Episode 30 | Lauren Fleshman

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Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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"I'm not trying to build some empire where I need to be liked by as many people as possible. I just want to be myself and be myself publicly—until I don't anymore, then I'll just shut down all my social media accounts."Stoked to welcome Lauren Fleshman to the podcast this week! Fleshman, who turns 37 on Wednesday, is a retired professional athlete who still maintains sponsorships with Oiselle and a number of other brands. She's won two national titles, has represented the United States in numerous international competitions, and, in 2011, placed seventh in the 5,000m at the world championships in South Korea. These days, Fleshman wears a lot of hats: mom to two young children, wife to professional triathlete Jesse Thomas, co-founder of Picky Bars along with Thomas and professional marathoner Stephanie Bruce, coach of Little Wing, a small group of elite female runners based in Bend, Oregon, practicing writer, and one of running's most outspoken advocates on a variety of topics and issues.We talked about a lot of different things over the course of this 60-ish minute conversation: coaching, how the various coaches she worked with throughout her own athletic career have influenced her current perspective and philosophy, and what can be done to create more opportunities for coaches, especially females; Picky Bars, and how she and husband Jesse Thomas don’t let the business consume every moment of their lives; her recent recommitment to leaving the sport better than she found it and using her platform to spur meaningful change even though she's no longer competing; her current relationship with running and what she misses most about being a professional athlete; what's changed in the sport since she turned pro in 2003 and whether or not she's worried about the sport's future; the advice she'd give 21-year-old Lauren upon graduating college; writing, when it came into her life, and what her process looks like; and much, much more.Music and editing for this episode of the morning shakeout podcast by John Summerford at BaresRecords.comComplete show notes here: https://www.themorningshakeout.com/podcast-episode-30-with-lauren-fleshman/Sign up here to get the morning shakeout email newsletter delivered to your inbox every Tuesday morning: www.themorningshakeout.com/subscribe/Support the morning shakeout on Patreon: www.patreon.com/themorningshakeout

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0:00.0	I'm not trying to build some empire where I need to be liked by as many people as possible.
0:05.5	I just want to be myself and be myself publicly.
0:10.0	Until I don't anymore.
0:11.4	And then I'll just shut down all my social media accounts.
0:15.6	That's Lauren Fleshman and this is retired pro athlete she She's a two-time
0:34.6	national champion on the track. She's represented in the United States numerous times
0:38.8	at global championships. She finished seventh in the world in the 5,000 meters in 2011 and I am super excited to have her on the show this week
0:47.8	We covered a lot of ground in our conversation. I think you'll really enjoy it.
0:52.5	We talked about the different coaches that she's worked with throughout her career, what she's learned from them,
0:58.9	and applied to her own coaching practice with Team Littlewing, which is based out of Bend, Oregon.
1:04.0	We talked about where her own running is at right now, even though she's a retired professional
1:07.9	athlete.
1:08.9	She's still running.
1:09.9	She's still doing workouts.
1:10.3	She hit the track with Elaine Flanagan just a few weeks before our conversation so she's still getting after it at her own speed these days
1:17.6	We also talked about what she would tell her younger self she wrote a blog post about that a year ago and it was more a
1:25.7	conversation with her her high school self. I wanted to know what she would tell
1:29.7	college Lauren when she graduated and started her professional career.
1:34.2	We talked about the future of the sport of professional running and if it has any vitality to it.
1:39.0	We talked about picky bars, company she founded with her husband, Jesse Thomas, and professional marathon
1:45.0	or Steph Bruce.
1:46.4	We talked about how they manage that in their household, so it doesn't totally dominate
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