01: Making Time, Encouraging Kids, Modifying Training, Your Biz's "Done" Line

Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas

Jesse Thomas

Health & Fitness, Fitness & Nutrition, Sports & Recreation

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

After an obviously unrehearsed but awesomesauce intro, Lauren and Jesse answer these questions:

How do you make time for each other that isn't focused around business and/or training?
How do you encourage your kids in sports without pushing them too hard?
Do you modify your training to account for stress at work or at home?
When you started Picky Bars, did you set a "Done" line, where you would stop the business?

The episode touches on setting work/life boundaries, particularly when you own a business, and scheduling time for your significant other to talk biz and NOT talk biz! Lauren and Jesse debate the value of sports pursuit as a child, and what they've learned trying and not trying to encourage their son to do sports he may or may not be interested in. They describe how best to stick with the training plan vs abandon it when life's stresses mount. Finally, they address how they're learning to balance the growth of a business with the increasing financial responsibilities that come with it.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, hello listeners. Welcome to our Has Yet Unnamed podcast featuring
0:10.6	Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas.
0:13.0	I am Jesse Thomas.
0:15.0	I am Lauren Fleshman.
0:16.0	I am a professional triathlete, a dad, a business owner, and a writer sometimes.
0:24.4	Lauren you are.
0:25.8	I am a retired professional runner, co-founder of Picky Bars,
0:32.1	ambassador for brands in the space of the world of my choosing, running, and mother.
0:39.1	I don't know, what else do I do?
0:41.1	Right.
0:42.1	Right. I always want to say writer, but do. No, that's it. I write.
0:43.2	I always want to say writer, but then people think I say writer, like writing a bike or something.
0:47.1	Yeah.
0:48.1	So I write with pens.
0:49.9	She also rides a bike pretty fast, but we won't get into it right now.
0:53.0	No.
0:54.0	But why are we here?
0:56.0	Why are you guys here?
0:57.0	Lauren and I decided, you know, we both have a serious, I guess, significant history of writing columns for Runners World, Triathlete
1:06.6	magazine, our own blogs, Lauren even has a couple books, training journals that she's published. we have created a lot of content for
1:16.4	People you know for our fans and our followers around
1:21.0	You know life balance balancing sports with family with business
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