Surround Yourself with the Right People | SoulCycle Co-Founder, Julie Rice

Julie Rice (0:00)

When you think about it, at the end of your life, you've made this decision. Who is it that you wanted to be in the world?

Did you want to be a person that left somebody else feeling great? Even if somebody else in business told you, you were being a dummy and giving away too much or too little, do you want? Who is it? When you close your eyes and picture the end of your life, who is it that you wanted to be?

Michael Gervais (0:35)

Okay, welcome back, or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Gervais. And by trade and trading, I'm a sport and performance psychologist, as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. And the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who have committed their life efforts towards mastery. And we wanna better understand, what are they searching for? How do they organize their inner life? How do they deal with difficult scenarios and situations? How do they adjust to the unfolding, unpredictable, unknown? And that certainly is about their psychology. So we wanna understand, how do they work on mastery of self as well as mastery of craft?

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Now, this week's conversation is with Julie Rice, an entrepreneur best known for co-founding the fitness phenom SoulCycle. And she served as the co-CEO at SoulCycle from 2006 to 2015 before serving as a partner at WeWork from 2017 to 2019 Julie is currently the co-founder of LifeShop, and that's a company developing original concepts in the health and happiness space.

So in this conversation, we discuss what inspired Julie to create SoulCycle. And we touch on the keys to being a great leader and the right questions to ask if you want to be successful in business. And for Julie, building community is at the center of everything that she does.