152. Motherhood Mondays with Sashea Lawson AKA Sassy Fit Girl
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
"Everything I thought would happen did not happen."
Sashea Lawson is perhaps best known by her social media moniker: "Sassy Fit Girl." Sashea is a mom to 2.5-year-old Skye and three-month-old Marley, and on this episode she talks about what life is like right now as a toddler mom and newborn mom. She talks about why she's been so vocal about making a slow return to fitness after baby number two, and opens up about recovering from two c-sections, her first baby's emotional NICU stay, and the pressure she felt to breastfeed. Sashea, who has eight sisters and two brothers, owns and runs a marketing and entertainment company with her husband, and they live in West Orange, NJ.
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What you'll get on this episode:
- Getting to know Sashea (1:30)
- Did Sashea always know she wanted to be a mom? (8:30)
- On recovering from two c-sections, and the importance of postpartum recovery (10:15)
- How prepared did Sashea feel for the postpartum period? (20:30)
- How Sashea's feeling at three months postpartum (25:40)
- What Sashea's marriage is like since having kids (30:00)
- A look at the highest highs and lowest lows of new motherhood, including a scary NICU stay (35:50)
- Sashea's message to moms in all stages (47:50)
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| 0:00.0 | Motherhood Mondays on the Alley on the Run Show are brought to you by Sweaty Betty. |
| 0:08.6 | Welcome to Motherhood Mondays on the Alley on the Run Show. |
| 0:11.8 | The goal of this series is to remind moms in all stages that you're not alone, |
| 0:16.7 | you're doing great, and seriously you're not alone, and seriously you're doing great. |
| 0:21.9 | As a new mom myself, I know Instagram has been a bit of a lifeline for me. |
| 0:26.5 | I still follow all my favorite Instagram dogs like Tuna and Dogs being basic, |
| 0:31.7 | but since having my daughter Annie, I love following fellow new moms, especially ones who gave birth |
| 0:37.6 | around the same time I had Annie. Sashia Lawson, perhaps best known as Sassy Fit Girl, |
| 0:44.8 | is one of those moms. Sashia is a fellow New York City girl, turned Jersey girl, and orange theory |
| 0:50.7 | lover, and I've loved following her postpartum recovery stories. In a world where we are all a |
| 0:56.4 | little hesitant to take days off and are often inclined to jump into things a little too quickly, |
| 1:02.0 | Sashia is a breath of very fresh air. She's been really vocal on Instagram about why she's not |
| 1:07.5 | rushing her return to fitness. At three months postpartum with her second daughter, |
| 1:12.0 | Sashia is just now getting back into running and upping those speeds at orange theory. |
| 1:16.9 | To now look, I love in respect, which is why I wanted to have her on this series, |
| 1:20.5 | as eager to learn a little more and to know where this outlook came from. So, |
| 1:25.4 | please welcome to Motherhood Mondays, Sashia Lawson. |
| 1:35.6 | All right, welcome to Motherhood Mondays on the Alley on the Run Show. I'm so excited to be here |
| 1:41.2 | with you today. How you doing? Welcome to the show. Hi, Alley, I'm great. How are you? |
| 1:46.1 | I'm good. When we first started talking, I said, how are you? And you said, I'm tired. And I think |
| 1:52.4 | the sentiment probably everyone listening to this series can relate to. So, we're going to talk |
| 1:58.0 | about the tiredness and why you're feeling that way. But first, I want to give everyone some |
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