The Bossticks - Lauryn's Quarantine Routine - Specifics On How To Thrive While Social Distancing

Episode Date: April 28, 2020

#264: On this episode Lauryn gets specific about what she's been up to during quarantine. From morning routines, to workouts, to books, & her baby Zaza's schedule. She also provides details around her intermittent fasting schedule and positive tips and tricks that you can apply to your own quarantine routine.  For a full list of all items and resources mentioned 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 Versed. Versed is the non-toxic, cruelty-free, and vegan skincare brand that's hyper-focused on bringing you real results at prices your bank account appreciates. Their products are made with proven ingredients at skin-changing levels, without the fussy packaging and conventional markups. You only pay for what matters—the goop inside the bottle Get 10% off for first time users when you shop at versedskin.com with promo code SKINNY This episode is brought to you by Perfect Keto  Clean ingredients for better health. Perfect Keto are no B.S. products backed by science to help promote better health. All Perfect Keto products and supplements are made from real whole food sources. Visit www.perfectketo.com/skinny to buy 1 and get 1 Perfect Keto 40% off + free shipping Produced by Dear Media

The following podcast is a dear media production. 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.

Well, hello. Happy Tuesday, Sunday, Friday, who knows what day it is. You have me alone today. It's just you and I. And we are going to talk about my current quarantine routine. You know that I am a bad shit psycho about routines. So Michael and I figured it would be fun to give me the mic to break down what I'm doing in quarantine. He looked at me the other day and he said, you need to do a whole podcast on what you do in quarantine because it's very specific and I think the listeners would appreciate it. And I just want to say that like quarantine is, it's weird for everyone. I don't think there's one person that wouldn't call it weird. And I do have to sort of talk myself into positivity during this time because between postpartum anxiety and quarantine and having a new baby, it's a lot, but it's a lot for everyone. It's a lot to be indoors. I'm a very movie person. I like to be moving and I like to be on the go and sort of like everyone does and have my own freedom to do what I want. So to be

indoors like 24-7 is a lot. I'm really lucky that I still can go outside and walk. So that's been a huge plus, but still not being able to leave the house has been weird. So I've really had to set up a routine for myself to prevent myself from feeling low. And I think that some of these tips and tricks in this podcast will help anyone who's maybe not feeling 100% right now. I always say this. The key to anxiety for me is to set up things to prevent the anxiety from going on. I notice that if I let the anxiety get out of control, it's because I haven't done things to prevent it from happening. And one of my main tricks to preventing anxiety is to have a routine, a solid routine. It makes a big difference and I know I talk a lot about morning routines and nighttime routines, but that's because

it works and it's really, really worked for me and I just like can't shut my mouth about it. So obviously things have changed with the baby and just because we're indoors so much that I figured that this podcast was necessary. So I guess we'll just hop right into it. All right. So first things first, I like to wake up at 7 a.m. I am definitely a huge fan of sleep. I've always been a huge fan of sleep. I'm not one of those people that's like, you know, work hard, no sleep. Like, I definitely think that sleep is one of the hottest beauty tips on the planet. If I don't sleep, my eyes are puffy, my face is puffy. I'm in a bad mood. I have more anxiety. It's just like not a good combination. So I'm a big fan of sleep. I go to bed right now around 10 p.m.

latest, like 11 p.m. And then I like to wake up, like I said, at 7 a.m. So, I wake up and Michael wakes up before me. He wakes up at usually six or six 30 and so he's up buzzing around. And I'm very proud to say that I have fully trained and manipulated my husband into bringing me a hot cup of coffee every single morning. And this took about eight years. No, I'm not joking. It took eight years. And it took like another two to have him understand that I like cinnamon in my coffee. I'm not sure why that was so hard, but it was. So now I wake up and he has a cup of coffee by my bed and where I like discovered this like little tip was through his mother. His mother has made his father get her coffee for the last 20 years. It's by her bed. And so finally I trained him into doing this. So I

opened my eyes. There's coffee by my bed. I don't drink coffee the first second I wake up. I actually wait for a minute because I like to drink water first. Cameron Diaz always says that when you wake up, your body's like a plant. It needs water. So water is definitely the first thing that touches my lips. But The idea of having a coffee next to my bed and knowing my husband brought it for me just makes me feel good instantly on waking up. And that may sound weird, but you know, judge me. Anyways, so there's a coffee sitting by my bed and Michael typically brings the baby right in around seven o'clock. She's looking cute. And I like cuddle with her while he opens the blinds. We're really big on opening the blinds because letting that natural light in is so important. I never knew how much I

crave nature until I got pregnant and realized that I was really missing out on being immersed in nature. So just opening the blinds for me is very therapeutic. You guys know I've talked about this a lot. I do this thing called light movement hydration. And the first thing is light in the morning. Like I want the light to hit my eyes. I want Zaza to be in light. I don't want her circadian rhythm to be off. So light is really, really important. We put her in bed. We usually like lay with her and play with her. And then we feed her in bed. This has been something we've done since she was born. And it's like a really special sweet way to start the day. And usually I have, as you know, my hydroflask next to the bed. I still do this in quarantine. It's got ice in it from the night before. It has like mint or it has

some kind of like bougie like ginger situation in it just to have and grab. So I'm drinking my water, playing with the baby. I'm giving you guys specifics here. Okay. And then I, we feed the baby. And from there, that probably takes an hour. So at this point, we're up around eight out of bed. Now, typically if we weren't in quarantine, this whole routine would be a lot shorter. Like, I'd be out of bed probably at 7.20, but we're in quarantine. So this is what we're talking. So 8 a.m. I'm out of bed. I make the bed. I'm a huge fan of that. I just put Zaza in this little round thing while I make the bed and she chills and plays. One thing, like just a side note, I think it's really important, like for me to have a baby that's independent. So I don't always want to be

holding her. I want her to be able to be in her a little bed watching me and being completely content by herself being independent. I put on music for her and then it's time to take a walk and this is where the movement comes in. So we get her ready. We get the dogs ready and we take the stroller and we walk. And before I go on the walk, I make sure my hydroflask is full of something like lime. I put lime juice in there. I'll put ginger in there. I'll put lemon. Tumoric. This sounds overwhelming. But once you get in this routine of doing it, it's just these little. things that flare up your life in like the best way. So having a really great spa water on a walk just makes like it just gives you like a little judge. You know what I mean? So got my water wearing my hat

walking the baby. If Michael is on the walk with me, we'll listen to like Western music. Having a huge moment with that. Huge moment with John Prime. Also Marty Robbins. And the baby and him and I will walk with the dogs. Really peaceful, really nice. Really again, special time of the day. and then I'm drinking and I'm hydrating why that's happening. So you're seeing the light movement hydration. I'm outside. I'm moving. I'm getting hydrated. You should notice that I have not yet checked my phone. Hold up. We're going to take a quick break. I have told you about perfect keto's cookies. If you are on keto, you need to try these cookies. Even if you're not on keto, I feel like if you just are having a busy morning and you don't have time to cook or you want a keto friendly snack

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and the first thing you see is your phone every morning, that is automatically going to trigger your anxiety and cortisol. That's a fact. I mean, you can go research it. I mean, there's been multiple studies on it. The blue light is automatically going to up the cortisol. So for me, what I'm trying to do when I wake up is I'm trying to own my own day and control my own day and give a really good, nice foundation that's not stressful. I used to wake up, you guys, for five years and immediately open my email inbox. Then I would go to my text messages and be completely reactive, not being proactive at all. I would react to what everyone was saying. I didn't give myself a second to think. I was working in my business, not on my business. And I had a huge revelation,

like five years into my business, where I realized I need to stop being so reactive and I need to be proactive. And how I do that is I do not look at my phone. Now, you should note that there is one time I do look at my phone. And that is if I end up waking up at 6 or 630 before Zaza, I'll take my phone and I will immediately go to the book app. So I don't even, I don't look at my text. I don't look at Instagram. I don't look at Facebook. I just go immediately to the book app and I'll read my book. Right now, just like a side note, I'm reading Diane Verlens. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. A book, it's so good. And so I'll read that before she comes in. And I guess the other reason that I'm looking at my phone is if I'm putting on music or a podcast, but that's it. The phone does not enter my ether until like nine o'clock, which we'll get to. So we take our walk. I'm drinking water. Having sips of my coffee, I take so fucking long to finish a cup of coffee. It's like embarrassing. Like sometimes it'll take all day. So I usually add inulin to that and you guys can Google the skinny confidential coffee. There's so many posts on how I like to drink my coffee. The inulin

keeps me satisfied because as you can tell, I'm intermittent fasting right now, so I haven't eaten anything yet. Zaza falls asleep at 9 a.m. on the dot, which is usually when we're walking back from our walk. So the walk usually takes 45 minutes. And we will take her out of the stroller. She's usually asleep. We'll put her in bed. And she falls asleep like the second that her head hits the pillow if she's awake. And that's because we've been doing sleep training. And so she's very punctual, which is not like her mother, but she's very, very punctual. She is very, very anal about her routine. And she is usually able to go to sleep at nine o'clock on the dot, which is so amazing for me because it gives me space. And it's amazing in quarantine right now. So I can put her to

bed so I can get all my shit done that I need to get done. So then I get busy because right now at this moment after I put her to bed, I have an hour and a half to get my shit together. Okay. So this is the routine. First up, I do breath work. This is something I discovered about two months ago and it is changed the game in quarantine. And I really, really mean that. It has helped my anxiety. It has opened my diaphragm. Okay. My friend Anna from Pelicure told me that a lot of people don't realize that a lot of anxiety comes because you don't have enough breath from your diaphragm. So, I have huge boob implants, so it's important that I really do breathwork. Like, it's a serious thing.

So I do breathwork by Iceman Hoff. He's very popular on Instagram. He's been on Joe Rogan. He's been on Tim Ferriss. He's been on Lewis House. He just is a really cool man that knows his shit about hot and cold temperatures and breathwork. And so I just go to his Instagram. This is literally what I do.

It's at Iceman Hoff. And I click his bio. And in there is a breathing exercise. It's free. it's nine minutes of your life. If you don't have nine minutes to yourself, you don't have a life. If you don't have nine minutes in the morning for you to get your head straight, you don't have a life. That's not a quote by me, by the way. It's a quote by Tony Robbins, but I full heartedly agree. If you cannot take 10 minutes out of your day to sit down and just think, I mean, you got to make it happen. So the breathwork

happens. I really take advantage of it, big, huge breasts. I do the full nine minutes all the time. be looking at nature if I can. I mean, looking at nature, it's so much more relaxing. And then if I have a chance after that, sometimes I do, sometimes I don't, whatever my schedule is that day, I'll do five to ten minutes of headspace because I'm there. So now I've done like 15 minutes to 20 minutes of thinking. And I've realized as a business owner that if you don't have space to think, you become again reactive. So for me to be able to sit down and think is incredibly productive. And that's been something that's come with age, I've realized.

Like, when I can sit down and hash out all the things in my head that I've been thinking about or wanting to do and just think about how I want my day to go, it makes all the difference. So that time to myself is really sacred and I take it very seriously. So Michael knows not to bother me. He even takes care of the baby if she is like crying. or she wakes up, he really gives me that space and that's really awesome. I have it on my calendar seven days a week to do breath and some kind of meditation. And then I do my planner trick, which I've talked about on TikTok. If you don't follow along on TikTok, you should. It's very,

very youthful and on the pulse. And it's a very smart, efficient way to create content. And I think that if you're a influencer or even if you're not an influencer, you should think about looking into TikTok. is the perfect time to go consume a bunch of TikTok content and become a practitioner of it. I'm a fan of adjusting to whatever medium, wherever attention goes. I adjust fast. I launch fast. So I'm playing with it right now and having a really good time. Anyway, I put this planner trick up on TikTok that breaks this whole thing down. But basically, it's this kind of like one page guide I made for myself for the mornings. So it's like, I'll give you a couple of examples. I'm doing, book, I'm reading, podcast, I'm listening to, music that I'm listening to.

Then there's three gratefuls. There's three must-dos, like things that I have to get done. There's like a mantra on there. And there's more. It's like I go very in depth on my TikTok. It's a one-page sheet that I made for myself. And if you go on my TikTok at Lauren Bostic, you can see the whole layout of it. And because I am having such a good experience with this one page of notes that I'm taking every day, I actually recorded a podcast on it. It's a 10-minute episode, and it will be out this week. So not only can you see it on social media platforms, you'll also be able to hear about it. And this one-page situation that I've been doing has been so life-changing for my day because I really lay out like a map, like a strategy for the day.

And it doesn't have to just have to do with business. If you're a mom or, you know, you're, you're quarantined in your house and maybe you lost your job and you kind of don't know where to start this one page thing to do every single day is very helpful. And I really highly recommend if you live alone to do something like that just so it can really be a guide for you. After I do my planner trick, I usually post some Instagram stories, Instagram content or TikTok and or TikTok. Posting content takes, you have to sit down and concentrate and make sure you have the colors right and the links right and the tags right and just everything needs to be streamlined and branded. So taking like a half an hour to sit down and post all that and do it in the way that is cohesive to my brand is really important.

And I want to be fully concentrated on that. So usually I'm like listening to smooth jazz and getting all my content ready for the day. If I did a blog post the night before, then I'm going to distribute the content. Distribution is a thing I'm a huge fan of. It's great to create content and be artistic, but it's really important to also be able to distribute that content. So by this time, I'm feeling good. Okay. I, just like a recap, I've gotten my hydration in, I've gotten light, I've gotten movement. I have gotten usually an informative podcast in because I'm listening to that while I'm doing certain things. My breath work, my meditation, my content is posted and I have my day planned out in front of me so I can like check things off and be organized. And

I have to say that I sound anal right now, but I actually am sort of chaotic at the same time. Like I wish one day I could film everything I was doing and you guys could actually see how I am because sometimes I switch between tasks and it's chaotic. So this is not like I'm like I'm a perfect, I get a perfect A plus every single day. Things change. The baby wakes up sometimes. I have to be able to pivot. But this is like an outline of the perfect day, if you will. Hot little break to talk to you about the brand that you've been seeing all over Instagram. That is called Verst. Okay. I know you guys have seen it. It's in all those millennial pastel colors that we want on our Instagram feed. You've seen it on my Instagram stories many times. Basically, Verst is a non-toxic,

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it could be anything from a content call with my editor about, you know, what kind of content we want to post. It could be a call with the podcast team, a sprint with my team, or maybe a call with a lawyer or I don't know, an accountant. There's usually a conference call around this time. So I've gotten a lot in in this time Zaza's asleep. I'll send some texts to my team or go on Slack to delegate. That's another thing that I found is I've grown my business that it's so vital to delegate.

So early on on the day, you want to be able to delegate a bunch of. of stuff to a team member or an intern or, you know, your business partner, you just want to shoot off a lot of different things that need to get done so you can simultaneously be working on the business, not in it. And I find that what I like to do is I have my team members text me at 915 every morning what they're working on. And we're on a group text so everyone can see what everyone's working on. So it's essentially like they're doing their own plan day in the morning. and it makes me feel good that they have their tasks in front of them and they know what they're doing for the day. So everyone kind of knows what everyone's doing. I should also mention that when I was pregnant

and after pregnancy, it looks a little different than before pregnancy. Now that I've had the baby, the second that we can get out of quarantine, I think the day will be very, very different. But like I said, right now, this is what I'm doing when I am in my house with no other option. So while, this is happening, I'm usually having a cup of tea. I mix it up here. I like to have fun with the tea. You can totally make a spa tea every day too. So if I'm using ginger and turmeric in the morning for my hydroflass water, then I'll throw it in a hot cup of water, maybe add some rosemary, like whatever you have on hand, mint, basil. I like to have, I even add like fennel seeds. Fennel seeds are so good for the immune system. Lemon, lime, watermelon, just like make, make it special. I have a friend, the

champagne diet. Her name's Kara, and she just really indulges in every single area of her life in the best way. Like, she makes everything special. If she's eating a snack, she'll put it on a really pretty plate of China. Or if she's drinking water, she'll put it in a champagne glass and do, you know, sparkling water with a beautiful straw. I really like to do that if I can do it quick in all areas of my life. I think that those little things just enhance your life in the best way. Okay, so we kind of got off track, but I just wanted to shout that out. So at 10.30 a.m. I wake up the baby. I play with her. I want to get her exhausted. Tummy time. She's not talking right now, but she's babbling. So we're like talking a lot with her and trying to make her say mom like every second. Mom or Papa. I really want

her to work on. Papa. Like can you imagine her downstairs? Papa. Can you fetch my hydroflask with meant, you know, can you wait? Can you even wait? Because I can't. Okay, so we play with her. Michael plays with her. And Michael is really helpful right now during this quarantine. He has been so amazing and stepped up to the plate. It's almost like he had a paternity leave, which is just ideal. I do some emails while he plays with her. We're just kind of working off our phone, switching off playing with the baby. So we feed her and then around 12 o'clock, I work out. Now, Now, this is in my calendar. I have done so many posts on this and I hope that you'll take this tip and use it in your own life because it really works. I schedule an appointment with myself

in my calendar every single day. Now, since I'm not moving a lot because we're in the house every second, I make sure that I am working out six to seven days a week on Skype. There is absolutely no excuse that you can't get a $20 mat off Amazon and two pound weights and get your ass kicked. There's Pvolve. I'm a huge fan of Pvolve. Um, low resistant. It really is going to give you those long lean muscles. They train all the Victoria Seeker models. Steven's been on the podcast. It's a fabulous workout. There's TSC body. Kim Kelly, my trainer is doing a skinny confidential body guide live workout every Wednesday on at TSC body at 9 a.m. P.S. TST. I'm doing that every single Wednesday. So that again, that that's going to change my day on

Wednesday. So remember, we're open to pivoting here. And then I'll do TSC body. It's a 28 minute workout. Or I'll do Pilates. The point is I will move my body. And on the days, and there are some days that I miss my workout, it changes the tone of the day. It just does. That's a fact. So right now I'm committed to one hour. Usually it's a 12 o'clock, sometimes 9 o'clock, six to seven days a week, no excuses. And then another walk. Like, I will try to walk again. So I walked with Zaza in the morning. I'll try to walk again. And I'll walk and listen to a podcast or I'll walk and take a conference call or I'll walk and FaceTime a friend. The point is I'm making a commitment to move my body. After I do my workout, I have an hour until Zaza wakes up. So I am writing my

next book. I have been writing my last book for about the last 10 months. And right now, it's down to the deadline, which this is kind of, it's kind of okay that I'm indoors right now because I need to be really focused. Writing a book is torture, to be honest. It's very, very hard to sit down and discipline yourself, to sit in front of the computer and fully focus on, you know, writing a chapter or editing a chapter or getting feedback. It's a lot of back and forth. I feel like I've gotten a lot of practice from writing from my blog. So it's not absolutely horrible, but it is one of the hardest things I think I've ever done is to sit down and really discipline myself. And I just try to time block it. Sometimes I get in an hour. Sometimes I get in two hours. The point is, is I'm making another

commitment to myself to writing every day. And I'm a big fan of the commitment. that you make to yourself is what builds that confidence muscle. So I'm really trying to maintain these commitments. Obviously, as you know, I have a newborn. So things, things are changing. Like, you know, you got to be able to pivot, like I said. Then I do emails, a lot of emails, film content, shoot content, take a break, play with the baby, feed the baby. And that's kind of how the day rolls on. You know what I mean? Oh, you should know that I'm intermittent fasting. So around one, two or three, depending on when I last ate the night before, I will make myself something to eat. I am intermittent fasting because I need to tighten up. I still have 20 pounds to lose after the

baby. And intermittent fasting is a super effective way for me to get things tight and right. People have asked me how I don't get hungry through intermittent fasting. I just, I feel like I've done it so many times that my body's just used to it. I don't even think about food until the time it's time to break my fast. I like to break my fast. I like to break my fast with fruit. You guys have seen on my Instagram story. I'll do fruit with inulin and black sesame seeds. And again, sexing up my fruit, like whatever I have. Add some mint, add some ginger, add some lemon, add some hemp seeds, you know, get creative with it. And that's how I like to break my fast, lots of water. And then usually about an hour later, I get hungry. So I'll do like

cauliflower thins. They're these thins that are one carb, they're amazing. I just post, them on my TikTok. They're from Whole Foods. And they are just like so good that you could make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. You could make pizza. You could make a cassidia. You could make a BLT. You could put eggs on them. They taste like sourdough. And what I do is I toast them and then I put what I want on them and then I put them in the broiler for a couple minutes and they're like heaven. Lots of lemon on top always. So yeah, that's the intermittent fasting situation. Talk to your doctor if you want to intermittent fast. I certainly had a conversation with mine. You got to do what works for you, but it's important to talk to someone who's experienced in it before you try it. So then the day rolls on, like I said,

more filming of content, more taking breaks to play with the baby. And usually it's time for dinner around 5.30 or 6. And that's when we're in the kitchen. We're trying to cook a lot in the kitchen instead of order in. Sometimes we order in, but sometimes we don't. Sometimes we cook. So we'll do like Brussels sprout seeds or salad. We're doing a lot of street tacos. We're doing bunless burgers. Michael likes a bun. But for me, I'm just doing like wrapped in lettuce with tons of jalapinos.

Lots of pasta or zoodles. You know, the spiraled zucchini noodles. They're so good. cauliflower pizza. We do cauliflower fried rice. Just like a lot of different fun things. Right now I have the space to cook. So I'm trying to utilize it.

Zaza gets her bath around six. and she gets fed at 7 and it's time to wind down usually. And at 7.30, she's in bed. We put her to bed. She again is sleep trained, which is so amazing. So it's pretty easy to put her to sleep. That's worked really well for us. I'm sure there's a hundred different ways to sleep train or not sleep train a baby, but this is what's worked well for us. And we're going to keep with it. And then it's time to just wind down. Like right now, I still have things to do. It's 8.30 p.m. I'm recording this podcast, so I have to like finish up some content stuff, post some Instagram stories, return some emails. Same old stuff. And I am in bed. Usually, like I said, around 9 o'clock, I turn on my red lights in my room,

which is so amazing. They just make the whole room have this really low cortisoly. Is that a word? a word vibe that just tells your body it's time to wind down. I usually watch a show or read a book and I just get my body like relaxed. I always do something hot like a mushroom, a four-sigmatic hot cacao, maybe with lemon or a date with almond butter and dark chocolate chips on top. Oh my God, it is good. Put it in the freezer. It's like heaven. I just like something sweet when I'm winding down. And if I'm having a glass of wine that night, maybe I'll bring the wine into bed with me so I can like sip it in bed. Maybe if I had a margarita, maybe I'll bring that in bed with me because I just get tired by 9 o'clock.

You know what I mean? Michael comes to bed around 10. He either reads or we watch TV. We are watching bad education right now. And obviously we saw Tiger King. We're also rewatching Curb Your Enthusiasm because that's like our favorite show on the planet. we rewatched Sopranos too. That was another favorite.

If you haven't seen those two shows, you gotta see him. And then I'm like a huge fan of like real housewives, everything. Van der Pump rules. So yeah, I do my skincare in bed and it's time to go to bed. Lights out and we are asleep. That is our quarantine routine. It is different than my daily routine when I was pregnant. It's different than my routine before Zaza.

And I'm sure it's going to change after this is all. over. I just want to say if any of you guys are feeling low or blue, you're not alone. There's so many people I've talked to that are feeling the same way. So that's the reason I wanted to do this podcast was I wanted to put this out there in the ether that if you make little tweaks to your day and you do certain practices and certain rituals every day, it really, really helps. Another thing that I try to do every single day, sometimes I miss a day, but it really, really I feel like is so relevant right now is stoicism. And I don't want to push it on anyone, but I just want to say that one page of the daily stoic a day just really shifts your mindset. And I think right now,

anything that you can do to shift your mindset is positive. So if you take two tips from this podcast, great. If you take 10 from this podcast, amazing. And if all you get out of this podcast is that you should start breathwork, I will be so happy because the breathwork out of all this has been so beneficial through all this craziness. With that, I'm going to sign off, but I will say that we are still doing the nurses boxes. So this isn't a giveaway. This is just the Skinny Confidential team wants to make boxes for a bunch of nurses who are TSC listeners. So if you or a friend are a nurse, let me know on my latest Instagram at the Skinny Confidential. And we are just going to keep picking people to send beauty boxes to. They're going to be full of skin care and makeup and cute skinny confidential stuff. Expect the boxes in two months, though, just because we're not in office right now. But like I said, we really want to support the nurse community. And I think that this is a fun way to do it. Make sure you guys have rated and reviewed the podcast on iTunes. Michael will be back next time. He is currently on the couch watching

a movie with his noise-canceling headphones on. So I have to go. It's time for me to get in bed with a glass of red wine and watch the Real Housewives of New York. I'm ready. All right, you guys, we will see you next time. Thank you so much for listening, as always.