21: Sometimes kids suck… the energy out of you.

Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas

Jesse Thomas

Health & Fitness, Fitness & Nutrition, Sports & Recreation

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

It’s a big week in the Flomas household with Zadie’s first birthday and Ironman Championships in Kona, and the anniversary of both of those slightly large life events occuring days apart from each other last year. This go-round will be decidedly more chill, with Lauren not in the labor wing and Jesse not laboring through 140.6 miles of brutal triathloning (the debate over who was in more pain is off the table, don’t even go there). Jesse will still be traveling to the Big Island to rep Picky Bars and take in the race from the other side of the barricades - maybe he’ll shave some time off his post-race Beer Mile with fresh legs? - but not before some of Lauren’s nearly-famous birthday cake and answering some new listener questions. [Submit yours: pickybars.com/podcastQs]

Topics this episode include:

Innovation vs stasis
Breakthrough performances
Multi-year projects (athletics and other)
Staying sane/motivated in the off-season

A teacher looks for advice on keeping her enthusiasm high when the material is repetitive, which anyone would find relatable to endurance sports, performance arts, work tasks, and just general life’ing. Lessons from hosting Wilder Retreats and Picky Bars annual activities provide the bones for a good chat on getting the most out of your upfront work while giving the most to the recipients, without watering it down or overworking the dough. From there they talk about how to set yourself up for a breakthrough performance, eat an elephant (aka big, long-term goals like qualifying for the Boston Marathon), and managing guilt in the off-season, which triggers a spontaneous soft-commitment from one of them to running Club Cross Country Nationals. Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi.
0:05.0	Hello, ladies and gentlemen.
0:08.0	I need some help getting my energy up.
0:10.0	I'm sturuggaleen.
0:12.0	Why? I don't know, I'm looking forward to doing this but I'm tired. We moved out of our
0:17.6	house yesterday temporarily because we are refinishing our scuff to hell wood floors and it was kind of an adventure.
0:27.0	Yeah, it was a lot.
0:28.0	We're staying in Jesse's mom's house while she's out of town and it's Zady's birthday today. Yeah, and I don't know what happened
0:35.2	with Zady, but I feel like, I feel like she knew that she was turning one and in the last like a couple days she just became a hundred percent
0:46.8	more like sure of herself she's a toddler man.
0:52.8	Rambunctious and like no I want that and like you try to take something from her and she starts freaking out and
1:01.5	I like it when she balls her fists up, which doesn't want you to do.
1:04.0	So I was like, no, no, no, no, that's what she says.
1:10.0	I don't know. We're those people that are talking, that are making insights all I know is it was very it's very tiring
1:16.7	She's gotten significantly more tiring. She's run around all over the place and
1:25.8	And it kind of sucks to be honest. So that's probably why we're tired.
1:28.0	Well we're going to celebrate her tonight.
1:29.8	First birthday.
1:30.8	Yeah.
1:31.8	I'm making a cake after this so I need some energy. How about we
1:35.0	get energized talking about work play and love because that's what we do?
1:38.0	Yeah so this is the work play love podcast in addition to talking about our kids we
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