On this episode of Quiet Please!, Mel and Kira catch up after a jam-packed week in golf — from Grace Kim’s dramatic win at the Evian to Rory McIlroy's new haircut. Mel almost bought a house in Colorado, while Kira recaps the antics at the American Century Championship in Lake Tahoe.
Then, they’re joined by Peloton instructor and golfer Selena Samuela (oh yeah, she's TPI certified by the way!), who shares her journey into the fitness world, behind the scenes at Peloton, how golf became part of her life, and the evolution of Peloton’s golf-specific training. They dig into the difference in training for men vs. women, the importance of mobility and strength, IVF, and how Selena’s navigating it all while dealing with some pretty significant life changes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quiet Please with Mel Reed and Kira Dixon is an
iheartwomen's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment.
You can find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to Quiet Please,
(00:24):
Mel and Kira Here.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
We have a busy day today.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
We've got a guest really excited to welcome Selina Simwella
to the show, so that interview is coming in.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
But it was a crazy week in golf, melt. It
feels like sneaky A lot happened.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It did Grace Kim when our first major at Evian
in Style, by the way, made an eagle on the
last to get in a playoff and then thought she
was out of it, hit it in the water in
two on the first playoff hole, dropped it, chipped in
for birdie and then eagled it again.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
That's crazy, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I mean, she's such a good player, and I feel
like the Aussie dominance is kind of star and straight
through obviously with Webby and a few of the other
kind of older generation than Hannah Green winning a major
not so long ago, and now Minji Lee doing what
she's doing, and there's so many good players in Australia. Dude.
So really happy for Grace one of the most popular
players out there. Really lovely girl. Known her for years actually,
(01:13):
I think I remember playing with her when she was
like really really young.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
She was like with still really really young.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
No, dude, they're all still young. I can't. Yeah, but
she's getting on now. She's like in her twenties, so okay,
so that's she's getting to the end of her career now.
So on the LPGA. But no, all seriousness, like, yeah,
Cari Web does this amazing scholarship program for girls and
usually brings them out of major the KPMG or it
could be US open and kind of host them. And
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that's kind of when I first met Grace Kim. So
it was awesome, really happy for her and just believe.
I mean, that's where the whole argument, you know, have
you seen that argument going around with like a scratch
male golfer could be an ILPG that makes.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
My bad boyl Yeah, yeah, you're so unmerrious board.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I don't even like undertainding that.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, it's boring.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It's just move on.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Anybody that says that immediately, like You're just not a
person that I need to interact with. But Gino, Gino
Titty Kun, who probably thought she had the trophy in
her hands standing on eighteen t then ends up in
a playoff with Grace Kim and then walks away probably thinking,
oh my gosh, what just happened. I mean, she's probably
gonna have to take some time to recover from this loss.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, but I mean it's it's not like she lost
it like Grace Kim won it, And I think that
that's probably easier to digest than the other way around.
So listen, Gino is going to win a gazillion majors
in her time. She's just obviously phenomenal players. So but yeah,
I agree. Its also like fifteen Yeah, literally, that's so
there are It's cool. It's cool to see. But yeah,
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and then it's my favorite time of the year. Scottish
Open last week on the men's side, and then the
openers this week and then the women's Scottish Women's AIG.
So this is my favorite time of the year, Kira, all.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The accents that you can understand, some coffee GOLs to
wake up to in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Mate, I remember, I remember, this is one of my
earliest memories, like when I started playing golf and the
local golf club where he where I grew up at
Kevin in Derbyshire, we had a really like we had
quite a good little pro shop actually, and I used
to just hang out in there when the Open was
on and I would literally watch it for like ten hours.
Like that was what all the juniors did during the
summer holidays, just get in the pro shop, going back
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and watch the Open. So yes, it's got a very
special meaning to me for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Chris Garterap just staring down Rory at North Berrick.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
That's pretty big deal, Pretty amazing, isn't it Pretty amazing?
But we're always coming back into a bit of form though,
which I like to see. I feel like he's got
his mojo back a little bit. It got a little
bit of motivation back, which understandably took a little bit
of time. So I'm excited. I mean, look it's going
to it's at Port Rush, isn't it this week? And
the fucking their fans in Ireland are just insane, So
I'm excited to see how he does this week.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I heard somebody say maybe not winning, but still playing
really well. Was a really good outcome for him, because
winning puts a ton of pressure on you, you know, for
the next week, going into the next week, because it's
a major championship. But not winning, you know, you can
kind of fly under the radar a little bit. You've
proved a bit to yourself. You don't have to do
all of the post win press. That takes a lot
of energy out of you, especially as you're going into
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a week that has a lot of emotional significance. For
Rory McElroy, I saw a picture of him signing autographs
and it was like twenty kids deep, just you know, massive,
massive crowd, all wanting, all wanting to.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Get a piece of them. It's got a new haircut
as well.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Oh my god, the haircuts so bad. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Do you not like it?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I would tell him this in person, so I feel
comfortable saying it on the pod.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I know it's it's got to grow back. Hair grows back,
but it's not for him.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I think it's a bit of and I saw I
saw someone on social media go just embrace the dad
the dad cut or something, and I was like, that's
actually so true.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
That's not the dad cut.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That to me is like, just shave it so I
don't have to do it.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
That to me is like little kid at summer camp,
Dad shaves your head like that so that you don't
like get messed up or something at camp when some.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Kid tries to pull sorry Rory again.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I would tell him this in person, and I probably
will when I see him.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Well, maybe that's why he didn't win, because he wouldn't
have had to have taken his house for the ceremony
and he was probably like, yeah, it's a bit.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Too short, tough scene. All the pictures too.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
That.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
How was your week, miss Kira?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh my gosh, So I was in Tahoe for the
Celebrity for the American Century Celebrity Tournament.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Thank you for asking.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
It's such a fun week because, first of all, NBC
owns the show, so we just have a lot more
control over everything and we can we do so many
fun things. And it's a week where you know, week
in week out, I'm interviewing golfers, but this week I'm
interviewing people like Steph Curry and Travis Kelsey and Rob
(06:02):
Mac from It's Always Sunday in Philadelphia, and you know,
the list goes on.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
So it's just kind of nice to break it up
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And so Smiley Coffin and I have a set on
seventeen where we just get guys a bunch to come through,
and then we're.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Also calling golf.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And in my normal life, I'm not really ever calling golf,
and then all of a sudden, once a year I
get to do it, and it's so much fun and
it kind of, you know, breaks up. Usually the interviewer
only gets to do so much, which is great and all,
but it's really fun to also be more a part
of the team and in the calling aspect of it.
So I loved it. It was lovely, and I love
(06:37):
being in Tahoo. My parents have a place up there,
so I can stay at their place. I don't have
to stay in a hotel.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I'm a car cooking.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I've actually never been so like somewhere. I've actually always
wanted to go. It was like, Tom, well, you have
an open invite, and how many times I was kind
of gasping for that, but thank you? Well, I think
I already I think that's very sweet, But no, I've
actually always wanted to go. Can I also mention one thing?
I know what you, Kira, Kira, you throw a little basketball?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Did you see how on ethnic if I jump?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Well, hey, listen, girl, the results is all that matters.
And the result was deadly. Kira smashed like a three pointer.
In your mind, you felt like you we Steph Curry,
didn't you, Caitlin Clark?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But in the video, because I've never seen a video
of me jumping, like, what are my toes doing?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well, listen, you're a form of Miss America. You've always
got to be on point hera, You've always got to
look good.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, it's very it was.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It was very dainty. However, for those you haven't seen,
Kira threw this actually unbelievable shot like and it went
into the bucket wherever you call it, basket and basket
and I could just when I saw it, I thought,
I can Imaginekia thinking, holy shit, I would have looked
so fucking good there, like I literally would have had
everything pointed at the right direction. The problem is the
(07:57):
top it wasn't pointing at all where it should be,
but the bottom bit let your feet were point in.
Bet you thought you got massive amount of air as well,
didn't you, Yes, Siarah.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I thought like Jerry Rice, who was convincing me to
do it all week. I thought he was thinking, Wow,
she is such an athlete, such an athlete, many talents
are you, Kira? All week he was like, you should
take a shot, you should take a shot, and I
was like, nah, I'm good, Like I gotta go interview somebody.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I just like didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
There's all thousands of people around, and don't want to
embarrass myself. Finally, on the last day, I was like, okay, fine,
I'll go up and take a shot.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Put my mic down.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Ray Allen, the Hall of Famer is standing right there
shooting baskets.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Jerry Rice, the three times Super Bowl champion. He has
me the basketball.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Kira. If we ever get invited to like a WMA
court side, I'm getting you at half time, I'm gonna
be like Kia was going out. Kia is gonna bawl
out totally.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, that's exactly what.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I tagged yourself in now, Kira. I was always the
athletic one, but you've now tagged yourself back into the game.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
But the best part was that, like I didn't think
anybody was at that moment. This is a great lesson
in if you work in TV, the mic is always
on and the camera is always rolling, and our jib
operator was on it live the whole time, and then
all of a sudden my earpiece I hear and let's.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Go down to seventeen.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
We're very old Curri Kate Dixon, and they play the
shot in all the highlights packages for the rest of
the day.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I'm actually shocked. It in my top ten on Sports
cent I'm right.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I know.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
We could have been fame scared. I could have been
one that could have been our moment, wasted our moment. Yeah, well, listen,
we come as a package nowadays, we do go as
a back to deal.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh that's a great week. Good and you too, had
a lovely week in the Mountains of Lovely ten days.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yeah we did. I don't know what has happened. We've
always like wanted to move there. Eventually, it's just felt
it just I've said this before. We just feel very
at peace and we love the outdoors and we just
love it there. We love the vibe. We almost put
a deposit on a house.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You sound like me.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I literally That's what I'm saying. I'm like, I'm becoming
more like you. You're becoming more like me with the
athletic ability. I love it right, well.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
All the best parts of us. So rubbing off on
each other.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, it's fantastic. But now we had a great time.
I'm being me. Was like, we're going hiking every morning.
I've got like this rucksack thing. I look very lesbian
with it, and I love it. I've got like walking sticks.
I've got a rucksack. I didn't use this embrasive boy
because my matess at home took the absolute piss out
of me.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Now you have to use the sticks. I have to
use the sticks.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
They are very helpful.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Andrew and I went on a really long backpacking trip
in PATAGONI, yeah, like seven years ago, and we thought, okay,
we're not going to take the sticks. We're on our
grandma's The biggest might still have knee pain from their
trip from carrying a thirty five pound.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Pack for five days.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
It was absolutely.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Perfict I will never hike without poles again.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Okay, so my mates took the piss. So I've hiked
all these like. I took these poles out with me
to Colorado and I've got all the gear. No idea anyway,
so I planned this one hike everyone was telling me
to do, Like, it's not that long, but it's really cool.
You go to like all the way from the bottom
up the top, through stream, really really cool, through forest,
all that stuff. Well, oh my god. So basically your at altitude,
(11:05):
which I've never struggled with. I'm fine with that. But
when I've got him on my back and Carl's like, oh,
you've got the rock sack, so let's packed like two
massive bottles of water, there's pack of lunch, there's pack this,
I'm like, yeah, yeah, So I'm like a walking donkey
going up there.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I don't care a pony know that I was a donkey.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I was a proper donkey, proper ass. So I didn't realize.
But the first mile and a half, I'm not jokers.
It's like a one point miles up, one point seven down,
but it is literally up like the entire way. But
it was worth it. I only stopped once. I had
to stop once because you need polls, I need pulls.
But we had an amazing time. We went to pretty
(11:42):
much every single brewery I could find, so yeah, but
we had it was awesome. It was a really good
family trip. And Carli's dad came out for a couple
of days, which was awesome. We just we love it there,
so we had a great time. We had a great time.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I love that. Do you have any picks for port
Rush or things to look out for it for the people?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
You see, my pick is going to be pretty obvious.
I really do think it's going to be a European
that we wins this week, And I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Is it going to be Tommy Fleetwood?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Tom? I know Tom any chance to sing that song?
I don't know. It would be the one week I
don't pick him that he'll win, but yeah, great, then
don't pick him, don't pick him. I think Shane Lowry's
to feel himself, but to go back to back, like
I say, obviously won the last one there, it's going
to be a lot of big ass for an Irish
guy to win over there. But I really think it's
(12:31):
going to be a European. I just don't know which one.
So yeah, is it too obvious to pick Rory? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Okay, no, Rory Scottie seems like he struggles on these
types of greens.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Well, it's very different, you know it. You've played over there.
Haven't you like you played over there? You never once?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Never, not one.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
All right, we're doing a girl's trip.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I was supposed to do it for my honeymoon, but
then COVID happened, so we never never did it.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, we need to. I need to plan your little
trip as well, because we'll do the obvious, but we'll plan.
I've got a couple of little gems that people don't
know about. What people do but Americans don't know about.
It's just very different. Like it's like I can't explain it.
That's why I really think playing the Scottish the week
before is good, which obviously Scotty did, but yeah, it's
you definitely, definitely you get a benefit from growing up
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playing links.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
He kin't of say because the greens he would have
grown up playing in Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Is that No, they bump around, Yeah, they bump around
a little bit. Like the breaks aren't really they're kind
of like local breaks, like they're not necessarily exactly what
you see even chipping around the green, Like it's quite difficult.
I think for well, it's not saying difficult. It's just
different for Americans to come over and normally you can
just grab a lob wedge, sand wedge. Well here you
can literally chip with the fire iron, and it just
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makes it a lot more creative. And I think it's
a benefit to people that have or players that have
grown up on that environment. So which is why I'm
picking a European. I just don't know which one. Okay,
I really think Shane might do because I feel like
he's been out there for a while. I think he's
gonna I think he might play. I think I don't
know if he's gonna win, but I think he's gonna play.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Well. Yeah, and he's had a good second half of
the season especially, Yeah, so he'd be rounding into form as.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
They exactly what about you? Here's your pick?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
This was just about you. Okay, cool, thank you? All right, great,
I'll go with that. Okay, Tom, I'll be sick. I
to me, one can just sing that the whole NXT episode.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Perfect, We'll do a full harmony rendition. He was runner
up last time it.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Was played there he was Shane was the winner, but
Shane won by a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Was runner up.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, yeah, so it would be good to see.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Okay, Oh, there was this funny DM.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I just This made me chuckle.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
To the Quiet Place account on Instagram, somebody messaged and said, Hi, Kira,
I know mel does not read anything on here.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Are you both.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Going to be it?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Love the show and.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
They're not wrong, that's Carr's job. Everybody cares. I'm just not.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I gotta chuckle out of that.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You have a shush of the week.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
You don't have a shush. You always want to shush something.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
So I'll let you go first and I'll go then
you finish off.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Okay, fine, So my shush is and I'm so sorry
to all the fans out there.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Is justin Bieber's new albums.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I agreed, even Carlie massive believer, that's what they call him.
Me too hate.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, she's very upset. So the reason why, and I
have a reason.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I think every album of an artist like this, there's
got to be at least one banger, Like, give us
something that's fun and happy and that makes you want
to dance or makes you want to sing along or
like you're like, the reason you're famous is babe, babe, babe,
just like something. I know you're capable of making a hit,
but every single one of these songs is so morose
(15:48):
and so down and talking.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
And emotional, and uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
It's like I get it, you're an artist and you're
therapizing through song, but give.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Us one beggar to Carli mentioned, I'm not a believer
at all. I don't really like any of his music.
It's a bit poppy for me, which is why you
and Carli like it. But she said he just doesn't
have like he's actually got really good vocals obviously, and
like he's not using them. Yeah, She's like, that's why
I like him, because he's such a talented vocalist and
(16:20):
he's not using his talent.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
It's just it's all mony and it's all in one
one note, which it's not dynamic.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And I'm sure that you know, the more highbrow.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Artists can appreciate it, but.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I am neither a hybrow nor an artist.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
So it's a good show. I agree with you. Thank you. Okay,
So mine is and this is one of my I've
become this person because of having a child. We were
on the flight yesterday can be back from Denver, and
to be fair, Kai was an angel, but there was
a baby literally like in the row in front of us,
but diagonally and this baby would have been maybe six
(16:57):
seven months old, obviously one of his first flights, and
just was just not happy, like at all. And it's
a three hour flight, and the last hour just the
mother and the father blessed them. Like mom and dad
just could not calming down. And we've been there, like
we've been there when guy's just you know, they're just
sometimes they just you just can't they're in a little
space like they just you know, you can't calm down.
(17:19):
And the guy behind was being such a prick about it,
and I was just like trying to It's funny parents
trying to help parents. So I was like, hey, does
he want this toy? Does he want this? Does he
want this? And I'm like, we get it. She's like
I'm so sorry. I'm like, no, dude, Like we totally
get it. Like it's a baby. And so you've had
plenty of fights the back of the plane, by the way,
we're not like sitting in first class or anything. So
(17:39):
like this guy was just like put his like hands
on his ears and was going like just moaning and stuff.
And then when he got off the plane, I heard
him say to his wife, who they weren't sitting together,
was like that was hell. I'm like, dude, like shut up,
like shut up baby, and you want to flight like
it's going to happen. I'm like, do you not think
the parents were kind of they were suit one of
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their best to calm this baby down and eventually it
fell asleep like as we were landing. Typical. That's happened
to us. Literally, it's happened to us. Like guys done that.
So I leave the poor little like leave them alone,
like try and help them, you idiot.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, that's my shusho instead of making everybody feel better
for a situation can control.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah, it's awkward as her when it happens, because you
do you are thinking of everybody else. Yeah, I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry, and like it's amazing when that has
happened to us, and the amount of like people that
have commerce was going, oh, you're doing great, like it's
here's some like toys or something. I don't know, and
so I'm like, everyone just chill out like it's a
babyar bed bear, it's a baby. It's a bed bear.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Well shush to that guy, Yeah, shush you prick.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Here's a pro. I agree.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I agree with your shush.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
That's a great shush.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
So we have a very nice guest, really cool guest today,
Selena Simwella. She is a big deal famous Peloton instructor,
so a lot of you probably take her fitness classes
via Peloton.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
She's also TPI certified.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
She does golf mobility, golf exercise programs on Peloton as well.
She kind of pioneered that for Peloton. She's one of
the first people to do those sorts of classes for something.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Like a Peloton.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
She plays a lot of golf, so naturally we just
find each other on the internet and sent her some
DMS and she was very nice and joined the show,
and she also has a really fun life update that
she shares at the end of the show, so make
sure you listen to the whole episode.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
But I really loved getting to know her. She was awesome.
She's almost like superhuman. I feel like she never stops,
like she's got some really cool stories and how she
got into everything, and she just seems like one of
those people that just can't literally cannot sit still and
just somehow manages to organize her whole life and get things,
get shit done. And we love that.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, She's got a lot of energy that she puts
into using her powers for good. So we really appreciate
Selena for joining the show. I hope you enjoy the
interview and we'll see you next week.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
All right, Quiet Please is back and Melani are very
excited to welcome a special guest, Selena Simuela, to the show.
She's a Peloton instructor, she's a mama, She's TPI certified,
which is really why we wanted to have you here, Selena.
But we've both been super excited for this chat, so
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thank you for taking the time.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I just want to start at the beginning, like, how
did you even get into becoming like a peloton instructor?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:36):
I mean, how much time do you have all the time.
It's a long story. I mean, I've always enjoyed fitness.
I've always been an active person my entire life. But
I moved to New York from Hawaii because I had this.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Passion for performance and I just wanted to give it
a shot.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
So I moved to New York with the idea that
I was going to be an actor, writer, director, and
you know New York like New York to me.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
So I was working a lot of side gigs. For
a long time.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
I was working in restaurants, bars, and then I decided
that that lifestyle wasn't really healthy, and because I really
enjoyed fitness, I started working in fitness. And I kind
of got into it in a weird way because I
was still trying to get my door, my foot in
the door into Hollywood. And one of my friends was
a stunt coordinator and they're like, you know, to get
your sad card, you could probably do some stunts. You're
like really good at sports. You surf like you snowboard.
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And at the time, I was doing like boxing for fitness,
and they're like, why don't you perfect your fight technique
and like see if you can do this stunt stuff.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
And I was like, okay, cool. So I started working on.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
My boxing and then I got really serious with it
because I fell in love with it. And I'm just
like one of those people that I just like, I
can't do something like half ass, I have to whole asset.
Yeah like that, Like I went deep and I started
like competing in boxing, and then I started yeah, and
then I got recruited to start working in fitness through boxing,
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and at the time, I was already making this transition
into like becoming a fitness instructor and getting certified and
all of that, and so it kind of worked out
that at the time, like there was in New York City,
there was like it was blowing up, like boxing, fitness
was the thing at the time.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
When would this have been what you're this would.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Have been like twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, Okay, maybe even
a little bit earlier, like that stuff started, and then
it kind of like.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Is this when like the girlies are into soul Cycle
and starting to discover Peloton and Rumble and like pandemic,
like just before it really pops off.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Yes, one hundred percent. So like twenty eighteen rolls along,
and I ended up getting recruited to audition for Peloton
as they were expanding from the bike going onto the
tread and doing strength work. And I was at this
point already working in the fitness industry, teaching at these
boutique fitness studios, and since I had like on camera experience,
it was just kind of the perfect alonge. It was
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like the perfect meetup of all the things that I
had been working on for so long.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
So it was like an indirect way.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
It's not like I was like, I'm going to be
a fitness instructor, this is what I'm going to do
for my life, but it ended up just fitting. So then, yeah,
it was like the first time that I walked into
an audition and I knew that I was going to
get the job.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Really absolutely, do you see the other people that are auditioning?
Speaker 6 (23:25):
No, I definitely didn't know other people that I couldn't
see other people auditioning. I knew that there were other
people auditioning, other people trying to get the position, but
I didn't know who they were. And Pelotons still to
this day, like we're pretty secretive about when we bring
new people on.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, well, I was going to ask as much as
you can share, what is that audition process, Like what
are they testing you on?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Or how? I mean I can only imagine that the
fitness is crazy.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
It's required to be able to speak for an hour
or however long the classes while in in overally engaging
way while also doing the class full out.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
You actually just described it perfectly. Well, it's pretty much
that understanding.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
If you're able to perform and also engage people at
the same time. Great, okay, moving on, moving on, You
like nailed it, like you could audition for pelth On tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I think, No, are you going like as hard though, Like,
are you just like super duper fit and you're literally
like trying to get a work out at the same
time of teaching a class or do you just knock
it down a boo because I couldn't do that and
then speak and not sound like ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Yes, I guess it depends what kind of workout you're
doing as well.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Right, Like a hit.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Class is going to feel a lot different and it's
I'm going to sound breathier in that class than if
I'm teaching an endurance style run or a walk or
even lifting with like or even you know, lifting with
the theme or idea being endurance style versus hit style cardio.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Or something like that.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
But yeah, it kind of varies depending on what's going
on and what I have going on. If I'm training
for a marathon or if I am boring, if I
have eighteen holes of golf or that day, like I
might take me approach a little differently. I might pull back,
or if I'm like, this is the only time I'm
going to get to exercise today, I might actually push.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
A little harder. So yeah, it kind of depends. But
most of the time I pulled back a little bit.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
I'm not going all out the way that I would
if I wasn't on camera.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Do you plan the workouts and the music? Like how
does that stuff come together?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yeah, that's all me, So I know I've always actually
I think I knew that already, but like, it's so impressive.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
But is it like a collaborative thing, like are you
sitting with the person or whatever or you just show up.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
In You're like, this is the thing.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
No, it's just something that we work on on our own.
The only thing.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
The only thing is that, like we work with producers
and programming to choose the types of classes you work,
so like that's kind of more of a collaborative effort
where it's like, Okay, you're going to teach a forty
five intervals on Monday, You're going to teach a thirty
minute full body on Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
That sort of thing.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
But as far as the class itself, the programming and
teaching style, teaching, what I talk about, themes all of
that is that's me.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
That's really impressive. That's really impressive. We're big into peloton.
My wife, by the way, absolutely adores your classes. She
was like freaking out, she actually did one this morning,
no way.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Yeah, in solidarity with the shell.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah yeah, she does them all the time, like she
because I like try and train her a little bit
and she basically just wants to divorce me every time.
So I might just just keep with your pelotonem pulling on.
Just put your second wife on. It's fine. So yeah,
I've just always been fascinated with it because it's just
I don't know, I do them on the road quite
a lot. Actually, I do a lot of pelotons on
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the road, and I've always been like, for me, someone
who's like an athlete, like, I think they are incredible workouts.
And I'm honestly not just saying that, Like we got
so fit during COVID when we got the bike, Like
so FA.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Love to hear it.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I get back on it.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Really you mentioned before growing up in Hawaii.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
I moved to Hawaii after high school and then I
ended up going to school there. I was just like
I didn't have it clear, you know. I wasn't like
I want to be a doctor. I want to be
a lawyer, or I have this career, Like I just
had no idea. But what I really knew because I
had tried surfing a few times, that I wanted a
surf and I was like, that's where people go to surf,
so I'm going to go there. And that's kind of
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like how I've lived my life in general. I'm like,
if I like want something, I just like go one
hundred percent. Where in Hawaii, I lived on Oahu Wowful.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Actually was going to go surfing yesterday, but then a
video came up. Actually, my buddy said, I saw it
and I didn't really look into it, and then my
buddy sent it to me last night. There was like
a massive shark like among the surface. Yesterday it was
like getting a sting ray and it was flapping around
the water. And yes, it was the first time in
ages I was going to go surfing, so that would
have been my luck.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
But oh my gosh, yeah, I mean that's part of it.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I guess I know. I'm shit scared of him. I'm
not so much more likely swimmer either, which is oh
really yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
That's scarier. So like that to me is scarier.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Statistically, you're so much more likely to die in a
car crash than you are to even get bitten by
a shark, not even killed by a shark.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I know.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
You have to remember, but I know it is scary
though I can. I like with sharks, and it is scary.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, that's that's a noe for me, real quick.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I don't have the physical strength for it, the courage.
I tried to go surfing, and I grew up in
San Francisco and I tried. I've tried going surfing in
high school a million times, like Santa Cruz and stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I like to.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Swim, but like in a more controlled environment, like I
like to do laps in a pool or a lake,
preferably something that doesn't have creatures.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Yeah that's funny.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
So when you moved to New York, what kind of
stuff were you auditioning for? And do you love musical
theater because Mel loves musical.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
I have an appreciation for musical theater. It wasn't my thing.
I was definitely not auditioning for musical theater. I'm not
a dancer. I'm very challenged, thank you.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I least someone on my page.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Yeah, theater and film, and you know, I like really,
I really tried so hard. I auditioned also for all
the like big drama schools, got rejected from all of them.
But now I'm so grateful because a lot of the
drama schools actually now you have free tuition, but at
the time they did not, and I would have been
just burdened with so many loans.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Oh yeah, had I actually have a really crazy story
about this.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
So the same year that I auditioned for Yale Drama School,
I auditioned for all of them, but this one's Yale Specifically,
I had two There were two Shakespearean monologues that I
was like trying to like decide between. I ended up
choosing one that like maybe wasn't as cool. It wasn't
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the enteenou It was Queen Margaret from a like kind
of more obscure. It was like Henry the Seventh, it
was more obscure play. And I ended up going with
that one. And then like fast forward a few years later,
I'm working at one of those boutique fitness studios and
then I like just got the job at Peloton, and
one of the girls that was working front desk there
had gotten a position, and there's only like six or
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ten people to get the position, gotten the position the
year I auditioned for that school doing the monologue that
I chose not to do, and she was working the
front desk, couldn't get a job, super burdened with loans
and like talking about how she regretted doing it.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Wow, isn't it amazing? Crazy?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Good for you. Good thing we went with clean whatever.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
It's funny, isn't it. I always look back at things
like that and I thank god if I'd have not
said yes to that, or if I'd have chosen that
or chosen this, Like, well, how differently my life would
have been.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah. Same.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
It's so crazy, is when you think about it. It's
actually quite weird, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Or the things that like you get rejected from or
the time you get that, know, and you feel so
miserable at the moment, and then you look back and
you're like, wow, thank god, I thank god that didn't
work out, whether it was that relationship, that job, whatever
it was like that could have been so toxic for me,
or that just wasn't right for me. In the moment,
you're like so devastated over it.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
But you know, in the long term.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
You're like, wow, that was really like the universe just
looking out for me because something better was ahead.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
It's nuts, isn't it. So how did you get into golf? Then?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
So?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Have you always played?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Let's talk about the real Sorry?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah you did you pick it up like later on?
Or how did that start?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (31:24):
I mean golf like for me growing up?
Speaker 6 (31:26):
I just didn't think it was for me because you know,
I kind of grew up moving around. I grew up
in Italy first, and then when I came to the States,
I was in like a little town and upstate New York.
And I didn't grow up with a lot of money either,
And so in the places that I was, like in Italy,
I was in this tiny farm town like I didn't
even know golf existed at all, Like seriously, like my
family used to didn't know that was a thing.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Wait, can we back up to the Italy thing? Were
you born in Italy?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Why were you?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (31:52):
I'm half Italian?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Do you speak Italian?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I do? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
My gosh, amazing. How old were you?
Speaker 5 (31:56):
I was in fifth grade? And then like you know,
I went, we'd go back to Italy.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
But my mom's Italian and my dad's American, and so
that's how we ended up in both places. But yeah,
it was just kind of like anyway, golf was in
a thing, Like I just didn't even know about it
when I lived in Italy and when I moved to
the States, I said, the States is kind of different
from the UK. Something I noticed in the UK. It's
like golf is a little bit more for everybody, regardless
of economic status, and like the best courses, Like I
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went to Ireland, the best courses are like public courses.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Like everyone has access to them.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Basically everyone has access where it's here.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
I mean, there are public courses and it's starting to
change now, but for a long time, it was very
much like an access thing.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
And like, you know, for being a first of.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
All, I didn't know any women that played at all,
and it was only like kind of wealthy white men
that played at this one tiny country club, and so
it just wasn't in my mind, it was like not
for me.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
And then fast forward, you know, years.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
Later, I'm in New York City and teaching fitness, and
of course I learned about golf as like an adult in.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
A different way, but I hadn't.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Really started playing because it was like, Okay, this is
probably something that's going to take a lot of time,
and it wasn't just it just didn't come in my life.
My physical therapist started playing golf and started telling me like, oh,
you should try it, you should try it, like you
would love it, and we're really good buddies, and you know,
he would like nerd out with me about it. And
then I started dating somebody who was like a scratch
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golfer and he is now my husband.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
At this time, I did this dude. At the time,
I didn't realize though, what that was.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Right.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
He was just like, oh, yeah, I play golf, and
I was like cool, and he invited me on a
date to go to Chelsea Peers and that was like,
you know, late nineteen.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Yeah, it was fun. First time I ever swung a
golf club in my life.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
It was like, I don't know, sometime in the fall
of twenty nineteen, and then I didn't really pick it
up until early twenty twenty. That's when I like took
my first lesson, and then the pandemic hit and nobody.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Said just in time anything.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
To do exactly, and then we moved out to Westchester
to kind of get away from the pandemic stuff in
the city, and we moved really close to a golf course,
so I just started looping the par three. They have
like a little part. They have two eighteen whole courses
and then a par three. So I just started on
my own, like looping that par three course because I
was like, what else am I going to do? We're
not allowed to like beat around each other, and so
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I did that and then started taking lessons once people
were allowed to be around each other again, and he
helped me like develop a swing, and then I started
getting really nerdy about it because I'm a like fitness
person and so I've always been interested in bodies in motion,
and so swing mechanics became like really interesting to me.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Full ass on golf, full ass exactly.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
I don't pass anything. I full ass everything I do.
So I just went full ass on golf.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
And then, you know, kind of like because I'm in
the world of fitness and just love learning about movement
and bodies moving, I just started kind of digging into
this other side, the fitness side of golf and mobility
and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
And that's why I ended.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Up getting TPI certified and I use my husband as
a guinea pig.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
But now you've created all of this content for Peloton.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I created all of this content
that all the golf content that's on Peloton, the golf program,
it's golf strength classes and golf mobility classes, all of
that's on Peloton, And yeah, it's most A lot of
the stuff is you know, principles that I learned through
becoming a TPI certified trainer and also using my husband
as a guinea pig for a long time, and.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Myself of course, and it's been great. I really really
enjoyed teaching these classes.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
They're probably some of the most fulfilling classes that I've
taught because the response that I've gotten from members is
so incredible, like being able to actually, you know, hear
somebody say wow, like I feel so I feel so
much better. I'm able to play eighteen holes without feeling
like I'm in pain or you know, I'm able to
get so much more rotation now and so my drive
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so I'm so much longer off the tee. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Like that to me is just like, oh my god,
I've done my job.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Yeah I did.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
I did my job.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
And it's like you've almost sport like were you you
didn't have accessibility growing up playing golf, Like you've almost
brought that back like full circle because it is really difficult.
I have so many people, you know, talk to me
and go where should I go? Like I don't know
a trainer, and I'm like, oh, obviously I have a
few like opinions on it, and like you need to
go and check your body out because there's no point
a coach, Like a coach can't do its job and
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fulfill their job in trying to get you to swing
a certain way, like we're not all built, you know,
like a Roy McRoy or you know, Dusty Johnson and
Nelly Cord And I'm like, go and get your body
sorted out and figure out what your limitations are and
then build a golf swing from there.
Speaker 6 (36:34):
Yeah, everyone's going to have a different swing, and there's
an efficient way to swing based on what your body
mechanics are. But obviously you can always improve no matter
and on peloton. Obviously I can't see what people's limitations are.
So I'm kind of generally speaking.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
About these things. But generally speaking, if you improve strength
and if you improve mobility, You're most likely going to
be able to then work with a coach to improve
your swing.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
So it's like.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
I'm giving, I'm not I can't I can't change your swing,
but I can help you change your body to get
you then to a coach who can go, oh, okay,
I've got more to work with now.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Is there anything that you've noticed in your research and
really diving into it that is specific to women's bodies
when they're preparing for golf or trying to have their
bodies be more to be stronger for golf.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
Yeah, I think there's some major differences, Like you you notice,
like in a lot of literature around golf, Like one
of the things they talk about a lot a lot
is like hip impingement and impairment and like unable to
disassociate and rotate, And that's really mostly like more often
than the not, men have those impairments and women have
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the opposite. They're actually mobile and they can be hyper
mobile in their hips and they don't have a problem
with disassociating. That's personally, one of my bigger issues is
my I rotate really fast through my lower body, but
then my upper body gets it kind of hangs back
and I end up in overextension. So I think that's
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like one of the biggest differences that I see is
our ability to how we rotate, in our ability to
use our lower bodies versus men's ability.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Yeah, I had to work so hard at that, you know,
Like I see even funny, I suffed a personal kind
of my osteopath or whatever used to come with us
every week. She had like six of us out on tour,
and I'm the opposite. So I have no hit my ability. Ye,
I don't know if it's from playing soccer growing up
and like I have a weird like foot thing, like
one of my foot sticks out. I've kicked the ball
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around for so long and so my like external hip
rotation is very limited. And it's funny now that I've stopped,
how shit I am because I've got into such bad
habits because I'm not working on my body. Like I'm
still strength training, I'm still training quote unquote like an athlete,
but I'm I've definitely not taking the pride of what
I used to do in my body for gold specific stuff.
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And it's crazy, like how much you have so crept in.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Yeah, like you lock up especially if you are strength
training a lot and you aren't working on your mobility
at all, then like you can you can like lock
up even more.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Yeah, that's definitely what I've done.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
Yeah, where it's like, you know, if you're like me
and you're like having babies and you're like like pelvis
is like doing all kinds of different things and your
core strength is starting to leave you, then you know,
your pelvic floor isn't working as well as it used
to be.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Then when you start to lose court.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
Like that's another thing that's like specific to women, especially
women who are like having babies, is like, you know,
you lose your core strength, and so when you lose
your core strength, you lose stability, You come out of
your posture a lot easier, and there are a number
of things that can happen due to that. And so
sometimes it's even just working on the those kinds of
basic core stabilizing exercises to get yourself to a good
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place so that you're not moving all over the place
and coming out of posture.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
So we've kind of noticed this with a few of
the people that we've had on the show that when
they come from let's say it's the world of acting
or the world of peloton. They come from a different world,
but they show this interest in golf and start posting
content around that.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Then the golf world in.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Turn is like, oh my god, I'm obsessed with you,
and you get so many people reaching out and everybody
wants to said you close, and we want to have
you on the podcast and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
What has been your.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Thoughts on the reaction of golf world seeing someone like
you enter back golf space.
Speaker 6 (40:44):
First of all, it's like so like I feel so honored,
you know, but also sometimes I like don't know what
to do with it, because like I'll have people reach
out to me and like invite me to their member
guests and stuff like that, where I'm like, I wish
I could go to all of these, but like your
remember guest is in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
And you know, it's so nice, but.
Speaker 5 (41:07):
It's like I'm not going to be able to make that.
And also, like, honestly, as a woman, like all of remember.
Speaker 6 (41:13):
Like guests and are all those types of things are
always like on a Wednesday at noon and it's like yo, I.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Work, yeah, yeah, would you ever play in a pro
am like a celebrity pro am.
Speaker 6 (41:22):
I haven't done a celebrity I played you know what,
melt I don't know if you remember I met you.
Speaker 5 (41:27):
I remember, Yeah, I met you at an LPGA pro am.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
It was in New Jersey. Yeah, it was Founders. Yeah.
What's that golf course called Montclair?
Speaker 5 (41:37):
Oh yeah, Montclair?
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, I remember when you play with
the Morgan.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
I played with Molly Marko.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Yeah, the commissioner, the ex commissioner. She is lovely.
Speaker 6 (41:52):
And then I think I I was with Yuka Okay,
that was really fun.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yeah, yeh, you're that was like a marquee.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
That is a good group.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
You're very big deal if you're playing with the commission.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
Yeah, I know I was.
Speaker 6 (42:08):
That was like not too long after having my kiddo,
and like I really did not have my game together
at the time, so I was a little embarrassed, but
it ended up being totally fine.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
But that's is that no one cares.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Yeah, nobody cares, and everyone thinks that we care, even
if that the professionals, we really don't. As long as
you guys are like fun and like relatively fast, Like
we really don't. We never care about the standard. We've
spoke about this a lot on the podcast any way. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Yeah, it's just there's just no way that you're ever
going to meet the standard of a yucosaso. So what
what's the point of trying and trying to compare yourself
to that.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Just enjoy the day you're outside.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
You have eighteen holes without needing to, like you said,
like show up to a job or whatever.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Great exactly, that's it, that's all anyone erect.
Speaker 5 (42:50):
No, yeah, I totally would do more of those. I
don't know why I don't get invited to more, like come.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
On, we need to stay out were.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Manifesting that because need to get you out there, I mean,
because you're such a great advocate for it, like from
a women playing perspective, but also as a TPI person,
as a mobility that just everything.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Yeah, you're you're perfect for it. As you know, this
is an audition that you've already you're definitely getting.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
Yeah, exactly here, we're going.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
To manifest more proems for you if you're interested in them.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
Like you'd be great the Hilton that you playing.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Care be great at the Hilton, should be great at
the American Century.
Speaker 6 (43:26):
Okay, now you'd be good at liberty, but the memorial, Yeah,
I need to talk to my agent, like what is happening?
Speaker 2 (43:32):
Yeah, we'll be your golf agent.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
Yeah, we go.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
So how have you kind of seen Peloton evolve for
I guess, either for you personally and professionally or the
company itself from when you first nailed your audition to
where you are today and the things that are your
biggest priority within Peloton.
Speaker 6 (43:52):
Gosh, we have changed so much as a company and
as a brand, and we're constantly growing and we're constantly innovative,
and it's just it's such an exciting team to be
a part of personally, Like I think, you know, my
one of my greatest accomplishments has been developing this golf
specific program just because it's a a passion of mine
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and b I just think it deserves a.
Speaker 5 (44:17):
Platform like.
Speaker 6 (44:20):
On on Peloton, a lot of people are playing golf,
Like the sport is evolving, it's growing, and as a
woman too, I mean the sport is growing exponentially for women.
So as a woman, I just think it's like great
that I was given this opportunity to do this and
to pioneer.
Speaker 3 (44:34):
This and how do you naviget with this with a family,
a young family.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Yeah, I was gonna ask going through pregnancy while also
teaching classes at this level.
Speaker 5 (44:43):
Yeah, honestly it's hard, Like I wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (44:46):
I'd be full of crap if I were to say
that it was at least for me, For me personally,
I don't know about anybody else, but it's not easy
to get up there in front of a camera when
you're going through pregnancy and to be like, hey, guys,
here's my rapidly changing body. And sometimes it's like yeah,
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like and then for the first like you know, X
amount of weeks, like twelve to fourteen, fifteen weeks, I
can't tell you why things look really different and why
I'm moving differently or breathing differently or like ye, you know,
or maybe like this isn't how she like, you know,
I normally teach really challenging intervals and like maybe those
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intervals aren't is challenging anymore, like what's going on? So
it's like that can be pretty challenging because you just
want to, you know, you want to be able to
be like.
Speaker 5 (45:36):
Oh, no, guys, like I'm actually just pregnant.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
I'm not talking, I swear, Yeah, I'm hungover.
Speaker 6 (45:43):
Exactly like I'm I this is fine, this me heavy breathing,
this is normal.
Speaker 5 (45:48):
I'm gonna be okay, I'm not gonna pass out. It's
just yeah.
Speaker 6 (45:51):
So that kind of stuff can be difficult, but for
the most part, like members have responded so positively to it,
and as far as like internally, like we're so so
so supported in our journeys as mothers and parents at
the company.
Speaker 5 (46:07):
So it's that part. That part's easy.
Speaker 6 (46:11):
The personal like, oh man, I got to show up
and be like this person on stage and like I'm
totally you know, experiencing something insane right now, fatigue, whatever,
but I can't really share about it. And then then
once you can share about it, it gets a little easier.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
Yeah, this Petotson have It's done like any pre and
post poem.
Speaker 6 (46:30):
Yeah, they do. Robin has a great program. Anna has
a program for yoga, Robin has strength program. And then
there I think there are also collections that are like
pregnancy safe collections.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
I believe, Oh, Kyty of cool. I knew that Kylie
did that much today.
Speaker 6 (46:44):
Yeah, and then there's a bunch of us that were
like super pregnant teaching classes too. And generally if you
see us really pregnant and we're teaching that's probably going
to be a pregnancy safe class.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
Yeah right, yeah, I would hope.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
Yeah. I mean even I found it hard navigating all
that little boy and stuff.
Speaker 5 (47:00):
So yeah, that's right. Like you're you know, you have
a family now too, mel And like yeah that must be.
Speaker 3 (47:06):
Yeah, it's crazy, and yeah, I didn't physically push him out,
so I've got that going for me. I've still got
my COVID floor to somewhat of a degree. But like,
we don't really get supported on the LPGA, like because
I wasn't the birthing mother even though we went because
we went through IVF, we went through reciprocal IVF, so
I had to steal that stuff. I tell Kira that
I did the hard work. So I had three weeks
(47:26):
without not being able to drink alcohol. So it was
very challenging for me.
Speaker 5 (47:31):
Kira, eg retrieval is no joke.
Speaker 3 (47:33):
I mean, you know what, I felt amazing on it.
Speaker 5 (47:36):
You're like opposite, You and I are opposite.
Speaker 6 (47:38):
You're like, I have my hips don't move by lot hormones.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
I'm like, so I'll tell you guys, I haven't really
told anybody that's I haven't even told mel yet, but
I'm gonna do an egritrievil in July.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
It's kind of a weird, crazy thing to think about,
like how is your body going to be on all
these hormone and obviously processes quickly, but it's a weird
thing to think about it.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
And it's a super individual, Like I've had people that
have had a horrific experience, and then I've had a
few people like Marina had a great experience on Iti,
Marina Alex, like I had a great experience on it.
It's completely an utterly individual. But yeah, things we do,
I do. That's really exciting for you.
Speaker 6 (48:19):
Kirera, by the way, congratulations And that's a no no
for real.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
Though it's not easy, it's.
Speaker 5 (48:26):
Yeah, yeah, it's a big moment.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
It's crazy. It's weird to think about.
Speaker 5 (48:30):
But exciting and totally smart.
Speaker 2 (48:33):
Like yeah, because I'm thirty nine, thirty three, shut up now, sure.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
You see you're yang. But like I tell all the
girls on tour im like once she hit like thirty
three or thirty four, like I would honestly just consider it,
like even if nothing, like because you don't know how
you know, in a weird athletic world, like girls, they
do want to keep playing. Like, of course it's difficult
to kind of not give up your career, but things
do change. Like it's really really hard from what it
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was hard for me, and I didn't even give birth
to ask some but like a few of the players
that have come back, like a Stacy Lewis Athemonios, that
like gets really fucking hard because I don't have my
ad muscles anymore, like my public floor muscles, like blah
blah blah blah blah. Like traveling with a kid is
really difficult. You know, we're going to country to country,
and so I always recommend to my friends. I'm like,
just get it, like I would have recommended it. But
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that's just my personal opinion.
Speaker 5 (49:25):
I think that's so smart.
Speaker 6 (49:26):
And also just to piggyback on that this is a
little bit off topic, but kind of on topic. One
of the things that nobody talked about and that I
think is just so crucial if you do end up
having a baby and getting pregnant and you are an
active person, especially at like a game like golf where
your core is so important.
Speaker 5 (49:46):
Pelvic floor therapy, pelvic floor therapy.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
Karlie did that so important.
Speaker 6 (49:52):
It can span a number of things, right, It could
be actual manual stuff where they're like literally going in
there and working manually to help you and help ease
at tension and then gain strength back to your pelvic
floor because when you give birth you lose a lot
of strength, you tear. There are a number of things
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that can happen. So once you kind of get past
the like basic repair stuff and working with somebody on
strengthening your public floor again is so crucial to supporting
your spine. This happened to me, and I've talked to
a number of women who kind of try to get
back into exercise or sport too early without doing that work,
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we end up with like back injuries is the most
common one, slip discs, stuff like that because we just
really haven't built that core strength yet, or there's still
a lot of relax and hormone there so things.
Speaker 5 (50:44):
Are still super loose.
Speaker 6 (50:45):
And yeah, I ended up with like lower back issues
for so long because I just kind of pushed it
a little too early and I was like, you know,
trying to hammer like I was really into like I
want to do like.
Speaker 5 (50:54):
Long drives and I was like really into the really
far and.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
I could have been professional long driver.
Speaker 3 (51:04):
That would have been really fun. That Jenny would have
been epic. To be fair, I was.
Speaker 6 (51:09):
I was like crushing it. I was like hitting the
ball so far, but it was like too much, too fast.
Speaker 5 (51:14):
And then it was like you were not away.
Speaker 6 (51:17):
It was too full, way too full ass, And now
I'm back, Like, no, how about like you actually learn
how to like strike the ball at the right time.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
How about that, let's learn out a chip?
Speaker 6 (51:30):
Yeah right, how about like work on your putting, work
on your short game and then you know, you.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
Know, I've heard that short game is really how you score.
Speaker 3 (51:39):
Well, what do you think I would I would say so, yes, yes,
I would say.
Speaker 5 (51:44):
I'm back on the par three course, y'all. I am
doing my par three course round.
Speaker 3 (51:49):
I do wishuld player on tour they did go for power,
like you know, like a Bryson did. I would love
to see like that journey and see if that changes
cool sets up, But no one's happen to me to
do because I cool sets up, So Bud.
Speaker 6 (51:59):
I love to actually what you when what you talked
about recently about challenging set up and.
Speaker 2 (52:06):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 5 (52:07):
That was brilliant. I thought, I thought your point, the points.
Speaker 6 (52:11):
You made were so wonderful, and I love the solutions
that you came up with. You're like, later our player's strengths,
like make the fairways more narrow, like this, we're women
are amazing with accuracy, like like let's showcase like these
amazing athletes with like what makes sense? And I love
that you came with receipts too. You're like, here's the
average drive on the LPGA, here's the average drive on
the PG Like why.
Speaker 5 (52:31):
Are what are we doing here? Like yeah, it just
it made a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (52:35):
I really appreciate. But you know, it's funny being a player,
I would never been able to analyze it like that obviously,
like just being around some really good like analysts. And
I spoke to Brandle about it before I went on air,
and it's just funny, like because before I was like, no,
make it harder, like go back, and now I'm like, actually,
with fucking ourselves because the fairwayes are so wide and
the course is so long. It doesn't benefit anyone because
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none of them can reach the Part five and one
is basically hitting roughly around the same shot and a
part four. The way they set up the longer players
have to lay back. It's it's and so looking at
it from that, So I'm glad you enjoyed that because
it's something that is just Yeah, you narrow the up
the rough so the longer players can have a chance
of getting on because they're hitting wedges and nine eyes,
but the short players can't. But the short players don't
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miss fauld get into but don't miss stairways exactly.
Speaker 5 (53:22):
If they're driving it to forty, they're not missing, then
they don't.
Speaker 3 (53:25):
They literally don't miss. We have girls that don't miss
fairways all week. But it's literally it's crazy, like nuts,
how accurate these players are.
Speaker 6 (53:34):
It's so amazing. I mean, that's one of the reasons
I love watching women's golf. It's just it's so incredible
to watch that kind of skill that's so good.
Speaker 3 (53:40):
Yeah, they are.
Speaker 1 (53:42):
It's a real skill game as opposed to bomb and
gouge over with the men's tour.
Speaker 6 (53:46):
Yeah, which is fun too, and it's its own thing.
And I think you're right, Like, I don't know. One
of the things that I talk about a lot when
people are like, you know, women's golf and like, what
would you like to see? And I really would like
to see better storytelling around women's golf.
Speaker 3 (53:58):
Yeah we've been talking.
Speaker 2 (53:59):
You're a preacher acquire.
Speaker 6 (54:02):
Yeah, with so misogynists, different people are like, well there
aren't really like women are just like on the tour
more boring.
Speaker 5 (54:07):
I'm like they made the Kardashians not boring.
Speaker 6 (54:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
Yeah, you can make anybody have literally nothing to say.
Someone has to tell.
Speaker 3 (54:17):
That's actually a great point. I still watch the Kardashians, so.
Speaker 1 (54:20):
You know, nothing against the Kardashians, but what I mean
to tell a story, you can tell a story with
and exactly and just like better storytellers.
Speaker 3 (54:28):
Yeah, and I think we need to get more people
through the door. I I had a good chat with
Craig and I was the new commissioner and yeah, hopefully
I think he's going to be really good actually, so
I'm excited to see what he can do. But yeah,
we need more people through the door. We need it
more in an event. We need people to know the
LPGs in town, like we need the players to get
on board a little bit better and actually uplift everybody
and know that it's yes, it's an individual sport. And
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individual contractors. But like, I couldn't agree more. There's so
many interesting stories out there that people don't know, so many.
Speaker 1 (54:55):
To get to golf at this level, you have to
have achieved great thing or overcome insane things, and you
don't hear about the you know, the players from Korea
and Japan that are in the States and traveling on
the LPGA, often alone, or going hotel to hotel, or
trying to navigate living life in a completely different country
(55:15):
and not speaking the language and totally and then you
know that story manifests itself so many times over and over,
no matter where you're from. But I mean can tell
the stories, yes, And then.
Speaker 6 (55:26):
I don't know all these like quirks and things about
all the like all the men, and the thing like
what their favorite sandwiches are, what their favorite Taylor slip
song is or whatever. And then like, you know, I
don't know what that problem I went to. I was
talking to Yuka and she was like telling me about
the anime she was in Tune. I'm like, that is
so cute and funny.
Speaker 2 (55:41):
Yeah, like you know, like that, where's your anime content?
Speaker 5 (55:45):
There's so many like that.
Speaker 2 (55:46):
It needs to be covered in anime.
Speaker 6 (55:48):
Like we could do so many fun like you could
do so many fun things around that, and like there's
just I.
Speaker 3 (55:53):
Agree with that of some but it would help if
we in find people like you as well.
Speaker 2 (55:56):
Yeah, I was saying, I need to get Selena to
be playing in the press.
Speaker 3 (55:59):
Yeah, like would also help us make us cool.
Speaker 1 (56:02):
Make us cool, Selena, Please please one more like random
Peloton question and then we'll let you go because you're
been so generous with your time. I'm just wondering if
because when I take Peloton classes, I just kind of,
you know, find what the one is that fits my
(56:23):
that moment. Like there's a couple of instructors that I
love obviously Selena, but you know, I just kind of
fit the moment. Do you have members that are like
in every single one of your classes they are still
a lifers my wife.
Speaker 2 (56:39):
Yeah, car.
Speaker 6 (56:42):
Yeah for sure, and like they're the best, and like
thank God for them because then you know, I probably
wouldn't have my job.
Speaker 3 (56:50):
Yeah, I like Calin know you're very thankful because she's
so grateful.
Speaker 2 (56:55):
I love her.
Speaker 3 (56:56):
Please courage she spends more time with you in the minute.
Speaker 2 (57:01):
You know, it's probably good for your life balance.
Speaker 3 (57:03):
Well, no, I know, I don't mind. I'm not mad
about it. But she's in great shape, so thank you
very much. Yes, she's in great shape.
Speaker 5 (57:09):
Love to hear it.
Speaker 2 (57:10):
Yeah, shout out to the lifers.
Speaker 3 (57:12):
Yeah, shout out to life is Yeah, AKA.
Speaker 1 (57:14):
What's your schedule, like, like, how what's your weekly commitment
type of thing?
Speaker 5 (57:18):
It really just it kind of varies month to month.
Speaker 6 (57:21):
Right now, I kind of I actually just changed my
schedule to have to be in the studio less. But
then once I'm in the studio, it's much more concentrated.
So in the past, like I could kind of like
do things while I was in the studio. Now it's
like when I'm on air, Like when I'm in the studio,
that's it.
Speaker 3 (57:35):
That's my life.
Speaker 6 (57:36):
And usually it's only like one to two weeks a
month and then I'm like great actually filming and then
the other time it's like I'm doing more behind the
scenes stuff, you know, but I don't have to actually
be in the studio recording content. So that's like when
I can do all this other type of like I
could go to programs, I can do you know. I'm
a new balance athlete as well, so I can do
events with new balance or whatever it is that I
(57:58):
want to do or be a mom. But we're got
outside projects or golf more like, I never, like when
I'm on air and I'm in studio, I never play golf.
And then you know, been trying to play a lot
more while I am off air, although this year has
been kind of but hopefully next year I'll be able
to play a little bit more.
Speaker 5 (58:17):
But also, you guys edit this right.
Speaker 3 (58:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (58:20):
Also, I'm pregnant.
Speaker 3 (58:21):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (58:26):
Oh well, you can't tell anybody for the first time.
Speaker 6 (58:29):
Wait, you might be able to tell depending on when this,
when you guys air this, you might be able to
air Congress.
Speaker 5 (58:35):
Yeah, okay, So things are going to change.
Speaker 6 (58:37):
So I don't know if I can come to your
programs in Florida because I'm due in December.
Speaker 2 (58:42):
Die down, okay.
Speaker 6 (58:46):
And so I'm actually currently going through what I was
describing earlier of like, oh god, things are changing and
I can barely breathe in this class that like normally
would be.
Speaker 5 (59:00):
Trauma.
Speaker 3 (59:00):
I know, ship look good at that. Sorry.
Speaker 2 (59:03):
Oh, I was so happy for you.
Speaker 5 (59:06):
Thank you. Yeah, we're really excited.
Speaker 3 (59:09):
Oh that's so excited.
Speaker 2 (59:11):
Yay, We're so happy for you we feel you told us.
Speaker 3 (59:15):
Oh, thank you. Yeah, that was awesome. Oh how exciting.
Speaker 6 (59:18):
I really hope that this isn't like I'm hoping that
my golf game will be like okay during this.
Speaker 5 (59:23):
Actually, you know, some.
Speaker 6 (59:24):
Women are like, oh my god, my golf game was
like the best when I was pregnant. I was just
like because I was like so much more, like my
center of gravity was lower. I was just more stable.
But I didn't have that experience in my last pregnancy.
In fact, like I have just gone worse at golf
since so good.
Speaker 1 (59:41):
And that could be due to many other factors.
Speaker 3 (59:45):
So have I had to quit. I had to quit.
Speaker 2 (59:51):
But I have a friend that her name is Ashley Mayo.
Speaker 1 (59:53):
She works in golf World, and she would always talk
about using her stomach as a training aid like belly buttons,
the target I love it instead of the literally and
she was like, it just like helps me like thrust
myself over because I have much more to thrust.
Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
I'll give it.
Speaker 5 (01:00:11):
I'll try I'll try it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Give it a shot.
Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
Yeah, massive, congrats, that's search good news, good news.
Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
Okay, all right, Selena, this was so much fun. We're
going to see you on a golf course soon. Congratulations,
so happy for you.
Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
And you Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
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Mel and Kira Here.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
We have a busy day today.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
We've got a guest really excited to welcome Selina Simwella
to the show, so that interview is coming in.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
But it was a crazy week in golf, melt. It
feels like sneaky A lot happened.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It did Grace Kim when our first major at Evian
in Style, by the way, made an eagle on the
last to get in a playoff and then thought she
was out of it, hit it in the water in
two on the first playoff hole, dropped it, chipped in
for birdie and then eagled it again.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
That's crazy, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I mean, she's such a good player, and I feel
like the Aussie dominance is kind of star and straight
through obviously with Webby and a few of the other
kind of older generation than Hannah Green winning a major
not so long ago, and now Minji Lee doing what
she's doing, and there's so many good players in Australia. Dude.
So really happy for Grace one of the most popular
players out there. Really lovely girl. Known her for years actually,
(01:13):
I think I remember playing with her when she was
like really really young.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
She was like with still really really young.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
No, dude, they're all still young. I can't. Yeah, but
she's getting on now. She's like in her twenties, so okay,
so that's she's getting to the end of her career now.
So on the LPGA. But no, all seriousness, like, yeah,
Cari Web does this amazing scholarship program for girls and
usually brings them out of major the KPMG or it
could be US open and kind of host them. And
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that's kind of when I first met Grace Kim. So
it was awesome, really happy for her and just believe.
I mean, that's where the whole argument, you know, have
you seen that argument going around with like a scratch
male golfer could be an ILPG that makes.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
My bad boyl Yeah, yeah, you're so unmerrious board.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I don't even like undertainding that.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, it's boring.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It's just move on.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Anybody that says that immediately, like You're just not a
person that I need to interact with. But Gino, Gino
Titty Kun, who probably thought she had the trophy in
her hands standing on eighteen t then ends up in
a playoff with Grace Kim and then walks away probably thinking,
oh my gosh, what just happened. I mean, she's probably
gonna have to take some time to recover from this loss.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, but I mean it's it's not like she lost
it like Grace Kim won it, And I think that
that's probably easier to digest than the other way around.
So listen, Gino is going to win a gazillion majors
in her time. She's just obviously phenomenal players. So but yeah,
I agree. Its also like fifteen Yeah, literally, that's so
there are It's cool. It's cool to see. But yeah,
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and then it's my favorite time of the year. Scottish
Open last week on the men's side, and then the
openers this week and then the women's Scottish Women's AIG.
So this is my favorite time of the year, Kira, all.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The accents that you can understand, some coffee GOLs to
wake up to in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Mate, I remember, I remember, this is one of my
earliest memories, like when I started playing golf and the
local golf club where he where I grew up at
Kevin in Derbyshire, we had a really like we had
quite a good little pro shop actually, and I used
to just hang out in there when the Open was
on and I would literally watch it for like ten hours.
Like that was what all the juniors did during the
summer holidays, just get in the pro shop, going back
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and watch the Open. So yes, it's got a very
special meaning to me for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Chris Garterap just staring down Rory at North Berrick.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
That's pretty big deal, Pretty amazing, isn't it Pretty amazing?
But we're always coming back into a bit of form though,
which I like to see. I feel like he's got
his mojo back a little bit. It got a little
bit of motivation back, which understandably took a little bit
of time. So I'm excited. I mean, look it's going
to it's at Port Rush, isn't it this week? And
the fucking their fans in Ireland are just insane, So
I'm excited to see how he does this week.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I heard somebody say maybe not winning, but still playing
really well. Was a really good outcome for him, because
winning puts a ton of pressure on you, you know, for
the next week, going into the next week, because it's
a major championship. But not winning, you know, you can
kind of fly under the radar a little bit. You've
proved a bit to yourself. You don't have to do
all of the post win press. That takes a lot
of energy out of you, especially as you're going into
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a week that has a lot of emotional significance. For
Rory McElroy, I saw a picture of him signing autographs
and it was like twenty kids deep, just you know, massive,
massive crowd, all wanting, all wanting to.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Get a piece of them. It's got a new haircut
as well.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Oh my god, the haircuts so bad. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Do you not like it?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I would tell him this in person, so I feel
comfortable saying it on the pod.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I know it's it's got to grow back. Hair grows back,
but it's not for him.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I think it's a bit of and I saw I
saw someone on social media go just embrace the dad
the dad cut or something, and I was like, that's
actually so true.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
That's not the dad cut.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That to me is like, just shave it so I
don't have to do it.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
That to me is like little kid at summer camp,
Dad shaves your head like that so that you don't
like get messed up or something at camp when some.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Kid tries to pull sorry Rory again.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I would tell him this in person, and I probably
will when I see him.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Well, maybe that's why he didn't win, because he wouldn't
have had to have taken his house for the ceremony
and he was probably like, yeah, it's a bit.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Too short, tough scene. All the pictures too.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
That.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
How was your week, miss Kira?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh my gosh, So I was in Tahoe for the
Celebrity for the American Century Celebrity Tournament.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Thank you for asking.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
It's such a fun week because, first of all, NBC
owns the show, so we just have a lot more
control over everything and we can we do so many
fun things. And it's a week where you know, week
in week out, I'm interviewing golfers, but this week I'm
interviewing people like Steph Curry and Travis Kelsey and Rob
(06:02):
Mac from It's Always Sunday in Philadelphia, and you know,
the list goes on.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
So it's just kind of nice to break it up
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And so Smiley Coffin and I have a set on
seventeen where we just get guys a bunch to come through,
and then we're.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Also calling golf.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And in my normal life, I'm not really ever calling golf,
and then all of a sudden, once a year I
get to do it, and it's so much fun and
it kind of, you know, breaks up. Usually the interviewer
only gets to do so much, which is great and all,
but it's really fun to also be more a part
of the team and in the calling aspect of it.
So I loved it. It was lovely, and I love
(06:37):
being in Tahoo. My parents have a place up there,
so I can stay at their place. I don't have
to stay in a hotel.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I'm a car cooking.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I've actually never been so like somewhere. I've actually always
wanted to go. It was like, Tom, well, you have
an open invite, and how many times I was kind
of gasping for that, but thank you? Well, I think
I already I think that's very sweet, But no, I've
actually always wanted to go. Can I also mention one thing?
I know what you, Kira, Kira, you throw a little basketball?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Did you see how on ethnic if I jump?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Well, hey, listen, girl, the results is all that matters.
And the result was deadly. Kira smashed like a three pointer.
In your mind, you felt like you we Steph Curry,
didn't you, Caitlin Clark?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But in the video, because I've never seen a video
of me jumping, like, what are my toes doing?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well, listen, you're a form of Miss America. You've always
got to be on point hera, You've always got to
look good.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, it's very it was.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It was very dainty. However, for those you haven't seen,
Kira threw this actually unbelievable shot like and it went
into the bucket wherever you call it, basket and basket
and I could just when I saw it, I thought,
I can Imaginekia thinking, holy shit, I would have looked
so fucking good there, like I literally would have had
everything pointed at the right direction. The problem is the
(07:57):
top it wasn't pointing at all where it should be,
but the bottom bit let your feet were point in.
Bet you thought you got massive amount of air as well,
didn't you, Yes, Siarah.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I thought like Jerry Rice, who was convincing me to
do it all week. I thought he was thinking, Wow,
she is such an athlete, such an athlete, many talents
are you, Kira? All week he was like, you should
take a shot, you should take a shot, and I
was like, nah, I'm good, Like I gotta go interview somebody.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I just like didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
There's all thousands of people around, and don't want to
embarrass myself. Finally, on the last day, I was like, okay, fine,
I'll go up and take a shot.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Put my mic down.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Ray Allen, the Hall of Famer is standing right there
shooting baskets.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Jerry Rice, the three times Super Bowl champion. He has
me the basketball.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Kira. If we ever get invited to like a WMA
court side, I'm getting you at half time, I'm gonna
be like Kia was going out. Kia is gonna bawl
out totally.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, that's exactly what.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I tagged yourself in now, Kira. I was always the
athletic one, but you've now tagged yourself back into the game.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
But the best part was that, like I didn't think
anybody was at that moment. This is a great lesson
in if you work in TV, the mic is always
on and the camera is always rolling, and our jib
operator was on it live the whole time, and then
all of a sudden my earpiece I hear and let's.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Go down to seventeen.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
We're very old Curri Kate Dixon, and they play the
shot in all the highlights packages for the rest of
the day.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I'm actually shocked. It in my top ten on Sports
cent I'm right.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I know.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
We could have been fame scared. I could have been
one that could have been our moment, wasted our moment. Yeah, well, listen,
we come as a package nowadays, we do go as
a back to deal.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh that's a great week. Good and you too, had
a lovely week in the Mountains of Lovely ten days.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yeah we did. I don't know what has happened. We've
always like wanted to move there. Eventually, it's just felt
it just I've said this before. We just feel very
at peace and we love the outdoors and we just
love it there. We love the vibe. We almost put
a deposit on a house.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You sound like me.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I literally That's what I'm saying. I'm like, I'm becoming
more like you. You're becoming more like me with the
athletic ability. I love it right, well.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
All the best parts of us. So rubbing off on
each other.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, it's fantastic. But now we had a great time.
I'm being me. Was like, we're going hiking every morning.
I've got like this rucksack thing. I look very lesbian
with it, and I love it. I've got like walking sticks.
I've got a rucksack. I didn't use this embrasive boy
because my matess at home took the absolute piss out
of me.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Now you have to use the sticks. I have to
use the sticks.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
They are very helpful.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Andrew and I went on a really long backpacking trip
in PATAGONI, yeah, like seven years ago, and we thought, okay,
we're not going to take the sticks. We're on our
grandma's The biggest might still have knee pain from their
trip from carrying a thirty five pound.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Pack for five days.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
It was absolutely.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Perfict I will never hike without poles again.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Okay, so my mates took the piss. So I've hiked
all these like. I took these poles out with me
to Colorado and I've got all the gear. No idea anyway,
so I planned this one hike everyone was telling me
to do, Like, it's not that long, but it's really cool.
You go to like all the way from the bottom
up the top, through stream, really really cool, through forest,
all that stuff. Well, oh my god. So basically your at altitude,
(11:05):
which I've never struggled with. I'm fine with that. But
when I've got him on my back and Carl's like, oh,
you've got the rock sack, so let's packed like two
massive bottles of water, there's pack of lunch, there's pack this,
I'm like, yeah, yeah, So I'm like a walking donkey
going up there.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I don't care a pony know that I was a donkey.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I was a proper donkey, proper ass. So I didn't realize.
But the first mile and a half, I'm not jokers.
It's like a one point miles up, one point seven down,
but it is literally up like the entire way. But
it was worth it. I only stopped once. I had
to stop once because you need polls, I need pulls.
But we had an amazing time. We went to pretty
(11:42):
much every single brewery I could find, so yeah, but
we had it was awesome. It was a really good
family trip. And Carli's dad came out for a couple
of days, which was awesome. We just we love it there,
so we had a great time. We had a great time.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I love that. Do you have any picks for port
Rush or things to look out for it for the people?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
You see, my pick is going to be pretty obvious.
I really do think it's going to be a European
that we wins this week, And I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Is it going to be Tommy Fleetwood?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Tom? I know Tom any chance to sing that song?
I don't know. It would be the one week I
don't pick him that he'll win, but yeah, great, then
don't pick him, don't pick him. I think Shane Lowry's
to feel himself, but to go back to back, like
I say, obviously won the last one there, it's going
to be a lot of big ass for an Irish
guy to win over there. But I really think it's
(12:31):
going to be a European. I just don't know which one.
So yeah, is it too obvious to pick Rory? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Okay, no, Rory Scottie seems like he struggles on these
types of greens.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Well, it's very different, you know it. You've played over there.
Haven't you like you played over there? You never once?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Never, not one.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
All right, we're doing a girl's trip.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I was supposed to do it for my honeymoon, but
then COVID happened, so we never never did it.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, we need to. I need to plan your little
trip as well, because we'll do the obvious, but we'll plan.
I've got a couple of little gems that people don't
know about. What people do but Americans don't know about.
It's just very different. Like it's like I can't explain it.
That's why I really think playing the Scottish the week
before is good, which obviously Scotty did, but yeah, it's
you definitely, definitely you get a benefit from growing up
(13:17):
playing links.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
He kin't of say because the greens he would have
grown up playing in Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Is that No, they bump around, Yeah, they bump around
a little bit. Like the breaks aren't really they're kind
of like local breaks, like they're not necessarily exactly what
you see even chipping around the green, Like it's quite difficult.
I think for well, it's not saying difficult. It's just
different for Americans to come over and normally you can
just grab a lob wedge, sand wedge. Well here you
can literally chip with the fire iron, and it just
(13:45):
makes it a lot more creative. And I think it's
a benefit to people that have or players that have
grown up on that environment. So which is why I'm
picking a European. I just don't know which one. Okay,
I really think Shane might do because I feel like
he's been out there for a while. I think he's
gonna I think he might play. I think I don't
know if he's gonna win, but I think he's gonna play.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Well. Yeah, and he's had a good second half of
the season especially, Yeah, so he'd be rounding into form as.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
They exactly what about you? Here's your pick?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
This was just about you. Okay, cool, thank you? All right, great,
I'll go with that. Okay, Tom, I'll be sick. I
to me, one can just sing that the whole NXT episode.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Perfect, We'll do a full harmony rendition. He was runner
up last time it.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Was played there he was Shane was the winner, but
Shane won by a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Was runner up.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, yeah, so it would be good to see.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Okay, Oh, there was this funny DM.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I just This made me chuckle.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
To the Quiet Place account on Instagram, somebody messaged and said, Hi, Kira,
I know mel does not read anything on here.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Are you both.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Going to be it?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Love the show and.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
They're not wrong, that's Carr's job. Everybody cares. I'm just not.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I gotta chuckle out of that.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You have a shush of the week.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
You don't have a shush. You always want to shush something.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
So I'll let you go first and I'll go then
you finish off.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Okay, fine, So my shush is and I'm so sorry
to all the fans out there.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Is justin Bieber's new albums.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I agreed, even Carlie massive believer, that's what they call him.
Me too hate.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, she's very upset. So the reason why, and I
have a reason.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I think every album of an artist like this, there's
got to be at least one banger, Like, give us
something that's fun and happy and that makes you want
to dance or makes you want to sing along or
like you're like, the reason you're famous is babe, babe, babe,
just like something. I know you're capable of making a hit,
but every single one of these songs is so morose
(15:48):
and so down and talking.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
And emotional, and uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
It's like I get it, you're an artist and you're
therapizing through song, but give.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Us one beggar to Carli mentioned, I'm not a believer
at all. I don't really like any of his music.
It's a bit poppy for me, which is why you
and Carli like it. But she said he just doesn't
have like he's actually got really good vocals obviously, and
like he's not using them. Yeah, She's like, that's why
I like him, because he's such a talented vocalist and
(16:20):
he's not using his talent.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
It's just it's all mony and it's all in one
one note, which it's not dynamic.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And I'm sure that you know, the more highbrow.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Artists can appreciate it, but.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I am neither a hybrow nor an artist.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
So it's a good show. I agree with you. Thank you. Okay,
So mine is and this is one of my I've
become this person because of having a child. We were
on the flight yesterday can be back from Denver, and
to be fair, Kai was an angel, but there was
a baby literally like in the row in front of us,
but diagonally and this baby would have been maybe six
(16:57):
seven months old, obviously one of his first flights, and
just was just not happy, like at all. And it's
a three hour flight, and the last hour just the
mother and the father blessed them. Like mom and dad
just could not calming down. And we've been there, like
we've been there when guy's just you know, they're just
sometimes they just you just can't they're in a little
space like they just you know, you can't calm down.
(17:19):
And the guy behind was being such a prick about it,
and I was just like trying to It's funny parents
trying to help parents. So I was like, hey, does
he want this toy? Does he want this? Does he
want this? And I'm like, we get it. She's like
I'm so sorry. I'm like, no, dude, Like we totally
get it. Like it's a baby. And so you've had
plenty of fights the back of the plane, by the way,
we're not like sitting in first class or anything. So
(17:39):
like this guy was just like put his like hands
on his ears and was going like just moaning and stuff.
And then when he got off the plane, I heard
him say to his wife, who they weren't sitting together,
was like that was hell. I'm like, dude, like shut up,
like shut up baby, and you want to flight like
it's going to happen. I'm like, do you not think
the parents were kind of they were suit one of
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their best to calm this baby down and eventually it
fell asleep like as we were landing. Typical. That's happened
to us. Literally, it's happened to us. Like guys done that.
So I leave the poor little like leave them alone,
like try and help them, you idiot.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, that's my shusho instead of making everybody feel better
for a situation can control.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah, it's awkward as her when it happens, because you
do you are thinking of everybody else. Yeah, I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry, and like it's amazing when that has
happened to us, and the amount of like people that
have commerce was going, oh, you're doing great, like it's
here's some like toys or something. I don't know, and
so I'm like, everyone just chill out like it's a
babyar bed bear, it's a baby. It's a bed bear.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Well shush to that guy, Yeah, shush you prick.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Here's a pro. I agree.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I agree with your shush.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
That's a great shush.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
So we have a very nice guest, really cool guest today,
Selena Simwella. She is a big deal famous Peloton instructor,
so a lot of you probably take her fitness classes
via Peloton.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
She's also TPI certified.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
She does golf mobility, golf exercise programs on Peloton as well.
She kind of pioneered that for Peloton. She's one of
the first people to do those sorts of classes for something.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Like a Peloton.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
She plays a lot of golf, so naturally we just
find each other on the internet and sent her some
DMS and she was very nice and joined the show,
and she also has a really fun life update that
she shares at the end of the show, so make
sure you listen to the whole episode.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
But I really loved getting to know her. She was awesome.
She's almost like superhuman. I feel like she never stops,
like she's got some really cool stories and how she
got into everything, and she just seems like one of
those people that just can't literally cannot sit still and
just somehow manages to organize her whole life and get things,
get shit done. And we love that.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, She's got a lot of energy that she puts
into using her powers for good. So we really appreciate
Selena for joining the show. I hope you enjoy the
interview and we'll see you next week.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
All right, Quiet Please is back and Melani are very
excited to welcome a special guest, Selena Simuela, to the show.
She's a Peloton instructor, she's a mama, She's TPI certified,
which is really why we wanted to have you here, Selena.
But we've both been super excited for this chat, so
(20:27):
thank you for taking the time.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I just want to start at the beginning, like, how
did you even get into becoming like a peloton instructor?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:36):
I mean, how much time do you have all the time.
It's a long story. I mean, I've always enjoyed fitness.
I've always been an active person my entire life. But
I moved to New York from Hawaii because I had this.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Passion for performance and I just wanted to give it
a shot.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
So I moved to New York with the idea that
I was going to be an actor, writer, director, and
you know New York like New York to me.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
So I was working a lot of side gigs. For
a long time.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
I was working in restaurants, bars, and then I decided
that that lifestyle wasn't really healthy, and because I really
enjoyed fitness, I started working in fitness. And I kind
of got into it in a weird way because I
was still trying to get my door, my foot in
the door into Hollywood. And one of my friends was
a stunt coordinator and they're like, you know, to get
your sad card, you could probably do some stunts. You're
like really good at sports. You surf like you snowboard.
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And at the time, I was doing like boxing for fitness,
and they're like, why don't you perfect your fight technique
and like see if you can do this stunt stuff.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
And I was like, okay, cool. So I started working on.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
My boxing and then I got really serious with it
because I fell in love with it. And I'm just
like one of those people that I just like, I
can't do something like half ass, I have to whole asset.
Yeah like that, Like I went deep and I started
like competing in boxing, and then I started yeah, and
then I got recruited to start working in fitness through boxing,
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and at the time, I was already making this transition
into like becoming a fitness instructor and getting certified and
all of that, and so it kind of worked out
that at the time, like there was in New York City,
there was like it was blowing up, like boxing, fitness
was the thing at the time.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
When would this have been what you're this would.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Have been like twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, Okay, maybe even
a little bit earlier, like that stuff started, and then
it kind of like.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Is this when like the girlies are into soul Cycle
and starting to discover Peloton and Rumble and like pandemic,
like just before it really pops off.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Yes, one hundred percent. So like twenty eighteen rolls along,
and I ended up getting recruited to audition for Peloton
as they were expanding from the bike going onto the
tread and doing strength work. And I was at this
point already working in the fitness industry, teaching at these
boutique fitness studios, and since I had like on camera experience,
it was just kind of the perfect alonge. It was
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like the perfect meetup of all the things that I
had been working on for so long.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
So it was like an indirect way.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
It's not like I was like, I'm going to be
a fitness instructor, this is what I'm going to do
for my life, but it ended up just fitting. So then, yeah,
it was like the first time that I walked into
an audition and I knew that I was going to
get the job.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Really absolutely, do you see the other people that are auditioning?
Speaker 6 (23:25):
No, I definitely didn't know other people that I couldn't
see other people auditioning. I knew that there were other
people auditioning, other people trying to get the position, but
I didn't know who they were. And Pelotons still to
this day, like we're pretty secretive about when we bring
new people on.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, well, I was going to ask as much as
you can share, what is that audition process, Like what
are they testing you on?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Or how? I mean I can only imagine that the
fitness is crazy.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
It's required to be able to speak for an hour
or however long the classes while in in overally engaging
way while also doing the class full out.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
You actually just described it perfectly. Well, it's pretty much
that understanding.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
If you're able to perform and also engage people at
the same time. Great, okay, moving on, moving on, You
like nailed it, like you could audition for pelth On tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I think, No, are you going like as hard though, Like,
are you just like super duper fit and you're literally
like trying to get a work out at the same
time of teaching a class or do you just knock
it down a boo because I couldn't do that and
then speak and not sound like ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Yes, I guess it depends what kind of workout you're
doing as well.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Right, Like a hit.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Class is going to feel a lot different and it's
I'm going to sound breathier in that class than if
I'm teaching an endurance style run or a walk or
even lifting with like or even you know, lifting with
the theme or idea being endurance style versus hit style cardio.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Or something like that.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
But yeah, it kind of varies depending on what's going
on and what I have going on. If I'm training
for a marathon or if I am boring, if I
have eighteen holes of golf or that day, like I
might take me approach a little differently. I might pull back,
or if I'm like, this is the only time I'm
going to get to exercise today, I might actually push.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
A little harder. So yeah, it kind of depends. But
most of the time I pulled back a little bit.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
I'm not going all out the way that I would
if I wasn't on camera.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Do you plan the workouts and the music? Like how
does that stuff come together?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yeah, that's all me, So I know I've always actually
I think I knew that already, but like, it's so impressive.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
But is it like a collaborative thing, like are you
sitting with the person or whatever or you just show up.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
In You're like, this is the thing.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
No, it's just something that we work on on our own.
The only thing.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
The only thing is that, like we work with producers
and programming to choose the types of classes you work,
so like that's kind of more of a collaborative effort
where it's like, Okay, you're going to teach a forty
five intervals on Monday, You're going to teach a thirty
minute full body on Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
That sort of thing.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
But as far as the class itself, the programming and
teaching style, teaching, what I talk about, themes all of
that is that's me.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
That's really impressive. That's really impressive. We're big into peloton.
My wife, by the way, absolutely adores your classes. She
was like freaking out, she actually did one this morning,
no way.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Yeah, in solidarity with the shell.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah yeah, she does them all the time, like she
because I like try and train her a little bit
and she basically just wants to divorce me every time.
So I might just just keep with your pelotonem pulling on.
Just put your second wife on. It's fine. So yeah,
I've just always been fascinated with it because it's just
I don't know, I do them on the road quite
a lot. Actually, I do a lot of pelotons on
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the road, and I've always been like, for me, someone
who's like an athlete, like, I think they are incredible workouts.
And I'm honestly not just saying that, Like we got
so fit during COVID when we got the bike, Like
so FA.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Love to hear it.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I get back on it.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Really you mentioned before growing up in Hawaii.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
I moved to Hawaii after high school and then I
ended up going to school there. I was just like
I didn't have it clear, you know. I wasn't like
I want to be a doctor. I want to be
a lawyer, or I have this career, Like I just
had no idea. But what I really knew because I
had tried surfing a few times, that I wanted a
surf and I was like, that's where people go to surf,
so I'm going to go there. And that's kind of
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like how I've lived my life in general. I'm like,
if I like want something, I just like go one
hundred percent. Where in Hawaii, I lived on Oahu Wowful.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Actually was going to go surfing yesterday, but then a
video came up. Actually, my buddy said, I saw it
and I didn't really look into it, and then my
buddy sent it to me last night. There was like
a massive shark like among the surface. Yesterday it was
like getting a sting ray and it was flapping around
the water. And yes, it was the first time in
ages I was going to go surfing, so that would
have been my luck.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
But oh my gosh, yeah, I mean that's part of it.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I guess I know. I'm shit scared of him. I'm
not so much more likely swimmer either, which is oh
really yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
That's scarier. So like that to me is scarier.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Statistically, you're so much more likely to die in a
car crash than you are to even get bitten by
a shark, not even killed by a shark.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I know.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
You have to remember, but I know it is scary
though I can. I like with sharks, and it is scary.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, that's that's a noe for me, real quick.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I don't have the physical strength for it, the courage.
I tried to go surfing, and I grew up in
San Francisco and I tried. I've tried going surfing in
high school a million times, like Santa Cruz and stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I like to.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Swim, but like in a more controlled environment, like I
like to do laps in a pool or a lake,
preferably something that doesn't have creatures.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Yeah that's funny.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
So when you moved to New York, what kind of
stuff were you auditioning for? And do you love musical
theater because Mel loves musical.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
I have an appreciation for musical theater. It wasn't my thing.
I was definitely not auditioning for musical theater. I'm not
a dancer. I'm very challenged, thank you.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I least someone on my page.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Yeah, theater and film, and you know, I like really,
I really tried so hard. I auditioned also for all
the like big drama schools, got rejected from all of them.
But now I'm so grateful because a lot of the
drama schools actually now you have free tuition, but at
the time they did not, and I would have been
just burdened with so many loans.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Oh yeah, had I actually have a really crazy story
about this.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
So the same year that I auditioned for Yale Drama School,
I auditioned for all of them, but this one's Yale Specifically,
I had two There were two Shakespearean monologues that I
was like trying to like decide between. I ended up
choosing one that like maybe wasn't as cool. It wasn't
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the enteenou It was Queen Margaret from a like kind
of more obscure. It was like Henry the Seventh, it
was more obscure play. And I ended up going with
that one. And then like fast forward a few years later,
I'm working at one of those boutique fitness studios and
then I like just got the job at Peloton, and
one of the girls that was working front desk there
had gotten a position, and there's only like six or
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ten people to get the position, gotten the position the
year I auditioned for that school doing the monologue that
I chose not to do, and she was working the
front desk, couldn't get a job, super burdened with loans
and like talking about how she regretted doing it.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Wow, isn't it amazing? Crazy?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Good for you. Good thing we went with clean whatever.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
It's funny, isn't it. I always look back at things
like that and I thank god if I'd have not
said yes to that, or if I'd have chosen that
or chosen this, Like, well, how differently my life would
have been.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah. Same.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
It's so crazy, is when you think about it. It's
actually quite weird, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Or the things that like you get rejected from or
the time you get that, know, and you feel so
miserable at the moment, and then you look back and
you're like, wow, thank god, I thank god that didn't
work out, whether it was that relationship, that job, whatever
it was like that could have been so toxic for me,
or that just wasn't right for me. In the moment,
you're like so devastated over it.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
But you know, in the long term.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
You're like, wow, that was really like the universe just
looking out for me because something better was ahead.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
It's nuts, isn't it. So how did you get into golf? Then?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
So?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Have you always played?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Let's talk about the real Sorry?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah you did you pick it up like later on?
Or how did that start?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (31:24):
I mean golf like for me growing up?
Speaker 6 (31:26):
I just didn't think it was for me because you know,
I kind of grew up moving around. I grew up
in Italy first, and then when I came to the States,
I was in like a little town and upstate New York.
And I didn't grow up with a lot of money either,
And so in the places that I was, like in Italy,
I was in this tiny farm town like I didn't
even know golf existed at all, Like seriously, like my
family used to didn't know that was a thing.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Wait, can we back up to the Italy thing? Were
you born in Italy?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Why were you?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (31:52):
I'm half Italian?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Do you speak Italian?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I do? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
My gosh, amazing. How old were you?
Speaker 5 (31:56):
I was in fifth grade? And then like you know,
I went, we'd go back to Italy.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
But my mom's Italian and my dad's American, and so
that's how we ended up in both places. But yeah,
it was just kind of like anyway, golf was in
a thing, Like I just didn't even know about it
when I lived in Italy and when I moved to
the States, I said, the States is kind of different
from the UK. Something I noticed in the UK. It's
like golf is a little bit more for everybody, regardless
of economic status, and like the best courses, Like I
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went to Ireland, the best courses are like public courses.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Like everyone has access to them.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Basically everyone has access where it's here.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
I mean, there are public courses and it's starting to
change now, but for a long time, it was very
much like an access thing.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
And like, you know, for being a first of.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
All, I didn't know any women that played at all,
and it was only like kind of wealthy white men
that played at this one tiny country club, and so
it just wasn't in my mind, it was like not
for me.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
And then fast forward, you know, years.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
Later, I'm in New York City and teaching fitness, and
of course I learned about golf as like an adult in.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
A different way, but I hadn't.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Really started playing because it was like, Okay, this is
probably something that's going to take a lot of time,
and it wasn't just it just didn't come in my life.
My physical therapist started playing golf and started telling me like, oh,
you should try it, you should try it, like you
would love it, and we're really good buddies, and you know,
he would like nerd out with me about it. And
then I started dating somebody who was like a scratch
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golfer and he is now my husband.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
At this time, I did this dude. At the time,
I didn't realize though, what that was.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Right.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
He was just like, oh, yeah, I play golf, and
I was like cool, and he invited me on a
date to go to Chelsea Peers and that was like,
you know, late nineteen.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Yeah, it was fun. First time I ever swung a
golf club in my life.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
It was like, I don't know, sometime in the fall
of twenty nineteen, and then I didn't really pick it
up until early twenty twenty. That's when I like took
my first lesson, and then the pandemic hit and nobody.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Said just in time anything.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
To do exactly, and then we moved out to Westchester
to kind of get away from the pandemic stuff in
the city, and we moved really close to a golf course,
so I just started looping the par three. They have
like a little part. They have two eighteen whole courses
and then a par three. So I just started on
my own, like looping that par three course because I
was like, what else am I going to do? We're
not allowed to like beat around each other, and so
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I did that and then started taking lessons once people
were allowed to be around each other again, and he
helped me like develop a swing, and then I started
getting really nerdy about it because I'm a like fitness
person and so I've always been interested in bodies in motion,
and so swing mechanics became like really interesting to me.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Full ass on golf, full ass exactly.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
I don't pass anything. I full ass everything I do.
So I just went full ass on golf.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
And then, you know, kind of like because I'm in
the world of fitness and just love learning about movement
and bodies moving, I just started kind of digging into
this other side, the fitness side of golf and mobility
and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
And that's why I ended.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Up getting TPI certified and I use my husband as
a guinea pig.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
But now you've created all of this content for Peloton.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I created all of this content
that all the golf content that's on Peloton, the golf program,
it's golf strength classes and golf mobility classes, all of
that's on Peloton, And yeah, it's most A lot of
the stuff is you know, principles that I learned through
becoming a TPI certified trainer and also using my husband
as a guinea pig for a long time, and.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Myself of course, and it's been great. I really really
enjoyed teaching these classes.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
They're probably some of the most fulfilling classes that I've
taught because the response that I've gotten from members is
so incredible, like being able to actually, you know, hear
somebody say wow, like I feel so I feel so
much better. I'm able to play eighteen holes without feeling
like I'm in pain or you know, I'm able to
get so much more rotation now and so my drive
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so I'm so much longer off the tee. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Like that to me is just like, oh my god,
I've done my job.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Yeah I did.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
I did my job.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
And it's like you've almost sport like were you you
didn't have accessibility growing up playing golf, Like you've almost
brought that back like full circle because it is really difficult.
I have so many people, you know, talk to me
and go where should I go? Like I don't know
a trainer, and I'm like, oh, obviously I have a
few like opinions on it, and like you need to
go and check your body out because there's no point
a coach, Like a coach can't do its job and
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fulfill their job in trying to get you to swing
a certain way, like we're not all built, you know,
like a Roy McRoy or you know, Dusty Johnson and
Nelly Cord And I'm like, go and get your body
sorted out and figure out what your limitations are and
then build a golf swing from there.
Speaker 6 (36:34):
Yeah, everyone's going to have a different swing, and there's
an efficient way to swing based on what your body
mechanics are. But obviously you can always improve no matter
and on peloton. Obviously I can't see what people's limitations are.
So I'm kind of generally speaking.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
About these things. But generally speaking, if you improve strength
and if you improve mobility, You're most likely going to
be able to then work with a coach to improve
your swing.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
So it's like.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
I'm giving, I'm not I can't I can't change your swing,
but I can help you change your body to get
you then to a coach who can go, oh, okay,
I've got more to work with now.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Is there anything that you've noticed in your research and
really diving into it that is specific to women's bodies
when they're preparing for golf or trying to have their
bodies be more to be stronger for golf.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
Yeah, I think there's some major differences, Like you you notice,
like in a lot of literature around golf, Like one
of the things they talk about a lot a lot
is like hip impingement and impairment and like unable to
disassociate and rotate, And that's really mostly like more often
than the not, men have those impairments and women have
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the opposite. They're actually mobile and they can be hyper
mobile in their hips and they don't have a problem
with disassociating. That's personally, one of my bigger issues is
my I rotate really fast through my lower body, but
then my upper body gets it kind of hangs back
and I end up in overextension. So I think that's
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like one of the biggest differences that I see is
our ability to how we rotate, in our ability to
use our lower bodies versus men's ability.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Yeah, I had to work so hard at that, you know,
Like I see even funny, I suffed a personal kind
of my osteopath or whatever used to come with us
every week. She had like six of us out on tour,
and I'm the opposite. So I have no hit my ability. Ye,
I don't know if it's from playing soccer growing up
and like I have a weird like foot thing, like
one of my foot sticks out. I've kicked the ball
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around for so long and so my like external hip
rotation is very limited. And it's funny now that I've stopped,
how shit I am because I've got into such bad
habits because I'm not working on my body. Like I'm
still strength training, I'm still training quote unquote like an athlete,
but I'm I've definitely not taking the pride of what
I used to do in my body for gold specific stuff.
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And it's crazy, like how much you have so crept in.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Yeah, like you lock up especially if you are strength
training a lot and you aren't working on your mobility
at all, then like you can you can like lock
up even more.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Yeah, that's definitely what I've done.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
Yeah, where it's like, you know, if you're like me
and you're like having babies and you're like like pelvis
is like doing all kinds of different things and your
core strength is starting to leave you, then you know,
your pelvic floor isn't working as well as it used
to be.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Then when you start to lose court.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
Like that's another thing that's like specific to women, especially
women who are like having babies, is like, you know,
you lose your core strength, and so when you lose
your core strength, you lose stability, You come out of
your posture a lot easier, and there are a number
of things that can happen due to that. And so
sometimes it's even just working on the those kinds of
basic core stabilizing exercises to get yourself to a good
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place so that you're not moving all over the place
and coming out of posture.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
So we've kind of noticed this with a few of
the people that we've had on the show that when
they come from let's say it's the world of acting
or the world of peloton. They come from a different world,
but they show this interest in golf and start posting
content around that.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Then the golf world in.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Turn is like, oh my god, I'm obsessed with you,
and you get so many people reaching out and everybody
wants to said you close, and we want to have
you on the podcast and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
What has been your.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Thoughts on the reaction of golf world seeing someone like
you enter back golf space.
Speaker 6 (40:44):
First of all, it's like so like I feel so honored,
you know, but also sometimes I like don't know what
to do with it, because like I'll have people reach
out to me and like invite me to their member
guests and stuff like that, where I'm like, I wish
I could go to all of these, but like your
remember guest is in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
And you know, it's so nice, but.
Speaker 5 (41:07):
It's like I'm not going to be able to make that.
And also, like, honestly, as a woman, like all of remember.
Speaker 6 (41:13):
Like guests and are all those types of things are
always like on a Wednesday at noon and it's like yo, I.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Work, yeah, yeah, would you ever play in a pro
am like a celebrity pro am.
Speaker 6 (41:22):
I haven't done a celebrity I played you know what,
melt I don't know if you remember I met you.
Speaker 5 (41:27):
I remember, Yeah, I met you at an LPGA pro am.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
It was in New Jersey. Yeah, it was Founders. Yeah.
What's that golf course called Montclair?
Speaker 5 (41:37):
Oh yeah, Montclair?
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, I remember when you play with
the Morgan.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
I played with Molly Marko.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Yeah, the commissioner, the ex commissioner. She is lovely.
Speaker 6 (41:52):
And then I think I I was with Yuka Okay,
that was really fun.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yeah, yeh, you're that was like a marquee.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
That is a good group.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
You're very big deal if you're playing with the commission.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
Yeah, I know I was.
Speaker 6 (42:08):
That was like not too long after having my kiddo,
and like I really did not have my game together
at the time, so I was a little embarrassed, but
it ended up being totally fine.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
But that's is that no one cares.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Yeah, nobody cares, and everyone thinks that we care, even
if that the professionals, we really don't. As long as
you guys are like fun and like relatively fast, Like
we really don't. We never care about the standard. We've
spoke about this a lot on the podcast any way. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Yeah, it's just there's just no way that you're ever
going to meet the standard of a yucosaso. So what
what's the point of trying and trying to compare yourself
to that.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Just enjoy the day you're outside.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
You have eighteen holes without needing to, like you said,
like show up to a job or whatever.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Great exactly, that's it, that's all anyone erect.
Speaker 5 (42:50):
No, yeah, I totally would do more of those. I
don't know why I don't get invited to more, like come.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
On, we need to stay out were.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Manifesting that because need to get you out there, I mean,
because you're such a great advocate for it, like from
a women playing perspective, but also as a TPI person,
as a mobility that just everything.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Yeah, you're you're perfect for it. As you know, this
is an audition that you've already you're definitely getting.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
Yeah, exactly here, we're going.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
To manifest more proems for you if you're interested in them.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
Like you'd be great the Hilton that you playing.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Care be great at the Hilton, should be great at
the American Century.
Speaker 6 (43:26):
Okay, now you'd be good at liberty, but the memorial, Yeah,
I need to talk to my agent, like what is happening?
Speaker 2 (43:32):
Yeah, we'll be your golf agent.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
Yeah, we go.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
So how have you kind of seen Peloton evolve for
I guess, either for you personally and professionally or the
company itself from when you first nailed your audition to
where you are today and the things that are your
biggest priority within Peloton.
Speaker 6 (43:52):
Gosh, we have changed so much as a company and
as a brand, and we're constantly growing and we're constantly innovative,
and it's just it's such an exciting team to be
a part of personally, Like I think, you know, my
one of my greatest accomplishments has been developing this golf
specific program just because it's a a passion of mine
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and b I just think it deserves a.
Speaker 5 (44:17):
Platform like.
Speaker 6 (44:20):
On on Peloton, a lot of people are playing golf,
Like the sport is evolving, it's growing, and as a
woman too, I mean the sport is growing exponentially for women.
So as a woman, I just think it's like great
that I was given this opportunity to do this and
to pioneer.
Speaker 3 (44:34):
This and how do you naviget with this with a family,
a young family.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Yeah, I was gonna ask going through pregnancy while also
teaching classes at this level.
Speaker 5 (44:43):
Yeah, honestly it's hard, Like I wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (44:46):
I'd be full of crap if I were to say
that it was at least for me, For me personally,
I don't know about anybody else, but it's not easy
to get up there in front of a camera when
you're going through pregnancy and to be like, hey, guys,
here's my rapidly changing body. And sometimes it's like yeah,
(45:07):
like and then for the first like you know, X
amount of weeks, like twelve to fourteen, fifteen weeks, I
can't tell you why things look really different and why
I'm moving differently or breathing differently or like ye, you know,
or maybe like this isn't how she like, you know,
I normally teach really challenging intervals and like maybe those
(45:28):
intervals aren't is challenging anymore, like what's going on? So
it's like that can be pretty challenging because you just
want to, you know, you want to be able to
be like.
Speaker 5 (45:36):
Oh, no, guys, like I'm actually just pregnant.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
I'm not talking, I swear, Yeah, I'm hungover.
Speaker 6 (45:43):
Exactly like I'm I this is fine, this me heavy breathing,
this is normal.
Speaker 5 (45:48):
I'm gonna be okay, I'm not gonna pass out. It's
just yeah.
Speaker 6 (45:51):
So that kind of stuff can be difficult, but for
the most part, like members have responded so positively to it,
and as far as like internally, like we're so so
so supported in our journeys as mothers and parents at
the company.
Speaker 5 (46:07):
So it's that part. That part's easy.
Speaker 6 (46:11):
The personal like, oh man, I got to show up
and be like this person on stage and like I'm
totally you know, experiencing something insane right now, fatigue, whatever,
but I can't really share about it. And then then
once you can share about it, it gets a little easier.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
Yeah, this Petotson have It's done like any pre and
post poem.
Speaker 6 (46:30):
Yeah, they do. Robin has a great program. Anna has
a program for yoga, Robin has strength program. And then
there I think there are also collections that are like
pregnancy safe collections.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
I believe, Oh, Kyty of cool. I knew that Kylie
did that much today.
Speaker 6 (46:44):
Yeah, and then there's a bunch of us that were
like super pregnant teaching classes too. And generally if you
see us really pregnant and we're teaching that's probably going
to be a pregnancy safe class.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
Yeah right, yeah, I would hope.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
Yeah. I mean even I found it hard navigating all
that little boy and stuff.
Speaker 5 (47:00):
So yeah, that's right. Like you're you know, you have
a family now too, mel And like yeah that must be.
Speaker 3 (47:06):
Yeah, it's crazy, and yeah, I didn't physically push him out,
so I've got that going for me. I've still got
my COVID floor to somewhat of a degree. But like,
we don't really get supported on the LPGA, like because
I wasn't the birthing mother even though we went because
we went through IVF, we went through reciprocal IVF, so
I had to steal that stuff. I tell Kira that
I did the hard work. So I had three weeks
(47:26):
without not being able to drink alcohol. So it was
very challenging for me.
Speaker 5 (47:31):
Kira, eg retrieval is no joke.
Speaker 3 (47:33):
I mean, you know what, I felt amazing on it.
Speaker 5 (47:36):
You're like opposite, You and I are opposite.
Speaker 6 (47:38):
You're like, I have my hips don't move by lot hormones.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
I'm like, so I'll tell you guys, I haven't really
told anybody that's I haven't even told mel yet, but
I'm gonna do an egritrievil in July.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
It's kind of a weird, crazy thing to think about,
like how is your body going to be on all
these hormone and obviously processes quickly, but it's a weird
thing to think about it.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
And it's a super individual, Like I've had people that
have had a horrific experience, and then I've had a
few people like Marina had a great experience on Iti,
Marina Alex, like I had a great experience on it.
It's completely an utterly individual. But yeah, things we do,
I do. That's really exciting for you.
Speaker 6 (48:19):
Kirera, by the way, congratulations And that's a no no
for real.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
Though it's not easy, it's.
Speaker 5 (48:26):
Yeah, yeah, it's a big moment.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
It's crazy. It's weird to think about.
Speaker 5 (48:30):
But exciting and totally smart.
Speaker 2 (48:33):
Like yeah, because I'm thirty nine, thirty three, shut up now, sure.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
You see you're yang. But like I tell all the
girls on tour im like once she hit like thirty
three or thirty four, like I would honestly just consider it,
like even if nothing, like because you don't know how
you know, in a weird athletic world, like girls, they
do want to keep playing. Like, of course it's difficult
to kind of not give up your career, but things
do change. Like it's really really hard from what it
(49:01):
was hard for me, and I didn't even give birth
to ask some but like a few of the players
that have come back, like a Stacy Lewis Athemonios, that
like gets really fucking hard because I don't have my
ad muscles anymore, like my public floor muscles, like blah
blah blah blah blah. Like traveling with a kid is
really difficult. You know, we're going to country to country,
and so I always recommend to my friends. I'm like,
just get it, like I would have recommended it. But
(49:23):
that's just my personal opinion.
Speaker 5 (49:25):
I think that's so smart.
Speaker 6 (49:26):
And also just to piggyback on that this is a
little bit off topic, but kind of on topic. One
of the things that nobody talked about and that I
think is just so crucial if you do end up
having a baby and getting pregnant and you are an
active person, especially at like a game like golf where
your core is so important.
Speaker 5 (49:46):
Pelvic floor therapy, pelvic floor therapy.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
Karlie did that so important.
Speaker 6 (49:52):
It can span a number of things, right, It could
be actual manual stuff where they're like literally going in
there and working manually to help you and help ease
at tension and then gain strength back to your pelvic
floor because when you give birth you lose a lot
of strength, you tear. There are a number of things
(50:13):
that can happen. So once you kind of get past
the like basic repair stuff and working with somebody on
strengthening your public floor again is so crucial to supporting
your spine. This happened to me, and I've talked to
a number of women who kind of try to get
back into exercise or sport too early without doing that work,
(50:33):
we end up with like back injuries is the most
common one, slip discs, stuff like that because we just
really haven't built that core strength yet, or there's still
a lot of relax and hormone there so things.
Speaker 5 (50:44):
Are still super loose.
Speaker 6 (50:45):
And yeah, I ended up with like lower back issues
for so long because I just kind of pushed it
a little too early and I was like, you know,
trying to hammer like I was really into like I
want to do like.
Speaker 5 (50:54):
Long drives and I was like really into the really
far and.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
I could have been professional long driver.
Speaker 3 (51:04):
That would have been really fun. That Jenny would have
been epic. To be fair, I was.
Speaker 6 (51:09):
I was like crushing it. I was like hitting the
ball so far, but it was like too much, too fast.
Speaker 5 (51:14):
And then it was like you were not away.
Speaker 6 (51:17):
It was too full, way too full ass, And now
I'm back, Like, no, how about like you actually learn
how to like strike the ball at the right time.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
How about that, let's learn out a chip?
Speaker 6 (51:30):
Yeah right, how about like work on your putting, work
on your short game and then you know, you.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
Know, I've heard that short game is really how you score.
Speaker 3 (51:39):
Well, what do you think I would I would say so, yes, yes,
I would say.
Speaker 5 (51:44):
I'm back on the par three course, y'all. I am
doing my par three course round.
Speaker 3 (51:49):
I do wishuld player on tour they did go for power,
like you know, like a Bryson did. I would love
to see like that journey and see if that changes
cool sets up, But no one's happen to me to
do because I cool sets up, So Bud.
Speaker 6 (51:59):
I love to actually what you when what you talked
about recently about challenging set up and.
Speaker 2 (52:06):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 5 (52:07):
That was brilliant. I thought, I thought your point, the points.
Speaker 6 (52:11):
You made were so wonderful, and I love the solutions
that you came up with. You're like, later our player's strengths,
like make the fairways more narrow, like this, we're women
are amazing with accuracy, like like let's showcase like these
amazing athletes with like what makes sense? And I love
that you came with receipts too. You're like, here's the
average drive on the LPGA, here's the average drive on
the PG Like why.
Speaker 5 (52:31):
Are what are we doing here? Like yeah, it just
it made a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (52:35):
I really appreciate. But you know, it's funny being a player,
I would never been able to analyze it like that obviously,
like just being around some really good like analysts. And
I spoke to Brandle about it before I went on air,
and it's just funny, like because before I was like, no,
make it harder, like go back, and now I'm like, actually,
with fucking ourselves because the fairwayes are so wide and
the course is so long. It doesn't benefit anyone because
(52:58):
none of them can reach the Part five and one
is basically hitting roughly around the same shot and a
part four. The way they set up the longer players
have to lay back. It's it's and so looking at
it from that, So I'm glad you enjoyed that because
it's something that is just Yeah, you narrow the up
the rough so the longer players can have a chance
of getting on because they're hitting wedges and nine eyes,
but the short players can't. But the short players don't
(53:19):
miss fauld get into but don't miss stairways exactly.
Speaker 5 (53:22):
If they're driving it to forty, they're not missing, then
they don't.
Speaker 3 (53:25):
They literally don't miss. We have girls that don't miss
fairways all week. But it's literally it's crazy, like nuts,
how accurate these players are.
Speaker 6 (53:34):
It's so amazing. I mean, that's one of the reasons
I love watching women's golf. It's just it's so incredible
to watch that kind of skill that's so good.
Speaker 3 (53:40):
Yeah, they are.
Speaker 1 (53:42):
It's a real skill game as opposed to bomb and
gouge over with the men's tour.
Speaker 6 (53:46):
Yeah, which is fun too, and it's its own thing.
And I think you're right, Like, I don't know. One
of the things that I talk about a lot when
people are like, you know, women's golf and like, what
would you like to see? And I really would like
to see better storytelling around women's golf.
Speaker 3 (53:58):
Yeah we've been talking.
Speaker 2 (53:59):
You're a preacher acquire.
Speaker 6 (54:02):
Yeah, with so misogynists, different people are like, well there
aren't really like women are just like on the tour
more boring.
Speaker 5 (54:07):
I'm like they made the Kardashians not boring.
Speaker 6 (54:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
Yeah, you can make anybody have literally nothing to say.
Someone has to tell.
Speaker 3 (54:17):
That's actually a great point. I still watch the Kardashians, so.
Speaker 1 (54:20):
You know, nothing against the Kardashians, but what I mean
to tell a story, you can tell a story with
and exactly and just like better storytellers.
Speaker 3 (54:28):
Yeah, and I think we need to get more people
through the door. I I had a good chat with
Craig and I was the new commissioner and yeah, hopefully
I think he's going to be really good actually, so
I'm excited to see what he can do. But yeah,
we need more people through the door. We need it
more in an event. We need people to know the
LPGs in town, like we need the players to get
on board a little bit better and actually uplift everybody
and know that it's yes, it's an individual sport. And
(54:49):
individual contractors. But like, I couldn't agree more. There's so
many interesting stories out there that people don't know, so many.
Speaker 1 (54:55):
To get to golf at this level, you have to
have achieved great thing or overcome insane things, and you
don't hear about the you know, the players from Korea
and Japan that are in the States and traveling on
the LPGA, often alone, or going hotel to hotel, or
trying to navigate living life in a completely different country
(55:15):
and not speaking the language and totally and then you
know that story manifests itself so many times over and over,
no matter where you're from. But I mean can tell
the stories, yes, And then.
Speaker 6 (55:26):
I don't know all these like quirks and things about
all the like all the men, and the thing like
what their favorite sandwiches are, what their favorite Taylor slip
song is or whatever. And then like, you know, I
don't know what that problem I went to. I was
talking to Yuka and she was like telling me about
the anime she was in Tune. I'm like, that is
so cute and funny.
Speaker 2 (55:41):
Yeah, like you know, like that, where's your anime content?
Speaker 5 (55:45):
There's so many like that.
Speaker 2 (55:46):
It needs to be covered in anime.
Speaker 6 (55:48):
Like we could do so many fun like you could
do so many fun things around that, and like there's
just I.
Speaker 3 (55:53):
Agree with that of some but it would help if
we in find people like you as well.
Speaker 2 (55:56):
Yeah, I was saying, I need to get Selena to
be playing in the press.
Speaker 3 (55:59):
Yeah, like would also help us make us cool.
Speaker 1 (56:02):
Make us cool, Selena, Please please one more like random
Peloton question and then we'll let you go because you're
been so generous with your time. I'm just wondering if
because when I take Peloton classes, I just kind of,
you know, find what the one is that fits my
(56:23):
that moment. Like there's a couple of instructors that I
love obviously Selena, but you know, I just kind of
fit the moment. Do you have members that are like
in every single one of your classes they are still
a lifers my wife.
Speaker 2 (56:39):
Yeah, car.
Speaker 6 (56:42):
Yeah for sure, and like they're the best, and like
thank God for them because then you know, I probably
wouldn't have my job.
Speaker 3 (56:50):
Yeah, I like Calin know you're very thankful because she's
so grateful.
Speaker 2 (56:55):
I love her.
Speaker 3 (56:56):
Please courage she spends more time with you in the minute.
Speaker 2 (57:01):
You know, it's probably good for your life balance.
Speaker 3 (57:03):
Well, no, I know, I don't mind. I'm not mad
about it. But she's in great shape, so thank you
very much. Yes, she's in great shape.
Speaker 5 (57:09):
Love to hear it.
Speaker 2 (57:10):
Yeah, shout out to the lifers.
Speaker 3 (57:12):
Yeah, shout out to life is Yeah, AKA.
Speaker 1 (57:14):
What's your schedule, like, like, how what's your weekly commitment
type of thing?
Speaker 5 (57:18):
It really just it kind of varies month to month.
Speaker 6 (57:21):
Right now, I kind of I actually just changed my
schedule to have to be in the studio less. But
then once I'm in the studio, it's much more concentrated.
So in the past, like I could kind of like
do things while I was in the studio. Now it's
like when I'm on air, Like when I'm in the studio,
that's it.
Speaker 3 (57:35):
That's my life.
Speaker 6 (57:36):
And usually it's only like one to two weeks a
month and then I'm like great actually filming and then
the other time it's like I'm doing more behind the
scenes stuff, you know, but I don't have to actually
be in the studio recording content. So that's like when
I can do all this other type of like I
could go to programs, I can do you know. I'm
a new balance athlete as well, so I can do
events with new balance or whatever it is that I
(57:58):
want to do or be a mom. But we're got
outside projects or golf more like, I never, like when
I'm on air and I'm in studio, I never play golf.
And then you know, been trying to play a lot
more while I am off air, although this year has
been kind of but hopefully next year I'll be able
to play a little bit more.
Speaker 5 (58:17):
But also, you guys edit this right.
Speaker 3 (58:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (58:20):
Also, I'm pregnant.
Speaker 3 (58:21):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (58:26):
Oh well, you can't tell anybody for the first time.
Speaker 6 (58:29):
Wait, you might be able to tell depending on when this,
when you guys air this, you might be able to
air Congress.
Speaker 5 (58:35):
Yeah, okay, So things are going to change.
Speaker 6 (58:37):
So I don't know if I can come to your
programs in Florida because I'm due in December.
Speaker 2 (58:42):
Die down, okay.
Speaker 6 (58:46):
And so I'm actually currently going through what I was
describing earlier of like, oh god, things are changing and
I can barely breathe in this class that like normally
would be.
Speaker 5 (59:00):
Trauma.
Speaker 3 (59:00):
I know, ship look good at that. Sorry.
Speaker 2 (59:03):
Oh, I was so happy for you.
Speaker 5 (59:06):
Thank you. Yeah, we're really excited.
Speaker 3 (59:09):
Oh that's so excited.
Speaker 2 (59:11):
Yay, We're so happy for you we feel you told us.
Speaker 3 (59:15):
Oh, thank you. Yeah, that was awesome. Oh how exciting.
Speaker 6 (59:18):
I really hope that this isn't like I'm hoping that
my golf game will be like okay during this.
Speaker 5 (59:23):
Actually, you know, some.
Speaker 6 (59:24):
Women are like, oh my god, my golf game was
like the best when I was pregnant. I was just
like because I was like so much more, like my
center of gravity was lower. I was just more stable.
But I didn't have that experience in my last pregnancy.
In fact, like I have just gone worse at golf
since so good.
Speaker 1 (59:41):
And that could be due to many other factors.
Speaker 3 (59:45):
So have I had to quit. I had to quit.
Speaker 2 (59:51):
But I have a friend that her name is Ashley Mayo.
Speaker 1 (59:53):
She works in golf World, and she would always talk
about using her stomach as a training aid like belly buttons,
the target I love it instead of the literally and
she was like, it just like helps me like thrust
myself over because I have much more to thrust.
Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
I'll give it.
Speaker 5 (01:00:11):
I'll try I'll try it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Give it a shot.
Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
Yeah, massive, congrats, that's search good news, good news.
Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
Okay, all right, Selena, this was so much fun. We're
going to see you on a golf course soon. Congratulations,
so happy for you.
Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
And you Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
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