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Be Well by Kelly Leveque

264. Embracing Progress Over Perfection with Peloton Sensation Emma Lovewell

Be Well by Kelly Leveque

Kelly Leveque

Education, Nutrition, Alternative Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I welcome my dear friend, Emma Lovewell, an author, health and wellness expert, and the top-rated Peloton instructor for more than five years. Emma teaches cycling, dance, and strength classes to millions of devoted fans across the world. 

Through her website, Live Learn Lovewell, she supports her community to cultivate an authentic, well-balanced life through healthy eating and movement. She recently released her first book, Live Learn Love Well, a memoir chronicling her incredible journey — from her childhood to taking the stage at Peloton.

In this conversation, Emma shares her personal journey and lessons from her upbringing, the leaps of faith she took in her career, and how she learned to live a life of progress, not perfection. We talk about goal setting, speaking your dreams into existence, and how to give yourself grace and patience along the way. 

Like Emma herself, this conversation is optimistic, uplifting, and inclusive. Let’s welcome Emma Lovewell to the show, and get ready to go along for the ride. 

We also cover…

00:06:00 — Emma’s Personal Journey & Finding Her Voice 

• What inspired her to write her book, Live Learn Love Well 

• Emma’s unique upbring in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts  

• The challenges of growing up biracial in a predominantly white community 

• Discovering her creative passions and entrepreneurial spirit from a young age 

• Finding her voice through music, movement, and performance 

• The valuable lessons Emma learned from her mom

00:21:00 — Stepping Out Of Her Comfort Zone & On To The Peloton Stage  

• How Emma emailed the CEO of Peloton to land an audition 

• Taking leaps of faith to go after your dreams

• What it was like teaching her first live ride

• Creating deep connections with her riders through the screen

• The messages she wants all of her riders to take away from her classes 

00:36:00 — Striving For Progress, Not Perfection 

• How Emma grappled with her own perfectionism 

• Tips to trust in the process instead of focusing on the destination 

• Sharing your goals and speaking them into existence 

• Emma’s advice for writing your goals in pencil, not pen 

• Emma’s personal and professional goals for the next 3 to 5 years 

00:45:00 — Emma’s Wellness Philosophies & Self-Care Routine 

• Emma’s toolkit to care for her mind, body, and spirit 

• Emma’s nutrition advice for adding more vegetables to your day 

• The role therapy plays in her wellness routine 

• The importance of having an abundance philosophy vs. a deprivation mindset

Resources:

• Instagram: @emmalovewell

• Twitter: @emmalovewell

• TikTok: @emma_lovewell

• YouTube: @EmmaLovewell

• Read: Live Learn Love Well by Emma Lovewell 

• Website: livelearnlovewell.com/

Connect with Kelly:

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Transcript

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you can live a more peaceful life when you're just focusing on

0:04.3

bettering yourself in small incremental ways on a daily basis

0:08.1

and not striving for some ideal of perfection, which there's no such thing as

0:12.7

perfect, so you're just striving for something that doesn't exist.

0:16.4

I think it's just taken some of the pressure off to be like,

0:19.2

I am good enough today and I can still work on being better

0:24.4

simultaneously while loving myself now and loving myself for where I'm going.

0:30.9

Today's podcast is a long overdue with a dear friend

0:38.0

who's just launched her book tour Emma Lovewell, the New York-based health and wellness

0:43.0

expert fitness professional and the top rated peloton instructor for over five

0:48.6

years. I am so excited to welcome Emma to the show today.

0:52.7

She has been teaching cycling, dance, and strength classes to millions

0:56.3

internationally for the last few years and she's the founder of Love Learn Lovewell,

1:01.6

a site devoted to cultivating an authentic well-balanced life through

1:05.9

eating healthy and unactive lifestyle. She's also the author of her newest and very

1:10.9

first book, Live Learn Lovewell. Lessons from a life of progress, not perfection,

1:16.9

a memoir, chronicling her incredible path to physical and mental fitness that

1:21.8

traces her journey to becoming a beloved peloton instructor

1:25.8

and inspires readers to live, learn, and love well.

1:31.6

Emma, I'm so excited to have you on the podcast today.

1:34.8

I feel like we have been talking about this for a year and then

1:38.8

you have to write a book and I'm like perfect timing.

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