Current:Home > StocksPeloton's Robin Arzón Wants to Help You Journal Your Way to Your Best Life -WealthMap Solutions
Peloton's Robin Arzón Wants to Help You Journal Your Way to Your Best Life
View
Date:2025-04-21 00:12:45
Ready to achieve your dream life? Get ready to do two things: Journal and hustle.
At least that's what Peloton head instructor Robin Arzón says she did to build her wellness empire and manifest her relationship with her husband, Drew Butler. And now she's helping others to do that with Welcome, Hustler: An Empowerment Journal, a self-care guide to help you become the CEO of your own life.
Yes, the woman famous for her intense-yet-inspiring rides and arduous-yet-aspirational strength classes wants you to slow the eff down and put pen to paper. But Robin, who welcomed her second child in July, knows that's easier said than done.
"I think back to when I was nine or 10 years old," Robin told E! News in an exclusive interview. "I tried 20 times in my life to start a 'Dear Diary' moment, I thought it was going to be like a Judy Blume book or something and it never materialized."
But a decade later, Robin credits the practice—which she admitted to starting "accidentally"—for helping her leave behind her career as a lawyer to pursue her passion for fitness.
"Just in an effort to reclaim my agency, I set a 10-minute recurring calendar appointment that blocked time, so that the other partners at the firm couldn't plan a meeting," she shared. "And it was in that time that I actually started journaling. My first journal was a legal pad."
An avid runner, Robin initially "grew to love and appreciate the stillness" that came from journaling, something she considers an essential aspect of a wellness routine, along with movement, and proper sleep.
"It serves two purpose," Robin explained. "It's cathartic and it allows us to release. It also should hold up mirrors to things that we want reflected back at us."
For the Swagger Society founder, that means a range of entries.
"Some of the things I write, they turn into a business idea or an email to my team," she detailed. "And then some of the other stuff is frustration, angst, anxiety, like that self-conscious version of myself that I can leave on the page.
"I realized as a runner and as an athlete, I could hold onto the process with a loose grip," Robin continued. "Once I allowed journaling to come naturally and less this work of art that I perceived it to be back in the day, I found a lot of freedom in it."
When it came to creating Welcome, Hustler, Robin wanted to help those who might be intimidated by the "paralyzing fear" of a blank page, including prompts, graphics, mantras and even her own personal journal entries as a guide.
"I encourage people to jump around and see what threads you want to pull on," the two-time New York Times bestselling author encouraged. "If there's a page and you don't like it, rip it out. Burn it! This is meant to be a living, breathing document. It's meant to go with you on your different chapters."
And the journal isn't just intended for your fitness journey, as Robin credited manifestation for her marriage, revealing she wrote out the traits she desired in a partner before meeting her husband, Drew.
"It wasn't really based on looks, and, of course, I wanted to be attracted to my husband," she detailed, "but I wanted to release the form and I wanted to really focus on how I feel, what our home looks like, what it feels like on a Sunday morning. Those qualities are what I really focused on."
Robin applies the same thought process to her business, working "to envision what would success look and feel like beyond a title or a bottom line," she said. "That allows me to dig a little deep with the details."
As Robin puts it, "someone who is willing to manifest with specificity and then work their ass off to achieve is a lethal combination."
Need proof?
"I literally manifested my wellness job at Peloton and the adjacent businesses that I have started since," she said. "That was coming home late from work as a lawyer, writing down things I wished and hoped I could get paid to do. And that's my life ten years later."
Not that Robin is done hustling yet, revealing she's in a "rebuilding phase" postportem now that 2-month-old son Atlas has joined older sister Athena, 2.
"One of the biggest things that called to me was the idea that it just takes one match to light a fire," she said of her current mantra. "There are so many moments where I'm physically fatigued and I find myself grasping for creative energy just because I am sleep deprived and stuff that felt easy in my third trimester of pregnancy doesn't feel easy right now. But I remind myself it just takes one spark. Keep showing up and discover what version of yourself is willing to light the fire today. Sometimes it's a spark, sometimes it's a blaze, and I give myself that permission, even though it's not easy."
To fuel that fire means committing to her wellness routines as an essential aspect of her self-care, especially as a busy mother of two and businesswoman.
"We have specifically arranged childcare for my husband and I for the 60 to 90 minutes where we need our workouts," she shared. "It's a requirement of our household that more days than not, we have that time. And that is something we are literally financially investing in with childcare because it is everything. It is literally how I can be a partner, a parent, a businessperson. That's the ground floor."
And whatever your foundation may be—whether it's a workout or grabbing a coffee with a friend—feel free to ignore any critics.
"That is such rubbish that we have to explain ourselves," Robin said of the pressure put on parents. "When you are away from your kids, you're neglecting them. When you're with them too much, you're not as fun as you used to me. You can't win, so if you are going to disappoint someone, at least make yourself proud so that you can be defensible when you look at your reflection in the mirror."
Or when you put your pen to paper.
Welcome, Hustler is available wherever you buy books.
veryGood! (844)
Related
- McConnell absent from Senate on Thursday as he recovers from fall in Capitol
- Give Them Cozy With Lala Kent’s Affordable Winter Fashion Picks
- Pro Volleyball Federation launches with first match in Omaha: How to watch, what are teams
- More than 70 are dead after an unregulated gold mine collapsed in Mali, an official says
- Pregnant Kylie Kelce Shares Hilarious Question Her Daughter Asked Jason Kelce Amid Rising Fame
- Environmentalists Rattled by Radioactive Risks of Toxic Coal Ash
- EU Parliament’s environmental committee supports relaxing rules on genetically modified plants
- Bachelor Nation's Susie Evans and Justin Glaze Reveal They're Dating: Here's How Their Journey Began
- North Carolina justices rule for restaurants in COVID
- Who are No Labels’ donors? Democratic groups file complaints in an attempt to find out
Ranking
- What were Tom Selleck's juicy final 'Blue Bloods' words in Reagan family
- Cease-fire efforts for Israel-Hamas war gain steam. But an agreement still appears elusive
- Oreo's new blue-and-pink Space Dunk cookies have popping candies inside
- Melissa Gilbert on anti-aging, Modern Prairie and the 'Little House' episode that makes her cry
- The Louvre will be renovated and the 'Mona Lisa' will have her own room
- Groundwater Levels Around the World Are Dropping Quickly, Often at Accelerating Rates
- Experiencing racism may physically change your brain
- Daniel Will: AI Wealth Club Guides You on Purchasing Cryptocurrencies.
Recommendation
EU countries double down on a halt to Syrian asylum claims but will not yet send people back
Daniel Will: Historical Lessons on the Bubble of the U.S. Stock Market
'Barbie' invites you into a Dream House stuffed with existential angst
Sri Lanka passes bill allowing government to remove online posts and legally pursue internet users
The company planning a successor to Concorde makes its first supersonic test
South Korea says North Korea has fired several cruise missiles into the sea
Jennifer Lopez shimmies, and Elie Saab shimmers, at the Paris spring couture shows
He left high school to serve in WWII. Last month, this 96 year old finally got his diploma.