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| 6. "Boogeyman in the Corner" | 24 Jun 2025 | 00:50:56 | |
Episode 6: Real Housewives of New York City star Sonja Morgan is banned from the studio. Barry's Bootcamp CEO attempts to poach SoulCycle instructors and is banned. Hard-charging instructor training directors use rough, sexual language to intimidate new recruits. A firehose of Soul gossip!
Follow â â â â â â @jessxnycâ â â â â â on Instagram
Watch episode 6 on â YouTubeâ â â â â
â Live event July 9 in NYC w/ Janet Fitzgerald & Halle Becker!â
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Executive Producer & Host: â â â â â â Jess Rothschildâ â â â â â
Editing & Sound Design: Caitlin Whyte
Theme Song & Original Music Composer: Elizabeth Ziff
Additional music: â â â â Liah Alonsoâ â â â
"Cinderella" performed by: â â â â â BETTYâ
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| 5. "S*x With An Ex" | 17 Jun 2025 | 00:45:58 | |
Episode 5: News leaks that Equinox Chairman Stephen Ross will hold a Trump fundraiser in the Hamptons. Instructors share their pay structures and how they were fired / why they quit. All of SoulCycle's goodwill and reputation for LGBT inclusivity is extinguished. Has anything come close to capturing the zeitgeist the way SoulCycle did?
Follow â â â â â @jessxnycâ â â â â on Instagram
Watch episode 5 on YouTubeâ â
Live event July 9 in NYC w/ Janet Fitzgerald & Halle Becker!
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Executive Producer & Host: â â â â â Jess Rothschildâ â â â â
Editing & Sound Design: Caitlin Whyte
Theme Song & Original Music Composer: Elizabeth Ziff
Additional music: â â â Liah Alonsoâ â â
"Wishing Well" performed by: â â â â BETTYâ
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| 4. "You Create Monsters" | 10 Jun 2025 | 00:51:49 | |
Episode 4: Instructors make headlines for s*x & cheating scandals with married riders. SoulCycle co-founders Julie Rice & Elizabeth Cutler resign, walking away with $90 Million each after selling the company to Equinox. The 2016 Presidential election and its aftermath causes a great divide at SoulCycle.
Follow â â â â @jessxnycâ â â â on Instagram
Watch episode 4 on YouTubeâ
â Live event July 9 in NYC w/ Janet Fitzgerald & Halle Becker!
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Executive Producer & Host: â â â â Jess Rothschildâ â â â
Editing & Sound Design: Caitlin Whyte
Theme Song & Original Music Composer: Elizabeth Ziff
Additional music: â â Liah Alonsoâ â , Left on Red
"Gangway" performed by: â â â BETTYâ
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| 3. "Noon on Monday" | 03 Jun 2025 | 00:54:37 | |
Episode 3: The gate-kept details of SoulCycleâs instructor training program are revealed for the first time. Servers crash every Monday at Noon during sign-ups. Hurricane Sandy causes chaos when people cannot access classes. Cults of personality form between riders and instructors.
Follow â â â @jessxnycâ â â on Instagram
Watch episode 3 on YouTube
â Live event July 9 in NYC w/ Janet Fitzgerald & Halle Becker!
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Executive Producer & Host: â â â Jess Rothschildâ â â
Editing & Sound Design: Caitlin Whyte
Theme Song & Original Music Composer: Elizabeth Ziff
Additional music: â Liah Alonsoâ , Left on Red
"Two Cherries" performed by: â â BETTYâ
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| 2. "A Star Is Born" | 27 May 2025 | 00:49:05 | |
Episode 2: SoulCycle takes off in New York City and The Hamptons, with celebrities like Kelly Ripa & Katie Couric becoming superfans. Co-founder Julie Rice's muse Janet Fitzgerald moves to Manhattan to work with budding talent. A beloved 22 year-old party-girl instructor Clare Veronica Walsh tragically dies on Christmas Day. A "wreck the studio" party signifies the end of the 72nd Street era as SoulCycle grows.
Follow â â @jessxnycâ â on Instagram
Watch episode 2 on YouTube
â Live event July 9 in NYC w/ Janet Fitzgerald & Halle Becker!
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Executive Producer & Host: â â Jess Rothschildâ â
Editing & Sound Design: Caitlin Whyte
Theme Song & Original Music Composer: Elizabeth Ziff
Additional music: Liah Alonso
"One of Us" performed by: â BETTYâ
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| 1. "Made in LA" | 27 May 2025 | 00:45:53 | |
Episode 1: Julie Rice, Elizabeth Cutler, and Ruth Zukerman co-found SoulCycle, but Zukerman was later iced out as an owner because she did not have proper legal protection in place. We trace SoulCycle's origin story back to the '90s Los Angeles spin craze before it revolutionized boutique fitness in New York City 2006.
Follow â @jessxnycâ on Instagram
Watch episode 1 on YouTube
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Executive Producer & Host: â Jess Rothschildâ
Editing & Sound Design: Caitlin Whyte
Theme Song & Original Music Composer: Elizabeth Ziff
"Naughty Nadia" performed by: BETTY
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| TRAILER - Cult of Body & Soul | 16 May 2025 | 00:02:06 | |
âCult of Body & Soulâ is a docu-podcast series created & executive produed by Jess Rothschild which brings to life how the boutique indoor cycling (spinning) phenomenon SOULCYCLE captured the New York City fitness zeitgeist.
We will take you behind the curtain of the cult of personality that forms between instructor and rider, the elusive instructor training program, the untold story of how Julie Rice and Elizabeth Cutler founded the company and the political scandal that extinguished the public's good-will for the brand.
Featuring interviews with instructors, studio managers, front desk staff and corporate HQ employees.
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