04: Training Together, Taking it to the Next Level, and Having Employees

Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas

Jesse Thomas

Health & Fitness, Fitness & Nutrition, Sports & Recreation

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

With race season around the corner - Can Jesse bring home a seventh consecutive W at Wildflower this weekend?? - this episode has them ramping up and dialing in the feeling of peak training. (The intro tinkering seems to have started paying some dividends...) Listener questions this week include:

Training together - yay or nay?
How to tell when it’s time to move from amateur to elite
What makes a good coach, and are all pro athletes qualified to coach by virtue of their training?
Developing hiring processes and implementing culture at work

A fun run down memory lane recounting Lauren and Jesse’s first (less-than-fun) run together leads into how they’ve come to manage their on-again, off-again exercise relationship together over the years. Asking the right questions about goals and visions for the future guide their advice for anyone looking to take the next steps in their athletic careers, as well as in seeking out a coach. Lastly, they cover the things they’ve learned - sometimes (/usually) the hard way - about the hardest part of business: hiring and having employees. Jesse also has a very profound “aha” moment about the name of the podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Work Play Love Podcast. This is Jesse Thomas and Lauren
0:08.9	Fleshman. Today we are going to talk about a few different things. One
0:12.2	question is, hey, do you two train together?
0:15.4	If so, what do you do?
0:16.4	What don't you do?
0:17.9	Second question is, when do you consider it appropriate
0:22.3	to switch from an amateur to an elite level athlete?
0:28.1	Are all professional athletes qualified to be a coach by virtue of their years of training.
0:33.8	And lastly, question on Piggy Bar's hiring processes,
0:38.2	have you made any big hiring mistakes?
0:39.9	Do you have trial periods?
0:41.6	And what's your culture like and have you set it intentionally?
0:45.2	So that's what we're going to cover today.
0:46.5	Enjoy, let us know what you think?
0:51.1	Okay, hey, welcome to the Work Play Love Podcast with your hosts Jesse Thomas and
1:00.4	Lauren Fleshman.
1:01.4	All right, we're here and And Wildflower is coming up. Yeah that's exciting.
1:13.5	Peyton Jordan with Mel Lawrence Racing. Yeah, I coach for those of you who don't know I coach a couple
1:18.7	professional athletes and Masters runners and yeah there's some this is when racing season really starts to take off in our world, you know.
1:27.0	Yeah, it does.
1:28.0	The athletes I coach are going to ramp up for spring season and the Nationals is at the end of June.
1:33.0	Then it's on to the European season and Jesse's got his, you know, his big ones coming.
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