103. Lauren Fleshman
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
"I hope I’m always willing to be wrong, willing to learn, and able to get better." —Lauren Fleshman
Lauren Fleshman is many things: She's a retired professional runner, a coach, the co-founder of Picky Bars, the co-creator of the Believe training journals, the creator of the Wilder retreat, one of the faces of Oiselle, a vocal USA Track & Field board member, a co-host of the Work, Play, Love podcast, wife to professional triathlete, and mom to Jude and Zadie. Phew! On this episode, Lauren talks about all of it, including her journey to becoming an entrepreneur, her honest thoughts on body image, and the real effect having kids had on her marriage. This is a fun, no-holds-barred conversation with one of the leading voices in the running industry.
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What you’ll get on this episode:
- What takes up the majority of Lauren’s time right now (2:00)
- How Lauren became a professional runner (3:35)
- Lauren reflects on her favorite race distance and her decision to stop competing professionally (10:00)
- How having children affected Lauren’s career, and what running was like for her during and after pregnancy, plus how becoming a mom changed her as an athlete (13:00)
- Whether Lauren has always been confident speaking up and using her voice, and how she developed that confidence (23:00)
- Lauren talks about what she sees as the biggest problems facing professional runners right now, and what makes her want to speak up the loudest (28:45)
- What Lauren would tell a 16-year-old runner who wants to go pro (33:30)
- How Lauren became an entrepreneur, and the evolution of Picky Bars (36:00)
- How Lauren got involved with Oiselle, what her role is with the company now, and where she sees the company going (43:20)
- How Lauren met her now-husband, Jesse Thomas, and what their relationship is really like — plus the struggles they’ve faced together since having kids (52:30)
- What Lauren’s relationship with her body is like right now, and what she wants more people to feel about their own bodies (1:03.15)
What we mention on this episode:
"10 Reasons the 5K is Freaking Awesome" via Runner’s World
"Welcome to the New School" via Oiselle
"Dear Younger Me" by Lauren Fleshman
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Aftershocks. |
| 0:08.5 | Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Allie Thaller and today I'm joined by |
| 0:12.8 | a woman with many titles, the one and only Lauren Flushman. Lauren is a former professional runner, |
| 0:19.2 | she's the co-founder of Pickybars, the co-creator of the believe training journals, |
| 0:24.1 | and the wife to super triathlete Jesse Thomas and mom to Jude and Zadie. |
| 0:29.2 | Maybe you know her as one of the faces of Wazelle, maybe you've attended her super popular wild |
| 0:34.1 | or retreat, or maybe you listen to her podcast Work, Play, Love. However you know Lauren, |
| 0:39.6 | you're about to get to know her even better and we have a lot of ground to cover on this episode, |
| 0:44.1 | so let's get right into it. |
| 0:50.6 | Lauren Flushman, welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. I am so excited to have you here today. |
| 0:56.8 | I am so excited to be here, Allie, thanks for the invitation. |
| 0:59.9 | Awesome. Well, I know that you know how good runs work. They start with a warm-up and we do the |
| 1:04.8 | same here on The Alley on the Run Show, so warm everyone up. Tell us who you are, where you're from, |
| 1:10.5 | and what you do. My name is Lauren Flushman. I am a recently sort of, recently retired professional |
| 1:17.9 | runner. Chuck and Field was my specialty with a little cross country on the side and one marathon. |
| 1:23.7 | I am the co-founder of Picky Bars, which is a real food balanced for sport |
| 1:29.5 | food business. We have bars and oats, and I've been doing that since 2010, and I also am a writer, |
| 1:37.0 | author of the Believe Training Journal of my friend Row, and we're in our fourth year publishing that, |
| 1:43.1 | and I coach professional runners, and I host Running and Writing Retreats. |
| 1:48.4 | Yeah, you have roughly one million titles. We're going to break all of those down. But I mean, |
| 1:53.2 | first, I'm so impressed that we were able to find time to do this because you're so busy. |
| 1:57.6 | Oh my gosh. What takes up the majority of your time right now? |
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