The Bossticks - Half Baked Harvest AKA Tieghan Gerard As You've Never Heard Her Before, Lifestyle, Food, & A Balanced Diet

Episode Date: February 9, 2023

#542: On today's episode we are joined by Tieghan Gerard, also known as Half Baked Harvest. Tieghan is a food photographer, stylist, recipe developer, and author of the Half Baked Harvest Cookbook and Half Baked Harvest Super Simple, a New York Times bestseller. Her blog, Half Baked Harvest, features a hearty mix of savory, sweet, healthy, and indulgent recipes. She believes every diet should include a little bit of chocolate because balance is the key to life! Today we discuss Tieghan journey as a food blogger turned author, we also discuss her lifestyle, and how food plays a role in her creative visions, & we also discuss a balanced diet.  To connect with Tieghan Gerard click HERE To connect with Lauryn Evarts click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) This episode is brought to you by The Skinny Confidential This episode is brought to you by Just Thrive These days, stress seems to hit us from every possible angle in any environment at any time, day after day. Enter Just Calm - the breakthrough new stress and mood support formula from Just Thrive. Yes, the same Just Thrive that produces our favorite probiotic! Get 15% off Just Thrive probiotic + Just Calm supplement dynamic duo bundle or any of their other scientifically proven products at justthrivehealth.com/Skinny or use code SKINNY at checkout. This episode is brought to you by Branch Basics The Branch Basics Premium Starter Kit will provide you with everything you need to replace all of your toxic cleaning products in your home. It's really a no-brainer. Go to branchbasics.com and use code SKINNY for 15% off their starter kit. This episode is brought to you by Nutrafol Nutrafol is the #1 dermatologist recommended hair growth supplement, clinically shown to improve your hair growth, thickness, and visible scalp coverage. Go to nutrafol.com and use code SKINNYHAIR to save $15 off your first month's subscription, plus free shipping on every order. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp BetterHelp is online therapy that offers video, phone, and even live chat-only therapy sessions. So you don't have to see anyone on camera if you don't want to. It's much more affordable than in-person therapy & you can be matched with a therapist in under 48 hours. Our listeners get 10% off their first month at betterhelp.com/skinny . This episode is brought to you by nez nez is a new clean, aluminum free, dermatologist tested deodorant brand. Customized for different ""sweat moments,"" nez gives you the right sweat protection and fragrance at the right time. Go to nezcare.com and use code SKINNY for 10% off your entire order. Produced by Dear Media

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And he's a serial entrepreneur. A very smart cookie. And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you alone for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her. I hated being at school. I hated someone telling me what to do and feeling like they had an authority over me. I hated it.

I had so much anxiety around school. And it was a big part of like why I started half a heart. why I kind of am the way that I am now because I like to people please, you know, I like to do things and I like to get things like done. Like I like to always be doing something. I'm never sitting around. I'm never watching TV and I was that way as a kid. Today is fun. So we're sitting down with the face, the woman behind Half Bake Harvest, Teigen Gerard. I have heard about Teigen in this industry for years. She's kind of a huge deal when it comes to cooking. She literally had a, set out to educate the world on healthy, delicious meals. And her Instagram account has grown to

over like 5 million followers. She's published two books. She did a co-brand with Simon and Pip's company, Sniff, for a candle. It's a gorgeous candle. And she just is very strategic with her business. I admire how she's built her community. I admire how she stands out among the crowd. And she's really perfected the art of social media. She gets thousands and thousands of comments on her food content. And once you go check this out, if you haven't already, you will be drooling. I go on her page and like screenshot a bunch of recipes and I'll send them to Michael and I'll just be like, make this for me on Saturday, bitch. Anyway, Teagan Gerard, she's been featured on HGTV, the cooking channel, the food network, and so much more. She's a social

media star. She grew up in a family of 10. We're going to discuss that. She also talks how to deal with anxiety, how to stand out, what happens when you have a big platform, and not following the crowd, the culture of sharing and documenting everything, added value in relationships, and how to cultivate a loyal community. We also talk about her recipes, so don't you worry. Michael, if you're listening, please make me something like something, anything off her Instagram page. On that note, let's welcome Tegan, the face behind Half Bake Harvest to the Skinny Confidential, him and her show. This is the skinny confidential him and her. Family of 10.

10 siblings or 10 total? 10 total. I have eight siblings. Still, that's a shitload. Oh my gosh. And which number are you? So I'm smack in the middle. I'm number four.

What was that like? Well, for a while, I was the only girl. So I was one of five for a while and I was the only girl. And then my mom is a, my mom is just a baby loving freak. and loves her children, loves her children, loves to be around her children, loves to, you know, all of that shebang. She had my little sister when I was 15 or 16, and then they recently adopted about a year and a half ago and added Oslo on.

So we're still a family of two girls and then, what is that, two girls, six boys? Wow. So when you look back on your childhood, was there a strategy that your mom had? And I'll give you an example of what I mean. My mom did nothing by strategies. Okay, so like Katie from the wellness mama came on here and I think she has like six kids or something. And she said that one does the laundry and one makes the bed and one collects the milk. No, no, no.

Our house was chaos. And my parents are amazing. Nothing like I could not say one negative thing about my parents or my childhood. Like very lucky in that way. But no, my household was chaos, which is like I'm like I thrive on like structure. And I'm told like I'm a Virgo and like, you know, I'm just a very. very typical, whatever. But she's not. She just loves a little chaos and just flew by the seat of her pants. So when she woke up, it's like, let's go. Oh, yeah, basically. And I mean,

yes, absolutely. Like she didn't have like, no, no, no, we were not doing like tour. We were doing chores. Don't get me wrong. Like, we helped out and everything. But like it wasn't, there was no set schedule. She wasn't the soccer mom either, like running around to everything. Like, you know, she did a lot of drive. How the hell could she? Should be running. around to eight different things. Right. But she just like didn't care about that stuff. Like it wasn't important to her.

And she very much, I mean, my dad, too, my dad's the part of it's all. They just, I mean, my mom got pregnant when she was, I always say it younger than it is, but she was like 17 going on 18 and then she got married, 18 going on 19. Wow. So, no, that can't be right. So she was 18 when she must have gotten pregnant because she got pregnant. They got engaged and then they got married. So she had my brother, Creighton, after they got married.

And so, you know, young parents didn't know what they were doing and just, like, had to make ends meet, had to make things work. Like, my dad was in college. My mom was also in college. She decided to, like, finish and stick it out and go take night classes. And I mean, yeah, she just, and then after school, she just was a stay-at-home mom, you know, the whole time up until, you know, I started the site. and she just kind of flew by. She did think she had no rules. Like didn't abide to any parenting rules or anything like that.

She just kind of did what worked for her. We're not all perfect. I'll say that. What are some challenges that you had during your childhood with all those brothers and sisters or in general? When I was growing up, I had crazy anxiety. I mean, school anxiety. I think part of it was like separation from my mom. But like mostly like I hated being at school.

I hated someone telling me what to do. do and like feeling like they had an authority over me in the classroom situation. Like it was very, very uncomfortable for me to be there. And I, I just, I hated. I had so much anxiety around school. And it was a big part of like my, why, why I started the, you know, half big harvest, why I kind of am the way that I am now. Because I would never felt like, you know, I was always very as a kid like what do I want to do you know kind of confused and always striving for I wanted my mom's attention so bad and like you know with five brothers and then she we also lived in cleveland ohio at the time and she had we had all of our family there friends like it was busy it was what

life more of a normal life is being like you know you have your family parties you have you know kids running around in and out that you know we did they played hockey my brothers played hockey and there was always there was always things going on that kept things really, really busy. And like with so many kids, you never got a one-on-one with any parent. It was busy, you know? And I strived for that with my mom, especially, like, all I wanted it was like my mom's attention, you know? How would you try to get that?

I think I did a lot of it through school and probably having anxiety and having problems, you know, and like just being like almost the issue child in a way. I gave my parents a lot of like headache about school when I was growing up. Like it was really, really hard for me. And I was like, well, you know, I want to be homeschool. But her parents, my grandparents were, she was always into letting me try homeschool. But they were like a big part of like they kind of if they said no to something like they didn't have like they didn't like that idea. It was like you really shouldn't do that.

You can't do that. And this was at a time when like they. this is my mom's parents and they kind of had, they didn't have control over what my parents did by any means, but like the kids kind of listened to what, you know, what they said to do in a way. So my mom always felt really torn between whether to homeschool me or not homeschool me. Looking back with who you are now and,

and, you know, your childhood, what would you have told your parents and your grandparents? Well, they all wish that, like, my mom wishes she would have homeschooled, me while we were in Cleveland because I'm also like I've always been someone who's super creative always been able to like have so much fun feel really fulfilled by just using my hands doing something with my hands. So I always said I was going to go into styling. I wanted to be a stylist. I wanted to, you know, do the whole LA thing. Do that all and like you kind of are a stylist though

because I'm looking through your cookbook and you style the food. Well, so I switched. I did it. It did literally like a switch. I love to make things look visually pretty. to my eye. Like, it is how I, that's my create, like I love it. That's how I create recipes is I really do it more for the visual piece and how can I make this look aesthetically pleasing, still taste delicious. That's like how that garnishes get at and stuff. Like it's, it's a big part of how I create is, is styling things. I love to make things look really pretty. Were you cooking for your brothers and sisters? So I, so yes. So in about, middle school because I think I hated school so much and like I'm just someone that works with my

hands and also like I always strived to help out. I wanted to help the family out. Like I wanted to I'm a very much of people pleaser. I can very much like I can be of a motherly role sometimes. You know like I can be it's like that typical middle child. Actually I feel like that you know they I like to people please you know I like to do things and I like to get things like done. Like I like to always be doing something. I'm never sitting around. I'm never watching TV. And I was that way as a kid. You can tell from your Instagram that you are constantly seven days a week going. Like it's, I mean, your Instagram is is unique in the sense that you can see that it's a, like, you are not like getting comfortable. Let's put it that way. Yeah. Consist. Well, I always have you

in the back, to be completely honest. I always have you in the back of my head. Like, if you're comfortable, like what are you doing? Like you're not, you know. I have that same thing in the back my head with her. What? If I'm ever comfortable. what the hell am I doing? Yeah. No, don't get comfortable. I finally got settled down.

I got this game I was going to play on the couch and nope. No, it's like if you're not stepping outside of your box and outside of your comfort zone, which is, you know, odd for me because stepping outside of my comfort zone actually makes me really uncomfortable, like really anxious and all of the things. But I also love what I'm doing so much and I love like providing for people in the way that I'm providing. And I also love momentum. I love like seeing things move. I love building a brand.

Like it's exciting. So what would you consider your comfort zone compared to outside of your comfort zone? I mean, my comfort. I'm a home body. Like I am a home body. It could be home all the time, like in my own little world by myself, 24-7 if like I wasn't pushing myself to do other things. At what point do you decide to launch half-baked harvest and did you launch it as a business with a strategy behind it or was it something that you just decided to post an Instagram? Instagram actually wasn't. So we had just had a 10-year anniversary, which is so... You're an OG. Like, I hate when people say that, though, because I'm like, I don't feel like an OG, but yes.

Yes, 2012, I was 18 going on 19, right? And I had spent about four months in L.A. I was going to go to the Fashion Institute, Design and Merchandising. I was going to go to school at Fidham. I was going to, like, study to be a stylist. I got a job out there. That's such a type of person. like get a job, get moving, get going. And I was working like the phones at acting or Farberzahn acting

modeling and talent. And like, they loved me because like I got people in and all like I worked really hard. But I hated L.A. I basically got homesick and was like, no, this is way too like, this is too much for me. What did you not like about L.A.? Just out of my, just out of curiosity. Well, one, the school's incredibly expensive. So I knew that if I started like, you know, and my parents were paying or whatever, they'd be eating that money. And I was always a very cautious. of money and things I was spending in the way that I was like living life because we were never, I mean, we didn't have money like we had money like we got five, like we didn't have money, you know, growing up. My mom was clipping coupons. So I think I really just got homesick and LA is a

huge, fast-paced town. I'd never been somewhere like that before. Like I had been to New York City literally once when I was, you know, 13 or 14 with my family, like my grandparents or whatever. L.A. is a harder city to break into, too. Like, I think if you go to New York, you can run around. To be completely honest, I'm not an L.A. person to this day. I love New York. It's, you know, be there in a couple weeks. I'm so excited.

But, like, I'm not an L.A. person. And, you know, I love to travel there. It's nice. It's nice that the weather's so nice and everything. But yeah, I feel a lot of it. It can feel really fake to be completely honest and just like a little superficial. And it's not my place. That's all.

I think that's fine. I think the self-awareness is key. Right? You don't have to like it because everyone likes it. You know what I mean? It's like, oh, I'm so all about that. I'm like, why are we jumping on the train here? It's like, it's like this Instagram gravy train. I'm like, like, why am I doing that? Everybody else is doing that. Why would I do that? Like, even with the TikTok trends, people are always like, why aren't you doing the food? Because I'm like, because they're being done a million times over. I don't need to do it. Even if it means like a million hits or whatever. It's like someone else already did it and it wasn't my idea. Why would I, why would I do it? You know? It seems like there's a lot of strategy with your business. The way that you post, I, like, as a viewer, as someone who watches it, you've obviously got your books. Like, it just seems like there's a lot of thought behind. I always call it like the Wizard of Oz. Like, there's a lot happening. So how, how do you manage all that? And what is a day in the life like? Well, if I'm home and I'm like in Colorado, like cooking and stuff like that, like my day, I mean, I, like you said, I'm putting out new

recipes, you know, five days a week. Right now it's six because we, I do like a cocktail set, holidays, cocktails like so popular. So it's a lot of work. I'm not in there. I mean, like, I'm not just like posting these photos and like not taking them, not testing these recipes and not like, I'm physically doing the work, you know. So I'm in the kitchen literally sun up, sundown because I will only shoot with natural light. I think that it makes, it highlights food in the best, realest way possible. And it doesn't look like a Bon Appetit photo, which is fine for Bon Appetit. Everybody does their own thing.

But like I'm not about that. I want the food to look just when you look at it like delicious. I want to fucking eat that. You know, like that's how I want it to look. I want it to look completely real. So I use only natural light, which I mean, right now the sun's going behind the mountain at 410. And I'm like, that cuts my day off like two, three hours.

Yeah, it's so, it's so gnarly. The daylight saving situation. Why do we do it? I don't understand. That's a whole rabbit hole. People get real pissed about doing it. No, because it cuts into the whole day. It cuts into the whole day. You put yourself out there so much. You have thousands of comments on each post. How do you deal with the trolls that come out of you? How do you deal with the negative energy? Oh, my. I totally. People are mad about food? Yeah. We also. Yeah, they're mad about everything. You see, Lauren, there's corners of the internet that I don't, I can't imagine people are mad about. Like, this is one of them. I've asked every, I mean, every creator, this is what you have a big? I will. platform you're going to hate. I will say, I will say that we do not get as much hate as a lot of people, I think. I really do. And that's, I, I don't touch on topics that are, I don't talk about politics. I don't jump on the grave retrain of what everybody's talking about on Instagram. I didn't do that all

throughout the pandemic. Like, I was very cautious about what I was resharing, reposting, you know, people were throwing out this and that. And I'm like, wait, why am I doing that? One, you've seen it five million times. So like, what do I need to put that up for? You don't. You don't want to see it from me. You just want me to be like everybody else and do it. So I never did that. And people have gotten, over the last three years, I've gotten so many comments saying, thank you for not sharing this. Thank you for being a bright light in all of this negativity. Thank you for just like posting you and doing what you want to do because it's like I come here and it's a happy place, right? Like it's a happy place. There's good energy. And yeah, I've stuck to that. You know, I've just, if stuck to it and

that's me. People got wacky. Aunt Sally was posting the Black Square, Uncle Bill, post in the Blue Square. Everyone's like, you need to hashtag like stay home. No, I don't. I'm not going to tell people that they have to stay home. That's not my, we're big, we're big people. Responsibility. Like, if you want to stay home, stay home. Like, I'm not going to like get on this propaganda of like what everyone else wants you to do as, as a creator. It's go to another platform for about. Thank you. Right. Someone needs to say it. I'm sorry. I just like, I'm not, I'm not about following what everybody is doing. And like, also, it can bite you in the ass a whole lot of times too because then they'll look back and like, oh, I actually shouldn't have said that.

And it's like stop and think before you put something up. Because when you, it's up, if it's up there for a point of second, like it's on the internet, even if you take it down. It's unreal. Well, the first thing you said there is the first is the most important part of just stop and think. People don't stop and think about anything anymore. They just do shit. They react. Yeah, they react and they look around what everyone else is doing and they should say, shit, I better do this. If I don't, I'm going to be left out or I'm going to get in trouble for not. And then they jump on.

And it's like, nobody really cares what they're doing anyway. It's just a performative action that just gets lost in the wind. And that's like I struggled with it for a while because it was really, really hard the pressure you were feeling to post things that everybody else were posting. There's so much pressure. People were hating on you for not doing it. People were loving you for doing it. Like you get, you see both sides of it. So it's really, really hard.

And then when people you kind of look up to within the industry are also sharing this content and things like that. And you're like, well, so-and-so is doing it. Like, I should maybe do it. It's really, really hard to look the other way. And I will say my parents, my dad especially because my mom can be a little bit more reactive. But my dad especially was like, no, like you don't, that is not your place in this space. Like you don't need to do that and you don't need to feel that you need to do that. And the bottom line is, is that, like, the haters are the, like, 0.1% of your community.

Nobody else gives a shit. It's virtue signaling unless you're actually out there doing something about it. Meaning, like, unless, if you post something performative, if there's no action behind it, it's like there words. You're trying to, like, look at me. I'm a good person. And, like, I'm sorry for me. Like, I just don't think a color of a square is actually moving the needle towards something that's positive change. because I'm not out on the ground actually taking action.

So for me, it was like, okay, where am I involved in this action-wise that I can actually make a difference? Like, what do I need to examine of myself? Not posting a color square. Exactly. It's, they're just, they're completely empty words. It's like you do it to make yourself feel good. It's like you did it at the end of the day, I feel like in my mind.

Like, that's just me personally and my values and the way that I look at it. And it's like, if you want to go help the world out, like, go find a charity. Go do it. Go make that action. Stop talking about it. And you also don't have to post the charity if you don't want to. That's another thing. People are like, just because I don't post something doesn't mean that there's not things that people don't see.

I don't, this thing where we have to like post every single thing we think or every single thing we're doing, sometimes I'm not posting what I'm doing. It's off. I think I also sort of think it's a key to success. Look at these huge, huge people that people are like, they want to know more and more about. they're not posting every single day. They're not sharing every single thing they're doing. They're leaving a little bit to be desired. Like if you put everything out there on the internet, it's like, cool, I know everything about you know. What's next? I completely agree. I think the art of absence in every single area. Curiosity. Is so underrated. And I am talking about dating.

I'm talking about friendships. I'm talking about the internet. There is an art to absence. absence is completely, that people are just like, they think it's like present, present, presence. It's absence too. I also think it's important to not let everybody know what you're thinking all the time. Right. And we do a podcast where we share our thoughts a lot. But I like to think that half the time people are kind of uncertain what I'm actually thinking about something. And that's intentional. Because I don't think it's, I don't think this is a platform for me to share every single thought that comes into my head or every single action that go, that somebody partakes in. You share quite a lot. But even on these things like I want people to,

actually sit back sometimes. They're like, I wonder and like critically think for themselves. I don't need to like come out and be like, this is how I stand on every single issue that's going on on this planet because it's not everybody's business all the time. Yeah. I think that it's like leave a little to be desired.

Like leave room for yourself to grow. You know? And like it's why are we sharing? Why are we sharing everything right away? It's like just. It's like going on a date with a girl back in the day. And in the first 40 seconds of the date, you know every single thing that's ever happened.

It's boring. Well, it's just and it's too much. information overload. Also, have you ever run into someone like from high school and you literally run into them? And in the first, in the first minute, like Michael says, they tell you every single thing that's going on in their life. And you're like, wait, like, feel me up first. If you follow me on Instagram, you know the other day I did a full story. And I reached out to Dr. Darrell. And so he gave me this like protocol. And you can go see it on my stories. But basically it's like silver. and it's this like GI resolve and then aloeira juice and then it's a probiotic. And he likes and I like

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I mean, like such stupid things like that. And it's like, the biggest one that I get is, you know, like, are you married? do you have a boyfriend and yeah they're very curious about that like personal line I am a single very single

always been single I mean like for the most part of this site yeah like I'm of the belief that someone needs to come into my life and be like a like an addition to it that's really really helpful and nice and that like mellows me out

and slows me down a little bit because I won't slow down. I don't think for a person. Let's unpack that. I just, I won't stop. Like, you said dating.

I'm like, it sounds like a waste of time. So like, so if it's, someone needs to like really just come into my life. She's saying someone needs to add value or like, thank you. Okay,

okay. But that could mean a lot of things. So like what could, what could they not have going on for that? Like what's like a no no for you? I haven't even like on it. I just want them to be a hard worker. Like not someone that sits on their ass or whatever.

But also. like has a good balance because I don't have a balance as you guys can probably I mean like I'm just like go go go all the time what's next so you want someone to you want someone to come in that has their own thing going on but can also kind of like yeah take you out of your thing a bit exactly and make me see another side of things you know like that is that's a crazy criteria that is of that is like of interest like isn't boring isn't like just you know dilly dally around like exciting you know what's crazy I was talking to my friend about this other day and like his one of his criteria is like his main criteria is like you have to have something

something going on. And I'm like, why is this such a like, it's a novel thought that like you would want somebody to have something going on, right? Like, that's like a, I hear a lot of people saying, like, this is a criteria they have for dating. Do people just not have shit going on anymore? Here's my advice. And everyone's like, oh, you can't say this because you've been married for so long. This is what I would do. I would write a list of every single thing that I want in a person, down to, you know, I want them to have a lot of charisma, whatever it is, would write it all down. and then I would go out and I would be the list. Are you supposed to attract opposites?

I don't know. I would be the list. I would be charismatic. I would be caring. I would be fun. I would be funny. All the things that I want. Terrible dating advice, Lauren.

No, I would go be that. I would just go out and be it because that's what you're going to attract. No, but it's, we've been together too long. This is one of the worst advice. I don't agree with this.

I think that I honestly think the strategy is to be what you want. And it will attract you like a magnet. I don't think so. I think the opposite is trapped. I don't. This is not opposite of me. This is not an opposite. You guys are not the same.

No, we're not the same. But there's definitely a lot of parallels. I'm going to speak as a man. Let's assume it's a heterosexual relationship here. And, Amanda, we don't need a giant list of all the things that we need to be when we first meet you. That's not going to work. All right.

If I met a girl and she showed up with a list of all the shit I had to be, I'd be like, well, this is over tonight. I'm not showing you the list. That's not going to be me. I'm just being the list. If anyone agrees with you came in with your tap dance and she was swinging your hips around and I'd be like that's enough for me too. Listen, a lot of girls are stressed about getting married and like doing the whole thing and stuff like that. And like I'm so focused on my career right now.

And I do truly believe that it will happen when the time is right. And I'm trying. I'm not like there's some pressure for sure. And there's pressure from the community. And like, you know, my cousin who's just, you know, a year and a half older than me or whatever, you know, she's like I got to like, you know, I got to. like, you know, I got to get going. I got to get married, like, all of the things. And I'm just like, I don't know. I'm loving what I'm doing right now. I like can't, you know, can't really imagine it any other way. And someone needs to enter my life and just make it better. Add more

value to it. Make it better. Make it happier. Make it, you know, just like, whatever it is. I think. I also have another thought, though, and which, which I agree with Tegan. I think she's a strategy girl. The second that someone who you're trying to date, let's say it's a heterosexual relationship. A man feels desperate energy. They run the other way. Well, that's why I said she's got a good strategy. That's what I'm saying. I think her strategy is legit because you said a lot of women feel worried. The DMs are full. I just haven't quite taken them up on that. With their DMs are full to date you? Oh yeah. Really? Yeah. I know what it is. They love a home cooked meat. Oh my God. That's for sure. Bad and fucked. Are you not are you,

you don't get those DMs? You have to get those. I get a lot of pulse. I get a lot of pulsing vainy weaners. Like I'll get like like one time I got a guy having sex with a dildo on the Because you talk about that stuff. Well, the guy showed me he was butt naked and he's having sex up his butthole with a dildo off the bathtub. And I wrote him back and I said, if you send me one more of these, I'm going to screenshot it and do a blog post on it because it was like it was it was it was creative. Let's put it that way. But what going back to give him credit, you got to give him credit. going back to what you said, it's when you're feeling stressed and when you're worried, that's what I think deters people from maybe wanting to take the next step because they feel

that energy of stress and worry and it's off putting. So I'm like a big, I didn't used to be this way either, but like a big kind of believer in like what you what you give off is like what you get. You know, the energy like really is a real thing and creating good energy around everything that you're doing and just, you know, like, mindset too. I am the type of person that it's like runs on negativity, runs on a negative side. And in the last, you know, honestly within the last six months really, to be completely honest, I've been trying to make that shift of really like fixing my mindset because it can be when I have so many good things around me going on. It can be so negative. And it's like, why? Why? Why am I that way? And I've actually seen even just like in myself be so much happier. and even have more energy and things like that. And I think it really makes a difference.

So, yeah, I think that what you, the energy that you give off is going to definitely be the energy that you attract. Because nobody wants to be around bad energy. Who is in your DMs and who's sliding in? Like, what do you mean? You mean there's like a- Guys, actual guys, they're looking for dates. I'm in Denver. I'm, you know, all over the place.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Let me ask you this. It's a little creepy, though, isn't it? Well, I've got to ship their shot. Well, I'm wondering if like, do they, like, do they? like see, is it a specific food that you post that gets the DMs going? Or is it you? Or like what, like what makes them slide in or is it random? It's random. I don't know. I think it's they see your

food and they're like, oh my God. She's hot. She can cook. She lives in Denver. I'm here. It's like the perfect. My team would be like so excited if one day I took it took someone up because they just be like, finally it's about time. I don't know. This one might get me to slide in. Let me see. Look at this pie. I mean. No, her Instagram. You guys are off the sweet. her Instagram. I know, but that pie looks pretty damn good. And the alcohol. No, I'm not off the alcohol right now.

I was off the alcohol for 10 months, being pregnant, but I'm not off the alcohol anymore. I can see, you can see why they would slide in. A lot of this stuff looks like me hungry right now. What do you mean? Her food is so incredible. Thank you. You guys aren't big foodie. So like, I'm a big foodie.

I just need help when it comes to cooking. I would be a big foodie if like the food looked like this that Lauren cook. You know what? You eat with your eyes. He wants me to be an octopus. And that unfortunately isn't. What is something that she can make very easily for me? What? What? What? Meaning like he wants like you can't. It's a fetish I have. No, I'm just

You can't have me taking care of children, cleaning the house, cooking a five-star meal on the table, running a business, bringing an income. No. No. What do you want? What do you want? I don't ask you to do half of those things, by the way. But like, let's be careful we tread here. It's really hard. I mean, I'm not going to sit here and sugarcoat it. Like, yeah, it definitely adds to your day, especially if you are a working mom. You're busy. Not only are you a working mom, it's your own brand. People don't understand that when like it is your own company and your own brand, like it's awesome. Yeah, you get to work for yourself, but you're still working 24-7.

And even when it's something you enjoy, it's still work at the end of the day and you've got to get it done. You know, I would say try to utilize the crock pot and instant pot a lot. Skillet recipes are really, really great. And honestly, like, find people and I'm not, I'm not always the best of this, but find people that use minimal ingredients and use things like spice blends and sauces from the store. Okay, what's a recipe that you can just tell us that's in the crock pot that is so easy, a kindergartner could do it? It doesn't have to be in the crock pot. Just a quick recipe that you could do. I think that you guys would like an olive vodka and you could definitely make olive vodka. It's so

easy. It's like one skillet and you just make the sauce and you talk everything's like panter ingredients and like you just toss it in and then you toss the pasta in and so easy. For crock pot, you could do a I have like a, you could do a really easy short rib. You could do and like you literally just put everything in. You put it all in all of the sauce ingredients, everything in and you let it slow cook all day long. You could start it the night before because short ribs take so long. The longer they cook the better. They'll just like shred.

They'll just fall apart. Be delicious. And you can literally just boil some pasta or rice or whatever you guys want to do and like serve it on the side. It's so like I just, I just put up a Sunday sauce recipe. Like that would be there's a lot of ingredients. But once you get everything in, you're good. Michael makes a really mean stew. Yeah.

Stu's are great. Yeah, he brags about the stew up and right. Also, you guys are in Texas now. So just throw some meat on the grill. Like, it doesn't have to be fancy. Just throw some meat on the grill with like a store bought seasoning that's good from one of the, like, you know, from our Trader Joe's or Whole Foods or something like that that has good ingredients.

I have like a salsa verde that I get a whole foods. It literally is five ingredients and it's so good. This is like a personal like issue that I have, that I have a hard time engaging with any content until I meet the person. Oh. Meaning like... How do you get curious about people? I don't.

But you do? No, but I don't. You don't you ask these guests on it? No, I have the guests on it, but that's why I'm saying, that's my in, that's my industry. So now that you're talking to me, I'm going to, like, deep dive on here and I'm going to figure out the recipe. I'm going to go to your side. I'm going to be cooking everything.

He needs context. He's saying behind all the images. First of all, we need to do like a dinner or something together, I feel. So let me clarify. This sounds strange. But meaning like, if I have somebody from a TV, show on here. I don't really watch the show or get that in. I'll be like in it. But if they come on, then I got to watch everything. I'm like, I, I, I, I will, you guys all have people on a lot.

I don't watch shit. I don't do like, I don't. Like, I don't engage in media. Really, I don't. But a lot of times you guys have people on and I'll be like, oh, I should. Then you have to, right? I need to go follow this person. Like, I want to know more. I want to know how they built their business. I want to know, like, you know, the ins and outs or whatever and, you know, but I have an opposite strategy. I watch and read everything before the person comes on. No, because here's the thing. No, I mean, I read and I watch. Well, the only reason I know about Housewives is because of you. Oh, I love Housewives.

But you ask, because I'm busy doing like this and our own thing. But when someone comes on, then like, okay, now I got it. Like, now I'm going to go deep into your recipes. I'm going to be on that. I'm going to be. Well, that's why you guys work well. You are definitely opposites. That's why you guys work well together.

I don't. Okay. Yeah. She's like in season nine before the guest comes. I'm like, I need to meet the person to see if I'm going to invest the time. Yeah. I would be more like you. Is it worth my time?

Yeah. Yeah. What celebrity, you mentioned, G. Hadid has shocked you that follows you. I know a lot of celebrities follow you. I bet you a lot of them are messaging you. Who is someone that you're just like, oh my God, I can't believe that they follow me? Well, I can't say her name. So I'm going to not say that one, but it's the biggest one. I cannot pronounce it. It's so embarrassing. But Blake Lively, and she's the kindest soul. I love Blake Lively of also just like Gossip Girl grew up with Gossip Girl. So that was pretty cool.

How do you know, you know she's following you or she's making your recipes or how- Both because she was making recipes and she tagged me. She made a couple years ago, she made my Santa Claus cookies and totally fucked them up, right? Like, totally. But she's, that's who she is and she shared it. And she's like, it wasn't her fault, you know, because she's like store about kugito or something. It was so cute the way that she did. And honestly, the cookies, they were flat, but they were still cute.

And she's like, but this is the recipe. And that, like, and that was also during the pandemic. So they're like, you know, the heart of it. And people were just like baking and all of this stuff. So that was pretty cool. And then she continued. She's just continued to cook from it ever since. So the only reason I know a celebrity is following me is, is if they've tagged.

I don't like sit there and go research. Because I don't care. Like it's just another person. And I find no, like I don't hold them of a higher statue or whatever the word is. Okay. So crazy. I was going through like old photos the other day. And I was looking at how my hair looked before taking a hair supplement.

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What are your certain tactics that you use to really make sure that you're nurturing the community? I've done things only for the community. I haven't done them for like, and this could be a great or bad business strategy, but I haven't done it because it's going to like better. Something is going to better the business. If it's not going to, if it doesn't add value to my community and it's not making the people that are there following, reading every single day happy or making, you know, the content that I'm sharing with them easier to view or anything like that, I'm not doing it. because these people are giving me their time and time is everything.

There's just zero time. And if someone's giving you even like 0.5 seconds of their time, that's massive. And I want to make sure they're coming and getting exactly what they want. So I've always held the community at the highest value of everything. It's not. And that everything else fell into place underneath the community because without them, you have absolutely nothing, right? Your brand is not important if they're not interested in what you're doing.

and they're not happy. So I've always had the, I've always held the community way up there. And I've, the key for me has been letting them feel heard, responding to them, interacting with them, asking them questions from day one on the website. You know, 10 years ago, websites were much more popular. You know, Instagram was barely a thing. Twitter was much more the hot thing then. But websites were very popular. And so your commentary on your website, I'm sure you've seen this, like your commentary was, a lot. People were, people were leaving you comments. You know, there's a lot of, there was a lot of, like, traffic and things like that. Um, so I would always respond to those messages. People asking me recipe questions, people just commenting and saying, this looks delicious. Every single person has

always gotten a response. And I've held, stuck to that to this day. It's, it's not me personally now. If it's a question or something that, you know, my team doesn't know how to answer, I'm 100% the person answering it and I'm still so interactive and my text messages are full of of messages. So it's so interactive. I think it's just key to building a strong community. You answer every single one of your Instagram comments or someone does. Yes. It's not me personally. Every single one of her Instagram. But I will say with Instagram, I'm very, very interactive and a lot of times it is me. Like if you are, if you are engaging with Instagram, like a lot of times it's me. It's not every. I mean, there's 4. Some million people. So, like, I got to be realistic. But yeah, but that's also a recent addition. It's not that new. I always say this too with the skinny confidential, the product line. I'm always going on there and DMing and mentioning and like you never know who it is. People really like to feel connected to the person that they're following. And it's also with social media. And if you have a higher account or something like that or you, you know, you've built your name.

people don't respond. They don't give you the time of day. They're like, I don't need to do that anymore. They don't give you the time of day. And I just think that it's so important to keep your community engaged, especially because nobody knows what Instagram is doing. They're constantly changing that algorithm. It's like you, you can't win with Instagram. You can't win with TikTok. Everything is, it's all really, really hard. They're censoring your content. They're not putting things up. They're doing this. They're doing, they're making you pay for content. Like, it's really hard. So you have to keep your community really engaged and do what you can to, you know, keep things moving. What's something you wish that your community knew about you that they maybe don't or they

don't understand because you can't get it across in food? That I'm not just food. But there's so many more things that I'm so excited to be working on and doing that are not just food. Food is always my core and it's what I love and I love to be able to give people recipes and I love to be able to provide for them in that way. And it's fun for me. And it's like, it's a great creative thing for me.

But there's so many more things that I would love to be branching out and doing that I'm starting to do. That's really exciting. And I'm like, they always ask like, would you do TV. Of course I would do a cooking show. Like,

yeah, that would be amazing, you know, just being, being giving those opportunities because I'm able to create so much for my own home and my own kitchen. You know, people keep,

people tend to want to keep me pigeonhold there. And like, no, you do your thing. You stay there. You cook. You create. all the content. You do the photos. You do it all, you do it all, which is great. When you say people,

do you mean the community or just like people that you've hired on? I think the, well, not the community. The community is ready for more. Definitely people that have hired on for sure. They don't want you to go outside your niche. Yeah, but like not the community. The community I can see is open to it. And it's like people, but even when I do Q&As, I try and I do them every Sunday. Like I get so many like food questions and I try to like avoid that and like share other parts of my life. Like what? Give us example. Family, friends, work. What I'm doing, like I love talking about building the business, like all of those fashion,

like, you know, all of that stuff, skincare. Like, I love that all so much. And I still to this day love styling things, whether it is your home or your clothes or whatever. So I like to like, I'm just a very creative person and food isn't all that I am, you know. Whereas I feel as though I've, whether I've done it myself or not, like, it's all. It's all people really know about me, right? So what's next? How are you going to evolve the brand?

So we're working a lot behind the scenes on product development, which is really, really exciting because I am, you know, everything that I'm using within my photos, people are asking about. Where did you get that? Where did you get that cocktail glass? Where did you get that table limit? Very smart. You know, where did you get this and that?

And, like, I mean, I go and I find things that are unique that other people aren't using so that I can have content that doesn't look like what other people are doing. because at the end of the day, I can create as many recipes and call them my own and like to that at the end of the day, every single recipe has been created before to a point. Like nobody's like coming up with something completely like out of the box original. Like this is, you know, I, you know, invented all of vodka sauce. Like no, we're not. This isn't, this is food.

Like it's all to a point. Like it's not necessarily your own always, right? You know what I'm saying? But like with the styling piece of it, nobody can create anything with, because. because of my eye, right? And nobody can like, so I like to make that look really different and really pleasing and pretty because then we eat with our eyes. We do everything with our eyes. So if I'm making it look really good, that's just always from day one, for whatever reason I've always said to myself, like, I want to make that food, like,

you know, jump off the page and say yum. And if it doesn't, I'm not sharing it. It's not worth it. So I've always, I've always really, really put in that effort. And it's fun for me then to go and find unique pieces and style those. And like, you know, the, the pieces of, that I'm using, you're not necessarily going to find in a target. You know, like, I probably got them at, like, a junk store or something like that. I think that's a really smart facet of your brand. If you can leave our audience, if someone is listening and they're just starting out in social media right now, what advice would you give them? Leave our audience with a big, like, takeaway tip. I think, like, my best advice is, like, even if you only have 100,000 followers, like,

engage with your community, make them feel heard, you know, like you care about them. Give them the time of day and also focus on creating really good content like put it doesn't need to go go out every single day but like just give make sure you're adding a value because like you can share what everybody else is sharing but it's like at the end of day everybody else is sharing it and if they've already shared it they're probably going to do it better than you did because it's why I think so many people are having trouble on TikTok new people to build long lasting brands TikTok is I think TikTok is hard. And I haven't, maybe I haven't said this so much on the show, but I see it on, like, you see a bunch of people that are new creators that are natively creating to TikTok and what

TikTok, you know, like there's a lot of phenomenal creators on TikTok, but a lot of it is also repetition of something, a different spin on what somebody else has already done, right? And it's so fast. Yes. And the problem with those trends is like it's so fast. It's hard to keep attention for long periods of time there because it's like, go, go, go, go, go. And it's just like trend, trend, trend, trend. And it's hard to like really kind of like stand out and establish yourself for a long period of time. I think there's a lot. I think that with a lot of TikTok creators too, like they're struggling because it's like, well, where's the longevity in my brand? Like, what am I doing after this like next trend kind of thing?

It's, it's, you know, I think it's really hard. I think TikTok is really hard as the bottom line. Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of people, especially since it's so new and so fast, you can't see it because there's a lot of attention, a lot of money flowing into the space. But like, I always try to think about things like, what does this look like in five years and 10 years? And if you don't figure out how to like build that community or talking about or drive that engagement or keep someone caring for long periods of time. It's like it's the foundation of that business is not strong enough to sustain. Whereas like I've had 10 years. I've built a foundation. People think it like happened overnight. I'm like no, guys, I've been doing this for 10 years. Like it's not been an overnight thing.

Yeah. I think if you look at like most of the people that have longevity and you look, it's like there's probably like eight of those years you never knew they even existed. Right. It's just like And I, you know, we've interviewed, to your point, like, 500 something people here. And you see it's like, it's a lot. People take a lot longer to build meaningful things than people give credit for. Because all of a sudden you see something and it comes out of nowhere. Like, oh my God. Like this thing happened so fast. But it's like, you fail to see maybe the 10 years of what it took to actually like build the foundation. Right. Right. You're amazing. Oh, which recipe should I start with from your book? Oh, man. From that book, it's very simple or recipes you could really pick out anyone. But the. I would say, I'm trying to think off the top of my head. I feel you need a protein. I think you should do like a slow braze clockpot fish from there. I'm going to try it.

I'm going to try it. If not, I'll just come and make it more. Yeah, I feel like you need to just come over to my house and just cook it. Yeah, keep it on the speed dollar, just in case. I know. Can we give away a copy of your book that's signed by you? Of course. We can give away all three.

Okay, amazing. So guys, all you have to do is follow at Half Big Harvest. If you're not already following it. You have 4.4 million followers. I'm sure a lot of people are already following. And then tell us your favorite takeaway from this episode on my latest Instagram at Lauren Bostic. Where can everyone stalk you, find you, get your recipes, your books, all the things? Yeah, pretty much all around.

I'm half a harvest. Half day harvest is the website. Half day tarvis is the Instagram account. And I want to say it's TikTok too. So pretty much halfway tarvis all around. Those DMs are going to be on fire now. Yeah. And if you are single and you're going to add value, lots of value.

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