If you ask Elizabeth Cutler about the secret sauce of SoulCycle, the company she founded in 2006 with partner Julie Rice, her answer isn’t what you think.
It wasn’t the music, the badass teaching staff, or even the intense workout. Instead, says Cutler, “What people were getting in those rooms, was a dose of humanity.” And that, she says, has health benefits as important as any hour of cardio.
