11: Out Of Stock: On Pushing Through Pain in Business + Sport

Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas

Jesse Thomas

Health & Fitness, Fitness & Nutrition, Sports & Recreation

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

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 both personal finances and the integrity of the brand. But just like a bad race, it’s best to be honest about the real-life struggles of entrepreneurship, rather than pretending they didn’t happen, so they lay all the cards on the table, including some news about exciting updates just on the horizon.

Another batch of superb listener questions pivot the conversation to a variety of topics including:

Learning to push through pain in racing
“Sharenting”
Defining and pursuing your own definition of success
Creating & maintaining a brand voice

“Practice makes perfect” might be cliche (it is, but it’s also true) and better suited for shooting free throws than getting in the hurt locker, but Lauren and Jesse have both developed a knack for embracing rather than running from the inevitable pain that comes with endurance sports. They share their tips on that before transitioning into a discussion about “sharenting” - the sharing of your kid on social media - and how much or little they consider it when posting about Jude and Zadie’s adorable(-ly awkward, sometimes) antics, pursuing your own definition of success in a vague space like sport, art, or music, and finally how they’ve managed to hold on to the core of the brand they started eight years ago while giving Picky Bars employees the reins to let it evolve and grow. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Oh yeah.
0:07.0	All right.
0:08.0	Welcome to the Work Play Love Podcast where we answer your questions about the intersection of work, family, and sports. I'm Lauren
0:16.2	Fleshman and I'm Jesse Thomas, Lauren's husband. I like the way that sounds.
0:20.8	Yeah, threw it in there. It's been 10 years but it still sounds good.
0:24.0	All right.
0:25.0	Yeah, so let's talk about some stuff.
0:27.0	Oh, but we're going to answer some questions, but first we're going to get into
0:29.2	what's going on?
0:31.6	Everybody's favorite section. Everybody's favorite section.
0:33.0	Everybody's favorite song intro.
0:36.0	What's going on?
0:38.0	We got back from Challenge Roth and you can check out our episode about that one, the Special Edition episode.
0:47.0	We, and so I guess check that one out for all the information.
0:52.0	But now we're back and we're back in we're back right
0:55.9	into the mix yeah right into it right into some work we got a lot of we have a lot of
1:02.1	problems yeah we have a lot of piggy bar stuff going on right now and it
1:05.1	started right before you left the country which is so exciting. Yeah it was
1:08.3	perfect timing. Yeah it was great. So I'll give this super quick back story.
1:13.0	Yeah, because this is the main stuff that we're working on right now.
1:16.0	We want to talk about this because...
1:18.0	This is part of the podcast.
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