244. Elizabeth Cutler, Co-Founder of Peoplehood & SoulCycle
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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To say that Elizabeth Cutler has been a major influence in the wellness industry would be a drastic understatement. The SoulCycle co-founder has been name-dropped on this show dozens of times by other founders as an OG inspiration. And today, I'm catching up with her to talk about her newest company with co-founder Julie Rice, Peoplehood. Described by The New York Times as "SoulCycle without the bikes," you can think of Peoplehood's gathers (that's what they call a class) as fitness for your relationships.
Elizabeth fills us in on the benefits of this type of communication opportunity, why she believes the concept is more important than ever post-pandemic in the midst of a global loneliness crisis, and her hope for the company moving forward just a week after opening their Chelsea flagship. Plus: How she got through the emotional difficulty of stepping away from SoulCycle in 2016, and the best-practice advice she'd give any aspiring entrepreneur.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm just showing up. That's my motto. I'll just show up and do the best I can. And that's all I can do. |
| 0:20.1 | Hey, hey, Emily, a body here. You are listening to episode 244 of Hurtle. |
| 0:25.9 | A wellness focused podcast, where I connect with everyone from your favorite athletes to top |
| 0:30.1 | experts and industry CEOs about their highest highs, toughest moments and everything in between. |
| 0:36.4 | We all go through hurdles in life and my goal through these discussions is to empower you to |
| 0:41.3 | better navigate yours and move with intention so that you can stride toward your own big potential. |
| 0:47.2 | And of course, have some fun along the way. For today's episode, I am chatting with Elizabeth |
| 0:54.8 | Cutler. She is one of the original founders of Soul Cycle. And she's got a new venture that |
| 1:00.4 | she's here to talk about it. And that is peoplehood. I am so excited for this episode. I would be |
| 1:06.3 | remiss if I didn't say that both Elizabeth and her co-founder Julie Rice were on my original |
| 1:12.1 | list of guests that I hoped to talk to you one day. When you talk about individuals who have made |
| 1:18.8 | a dramatic impact on the landscape of boutique fitness, something that is such a major industry. |
| 1:27.3 | Elizabeth's name is totally up there. Now with over 600 episodes that is wild in |
| 1:34.9 | the Hurtle catalog, I am elated to be bringing this chat to the feed. |
| 1:42.0 | Elizabeth and I, like I said, are talking a lot about her new venture called Peoplehood |
| 1:46.7 | for those that may be unfamiliar with it. The New York Times referred to it as Soul Cycle |
| 1:52.4 | without the bike. I would say a better way to classify the experience that you can get either |
| 1:58.4 | in their first Chelsea studio or in one of their virtual gathers, as they call them, would be a guided |
| 2:05.3 | group conversation designed to improve our relationships. I believe that Elizabeth called it |
| 2:12.0 | relationship fitness. Of course, we also talk about her early entrepreneurship days at Soul Cycle, |
| 2:18.0 | what inspired her to cultivate that space with her co-founder Julie, and why at first it was really, |
| 2:25.4 | really hard to get individuals to get on board with the concept. She also gets really honest |
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