Our top 25 countdown continues. Coming in at number 19, entrepreneur and fitness icon Robin Arson,

who is famously among our lawyers who opted out. The part of this conversation that has stuck with me the

most was Robin's experiences and reflections on the art of reinvention. Enjoy.

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 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 Monsignor 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 H.

And now I find it comforting that we can create legacies that are important with maybe

subtler, more consistent action, which is what I learned from her.

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