SoulCycle co-founder Julie Rice talks about her new venture Peoplehood. 

<div class="block">Just need someone to listen? SoulCycle founders Julie Rice and Elizabeth Cutler have moved on from group spin classes to another venture that helps clients focus on mental wellness. but without the sweat. Rice told Cheddar News, &quot;It&#39;s a place where we provide you with the structure and the skills and the scaffolding to work on the existing relationships in your life and create new ones.&quot;</div>

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SoulCycle Founders' New Venture Peoplehood Focuses on Wellness and Communications

So we're going to dive into our first group share and our only group share this morning. Um And this is a moment for you just to get your name in the space to hear your own voice among a group of maybe strangers for 55 minutes, people who invites you to share your feelings and there's a lot of freedom in just having somebody you don't know. Listen to you Rice who started soul cycle with people who co founder Elizabeth Cutler believes people yearn for community even if exercise isn't involved. The big take away from soul cycle was that really people just want to connect to other people. And at the end of the day, people want to matter, they want to feel heard, they want to feel understood. Recently, the US surgeon general warned of the loneliness epidemic. Research shows that loneliness and isolation are associated with a greater risk of heart disease, dementia, stroke, depression, anxiety, and premature death. People, hood's guides lead a group through breathing exercises and questions. The group breaks out into pairs to discuss, prompts each person listens without giving advice. So for me, the, the coming back to the question. I think the biggest thing is, yeah, just feeling like I can actually communicate and like, feel like I'm supporting. It's wellness. It's showing up for yourself working on yourself. First and foremost, that you can take um the skills like responding instead of reacting or just going with your intuition. OK. So everyone feeling good great. The guides are not licensed. Instead they're trained to help people communicate. People hood is not therapy and I'm not a therapist. It's more of the vitamins. If therapy were the medicine people hood also has different sessions for mothers, couples and even work colleagues. While the anonymity doesn't exist in those settings. The space to talk about your emotions does. It's a place where we provide you with the structure and the skills and the scaffolding to work on the existing relationships in your life and create new ones. And hopefully we can learn how to lean on each other for support.