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TUNE IN TUESDAY: NORAH O’DONNELL INTERVIEWS PELOTON INSTRUCTOR AND AUTHOR ROBIN ARZÓN IN LATEST EPISODE OF “PERSON TO PERSON”

The Conversation Streams on CBS News Tuesday, Feb. 22

In a new episode of “Person To Person,” Norah O’Donnell sits down with Peloton’s Robin Arzón to talk about fitness, motherhood, her new children's book Strong Mama, and how she takes on life with the same energy she brings to a workout. Arzón is a New York Times bestselling author, a Type-1 diabetic and corporate-lawyer-turned-fitness-icon. She is one of Peloton’s most popular instructors on both the bike and treadmill, with positivity and female empowerment as core aspects of her brand.

The inspirational conversation premieres Tuesday, Feb. 22 at 10:30 PM, ET/7:30 PM, PT on the CBS News Streaming Network and on the CBS News app.

Person To Person,” the new interview series hosted by CBS EVENING NEWS anchor and managing editor O’Donnell, launched last month on CBS News' reimagined and expanded streaming network. “Person To Person” with Norah O'Donnell is a 2022 take on the classic Edward R. Murrow interview series. It brings viewers the most intimate type of interview — going beyond the headlines through thoughtful conversation. In its premiere episode, O’Donnell sat down with bestselling author Brené Brown to discuss vulnerability as a strength and why the ability to identify feelings can give someone power over their emotions.

Watch an early excerpt of O’Donnell’s conversation with Arzón here. Read more on CBSNews.com here and below.

CBS News: Peloton's Robin Arzón wasn't always an athlete. Now she's a fitness icon to millions.

Today, Robin Arzón is the fitness superstar millions of people around the world turn to for inspirational workouts. She’s an ultramarathoner and Peloton’s head instructor, and her name is practically synonymous with a spin bike. But in a revealing new episode of “Person to Person with Norah O'Donnell,” Arzón says she wasn’t always an athlete.

We become the stories that we tell ourselves, and I told myself the story that I wasn’t an athlete,” she says. “I was the straight-A student. I was the arts and crafts kid. And it really, you know, was nerve-wracking for me to go to gym class.”

So how did she go from a kid who dreaded gym class to one of the most popular fitness instructors in the world?

One block at a time.

I always say, just start with one,” Arzón tells CBS News in the wide-ranging interview. “It’s one step. It’s one class. I would say one mile, but I don’t even think it’s one mile. It’s one block. I literally started with one block. And that one block — with enough commitment, consistency, determination, and passion — turned into marathons and ultramarathons.”

Arzón always stresses, however, that no physical victory is achievable without putting in the complementary mental work — that mind and body are inextricably connected.

If you played your thoughts on a loudspeaker, would you be proud of them?” she says. “Would they be kind? And would they be powerful? Would you speak to a loved one the way you’re speaking to yourself right now?”

She says the conversation between your ears is the most important one you’ll have all day.

Our capacity for every achievement, big and small, begins with how we’re feeling in our own skin. And movement is something that we all have access to.”

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