13: "The Bigger the Ship, The Harder to Turn"

Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas

Jesse Thomas

Health & Fitness, Fitness & Nutrition, Sports & Recreation

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Lauren and Jesse roadtrip over the Cascades to visit Picky Bars new co-packer, their first manufacturing change since 2012 and the official turnaround to the recent out-of-stock battles. With the updates and changes have naturally come some challenges, and they discuss the delicate balance of small business life and ownership, which as a married couple in the car alone for multiple hours… was exactly as lively a conversation as you’d imagine.

“Big ships are harder to turn” as Jesse puts it, but things are back on track (!) and they dive right into some listener questions:

Rebounding from a DNF
S.O.’s disappointment with your lack of energy/time for extracurriculars during marathon training
Sexual harassment in coaching
Marketing/promoting yourself as an athlete
Flat Bruce secret

This episode’s topics elicit a range of emotions and some heated conversations. From Jesse reliving the DNF that springboarded a rebound win at Wildflower (his first!) they warn of the hazards of bullying through disappointment rather than pausing and processing. A listener’s partner is disappointed with their lack of availability during marathon training, to which L & J give some very Grey’s Anatomy’ish advice (“I choose YOU, I’m CHOOSING tv time with YOU.”) Things take a pause to get real about sexual harassment in the workplace, before offering insight into the marketing minds of promotable athletes, including Jesse’s secret to those beloved #FlatBruce pre-race photos. Enjoy!

Want to submit your own question for Lauren + Jesse? pickybars.com/podcastQs

Transcript

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0:00.0	Let's do it!
0:04.0	do it!
0:07.0	No, don't do that again.
0:10.0	No, I don't know. I think that might be our new intro.
0:12.0	Oh, sweet, let's replace the song then. No, I don't know. I think that might be our new intro.
0:12.6	Oh, sweet, let's replace the song then. Do-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N'I-N-N-N-N-N- Are we're wearing my wife hat or?
0:25.0	Supportive hat.
0:28.0	Yes, honey, that was great.
0:30.0	This is Work Play Love.
0:32.0	This is a podcast where we answer your questions about work, sports, and relationships. I'm Lauren Fleshman.
0:39.0	And I'm Lauren's husband, Jesse Thomas.
0:42.0	There you go.
0:44.0	So we're married.
0:45.0	We're doing this.
0:45.8	This is episode 13.
0:47.7	It is.
0:48.7	Lucky number 13.
0:49.7	I like it.
0:50.7	I will start off real quick by saying thank you to everyone who has been listening and particularly those who have left reviews.
0:59.0	I checked last week after we posted and we were at 199 reviews and then all of a sudden we got
1:06.0	up to 246 as of today and which is awesome of them were good yeah I mean
1:12.1	yeah yeah we got an extra 51-star reviews.
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