Robin Arzón: VP and Head Instructor at Peloton, Ultramarathoner, and Best-Selling Author

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🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Robin Arzón, head instructor and VP of programming at Peloton, is a force to be reckoned with. She has built a devoted community through her loyal riders at Peloton and 960k followers on Instagram who are drawn to her high energy, intense drive, and unwavering encouragement, and she’s a two-time best-selling author, writing Shut Up and Run and her most recent children’s book, Strong Mama. But before Arzón was running ultramarathons and training the masses, she had a seven-year career as a corporate lawyer. And that’s not the surprising part: Arzón didn’t even grow up as an athlete. In fact, as a kid, she’d say she was “allergic to exercise.” So how did she become one of the most celebrated trainers today? It started when Arzón found healing from trauma through movement in her 20s, and eventually, her love for athletics eclipsed her career goals as a corporate lawyer.

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0:29.7	Hi everyone, I'm Hillary Kerr, the co-founder and chief content officer of Who Outwear,
0:35.8	and this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly inspiring careers.
0:41.9	We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the process of setting
0:45.6	aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when they embark on their Second Life.
0:51.3	Today on the show, I'm speaking with the Vice President of Fitness Programming and Head
0:55.6	Instructor at Peloton, Robin Arzhan.
0:59.4	As one of the first trainers in the early days of Peloton, Robin believes sweat transforms
1:04.8	lives, and she has transformed a lot of them.
1:09.0	Between her devoted writers who train with her at Peloton and almost a million followers
1:13.6	on Instagram, Robin's high energy, fierce passion, and unwavering encouragement have made
1:20.3	her one of the most celebrated folks in the fitness space.
1:24.1	She's also a two-time best-selling author, with books, Shut Up and Run, and her children's
1:29.2	book, which was published in January, Strong Mama.
1:33.2	Robin has inspired so many people to find purpose through movement, so you might be surprised
1:37.8	to learn that it actually took Robin a minute to find it for herself.
1:42.4	In fact, she never considered herself an athlete growing up and would even say that she was
1:46.8	allergic to exercise.
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