15: Man on Fire and the Social Implications of Sport

Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas

Jesse Thomas

Health & Fitness, Fitness & Nutrition, Sports & Recreation

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This episode is worth listening to if only to hear what Jesse thought the term “wet blanket” meant. After that enlightening moment he and Lauren dive into a new twist on the What’s Going On section, talking about the highs of a buzzing creative process, battling portion control with screen time and social media, and riding the sweet, sweet, chaka-all-day wave of the recent Picky Bars relaunch.

Listener-submitted questions then spark the following topics:

Saying “no” during training season
Coping with social training anxiety
Supporting an S.O. through athletic disappointments
When to hold on or let go of a startup dream

When it comes to the social implications of training in sports, Lauren and Jesse have lots of varied experience and opinions. While being self-motivated and disciplined to work out solo is key for success, they agree that having training partners can be fun and empowering… but can also push you when you shouldn’t be pushed. Maintaining a balance there as well as in the work, play, love spheres when you go “all-in” is key to keeping the value of the chase in the right place, especially when the inevitable feelings of being the wet-blanket of the group set in. Finally they discuss feeling burdened by potential and knowing when to throw in the towel or keep stoking the fire on a dream, be it a new idea, athletic goal, or long standing passion project.

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

Transcript

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0:00.0	Good day. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. This is terrible. We're working. We are not loading anymore. This is the Work Play Love
0:15.0	Podcast and I am Jesse Thomas. I am Lauren Fleshman and this is the
0:20.8	podcast where we answer your questions about work, sport, and family and how to balance all three or not balance them.
0:29.0	Today we are going to talk about saying no and being a wet blanket.
0:34.6	Something we've both been really good at.
0:37.6	Social training anxiety, supporting a significant other through disappointing athletic results and should you keep going on your
0:45.7	startup? That's what we have today. I'm excited to answer those questions.
0:50.5	I am very excited. Let's get going but first what's
0:54.2	going on everybody's favorite section what's going on. I'm just gonna keep trying
1:01.4	something different each time.
1:03.0	You were announcing like a very like a minor minor minor league baseball game in town.
1:08.1	Yeah, it was like a it's that guy that's in the in the back of the stands annoyingly announcing his kids
1:14.7	t-ball game. Oh well let's I guess we have that to look forward to. Anyway we've
1:20.6	got what's going on what's going on section actually to got what's going on, what's going on section.
1:23.3	Actually, to start what's going on section,
1:25.4	I wanted to acknowledge that we got some feedback
1:30.0	in our work, play, love, form on pickybars.com that said hey we really like the
1:39.2	podcast you guys should do a high and a low on your what's going on section.
1:43.3	So I thought we'd try it out this week.
1:44.8	Sounds good.
1:45.4	Are we gonna do that?
1:46.4	Yeah.
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