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🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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A quickie 1:1 to talk about CULT OF BODY & SOUL - my brand new docu-series which premieres Tuesday May 27 on all podcast platforms & YouTube. The 7-episode series explores how SOULCYCLE transcended fitness as it captured the New York City zeitgeist with ritual, candlelight and cult of personality. Cast info & production notes: cultbodysoul.com
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0:00.0 | Guys, welcome back to a very special unique hot takes and deep dives because this is going to be a quick little exclusive, just a |
0:23.2 | one-on-one between us so that I can tell you what is happening. So here we go. For the past seven |
0:30.2 | months, I have been working on my brand new, my second docu podcast series, my second documentary. |
0:39.7 | It was announced this week in people. It is centered on the cult of soul cycle, the cult of boutique fitness in New York City, |
0:46.7 | but really tells the story of soul cycle. And how it transcended fitness, how it captured the zeitgeist. |
0:55.6 | It's called Cult of Body and Soul. |
0:58.0 | What do we get into in the series? |
0:59.9 | I interviewed tons of former Soul Cycle instructors, studio managers, front desk staff, |
1:07.2 | corporate employees, and we really tell the story of how this thing became a phenomenon, |
1:13.6 | an obsession. |
1:15.0 | You know, I really feel like they took the club culture that existed in the 90s. |
1:20.5 | They took the hottest DJs and they threw it in the room. |
1:23.9 | They turned off all the lights. |
1:25.9 | They lit candles and they bottled it. And that was |
1:30.9 | SoulCycle at the apex of its popularity. And it's also very much my story, how I got hooked |
1:38.8 | and found my instructor and found my community there. I'm brutally honest in it. It's way more personal than |
1:47.9 | Finding Fire Island was. You know, it's got sex, drugs, and death, but it's also a comedy and a |
1:55.5 | love letter to SoulCycle. What else can I tell you? I had this idea for years, maybe even before I ever |
2:04.0 | started podcasting period, because I was so obsessed with the instructor training program, I would |
2:10.9 | joke to friends that I was going to audition to become an instructor because I just needed to know |
2:15.9 | what the fuck they were telling these people. |
2:18.2 | What were they lecturing these people about behind closed doors? And I knew how gate kept the instructor |
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