4. A Chat with Lauren Fleshman
Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara
Chris McClung
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Des and Kara welcome their first guest - Lauren Fleshman. Lauren is a 4x individual NCAA champion and 2x US national champion. She placed 7th at the World Championships in the 5000m and is now a NY Times best-selling author. Her book - Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World - is defining and redefining how we think about elevating women in sport.
Des, Kara, and Lauren first give you a behind-the-scenes look into the book-writing process as Des and Kara also have books coming out soon. Then, they dive into Lauren's book itself and hit several major topics such as the collegiate diet/food culture, oddly-revealing running uniforms for women, what it's like to be an Olympic alternate (something all 3 women have in common), and much more.
3 giants in the sport of running. You get to be a fly on the wall and listen in.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Kara Goucher here for nobody asses with Dez and Kara and of course |
| 0:16.0 | I'm joined by my co-host and 2018 Boston Marathon Champion, Desiree Lyndon, Dez, how |
| 0:22.7 | are you? |
| 0:23.7 | I'm good. |
| 0:24.7 | That was really well done. |
| 0:26.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.2 | I thought that you entered that perfectly and that's exciting because it's our first time. |
| 0:32.3 | It is our first time. |
| 0:33.3 | So we recorded three episodes but we didn't have a name and we'd always be like, we'll |
| 0:37.1 | have a name when this comes out. |
| 0:38.4 | We finally have one. |
| 0:40.0 | Nobody asked us which you were the one that put the like final touch on that title. |
| 0:46.3 | I'm learning a lot about you and you're not a decision maker, like get us right up to |
| 0:50.8 | the edge and they're like, but you decide, so it's like this is never going to get done. |
| 0:55.6 | So this is the one. |
| 0:56.8 | Let's do it. |
| 0:57.8 | And I think we liked nobody asked, but there was a lot of them already. |
| 1:02.8 | So we put nobody asked us, but I think we could have owned it, like we could have owned |
| 1:07.2 | that space. |
| 1:08.2 | But I'm okay with that. |
| 1:09.2 | I think we've blended it. |
| 1:10.2 | I like it. |
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