161. Lauren Fleshman & Jesse Thomas

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

Run, Health & Fitness, Women, Inspiration, Runner, Entrepreneur, Sports, Fitness, Health, Running

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

"As an entrepreneur, just like an athlete, you have to be almost psychotically optimistic. You have to believe, ‘We can do this, we can make it back.’ You have to have that belief because there’s so much headwind."

Husband-and-wife team Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas are the co-founders of Picky Bars and hosts of the Work, Play, Love podcast. Lauren is a former professional middle-distance and marathon runner who spent 13 years competing and is now a coach for Little Wing Athletics, and Jesse is a professional triathlete. On this episode, they get "really real" about parenthood (they have two children, Jude and Zadie) and the realities of trying to grow a business and a family simultaneously. They talk about resentment, balance, entrepreneurship, work challenges, and "the dark days."

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What you’ll get on this episode:

Why Jesse is having an identity crisis right now (4:30)
On being able to laugh through the hard moments of parenting (12:40)
On resentment (20:00)
Lauren and Jesse share their take on the idea of balance (22:50)
On bringing home work stress when you’re an entrepreneur (28:40)
What Jesse remembers about the earliest weeks and months after becoming a dad (39:45)
On deciding to have a second child, and how Lauren and Jesse’s marriage changed after having children (48:00)
Lauren and Jesse answer a few listener questions (1:05:35)

What we mention on this episode:

Lauren on Episode 103 of the Ali on the Run Show

Challenge Roth

Range by David Epstein

Car Talk

Dear Sugars

Mel Lawrence

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Aftershocks.
0:08.4	Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Allie Feller.
0:12.1	I'm a writer, an editor, a runner, and a new mom.
0:15.5	And every week on this show, I talk with inspiring people who lead interesting lives on the run and beyond.
0:22.1	Running is what brings us all together, but any runner knows there's so much more to those
0:26.8	daily runs than roots, splits, and a big pile of laundry. We're here to talk about the decisions
0:33.2	people have made to get where they are today, the easy ones and the scary ones, and how getting sweaty
0:38.9	has factored in along the way. And I can think of no couple more suited to guide us all in the
0:44.6	discussion about the intersection of fitness and life than Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas.
0:49.8	Together, Lauren and Jesse have three kids. They have two human children,
0:54.8	Jude and Zadie, and they have their third child, their business, picky bars.
0:59.7	If you love Lauren and Jesse's podcast, work play love, you'll love this episode where they serve
1:04.9	up plenty of that honesty and realness we're all used to. We talk about everything from what life
1:10.1	is really like as a new parent and professional athlete. We talk about harboring resentment in your
1:15.3	relationship. And we talk about the realities of trying to grow both a business and a family simultaneously.
1:21.6	And we talk about running in their summer too. But truly, Lauren and Jesse are two of the hardest
1:26.8	working people on this planet, both on their respective race courses and beyond. And it was an
1:31.6	honor to get permission to ask them my absolute noziest questions. At least I think I asked permission.
1:37.9	I don't think I did. I don't know. Either way, they served it up and I hope you love it.
1:43.2	Lauren and Jesse, welcome to the Allie on the Run Show. Lauren, you've been here before. You're a pro.
1:54.0	Now we get to have you both sharing one cute little hot seat. We'll call it a love seat together.
1:59.2	Welcome to the show. Lauren and Jesse. Thanks, Allie. Yeah, thanks a lot for having us.
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