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Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas

Lauren Fleshman & Jesse Thomas

Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas are world class professional endurance athletes, authors, speakers, and co-own a nationally distributed food products business called Picky Bars. They also happen to be married, still, and are raising two small children. They use their experience, stories, writing, and humor to answer to answer listener questions about sports, family, business, and the balance between all three! It"s a circus, but hey, we"re all in it together!

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12: Burnout, Gender Stereotypes, and Goals You Can’t...

Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas ·

2018/07/26

Jesse’s feeling the burn of re-entry after Challenge Roth, having stacked his off-season plate a bit too full with all the non-triathlon things he said he’d give his full attention to after the race. It’s a classic “whoops” move, but like a good work/play/love advocate he and Lauren are making sure there’s still plenty of balance amongst the chaos. This includes some new, very literal balancing activities, and we’re sure the folks at the yoga studio and surf wave are now referring to JT as “the guy

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11: Out Of Stock: On Pushing Through Pain in Business...

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2018/07/19

This week’s episode dives immediately into the almost-TMI honest, rough water deep end about Picky Bars’ current inventory struggles. Lauren and Jesse talk candidly about the background of Picky’s production and growth cycle, and how a perfect storm of supplier, manufacturer, and brand change decisions conspired into a massive out-of-stock issue. As the company owners and without outside investment, making the call to either “ship and duck” or address the quality issues came with big implications on

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10: Challenge Roth [Special Episode]

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2018/07/10

And they’re back! (Stateside AND in the studio…) Lauren and Jesse battle jet lag from their trip to Germany with a special episode about the “Hallmark” of the “Cool Races in Cool Places” tour - Challenge Roth! After spending a significant amount of time apart from Lauren, the kids, and Picky Bars to tune-up (Heilbronn 70.3) and dial it in for an A-race effort at Roth, the fam reunited just in time for things to get crazy. Hear about how they managed another family race-vacation - Lauren travelling

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09: Nerves, Body Image, “Happiness Differentials”,...

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2018/06/06

This week the work, sport, family balance in the Flomas house was less of a flashy juggling act and more of a clumsy dropping things and throwing them at the wall. From birthday parties to high school reunions, peak triathlon training and sleep training, Lauren and Jesse keep it real on managing it all (or not), diffusing fights with snacks (works for kids and adults alike!), and this week’s listener questions: Dealing with pre-race anxiety Managing the athlete/coach relationship Maintaining

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08: The Energy Well, Aging in Sport, #SuperAdvanced,...

Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas ·

2018/05/31

Listen, even if you aren’t interested in the topics in this episode, do yourself a favor and listen to the final few minutes where Jesse explains the origination of #superadvanced, including a memorable dinner table moment with Jude and an avocado. (But if you are interested, here are this week’s listener questions): When to push through fatigue in training/work, and when you need a break Redefining athletic goals with age (Shoutout masters athletes!) Living unfairly in someone else’s

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07: To Our Younger, On-again, Off-again,...

Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas ·

2018/05/22

If this week’s What’s Going On?! segment were a Friends episode, it’d be titled, “The One Where Jesse’s More Nervous for PPP than Kona.” He and Lauren recap their perspective Pole, Pedal, Paddle races - spoiler: they both rocked it - and the super secret Picky Bars conference call they just took from the living room - spoiler: it’s a secret - before diving into these listener-instigated topics: Lessons for your younger self Training during and after pregnancy On-again, off-again relationships

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06: "The Sky is Made of PB&J" (a.k.a. Get your head...

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2018/05/16

It’s a big week in the Flomas household, as both Lauren and Jesse prepare for the “Bend Olympics” - Pole, Pedal, Paddle! This multi, multi-sport event is the ultimate PNW challenge and a town treasure. Lauren’s holding down the run leg for her mom friend team, “Play Date,” and Jesse’s tackling the ski, ski, bike, run, kayak, sprint course solo looking for his first non-asterisk win. After some LOLs over their differing race preps, they jump into listener questions. Topics include: Getting into a

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05: Wild Wildflower, the Intersection of...

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2018/05/10

Fresh off their wild Wildflower weekend, Jesse and Lauren give a glimpse at what a weekend racing as a pro athlete looks like when the whole damn family is in tow. From how the change in environment may’ve affected his performance to how well compression socks perform as emergency first aid to a four year old’s head, it’s not your typical race recap. (Actual race recap here.) From there they jump right into a batch of listener questions, tackling topics like: Helping someone struggling with

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32:53

04: Training Together, Taking it to the Next Level,...

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2018/05/01

With race season around the corner - Can Jesse bring home a seventh consecutive W at Wildflower this weekend?? - this episode has them ramping up and dialing in the feeling of peak training. (The intro tinkering seems to have started paying some dividends...) Listener questions this week include: Training together - yay or nay? How to tell when it’s time to move from amateur to elite What makes a good coach, and are all pro athletes qualified to coach by virtue of their training? Developing

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03: Buzzing From Desi

Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas ·

2018/04/24

It’s Boston Marathon morning! Lauren and Jesse are buzzing after Des Linden’s big win, which brings up her new coffee company (Linden & True), which conveniently segues into a fresh batch of listener questions about biz, sport, and life at home: Project management at home Getting back to training after a break Dealing with parent guilt of time away from training and running a business Picky Bars thoughts on bringing on investors Jesse kicks things off by talking about how he talks too

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02: Quality Time, Getting Sponsors, Hiring People,...

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2018/04/03

Lauren and Jesse don't realize the podcast is already named, oh well. Then they answer these questions - - What’s the most effective way to spend quality time together when you’re tired from training and work? - How do you go about securing sponsorships as an athlete? - How did you get past the point of having to do everything for your business to being able to hire people to help? - When you were first starting out as entrepreneurs - how did you decide whether to offer health care for

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01: Making Time, Encouraging Kids, Modifying...

Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas ·

2018/04/02

After an obviously unrehearsed but awesomesauce intro, Lauren and Jesse answer these questions: How do you make time for each other that isn't focused around business and/or training? How do you encourage your kids in sports without pushing them too hard? Do you modify your training to account for stress at work or at home? When you started Picky Bars, did you set a "Done" line, where you would stop the business? The episode touches on setting work/life boundaries, particularly when you own a

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Intro: Who we are and why you should listen to us, maybe

Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas ·

2018/04/02

Lauren and Jesse get off to a rip rocking start by introducing each other, and explain why the world needs yet another podcast! They describe how they intend to learn from each other and their listeners as they answer questions on sports, family, business, and the balance between all three.

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