Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

by Tunde Oyeneyin

What if that moment isn’t just a moment, but a mindset?

We are often so trapped by our expectations of ourselves and our lives.

The beauty of uncertainty, I’ve found, is infinite possibility.

The beauty of uncertainty is infinite possibility.

We’re on the bike alone, but we ride together.

I’ve created a path for you with my words, but the journey is your own.

Are you open enough to receive the message?

SPEAK is about finding my voice, but it is also the movement I’ve created for others, using five key pillars: SURRENDER POWER EMPATHY AUTHENTICITY KNOWLEDGE In order to speak, you have to be willing to surrender.

Whatever it is that makes you want to hide, you have two choices—learn to love it or change it.

Change

Your mind is your strongest muscle.

when do you most genuinely feel like yourself?

Don’t wait for the moment to arrive. Don’t shrink yourself to fit into small spaces. If the space doesn’t fit, find a new one. Being yourself starts right now.

gave each person the respect they deserved. I always try to do this.

I did it because I enjoyed connecting with people, giving them confidence, and making them feel good.

When I go into an interaction without any preconceived notions, I can bring my whole energy to the moment. Energy is real. People feel it.

You attract the energy that you are.

Uncertainty, I’ve come to learn, has to exist to give you room to shift. To make room for opportunity to walk in the door.

I had lifted my fingertips, turned to a clean page, held the pen, and now I could write out whoever I wanted to be next. I was at a new chapter.

caring people reveal themselves wherever they are.

“The purpose of life is to discover your gift; the work of life is to develop it; and the meaning of life is to give your gift away.”

Life gift

A life well lived is spent in service. Empathy is the root of service.

Sam Yo is a Peloton instructor and a former monk. He says, “Life has a way of repeating a situation with a different twist, and being aware of when it comes around again is what helps us to grow and evolve.”

Today’s a new day; choose to be new in it.

turn up the volume on the voice that believes in you.

you’ll have to surrender to the unknown. You’ll have to figure it out as you go.

People don’t want you to fail. People want you to succeed.

I had a message of empowerment that I wanted to share with as many people as I could.

Every Peloton instructor is an Avenger, with their own style and energy, and I wanted to show mine.

Everything that I said was going to be the right thing to say.

Manifest Now by Idil Ahmed.

“Affirm: My life is about to change drastically. All that I have been working on and visualizing is about to manifest for me.

All my effort and dedication are about to pay off in a major way. I am so grateful, and I feel so blessed to know tha...

There was no challenge to solve and no idea to feel passionate about. I wasn’t learning and growing.

As a trainer your job is to get the best out of people,

Being an educator was the core of what I was doing.

The choice to find happiness in my work was mine. The choice to be present, to show up in my life, was mine.

Winning isn’t about achieving the best outcome; it’s the output that matters.

Everything you want is happening right now, I would think.

Every moment has led you to this moment.

When we surrender to what is, we lean into our power.

When we show up as ourselves, there is no acting, or worrying about how to keep the act going.

The vision had been there, but I didn’t know the route I would take.

goal is a wish, but a standard holds you accountable.

when you hit obstacles, acknowledge that those, too, were part of the plan.

That stress you feel over your relationship might give someone else insight. And the positive energy you bring can brighten someone’s day. Openness is how we make the world easier for each other.

The Mirror Relationships are about seeing others and feeling seen.

Dare to have the audacity to ask for what you want.

We hear what we need to hear when we need to hear it.

In class I say, “Don’t feel selfish about taking the time to work out.”

Robin once said: “When you are yourself, your people are better able to find you.”