Be a REBEL with Bradley Rose

**This episode contains explicit language**

Picture this: You are an actor at the pinnacle of your career, and life throws you a curveball. You have a stroke. That’s what happened to our guest, Bradley Rose. Today, he's a Peloton instructor, motivating thousands with his story of resilience.  He has amassed a tremendous following and fanbase with this Rose's Rebels.

In this episode, Bradley shares his transformative journey from the world of acting to fitness instruction and how he turned the adversity of a stroke into a source of strength and inspiration. He not only faced this situation but has emerged as a beacon for others navigating life-altering events.

He talks about the beautiful community that he has built and how their support has been instrumental in his recovery. But that's not all. Bradley's rebellious spirit shines through as he shares how he navigated his limitations, emphasizing the importance of authenticity and taking action in life.

Now, what if every day you took one small step towards personal growth? Bradley shares how small actions played a significant role in building his self-esteem and creating positive momentum in his life. His story is a testament to overcoming adversity, staying authentic, and harnessing the power of community. So, whether you're a fitness enthusiast, someone working through a significant life event, or simply looking for a dose of inspiration, this conversation with Bradley Rose is one you cannot afford to miss.

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About my guest: Bradley Rose is a Peloton Instructor and teaches cycling classes from Peloton Studios London.  Prior to joining Peloton, Bradley spent the last ten years in the USA, working as an actor, appearing in both films and TV shows. Alongside his work within the entertainment industry, Bradley is a boxing fan and was formerly a boxing instructor in New York City. A big believer that life is an adventure and shouldn’t be taken too seriously, Bradley’s unique British charm and eternally optimistic attitude is guaranteed to keep Members smiling through his classes on the Peloton Bike.

@bradley_rose23 / @onepeloton / @pelotonstudios

In May Peloton announced the start of the company’s next chapter as it repositions from the perception of an in-home bike company to reflect everything Peloton has to offer to everyone, at any level, wherever they are.

The app offers 16 class modalities from cycling, strength training, and rowing to meditation, yoga, outdoor conte

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

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Speaker 1: 0:48

Well, welcome back to the One Big Thing podcast. I'm Steve Campbell, your host. This is going to be another exciting episode today. Again, to all of you that have been listening to this journey, I so appreciate the feedback that you've given about the episodes that we've had, and having people from all walks of life is going to give you a lot of diversity as a listener to take practical insights that can help you ultimately move the ball forward in your life.

Speaker 1: 1:11

And when I'm sourcing who I want to come on this show I think I've mentioned a number of times I'm pretty particular about the kind of guests I want to have, and usually they are people that, first and foremost, inspire me. So today's guest is no different. I am very excited that I've had personal interactions through a different way with my guest today. But I want to introduce to the One Big Thing podcast studio Bradley Rose, peloton instructor and extraordinaire, larger than life personality and somebody that has helped me in my own fitness journey, through the Peloton app and using the bike, achieve my goals that I had and I had reached out to him and said I'd love to have you on this show for who you are as a person, outside of being an instructor, to kind of talk with me today on this podcast, to inspire and courage other. So, bradley, welcome to the One Big Thing, welcome if you want to take just a few minutes here and give us a high level overview of kind of who you are and what you do.

Speaker 2: 2:06

Well, thank you so much for having me here today. It's awesome to speak to you and all your listeners. So a high level view is I work for Peloton, not just a bike company. Check them out for running, rowing, strength training. They've got you covered. Whatever you may be looking for, I'm fundamentally a bike instructor and have been at the company for coming on three years right now, and it's awesome to be here. It was kind of like a bit of a shock to transition from what I was doing as an actor to this, but I've loved every step of my journey with the company and it's honestly one of the best places I could have found myself at.

Speaker 1: 2:58

Well, I think the amazing thing about being alive in 2023 is maybe how reachable people are today. 15, 20 years ago, if you had a health instructor, fitness instructor, maybe you would send them a letter in the mail or hope that you could call customer service and speak to them. But now, because of Facebook and Instagram, and especially with you guys as Peloton instructors, you all have social media followings, and when I had signed up to give everybody a little bit of a backstory, when my wife and I had moved to Tennessee two years ago, she had been telling me over and over how the one thing that she wanted was a Peloton bike and so started doing my research, was able to get it as a welcome home first gift to the house. I had never used a bike I actually had struggled with stationary bikes, but with the Peloton it was such a different experience for me.

Speaker 1: 3:48

And when you sign on to the app, you can choose your different styles of workout, the length of workout, and then there's this thing called coaches or instructors, which I knew nothing about.

Speaker 1: 3:58

So you just start clicking on a few of them and what I quickly found is that you were one of the coaches that, I think, really helped me that when you're finishing up a strength training workout to get on the bike, your energy, your persona, the way you are whether there are people in your studio or you are in a room by yourself just bopping the music your energy is just so infectious that I thought I don't know if you're ever going to respond to me when I send you a message.

Speaker 1: 4:27

But if you do, I think you and I could have a lot of fun together. So here we are. There's so much that I want to unpack because you have an incredible story outside of what you do for a living that I think you, like many of my guests, are going to really help a lot of people today with the stories you're going to share. But before we even kind of jump into that main crux, there was a little bit that you shared in your intro about being an actor, some of your background. You want to share some of your background and kind of how you got to where you are today.

Speaker 2: 4:59

Yeah, of course. So I started off as an actor. I'd been living in America for the past 15 years, went out there for a role and then sort of got management and got an agent and just kept sort of booking work. It was every sort of like every couple of years I'd be like, oh, maybe I should be going back and then I'd book something else which would keep me there. And so I was very fortunate to have worked as an actor and be in the industry and I love it.

Speaker 2: 5:37

I loved acting, so that was sort of my sort of bread and butter, which I think obviously helps with Peloton, hands down is, you know, you're in front of an audience and you speak into members and I think that's it's conjoining. I think the best parts of acting and fitness which I've loved as a child I was the sporty kid drama and sport were my thing. If it was had anything. Anything else it was like wasn't into science, wasn't into maths, but yeah, it was always something to do. That's what I've always liked to sort of look at my, my passions as. So when Peloton came along, it was sort of a blending of the best parts of what I wanted to do and yeah, it was. It was.

Speaker 2: 6:26

So I had to go back. I'd actually spoken to Cody Rigsby Everyone knows Cody Rigsby, that cheeky little man, love him. Um, he messaged. I used to work near him and he tried to sort of get me to come join Peloton, maybe five, maybe seven years ago. And I was like no darling, I'm an actor like, of course, not knowing really much about Peloton at the time and stuff, but we'd stayed friends and yeah, when he called me just before the pandemic and I was sort of flat, like waiting to what the hell's going to go on, stuck in an apartment, not knowing sort of what I'm going to do in my life, alan will give me locked down and the opportunity came up again and I jumped at it and never looked back. It's been, honestly, one of the greatest decisions I've done. So, yeah, that's a little bit of my backstory. I don't know if that's. I know you probably want me to talk about my stroke, but I don't know if you want to get to that.

Speaker 1: 7:29

And we'll get into that to a minute. But we're going to have listeners that have never been on a Peloton. They may not know you from the next person. So Cody Rigsby is a fellow Peloton coach.

Speaker 2: 7:39

So if you get on the couch, he's the, he's the creme de la creme, that man Sorry.

Speaker 1: 7:45

He's the. Don't show me. Sorry, I changed over there.

Speaker 2: 7:49

You did sure change him. I'm watching what your number now is great. I love him. So that's why I was great about him.

Speaker 1: 7:54

Were you both in New York City at the time. Is that how you kind of met was through the circuit or where did you guys like? How do coaches connect like that?

Speaker 2: 8:05

I can't really recall how we connected. It's weird, I used to work near him, that's all, and I went for another fitness studio rumble boxing and that's kind of how we connected. But obviously my passion was acting and I wanted to just keep doing that. So at the time it was, this Peloton was a full time job and I was not willing to sort of give up my sort of lifetime career and passion and like dreams were all into acting. So at that time, five, six years ago, I was not willing to sort of come over to fitness full time.

Speaker 1: 8:44

Yeah Well, you've obviously made what you said was the best decision of your life, because in leading up to this podcast today with any of my guests, some of them I know very closely, intimately, some of them have been acquaintances, some of them are just people that have made a tremendous influence on my life. But I always try to be a good guest or a good host by doing my due diligence and kind of finding out their passions and their background. And I think one of the things that really resonated with me about you is the larger than life impact that you've been able to make as an instructor by discovering some of your fan bases and fan pages, the roses rebels and I have to give a shout out to them today because again, and doing my research, I wanted to learn more. I learned about your background in acting. I'd learned about your background in boxing, which I thought was incredible and fascinating and kind of read a little bit about that. But this group you have been able to galvanize people, some of them of all different fitness levels, through this roses rebels that view you as their Sherpa, which I heard over and over again, which I love that term since being on a bike and in, kind of just from a background, following through some of the things that you know roses rebels post. First of all, they're all about you, bradley Rose, but two, it's more. The impact and I think what's so cool to see as a fly on the wall is when they're posting their you know, post-cycling stats. They didn't feel like getting on the bike but through the 20, 30, 40 minutes that they were willing to put forth, you helped them get through it and one of them said that they've been riding for 81 weeks straight because of your encouragement and inspiration.

Speaker 1: 10:27

But you know, your roses rebels wouldn't have a fan base if your journey wasn't what it was and what led you to this point in your life. So you know, I want to give you kind of the space as my guest to share. You know we call this the one big thing podcast because we try to give people not these very vague just be better. You know, take life by the horns kind of ideas that like what do you do with it? Post one of these shows. But let's get real about practical insights, things you've learned that have been a part of your journey, that somebody listening can say wow, that's really good. That's something I can actually take away is make a part of my life to move the ball forward. So the rest of this time I want to leave open to you to see where you want to take this conversation, leading up to the things that you've learned in life and I think it kind of starts with what you and I were talking, leading up to the show of part of your experience.

Speaker 2: 11:21

Yeah, I mean big shout out again to the roses rebels. It's amazing that we have such a great group, and one of the things about Peloton and when I'm on the bike is I'm always saying to jump in. A lot of people are sort of nervous about getting involved and you know, just taking classes on demand, I'm like, get to the live classes, join one of the groups, and I'm not like one of these instructors either, is like you've got to join only my class. I only take my classes, join only my groups. I'm very much like take all the instructors, find who works for you, because there's going to be people that you love on the Peloton platform. There's going to be people that you don't like, and that's the thing is, I cannot be everything for everyone, and that's okay. I'm, you know, just I'm happy to build a community and that's what I'm trying to do. Is I look at this as you're not just at home sat on a stationary bike alone. You're there with a group of friends, you know. You're there with your mom, you're there with a mate. You're there with you know someone that you've met online and through those connections they're going to, they're going to also help support you to get on the bike to get into fitness when you don't want to do it.

Speaker 2: 12:40

And everybody wakes up and has days that they do not want to do it. Even me as an instructor, right as I can tell you, there are days. I sit on that bike and I go fucking what the fuck am I going to do? I've got no energy. I feel exhausted. I'm so tired, like how am I going to pull through? What am I? How have I got to get through this? And oftentimes it will be in the green room. I'll sit there on my phone and I'll go through my inbox and I'll see messages written to me or people will have a conversation or have a question to me and that sort of sparks my sort of that fire inside. That stokes that fire inside that gets me going. That gets me sort of like okay, there is a reason I'm doing this. I'm not just sat in a studio with a camera speaking to no one. And that's the thing is is people think it's going to be a lonely experience because they're not in a gym, because they're not in a group fitness setting, because they're not there with their friends. But I think it is the complete opposite is you get to be there with people. Yes, you're interacting in a different way, but the world's completely changed, where we interact with each other, and so I'm always like send out that message on instagram, join a community, get part of the rose rebels.

Speaker 2: 13:52

I love the rose rebels because they respond, they speak to people, they let you know what's going on. You have enough time. Come take this ride. I'll ride with you, you know, and that's sometimes what we need is we need that friend or that crutch or someone who's sort of pushing us to To do that thing that we don't want to do.

Speaker 2: 14:13

I love the social aspect of it as well. My wife's into social media and I'm big on social media and I don't just always say it. I'm not gonna sit there and you send me a message and it's just gonna go in my inbox and I'm never gonna look at it. I will, and I have responded to 100% of everyone that is ever come to my class, even even you know yourself. You send me messages and I'll respond to you. Sometimes I even over time. Maybe just a heart or maybe like thank you so much or amazing work, but it's.

Speaker 2: 14:48

I think it's that acknowledgement of that someone seeing what you've done, that someone seeing what you've said, and it's not just going out into the ether and getting lost or not seen, and it's I, once again, it's community base. One is this is a community if you can come to the classes and see, see me face to face awesome. If you're over in Detroit, you're over in LA, you're over in Germany, send me a message, awesome. Great. We can chat how things going, what's going on, like, how would you find the class. But again, it's.

Speaker 2: 15:22

You know, a lot of people say social media is taken the sort of like our interactions, what in one aspect, away from, from all our sort of lifestyle. But I, without it, you know, I wouldn't be able to speak to people in LA or Germany and see what they're up to and what's going on and what classes are taking, what they like, what they don't like. And again, it's, it's. I think it's wonderful. A lot of people nervous about social media, people scared, people don't like it, each to their own. But I think it's a great tool if used right.

Speaker 1: 16:00

Well, I'm thinking about a couple of things, so I want to give a couple of acknowledgments. Here you have one of your roses rebel, nadine, who said that she's very excited to listen to this podcast. She's just a big fan of yours. But she said please let him know how much he makes us smile and he's so motivating on the bike and that he always kindly responds to our direct messages on Instagram. He's truly amazing and a caring human being, and this was one of fifty responses I got from your roses rebels about. You know, please acknowledge how, how alive he makes me feel and, I think, the one thing that peloton has figured out.

Speaker 1: 16:38

For those that have never been on a bike before, I'm just trying to give you a visual of what happens. Like you said, you're usually in your home or somewhere getting on a bike by yourself and you're logging on and you basically have a small TV screen in front of you and you have the ability to go through the app and pick the style of workouts and for some people it's probably very intimidating because fitness has never been a part of their life, so maybe they're trying it for the first time. But once you get into these communities, you have things called leaderboards, which is basically just letting you know who else somewhere in the world in that given time is also on their peloton bike In this workout with you and attracts all of your metrics and how you're doing. But one of the coolest things is that in the moments when you feel like God, my legs are burning, I can't keep going, does anybody care? You got great music playing. Peloton has these very cool notifications on the left hand side from fellow people taking your class and you get these little messages throughout your ride. You know that. You know somebody gave you a high five or celebrating you and it does something for you. It does something because it's never been easier in a world of social media where everybody is reachable, like we talked about, but people have never probably felt more isolated in their life.

Speaker 1: 17:51

The world has gone through a lot of experiences in the last few years that I always say it's like drinking out of a fire hose. We are all still trying to figure out how, how and why relationships have changed. Why I can be in a room full of people and still feel really lonely in. What these little things do on the peloton is they make you realize you're not alone, even if it's just a user username of somebody you've never met before, but they're high fiving you as we were thinking about the show. You don't always get that, even in the workplace or within family or within friend networks, where somebody just gives you a high five just for being you and being alive and showing up today. So many people that tune into the show might have prolific jobs, careers, they love what they do, but they feel alone. Maybe they have great friendships or none at all, and they feel alone.

Speaker 1: 18:41

What peloton that word community has been able to do and why I wanted to really acknowledge this group that follows you. The one thing that I was just really amazed by is how impassioned they were, not just for you as an instructor, for the difference you've made before each other, whether it was somebody posting a picture of them self, post workout in the number of hearts and comments and keep it going, and I want to ride with you. You've been able to cultivate something very cool that I think many of us long for in this world today, which is a sense of belonging. Even if it's just for 30 minutes at a time when I sign on to my peloton, I feel like I'm a part of something bigger than myself, so I want to acknowledge you and give you kudos that so many of these fans that follow you nuts to ski. Says we love our Sherpa there's a go Preds hockey here. Says I love Bradley. I'm so excited to hear from him. Linda says that I love him and I can't wait to hear from him.

Speaker 1: 19:41

You you have been able to transcend being more than just a coach. You're a big part of these people's life and so you know it. Almost. It almost didn't happen, though, right, and that was kind of one thing that you and I talked about. So do you want to? We see you today. We see you on screen. You look great. You're in these. If you go on a peloton, you're going to see how active you are with all the classes. But it almost didn't happen. So do you want to do you want to talk through kind of what the past several years have been and some of the things that maybe you've experienced?

Speaker 2: 20:14

Yeah, of course. So I, four years ago, 2019, just before the pandemic I had a stroke. I had two holes in my heart and a blood clot went through to my brain and put me on my ass for a long, long time and it was actually just just before we went into the pandemic. I've sort of made my recovery and come back and was sort of what I thought was normal and back to or back to normal, but I really wasn't. Even today I'm still not back to normal, but yeah, so that was sort of the massive life change of having a stroke and then the sort of the consequences, but it was the having to, having to deal with a stroke and I say that and kind of I'm ignoring how to say it is I work for a company that didn't give us health care in America, so when I had the stroke and the doctor was like this is going to cost you about three hundred thousand dollars, I was just like, oh, I don't have that money, like what are we going to do? I was obviously very lucky that I was still paying tax in the UK so I was able to come back to England and get the sort of stroke the holes, holes in my heart fixed and the rehabilitation I needed. But yeah, so I was very fortunate in one sense. But, yeah, so I was very fortunate in one sense, but yeah, it was tough on the other side that you know, a lot of fitness companies are not offering their employees or instructors health care, which is crazy. And at a young age again I was. I was like twenty, nine, thirty, and I was like you know what, I'm not going to be spending a thousand dollars on health care. I'm thirty years old, I'm in fitness, I'm the healthiest I've ever been. I feel great, like why am I spending this money? We'll get health care down the line, like we don't need it right now, and then, of course, that's when it strikes. So, yeah, it was double edged, sort of having to navigate, having a stroke in America and then finally getting that help back in England that I needed to sort of get things fixed. But it isn't just fixing the hot, that's. The crazy thing is I was like, oh, once my holes in my heart are fixed, that's it. I'll be good to go and back out there and it's.

Speaker 2: 23:00

It's been a learning process every step of the way and even even now, four years in, I'm still learning about myself, my disabilities, my issues that I have that have come up, that I have to now sort of navigate the world in a completely different way to sort of I used to sort of just getting up doing what I want to do. Now it's a lot harder, but you know I'm very fortunate to be here. I'm very fortunate to be still walking around. You know, I was in hospital with people that lost complete mobility, had completely lost the way they spoke. You know, it depends where the stroke hit the blood clot, hit your brain, of what happens. So in some senses I'm very, very fortunate and then in other senses I'm not. And sometimes you, like you said, is just because I'm sat on a bike and I've started to talk about it a little bit more.

Speaker 2: 24:03

But it was a tough scenario because I told Pella talk, that was a big thing. Is you get hired by a fitness company, and then I sat there and I was like I've got. What was actually wasn't me is my wife was the one who was like you have to tell them that you've had a stroke. You just can't like lie to them. You can't sort of like hide this. You'll be able to hide it for a while and then they're gonna start being like what's wrong with him, what's going on here, like all these issues, like you can only hide that for so long and then that's a scary thing, right is?

Speaker 2: 24:38

You got this big opportunity, you got this big job, and then you have to say, but guys, I've had a stroke, I'm pretty much back to normal. I look at myself now as being 90 to 95% back to normal, but there are bits missing that I would never get back. But I think I can do the job. And they turned around and I literally once I told them they were like okay, let us discuss this, and you know, obviously I think they want to do their due diligence of what it means for them. And they came back and they were like they still wanted to hire me, which is a huge thing because they could have easily just been like hell, no, we can't take the risk or you know, all that sort of worry of what someone's gonna think. You know they could have said anything. So I was very fortunate that you know they took me on and they've helped me out when I've had an issue. They've helped make me. For example, I struggle with mornings and they've been accommodating and helping push my call times a little later and stuff like that. So if there is ever an issue, I know that I can be open and honest and I know that I'm actually getting listened to, instead of it being like fucking hell, the guys out of strokes got a problem again.

Speaker 2: 26:02

Here we go. How do we have to solve it now? That's everyone's fear. Right, you don't want to be the problem, but it's always looked at as like okay, what can we do to help? How can we help? Let us see if we can help. And that is refreshing from a company standpoint. I haven't heard it anywhere else, especially for a fitness company. It sounds crazy when you think the fitness company have just hired a guy who's had a stroke. It's insanity. But it's worked out and that's why I'm unbelievably grateful.

Speaker 1: 26:38

Well, just being a fly on the wall and listening to your story. First of all is your wife's name, sophia. Yes, sophia, she's a rock star in and of herself, so she is a boss. Thank you to all the wives that get us to tell the truth and be forecoming. So our wives and our spouses are the ones that you know.

Speaker 1: 26:59

Bradley, you should probably say something, especially going into a pretty prolific health position where your heart probably is important. You know that's probably a detail you don't want to overpass. So kudos to you, sophia, for being there. But even thinking about you know just what you went through in health. You know a lot of our listeners tend to be in their 30s and 40s. We got people from singles, kind of discovering themselves, to married couples, to young parents with kids and health care is a huge part of that, and there are a lot of young people. There's not always necessarily a blueprint for all of us as to how to do certain things.

Speaker 1: 27:41

So in your case, you were, I believe, a fitness instructor in New York City teaching boxing at the time, from what I've gathered, and the assumption is you were probably in the peak position of your life that the thought is you're doing so many preventative things now with your body to prevent the unforeseen coming. But that's one of the consequences of life is there's things that we can never plan for, that can cause disruptions or cause all of us to vice-crisis moments. And there's probably listeners today who have gone through a health condition that was never on the radar in their life and it has rocked themselves, rock their marriage, rock their family. So I believe you were married at the time, or with Sophia, but do you want to? What was that process like for you, going from somebody that was so healthy to kind of just the onset in what? Like? What were the things that you just had to work through or experience it that you could have never planned for?

Speaker 2: 28:44

well, yeah, once again, a massive shout out to my wife. She the way that she's, in all honesty, dealt with me because it was dark. It was really dark times at the beginning of having the stroke and I can only imagine that I was just an absolute fucking nightmare to live with. But the thing is I don't remember a lot of it. You know, she always she always brings up one story of just how simple like my, my brain wasn't quite working and it's just like the way I'd forget things and then just have these huge outbursts of a sort of emotion and anger and like confusion and it was, it was.

Speaker 2: 29:27

It was really tough and for someone to sort of stand by me and be there every step of the way is just been honestly amazing. I mean, whilst whilst she's also taken the, the at that time the brunt of, obviously I didn't have my salary coming in, so she was working full-time trying to keep that afloat, trying to keep our apartment in New York so paid off and bills and stuff like that. So she had a lot going on. So, yeah, she's she honestly the rock to to me really. So I'm so thankful to her and I can only imagine a lot of other people sort of just walking away and getting rid of me because, yeah, I, if what I imagine, if how much I was a nightmare, I could only imagine it being a billion times worse. So I don't know if that answered the question and I forgot what else you said.

Speaker 1: 30:20

I mean that's, that's a part of it. We always think that being a full-time care provider is for our aging parents or a grandparent or somebody who's towards the end of their life and you know. But sometimes people are thrust into. You get married, you say your vows to the love of your life that you'll be there through sickness and health, and no one is ever. There's no calendar that says you know, in five, six years you're gonna be rocked with a stroke or sickness. That is going to change who you are as a person. You didn't want to change, you didn't ask to change, but it's the reality of your situation that you went through a really big health effect and there's a lot of, there's a lot of spouses that are just silent heroes behind the scenes when they are trying to carry the load of keeping things afloat and the big thing.

Speaker 1: 31:08

I would say to any listener that's out there today, if you, like Sophia, kind of found yourself in a position where the love of your life has gone through a health concern, just recognize that you probably need some care or some help to you. You probably need somebody that you can reach out to and confide in, that can build you up, because while you are trying to pick up the pieces and make sense of the fact that you know you were going through something and what in the world is going on and like, how are we gonna get through this? She was probably feeling the effects of it on herself, and what I have experienced in my day-to-day life and my job is that when you are thrust into the position of being a caregiver whether it's for an aging parent or literally your spouse or a child with special needs or whatever it may be that the most care that's probably needed is for yourself, because you can't give out what you're not being filled up with. And so for the listeners that are out there today, if you find yourself in that position, hopefully Bradley story can resonate that it's not the end of the story, right, and that's the big part of having this conversation with you today, because we see, if you sign on the bike today, this, this amazingly fun person in a studio on a bike who plays incredible playlist. By the way, I mean I I've really developed the word bop into my language just from listening to you on this bike and so you're this fun personality that I've connected with.

Speaker 1: 32:29

But I think the cool part of having this outlet for myself as a podcaster is when you and I were talking about this show leading up to it. I want people to almost get an inside view as to what a cup of coffee or tea would look like between the two of us if we were just catching up right, if we were just sitting down and saying, man, talk to me about what that was like for you. What did you learn? What's been the process where you had today? What do you need help with? Not that you need to go into all of that, but that's what true friendship is, that's what helping one another is. So I mean, even from what you went through with the stroke which if no one knew you today they probably wouldn't have assumed it's your age that strokes were even common among younger people but that's the thing, and I've got to say that is that's.

Speaker 2: 33:14

That's the crazy thing, right is, when anyone ever thinks about a stroke, they think of someone old, mm-hmm. But there's something around I think was around 25% I don't know if this is in England or America or if it's a general statistic is 25% of stroke people that have a stroke are under the age of I think it was 35 Wow, which is a crazy statistic, and that's that's. The thing is, I'd never been taught about it, I'd never heard about it, I'd never learned about it, and it's like and that's why it's part of a learning process is I'd never even I never really understood what a stroke was. What I thought a stroke was was an old person who had a slight slurred speech or couldn't move part of their body, and it was disabled in one, one way or another. And while, yes, I'm disabled in certain aspects and it's it's, I think, trying to bring a light to you the fact that this happens way more often.

Speaker 2: 34:15

And every doctor we went to and I must have seen about 20, 30 doctors and they all said this is actually common for young people to have, which was shocking because I expected them, I expected this to be like. This never happens. This is so rare. This is an old person thing and they were like no, it's actually like a common thing. When you're born you have a hole in your heart and it usually closes, but then 25% of people that hole never closes and the more you learn about it and do research on it it was. It was kind of sort of crazy and enlightening to sort of hear this and I'm like everyone sort of knows the steps of cancer and heart attacks and stuff like that, but it's never did I sort of learn about strokes and how it's such a has a high percentage of hitting people even at a young age 25%, crazy.

Speaker 1: 35:12

Well, and I know, I know and I'm not trying to throw a curveball because we didn't necessarily go into this, but just as I'm listening to you I mean you, obviously we know where you are today, but has there been any other, not side effects from health, but just you went through this stroke. You learned that a lot of younger people, a quarter of young people, develop a stroke. Has there been any community of fellow people your age that you've learned or connected with or that have listened to your story and reached out to you Like, has this opened you up in any way, as you kind of learned about not just this field but health in general, or any surprises that have come along the way?

Speaker 2: 35:52

Yeah, I think. I think a lot of people usually are pretty shocked when they've heard they've had a stroke and that's a lot of things is. I've mentioned it in a bunch of classes and so if someone takes it they're like oh my God, I didn't know you had a stroke, I can't believe that. Or I just had a stroke. Or a lot of the time I'll get a message being like my husband had a stroke, or partner or someone like that has just had a stroke, like is this normal? Is this happened for you? And like we're trying to do it, like I get a lot of outreach in that sense. But I think that's once again is is opening that door and listening and and just finding out what's going on in other people's lives is is is help. Is help me sort of learn about my own issues and once again see how lucky I am in some senses and how unlucky I am on other senses. But yeah, if I open my inbox now, pretty much every time I do, there's usually someone that says that they've known someone or had someone who's had a stroke or which is is always pretty crazy, but it is a learning process. It isn't. It isn't one of those things, that there's one color and this is what it's going to be. It's, you know, the brain's crazy little thing, and where it hits is where the blood clot hits in your brain is, you know, pot luck. So everyone's going to deal with their own issues and their own problems from it, but it's, you know, trying to turn that round into a positive. You know I always look at that.

Speaker 2: 37:20

Now is, some days are awful, some days I feel like I can't do anything, some days I feel completely downtrodden and beaten up. And why did this happen to me? And you know why can't I go back to normal? And but you know it's. It's also, I think you know, changed my life for again, positives and negatives. So I so it's a weird one, it really is. I wouldn't be where I am now if I hadn't had the stroke. But then there's, you know, sometimes you sit there and you go, but you know it's hard to say is when I got to is is because of the stroke, and I'm really happy where I am. But you know, would I? You know, would I want to have the stroke? Of course not, it's. It's one of these tough sort of things. I don't know if that makes sense it's kind of blurry to me.

Speaker 2: 38:19

Sometimes even when I'm talking about it is I get I don't know quite how to somebody explain, because I battle with that a lot, right, is? You know? Some days I feel top of the form, this is great, it's amazing. And then some days, like everyone right, everyone feels that is some days you just feel awful and terrible and wise is happening, yeah.

Speaker 1: 38:42

Well, I think that's, I think that's no, I think that's the key from your story. And first of all, let me just, as the as the host of the show, thank you for being honest and transparent. Right, that just even you sharing that some days it's just, it's just too much, right, but you have to keep going because there's people that depend on you. There may be people that have been following your journey that have never heard the rawness of that type of conversation, because they just see the guy who runs into the studio and gives high fives and is the leading Sherpa for people and all the things that you do that we've already talked about. But I think why I love this story and getting to know you is how many people you're going to help, because every guest has shared that and what they've come to realize is that many times, it's the setbacks in life that are actually are set ups, and it sounds really weird to say, but whether it's a health concern, whether it's a you are fired from a job which launched you into your new job, or a relationship broken or you had an estranged relationship, if you, if we're all being honest, when we look at those situations that none of us asked for. There is sometimes many good things that came from it that none of us would have ever asked for. But it's those experiences and I think what's cool for you is this person of influence. It makes you relatable, right?

Speaker 1: 40:00

If you have somebody who is signing on to Peloton for the first time or the 100th time, or you know, we did have a 500th rider that mentioned us. So kudos to you If you are this character to them on a screen, that's healthy. And they felt like man. They didn't even feel like getting on the bike. They ate terrible food all last week. They don't feel good about themselves. They have body dysphoria. They don't feel beautiful, they don't feel handsome. Now they're signing on to this bike and in pops, this energetic coach who's like, let's get after today.

Speaker 1: 40:36

There can be a dissonance or distance between. Of course he feels that way, right, he's. He does this all the time. He gets paid to do this. I don't feel I got to go to work later today or I got to go raise my kids, but by you sharing the stories of your stroke, there's probably people that when they hear that you went through that, feel connected to you in a way that they might Not have ever had the ability to do that.

Speaker 1: 41:03

That this following that you have doesn't just happen, right, because you're, because you're handsome and you've been an actor and you're this fun personality.

Speaker 1: 41:10

It's because, as somebody who reached out to you, you were kind enough, whether it was through an emoji or a response, to even write back in what I think, what we touched about here earlier in the show, is that every human being has the desire to feel recognized and appreciated, and when it's, when it's you on a bike acknowledging a handle of a bike rider and way to go on your so many, a threat or way to push through the amount of energy that that person on that bike is going to feel because Bradley Rose acknowledged them Can can be the difference between them giving up in them keeping going.

Speaker 1: 41:48

And so, even with the way you respond to messages, there's probably people that follow you on Instagram and on social media and they throw a Hail Mary to somebody they've never met before of thank you for being you.

Speaker 1: 42:02

I went through a stroke, I did this, and even if it's just an emoji or a response, can make them feel connected, probably in a way that even within their closest networks of friends, they don't feel connected. And so, to you, I want to thank you for, first of all, coming on the show, but, too, as you're talking about this journey and being open about it, this is what I think we as people need more of today, which is to hear the stories of overcoming, because I know, as you and I were talking about this show, it wasn't like it was an easy road back, because you've talked about that a little bit today. But even I think some of the things that medical professionals had shared with you about you know this stroke and I don't know how much more you want to go into it in the story, but I got to imagine there were some life lessons and takeaways, some some things that you've discovered along the way that maybe, if you want to share, I think it'd be really helpful.

Speaker 2: 42:56

Yeah, but I think that's the thing with the again the members is is the members are everything. Without the members, where a pal of Tom be? And, honestly, where would I be? It's when I had my stroke I'd never felt so alone, I've never felt like so disconnected. And then the pandemic happened, which disconnected everyone else even more.

Speaker 2: 43:20

So when doing this, I was like I need to, I need to create community, I need to know that people can reach out, not just to me, and that's the great thing is with the Rose Rebels is reach out to those people because they're passionate about fitness, they're passionate about bike riding, they've got kids, they've got dogs, they love dogs, they love cat. You know, whatever it is, they'll, there's someone there for you and you can make friends. And honestly, I think one of the hardest things you know I was living in America 15 years. Even coming back to England, moving to London I was kind of like awesome, this is going to be great, I'm going to see all my mates again, we'll be back in London, or my mates moved out of London, they've all got bloody kids. They live hours away. So I was just like I'm really alone, which is kind of strange, and it's like I've got my wife and my family kind of near. But yeah, I was just like you need, we need to like create a community for people to sort of get behind regarding the the health professionals. Yet when I first have my stroke obviously couldn't really move my arm, still have like I don't really feel my arm is like my hand, it just feels numb. So tell that I have on the bike Is I roll my shoulder because sometimes I can't feel it, which is a weird thing that I do. But yeah, they, they said to me like they didn't know where I would like, what I would come back, to what level. They suspect that I'll come back to some sort of like normality. But I'm there.

Speaker 2: 44:57

These most doctors said like, yeah, you're not gonna go back to fitness. Acting is gonna be a massive problem because I was struggling with short term memory loss. I was struggling with just memory. I recall.

Speaker 2: 45:13

So when I did get back, that first thing was I wanted to book an acting job and I wanted to prove to myself that I can be sent a script, I can memorize it in a day, go in the next day under pressure, sit with casting directors, put it out, and I don't know if people know, but one role, holiday, which is a film on hallmark with a renovate, and that was kind of like my From my own sake. I needed to prove to myself that I could do this, because I kept hearing you're really gonna struggle with this. You know this is gonna be really difficult for you. You know, even when I first joined peloton, if you take the first class, as I ever did Look at my body is like I am so tiny, so so tiny. They even my producers were like you gotta stop. Wearing a tank top is kind of weird. That is scrawny. Little British man is on the light. Just wear a T-shirt like it doesn't look like.

Speaker 2: 46:20

Yeah. So then I was like and obviously we're in pandemic, so it wasn't like I just go hit the gym, so I was locked inside. I was like was not much I can do, I haven't got any weights. So like I was like I will bulk up when I can get to the gym again. But I'm, yeah, obviously then going to the thing is, going to the gym Is now, you know, it is a process like I can't just go lift weights like I used to and I'm not the size I used to be in. The next size I can't do. I can't often grip a weight. Sometimes I have to tie a weight around my hand. But yeah, it's. It's some one of the one of those things that just I think, when I was told you can't do this Is I've always been that kind of kid that goes I'm a fucking prove to you that I can do this. The acting teacher you're never gonna. You're never gonna be in a TV show.

Speaker 1: 47:12

Okay, but they're watching one royal family every weekend and that's what we want.

Speaker 2: 47:19

Everyone's always going. We knew he'd make it Always the one we called it.

Speaker 1: 47:25

That's what I always.

Speaker 2: 47:28

But yeah, it's. I think everyone gets hit with adversity and everyone gets hit with people that don't believe in them and like all they get From their beliefs, and I understand what doctors were coming from, like I. It was a long process, it was a long, hard struggle and again, I'm still struggling through, like everyone, is everyone dealing with their own things, whether it's mental or physical. It's, it's something that you know like is definitely with. The mental side of it isn't spoken about so much, although in nowadays there's a lot more talk about mental health, which I think is great, and people being honest and open about their own issues. We just have a talk about that power on which I hosted and we talked about sort of mental health, physical health, and I think it's good that you know. Just, I think, people being listened to.

Speaker 2: 48:22

I think that's one reason I wanted to do the social media sort of Speaking to people. Creating the community is you know when, when I was alone, I wanted someone to talk to. I want something to speak to, someone to respond. I want to join a community. I felt very alone and that's what I've again tried to cultivate here and still I'm trying to do and I don't know if that answer your question yeah, well, you know we're talking pre show.

Speaker 1: 48:48

that with the roses rebels I thought a cool Kind of not in the show was just be a rebel and you had kind of just talked about it too is part of your story, whether it was the stroke or growing up, being interested in acting and having, you know, well meaning authority figures which that was something from episode two of. If you guys are new to the show, didn't listen to Rachel. She had talked about how a lot of her identity was formed from authority figures that spoke things over her, even if it was well meaning, you know, and how that affected her. Something that was said to her in seventh grade, that she would never be an artist, affected her for 25 years until she broke free of that, and so I don't think we always realize that.

Speaker 1: 49:32

Whether it's parents, teachers, acting instructors or just physical limitations, medical professionals, we all have people that I think are trying to do right by us, but they're not a part of our journey. And so being rebellious, not in the way of, like you know, go go out and do something that you shouldn't do, but be, be a rebel in terms of a mindset, even if somebody doesn't tell you so I mean, even along those lines and what you talked about, I loved one royal holiday, because that's one thing with my wife and I I don't know. And I gotta ask you this alright, so you've been in a hallmark when. When does the Christmas holiday start for you? Are you, are you like a post Halloween person? Are you a post Thanksgiving? Are you like July 4th? After July 4th, christmas trees going up for somebody that's been in an actual hallmark none of us have except for you, somebody that's been in a hallmark, when does Christmas start for Bradley Rose?

Speaker 2: 50:25

Look, for me, I'm not. I'm not someone who gets way ahead of it. For me it's December 1st. I'll give it, I'll give it, I'll give it. 2020 30 days of like that's a build into it. You know, in England we've got we don't do Halloween so much in England, although it's becoming a bigger thing. I give it, give it it's. I can't be these. This July thing. It's a bit crazy to me. But filming one whole holiday. The crazy thing is is we had all the snow there and stuff like that, but it was baking hot in July when we filmed it. So we're there with our coats on and scarves outside in like 100 degrees Sweat, literally sweating, trying to do this. So that's something that people don't usually know. But, yeah, it was a great opportunity to go out there and do that.

Speaker 1: 51:16

But isn't that a big? Isn't that a big like realistic metaphor for life? We as consumers get the benefit of turning on run royal holiday and watching what we assume is a movie based on Holiday, december cold weather, but you as actors were in the dead heat. But faking it till you make it or not talking about God, it's so hot in this movie. A lot of our lives as humans is that same thing.

Speaker 1: 51:43

We see what's projected on social media, what people post. We see real, we see shorts. We've never been inundated with so much visual sensation that looks like everyone is happy, everyone is blessed, everyone is living the best life. We don't know that they edited that video for two hours and cut out all the bad parts and, you know, put music to it. So you're in a place of feeling isolated, not you personally, but us as people. We feel lesser than we feel, like no one is Understanding what I'm going through. I feel rejected, I feel alone. I feel her and when I'm scrolling on Instagram, I'm getting stuck in this your paralysis of watching what looks like everyone else Living their best life in. No one sees what I'm dealing with, and especially you bringing up mental health I had.

Speaker 1: 52:31

My oldest brother went through seven years of clinical depression and he was my, my, my boyhood hero and idol. He was my protector, and to see the state mentally that he got into rocked my world as a teenager, to the point that I couldn't help him, I couldn't fix it. I, you know this was the guy that always protected me, and here he was Dealing with something he didn't ask for chemical and balance depression. And until now, though, looking at his life, he helps so many people Because he almost recognizes depressed people when we're out. It's kind of wild. He's got like a spider sense. He can look at someone and know they're depressed and he has a heart of compassion for them.

Speaker 1: 53:13

And so, whether it's a stroke or just being a rebel in life, having the ability to overcome really hard things, no one ever said life was easy, and what I talk about on the show is all the time you get to choose your heart. Parenting is hard, marriage is hard, getting an appellate on bike is hard, but you still do it in. I'm trying to picture, you know, you in the gym with some of the stuff you talked about, because it doesn't seem real to many of us that just kind of see you from afar like. So just sharing these details, I mean even within kind, of some of this story that you've been sharing here, you know, are there other like what's helped you push through these different seasons of life and different scenarios? Whether it's a stroke directing, is it just this inner will that to prove people wrong, or is it?

Speaker 2: 53:59

yeah, the rebel thing the rebel thing came from. I've always been a rebel and I've always been. I've never played by the rules, I've always been. Yeah, I've always been that kid who's always in trouble. Even I'm sure my producers would sit here and they'd be like the amount of shit and fires we have to put out because you're just causing a fucking shit storm over here. But you know, it's and it's not, it's not out of bad nature, it's not out of trying to cause a problem. I just I like to do things my way and you know that's the thing is like. I always say you like what you don't like, that's fine, fine by me. If you like it, great, we'll find. If not, go take one of the other instructors, you'll love it, you'll love them. But just, I think it's just living, living your life and doing what you want to do. Right is.

Speaker 2: 54:52

So having that stroke and go into all that stuff is I suddenly realized just for the first time ever is I was always that kid, was invincible, doing backflips and jumping off buildings and doing crazy stuff and not worrying, and then suddenly having that massive life change was okay, this is, this is serious. You got to sort of like stop worrying about what people think, like what, who the fuck cares what Gladys and in Idaho thinks of your class or what they think of you as a person or what they want you to do? Like we're all consumed with. You know other people's opinions of us and I was just like I just got to get rid of it and I think that's one reason as well is I booked a couple of films after my stroke, pretty quick cuz I walked into the room and I was like fuck it, I'm gonna do what I want to do and you think I love it or hate it, and you know what that's on you. I can't control. Control that. I can just give you what I gonna do. And that's exactly the same way I look at Peloton. And now, this is that way I look in my life.

Speaker 2: 56:02

You know, not everything's your cup of tea and you know you'll find an audience just by being you. Stop being what other people want you to be. What do you really want to be? What do you really want to do? What do you really want to say? You know it's it matters. Everyone has a voice and everyone has an opinion. Like stop hiding it and stop like being an opinion of what someone else wants, like no-transcript.

Speaker 2: 56:33

Now's the chance, say it, do it, do what you want to do, whatever it is, whether that's good or bad, I don't know. But, um, you know, stop waiting, now's the time, because no one things are gonna have a stroke, no one things are gonna get cancer. No, you know, my wife's dad got cancer during the pandemic and died. And you know I suddenly looked at it and people were getting ill around me and I was like what am I waiting for? What am I like? Message the person you want a message. Everyone tells you all you shouldn't do this, why you shouldn't do it. Do it. You know I wouldn't be where I am right now. You know I messaged to Cody on on Instagram.

Speaker 2: 57:12

I think it was like dude, is Palestine still available? Let's like I'd love to join you. And that was what it was just a message on Instagram like hey, don't mate, let's do this, and that's that's where it goes. If you do not put yourself out there, you're just gonna be sad at home. So you know, and stop stop worrying about what anyone's doing on Instagram. You know I get it again as I look at it and I sometimes I'll post stuff and I'm like hard, it's not doing well, but I'm like I don't, I liked it.

Speaker 1: 57:41

Stuff does pretty well. I mean you got, but you're funny. That's one thing I love about you and your wife is it's not just bike riding all the time and like what you do for a living. You guys actually post some pretty fun stuff about you guys on vacation. And one thing I was gonna mention to you too um, my wife and I went to st Lucia for our anniversary and so amazing.

Speaker 1: 58:01

I've been following Sophia on Instagram and I saw that one of her stories was your guys trip to the pitans and seeing all that. So, yeah, I'm a side conversation. You and I will have to talk about the amount of cats that are insane, lucia, because that, to me, was fairly overwhelming for my wife and I. But what I, what I Appreciate about you and what you just said, is you haven't allowed the stroke in what people have said to you, even from what I heard you talk about in another podcast, which we're not gonna get into today, but just what happened with, with family and going through things. You haven't allowed any of those things to define who you are as a person and the roles and responsibilities that I think you feel when you get onto that bike to encourage and when you have members of your classes. You do talk about mental health and taking care of yourself.

Speaker 1: 58:45

So somebody came in hoping to get a 30-minute workout to burn some calories. It in that they got these little nuggets of truth that we all get one shot at this thing called life. We all have one opportunity. There are certain things you can control and certain things you can't. We all need to stop spending times on things that are beyond our control and actually spend a lot of time focusing on the things that we can. And that's the difference is don't let a stroke Hit reset on your life and force you to build from the ground up, if that's what it takes in a story like yours to get you to where you are right. That's not something you ever asked for, but it's allowed you to have this platform and do what you do, but there's so many people out there that are looking for a spark.

Speaker 1: 59:25

Sometimes the sparks not gonna come Brett talked about in my last episode. It takes effort, and so I appreciate you that you didn't allow these things to define you. You're still showing up, you're still inspiring, but you're acknowledging that not every day is easy, but every day is worth fighting for because there's a lot of people going through. You know what you're going through, so I Think, as we, is there any other takeaways, because I always like to end every episode with a stop, start and continue, which we had kind of talked about. But is there anything? Is we talk about this being a rebel or what you've gone through that you want to leave?

Speaker 2: 1:00:02

I would just say just do it and I'm not trying to be a night commercial, but, um, yeah, just just fucking go for it. Like again, you have one life. Send the message, speak to the person, go after what you want to go. It's not gonna be handed to you. But you know, if you don't put yourself in the running or out there it's, it's not gonna be given to you. So you, you got a. You got to kick some fucking doors open and start kicking them down, and then you'll find the one that will work for you.

Speaker 2: 1:00:31

You know not everyone sure you were at something different before you're a podcast host, right and same as me, as I was something different for a Peloton coach. But I kicked every door open and yeah, I was also.

Speaker 1: 1:00:42

I was also in Hallmark, I know, I'm just.

Speaker 1: 1:00:46

Two-year to your point. I had a vision and I talk about why I created the show. I'm real and honest about it all the time. I was in a position of my life where, with four kids under seven years old, with my wife, with running a business outside of podcasting, there was days I sat in my car and I felt absolutely lost with all the roles and responsibilities and the Expectance, the expectancy people depending on me had of me, where I didn't even know how to lead my own life, let alone the lives of all these other People, and I needed encouragement. And so I'm the kind of person who says I can either feel bad for myself or, you know what, I can go give away the thing that I actually need the most, because I gotta believe that if I give away Encouragement to other people, it's gonna fill me back up and it has. And so I reached out to you. Then know you from the next person.

Speaker 1: 1:01:30

Folks, we're on British Standard Time right now. Brad is my first international guest when he says whatever cup of tea in America, we talk about a cup of coffee. But either way, I reached out to you, not knowing if you're ever gonna respond to me, and here we are having a conversation on a podcast, so I appreciate you for being who you are in doing what you say you're gonna do so to people that are out there. You get one shot be an absolute rebel and kick down as many doors as you have to Until you get to the position you are. So as we bring, if you're new to one big thing with every single guest, part of the tail end of these shows is I have my Guest talk about this concept of start, stop and continue. What are the things that you and your life, bradley, want to start doing, stop doing and continue doing? That might resonate with, hopefully, gladys in Idaho, which, if you're listening, gladys, so that is be nice, be nice, but come back on Peloton, give Bradley.

Speaker 2: 1:02:27

Because you know there's a.

Speaker 1: 1:02:28

Gladys in Idaho listening why don't you give me start?

Speaker 2: 1:02:31

stop continue my start is Something I've been thinking about recently is coming back to acting and presenting. I would like to do that Stop. I guess it would be her Just the judgment that I would sometimes have about my stroke and the way that I'm just hard on myself For what happened and what I can't do today. Sometimes I beat myself up over it. You know there's a light system with stroke. Strokes that I was talking talking about this with someone recently is what I think a Lot of the stroke things is. Sometimes it's just mass exhaustion, like like exhaustion that you've never felt before, like it's like having a hangover, but for a month and you just it's just like you cannot move. And I think sometimes it's like I think the stroke community needs something like an awareness thing of like Trafford, like system, like a red, yellow, green, because some days today I feel yellow, yesterday I felt green, the day before that I felt red and Sometimes it's just like letting people know that you've had, you've had a stroke. I would. I think you know I've got to stop hiding it because part of me was like I don't want people to know that I've had this. I want to come on to the peloton platform and I want them to think that I'm normal. I want to think that you know, there isn't. He's been given this for a reason. It's, you know, like I wanted to be like just anyone on there In set so I was kind of like hit it and didn't talk about it and then I was like what the fuck am I doing? This is my identity, so I need to talk about it more because the story resonates to people and will help people.

Speaker 2: 1:04:17

And biggest thing I think it's all interlinked is Continuing meditating. I'm a Major, major meditator. I do 20 minutes twice a day, have my own mantra I learned Maybe seven years ago and then from my stroke I stopped doing it, but it's been one of the biggest. What is the? It's the best tool I have For dealing with any issue that I have sort of coming up. It doesn't cure anything but it. If I, if I'm exhausted, it'll take me from a 25 percent to 50 percent and that little boost will make me feel better. And I think anyone who's had a stroke or anyone who's Exhausted or you know, stress is a lot or has anxiety, meditation is a great thing. Peloton offers it on the Peloton platform. It's guided, which Is, in my opinion isn't so great, but it's a good. It's a good starting point to jump into the meditating world and if, if you enjoy that, then I would 100% go speak to someone who does it. I learned from Zeva meditation, emily Fletcher, who's fucking awesome. If you haven't heard of her, she's fantastic. So, yeah, I would 100% Go go learn how to meditate properly and get a mantra, and you know it's it's tough to do, because 20 minutes twice a day is A lot of your day and a lot of your time and a lot of people, my wife's even.

Speaker 2: 1:05:48

Like I don't have the time to do it. But, um, yeah, it's, it's my I, it's my non. Like, if I need to meditate, I need to meditate. Like I'm gonna take 20 minutes, I'm gonna sit in this train station, non negotiable, it's my non negotiable. That's what I was looking for, correct? Yeah, and I said I might. I've got to meditate right now. Sorry, sometimes, even when we're in Spain, I was like I'd like go to a coffee shop. I just need to sit down and I'm gonna sit down, spain, I was like I'd like go to a coffee shop. I just need to sit here for 20 minutes and meditate. So, um, yeah, that's my stop starts and those are all.

Speaker 1: 1:06:21

I'm gonna push you, man. I'm gonna send you instagrams on what movie we showing up in next, because I got to keep the hallmark Directory going. But whether it's meditation or whatever, we all need something that Is a grounding mechanism for us in our day to day, because I think we all have a larger Um expectation of what we can actually do as humans, which many times we can't. Just like a peloton, you can't go from being in the state physically you're in and just lose all this weight in one day. You have to every day show up and get on the bike for 10, 15, 20 minutes and those baby steps all stacked on top of each other it's leads to real life change.

Speaker 1: 1:06:57

So if you're somebody out there who has been beating yourself up that your life isn't what you thought it would be at this point your marriage, your kids, what have you? What are the small things, whether it's meditation that you can do every single day that can help you move the ball forward, to think about when do these thoughts come from? When I'm feeling red today, is there something that I can do to raise that just a little bit, that can push me to go be what I need to be For Sophia, for anybody else that needs me today. And you're not perfect, you're not human. Don't be ashamed that life has dealt you a deck of cards that maybe sometimes you didn't ask for. But find a community of what you can. Share these things with people that really care about you and want to support you. So I know, on behalf of roses rebels Just everybody in general I will put your instagram username in the show notes. I would encourage all of you guys, whether you've ever been on a peloton or not, obviously roses rebels get out there and shower. This guy would love because, um, you did a incredible job in this hour that we spent together um, being open, being honest, kicking down every door, being a being, a rebel in life, because you only get one shot, and I'm going to put some notes about your handles down in the show notes, as well as for any peloton interested people, you have an opportunity to have a free trial with peloton to try it out, so we'll put some of that information in there. But to also your team at peloton, I want to thank them for allowing you to come on this show and kind of share your story with me today.

Speaker 1: 1:08:21

But, um, this is the kind of stuff, as I said, I told you when I sat in my car and I thought no one sees me Because they just see the persona I have, but they don't see the insecurities or the I don't know what I'm doing. And when I had this moment, I had something I had to do and it was starting this podcast because I I had to believe that, with every guest I had on, if I just honor and encourage them, it will come back to me tenfold. And you, good sir, have done a fantastic job in this time we spent today encouraging me that there's even things that I'm going to take away from this show. So, on behalf of all of the one big thing listeners, we appreciate you, bradley Rose, for tuning in from good old England and being our guest for today. Hopefully it's not your last stop, but we we definitely appreciate the openness and transparency.

Speaker 2: 1:09:08

Thank you so much for having me. It was great to talk to you. Have you guys seen that leaderboard soon? Oh, I gotta step it up.