"A Dance" - The Word That Captures It All

When we asked Aubre to describe womanhood in one word, she thought about it for a moment, then smiled.

"I would say a dance."

For Aubre, that word holds everything. "It is all things high and low, and you're balancing it all at once," she told us. "It's really just like the waves, the ebbs and the flows." She grew up a dancer, and the discipline, grace, and adaptability that comes with that training has quietly shaped every chapter of her life since.

"Being a dancer requires so much of you," she said. "You have to turn on in any given moment. You have to be powerful but graceful. You have to stay grounded while also performing. And that's a perfect representation of what being a woman is, and what it feels like to be me."

From Autopilot to Intention

Like a lot of women, Aubre spent her 20s moving fast without always moving with purpose.

"I was always bouncing from one thing to the next but never really realized how much I was juggling," she said. "I think I was just on autopilot." She was doing the work, showing up, building - but something was missing. The awareness. The intention. The dance.

It wasn't until her 30s, stepping fully into her roles as a business owner, a mom, and a wife, that everything came into sharper focus. "I've realized that it's a dance even more now," she said. "And I'm just so much more intentional about how I move through that dance on the daily."

The shift didn't happen overnight. It was the result of years of quiet, deliberate self-work, building herself into the woman she always knew she could be.

Building Sweat Sessions: More Than a Workout

Aubre didn't set out to build just another fitness studio. She wanted to create something she'd always been looking for herself.

"I remember what it felt like being in my 20s and really craving a space where I could show up and get something more out of my 60 minutes," she shared. She described a pivotal moment - her first SoulCycle class - where she walked in expecting a workout and walked out with clarity, connection, and a sense of community she hadn't expected. "In that 60-minute class, it was like a bunch of light bulbs went off," she said.

That experience became the blueprint for Sweat Sessions. Every class is intentionally built around more than physical cues. "It's really about watching where your mind goes and how you can enrich your life in more ways than just the physical," Aubre said. "How do you really want to feel? How do you want to show up in life? And how can we use this time on the mat together to help bridge that gap?"

The energy you build in that room, she believes, doesn't have to stay there. "When you walk out, you can continue to cultivate that joy, that power, that strength throughout your day. You just have to know how to use it."

What Strength Actually Looks Like

Aubre has been building Sweat Sessions during one of the most transformative seasons of her life - becoming a mother. And that experience has fundamentally changed how she defines strength.

"My body has been changing so much over the last two and a half years," she said. "And it's given me a different definition of what strength looks like." In a fitness industry that often reduces strength to aesthetics, Aubre is deliberately pushing back on that narrative with her community.

"Strength is a feeling. It's not a look," she said plainly. "And I just hope that women know that."

It's a message she lives by, and one that gives every woman who walks through the Sweat Sessions door permission to show up exactly as she is.

The Community She's Building - and Why It Matters

For Aubre, the word community carries real weight.

"Community means being able to show up in a space where you feel safe, where you feel seen," she told us. "Being around other women who maybe are like you or are not like you, but who share a similar passion for feeling good in their body." The respect in that shared space, she believes, is where the real transformation happens.

"We can learn so much from other women, especially when we show up in community and when we show up fully as ourselves," she said. "I just want to create a space that feels like you can show up exactly as you are, and that is enough."

Becoming a Mother Changed Everything

When Aubre's son arrived, something shifted in her sense of purpose.

"The second that I had my son, I was like, I'm building this brand because I want to create a life for him," she said, her voice full. "It wasn't so much about opportunities for myself. It was like, I want to be successful so I can show him what's possible. And so that he can live his life with nothing but joy and play and ease."

That clarity, the kind that comes from loving something bigger than yourself, has made her more focused, more grounded, and more committed than ever. "I am somehow, even through everything I've been going through this last year, just the strongest I've ever felt," she said. "And I feel really proud of the commitment I've made to myself."

She paused, emotion in her voice, before adding: "For the first time, I am not relying on external things to work out a certain way, because I know and I trust that I've put in the work on myself to be that one steady ground in my life that can really navigate whatever comes my way."

Leading with Pause, Not Reaction

Ask Aubre what leadership looks like to her, and she doesn't talk about strategy or scale. She talks about the pause.

"The old Aubre would have been very reactive, let's fix this right now," she said with a knowing laugh. "But the Aubre I am now knows that the best leader I can be is one who takes time to respond, takes time to pause and really think about how I want to show up as my best."

It's a practice. Being responsive instead of reactive. Steady instead of spiky. Grounded even when the dance gets complicated.

On Keeping Herself Small and Finally Letting Go

Aubre was thoughtful when she talked about the version of herself she's leaving behind. The one who spent years trying to fit into the box other people had drawn for her.

"For a long time, I kept myself small, in the name of being what the fitness industry wanted, or what my friend group wanted, or even my family at times," she shared. "And now I just really embrace that womanhood is being all of the things at once."

She listed them with joy: "You can be high at the same time as you're feeling low. You can be a mom and build your dreams. You can be a great friend but also not answer a text for two months." She laughed. "You can be all of the things at once."

What unlocked that freedom? Boundaries. A recovering people pleaser by her own admission, Aubre said setting them changed everything. "The second I just set boundaries with myself and how I show up, the more everything flourished."

What She'd Tell Her Younger Self

We asked Aubre what she'd say to a younger version of herself. About her body, her voice, and her vision.

On her body: "Your body is the most sacred thing you have. Take care of it. Treat it really well. Build a body that feels really strong and that you feel really proud of because one day it's going to endure a lot, and you're going to want to feel ready."

On her mindset: "The amount of comparison my younger self put herself through made her miserable. It was such a waste of time. Stay in your lane. Get really clear on what you want. Because there's so much for all of us."

On ambition: "Your dreams take time. You're going to have your own journey and your own divine timing. So enjoy it, because one day you'll wake up 15 years older and wish you hadn't been so hard on yourself the whole time."

Confident, Even on the Hard Days

Confidence, for Aubre, isn't a feeling you wait for. It's something you train.

"I am confident even on days when I'm not," she said. "I train my confidence. If I wake up one day and I'm not feeling great, that confidence still leads me to walk out of the house feeling effortless and at ease." She smiled. "It's just having confidence and being who you are and not trying too hard to be anything other than yourself."

Womanhood, she said, is complex and beautiful all at once. And making peace with that complexity, extending that same grace to the women around us, is how we all get a little freer.

"If we could use that as a way to show the other women in our world more grace and more kindness," she said, "we would all probably just be a lot happier and not so hard on ourselves."

We're so grateful to Aubre for sharing her story and her heart with us. Her community, her studio, and her honesty are a reminder of exactly why we do what we do. Check out her video on our Instagram.