The Bossticks - How Erewhon Market Became LA's Wellness Go-To, PLUS A BIG PINK ANNOUNCEMENT

Episode Date: September 15, 2022

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She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. Fantastic. 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. Like, how am I going to feel good?

My body's going to feel good. Mentally, I'm going to be right there with you. How am I going to get this done? And really, it's a full spectrum approach. Your mindset has to be one of, listen, we live out here. All day long, we're living out here. You know this. The TikTok, does the Instagram, all the things.

They're wonderful and they serve a purpose. Are you really taking truly care of yourself? You can't take care of anything if you don't truly stop, listen, and take care of yourself. Hi, hello. Today is an exciting day because I am launching Lauren Bostick's pink drink at all Airwans in L.A. You guys, this drink is absolutely delicious. We'll go over it in this episode. We even are going to drop the ingredients of it.

So if you want to make it at home, if you're not in L.A., you can. It's the perfect shade of, like, pastel baby pink. It's so cute. So if you're in L.A., run to Airwant, get the Lauren Bostic pink drink or postmate it. And definitely tag me and at the Skinny Confidential in your stories so I can repost. If you're on TikTok, tag me. I want to see all of you guys drinking the pink drink. I know you're going to love it.

It has like this strawberry coconut taste that's absolutely delicious. And it's finished off with an almond milk coconut. big puff on top. Absolutely insane. In this episode, we're actually interviewing Jason Weidner. He has been working with Airwan forever and he is so immersed in the culture and the community. And you're going to hear all about how he does that and how they've built Airwan into not just a specialty health food store, but something that's focused on a bigger mission, a community. And I went in to the Beverly Hills Airwan the other day to try my pink drink. And I have to tell you, the store is not a store. It's inspiring. It's a brand. It's highly curated. They have

unique products and they care. So to actually be able to interview Jason was incredibly interesting. We hear about obstacles, growth, how they pick brands, what they look for in a brand. We talk about the Lauren Bostic pink drink, all the things. And you get the ingredients to do it at home. We even talk about Seymos gel. So on that note, let's welcome Jason Weidner of Airwan to the skinny confidential him and her podcast. This is the skinny confidential him and her. What is the title? What's your title? Officially. VP of stuff. I call it VP of stuff now. VP of stuff. Yeah. Really it started off as I worked in the tonic bar just as they, they were guys back there named Truth and and acupuncturist and all these amazing people that worked back there. And I was shopping there for many, many, many years before I

even worked there 12 years ago. And I said, I want a job. And they said, well, read these three books. And then you come over here and we're going to talk to you about it. And we're going to test you on it. And you wouldn't even get a job there unless you had a level of knowledge just talking about herbs or Taoistonic herbalism or health and wellness or anything like that. So it was tough to get in. And then I got in and here we are now. For people that don't. Don't live in LA. I mean, the brand's so prominent now, but for people that are unfamiliar with the brand,

if you were to the layman who has no idea what the brand is, how would you start by describing it? Walter Robb is the ex-CEOO of Whole Foods, and I walked the store with them the other day, and he said, Jason, you give me the retail shivers. And I said, really? He's like, what you're doing here is amazing. It reminds me of the early days of Whole Foods.

And I was like, really? He's like, yeah, he goes, He goes, your knowledge, the people, the customer service, the aisles, the cleanliness, just the vibe. You feel it. You feel it with the customers because you know you're creating a culture that's something super special. And it's rooted in knowing where your food comes from. And that's where everyone began. It is so true today.

I walked in the Beverly Hills location to shoot the Lauren Bostic pink drink, which we'll get to. And you walk in and it's it's the feng shui and the energy. and there's a feeling that you get. It's everything is organized by colors too. Like it's very aesthetically pleasing to someone. I always am looking at like tones and all the labels are turned out. And you can tell that the people that work there really care and believe in the mission. They really do.

I mean, it all starts with Tony and Josephine, who are the owners, and they're just an amazing couple like you guys. And, you know, but they're just, they're just compliment each other. And, you know, one's got the engineer brain, the other's got the art side, and they come together, and they just, they let people do their job. And they let express themselves and they let us all empower ourselves by coming up with new ideas. We didn't get here by one mind. We got here by our community and all the cultures coming together. And for me, my team is my community as much as my community as my community. We're all in this together. It's all about building relationships and it's all built on trust, which, again goes back to why Air One was even started in the first place. Let's go back to that. So how did this seat of an idea become what it is today? Because it's really like a conglomerate now. 1872. Guy named Samuel L. Butler wrote a book, a satire on the Victorian Times basically, in a utopian book, almost dystopian. And it was about, you know, just health-driven, but mostly about

it was a crazy book no machines were allowed and it was a crime to get a disease and I mean this is in a fictional place nowhere part of that whole thing I think the author was meaning to air one's spelled backwards but the W and the H and it kind of started there right

and then in the 1940s and 50s Mr. and Mrs. Cushy who were the doctors of they end up becoming doctors of macrobiotics Mr. Cushy was in New York York and he he read the book Air One in the 40s and 50s somewhere around there. So the story goes. And it settled in. He wanted to change the world through political science, but he didn't know how to do it. So he said, you know what? I think I can change the world through food. And he named the company,

Erwin in 1966. And he used the name. So he was inspired by this book that was written in 1872 where you need to know where your food comes from, right? Who's making it? Who's like who were the farmers? Back then when the monocultures and everything that was going on with pesticides and herbicides, ruining our foods and our crops and our soils, they, you know, he's like, no, we're going to know our farmers. And then from there, that seed was planted. It went through tons of owners until finally Tony and Josephine was like, wow, this is pretty cool. You know what I mean? They got involved and, you know, they weren't thinking anything. I mean, we were surrounded by Whole Foods, you know, 12 years ago, just like, we were just like

doing our thing, you know, and we just started growing because, you know, other people do their thing and we're doing ours. So Tony and Josephine opened the first Air One where? It was already one Air One in Bevereux off of Beverly by the CBS. That was the that was the one that was sitting there for 30 some years. Down the street it was sitting there for a little while. It started off in Boston and then it like I said, it migrated over here and and then we've been just sitting here pretty much chill like, you know, doing our thing. Because remember, this wasn't 20 years ago, 15 years ago, health and wellness was not mainstream. now it is mainstream.

Now people know there's too much science out there backing up, you know, the beauty of food and minerals and vitamins and how everything works together, your microbiome. I mean, it's so much this going on. But really health and wellness is more simple. We just did a whole episode about how our minerals are being stripped. We did it with Dr. Slovak and we had all this whole conversation. It was the first time, you know, this show that we dove deep. And the audience ate it up because people are like, oh, shit.

Yeah. Like what we're eating may not be what we're hoping for. What is something that you see people buying at a Vaughans or a regular supermarket that is ludicrous to you? Like you can't even believe it's on shelves. I mean, like anything that's a, I mean, anything that's a Cheeto or an Oreo or anything that's barely probably, I mean, listen, you got to eat clean foods. You know, Mediterranean diets are some of the best diets out there. You're eating organic olive oils, vegetables, you know, not crazy meats, but, you know, a little bit of meats and fish. and things like that.

It's eating, listen, the foundation of all health and wellness starts with just eating organic. Just eating as much organic as possible. And I know it's not feasible for a lot of people to do it all the time, but you do it when you can. So that's what I would say to you is it's not feasible for someone. And maybe that it's not in the budget to eat organic. Is there something at Air One that they could start with that's affordable that's like a great thing to add? You can still eat. There's so many things that are affordable.

I mean, you buy broccoli or you can buy so many. different vegetables in bulk and you know from farmers markets or from air one you can get so much out of that with organic grains you know combining your foods correctly is is definitely a thing but that gets into how your body works your body's going to work a lot different than my body and you're going to digest a lot better some of some things that I don't same with you so you know with health and wellness listen the three pillars for me is exercise mindfulness and then what you eat mindfulness is number one. You have to make a choice.

For me, I made a choice a long time ago because I didn't feel great. My whole search in life now is to feel good. Why didn't you feel good? I love my town, Arkansas, wherever I'm from. But, you know, I ate hush puppies and catfish. Listen, I lived it.

You know what I mean? I was a part of it, but I wasn't feeling good. It was probably because of the oils. Probably because of things being fried. It was probably because I wasn't eating all organic. And I didn't quite understand, you know, I was an athlete. I did a lot of things in my life. And I was broken up.

You know, I was a barefoot water skier, gymnast, and did all kinds of stuff. And, you know, I've got rips and tears all through my body. And I knew I needed to stay in shape. I moved out to L.A. And then before you know it, I'm into martial arts, rock climbing, doing all these fun things. And I was like, how am I going to stay? Like, how am I going to feel good? My body's going to feel good.

Mentally, I'm going to be right there with you. how am I going to get this done? And really, it's a full spectrum approach. Your mindset has to be one of, listen, we live out here all day long. We're living out here. You know this. The TikTok, does the Instagram, all the things. And they're wonderful and they serve a purpose. But we live so far out here. And there's so much noise that how do you go inside? Out here in front of the people of listening when you mean, like just out of out. Out. I mean, we're thinking about our dog. We're thinking about our loved ones. We're thinking about, you know, there's so many things. Our careers, our life. You know, all these things.

other people are doing. Watch what other people are doing, but are you really taking truly care of yourself? You can't take care of anything. If you don't truly stop, listen, and take care of yourself. My life changed. I tell my husband this all the time when I started meditating 30 minutes a day. And if I miss a day, it's not, if I miss a day, listen, it's not like if I miss a day, I'm a total bitch, but I just notice a difference. Then if I don't have time in my day to just go inward and just be quiet and just think, I feel like it's a different energy. It is. It's an uncompromisable that you have to have. And that's, and I think people that have goals and set hard goals and have their own mission in life, you know, my mission in life is to feel good and spread it to others.

Period. There's no other, that's my purpose. That's it. And it feels good to do that. But I have to, I have to sit down. I don't call it meditation. I just call it stillness practice because I don't like to put a name on it. But I sit there. I stretch my spine. I, I close my eyes, I breathe deep, and I listen. And if there's noise in my head, I get it out. Because it's not important. The most important thing is you, understanding that you have to take care of yourself first,

and then you want that you want to actually make those changes. Because you can make the change. But the problem is we have habits. And these bad habits, we don't know how to get out of. The trick is, how do you take a bad habit and turn it into a good habit? You have to actually say, this is preferred. And then you're going to have the struggle. And then one day there's going to be a switch.

And you're going to say, this is a preferred habit. And there's many examples of that. What's an example? I mean, let's just say, I don't know. Like if someone likes to have, you know, say a smoker, right? I mean, that's one of the hardest habits to break, right? I mean, how would you break that? You know, there's so many different ways at it.

But if you're, if you've made the choice to get healthier in life, right? You know, that's a huge goal in your mind. I have to get healthier. what could you do instead of smoking cigarettes? Is something personal to you? It could be, you know what? I'm going to bust out 50 push-ups. And I'm going to do that instead.

I'm going to think about this before I take that drag. This guy I used to date when he stopped smoking, he ate sunflower seeds. Yeah, it was his thing. He figured out a new habit. I think this is maybe like a harsh but on very honest take. I think you nailed on the head when it's like you're making a choice and a decision. I think so many times in life we give ourselves like, oh, I'm going to take, you know, a few months to get this right.

And I'm going to think if I feel good about this. And I might like start, like, my whole thing is just make the choice and do it abruptly. Like I used to be a smoker package I smoked when I was younger. I literally just quit one day. So it's done. And it's, yes, it's not easy. But I think if I was like, hey, I'm going to do like three a day, then four, like to wean myself down.

I guarantee you I wouldn't have quit. I also said those fingers aren't coming near anywhere around my vagina. But also, like, we're talking about like, you know, earlier like Cheetos and processed foods, you know, like, Lauren and I made a decision that that kind of stuff just doesn't even go on the house. There's no soda. There's no chips. There's no problem. We don't, like, you can't even shot the picture in the store. And so the problem is I think people go through like, oh, like maybe I'll just have a pack of Orioles or a pack. And it's not passing judgment. It's just if you put these things around you and you give yourself the cheat day and you give yourself the, it's just a slippery slope that keeps enabling you to take advantage of bad behaviors. Right. Like it's literally everything in life is simple. It's like, I'm making a choice. I just don't do that anymore. Just so many people have a hard time wrapping their head around making a strong choice. and a decision to stop doing a behavior that is potentially... It's conviction.

You've got to have conviction. And that does start... And I think that all starts with the mindfulness work that you do, right? Because you need to stop playing with yourself. Everyone's thinking like, you know, you could... I'm smart enough. I'm better than this habit or this addiction. And you're not.

You can't beat it. It's got you. It owns you. I've known to control it. Yeah, you can control it, but you've got to find alternative choices. And that's the trick. Even like with breakthroughs with like extreme.

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it could be minerals, it could be. it could be the seymost gel, like whatever it is. What are your three things if you have unlimited budget that you would get? I mean, you talked about minerals and water the other day. I mean, obviously minerals that are, you know, water that has mineral and your body is, you know, water and minerals. You need those minerals to create those electrical charges and that communication to your glands so that your glands can metabolize and do all these crazy things inside of your body. I mean, water is number one, you know, if you can drink waters with minerals or, you know, you can buy

water and add minerals to it. That's kind of like with your drink, we got iodine minerals, which has been around since 96. Really cool company. This is, I think we have the silica here, which of course we've got the silica inside your drink because, you know, it pairs nice with the collagen, which is a primal kitchen vanilla coconut collagen, which is awesome that we have in your drink as well. These pair up really nicely. Silica helps create a stronger bond with the collagen. And as you know, as we get older, the collagen starts to go away. There's a bunch of different collagen that's made inside of your body. But this stuff just pairs well together.

Love these two brands. You know, obviously collagen does so many things for the body. I was going to say, you got good skin, man. You know, I'm almost 49. You wouldn't guess it. And it's, you know, it's because, you know, for the last 15 years, I've been, I ate well. Like I said, I stretch. And trust me, guys, I got him under the bright lights.

I'm looking in. It looks good. I mean, another thing is that we don't talk about this. Well, that's water too. But listen, water. I mean, minerals, I mean, when you just think about like how your body needs 102 of them, right? And you got these like major minerals that you need in your body. You need all these things to be balanced inside of your body.

And you don't need to be a scientist to figure out how to get this perfect homeostasis side of your body. Eat a lot of vegetables. You know what I mean? Eat your spinach. You know, that's got a lot of sulfur and things like that in it, chlorophyll. Drink water that has minerals that's going to help you metabolize your body better because your cells literally, the minerals are working with your cells to like hydrate, pull toxins out, do things for it that are- Minerals are having a moment. Mineral, people are starting to realize, I feel like minerals are

really having a moment right now and people are realizing how important it is to add that. Like, and not to, you know, throw shade at any brands, but, you know, we talk, we make jokes on the show about like Dasani or Arrowhead and stuff like that. And it's, you know, people, a lot of people go into the assumption and I understand why that water's water, but it's just, it's not true. not all water is created equal, as we're talking about right here. And sometimes you're putting water in your body that, you know, is not going to hydrate you right way. It's not going to minimize your body the right way. It's not going to give you the effect of feeling like you actually have a flourishing system because you're putting stuff that's

not quality into your body. And like maybe you're saving a little bit of money up front, but it's creating these compounding health problems that you're going to pay for later. What brands would you shout out? Because you're around brands all day long. Like if you could shout out a couple of brands that you think, just do it right, that you never have to question their ingredients. Maybe that you don't even have to look at their ingredients because you just know their integrity is unmatched. Gosh, I mean, there's so many put me on the spot here. I mean, first of all, I mean, like, since we're still talking about your drink, we're going to keep peppering this in, right? Yeah.

So, I mean, this acacia, you know, sea moss, another thing that's mineral rich. Arguably, some say, I mean, it has almost. 90 some minerals. I'm not saying this does, but there's a lot of, there's not a lot of studies, not a ton of studies supporting full on like crazy sea moss and all of its benefits. So people are a little trepidacious about saying what it's good for, but a lot of people out there really feel like it has antibacterial, antiviral properties. Makes total sense. It takes out flim outside the lungs and like I said, I'm not a doctor. I'm just saying people, this is what they're telling me and I've used it myself and I feel good off it, but I always feel good, right? And I'm always testing

things out, you know, but it's just a sea vegetable, right? And it's been used for hundreds of years that people don't realize that, like, when people have been using something for hundreds, if not maybe over a thousand years, and it's for a remedy that there's truth in it. You know, you don't need scientific papers, but we all love science behind the stuff that we're ingesting. So I'm really a fan of the sea moss, and it has really taken off lately. Akasha, a great brand. You know, I get my talking about not only the brands, but the people behind the brands. There's a, a, farm called Yamitz Farm and a guy named George. I've known him for like 10 years. He gets my almonds. These are real like fresh like comes from a farm 20 miles, 20, yeah, 20 miles about 20, I don't know,

50 miles away. And he brings them. So they're truly raw. And then we sprout them and we, and we wash them. Then we sprout them. Then we press them. And it's all with like, you know, for almond milk. Precision engineering here and like like like care to get it. into a bottle and get it to our stores. And this is really the star, really the star of the show for your, for your drink because it's activated. It's more bioavailable to the body.

And that's what people need to realize. It's like, you need bioavailable food, food that's easily digestible, things that aren't strict, you're talking about water. The water doesn't have the minerals in it. Guess what? Water wants to bind with other minerals and you can actually be pulling minerals out of your body.

Which is crazy, right? With bad quality water. Yes. And so you know you want to add like a certain type of mineral to it. There's so many brands that I'd love to shout out. But like if I do, it's like children, right? It's like saying I love this one more than the other. You're going to be careful in your role. I got to be careful. I love them all. And then of course, Coco June. I use Coco June. Our team uses this in a lot of our, you know, for like in-house culinary, small batch, you know, things that we make inside the store. I mean, you saw the, you saw the store. I mean, it's incredible. It's like all the, all the, like, small. literally I have a there's a commissary it's huge it's the biggest kitchen you've ever seen right and we're making we're prepping sauces and soups and and and and maranades and then we're taking this and then we assemble it at the store level because you could never even you could never even fathom doing it and we have just an incredible culinary team that that makes all this stuff happen and we know we partner with some cool brands kind of like cocoa June

Coco June has tons of probiotics. That's why we wanted it for the smoothie. We wanted to have probiotics that were cultured coconut in the smoothie, and it's so good, too. So all of these things are in your drink, the pink drink. This is the pink drink. Yeah, so you got the sea moss. You got the almond. You got the collagen.

You got silica. And then you got, of course, I think there's five different cultures in here. And Coco June is amazing. Like, the flavor, I've never had it. Coconut's been, we were making our own coconut yogurt before anybody was making it like 12 years ago. and now some, you know, Coco June cracked it. They figured it out. The reason I ask is Lauren was like, you guys have been like mad scientist doing this top secret thing and I'm just learning about.

So I'm like, what is going on? And she's like, okay, I got this drink and it's secret and it's with Air One and it's called the pink drink. We've been going back and forth on what's in it. We wanted. This is the first time I've seen it and the first time I've tasted. It's really good. We wanted a specific millennial pink so people could put it on their feed. But also, I think, too, a lot of influencers were doing smoothies with you and we wanted to do something a little different.

So we made it a drink. And then we filled it with ice to bring in that ice element. So what's going to happen to me after? I love it. What's going to happen me after I drink this? I'm going to have beautiful. You're going to glow. You're going to be glowing skin.

You're going to get your minerals. You're going to get your sea moss gel. You're going to get your probiotics. You're going to get your activated fucking almond fish. And there's a strawberry base. Yeah, it's a strawberry maple mixture in it to make it pink. It's really good, honestly. It's delicious.

I'm not just saying that because I'm your husband. I actually like. Here's what I like about it too. You know how when you go to certain chain coffee stores and you order like like a drink that is maybe perhaps pink? It tastes like a syrupy sweet, gross. You can have one sip and you're done. This is a drink that you can sip on. This barely has any, it's a maple, strawberry infused almond milk with these products plus a multi-generational Philippine cream that's whipped.

It's a first cold pressed coconut from Zuma Valley. I love those guys. That's a cool brand that I love. And that's the coconut cream in there. So it's like, it's no joke. I mean, this drink is a lot of love,

a lot of care. A lot of back and forth. A lot of back and forth. And, you know, no, there's got to be this. Got to be this.

And that's the way it always works. And we know, we love working with different people because you bring out the best. I mean, it's a community thing. It's a relationship thing because, you know, together we can do a lot.

Are you okay now after dealing with my wife? I mean, I know what it's like. No, it's not. I mean, listen, I tell people to be as knowing as possible because this is art. I mean, this is like, this is function. Same kind of brain. This is function and art. It doesn't bother me. Keep bugging me because I need to take this to another level because, I mean, that's just who I am. I mean, that's what everyone is. I mean, we set high standards for many things. And, I mean, we're a B corporation. We're, you know, we're organic certified grocer. I mean, we try to hit these milestones because it's important that our community knows. that we're always striving to be better.

And I think that's something that, you know, what I teach in leadership is like, how are we gonna get better? This is our best, great, love this. And you're amazing and you're 95% awesome. But how are we gonna, where's there's, there's five percent of growth in there, man? I know we can get more out of it.

And that's kind of the ethos of Air One, our products, our culinary team, our tonic bar, our grocery, our produce, our nutrition. You know what I like about Air One too? Is you can tell that every, area, they want to be the best version of themselves. Like, you can, I can feel that extra 5% from the store.

This store in Beverly Hills, Michael, I can't even explain it. You have to, like, you, the store is, you walk in and you can tell that it's a bunch of people that are, like, being, trying to do peak performance optimal level. Everything's optimized. It's amazing. So let me ask you this. And, you know, we split, like, now primarily full time in Austin, which you guys, hurry up and get out there.

and split time. But if you could, thinking about this and all the stores and everything you've learned and everything you know now, if you could wave a magic wand across the country and you could implement a few changes across the major grocery change so that people would have access to X, Y, or Z? What would you implement or what would you get rid of when you think about just the major, you know, the... Most of stuff in our lives is stuff that we need to eliminate, right?

Toxic food, toxic relationship, setting up boundaries, setting those goals, right? number one. I mean, it's just hard to do because of our supply chain. You know, it's a very difficult task and you have to be creative with it. You know, so, you know, for me, I would always recommend anybody, you know, get in touch with your, you know, I mean, know your local farms, know where your farmers markets are. You know, you've got to find the deals. You got to do whatever it takes. I mean, before I worked at Air One, I didn't have any money. I didn't have zero money, but I was already, my mindset was there. I had to eat organic. I had to eat. I had to eat organic. I had to eat clean. I had to drink a lot of good liquids. Liquids that were structured, you know,

structured that have the minerals so that I could feel really good because I knew I wouldn't be able to assimilate. My cells wouldn't be able to do what they need to do. I was exercising more. I did everything I could. And then when you do that and you put that intentions towards anything in life and you set these kind of goals, you take care of yourself. Guess what? Now you're available. Now you can fall in love. You can get now I'm married. I have three kids. Air one is like married, three kids. And now we have eight stores and I have a beautiful community of my team is just they're the most incredible people you've ever met. Like, and you can walk in our stores and you can feel like the way we talk to each other, the way we're looking at each other,

you're going to get that same feeling there because they care about you. And that's the root of everything is caring, right? It's like caring about, you know, your own, you know, your relationships that you have that they're healthy and then, and then extingue that to your community. You mentioned something off air that I thought was really interesting about community. You said that you text with your customers, and I think that is genius. You said you have thousands of customers that you're texting. You said you've used my drink and had the customers taste it, and they give you feedback. Absolutely.

Talk to me about that. That's really intriguing. Our customers, I mean, listen, we have a lot of customers now. You know, seven years ago, you know, every customer you talked to knew as much as you did. because they were on that train. They've been on that train for a long time. Now we're getting a lot of new customers and new faces, but a lot of these customers that I've known in the past,

and in new ones that I'm making now, they just have integrity. You know, they're just looking out. They're looking out for, you know, quality. They're looking out for, I mean, anything you think of that a business is looking out for, right? You're making sure that people are treated well. I mean, I have people call me like, yeah, you know,

I heard this customer and they weren't being too nice. You might want to check the cameras and see if, see if you know see if uh you know see if you know this person and and address them because it's like you know we you know we we we demand respect and and and and you know it's just so much has gone into getting this food and building these teams to get to this beautiful place that you know era one is that right now that you know we all have to like hold each other accountable and accountability is everything right it's like building a team or you know a husband and a wife team or, or, you know, me with the owners, that's where it's all built. That's trust. That's

relationship. And that all goes back to the food, right? Knowing where our food came from and knowing the farms. And that's. So when you text with the customers, will you ask them for feedback on the brands, the smoothies? Like, what's the conversation? Is it like, are you saying Merry Christmas? Like, is it like, what's the, what is the relationship over text? I mean, some of it's super real, you know, some of it's super real stuff, you know, like they're questioning everything. You know, I mean, they question everything. Like if there's, if they see something that's just off or like,

why isn't this, this or, you know, I mean, why isn't, you know, like from an ingredient perspective? An ingredient perspective.

Like, what is this? I'm like, wait a minute. Maybe that product was grandfathered and, and let me check to see and let me check that ingredient. And if I check the ingredient and it's not right, I'll kick it out.

You know what I mean? I mean, I'll tell the owners. I'm like, hey man, this is, it said like artificial or something like that in there. And I'm like,

can you check to see where that actually, comes from or like a natural flavors, right? Some natural flavors, you know, they can organic source natural flavors, right? But sometimes that natural flavor is something weird that you don't want in your food. So we look at it and we get them to send us the information and we're like, nope, kick them out. We kick out a lot of people. Yeah, I was going to ask you, what's the protocol to be in Airwant? Say there's someone listening that has a brand that they think has really great ingredients. What's the protocol? All right. When we travel, we like to go Delta Airlines because I like my travel to be efficient, seamless, easy, and that is Delta.

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There's certain ingredients that we don't allow. There's certain ingredients that we're looking for. And we'll tell them, hey, listen, this is looking really good, but you need to add this, that and the other. And you need more organic stuff in there. Like you know, so you'll actually work with the brand to make it Airwan approved. Oh, yeah. All the time.

Oh, that's cool. I mean, we work with brands. yeah I mean we've been working with brands small brands for a long I mean that's what we do I mean we have so many new brands and then you can't find it and that's another appeal to Air 1 is that you just can't find a lot of these brands in other stores the big chains no not at all what is some ingredients that people should look for that you're like

don't even go there like name some things that are hidden maybe that hidden I mean listen you know artificial flavoring I mean if it's not like you know coconut olive oil you know those are my go-to oils. You know what I mean? Those those burn really well in the body and you're not going to get any inflammation. Most oils, you're going to, you know, a lot of the oils you see in a regular, yeah, in a just regular grocery store, a lot of those oils, you know, aren't going to be, you know, inflammation is what we're all fighting here, right? It's like you have healthy inflammation, like when you're working out or you're jamming up the stairs and your bones are bouncing and

get these little micro tears in it and your osteoblast and osteoclas come in there and help repair the bones, but it's a little bit of inflammation. These are healthy, healthy, adaptive inflammatory responses that you need, right? And then there's the systemic inflammation that we have as a society. And that's why you just got to think simple. Go back to the base being organic food. Do whatever it takes in your life

to get as much organic food in you as possible. And that's the first step. And then from there, and don't overwhelm yourself because what I knew 15 years ago, I've thrown it all out the door now. Because I've figured out how my body works. I don't over it. Because if you're going to stress about what you're eating every day too, that's a stress

that you don't need to deal with. Yeah, that's the other things. People, they get so obsessed with this kind of stuff that they actually go the other direction, mess up all the hormones. And yeah, it shouldn't be some, food should not be something that stresses you out all the time. No. It's a constant. I work with people on cleanses and things like that as well.

And it's, you should be constantly cleansing and nourishing at the same time. How do you do that? mindfulness. Like not one or the other you're saying. I mean, listen, can you, can you fast for a day? Sure. I fast almost, like once a week. I'll go, I'll go like 18, 19 hours where I'm just drinking.

I mean, even today, I haven't had anything to eat. I've drank water. I had a green shake that I made this morning with omla berry, ginger. Amla berry's an awesome berry, by the way, high in vitamin C. What's that? It's Amla berry. They use it. It's been used for a long, long time.

They say that this berry could sit on the counter for 100 years and it was still be okay to eat after 100. I mean, that's how much antioxidants are in it and how powerful it is. I've never heard of that. Yeah. And so, like, I did a little, you know, greens, amla berry, ginger. I did some humic folic acid stuff. Did you throw your seaw moss in? I didn't throw seawmast in, but I threw in some collagen, but not that collagen. It was another collagen. But, you know, and me and my wife had had the green drink. We worked out this morning. We, you know, did our whole thing. And then I'm here still drinking water and a little bit of kombucha. And I feel fantastic. You know what is another great thing that you

guys do right that I think a lot of grocery stores could take note on is your postmate delivery situation. If you guys are ever in L.A., that you guys have a buffalo cauliflower chicken that is so good. Every time I order from Airwant on postmates, I always know that it's going to be 10 out of 10, which is rare. Yeah. The salmon, like, there's so many different things that you can get that are so healthy via delivery. It's kind of insane. I think, like, people that are unfamiliar drink now. Yeah. Starting soon. People that are unfamiliar with the brand, you know, it could sometimes feel like,

oh my God, this is overwhelming. But what I got from living here, we lived here for a long time, is that you could always trust everything that you were ordering from you guys. Right? You're like, if I need a good meal and I don't want a bunch of shit in it and I don't want to worry about if there's something bad at it, you could always go to Airwant and get something and know that it was solid. I mean, our tonic bar, prepared foods, our produce department,

our whole coal press juice department, it's all organic. I mean, it's organic. Yeah, you never have to worry. about that. It's organic. Well, and not to shit on Whole Foods, but like, obviously, the brand is change over time, and there's things that creep in there, and you're like, you know. Yeah, Whole Foods was a beautiful place, and it set the groundwork for, for a lot of people, including ourselves. And, you know, I got nothing but love for everybody and every business out there. It's like, do what you do, right? And do it the best. And I think that's, that's what we do

right now. And like I said, with owners, like Tony and Josephine, and, and, I mean, like I said, There's so many people to thank for us being here. There's department directors. Vito's really, really cool. Vito's amazing. There's, I mean, you know, that's Tony's brother. So it's like, it's really a family-owned business. You know, you got, you know, the merch being ran by their son, Alec.

And, you know, Maddie, who's like their daughter that is, like, helps out with so many things with social media. She's just got, like, amazing taste. And then you got Sal over at Commissary, who's like the corporate, he's the head chef. And Sal's an incredible guy that used to work for Earth Cafe and did all kinds of. kinds of amazing things for them and then he came over with us and he's just he's the mastermind behind that but then you know even our everyone from our chief financial officers to our marketing team I mean there's just so many people that make all this thing work everyone's smiling when you walk in you can tell they love their job too which is really cool yeah and you met some of my

kind of my corporate trainers today and they're happy because we're making a difference and that's and it's a purpose that a lot of companies don't have but it's it's it's it's It's you can have, you can put a smile. It doesn't matter where you work. You can always try to turn someone around and put a smile on their face by connecting with them and having a human connection. And that's, to me, that's true customer service. So it doesn't matter that we're selling organic food.

But it's easier to do it when you have a strong mission, which our mission is to inspire people to eat better. So they feel better because when you feel better, make positive changes. Would you leave our audience with some product that you would use in the morning and night? So to wake up, energize, and then to wind down. Yeah. I mean, like I said, this morning, I had, you know, a little bit of ginger, the greens, hydrate really well.

You can do lemon water when you start off in the morning. People love starting off with lemon. I used to do that a lot. Like just have a glass of lemon water. You wake up, drink a little water, drink a little lemon water. And then wait a little bit. Wait till you're hydrated. That lemon and that vitamin C.

It's alkalizing. And then do a little, then if you want to do coffee, do a little coffee. Then do your, you know, do your greens. Wait for a little bit. And then throughout the day, you got to keep thinking because we didn't really hit this too hard, but sleep is everything to me. It's where you repair. It's where, you know, if you go to sleep not prepared, it could hurt you while you're sleeping. How do you prepare for your sleep?

Yes. So you want to make sure that when you're eating, I mean, at least eat, especially if you're eating a bunch of grains and meats and things like that, you want to eat as early as possible. and you want a few hours to digest. When you're going to sleep, you don't want to have, your body has to use a lot of different functions to make sure that it's digesting, especially if you're sleeping,

when your body could be doing other things. We talk about this all time. Lauren, I'm going to call it out, one of her worst habits. She eats so late close to bed. No. Like literally, it'll give you adrenal fatigue.

It uses systems inside of your body that should be used for other things. For repairing while you're sleeping. For repairing, like on a cellular level. But no, it's having to worry about digestion, your intestines are working, your stomachs working, your stomachs working, your gastron, not to get into weight loss here,

because I know that's a touchy subject, but people ask me all the time, like, what is the number one thing? And it's like, if you're eating three hours before bed, you are almost making it impossible for yourself to lose weight an effective way, because you're taking all of your bodily functions and making them work in a way that they shouldn't.

And then that's why you wake up a little tired because your body was working throughout the night. We can talk about weight loss. I bet you're an expert. I know, I mean, it's dicey. But it's true. So, like, people, you know, people get so.

I don't ever talk about weight loss. I talk about the big picture, right? Right. Like, we didn't even talk about... But you want to feel better and healthier, too, right? You shouldn't eat that early close to bed. No, absolutely. Or that late close to bed.

No, absolutely not. I mean, there's a lot of research behind it, but, you know, I'm not... We won't get into it, but it's, it's like, go to bed light. You know, go as... I mean, you can eat a good breakfast in the morning, but like I said, if you're eating, like I said, it is a lot of salt and a lot of sugar. and things like that in the morning. I mean, you're draining yourself.

You're draining yourself. So, you know, the idea is to eat something that's clean, something that's simple to digest throughout the day, right? Bioavailable. You want to keep thinking, is this easy for my body to digest? I'm always thinking that. Am I going to feel good after I eat this meal? Like, ask yourself simple questions.

Like, you don't have to know the science behind it. Ask yourself, am I going to feel good after this? Yeah, when I start thinking about, I mean, and I wasn't always this way, but when I start thinking about putting the body through digesting a bag of Cheetos or a bag of Oreos, all that sugar and all that stuff, it just sounds like as I think about, I know this is going to sound really gross to people listening, but as it's like thinking about that moving through my body and my system

and touching everything and going out, like it just sounds bad. I mean, when you think how just miraculous like your body, this life that we're living, doesn't mean you can't play, you can't party here and there, you can't do some crazy stuff. You can still do, you can still moderate your life. But for the most part, I mean, this is a one-shot opportunity for us to live the most fullest life we possibly can. It's like your gut, your intestines is the hub that takes all the energy that you're putting

into your body. And that's where it all begins right there. And are you absorbing it? Is it truly absorbed into your body? Because if you're eating crap, obviously, your body's going to absorb it and your cells aren't going to function. Your intestinal lining is not going to work. Like your microbiome is going to be whacked out because the bad bacteria is going to take over,

which that whole culture inside of your body, the microbiome, that gut-brain connection they keep talking about, it's real. And the more science that's coming down with it, it's huge implications. So, I mean, that's like the gut of the earth I always say is like the soil, right? The soil, healthy soil is very aerobic. It, like, it feeds off of itself and it's sustainable and it's absorbing water and you produce beautiful food out of it, right? which, you know, we have a lot of cool farms that we work with that are actually regenerative farmed, which is a whole other topic. But I look at your, your stomach is the same thing.

Is it fertile? Is it full of bacteria that is healthy bacteria? You want that microbial fight going on. It only strengthens you, your immune system. It's incredible. And how we can get that is through, would you recommend like seymost gel, probiotic? Yeah, cultured vegetables. Yes, seamoss. Eating, I mean, and vegetables are prebiotics. Like, a lot of vegetables. are prebiotics. I mean, I don't eat bananas a lot of time, but like just a simple banana is a prebiotic. It's a, it's a, it's a fiber that doesn't dissolve great in it, but your biome will feed off of it. And so when you have a healthy gut, then you want to start thinking like, okay, now I want to feed the

healthy gut. But if you're taking antibiotics and you're eating the wrong foods, that could mess with your gut. Your gut is so huge. If you, if you, so many people have come on and said that And it's like high expert doctors. People have just said the guts so overlooked. But it's really becoming. Well, think of the havoc we're wreaking on it too with some of these substances we're putting into it. That's the problem.

It's like we're more disease now as a population than we've ever been. And that's that chronic kind of inflammation, you know, that's a systemic inflammation that, unfortunately, it's because of our food system. It's messed up. And we've got to find alternatives because, you know, right now it's all about my kids, man. It's like, it's my community and my kids.

I'm lucky that I live here. I'm lucky that I'm with a cool company. And now I just want to give my kids the tools so that they know. I'm trying to teach them. You have the whole toolbox. I got the toolbox. And so I'm trying to teach them now.

I'm like, hey, listen, sure, do you want, okay. You know, like every once in a while I'll do something crazy and like go to an in and out. You know what I mean? And I don't do it all the time. Probably be saying this on the air.

You got a balance. But it's like, and I tell them straight up, I'm like, this is not good for you. We're having fun. This is just being silly. we just got back from the amusement park, let it all hang out. You know what I mean? And then, but I teach them about it.

Constantly, I'm teaching them about, you know, organic and, you know, if it's grass-fed beef or not or where it comes from and, you know. Yeah, just getting the balance of that it's the majority of the time you're thinking that way and not treating your, not abusing your body the majority of time. I think that's how a lot of people in this country go through life is they abuse the hell out of their body and their mind. And then they once were like, oh, now I'm going to be healthy. They do that for a little bit.

They go right back to bad habits. It's like, if you could flip that an 80-based. percent of the time, take care of yourself, eat the right things, eat organic. Then still you can have some fun. Nobody's saying don't have fun, but not 80% of the time. I mean, my Mondays through Fridays are, I'm just crazy. You know what I mean? I'm like, I want to be, I work out. I'm, I'm doing all my, my things. And, you know, weekends, you know, if I'm hanging out with a buddy from Arkansas and he cracks a bud line, I'm like, sure, let's have one, man. You know what I mean? I think that that is the message, though. It's like, you can't be perfect all the time. But, you know, but, you know,

but what's worth it? Like for me, it's not worth it for my almond milk to have carrogen or whatever you call it. Yeah. I'd rather just get a fresh almond milk. But maybe I want a glass of wine on the week. You know what I mean? You got to balance it out.

Yeah. I mean, that's what it's all about, you know? It's like I said, I think the mindfulness practice is huge too. Like, because that helps you figure out what's worth it or not.

Because I always sit down, especially on month days and I sit down. I'm sitting there for 20 minutes. I'm breathing. My mind is still. And I'm like, why did I do that? Did I need to do that?

Probably not. Come on, Jay. You can do better. That's my conversation too. I like to reflect on like what I need to do better. It's a great like strategy session with yourself to be mindful. Not only that if you're doing a little bit like I always say like if you go home at night, especially if you have, you know, whatever relationships you have in life, we all have

relationships. I'm always thinking like, how could I have like approached it differently? You know, I don't have regret, but I'm like, you know what? I could have probably been nicer about that. And I probably could have conveyed my message differently from that. And I actually check in with myself at night because, you know, I lead a bunch of teams. So I'm always trying to empower them. And because I'm teaching them, you know, they're going to be marrying me sometimes

and how I coach them. And then I wake up in the morning. And then when I do the mindfulness work, I kind of check back in with that stuff that happened the day before. I'm like, today is a new day. Well, I have to give you a compliment. You, there was a team member that was doing something right today. And I don't even think you knew I was like watching.

Yeah. And you went up to, he went up. he went up to her and he said, hey, I just want to acknowledge that you just did such a good job. I don't even know what you said, but she was, she felt,

I could tell she felt so empowered. And I think that is important. That stuff goes a long way. Yeah. I try to recognize everybody. You know, yeah, no, it's,

it's important. I mean, like, the young woman today was just, you know, I was back there a couple days ago and I was actually making some drinks, you know, just, you know,

rubbing, you know, getting in there and doing my thing with the team. And I was just like, man, this person is rocking. And as I said, I hope she's being recognized. And it just, I made a mental note, you know.

That was very, very nice. She was very happy. Yeah. I'm going to have you tell us. You're the scientist, the mad scientist. Tell us at the breakdown of exactly what is in this drink. And I'm in a pepper and my reasons of why I wanted certain things. You have a sprouted, activated local almond milk that is infused with a gorgeous strawberry, maple, jam.

that is covered with a multi-generational coconut first-pressed cream that we whip and we put on top. And in all of this stuff, we also mix in with our vanilla collagen. We mix in our primal vanilla collagen, our acacia sea moss. We have our cocoa June vanilla, which is incredible. And of course, our silica to take the collagen to the next level. Bam. And it's just amazing. It's an amazing drink.

I mean, good job. I mean, this was your baby. I just, you said you wanted this, that, and the other. And I said, you know what? It's like someone building a house. It tastes really good. Guys, if you want to know what I'm most annoying about whenever I create something, like the most annoying thing with the ice roller and like the pink balls and even the tone

of my book and the smoothie, it's the tone of the pink. And with Jason, I was like, we kept working with the tone. Didn't want it to be too red, didn't want it to be too purple. It's the perfect shade of pink. If someone wants to make it at home, Is there any tips that you would give them if someone's like listening in Florida? Well, making almond milk is so easy to do. I mean, you know, you can, you know, try to find the most fresh almonds you can find and soak them in water. And you put them in the fridge, you know, 8, 10, 12 hours. You take them out, you rinse them off really good. Blend them in a blender. So easy. You blend them. And then you, then after that, you put them in a nut bag. There's this easy nut bag and you squeeze the cream out and you add some water to it. I do this. I literally make my own almond.

milk at home because it's fun. It's putting your hands on your food is so important. And you really feel like the love behind. I mean, what this journey has been for this freaking almond? It's amazing. So you make the almond milk and what else would they have to do at home? Then you can get like,

you know, get some fresh strawberries, get some maple, you know, get some cocoa june, throw that in, mix it all up, pour it inside the almond milk.

I mean, you don't have to blend it all crazy because it, it's not a smoothie, you kind of, it's over ice. Yeah. And then, you know,

as far as the coconut cream on top, that will be hard to do. But if you, there might be some frozen sections around there that might have a coconut cream you can buy and then you would thaw that out and then you would whip it in the blender and then you'd pour it on top. Option to add vodka. No, I'm just kidding. Don't add vodka.

No, no, how long is this going? Yeah, what's the, it runs for a month. It launches September 15th. September 15th.

Yeah. And it's going to be going for a beautiful month. It's in all Air One stores and you can get this super cute sleeve that says Lauren Bostick's pink drink that we designed specifically. specifically for your feed. And I think you guys are going to absolutely love it. Oh, we love it. We love everything about it.

Yeah, and the brands, I will shout out in the beginning because there's some amazing brands that we worked with. And Jason, thank you so much for allowing me to do a drink with you guys. I'm so excited. And I just know the community is going to love it. Absolutely. I mean, it's over ice. I mean, the taste is incredible.

And the function is incredible. And it's, you know, and plus it's, It's fun and it's connected to you. And it's the right tone of pink. The perfect tone of pink. The exact pantone. The exact pantone. Where can everyone find you, Airwain, pimp yourself out, the store, everything on Instagram?

Yeah, I mean, obviously go to Air One Market.com. There's so many resources there. You can go to Air One, I think our Instagram is just Air One Market. I mean, we'll link everything up. Yeah, link everything up. But yeah, I mean, you know, we're, we're, we're, you can talk to any store director at any store and you can get a hold of me any day, all day. I love it.

Thank you for coming on. You're welcome. Thank you. Guys, wait, don't go. Do you want to win $100 gift card to Airwan and all of the products that are in the Lauren Bostic pink drink? All you have to do is tell us your favorite part of this episode on my latest post at Lauren Bostick.

Okay. And if you're in L.A., go into Airwan, order the Lauren Bostic pink drink. Tag me in Airwan on Instagram and I'll reposte you. and thank you guys so much for being the most incredible community. It's so much fun 14 years later after launching the Skinny Confidential to have this drink on the Air One menu. This is a grocery store market community that I've loved forever. And to be able to be a part of your day to day with my drink is insane. With that, we will see you on Monday.

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