things this woman is up to. She is a superwoman. Robin discovered her passion for athletics after healing from a traumatic experience through movement.
She fearlessly left behind a successful law career to embark on a new adventure known as Peloton. What? She believes that sweat transforms lives and her story is living proof. To date, Robyn has run 27 marathons. P.S. I've run none. And several ultra marathons, including five marathons in five days. This is insane.
Her life's mission is to redefine, reform, and rethink possibility through movement, which she is doing every day. Her powerful influence and undeniable swagger transcend the fitness space with major brands, partnerships, collaborations, and the intersection of wellness, lifestyle, and fashion, including GSTQ. Robyn's first children's book, Strong Mama,
was written as a love letter to her daughter, Athena, about the journey they took together. I can't wait to get into it. And just one more thing. In 2020, Robin was named one of the most influential people on Fortune Magazine's 40 Under 40. Unbelievable. 2021 became the first ever recipient of Glamour Magazine's Daring to Disrupt.
And today, right now, the cover girl of Women's Health Magazine, Robin, welcome to the show.
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Chapter 3: What traumatic experience influenced Robin's journey?
Chapter 4: How did Robin Arzón pivot from law to fitness?
Chapter 5: What role does storytelling play in self-identity?
And I mean, I was held at gunpoint in the East Village in New York City when I was meeting girlfriends on a Friday night after work. New York City in the summer can have a magical feeling to it. And it was one of those nights that was that until it very much wasn't. And I was sitting in this wine bar and a man walked in and he was flailing a gun.
And in a matter of minutes, I went from telling my girlfriend about probably the crush I had at the time to being... a hostage negotiator with the NYPD who are outside and time slows down.
You become, that was actually one of the moments where I became really aware of story, like not in the moment, but when I reflect back on that experience, my internal narrative was very focused, but it was very loud. And I just kept telling myself, this is not the end of my story. Like, this is not like no freaking way is this it. So there's a fight.
I believe in, in every, every, every one of us, there's the fight innate to the human spirit that I hold onto till this day. So that was a moment of powerlessness for sure. And trauma, acute trauma. And over the years I have been able to repackage that story and as a source of strength.
And I think that in a lot of our life's inflection points, we always have a choice whether we're going to be a victim to the circumstance or we're going to be victorious no matter what the circumstance is. And so when I survived that experience, I thought, okay, am I going to just be someone who survived that? Or am I now going to thrive? Because like, damn, I'm here. I'm here for a reason.
So let's go. And it took a while, of course, for me to process all of that. I mean, I'm still to a certain extent processing a lot of that, but running helped me so much. I started running when I was in law school. So about the year after this hostage incident, and I don't even know why, like I said, as a kid, I was not an athlete. Like I really wasn't surrounded by runners. My mom's not a runner.
I mean, I was a runner now, funnily enough, after having me, supporting me in marathons, but I wasn't surrounded by it is my point. And I I just saw a pair of dusty shoes that weren't even running shoes in my closet. And I thought, I'm just going to jog, walk, nearly crawl to campus today on my way to law school. And I just started getting curious and really uncomfortable, but curious.
And it provided me like a different focus. I had a lot of pain that I was carrying and I wasn't even aware of it. Highly ambitious person.
multi-faceted multi-hyphenate people can just like get it done but should we always have to you know with that heavy burden and it was through the runs that I really started to use movement as medicine and at that point in time were you thinking okay this is this is a calling for me or at that point in time you were just trying to get escape the pain and try to grow through that
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Chapter 6: How can we redefine our own possibilities?
Chapter 7: What is Robin's vision for the future of fitness?
Chapter 8: How did Robin create opportunities at Peloton?
So it's scheduling my workout, scheduling his workout, delegating where we need to, you know, making sure that we have good food in the fridge that makes us fuel amazingly and gives us the energy that ultimately becomes currency. So it's all the little things that we already know. It's like drink a glass of water and eat a vegetable, honey.
Like we've been telling you all this, but when we're in those moments of crisis, it's hard to make the best choice.
Oh, thanks for highlighting this because last night I was in the worst mood because I had to get up at three in the morning to drive my son to school today for a school trip. And I was just so frustrated about it. And I ordered Mexican food and ate so much like as if I was punishing somebody else and I couldn't fall asleep and I felt sick. And I was like, why did I just do this?
Do you ever have moments like that where you come off the rails or no?
Oh my gosh. Yeah. I mean, that's so human, right? Like it's, and I think that you have to give yourself grace when that happens. Like, it's like, okay, indulge in the, in the movie, like by the thing, like, don't give yourself so much grief, but I try to often think about future Robin.
Like, how can I, and I try to think of her like a, like a friend, because then I think there's a, there's more effect. It's hard to befriend yourself. We're really, we're easy friends. on our external relationships than we are internally. I make every effort to befriend myself. And I think about future Robin and I'm like, damn girl, what do you need?
Like, what is it that is really going to set you up to feel at the end of the day that when your head hits that pillow, like, gosh, I did that. Like that exhalation that yes, comes from fatigue also comes from pride. And I live for that exhalation. Um, so hell yeah, of course. Like I, I have like days, sometimes weekends, entire weekends where I'll go off the rails.
I try not to let it go on for more than two days. So it's like, if you're skipping the workout, if you're doing the thing, if you're grabbing for the food that you know, you're supposed to grab, put a 48 hour lock on that, maybe even 24 hours, because then things just start to snowball and you're going to end up feeling so much worse.
You were pregnant and decided to start writing a book about the importance of working out while pregnant, knowing that there's a lot of people out there that, you know, have their own opinions or whatever. I am like you. I worked out the entire time that I was pregnant. It saved me. What inspired you to write that book?
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