Champion Distance Runner Lauren Fleshman on the Power of Sport
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Lauren Fleshman about her new book Good For a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man’s World, how the Stoics approached many of the gender equality issues that we still debate today, the unique power of sports to shatter perceptions and shift perspectives, and more.
Lauren Fleshman is a retired world champion track and field athlete who competed in the 1500, 3000, 5000, and marathon events. Lauren graduated from Stanford as a 15-time All-American and five-time NCAA champion, and went on to become the U.S. 5000 meters champion in 2006 and 2010, as well as a top-ten finisher in the 2011 IAAF World Championships. After her running career, Lauren became Co-Founder and Brand Director of a gluten and dairy free energy bar company, Picky Bars, as well as the Co-Founder of Believe I Am, a business creating sport psychology tools for female athletes. She has also Co-Authored the Believe Training Journal as a resource for runners. Her work can be found at www.laurenfleshman.com.
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| 0:54.9 | Hey, it's Ryan Holloway. |
| 0:58.3 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 1:04.8 | As you know, I'm a runner. |
| 1:06.0 | Try to run every day. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm going to run shortly after this. |
| 1:08.4 | I'm waiting for a break in the rain, which did derail my walk with the kids this morning. |
| 1:14.5 | And I did it later last night. |
| 1:16.8 | My schedule's a little disrupted, but I'm going to go for run-in. |
| 1:19.3 | So I'm always fascinated with thinkers and, of course, doers in the sphere of running. |
| 1:24.7 | And Lauren Fleshman is one of the greatest runners of all time, just an absolutely fascinating |
| 1:33.7 | and not just a fascinating person, but an elite athlete. |
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