If you've ever worked out with Robin Arsone, the vice president of programming and head instructor at Peloton, you know she accepts nothing less than your best. She talks a lot

about being fully present and committed, and that is exactly how she showed up for this conversation.

We dig into her pivot from litigator to ultramarathoner and fitness instructor, a series of personal

traumas that put her on this path, and how her new

children's book, Strong Mama, is challenging our ideas about self-care.

You talk a lot about both your parents. When you think about your mom, what were the lessons

you got from her watching her about what it meant to be a woman and what it meant to be a mom.

Gosh, I think I'm discovering the answer to that every single day as I'm very early

in motherhood. My baby is only eight months. But I think I absorbed a lot by watching my mother

just create boundaries and step into her power in really small ways. For example, one of the

main stories that I latch onto that my mother told me growing up

was about how when she was in high school, she went to a Catholic high school in Philadelphia,

she wasn't really grasping the language.

So she was only doing well in math.

But English-based classes, she wasn't doing well in.

And they were going to try to put her

in a trade school track that would not have allowed her the opportunity to apply for college,

at least not through the traditional route. And so she basically made a bet with the Mon Senior

that she would have a B average in all of her classes, and she bet on herself. And there are a lot of

examples in my mother's

life of moments when she steps into her power as Latina, as a woman, as a mother. And they were

maybe more subtle than I realized growing up. I thought you had to be like historic with a capital

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