365. Testing Your Limits: Ash Pryor Talks Owning Your Sexy, Healthy Selfishness & Rowing Her Way To Peloton
Hurdle
Emily Abbate
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Sitting down with Ash Pryor is like sitting down with burst of good energy. Brought the Peloton rowing instructor into the studio this week to talk about how she maintains a positive mindset, feels like her most strong and confident self, and the importance of staying true to your gut. She opens up about what it's like for her to teach and live as a bigger-bodied instructor, and what she hopes her presence teaches those that take her classes.
IN THIS EPISODE
(5:40) Ash talks about joining the rowing team at The Ohio State University
(6:30) Emily and Ash define "NARP" (Non-Athletic Regular People)
(8:28) What it is about rowing that brings Ash peace
(11:00) What it was like for Ash to be one of three Black women on her collegiate team
(14:30) How Ash navigated her mental health as a walk-on turned B1G champion
(21:40) Ash shares the lessons she's learned about the importance of having grace with herself, and where she learned how to be compassionate with herself
(25:55) Ash talks about her experience with Hashimoto's Disease and what her symptoms look like
(31:20) Ash talks about the resiliency she's learned being an athlete
(44:00) How Ash deals with negative feedback
(55:00) What Ash learned running her first half-marathon earlier this year
(55:22) How Ash shows up to give all she's got on the days when she's not feeling so shiny and bright.
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| 0:00.0 | You can't be her with the habits that betray her. |
| 0:16.6 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:17.9 | Emily Abadi here. |
| 0:18.9 | You are listening to episode 365 of hurdle. A wellness |
| 0:24.3 | focused podcast where I talk to inspirational people about everything from their highest, |
| 0:28.2 | highs and toughest moments to essential tips on how to live, a healthier, happier, more motivated |
| 0:33.4 | life. We all go through our fair share of hurdles. My goal through these discussions is to empower |
| 0:39.4 | you to better navigate yours and move with intention so that you can stride towards your own |
| 0:44.7 | big potential. And of course, have some fun along the way. For today's discussion, I am very excited to bring you my conversation with Ash Pryor. |
| 0:57.8 | She's a Peloton instructor. |
| 0:59.7 | You've seen her on the rower. |
| 1:01.1 | And today we are, as we say up front, we're kikiing, as the kids say. |
| 1:08.2 | In today's chat, she talks to me about rowing in college and what being an |
| 1:13.8 | athlete has taught her about things like confidence and diligence and strength. We also talk about |
| 1:20.1 | what it's like for her to live with Hashimoto's disease and how it presents in her body |
| 1:24.6 | and how she has embraced being, as she calls it, in a bigger body, |
| 1:29.7 | one that recently carried her to the finish line of her first half marathon, a goal that was |
| 1:35.3 | 10 years in the making. Ash gets really open about the challenges that came hand in hand with |
| 1:41.5 | showing up on such a mega platform like Peloton and how she |
| 1:45.3 | navigates unsolicited feedback and criticism with the help of her teammates as well as the |
| 1:52.1 | people that she chooses to surround herself with. |
| 1:55.7 | And we talk about the importance of doing an inventory of your circle and surrounding |
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