Michael Bosstick
Appearances
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Michael and I have extreme clarity on what we stand for and what you can expect from our show is it is for people who want to be the best version of themselves.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
But Gary, you know this and this is being talked about more and more. You have to create value before you ask for money.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
If you could do that and you're listening and you have an idea, create the value before you ask for the money. It's same with if you're an employer at a job. People who are like, I want a raise, I deserve a raise. That's not the way to go about it. Create the value, build the value, then ask for the raise.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
It's similar to a health journey, right?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
You could tell that you're so passionate about it. You could tell you wake up with a pep in your step, you love it. But it's funny because- I really do. Yeah, I can see it.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
The next time I expect to be in your hyperbaric chamber, though.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I think the first step to a community is that you have to stop focusing on what you don't have. So if you have 10 followers, you need to serve those 10 followers. Like there's a hundred thousand of them and they will go out and they will tell 10 people each.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
So now let's say you have a hundred followers, then you need to serve the hundred where people make a mistake right now is everyone wants more, more, more. You need to focus on what you have and tend to that. That's the really big fundamental difference that I see. I also think you need to stay really true to who and what you stand for.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Michael and I have extreme clarity on what we stand for and what you can expect from our show is it is for people who want to be the best version of themselves. So if you're gonna come make fun of someone's morning routine, this isn't the show for you. We don't have a community that's trolling. That's not the community we have.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
We have people who are genuinely there to better their own lives, not to be me, not to be Michael, not to be Gary, to better their own life, little habits and takeaways. So we're very clear on who the audience is. I remember when I started the blog, I actually did a poster board. I named the girl that was reading the blog, I put how old she was.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I put her nail polish color, what she's listening to on the way to work. I'm very in tune with who is listening. And I think how you can do that is you can get in your DMs, you can talk to people, you can engage, do a lot of live events, do things where you're really listening to the consumer. When I meet someone who is following along, I don't talk. I don't need to talk.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
They've heard me on a mic. I listen. I ask questions. I think it's really just trying to serve them in a really organic way.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
We want you and Sage to come back on our show and do a him and her situation.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I think another thing just to add to that that I think is so important is with the person who's listening to me, they're the hero. I'm not the hero. I'm the guide. That's a very big difference. So what I want is I want Sally in Virginia to go on our Mel Robbins page. We shared Mel Robbins podcast today. And I want her sending Mel Robbins podcast to all the friends. She's the influencer.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I'm not the influencer. She's influencing her friends and family. She's the hero sharing the content. So why create content where the person who's receiving it feels like they're empowered to go tell all their friends and family? And that's a really big difference than making... Lauren Bostic, the hero. I can only talk about myself for so long.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
You can only hear my morning routine for so long before... There has to be something bigger than the person behind it. I think that's a really important thing or there's not longevity.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
it's also not a gossip show you're not going to get like the latest gossip that's not what the show is so i think just being really aligned with with who your consumer is is so important and so i mean obviously you're living busy lives and people ask me all the time like what's your morning routine what are your what are your top health tips
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I would say you have the credentials. I'm going to say you have the credentials. I think you have the credentials. I would also say.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
How about that?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Or if you can't do it this moment, go outside first thing in the morning and look out as far as you can. Like you said, there's ways. My thing with everything is there's ways to get creative. If you're sitting around making excuses of why you can't execute on something, you have to go around it. You have to find another way in.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I just think when people are like, I don't have time, then it's not maybe a priority.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
It's the most challenging thing ever. And you really have to know what you're signing up for. But I always say this, it's the most rewarding thing at the same time. And I think it can be simultaneously two things, but it is challenging.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Too bad you can't patent that, like Gary Brekka's ice cube set.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Oh, my God. I know.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Oh my God, that's smart.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And then you take the five and then you get another five off those five. And then you take the 10 and you get another. It's literally reps at the gym, like weights, And anyone can do it. I am not special. Anyone at home can put in the work. It just requires a lot of patience, discipline, and time.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
You've got to tell me who this guy is.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Honestly, I actually am going to go back to you. We probably messaged you.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
We understand. There's schedules. There's this. There's that. We totally understand. The point is you have to be persistent. Nine years. I'm a pest. I will literally be like, the book's coming out, time to come on. You never give up.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
mike the more the more there's depend potentially i'll let you go here she goes yeah we're gonna get good dirt now i i think the common denominator and after interviewing tons of different people with michael and i and i don't think i've ever told you this is that we both expect a lot out of life a lot we expect a lot and that common denominator has been pivotal as we gain success and momentum because we're both on the same treadmill
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And even though I'm this side of the brain and he's that side of the brain, we know to stay in our own lanes, but we're still on the same treadmill. And that has been something that I think is unique. I think a lot of, and Michael says this all the time, one wants to build a mom and pop cafe down the street and the other wants to build an empire. It's misaligned.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
community ice cream shop and by the way one is better than the other we just both have the same expectation for ourselves out of life we're constantly striving to be better fitter faster quicker without competing with anything just in our own lives the best version um but as as far as like working together i think we've really defined our lanes yeah how do you and your wife work together
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
What's a bill?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I forgot the keys at home, so he's driving me the keys.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And I run out of gas five times. I'm you.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I'm distracted with my vision. I'm distracted. How much capacity do you have? I can't be filling the car with gas.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
This is me. In my mind, I actually filled the car. This is me.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
But I literally ran out of gas twice. At least you go and get the gas at the gas station. I call Michael to bring me the gas. And then I say, why wouldn't you fill the car with gas?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
But you get like that with your vision. You get so into it and it's like so romantic and like, you know, you just can't, you don't have the capacity to even like do anything. Here's my honest response.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I think, though, with what all three of us do, and I would imagine Sage is like this, too. I think. with everything we do, we're constantly working in wellness and relationship. It's like, even, even in the morning when you're doing your morning routine, you integrate work into it by meditating on the work.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
You see one wants to lose weight and they start lifting and dah, dah, dah, and the other one doesn't. That's a misalignment.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Like it kind of all never shuts off when you're an entrepreneur, you kind of learn to meld it together. And you said on our show, you said, when I am traveling, I still bring the breath work. I still, you still bring certain tools.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Gary, you would be so surprised how well I understand the story. She was like, how could you forget pants? It's very helpful for me because I'm like, am I oblivious? People have called me oblivious, distracted.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I would say you have the credentials. We have a lot of different health professionals on and having you on was really interesting. The nutrient deficient part is not talked about enough and I've never had someone come on the show and talk about it like you. That's my next layer of what I'm doing. What nutrients am I missing and how can I figure that out?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
i'm just focused on what i have to do in this world and i can't worry about pants i get it i get it i can't worry about pants i'm sorry i bet the king looked and was like gary's got a pretty cool outfit going on like let's see if i can get something oh if you look at that if you look on my instagram and you look at the pictures
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
You should write it down. Write this on Instagram. Put the post up again and say, I just want to give you the context.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
The king was probably like, I love your pants. Where'd you get your pants?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
What was the king wearing? Was he wearing like a...
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
So he wants to know how to be healthier, faster, stronger.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
How do you recommend supplements over there?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
So you just said what you needed, and they helped get it.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I eat a bowl of ground beef every day. It's actually ground liver.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
It's the ancestral blend from force of nature. And it grew my hair because I'm so into beauty.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
It grew my hair. My hair was up to here. It completely grew my hair. I gained 60 pounds with my first pregnancy.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I had a whole insulin resistance journey, which weightlifting helped so much. I lost 60 pounds. I got pregnant again. I gained 60 pounds. And the thing that got it off was weightlifting and eating so much meat and eggs and raw milk. And I just started eating this bowl of like all these different organs online and people were like, wait, what? And I'm like, wait, my nails have never been thicker.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
My hair has never been longer. I've never had more energy. I'm satisfied. I'm losing weight. The aminos in it are just so incredible. And so I just started talking about these organs and people were like, wow. at first it was like almost, they couldn't believe it. But if you try the ancestral blend from force of nature, you can't taste it.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
You want to make me a liver right now? I'll eat it.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
You literally can't. I make like an in and out bowl where I'll do like a special sauce and I'll put like chopped tomato and lettuce and I'll make that bowl. And then the next day I'll do raw cheese with raw honey on top. And the next day I'll do like a fiesta bowl with like little bit of like siete chips. Like you can make the bowl really interesting. And that really helped me lose so much weight.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
So, It's a huge bowl of meat. And so that's been something that's really life-changing weightlifting, upping my protein. And then like the little tools, like the cold plunge, the sauna, the red light, all those things have been morning sunlight.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
maybe a little bit before the audience but we're also getting it kind of at the same time we just record the episode and release it later but we're learning the same way that people listening are learning i will tell you though we have a lot of different health professionals on and you know it's a lot of the same information having you on was really interesting because i realized the puzzle piece that's missing for me now and why i want to have you on like a hundred times is that
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
the nutrient deficient part is not talked about enough. And I've never had someone come on the show and talk about it like you. Really? Wow. So that's my next layer of what I'm doing. I'm interested in like what nutrients am I missing and how can I figure that out?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Is that in the salt you told me about?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
My four-year-old daughter asks me every morning for minerals. Yeah. Because I started giving her.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
She knows. That's so good. I love that. She asks me for Quintan minerals every morning. She goes, Mom, minerals.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Can you believe she, at four years old, she goes like this, ready for me to give it to her. She must intuitively know. She knows how her body feels. That's great. She puts salt under her tongue.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Yeah, both of us. We both do. We get very, very, very creative. So I'll give you an example. We were feeding our kids eggs, like three eggs every morning with a little bit of like sourdough, super minimal ingredients. There's no... Sourdough is amazing. There's no enriched... Fortified or enriched.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Sourdough is alive. And so we were doing that with like grass fed butter. And I noticed they were getting fatigued on that. But you got to get really creative with kids.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
So I started doing this. This recipe has changed my life. Three eggs, one banana mixed with a little bit of oatmeal. It has to be like the oatmeal that has no pesticides, like organic, plain, nothing else added oatmeal. You mix it together and mix pancakes.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
So they're getting protein. The little sweetness is from the banana and they are eating these pancakes all the time. What I've realized with kids is like you have to rebrand everything. So like I'll say, OK, we're going to have chocolate with strawberries. But what it actually is, is strawberries with a little bit of longevity mushrooms from Symbiotica.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Everything is a constant moment to rebrand. Like I'll be like, okay, we're going to have chocolate milk and it's raw milk with cacao.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
We give them thorn magnesium. So everything is like, they have cookie water. Cookie water is electrolyte water. that has no sugar in it. It's like coconut water. Everything is a rebrand with kids.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
You ever take the masa chips? I love the chips. You can even switch bags. If you want to get really creative, switch bags. Oh, wow. That's creative.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Oh, yeah.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I think a little lye is fine for kids. A little lye is fine for kids. You know what I'm going to do? I've already thought about it in my head. I'm going to go home and go, who wants lemonade? Perfect Aminos Lemon Lime.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Lemon Lime Perfect Amino.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
The Aminos, they're going to drink it as lemonade.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
know what i mean like we'll have if it's chips it's masa chips yeah you know we we have um it's a healthier alternative there's no junk food around right and we don't we're not ourselves we're not perfect no parent is my kids have had sugar before like lots of sugar and it's a nightmare yeah they act like a completely different child oh yeah i could tell you right now on christmas morning we had cinnamon buns we had whatever it was like dealing with a different
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
What did he do at Thanksgiving? I can't wait to hear.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
He's fine though. He doesn't care. Oh, he's totally fine. That's another way to get organ is by his meat sticks. I eat those every day. 60 grams of protein.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Where are you getting raw buffalo milk?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I don't have a buffalo dealer.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I want an invite from Paul and Gary and Sage to have a buffalo milk raw honey espresso.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
no but i'll have some people sometimes come on the show and they pick these obscure subjects and i'm like listen if you can't bicep curl a 15 pound weight like i don't i don't want to hear about it when he when you when he put he used to put his ipad on his penis with his headphones on and i was like no no no no no yeah we can't put the ipad i still have intentions for that we gotta get an emf protector blanket and you gotta
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Lambs underwear. I'm buying you some of that. I'm just kidding.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
My advice would be define your roles, define expectation, define one year, five year, 10 year. What does it look like? Where you want to be headed and make sure you're pushing the same boulder up the same hill.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Michael and I met when we were 12 on the playground.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
He has talked about QuickBooks in the bedroom. The last thing I would say.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I'm doing my red light therapy. Can you shut the hell up?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And we we sort of like had this like chemistry at 12 years old, which is wild to look back on. It was really intense chemistry, not just romance, but also just friendship. And we dated from 12 to 15 and separated when our separate ways, but always kept in touch and kind of maintain that chemistry.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I think that's beautiful. At the end of the day, when you're 90 years old, you want to be holding hands with her. So true. If you really look at that, it's not worth it to disrupt that.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Just go see. Just go see. Just to like have a little compare and contrast therapy. Compare and contrast therapy. A little cold plunge sauna.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I would want to go see what it's like out there on the streets.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Any takers?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
At Lauren Bostic on Instagram. Oh boy, there they come.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
that's exactly my exact answer I think you might have pulled that answer that was mine from a different podcast I actually think go pull the clip Lewis Howes School of Greatness asked a similar question and that's how I answered it we're gonna go pull that tape and then he just he just rebranded it I think could be spousal plagiarism we did that episode in maybe 2020 if you go back to 2016 I think you pulled that clip from the thing that I said I'm just kidding well
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
She can come on the podcast next time.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Now the pressure is like really on you. My thing is like, stop. Expect the most that you can expect out of life. Squeeze the orange to the fullest. You are the creator of your life. You have the power to create your own life. Your thoughts predict your future. And I just think when you understand that no one else is going to do it for you, it's really empowering. And so that's sort of my message.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
It's like, how do I be the best version of myself that Michael copied and inspire other people to do that?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I really do. I feel like I've known you guys all my life. You literally can come on. I'm sad. I don't want to go home. Anytime you and Sage want to come back on our show or you can come back every time you're in Austin, we'd love it.
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He studied biology.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
No, he's joking. Yeah, I was joking.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Like since he was 12.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
started bartending, decided to launch the blog, The Skinny Confidential, while I was going to San Diego State. There was always something missing for me. And what I've realized now is I was missing the entrepreneur piece. Yeah. No one like there wasn't like a class or something at this time. There was nothing that could tell me like you're an entrepreneur.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I felt it, but I didn't know what it was. I don't know how to articulate it because there's this before Instagram. I had no idea. And so I was like, what if I took what these sororities are doing and put it online? Because they're charging $800 a month. What if I could do this online? What if I could do it for free? And what if I didn't just make it about me?
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What if I made it about other people's morning routines and tips and tricks? 14 years ago, I launched the blog. Again, no Instagram. It didn't exist.
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Just blogs. And it launched as like a resource, Skinny Confidential. And now 14 years later.
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How did people start following it? I think that it was different. I think that it was disruptive. I started talking about Botox and boob implants and health and wellness and supermodels and all these different things. Whereas at the time, it was just one person blogging about their nail polish or their dress they were wearing.
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This is Botox at this time. No one was even like, they weren't even touching it. Now, I mean, everyone talks about that.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
It was just like, yeah, it was like very like honest. And what seven years in, he was like, hey, we should start a podcast.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And I was like, let's literally take exactly what I'm doing and talk on a mic. And that's sort of where the him and her show came. And through that, he saw space. He saw white space and started Dear Media.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
The inventor, one of the inventors of the airbag.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
It's funny, I look back on the bartending and I remember using it to my advantage. Meaning I was in this bar where there was all these very rich, successful men and I used it as a moment to multitask. So yes, I was making money and building my blog on the side, but I also was using all of these guys in the bar as like, I'd get advice from this guy.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And then this guy, I had another guy friend that was there that was like, you can't lead with your looks. You need to have like an actual tangible business. And then I had this airbag guy giving me his advice. And I sort of, when you say I didn't have mentors, weirdly enough, looking back, I had all these little micro mentors.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And then I also at the same time was like learning to multitask, make drinks, be on stage. When you're a bartender, you're on stage. You better bet your ass that if you're giving the guy at the end not enough attention, he's not going to tip as well. So I'm learning how to manage all these men that are successful and make sure I'm getting the tips I need to get while also picking up.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
experience from them and advice and so i think if you're in a spot right now like i was when i was bartending instead of thinking i have nothing and i don't i don't know what i can do use the environment to your advantage and see how you can work it because truly i learned more bartending and being on stage as a bartender than i learned in college yeah and i can honestly say that i went for four years and i learned so many skills multitasking
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learning about different people, listening. That's a good one. Listening. Reading people's energy. What do they need? And I just think that the mentors is in the micro moments. And so that moment right there to me with that guy who told me I'm never going to make money blogging was a moment that actually is pivotal because it propelled me to sort of almost prove him wrong.
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Not just him, but like that energy wrong.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And I think that I knew that I needed to find a way out of there and make my own money and forge independence. So the bartending to me, I always say this to people, it's a great way to build a business. Because I would go at night and then during the day I would build the business.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
So when people are like, I can't, I work nine to five, my advice is stop working nine to five, go get a bartending job and do what you want to do on the side and do your side hustle and work towards that. There's a lot of ways to get creative. I think a really important... way to be when you're starting a business is to be resourceful.