Lauryn Bosstick
Appearances
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
The reason I bring that up is I think if you look at the platform now, and obviously you just came on the show, be able to speak to people like yourself and others. Sometimes people will come to us and say, oh, I can't believe you had so-and-so. And I'm like, yeah, but did you see it was episode 748?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
The brand, The Skinny Confidential, was started in 2009. And the podcast that we produced was started in 2016. And we didn't pull a single dollar out of that podcast until 2018. And then it was...
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
So the reason I mentioned this is because for what we do and the people we speak to in the communities that we're building, I think sometimes people see the end result of something, I'm sure with you as well. And they're like, how do I do that quick? What's the hack? Like, what was the moment?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I'm like, well, it's just a lot of repetition, slow and steady over long periods of time with consistency and honestly, like no way around it. A lot of hard work.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
If I put like the Dear Media executive hat on, the moments when my eyes glaze over and I like tune out of a conversation, someone will come to me and be like, I'm going to be the next Joe Rogan and tell me how I make money doing this and then I'll think about doing it. I'm like-
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
first of all if your first question is i need to make money before i do it and you're going to be someone who's at the top of the heap i'm like let's let's rewind this is very competitive it's hard it's going to take a long time likely before you see anything and i think when people come to the realization like oh this is not just like easy and i can't just create a post or do a podcast or create a youtube video and make millions of dollars like no you got it it's a lot of it's a lot of repetitions i i totally agree and i think you know from my perspective and i don't
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Thank you for doing this and making the trip.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
If the way that we think about everything is, you know, if you look at any of our businesses, especially like we're sitting in the Dear Media office, I don't we don't have a marketing department. There is no marketing team. We don't spend money on marketing. There's no like head of, you know, CMO or there's nothing like that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
The way that we've always thought about everything is if you serve an audience or a community with stuff that they find valuable, that then they can share to enhance other people's lives in their circles. that they will do the marketing in the word of mouth for you. And that is, to me, the most powerful form of marketing to begin with.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And so I think people building a business, they've spent all this time and energy trying to figure out how to market something to build more sales or more revenue and all this.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And it's like, if you just continue to serve your customer and your audience and make sure that they feel valued time and time again, and they're okay knowing that you're building a business and you're financially gaining from it, but that you're also putting their interests first, And then the rest of the stuff kind of takes care of itself.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And I think, you know, Lauren and I are very self-aware knowing we're not for everybody. We don't try to be for everybody. You may, you know, Jillian Michaels came on our show. I'm sure you know. And she said something that I thought was so profound. Like you love her or hate her. You know exactly who she is.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And that's how we try to do everything. It's like. We know that some people are going to tune in first time and say, why are these people talking like this? Why are they cussing? Why are they talking about these? They're going to tune out and write a bad review and never come back. We're not trying to win that person over.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
We're trying to not only win, but keep the people that are there and resonate with the message that are being served with the content or the information that we're providing and enhancing their lives and coming in and leaving as a better version of themselves. And I think that's what's over the years built the businesses.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
We'll do another one.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I mean, you just did our show and, you know, I'm sure at times sometimes people... some of the guests will be like, why are these guys getting so, we asked you, what's your routine? What is your brand? Because we want to be the conduit when Gary Brekker comes on the show, our audience is getting the specific things that make Gary Brekker's life great. Or the specific things you're doing.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I could have brought you on and I could have selfishly just spent an hour talking about my back and you for sure would have given me all this great advice. But I saved that for off air.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
That was strategic. To me, I think hosts of these kind of properties make a mistake when they make it too much about them. Of course, there's going to be some selfish questions that are self-serving that also we hope the audience gets by from.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
But the whole idea is what you highlighted, which is we're the conduits for you to talk through us to the audience so that they can extract whatever value they can from the show and then
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Where's my reading glasses? They look smarter here.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
No, because I use the red light now.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I tell you guys all the time. Here's the problem. Because I'm not a human biologist and because I'm not a doctor, I will say things like, hey, I went in the red light bed and healed my eyes. And people are like, you... You're a kook. You're giving false. You know what I mean? Like, I'm like, no, it actually works. Maybe I should stop talking because I don't have the credentials.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I would also say it's fair to say that maybe you can't trust every doctor's credentials these days. Some of them, yes. Some of them.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Well, I'll pick on us for a minute. I think, yeah, when people say they don't have time and we're not the first people to say this, we believe that just means it's not a priority to you. But if you look at our show specifically over the course of roughly nine years. we did not have the resources or success that we have now in the beginning.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And it's been an exploration of speaking to people like yourself and figuring out what we could do cost effectively at each stage of our life to enhance and improve. So, of course, now maybe you get access to a better cold plunge or a red light bed. But right in the early
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
days I remember we would be in our condo in a cold shower or we'd be upstairs you know on the balcony trying to get some sunlight like or we'd be you know in a gym like there's a lot of things that we did and yeah again this goes back to the now it's like it's not the end product but we're further along and people say easy for you to say but I'm like no go back to the early stuff right I had none of this stuff I tell people to just take Tupperware containers and fill them full of water and put them in their freezer and then take them out that's great and just drop them in your in your in your bathtub
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
We talked about breathwork on your show. I remember putting on Wim Hof's three-minute free YouTube video and doing that. Like I would do that for years.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
That's so smart.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
We can do it in pink. This is something for your younger audience. I'm sure you've got young guys and girls that listen. What I would say is when you feel like when you don't have as many resources and you don't have as much time, but when you're younger...
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
you have way more, like now that we were married and we have kids and we have businesses, like it's even more compressed and we're squeezing in more.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And so again, I think you just have to be smart with how you utilize your time and the things that you make a priority where, you know, in the early days when we were more resource dropped, we had so much more time, but we weren't as efficient with our time, if that makes sense.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I'm not a human biologist and because I'm not a doctor, I should stop talking because I don't have the credentials.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
We're having a guest on tomorrow that we've been messaging for nine years. Nine years.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I want to see when I messaged you. For two or three years. You did, yeah. Let me see when I messaged you. I want to see. I think this is so important to talk about. Two years, I think. Because we have a bigger platform now.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
To be honest, this particular guest, I understand why you have to work for it. And I understand why it took time. And I understand why this person's thoughtful about what properties they would go on. And they've earned that right based on the things that they've accomplished in life. We don't take that as, oh, we're offended or we're defeated or we're going to give up.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
It's just like, okay, not the right time. We'll get them one day. And I think for anyone, whether it's a business or they're pursuing a love interest or whatever, it's like you have to have that kind of tenacity and that patience to go after something like that because a lot of people will take that no or take that nay say and they'll just be completely defeated. And that doesn't serve you.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Completely different.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
dinner with couples will say like i don't want to talk about business at this specific time or these are the times when you can approach with these things or not i think both of our personalities are so type a like we we want to be able to talk about all of it all the time like you know sometimes we're not talking about the business obviously but i would find it to be very restrictive to not talk about something we're so passionate about like all the time with our together you know what i mean yeah i agree but you know there's a notion that you can separate business from your personal life and we found that to be completely false right i mean if you have a
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I say one person, like, you know, you both want to do an ice cream shop. One person wants to franchise them across the country. One person wants to have the
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
She drives without a license and without a credit card and runs out of gas.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
She blames me like it's my fault that she drove a car.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Okay, I got to read it. My honest response about this is, and you picked up on it, we're both very type A. We're both used to running our own business. I think a common misconception is we do the show together. I run Dear Media. She runs her business. And then we come together and do the show. But we have completely separate teams and separate roles.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
But again, we're like all partnered and everything. So it gets a little messy, obviously, because we're married and everything's equal parts.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
um but i am personally someone that needs to be held to account and needs to be checked and if not it could very quickly become the michael show and so she is like it's it would not be good for me to date or be married to somebody who is more submissive i was like yeah whatever you want because again i'll run off the rails and then i'm like it's again there's a million ideas and it's like well what are you focusing on and i think
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
We kind of hold each other to that account. And then also when Lauren says we don't compete, we don't externally compete with outside people. Like we're very focused in our own world, but we both expect a lot from each other and want to be better versions of ourselves tomorrow than we were today.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
yeah and so it's like you know the work is you know and it's kind of like a masochistic way it's it's never done and we're never satisfied and it's not because there's a certain number i love it says blissfully dissatisfied yeah blissfully dissatisfied that's so true you get one shot at life and i think we both want to see how far we can push it not in a way where you're sacrificing health or family or a relationship yeah or doing things out of integrity but like you know let's not settle let's figure out how much further and i think sometimes a lot of
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
couples will get in a situation where one of the partners wants the other one to settle or stop pursuing something. And I don't think, I actually don't think that's healthy. I don't think that's healthy either.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
There's a lot of innovation happening.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
We're going to do the cheek swap. Well, one of the things that we're, you know, again, we are not the experts. We bring on the experts. But I think one thing that we've tried to do with our show for years is ignite the interest of health in this country. And I'm excited because of what's going on now. And I really want to touch on that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I think conversations that were happening in small niche communities are becoming wider now and broader and things that people would look at you like you were crazy for saying in the past, you know, like you're doing a cold one, you're doing a sign, you're in red light, you're in this, but people like what is like these fringe things that you would kind of like call pseudoscience I think is now being taken very seriously.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
So, you know, we're super excited about some of the stuff that's happening finally here. Cause to your point, There's been serious issues in this country. Oh, totally.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
You touched on it on, on our show. It's like. we don't want to be talking about all these things with all these great people on the show and then not practicing what we preach. Yes. Right. And like there was there's a journey where we realize right around the time we had our first kids, like we are not the healthiest versions of ourselves. We're not doing the things that we should be doing.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And we have access to people like yourself and others that are sharing this information. Why not implement it at a greater level and also not just do ourselves, but be an example? And we had this this great guy come on the podcast and he said, stop being the tugboat and be the lighthouse. He's like, stop trying to tell people what to do and drag them a long time.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Just go do it and you'll inspire other people. So I think like one, we want to be an example to each other, but two, for our kids and our families and then the other people. And we also don't want to be phonies where we're having all these great voices on and then, you know, eating like shit and not taking care of ourselves and not sleeping right.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Like we we always say we're lucky to get the information right.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I would love to do that. Why I think it's so important what you're doing. is if you just pull the data set of call it like 700 episodes and we're saying this is the first time someone's coming on talking about nutrient efficiency. It's important. I'm just talking about like the spectrum of conversations. And you know how important that information is to people.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And you could get all of these people talking about weights and need and, you know, cold plunging. But if you don't have that piece of it, I think that's where a lot of frustrations happening with people. They're like, well, I'm doing all the things I'm cold plunging. I'm eating, I'm solid. Like, why am I not getting the results I want?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Or like at night they'll say we're having vitamin water and it's like thorn magnesium.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Have you tried the Vandy chips?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
What's funny, though, about kids, and you know this, if you don't have junk in the house, they don't want the junk.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
We're the same. I love Paul. He's a mutual friend. I'm not going to be that militant.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Buffalo milk lattes at my place. He usually makes me fresh orange juice every day. We'll meet a lot of these characters, and I love many of them. But what I say all the time, especially the audience, like, I don't want to hear about EMFs in the headphones from somebody if they're not doing... You just bought an EMF cordless headphone.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
If they're not doing... Like if you're not going to the gym and you're not eating whole foods and you're not sleeping right and you're not doing the basics and you're telling me about my EMFs, I'm like...
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Yeah. If you can't do like 20 pushups, I don't want to hear about EMFs.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Exactly.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Bowels. Bowels.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Yeah, I like to lure them in and now they'll be like, wait, what did that guy just say?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
That's important. Yeah, I would say like the high level is align on the ultimate vision. And I, again, I give that example of like one person wants to build the ice cream shop. One person wants to build the ice cream shop that franchises to across the country. I think sometimes people say they want to do a business and they don't agree on the scale.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I thought she was a substitute teacher. Fully developed. She was fully developed and you were small, right? I was 12 years old, Gary. I hadn't even hit puberty, I don't think.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And then in addition to that, I would say, you know, you have to kind of, I don't believe that you can have an equal decision making process in any way, meaning I don't like when there's co-CEOs and there's like there's got to be one person that kind of owns one specifically.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And so in our in our world, when it comes to the business finances, I'll typically have the kind of final say just because maybe I'm more skilled at numbers when it comes to the creative vision.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
packaging you try to get involved in the cover art yesterday i was like yeah don't get out get like i think i think we we really like kind of say okay when it comes to like who needs to be the final decision maker on this and especially for the team too right looking to when it comes to this specific lane we define that um don't talk about uh quick books during sex the other thing i think i would talk
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Don't talk about QuickBooks.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
No.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
No, but I think the last thing is that you have to understand that it is a lot of turmoil. And if you're not okay with that and you want it to be roses all the time when you're trying to... If you run a business with anyone... There's chaos. Whether it's your partner or your coworkers, running a business is hard. It's not easy.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And so there's going to be moments and you want somebody that's going to be there in the trenches with you when it gets hard. And you can't do this thing where a couple's like, I don't want it to affect the relationship. It's going to affect the relationship. You just have to agree that you're going to work through it together. Yes. There's no way that it's like it's never going.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Yeah, it's it's hard. It's difficult.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
We always say like, listen, we're very motivated to build these ventures together and build big things. But we kind of already feel like we're playing with house money in the sense that we're very happy in our relationship and with our family. And if you were to strip everything away and still it was just us with our kids and each other.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
yeah like i already feel like it's 41 right yeah and so the rest of stuff it's like you wouldn't when you're when you go to a casino and say playing with house money like you don't you don't risk what's already you don't risk the winning or the the base or the right you know what you came with right yeah like it's already just your winnings yeah yeah and so like if it ever starts to get to a place where the business is toxic to our family and our well-being and our relationship it's not worth it i would like you to go date someone for a few months that's submissive to see how that goes bullshit you
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
But that's the other thing I say all the time. I'm like, listen, you find another guy.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
You find another guy to deal with your bullshit. I don't think they exist. She always says like, oh, what happened? I'm like, listen, you find that guy. God bless him.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Yeah.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
and one of those things in high school where you know we were never together and we would always like we'd be with other people but then there'd be like that one random night at a high school party we'd both be at the same place and then yeah something would happen again and then we'd not see each other it was always a string of connection but i mean the chances that you guys didn't go to different towns we did we did oh we did we left no i left his ass i made him chase me for like nine years good for you
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
But to be like a little bit sappy for a moment. And I think, you know, doing what we all do for a living, you can kind of sometimes get lost thinking that that's all real, you know, going to these places and meeting these incredible people and having these big conversations and all of that. And I think
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
we are good at coming back to each other and saying like, it's, we're just living a normal life with our family and our kids in a normal relationship. Nothing too, you know, we met, we were 12, like all these things. And you know, you gotta be able to separate some of that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I think sometimes people build big businesses or big brands or big personalities and they get drunk on that and they get drunk on the press clippings and they, and that, and they think that there's now this new version of themselves. Yeah.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And we really try to kind of stay away from that and acknowledge that we're fortunate to be in some of those situations and around some of those people and conversations. But at the end of it, it's like this is the core and that's what we protect.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I think to be an ultimate human, you're actualizing your real full potential every single day and you're not settling. And that you're becoming a better version of yourself every day. And that you're doing things not only to help yourself, but to help others. And so they can be the best versions of themselves.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And I think if if anything, take financial success or business out of it, if if you're adding value to the world and you're improving yourself, to me, that's the ultimate human. That could be in any way. It could be the best parent. You could be the best husband. You could be the best whatever. But to me, that is the definition of a successful life.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
But Gary, don't you feel like it really just comes down. It's, it's the simple things.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
It's, you know, we overcomplicate everything.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And even like going back to the conversation we had, it's the essentials. It's like, if you, even if you take the essentials of life, you know, like, I think we're living in a time where there's so much information and people are so confused and they're getting caught in the clouds and they're not just grounding on the simple things.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
No, no, no, he had to work for it. I went to the Harvard of the Desert, the University of Arizona.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Well, that's the other thing too. Simple thing for the young guys that listen to you. you want to have bad health problems and bad financial outcomes, pick the wrong woman.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
You know what I mean? Like that, like I talk about this all the time. Like it's so simple to screw up your life by just picking the wrong partner, men and women or, you know, whatever. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's like just a lot, again, it's just simple things. And I think a lot of people just get off track with so much optionality.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
I was a human biologist. I studied anatomy.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
No, but we went and partied and ran around and then somehow reconnected over, you know, I don't know, mutual friend's birthday party or something ever since then we've been together. So it was just like this weird connection that we had since we were kids. And I would always tell her that she was the love of my life and all that, as cheesy as it sounds.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
But for whatever reason. Yeah.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
yeah so so we got back together and we i was a bartender and michael was like you said doing all different kinds of endeavors i was just i was one of i i've always worked for myself and i was trying all these different things serial entrepreneur yeah i was like in aviation at one point i was in real estate at one point i had an agency i was just always trying different things some successful some not successful but always working for myself hmm
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
One, we want to be an example to each other. But two, for our kids, there's a journey where we realize we are not the healthiest versions of ourselves. We're not doing the things that we should be doing. And we have access to people like yourself and others that are sharing this information. Why not implement it at a greater level and be an example? Stop being the tugboat and be the lighthouse.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
It was like a different perspective. I think it was very honest and in your face. And it wasn't afraid to tell the truth on topics that people found to be taboo.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
The internet was very, like a lot of the creators at the time, they called them bloggers at the time. It was very safe. Sterile. I would say vanilla in a lot of ways. Boring. And so I think she came in and also it was... Like the shock jock you heard, right?
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Yeah, so we produce about 100 shows outside of ours. We have ours, but that's- So you're managing that many? Yeah, yeah. So what I would say is the Trojan horse into media for us was audio, but really I just call them shows now. They're audio, they're video, they're live. We invest in commerce businesses and run them through the platform that we've built.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
Is that what's going on in this other room? Yes. There's a lot of people out there that seem very busy. Yeah, this is the Texas office. About half the company's out here. Then we have- Some in LA, another office there, and then some in New York as well.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
You want to have bad health problems and bad financial outcomes? Pick the wrong woman. If you run a business with anyone.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
We're lucky to get the information. We're learning the same way that people listening are learning.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
She's also not being so forthright in the sense that she had a day job teaching pure bar and Pilates. She would bartend at night. She would go to school and then you would blog until like two in the morning. And I watched her do this for years at a time when people said, what the hell is a blog? How are you going to make money? The term influencer and pod, like all this didn't even exist.
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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse
And it was at a time like now fast forward, people make a huge living doing this kind of thing. And obviously we've built a business on it, but this was also at a time when a lot of brands are like, why would I pay? How do I pay? What do I like? They, there was not money in the space, right? Like you were lucky to get a banner ad for a month on your website, which, you know,