# Tunde Oyeneyin's a Peloton Instructor, NY Times Bestselling Author, Nike Athlete, and motivational speaker.

An episode of [Money Making Conversations Master Class](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1264705641), 15 Jun 2024, 28 min.

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Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviews The Cycling Queen Who Cultivates Confidence, Tunde Oyeneyin. Tunde is a Peloton Instructor, New York Times Bestselling Author, Nike Athlete, and motivational speaker. Tunde Oyeneyin is a Texas native of Nigerian descent and currently resides in the New York City area with her dog Ceasar. Growing up, Tunde struggled with her body image and self-esteem, noting it took many years and hard work to get to a healthy place physically and mentally. Fitness offered Tunde a more extraordinary form of self-love, and she eventually realized it was her true calling to motivate people to join her in becoming the best version of themselves. She trusted her gut, took a leap of faith, and walked away from a lucrative 15-year career as a professional makeup artist and brand educator for some of the most coveted beauty brands in the World to become a cycling instructor in Los Angeles. She has been cycling ever since, and in 2019, she landed a prestigious role at Peloton Studios in New York City. Money Making Conversations Master Class with Rushion McDonald is America's premier entrepreneurship, business leadership, financial literacy, and wealth-building podcast featuring successful entrepreneurs, executives, founders, celebrities, and industry experts sharing actionable insights for professional and financial success. Business Podcast Entrepreneurship Small Business Business Growth Financial Literacy Wealth Building Black Entrepreneurs Minority Business Leadership Executive Leadership Business Funding Marketing Strategies Personal Development Startup Advice Sales Training CEO Interviews Founder Stories Professional Development Economic Empowerment Business Success Networking Brand Building Innovation How to start a business Small business funding Entrepreneur success stories Business leadership podcast Wealth building strategies Black entrepreneur podcast Minority business development Marketing for small businesses Business growth strategies Startup funding opportunities Executive leadership training Financial literacy education Success mindset podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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[0:05] Speaker 1: Welcome to money making conversations. It's to show that she
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[0:27] Speaker 1: money making conversations.
[0:28] Speaker 2: Here we go.
[0:30] Speaker 3: I guess it's Peloton instructor in New York Times bestselling
[0:33] Speaker 3: author Nike Athlet and motivational speak at two Day Oh
[0:36] Speaker 3: Your Name is a Texas from Texas, Okay Nigerian descent
[0:40] Speaker 3: and currently resides in New York City area where her
[0:42] Speaker 3: dogs season roof growing up to day struggle with our
[0:45] Speaker 3: body image and self esteem. Not that it took many
[0:48] Speaker 3: years of hallwork to reach a healthy place physically and mentally,
[0:51] Speaker 3: fitness offered to day a more significant form of self love,
[0:55] Speaker 3: and she eventually realized it was her true caller to
[0:57] Speaker 3: motivate people to join her and becoming the best verse
[1:00] Speaker 3: of themselves. She trusted a gut, took a leap of faith,
[1:03] Speaker 3: and walked away from a lucrative fifteen year career as
[1:06] Speaker 3: a professional makeup artist and brand educator for some of
[1:09] Speaker 3: the most coveted beauty brands in the world to become
[1:11] Speaker 3: a cycling instructor in Los Angeles.
[1:14] Speaker 4: She has been.
[1:15] Speaker 3: Cycling ever since the twenty nineteen Atlanta a prestigious role
[1:18] Speaker 3: at Peloton Studios in New York City. Please welcome to the
[1:21] Speaker 3: money making conversation, Massaclifte Tunday. Oh your name see see
[1:27] Speaker 3: see today. You know, first of all, your first name
[1:30] Speaker 3: is beautiful, your last name is fantastic and origins and
[1:33] Speaker 3: Nigerian is it sells like your queen, It sells prestigious.
[1:37] Speaker 3: Tell me the origin of your name, your background on
[1:39] Speaker 3: your name.
[1:40] Speaker 2: So a majority said, my parents immigrated here from.
[1:44] Speaker 5: Nigeria many years before I was born with the dream
[1:48] Speaker 5: of living the American dream.
[1:51] Speaker 2: By name tune Day. It's a very popular Nigerian name.
[1:55] Speaker 2: Actually it's very popular. Another it's like Amber or as
[2:00] Speaker 2: Sarah or Jessica. Uh. It means mother is back again.
[2:07] Speaker 5: When a man's mother dies, the next child's be born
[2:10] Speaker 5: into the name born into the family, there is the
[2:13] Speaker 5: name tu Date. So after my dad's mother passed away,
[2:16] Speaker 5: I took the name tun Day. It's Tuday's actually a
[2:19] Speaker 5: boy's name. My full name is Ya tu Day. So yes,
[2:21] Speaker 5: it is a very popular name Viteria.
[2:24] Speaker 4: Okay.
[2:24] Speaker 3: You know when I when I when I do these interviews,
[2:26] Speaker 3: you know, you do all this background research, and one
[2:30] Speaker 3: of the background things that came up was bullying, you know,
[2:33] Speaker 3: and you know there's there's always a journey to this point
[2:35] Speaker 3: because you're incredibly beautiful, you're athletic.
[2:39] Speaker 4: You know.
[2:39] Speaker 3: I asked you about it fat off here and you go, huh. So,
[2:42] Speaker 3: you know, it just made me feel bad because I
[2:44] Speaker 3: know I got body fat on me. Okay. I represent
[2:51] Speaker 3: Steven A. Smith from ESPN. Right, he's one of my
[2:53] Speaker 3: best friends and my client. Every he's lost thirty pounds,
[2:56] Speaker 3: all right. So I was with him yesterday in Lairs
[2:59] Speaker 3: First Fame. By his mouth rashan, I'm down the twelve
[3:03] Speaker 3: percent body fat. I just looked at him, Win. I
[3:05] Speaker 3: don't know what that means, but thank you for telling
[3:08] Speaker 3: me information. So I'm talking to a fitness expert that.
[3:11] Speaker 2: Is very impressive though, that is wildly You.
[3:13] Speaker 3: Know, he's I'm so proud of because he's lost thirty pounds.
[3:17] Speaker 3: He's mad at me because my stomach is still flattered
[3:19] Speaker 3: in his and but that's another story. You know, I'm
[3:23] Speaker 3: not in shape, toun day. Don't tell me I'm not
[3:25] Speaker 3: in shape. Okay, I'm a guy who has the disguise
[3:28] Speaker 3: of the look of.
[3:28] Speaker 4: Being in shape.
[3:30] Speaker 3: So you started out in the makeup field, Okay, why.
[3:37] Speaker 2: Why did I start out?
[3:38] Speaker 4: Did you make up?
[3:38] Speaker 2: Feel? I enjoy gifting people with confidence?
[3:43] Speaker 4: Okay, I still do.
[3:44] Speaker 5: I enjoyed gifting people with confidence. I would have somebody
[3:47] Speaker 5: who would. At the time I worked, when I started,
[3:51] Speaker 5: I worked with the Beauny counter, and I would see
[3:53] Speaker 5: someone come in and maybe she her shoulders were hunched
[3:57] Speaker 5: over and her head was down and her hair was
[3:59] Speaker 5: in a body.
[4:00] Speaker 2: She didn't want to make eye content because she didn't
[4:02] Speaker 2: feel confident.
[4:03] Speaker 5: And then forty five minutes later, she sits up straight,
[4:05] Speaker 5: shoulders back, hair comes out of the bun, and she
[4:09] Speaker 5: is feeling what she's seeing in herself. And so if
[4:14] Speaker 5: I can bring out the beauty of your eye shape
[4:17] Speaker 5: or highlight the gift of your complexion, and it makes
[4:21] Speaker 5: you feel good. That gift of confidence. It makes me
[4:24] Speaker 5: feel good. And so I enjoyed gifting people with confidence.
[4:26] Speaker 5: Now I do that every single day by virtue of
[4:29] Speaker 5: a bike and also my books speak. But I enjoy
[4:33] Speaker 5: empowering people. Empowers me to empower others.
[4:37] Speaker 3: We know it's motivation is such a significant tool. When
[4:41] Speaker 3: did you realize that was part of your gift?
[4:44] Speaker 4: You know? Because you know you know how tall are you?
[4:47] Speaker 4: I'm just asking how tall are you?
[4:49] Speaker 2: I think I'm five to seven and a half.
[4:51] Speaker 3: When I have big hair, I leave, this is not
[4:55] Speaker 3: big hair.
[4:55] Speaker 4: This is not big hair right.
[4:56] Speaker 2: Now, this is flat hair. Tun day. Now this is
[4:58] Speaker 2: five seven, two days.
[5:00] Speaker 3: So you're athletic.
[5:02] Speaker 4: You're five seven.
[5:03] Speaker 3: So when you have big hair and heels, you roll
[5:06] Speaker 3: in about five eleven five ten.
[5:08] Speaker 4: Right? Do you come in a room today? Is it
[5:13] Speaker 4: a game changer? Is it a room turner when you
[5:16] Speaker 4: come in the room? Come on?
[5:20] Speaker 3: Now, I would take.
[5:22] Speaker 5: Sure, maybe the physical show, yeah, but I think that
[5:27] Speaker 5: I think that I would say it's a confidence thing too,
[5:30] Speaker 5: because I say that because I can have the heel
[5:33] Speaker 5: on and the red lifster on.
[5:34] Speaker 3: And the earrings, right, and that's an energy right, and then.
[5:38] Speaker 5: I can have on a pair of some Nike sweats
[5:40] Speaker 5: with some Jurans and a hat, and I can you
[5:43] Speaker 5: can still feel my presence, like when you feel yourself
[5:48] Speaker 5: in your power. When you feel in your power, you
[5:51] Speaker 5: feel in your power. Yeah, there are things that make
[5:53] Speaker 5: me feel more empowered. If I hear the the gloss on,
[5:56] Speaker 5: I feel more in my power. I feel ready to
[5:59] Speaker 5: take up space and I can do that in a
[6:02] Speaker 5: pair of sweats too. I think that when you're able
[6:04] Speaker 5: to connect to your power. I know that my power.
[6:07] Speaker 2: Is my ability to leave right and.
[6:10] Speaker 5: To move people through my words and also on a
[6:13] Speaker 5: bike right, knowing that tapping into that, being able to
[6:19] Speaker 5: like reset my frequency, I think that's my power. And
[6:24] Speaker 5: I think that's the energy people feel when I walk
[6:27] Speaker 5: into a room and a pair of Stillos helps.
[6:30] Speaker 3: And confidence and confidence you know, you know you know
[6:36] Speaker 3: when I when I because when I look in your
[6:38] Speaker 3: background and I would tell you a personal story of me,
[6:42] Speaker 3: you know, because I'm older than you. And bullying is
[6:45] Speaker 3: a term that's very used a lot, you know, last
[6:48] Speaker 3: twenty years to start picking them speed and social media
[6:51] Speaker 3: put it on steroids because bullying is a lot happens
[6:54] Speaker 3: a lot in social media.
[6:56] Speaker 4: And I remember I was.
[6:57] Speaker 3: Reading in the middle school in this little girl told
[6:59] Speaker 3: the class room and everybody, I'm tired of him reading.
[7:03] Speaker 3: I want to read. He's not the best reader in
[7:05] Speaker 3: the world. And that shut me down, you know that.
[7:08] Speaker 3: That that that put me in a space where I
[7:12] Speaker 3: didn't want to feel out of like I was special.
[7:15] Speaker 3: I wanted to feel normal. I was fighting to feel
[7:18] Speaker 3: normal all the way through my high school life. I
[7:20] Speaker 3: didn't I stepped away from being this smart guy and
[7:22] Speaker 3: I wanted to be quote unquote regular. Now when you
[7:26] Speaker 3: talk about that, that was a bullying experience that altered
[7:29] Speaker 3: my life, you know, it altered the way I spoke
[7:31] Speaker 3: it all the way I wanted to present myself a
[7:33] Speaker 3: general public.
[7:35] Speaker 4: What was your bullying experience?
[7:36] Speaker 2: Like, Yeah, at the time, I don't even know. I
[7:40] Speaker 2: to your point of that, I named it, and I
[7:43] Speaker 2: just knew that people wanted me.
[7:44] Speaker 5: I knew that I didn't look like everybody else, and
[7:47] Speaker 5: the results of that people treated they differently. I felt
[7:51] Speaker 5: that I grew up in a product primarily white neighborhood.
[7:55] Speaker 2: I didn't see people that looked like me.
[7:56] Speaker 5: There were a few black folks that were in my school,
[7:58] Speaker 5: but nobody had dark skin like me.
[8:00] Speaker 2: At least no girls had dark skin like me.
[8:01] Speaker 5: My mother's skin was about your complexion, and so I
[8:04] Speaker 5: didn't see people that look like me. I was overweight,
[8:08] Speaker 5: I was heavy. I was made fun of for the
[8:11] Speaker 5: way that I talk, for.
[8:12] Speaker 2: The color of my skin and for my size, for
[8:14] Speaker 2: my hair.
[8:15] Speaker 5: I've born grades my entire life, and I was made
[8:18] Speaker 5: fun for it. And you know, I didn't think about
[8:22] Speaker 5: to your point of like reading in that moment when
[8:25] Speaker 5: you said, I either thought to myself, but to me,
[8:28] Speaker 5: bullying maybe being made fun of. It is people telling
[8:33] Speaker 5: you less, telling.
[8:34] Speaker 2: You that you are less than you are. It's people
[8:38] Speaker 2: telling you that you are less than you are.
[8:41] Speaker 5: And I remember even my third grade teacher.
[8:46] Speaker 2: I remember telling my third grade teacher that I wanted
[8:48] Speaker 2: to write a book.
[8:49] Speaker 5: One day, and she said, well, you won't because you
[8:53] Speaker 5: don't know where to place your periods and your comments,
[8:56] Speaker 5: because my punctuation was so terrible and so in essence,
[9:00] Speaker 5: I think that bullying is people minimizing you and your
[9:06] Speaker 5: ability and your work and your value based on comparison.
[9:13] Speaker 5: As a kid, you want to do everything to blend
[9:17] Speaker 5: in and then as adult, when you step into your
[9:21] Speaker 5: essence and who you are, you want to find every
[9:24] Speaker 5: way that you can stand out. And so I think
[9:27] Speaker 5: that it's so interesting I look back at my life
[9:30] Speaker 5: and my story and all the things that weighed me down,
[9:32] Speaker 5: all the blockage, all the ways that I got in
[9:35] Speaker 5: my own way when I was younger, and it was
[9:38] Speaker 5: all a result of me trying to do everything to
[9:42] Speaker 5: not be who I am.
[9:43] Speaker 2: Everything I was doing everything to be like everybody else.
[9:46] Speaker 2: And as an adult, the reasons.
[9:49] Speaker 5: I love myself most are all the things that I
[9:55] Speaker 5: was that I tried not to do and try.
[9:57] Speaker 2: Not to be and try to hide in. Wow, all
[10:02] Speaker 2: those features qualities right, all that to.
[10:05] Speaker 3: Come forward, right, And I one hundred percent agree with you.
[10:09] Speaker 3: It's really amazing that, you know, I left IBM to
[10:13] Speaker 3: be a stand up comic, you know. So I went
[10:15] Speaker 3: from a person who was told not to speak in
[10:20] Speaker 3: middle school and then ran from that and eventually became
[10:23] Speaker 3: a public speaker, a person who was on stage talking
[10:27] Speaker 3: to unknown people convincing them that I was funny. So
[10:30] Speaker 3: I had to put together words that made them laugh
[10:32] Speaker 3: and eventually led to death comedy Jam and all these
[10:35] Speaker 3: comedy tours and all those things. In fact, Steve Harvey
[10:38] Speaker 3: was my opening act. That's how we met and became friends.
[10:41] Speaker 3: And so so it is true sometimes you can that's
[10:45] Speaker 3: a gift. You had a gift. You didn't know what
[10:47] Speaker 3: that gift was, because now you're living a gift. And
[10:50] Speaker 3: that's the blessing of this interview is that I always
[10:52] Speaker 3: tell people between the ages of eighteen and twenty of
[10:55] Speaker 3: very important years because if you master those years a mass,
[11:00] Speaker 3: so that personality, that drive and desire, that is what
[11:03] Speaker 3: you're going to use to make money in your forties, fifties,
[11:06] Speaker 3: and sixties. You have to be able to not run
[11:09] Speaker 3: from who you are. And that's what you're doing that
[11:11] Speaker 3: you're not running from who you are. You accepting it.
[11:14] Speaker 3: That's your motivation and that's your blessing.
[11:16] Speaker 4: Correct.
[11:18] Speaker 5: Correct, you said between the years of eighteen and twenty two.
[11:24] Speaker 5: You know what, I'm going to validate that as true.
[11:28] Speaker 2: I think I was.
[11:31] Speaker 5: Nineteen or twenty when I fell into cosmetics. And again,
[11:37] Speaker 5: my purpose there, the driver there was wanting to give
[11:41] Speaker 5: to people with confidence, and I wanted people to see
[11:45] Speaker 5: themselves the.
[11:46] Speaker 2: Way that I could see them, right.
[11:48] Speaker 5: I wanted people to see themselves the way that I
[11:50] Speaker 5: could see them. I knew that that felt good in me.
[11:55] Speaker 5: I didn't know that that would move me into this
[11:59] Speaker 5: current chapter of my life. But it was definitely during
[12:03] Speaker 5: those prime years where I discovered that piece of.
[12:07] Speaker 2: The college right.
[12:09] Speaker 3: And that's that's the blessing of this conversation. You know,
[12:12] Speaker 3: when I look at where you come from something, I
[12:15] Speaker 3: always I feel courageous in you. There's a tremendous courage
[12:20] Speaker 3: in you. I should say it that way because there's
[12:22] Speaker 3: so many people out there living jobs, doing jobs, don't
[12:25] Speaker 3: like them. It pays good money, but there's that fear
[12:28] Speaker 3: of change, that fear of the unknown, and so you're
[12:31] Speaker 3: very successful. I said it in your credits. You're a career.
[12:35] Speaker 3: You were changing lives and you decided that wasn't you,
[12:39] Speaker 3: or you decided you needed to change. Which one was it?
[12:42] Speaker 2: It wasn't that it wasn't me.
[12:44] Speaker 6: Uh, It was that the gift needed to expand itself. Okay,
[12:51] Speaker 6: it was that the vessel by which or way.
[12:58] Speaker 5: That I was delivering. I knew that that had outrun
[13:02] Speaker 5: its course.
[13:03] Speaker 4: I was a.
[13:04] Speaker 5: Makeup artist for fifteen years. I lived in Los Angeles, California.
[13:08] Speaker 5: I looked at my dream neighborhood. I drove my dream car,
[13:13] Speaker 5: I had my dream title.
[13:17] Speaker 2: On paper.
[13:18] Speaker 5: I was living the dream. And it wasn't until one
[13:22] Speaker 5: day I was in the bathroom at work and I
[13:27] Speaker 5: was splashing water. I was one of those days where
[13:29] Speaker 5: I was, Oh, God, like I've been there for fifteen minutes.
[13:32] Speaker 2: I was like, is this ore that? Get me out
[13:34] Speaker 2: of here?
[13:36] Speaker 5: I splashed water on my face and I looked at
[13:38] Speaker 5: myself in the weird and I had a real moment
[13:41] Speaker 5: with myself, and I had I would say at the audacity,
[13:46] Speaker 5: audacity to admit to myself that I hated my job.
[13:49] Speaker 5: I couldn't admit to my own self that I hated
[13:52] Speaker 5: my job because I knew how hard I'd work to
[13:56] Speaker 5: get there. I knew that I asked for it. And
[14:00] Speaker 5: here I was living in this life.
[14:02] Speaker 2: That I asked for and I was saying I was unhappy,
[14:05] Speaker 2: and I felt guilt in that.
[14:07] Speaker 5: And so I remember being in this place of uncertainty
[14:12] Speaker 5: and so much doubt, and doct feels heavy.
[14:14] Speaker 2: Doubt feels heavy.
[14:15] Speaker 5: I think the beauty of uncertainty is infinite possibility. The
[14:19] Speaker 5: beauty of uncertainty is infinite possibility. When you don't know
[14:22] Speaker 5: what's next, don't know what's next, and so anything can
[14:25] Speaker 5: be next. Doubt doesn't feel good. But when doubt meets
[14:30] Speaker 5: you right, I think that it's the body's way of
[14:33] Speaker 5: signaling to you that a course correction is trying to
[14:36] Speaker 5: make its way in now. When we rejest out, it
[14:39] Speaker 5: creates friction. That's why it feels heavy. But if you
[14:42] Speaker 5: can lean into hearing what's trying to come through, there's
[14:47] Speaker 5: always a message that there that is to be said.
[14:51] Speaker 5: And so Harry was in this space. I hated my job,
[14:54] Speaker 5: didn't know what I was supposed to do next. In
[14:55] Speaker 5: this space of uncertainty, I go in and take a
[14:58] Speaker 5: cycling class that changes.
[15:00] Speaker 2: My entire life.
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[16:34] Speaker 5: Access Home, Yeah you know what, it's a brand new gig.
[16:40] Speaker 5: I got the call like a week ago and I said, yes,
[16:46] Speaker 5: where do I sign? And then hours later they told
[16:49] Speaker 5: me that my first interview would be with Usher, and
[16:52] Speaker 5: so I just a this morning. He was as awesome
[16:58] Speaker 5: as you could dream that usher would be. And I'm
[17:00] Speaker 5: so incredibly excited to embark in this new chapter of
[17:04] Speaker 5: my life. I said before that my love is gifting
[17:07] Speaker 5: people with confidence, connecting with people, being able to reach
[17:11] Speaker 5: people and inspire through them through my word, through my voice,
[17:14] Speaker 5: and through my stories, and so to be able to
[17:16] Speaker 5: now again deliver the gift through a different vessel, I'm
[17:22] Speaker 5: really really really excited about it and eager to see
[17:26] Speaker 5: to see what this.
[17:27] Speaker 4: Leads to your star. Come on, I'm gonna be real here,
[17:31] Speaker 4: but I want to I want to do you. Are
[17:33] Speaker 4: you familiar with Steven A. Smith?
[17:35] Speaker 2: You know who he is, Stephen A Smith?
[17:38] Speaker 4: Yeah, ESPN Steven A Smith. Yeah.
[17:40] Speaker 2: I'm sure he.
[17:43] Speaker 4: Is a Peloton fanatic.
[17:48] Speaker 3: He rides that bike every day and of course that's
[17:52] Speaker 3: been one of the amazing reasons he's lost thirty pounds
[17:54] Speaker 3: over the last i'd say four or five months. Okay,
[17:58] Speaker 3: I want to connect him with you.
[18:00] Speaker 4: In fact, you know, here's one of the hottest podcasts.
[18:03] Speaker 2: Taking my class and he's mad at me.
[18:05] Speaker 3: He doesn't want to be No, Yeah, because because I
[18:09] Speaker 3: I one of the keys in any relationship is, you know,
[18:13] Speaker 3: connections and being able to connect people. You know, he's
[18:17] Speaker 3: he's one of the biggest personalities in sports today as
[18:21] Speaker 3: well as his podcast is like a straight fire I
[18:24] Speaker 3: should say YouTube channel, it's straight fired.
[18:26] Speaker 4: I want to connect them. That's just a personal thing because.
[18:29] Speaker 3: You just ooze star power, you ooze connection, you ooze
[18:34] Speaker 3: you can be yourself around you and the fact that
[18:37] Speaker 3: you are this incredible instructor on Peloton and I have
[18:41] Speaker 3: an amazing a list talent that I know that uses Peloton.
[18:45] Speaker 4: There.
[18:45] Speaker 3: I got to make that connection. If you're comfortable with that,
[18:48] Speaker 3: I want to do that, so thank you so much. Yeah,
[18:51] Speaker 3: I got to because he has a studio he's building
[18:53] Speaker 3: in New Jersey.
[18:56] Speaker 4: Uh.
[18:56] Speaker 3: I want to get you on this show as a
[18:57] Speaker 3: guest because y'all need to neck and make things happen.
[19:02] Speaker 3: And his bread or bring some nice glow to you,
[19:05] Speaker 3: and of course him talking to somebody who drives him
[19:08] Speaker 3: crazy every morning every day afternoon riding that bike.
[19:12] Speaker 4: Y'all do need to connect.
[19:13] Speaker 3: And you know, as we close out this interview, I've
[19:15] Speaker 3: had a fantastic time in talking to you. The word
[19:20] Speaker 3: athlete being associated with your name, you know, the word athlete,
[19:25] Speaker 3: a Nike athlete being associated with your name. You know
[19:29] Speaker 3: that's a very powerful name, you know, athletism, athleticism.
[19:36] Speaker 4: Did you ever expect that? You know, you was in
[19:38] Speaker 4: the beauty field. You know you were bullied as a youth.
[19:41] Speaker 4: You was in.
[19:42] Speaker 3: The beauty field and now a Nike athlete. Talk to
[19:46] Speaker 3: us about that journey.
[19:48] Speaker 5: Did I ever expect that? Absolutely not job No, for
[19:53] Speaker 5: many reasons. One, growing up, I tried out for every
[19:57] Speaker 5: single sport under the sun, and I never made the cut.
[20:00] Speaker 5: My brothers were you're from Texas, Texas is life. Texas
[20:03] Speaker 5: is air and water or sorry, football is life in Texas.
[20:07] Speaker 5: It is your air, it is your water. Basketball is cool,
[20:10] Speaker 5: but football is life. My brothers were star football players
[20:13] Speaker 5: to our basketball players. And so I remember when I
[20:16] Speaker 5: moved from elementary to middle school and middle school in
[20:19] Speaker 5: high school ever time, because my brothers were older than me,
[20:21] Speaker 5: and so every time I would come into the new school,
[20:24] Speaker 5: the teachers would say, oh wow, you're an oh nay,
[20:26] Speaker 5: And the teachers would light up and so excited, and
[20:29] Speaker 5: I would say, look, I didn't get the gift. And
[20:31] Speaker 5: I'd try out and I wouldn't make the cut. And
[20:33] Speaker 5: so no, I didn't see this for myself, and it
[20:39] Speaker 5: didn't exist and then even when I entered the world
[20:41] Speaker 5: of fitness, did I.
[20:41] Speaker 2: See it for myself? No, you know what my dream was,
[20:44] Speaker 2: I said.
[20:44] Speaker 5: To myself when I entered the world of being a
[20:47] Speaker 5: fitness and being a fitness trainer, I said, it would
[20:49] Speaker 5: be really cool to be a model for Nike.
[20:52] Speaker 2: Like if Nike would like let me do.
[20:54] Speaker 5: One of their campaigns, I've showed up and I'd wear
[20:56] Speaker 5: the brother art free, just like let me be in
[20:57] Speaker 5: the act.
[20:58] Speaker 2: And the space didn't exist yet.
[21:01] Speaker 5: When I when I signed on to Nike almost three
[21:04] Speaker 5: years ago, I was named the first ever Nike athlete,
[21:08] Speaker 5: or I was the first ever Nike athlete to come
[21:12] Speaker 5: from the world of training and fitness, And so it
[21:15] Speaker 5: created a space.
[21:16] Speaker 2: And you know, I just said it out loud when
[21:19] Speaker 2: I get chills, it's.
[21:21] Speaker 5: It's to be associated with niken be able to say
[21:24] Speaker 5: first ever insert any line.
[21:26] Speaker 2: That cut to come behind that.
[21:28] Speaker 5: I know what that means, not just for myself, Shaan,
[21:31] Speaker 5: but for every single person that looks like me, moves
[21:36] Speaker 5: like me, didn't believe in themselves like me, didn't see
[21:40] Speaker 5: their gift, didn't see their worthiness. And then I also
[21:46] Speaker 5: know the space that it allots and creates for other
[21:49] Speaker 5: people just like me that are fitness trainers to come
[21:53] Speaker 5: in and so it means a lot. And did I
[21:58] Speaker 5: expect it? Not?
[22:00] Speaker 2: In one trillion years, the.
[22:03] Speaker 5: Space didn't exist, So how could I have accepted it?
[22:08] Speaker 4: Wow? You know, thank you.
[22:12] Speaker 3: You're amazing and I can't give you as many compliments
[22:16] Speaker 3: as you deserve. You know, your journey it's only started
[22:21] Speaker 3: Tune Day, you know. Yeah, Beyonce, after you have Share
[22:24] Speaker 3: out there, you have Oprah out there. You know, you
[22:26] Speaker 3: have Tune Day out there. Uh, and embrace that name,
[22:29] Speaker 3: embrace that brand. You are a brand. And this is
[22:34] Speaker 3: what I do for a living. I look at people.
[22:36] Speaker 3: I've been fortunate in my life to turn a lot
[22:37] Speaker 3: of people who are celebrities into major international stars. That's
[22:42] Speaker 3: what you will become. I brought you on this show
[22:44] Speaker 3: just to hear your story. Your story is fascinating. Your
[22:47] Speaker 3: story is amazing. And again, good luck, and I thank
[22:50] Speaker 3: you for coming up money making conversation masterfin.
[22:53] Speaker 2: Oh, I so appreciate you. I had such a good time.
[22:57] Speaker 3: Well, you know, I wanted that fun because you're a
[22:58] Speaker 3: Texas girl and I they want to come over here
[23:00] Speaker 3: with some little you know, but be respectful because you
[23:03] Speaker 3: know you all star, but didn't want to put a
[23:06] Speaker 3: little rushanism on here in this interview. But I will
[23:09] Speaker 3: tell you this as we close, I did see your interview.
[23:12] Speaker 3: I mean that's your interview a commercial on TV and
[23:15] Speaker 3: I was I was just you know, in the house,
[23:17] Speaker 3: just sitting around looking and we was in between.
[23:19] Speaker 4: Can we have scheduled one time?
[23:21] Speaker 3: And then we had to change the schedule And the
[23:23] Speaker 3: day we changed, I walked in my house, turn on
[23:26] Speaker 3: the TV and there you were on my TV screen
[23:29] Speaker 3: tun day because they put your name on the screen.
[23:31] Speaker 3: Other way, my wife, I'm an interview her one day.
[23:37] Speaker 4: You're acting like you had been around.
[23:39] Speaker 3: I said, but this, but you know, you're the first
[23:41] Speaker 3: type I've never I've done the football, I've done the basketball,
[23:45] Speaker 3: I've done the singers, I've done the actors. I've never
[23:48] Speaker 3: done a fitness athlete at your level. You go medal,
[23:52] Speaker 3: you gold status.
[23:54] Speaker 2: You know.
[23:55] Speaker 5: What did you report that? That was the best compliment ever? Literally,
[24:00] Speaker 5: Margarita's with you any time. But let me ask you this,
[24:04] Speaker 5: not not anywhere outside Texas. Let's say you are in
[24:07] Speaker 5: only Texas. What is your order? It says a lot?
[24:13] Speaker 5: What is not what what is your order? When you
[24:16] Speaker 5: go get text mets, what is your order?
[24:18] Speaker 4: Oh, come on, come on girl. Okay the restaurant.
[24:20] Speaker 3: Okay, I'm based in Atlanta, which does not even match
[24:23] Speaker 3: Houston has the best food. I love New York Chicago,
[24:26] Speaker 3: but okay, I always start a restaurant called Loofy Loopy
[24:30] Speaker 3: Loopy's Tortilla.
[24:31] Speaker 2: Yes, you point, blake and down. You don't even say anymore.
[24:36] Speaker 2: That's the best one. Kaso.
[24:40] Speaker 4: There you go. Okay, but let's start with the beans. Now,
[24:43] Speaker 4: gotta start with the beans.
[24:44] Speaker 3: And then you have to ask for that for twenty
[24:47] Speaker 3: five cents extra so they can bring the pico because
[24:49] Speaker 3: they don't offer the pico unless you willing to pay
[24:52] Speaker 3: the extra twenty five. There you go. Then you get
[25:04] Speaker 3: so get the hit us.
[25:06] Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm gonna tell you something that you're sleeping on.
[25:09] Speaker 4: If you don't go there for breakfast, you sleeping today.
[25:14] Speaker 3: If you don't go to Loopy Tortelia for breakfast, you
[25:17] Speaker 3: sleep it. You missed it, because then you get the
[25:20] Speaker 3: Great text Mex. Then you get the Great Text Mex breakfast.
[25:24] Speaker 3: You get the the charro beans, the pico Kadye Gyo
[25:29] Speaker 3: saucer all that stuff and the chips are hot and fresh.
[25:33] Speaker 4: Yes, girl, you mess it with.
[25:35] Speaker 5: The wrong part for thirty eight years of life for
[25:40] Speaker 5: sleeping on Luvin Tortilla's breakfast.
[25:44] Speaker 4: Yes you.
[25:47] Speaker 2: Breakfast taco.
[25:49] Speaker 3: Yes I have. Yes, but we're gonna be good. Like
[25:54] Speaker 3: I said this to the start of our relationship. Seriously,
[25:56] Speaker 3: because like I said, Sherry Shepherd is my client, and
[25:59] Speaker 3: so I go back and forth of New York steven
[26:01] Speaker 3: they since my client. I'd probably be up there November fourteen.
[26:04] Speaker 3: Because it started in the studio. I'm definitely gonna get
[26:06] Speaker 3: you on this show as a guest. I'm gonna tell
[26:08] Speaker 3: shery Ship, have you done that show yet?
[26:10] Speaker 5: I have not?
[26:11] Speaker 3: Okay, because she does a lot of fitness segments. I
[26:14] Speaker 3: gotta tell you people, I'm gonna recommend that she brings
[26:17] Speaker 3: you on. In fact, I would talk to Heather about
[26:19] Speaker 3: sending me a one sheet so I could send it
[26:21] Speaker 3: up there.
[26:21] Speaker 4: You might whatever I do.
[26:25] Speaker 2: That has good. So we'll go get Casey and you'll
[26:28] Speaker 2: take my class. We'll make it a trip.
[26:30] Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no.
[26:32] Speaker 2: There's one place that has good.
[26:35] Speaker 4: I would go for the food, but you will not.
[26:38] Speaker 4: I would not take your class.
[26:40] Speaker 3: No, no, no, I would not you will not kill me?
[26:44] Speaker 4: No, do not let the old question.
[26:47] Speaker 2: Well, Lea has an open question. Question.
[26:49] Speaker 4: Okay, cool, okay, cool, okay, open question.
[26:51] Speaker 3: I would take a slow class, luckily, back of the
[26:54] Speaker 3: room till you want to embarrass me.
[26:56] Speaker 4: Okay, so you want embarrass me. I don't want to
[26:58] Speaker 4: be embarrassed. I don't need a pictures. I don't want
[27:00] Speaker 4: to be falling out. But again, thank you.
[27:03] Speaker 3: Fantastic, You're awesome. We'll talk so I've hit my thirty
[27:06] Speaker 3: one minutes. I don't want Heather to be mad or
[27:08] Speaker 3: Kim to be mad at me. And if you just
[27:10] Speaker 3: hold on that sort of fee can make sure it's
[27:13] Speaker 3: uploaded correctly. But thank you very much. You're fantastic. We'll
[27:16] Speaker 3: talk soon.
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