I just had this really cheesy like song come into my brain it was like bibibib bibibbibbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb episodes? I think that sounds great. Well what is this what are the episodes of what? This is okay so this is my name is Jesse Thomas and I am a professional

Iron Man triathletes business owner, husband and father, and you are.

Oh, my name is Lauren Fleshman.

I am a retired professional track and field athlete,

specializing in 5K up to marathon briefly, co-founder of Picky Bars with Jesse over here,

and a mother of two kids, 4 and 0. And what else do I do I do I write writer?

Yep, I write and do things that's what I do and so we are here today to start our own podcast because we decided the world desperately needs another

podcast. Yeah I haven't seen anyone making podcasts at all in the last couple years so

so we're like we should do on.

But we actually kind of hate the word podcast.

I hate the word podcast as much as I hate the word blog.

I feel like, you know, they're both kind of weird words.

They just kind of bug me now. They're overused but we're just going to do it.

Oh and we're married. Oh yeah we're married. We've got to mention that. So we've been married for 10 years. We met back in

1999. Yeah and dated on and off we were Stanford student athletes and yeah and they

say after 10 years you should kind of like reinvigorate your marriage and do something different so that's why we're here.

Yeah so this is this is basically just a marriage tool for us.

It's couples counseling.

Yeah, but what it what the point actually of this thing is for Lauren and I we have obviously significant experience in

sports our own sports athletic pursuits in family obviously and then also in business and entrepreneurship and

maybe even more importantly the interweaving and the mix of those three things

and balancing those three through the day, the week, the month, the year, and the career.

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