Hello, this is Brooke Devart and you are listening to the Naked Beauty Podcast.

I have to give you guys a quick disclaimer. When I recorded this episode, I had lost my voice.

I had gone to the Beyoncé concert the night before, I was screaming for hours, and when I recorded

with Alexis and Rachel, I could honestly barely speak. That being said, this episode is really important to me me and I listened back to it last

week and I thought you know what I have to release it because it's such an important

message this episode is about exercise and why it's so important for me.

I exercise more for my mental well-being than my physical well-being,

although the physical benefits are nice.

For me, it's about that clarity

that you get from exercise, that sense of calm,

you sleep better.

Everything just kind of feels better when I'm exercising.

And when I don't get to the gym,

when it's been two weeks without any exercise,

I honestly feel like crap.

We focus on Soul Cycle in this episode.

Rachel and Alexis, my guests are big Soul Cycle fanatics,

but I am a big believer in any type of exercise, anything you can do to get yourself active,

whether that's dance, whether that's yoga, whether that's running, whether that's

cycling, anything you can do to kind of break a sweat and get your heart rate going is so

good for you. And I think so often we focus on exercise to get a flat stomach or to tone your

thighs but it's so much more than that and this episode for me it was a

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