The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - Brooke Burke On Life Design, Diet, Weight Management, & How To Meet Your Potential

Episode Date: July 31, 2023

#594: Today we're joined by Brooke Burke, television host, cancer survivor, entrepreneur, fitness educator, philanthropist, podcaster and women’s health advocate who has been thriving in Hollywood for decades. Brooke sits down with us today to discuss all things lifestyle & planning a life of your dreams. We dive into her story, how she created longevity for herself and her business in Hollywood, and what internal work she did in order to curate a life she loved. She gets into her dating history, what it was like being a single mom in the entertainment industry, and hard truths she learned when it comes to life in Hollywood. She gives us all the tips to designing a life to be proud of, protecting your boundaries, finding a lifelong partner, and meeting your own potential. To connect with Brooke Burke click HERE To connect with Lauryn Evarts Bosstick click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE To subscribe to our YouTube Page click 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 Dr. Dennis Gross If you want to take your beauty routines to the next level with immediate and long-term benefits, go to ddgskin.com/skinny for up to 25% off Lauryn's exclusive bundles and new lip products. This episode is brought to you by Sakara Sakara delivers science-backed, plant-rich nutrition programs and wellness essentials right to your door. Their ready-to-eat meals are nutritionally designed to deliver results—from weight management and eased bloat to boosted energy and clearer skin. Go to Sakara.com/skinny or enter code SKINNY at checkout to receive 20% off your first order. This episode is brought to you by AG1 AG1 is way more than greens. It's all of your key multi-vitamins, minerals, pre-and probiotics, and more, working together as one. Go to drinkAG1.com/skinny to get a free 1 year supply of vitamin D3k2 drops and 10 free travel packs with your first purchase.   This episode is brought to you by Evlo Fitness Workout smarter, not harder. Visit evlofitness.com and use code SKINNY for one free month of Evlo.   This episode is brought to you by Poise Ultra Thin Poise Ultra Thins are bladder leak pads that fit and flex with your body, to provide protections so that you can cherish your postpartum moments worry-free. Learn more at poise.com. This episode is brought to you by Harmless Harvest Replenish your electrolytes and keep yourself cool so you can avoid losing yours. Go to HarmlessHarvest.com and use code SKINNY for 20% off your first order. Produced by Dear Media

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We are being raised in a society that is teaching us about good enough. We are marrying Mr. and Mrs. Goodenough. We are living in a space that's good enough. We are accepting good enough. Like the word extraordinary seems so big. Like we all have a blessed life. I have a blessed life. I live in gratitude. I live in gratefulness. I'm so blessed for my life. But I'm still reaching for extraordinary because I can and because I will and because that's

the commitment that I've made to myself. So if you're looking for an extraordinary partner, why not? Like why? We're settling. I have wanted Brooke Burke on this podcast for seven years. I have DM'd her. I have wanted Brooke Burke on this podcast for seven years. I have DM'd her. I have emailed her. I have went through friends to get her attention.

I basically have done everything humanly fucking possible to get her on this podcast. Because not only do I admire her as a person, but I admire her as a mother. I admire her as a survivor, an entrepreneur, a fitness educator, and a philanthropist. She really does it all. But the thing about her that's so great is she does it all so effortlessly. So I wanted her to come on and not only tell her story, but to tell us how she does it all and does it so seamlessly. So she's here today and she's going to tell us details that she has never talked about with anyone. She's going to talk about lifestyle, her relationships,

planning a life of your dreams, how she created longevity for herself and in the business of Hollywood, the internal work she's done, fitness tips, health tips. I was taking notes from her smoothie recipe to how she intermittent fasts, to how she looks so goddamn amazing. She really shares all the juice in this episode. You are going to love it. Let's welcome the iconic Brooke Burke to the Him and Her Show. This is the skinny confidential Him and Her. Four children.

That is amazing. That exhausts me just hearing it. It's a lot of work. It is a lot of work. I mean, what's the key? It's the greatest job I've ever had in my life. I don't know if there's a key.

I learn from them. They learn from me. We raise each other. I also have a 23 year old and a 21 year old. So I lean in on them right now when I'm raising a 15 year old boy, his name is Shia, my son, and raising a 16 year old. We raise each other and our family in the same way that the four of you in your household raise your little ones. I can't do it alone. a tribe but so the gap the gap's 23 to 15 yeah my son is 15 rain is 16 sierra's 21 and ryan's 23 who you know how have you been able to do it so successfully though with la hollywood

everything you have going on i mean you're you're really like building an empire i have you how have you been able to manage all this it's a lot I would say the younger me didn't have much of a social life. I was always a working mom. My mom was a working mom. She raised three jobs growing up, really simple life. A lot of communication, a lot of sacrifice, a lot of honesty, a lot of quality time, maybe more than quantity at busy times in my life. We have a lot of family dinners.

We give each other grace, and I'm busy times in my life. We have a lot of family dinners. We give each other grace, and I'm always communicating with my children. I have to do this. I might miss out on that, but I'm going to make up for it here. Do you like your fabulous life? This is how we get to have all that. Like I'm leading by example.

When you were young and your mom was working all these jobs, what was that like for you? I think I didn't know the difference. I think vulnerably I probably spent I did spend a lot of nights waiting and wanting more of her but I grew up seeing that and understanding that and I think it gave me a great work ethic gave me grind it gave me grit like you can't really teach that and she was a really loving amazing mom without a lot of time but she gave me the certain there were certain virtues and certain characters and she made up for it so i never really punished her for it like i never made her feel guilty like i don't she just had to do it

she had to do it and i didn't know anything different it is hard though now that i'm a mom even like today i have to leave i have to go to LA and leave them and it's you just feel like you have to do it because like you said it affords them a certain lifestyle I guess we're always wanting to do more or do it better as moms right and that's kind of the fucked up part about parenting and I think the pressure that society puts on us. I wrote a book a long time ago called The Naked Mom, kind of a silly title because I think that was probably a little too provocative and moms don't have time to read books. But one of the chapters was called Not Guilty, straight up not guilty. And it was an intention, an action to not do guilt. And people were like,

what do you mean? I'm like, it's a a choice you can feel guilty because you're coming to work to do something incredible everything you do is never going to be enough or you can just choose to do it and love them through it and not feel guilty about it i i think that's really toxic i think a lot of women have so much guilt i mean it's a big conversation. Well, because men, I think because of the social norms, I don't feel guilty going to work. I want to spend more time with my children and my family, of course, but there's not that kind of pressure. Nobody ever comes to me and is like, well, you're working a lot. It doesn't happen. I feel guilty all the time. Isn't that interesting society and how far we've come as women and that now we're able to be

ballers and badasses and entrepreneurs and CEOs and yet still be mothers and some women feel that they have to choose between the two right or they're going to do both and do it with a little bit of guilt I have so many kids and so many responsibilities and I love what I do and I I give myself so much grace to do everything I want to do and I think I'm a committed, connected, I think I'm a great mom. Well, I think it's interesting that you tell me that your mom did have three jobs and she was working so hard but she was still a really incredible mom and it sounds like there's no ill will towards your mom. You actually got your grit and your perseverance from your mom. Yeah it sounds like there's no ill will towards your mom. You're actually got

your grit and your perseverance from your mom. So that makes me actually feel a little more settled. I think you're probably a more well-rounded woman. I think you are probably a better wife, partner, and a better mother. I actually joke around about this a lot with my girlfriends and mommy friends. Being at home with your kids is the hardest freaking job in the world and sometimes going to work it's like today I walk in everybody I'm in this beautiful studio someone handed me a cup of coffee for me that's like right let me pull out the violins right right just to be served to have some escapism to be in a space where I guess you're giving even though you're working but giving in a different way that's elevating your goals I'm just I'm just very pro I'm pro women carving out time and finding boundaries and being an amazing dedicated mother while being dedicated to themselves we only we only

rolled the red carpet for you normally we just throw a used pizza box at the person say yeah grab what you can find in the trash in a nice cup it's on. It's on a saucer. I told him I got everybody ready. I said, Brooke's coming in. Get everything presentable. But once you leave, it's all going to fall apart. What was the first epiphany where you realized that you were sort of meant to be in entertainment? I never thought I would be in entertainment. I always saw myself as a businesswoman.

Kind of dabbled in entertainment, stepped into it rather by accident. I really educated myself on the road during Wild On and did my first real show on the road in Spain and signed a contract, kind of faking it, faking it until I made it. Honestly. This is after Hawaiian Tropic though. That was the first. I'm going to go back. This is, I'm researched. This is, that was the first moment, right? Yeah, that was the, well, okay. So you're talking about like bikini contest. I'm talking about, yeah. Going way back.

Like what, 16, 17? Oh, shit. Yeah, maybe, maybe. Gosh, you know more than I do than I can remember. Probably right around there, 16, 17, 18. But at that time, I was that young girl from Tucson, Arizona,

from a really simple town, really scared and not super confident and really intimidated by everything that was LA. Because that's just when you're not from here and you're not in the business, it's bright and big and beautiful and fancy. And I think I just was always taking chances in my life as a human being, as a young girl. I wasn't afraid to screw it up or get it wrong. I still get it wrong. Awesome lesson for mommying. I was never afraid to screw it up. But I never thought I was going to land here. No way. So how did you enter? Did you enter yourself? Did someone else enter you? Funny enough, Hawaiian Tropic, I won a really cheesy acting scholarship, if you want to call it that, that sent me out to LA. And I remember

speaking to my parents and packing my bags and taking my dog with me and my dad saying, go to LA and do what you're supposed to do. And if it doesn't work out, come home. So can you imagine like my father, who was a New Yorker, Armenian, super strong, was like, go, you're going to stay here and just wonder what your life would have been like. Go to LA. What's the worst thing that could happen? Like I have goosebumps thinking about it. And he said, come home if it doesn't work out.

But don't sit here and wonder what your life could be like. And that was probably the riskiest, best and scariest advice I've ever received. And I'm always grateful for that. And I always tell people, you got to take chances and go explore. And don't be afraid to get it wrong. And I got it wrong a bunch of times. So what's your first memory when you get to LA? Got to LA, nothing that I thought it would be.

What did you think it would be? A little bit more organized, a little bit of a nurturing community, a little bit more of like a loving welcome i didn't know i didn't know that i was going to be like this young girl from arizona dropped into the freaking jungle like go figure that out you can't afford rent you don't know what you're going to do there's creepers everywhere no one's nice to you there's no sisterhood circle like i just I had no idea what I was getting myself into. And I kind of sucked it up and rolled up my sleeves and put my war paint on and decided I'm going to work this out and did the side jobs and had the six-month lease everywhere in town, worked downtown in the

garment industry. And then finally, I went on an audition for Wild On and had no idea even what that was about. Didn't know the e-network never saw the show didn't have an agent i didn't really know what i was going to do it was a friend of a friend that sent me it's one of those terrible stories for people that are aspiring to be in the business why just because it's like by accident because by accident i went on a meeting and i wasn't so intense and nervous about it because I didn't really know what I was getting myself into. But there's a lesson there. There's a lesson there.

Meeting you in person, though, I will say you have it. You can't really explain what it is. It's kind of like a... It's charisma. You have it or you don't. So I'm not surprised that you sort of stumbled into it like that. I appreciate that. That's a really...

I would say the same thing about you. It's a really nice compliment. Whatever that it thing is, I guess we all kind of look for that. We look for it in love. We look for it in partnerships, entrepreneur opportunities. I mean, it's, you kind of, in your gut, you kind of know, right? I think that it's hard to say, oh, like, I knew I was going to be be famous isn't the right word. Maybe that you knew you were meant to be put here to entertain. I don't know. I don't.

I knew. Well, you know, it's maybe a little gooier than you want to get. But I knew that I had faith in one step forward. And I had faith in taking advantage of the right opportunities without knowing what the end result would be. So I would say I probably spent a decade longer than I could have. Now as a woman and a businesswoman, I want to get from point A to point B. I want to be strategic. I want to surround myself with the right people. I want to be thoughtful and educated.

Back then, I was just carefree and faithful in my decision-making process. I mean, my daughter, Naraya, my oldest, who you know, I was pregnant. I went on the road and did 40 countries on the road as a single mom. I shouldn't say single. I wasn't married yet. I don't mean to be disrespectful to my ex, but I was on the road alone with my daughter hosting a television show, traveling around the world. Call me crazy. How old was she? She was a baby. She was three months old. I know like you should see her face right now, everyone. I know. I know. But it's one of

those things where maybe you just didn't know the difference. I didn't know better. I knew that I was not going to leave my baby at home. I but i'm but i'm when i say 40 countries i mean i wore her i brought a a nurse with me and i was crazy but i what was crazier to me was thinking about not attachment bonding with my daughter and leaving her at home and i didn't know better and quite honestly looking back it was the most amazing stint of my life. One of the greatest shows I've ever worked on. And it was simple. We had a simple bag of stuff. Like I'm talking like books and Cheerios, not an enormous amount of gear to entertain

my child. We slept in the same bed together. Got a lot of criticism for that. But we were just making it up as we went along. And it worked for me. And then I got pregnant with Sierra. And I was like, holy shit, I need to get off the road. So I did Wild On for two years and then I got pregnant with Sierra and I was like holy shit I need to get off the road so I did Wild On for two years and then did a handful of shows at E and then you

know dealt with the challenges and struggles of life and that divorce and falling in love again and redesigning a new life and blah blah blah but I think I just kept doing things that felt right and that brought me joy and allowed me to discover new talents and new things. When you get divorced for the first time and you're in front of the world, how does that feel? Awful. I think any time alone or in front of the world, for me, I would have swore that I would have stayed married because I really believed in love, but I was a really bad picker. I think I didn't choose wisely. I have no regret. I'm so happy that I married Garth and that I had Narayan Sira with him. One of the greatest, hardest, most incredible learning opportunities of my life, but shocking and deflating. And I don't think I knew what I was in when I was in it because I was young and I was hustling and I was working and I was so in love with my children that I just

knew that it was time for change and and I quickly was in a new loving relationship which made it a hell of a lot easier to be honest there's no hiding the truth of my past. It seems like being with a doctor, too, has like a whole different layer because a doctor at his level, I mean, he's a doctor. Well, you talk about two completely opposite human beings. So when two worlds collide, two souls collide, two spirits collide, whatever you want to call it, and I've done this a couple of times, I don't think that, and I say it respectfully too, because I always want to honor the people in my past, whether it was right or wrong for me.

I don't think that we were ever going to, our spirits were ever going to align. We were completely opposite human beings, really trying to work it out and really trying to work it out for our family. And I made mistake after mistake after mistake. My greatest regret, I don't think I've ever said this publicly, but fuck it, why not? My greatest regret is that he and I never really healed. We kind of moved on and we still don't have a relationship, which is really sad for my children. But I don't think we were mature enough or capable enough in the process of that pain to kind of just meet each other with an apologetic honesty you know that would happen now i've been after all this time no time has passed i guess i would but no i don't think time's passed i think not everyone's capable or willing or wanting to heal

and learn not everybody needs it i need it in my life as a woman i think think that it seems like with both of you guys, your careers took off so crazy from just like an outside thing that it's like maybe the reason that you didn't have the time or the space to heal is because your careers were so big. Yeah, maybe. And you're just trying to survive, I think. Right. I think you're trying to survive. You know what I would tell people, younger people, the younger me, the new mom, and no one had, I don't know about you guys, but nobody had this conversation with me. And maybe we're more conscious now as parents, because we read and we study and we have access to everything. But nobody ever said, choose wisely who you're going to raise a family with, because you're going to be stuck with that

person forever. No one ever told me that. I would tell my children that it's so funny we were we drove up from san diego this morning and we were talking about that and i was telling her like i just subconsciously like to me it always like okay you're gonna be with somebody for a very long time like pick don't don't pick some dodo bird right you gotta pick the right person but she was saying that like she never thought about this i never never understood what an important, now that I'm older and I have wisdom, I'm like, oh my God, thank God, I sort of tripped in the right hole. Thank God.

Or thank God that he tripped in the right hole. But like it really is one of the most important decisions because like you just said, even if you get married to someone and you divorce them, if you have kids with them, you're in it. But you're right though, that there's not, you know, nobody sits down and says, says hey this is going to be a really important decision and i would argue it's one of the most important decisions who you decide to have children

with and who you decide to be in a relationship with because it might be the most i was talking to a single buddy of mine i was like listen like he was saying oh maybe i'll just have a kid i'm like listen if you don't you don't just have like once you have the kid you're parenting with that other person for you know hopefully as long as the child is alive so and i wonder if you're capable right so you're in love and it's intoxicating not chemically but well no chemically from a pheromone standpoint and i don't know that you have the sense the common sense to really even have that dialogue with yourself like i think opposites attract sometimes when it comes to raising a family.

Does your faith align? Do your virtues align? Does your character align? And it doesn't mean to say that somebody can come from a less than perfect background, but maybe they've done the work and realize that they're going to live differently. Or there's just so many things that the signs were so loud

and are so there if we're just listening. And I don't know if we are as younger people. I don't know if that siren song is loud enough that we can actually hear it. I think that this conversation though is important for people to hear because you're right. There isn't a lot of conversation around who you end up marrying. I never thought about it. Well, this sometimes hits a nerve too, because we've touched on this. And I think there's the people that have not got in the relationship yet. And hopefully this reaches them and they're like, okay, maybe I should be thoughtful. And then there's the people that are of mine who happens to be a really brilliant gentleman. Gentleman. That makes him sound so old. He's in his 40s. I want you to describe me as a gentleman.

A gentleman. I just aged myself. He's in his 40s. And he's so smart that he's having these very cerebral intellectual conversations with himself about the quality of the woman he's in a relationship with. And can she level up? And does she fit the mold of the woman that's in a relationship with and can she level up and does she fit the mold of the woman that I would want to mother my children and and he was really having an amazing conversation with me and I don't want to say dissecting but exploring the possibilities and I was asking myself silently not discussing that with him is it because he's so smart and he's a little bit older and he was able to have that conversation because I think when we're young we're in love and I just don't know if we're foreseeing not the

complications that you don't know about maybe not thinking with the right brain yeah I mean I think or the parenting thing is like next level of designing a relationship and designing is a funny word but I do believe that we have to start designing your marriage your future your home your life your love your family your children you came to the right podcast we agree you do yeah we just did a whole podcast on creating your own future and designing your life and being thoughtful and being purposeful and so many people are settling because society tells you you need to settle by a certain age. Girl, I said this in that conversation. We are being raised in a society that is teaching us about good enough. We are marrying Mr. and Mrs. Good Enough. We are living in a space that's good

enough. We are accepting good enough. And a lot of the transformational work that I do in the retreat work with women and men is to allow yourself, like the word extraordinary seems so big. Like we all have a blessed life. I have a blessed life. I live in gratitude. I live in gratefulness. I'm so blessed for my life. But I'm still reaching for extraordinary because I can and because I will and because that's the commitment that I've made to myself. So if you're looking for an extraordinary partner, why not? Like why? We're settling all around. I mean, I think that word makes people uncomfortable. It makes people uncomfortable. I think it makes people uncomfortable that that someone would want an extraordinary life in each area. You said today on the car ride up when we were having this conversation, you said, I don't want to be that person that says, oh, but he's a good dad. Explain what you said. I said, I never want to be described as,

but like, so for example, if you met me and you're like, hey, Michael, you're okay at business, but you're a great dad. Like I would hate that. If you're like, hey, you're a great dad. You're like, you're an okay dad, but you're great at fitness like i never want to be the guy that's the but right i want to be like but oh you know what i'm saying like like meaning the dad

the amazing meaning the daddying is making up for what you're not in other areas no just meaning like it's like basically you're cheap someone's saying like okay you're okay here but that's okay because you're okay you're great to be extraordinary i want to hold myself accountable like i want to be in shape i want to have a good business i want to be a good husband i want to be a good i don't want to like i don't want to just do one and not the other does that make sense i think it's amazing i think that you are unique and a unicorn and there aren't enough people who are brave enough or committed enough to high potential and i really like to discuss the possibility, right? Because we're learning

and even if it's scary and uncomfortable of never falling below that high standard that you hold for yourself. I think that the word extraordinary makes, if you say to your whole entire family and all your friends, I want to be extraordinary. What it does is it maybe points out

where they're not being extraordinary so i think it's uncomfortable but instead what you're saying is we should all up level to be extraordinary i think you're right and i hadn't thought about that i think you make a great point it is uncomfortable there's something about it that doesn't feel humble but i think we need to get uncomfortable and even in my family like with my children i, I'm like, get uncomfortable. Do it or don't do it. And if you're going to do it, come higher hell water. Freaking do it with commitment. Like even, this might seem silly, we have a lot of family meals together, as many as we physically can. Even tonight when I leave here, I'm going to grind. I'm going to go to Westlake, pick up my son

from football from here. And people listening, we're really far away because I want to be there to pick him up. Then when I come home and we're going to have dinner. If my daughter's setting the table and she's phoning it in because she's rushing or disconnected, I'll look at the table and I'll be like, I didn't teach you how to set the table like that. If you're going to set the table, set the table right.

Hold on. Hold on. We've got to take a little detour here. We're going to take a little detour. Sorry to the audience. Brooke, I'm coming over for dinner. This is music to my ears. What does it look like to set the table in an extraordinary way? I want to hear this. Because maybe I'm fucking phoning in the table. I need to know how to set an extraordinary table.

Number one. Okay. So candles are lit. Okay. And even if they're little candles, like the napkins folded, it's on the table. The silverware is right. The glass isn't like in the middle of the plate. Is it a linen napkin or a paper? No, paper paper okay paper let's get real okay and it's

probably not paper plates unless we're really lazy but i'm not mad at that okay i'm not mad at that as long as we as long as it's pretty it looks nice there's an intention and it has vibe okay and i'll go on and the lights are right so that we're not like blasting fluorescent vibe michael just learned about a dimmer come on dimmer michael listen i had a dad that literally the lights these are this was the lights these aren't nearly as bright as the lights okay so it makes me i'll walk in there's a dimmer what else and there's probably like a nice playlist like a home sweet home or like a nice loving playlist on and it's just it's ambiance right and it doesn't matter if we're eating takeout it doesn't matter if we're eating takeout it doesn't matter if we're eating

frozen food oh i see you nodding your head no keep going keep going no no no no no well okay so like as a woman i feel you it's about ambiance and it's about setting the mood and you know i'll pivot for a second if i'm walking into my bedroom with scott and the like lights are blaring and like i'm like babe like i want some ambiance i want to be seduced like learning about i want so i know oh my god i used to would say i want to be desired but seduce is a better word seduce me don't stick it in before you feel me up oh my goodness squeeze can we just go on can you take a journey around my body take a journey around my body bitch the other day we got two nights the other day he asked me do you want seven minutes in heaven? When my kids were watching a show.

And I was like, okay. That's not bad. It was one minute in heaven. I said, you got to put some effort into it. Can I use that line? If I offered my man seven minutes of heaven, oh my God. It was three. No, listen.

That's being generous. It's better than one. Our child. It's better than one. We were in this house. I'd like some ambience. I want to be seduced. And the children are everywhere

and there's people everywhere. And I was like, I need it. We need to go in the closet. But Brooke is saying to put intention behind everything you do from setting the table.

But Seven Minutes of Heaven was kind of poetic. I didn't have time to light the candle and get it going. It's kind of a romantic question. Put some home sweet home music. Home sweet home.

I'm going to share the playlist with you. This is also a very weird time. It was like 10 a.m. We went from family dinner to Seven Minutes of Heaven. I'm sorry. We're we're gonna go back i want to say one more thing about this you know i think we are living in an interesting time where people want to feel good rather than actually be good and what i mean by that is like people are like the reason it's

uncomfortable when say when people say oh like i want to be extraordinary is because you if you say that you maybe people are thinking well then that means other people can't be right or like or other people know they aren't and i think we're getting in this weird place now where people feel bad about saying they want to be great and i don't think this has ever been before and i personally don't like it because if it's if if i'm you know as a dad, like I want my children to demand the most from themselves. And of course I want them to be good and all that, but I want them to hold themselves to a high standard. Yeah. I mean, listen, when I was a kid, like I had a half Japanese mother. So like there was no, like, you know, of course you had to hold, you had to hold yourself high

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You know, the word extraordinary, that's not like misinterpret it, right? So extraordinary could be that you're having a really shitty day and you don't feel like doing anything, but you took 11 minutes to go listen to a meditation to reset yourself. That might be your extraordinary moment for the day. It doesn't mean that it's big and beautiful and fabulous. It means that you're connected. And I love what you said about integrity. If you're meeting yourself with integrity,

that might just mean that you're listening and you're dialed in and you're present and you know holding yourself to that standard and living in integrity means a lot of different things right yeah i mean it's it's easier to just kind of phone it in but like you know it takes discipline to be great in areas and that doesn't just mean in your business but like with your it takes discipline to be a good wife or a good husband a good father a good mother all these things right you can't and and i think people telling themselves that they don't have to hold themselves to that standard but then also demanding those results are living in delusion i think some people don't even feel worthy to do it to be honest i mean i i posted something the other day and i'm spending a lot of time thinking about this

i'm writing a body of work on it, but like protecting your boundaries, like be willing to be worthy of protecting your own boundaries. And that might be the boundaries of carving out time for love and romance. And that might be, you know, would you rather me not take that time to do that? I had to, you know, like, that's the thing is I think joking aside, I want my wife to know that at any given moment she could be desired like that, you know, in the middle of the, even the kids are like,

because I think also again, like people start phoning it into relationships like, oh, like the kids are there. So we better not do it. No, of course it's hard. I mean, it is. I mean, it is hard to get

into the mood and to be in that sexy space when you know the kids are on the other side of the door. Like I do get that. I mean, I'm going to keep it real. Like, yes, into the mood and to be in that sexy space when you know the kids are on the other side of the door like i do get that i mean i i'm gonna keep it real like it yes but it is hard like you have to sometimes you have to like roll up a towel and stick it underneath the door crowd as if i think it's muffing up yeah i i jammed a door wedge in there i locked it before i i want to go back to wild on before i that, just because you brought it up, you have to tell me what you're going and cooking for dinner

and how you're whipping it up so efficiently and quickly for four children and picking up your son all within this small window. My oldest one is not at home, so I'll be honest. It's three. And normally on a day like this, I use a slow cooker crock pot all the time. Love a good crock pot.

Honestly, I can throw it in there in the morning and it'll be ready by the time we get home. What brand? And it could be, I got to look it up on Amazon. I'm the queen of Amazon and we'll find the brand. But I'm talking like I'll put two packages of chicken in there. I'll get a bottle jar from Trader Joe's of like teriyaki sauce or salsa. I'll throw it in there with garlic and onions, put the lid on it, put it on low. By the time I get home, there's like another tool on Amazon that you can separate the chicken with. They look like two claws. It's like amazing pulled chicken. And it'll last for four days. I'll make a big pot of rice and I'm off the hook. That is such a good tip for a quick meal.

There's been so many people that come on this podcast that cook dinner at night, but it's so overwhelming. That does not sound overwhelming to me. I want easy and efficient. I want it to be mindful and yummy. But I mean, we're busy. Okay, I'm getting a crock pot. You will see a crock pot. I'm going to share the recipes with you.

No, no, honestly. Please. Will you post it on your Instagram story so everyone can see this and this goes live? We have to pull apart the chicken. You know I will. How to mindfully pull apart the chicken. Listen, it's either that or you're boiling, do boning. This is the easiest recipe of all time.

And honestly, I love it. I'll make a pot of it that is so big. And then my son will roll in like four football players. And I will feed all of them for two days. This one pot of crab chicken. I bet your son's football player friends love your pulled chicken. And I'm sure they love you making them pulled chicken. I hope they do.

I'm sure they're not mad. We're going to Brooke's house again for dinner. My poor son. It's terrible. We couldn't figure out anywhere else to eat. Taylor wants to come over for pulled chicken. He's celebrating. Everyone's invited to my house for dinner.

When you were on Wild On, what was that like balancing all these different things? And then you're going through a divorce. How are you doing all this when you're traveling to 40 countries? Like, what was that like? It was a lot, lot, lot. That was the beginning of the relationship. So I wasn't going through the divorce there,

but I was figuring out what it's like to be a mother. And I was figuring out, it's like to be a mother and I was figuring out without a lot of skills how to host a show live on the road so I was kind of making it up as I went along and I didn't know anything different so I was just managing it all your question is how I don't know I didn't know anything else when you are known for wild on that's how you come into the scene and then you want to transition to other things. What is that like? That was really hard because Wild On went from when I first started being this really cool travel show, having a little bit of TNA,

covering the parties, a little bit of culture, and a little bit of geography to then becoming this crazy ass party show with the confusion often with girls gone wild back in the day you remember so you had wild on and then you had that crazy joe francis girls gone wild that was all oh wow well it was very easy to and it was e which aired in 120 countries around the world so i could be covering a body of work in Jamaica that could have been like at some, I don't know, provocative location with nudity in every other country. It was like you're seeing everything in here in America. They were kind of masking it off. So the show, I think, took on a little bit more of a party and a little bit more of a provocative vibe before I left.

So for many people in transitioning from that show, I was always going to be that quintessential travel girl, which was cool. But I also had to mindfully kind of take on some other more respectable opportunities without downplaying it, though. I mean, it was a great show. I love when people come up to me and go,

I went to Ibiza. I went to Spring Break in Cancun. I went to Italy because I lived vicariously through you around the world. Or you made me want to go climb the Mayan Riviera, like all of these cool things, which I really loved. But to a lot of people, I'll always be that wild on girl. And that's okay. Was it hard to be in a constant party state or did you just separate it? People would never know this, but I was pregnant with Naraya on the road. Then I had Naraya, got back on the road

three months after I gave birth to her. So I would walk in, do my stand-ups, do my walk out, do the outros, and let my crew go in there and cover all the drunk craziness. I was sober for most of the show. Wow. So I thought, everybody thought I was this party girl.

I was pregnant. Like the camera shot was like belly, boobs, like it was less for most of the show. Wow. So I thought, everybody thought I was this party girl. I was pregnant. Like the camera shot was like belly, boobs, like it was less and less of me because my belly was growing, my boobs were growing. And the camera shot was getting smaller and smaller. I was on a bikini in the beach around the world. Oh, I remember watching when I was little.

But it was less and less of me. Go back and look, like it's ridiculous. I remember you so well from that show. And you started seeing less and less of me because my belly was growing. So nobody knew it. I didn't ever notice that.

Didn't you wonder why my breast rate is so big? No, I just thought you, I mean, you do have great breasts. I never thought anything of it. Thank you. I'll go back and watch. I'm sure Taylor will too. Come on, Taylor. Taylor's ferociously Googling it.

Taylor, don't do it. But the magic of television. And so that was, that was a lot. And then, you know, packing up my daughter and my life and then continuing that for a few years was a lot. It was amazing. I laugh about it now because that was reality television before reality television.

I did my own hair. I did my own makeup. I had two young producers. Yeah, no kidding. We were like on the road. We're now, you know, now our needs and our contracts and our desires and any deal, like they're big. You couldn't even go make a show like that today. No, because no one wants to do their own hair and makeup.

There's no way. Right. So we were able to get in there and be ghetto and have a small crew and bring to life travel like a local, which was really cool. What was the thing that you did after Wild On that you felt was like something that you were really proud of? CBS Rockstar. So I did that show with Mark Burnett. That was my first network gig. It was amazing. It was three nights on CBS, bringing unsigned talent to life. Amazing rock and roll.

We were looking, the first season was in excess, rock star in excess, looking for the replacement for Michael Hudgens. Epic talent. We did three nights. Everybody lived in the rock star mansion. So we had one night reality, two nights prime time. It was amazing. Is everyone flirting with you? Yeah. Not really because I'm on stage. Okay. So not really. I can't believe that. Not really. I mean because I'm on stage. Okay. So not really. I can't believe that. Not really. I mean, I'm on stage, live audience,

rockers that are scared shitless to get up there and showcase their talent. And then you've got the band and Dave Navarro. Like, not really. It was such a, doing live television like that, you know, you've got stage managers. There's so much going on. No.

So is this- The next season was with tommy lee that was a little bit different and that was i was like a little and i was like running i was running she's like the drama just like the drama the drama the drama so are also pregnant again on that show pregnant again i was pregnant on every show you're pregnant again trying to be a cool rockerer. Tommy's chasing you pregnant. I mean, I ran faster. It was fine. It was fine.

I don't think he's scared. So is this, are you divorced by then or no? So I was actually, so yes, divorced from Garth in a new relationship with David and pregnant with Rain. Okay. During that rock and roll show. And David was huge on Baywatch. I remember him on Baywatch. Yeah.

Is this before or after or during his Baywatch fame? After. And David and I knew each other since we were 21 and 22. So we always had a love affair. We had a very long relationship. We had a very deep friendship. And then we finally pulled it together and decided to really give it a go. And then we had two more children.

We had two children together. give it a go. And then we had two more children. We had two children together. That was a lot. Have you felt like with David, you've been able to maintain a friendship with him now? We have a great relationship. We parent together. Super close relationship. Like we speak every day. I would consider us to be the best of friends.

I'm still really close with his family. I didn't divorce them. We live in the same neighborhood. We like, we have dinners together. He'll come over for family dinner even with Scott and I.

What's the advice to someone, if someone, you have the advice, I feel like, what's the advice of being able to have an amicable relationship with an ex-husband?

Like, what's the difference? I think it's choosing love. I love David. I'll always love David. My new man knows I love David it's just how it is I've loved him since the moment I met him I've loved him since we were 21 years old we weren't great husband and wife and then when we divorced it separated it was the saddest time ever it was epically sad and painful, but we both knew that it was time for us to stop living as husband and wife and having a very complicated relationship. We knew that it was necessary for our children. And then we chose our children. We took the high road and we

designed, if you can imagine, and this is really possible, everybody who's fighting the fight i know how fucking hard it is we designed a working relationship as exes we are he is the greatest ex-husband of all time like he's my best friend it's crazy what does some of that design look like because i think there's people if they're if they're going down that path i don't i don't think we've ever talked about this like what that looks like post because Because to your point, you have these children together. You have this relationship. That was a great relationship. You have a friendship. Tragically painful in the beginning. Sure. Because we had tremendous chemistry, a deep love, and we were so committed and fought the best fight we could to raise our kids together until we realized that change was necessary. Then we took a pause. And then there's the pain of dating

other people oh my god do you have to like take time from each other as well for a while like distance we did and then i don't know if everybody would agree or has experienced this who's listening but there's also the missing like i had kind of a different approach to it. There's the missing when you're not together anymore that's painful and it's necessary. So we were able to stay in each other's lives and kind of love each other through that pain of missing each other.

I mean, there were periods of time where he's like, well, can we still cook together and hang out together and have family dinners? I'm like, well, David, if we keep doing that, then neither one of us get to move on. And so we can't really do that yet. We were so used to doing that. Like it was a very complicated, necessary separation.

It was a loving separation. And we agreed that we were going to stay in each other's lives and love each other through those difficult times. And when I say how close we are, mean we have dinners with scott like we'd probably travel together but i don't really want to do that because like we've got to move on and i want him to find someone that's gonna love him and and bring joy to his life and um what is it like when you start dating other people like how do you do that is it like a liaison a finesse weird it's hard like do you have to call you don't even know this part lauren anyways don't worry for you i think it's weird and it's different and i had to do a lot of work to realize that love looks

different feels different sounds, is different. And then when you met Scott, was it love at first sight? It was wow, oh my God, what the fuck at first sight. It wasn't love at first sight because I had that once in my life and I wasn't looking for that. But I definitely felt that oof like that wow the second that I saw him that oh my god what's this where'd you guys meet? we met at Wally's

in Santa Monica which is a bar I was I know it's so cheesy I was having a glass of wine with a girlfriend and a gentleman that's like a father figure to me

and Scott was there with his friend so it was definitely unexpected and it was meant to be. And I swore I would never do it again. I swore I would never get married again. I swore I would never live together. I swore I would never get engaged again. It was going to be my kids. And then I was going to love and date, but I knew that I was never, ever going to do it again in the way that I committed to David. And I was kind of having fun anyway. I thought this was going to be a great summer and I was going to date and I was, which was a disaster. I wasn't good at that at all. And then I met an

extraordinary man. What does it look like when someone hits on Brooke Burke at Wally's? What's the pickup line? I'd like to send this to a lot of my guy friends. It was actually pretty amazing. And I will say that I really wanted to be picked up on and I wanted to date and I wasn't dating. All the men listening have a giant note card. Guys one was talking to me no one was walking up to me I was a girl I swear to god that would go to Mastro's and sit at the bar because I'm a big girl and have a beautiful steak dinner and a glass of wine by myself not looking for love but looking for company and very open to sharing that seat next to me and maybe making a new friend and it was never happening and i and i and i'm not like or poor i'm not saying oh poor me i was not dating and i wanted to date i wasn't being set up i wasn't on a dating app no one was dming me yeah

but i mean okay but get over it so i was but get over it like i was ready willing and available no but that's the secret because our friend taylor back here. Now I'm going to get weird DMs. Oh, you're going to get dick pics. I swear to God. Dick baby pics. I don't get dick pics. I mean, he's in a relationship now. But this guy, he just charges.

He says hi to every girl, everybody. How did Scott come up to you at Wally's? He walked right up to me. See, that's the move. What'd he say? Rule number three. Walked right up to me. Completely ignored me.

Ignored my really hot, blonde, girl, stylist girlfriend. And I was sitting with a gentleman named Larry, who we call Papa, who's like a grandfather to my children, who honest to God is in his seventies, distinguished gentleman hat, like all Gucci'd out, like a fabulous man with a cane. Okay. I don't think it looked like we were on a date. He looks like my father. And Scott walks right up to the bar and says, hello, sir. I really like your hat. He had like a Nick Fouquet hat.

And I'm like, my jaw dropped. I'm like, this guy's so foxy. And he completely ignored me. And I'm like, what the F? And he walked away. And I look at my stylist. I'm like, and we always joke around about this because you got to like give credit where credit. I was like, that guy was so foxy. What the fuck?'t even say hi like didn't say hi to you me like we're

like crickets this is the story of my life isabel like i no one talks to me i walked away and i'm like what the hell and then he came back he came back but when he came back i was already gathering my things i had to get my stuff out of isabel's car. Papa was driving me home. I really couldn't stay. I was in the city. I live in Malibu and we had already got the valet. So he walked up to me, invaded my space, grabbed me by the arm, not in a creeper way, but you would interpret that as creepy. And he said, hi, I'm Scott. Come and have a drink with me. And I was like stuttering. I was like, i would love to have a drink with you but i can't and it only was because which i guess sounded like a rejection yeah sure am i that was it was that a rejection people would take most and i didn't mean it like that i just was like

and he goes no no no come and have a drink with me and like kind of grabbed me by the arm off of the barstool but not in a weird like who does that nowadays no one would dare touch you or we're living different times i know now you get hit with the taser wait he went for it and inside i was like i think this might be my man like this guy is so fucking brave this guy just invaded my space grabbed me by the arm and didn't take no for an answer i think this might be my man you see though but this is why the times are so fucked up because you're Taylor, bad advice.

Women want a little dominant. No, we want to be ignored. No, but listen, Brooke Burke is on the show saying that she was grabbed. I know, and I liked it. And she liked it.

And ignored. And that was the right approach. And now this is the guy. But if you do that, if you give that advice in a 2023 world. here's what it is women and men do not like desperate energy you cannot be desperate energy in any facet of a business relationship of a friendship we can smell desperation do we agree no one wants desperate

energy and scott to me sounds like he came up he asserted that he is not desperate because he ignored her and then he came back and he gave a little bit of dominance. Super confident. That is the recipe for success, in my opinion, for a relationship. It's a good foundation. I'm going to talk really fast so I won't bore everybody with the story, but you have to hear the next part of it. So then I say, I'm so, so sorry. I really can't have that drink. And I really wanted that drink. I so, you have no idea how bad I wanted that drink. So I'm so sorry'm so sorry i can't i leave my girlfriend's getting the valet i walk outside and she's like well what happened did did you give him your number did you get his number and i'm like no i i just said i had to leave and he just let me leave like i just

walked off into the sunset we're never to be seen again and he just let me leave so mr super confident who went in for the grab let me leave and i think he maybe felt like it was a rejection yeah do you think yeah i'm sure so she goes going back in there and i'm like isabel wait wait no she goes storming back in there grabs scott and goes hey she's really spunky can you imagine some blonde little skinny blonde chick doing this to you she goes hey what's your name and he goes I'm Scott she pulls out her phone and she goes do you want her number or what and he's like he didn't even know what to say it was really aggressive and he goes okay she goes let me give you her number

and don't be that guy he's like and she goes you call her tonight and she comes fucking out and I'm like what happened she goes i gave him your number i'm like you what like my for me part of the dating part i think it's like my phone it's my kids it's my life like i don't know i'm weird like that if you call me on my phone i know you or not oh you didn't want just like a stranger i just didn't she goes that's how it works brooke it's the only way you're ever going to hear from him again well no shit wait hold on did he call me that night

yeah did he call you that night and by now it's like 8 o'clock he called me that night and he was like I'd really like to have that drink so what'd you guys do that night

yeah see I know and my inner dialogue was like booty call no bad idea well I mean but you know what I said to myself

I'm going to go have that drink and so and I did where was it did you guys go back to Wally's My inner dialogue was like, booty call, no, bad idea. Well, I mean. But you know what I said to myself? I'm going to go have that drink. And so? And I did. Where was it? Did you guys go back to Wally's? We didn't go back to Wally's. He goes, Palisades or Malibu.

And I was like, I have my choice. I'm not driving. I don't know you to Palisades. Come to Malibu. And trying to find a place that's open in Malibu by 9 p.m. now. And yes, it looked like a booty call. I know. Sorry, kids for listening. We met at the Malibu Beach Inn.

And we had that one drink. And it was amazing. Before, kids, for listening. We met at the Malibu Beach Inn, and we had that one drink, and it was amazing. Before, before, before, before I committed to that, I said, what's your last name on the text? I had to do some Googling. And he said, do you want a bio? And I said, yeah, I do. And so he sent me that. And then he goes, what's your last name? He didn't know who I was.

No way. So he says he didn't. And I said, don't Google me. And now he was like, swear to God. Wait, he didn't know who I was. No way. So he says, he says he didn't. And I said, don't Google me. And now he was like, Wait, he didn't know who you were. That's what he said, which was another great line.

Another great line. Well, I believe him. I actually believe him. So I said, please don't Google me. Well, that's another thing.

Because that was, I was like, don't Google me. Well, where do you start? You never know what's going to come up. Well, it's what's hard with public people.

You don't want to come in and be like, I already Googled you. I got all the clippings, you know? It's weird, but you kind of, that's what we we do and so he gives me this little bio which was cute and cool and he seemed respectable and then he texts me again and this is where he had me and he said one more thing i forgot i am a happily divorced father

of two beautiful children and i was like oh now you have my attention let's go have that drink that's really cute too because it lets you know that he's on good terms he's happy i know he's divorced he hits a lot of the things i know he has kids i know that sentence if you're divorced and you're trying to hit on someone is a real i'll have to keep that one remember for life number two hold this clip for wife number two but it's true for like people that are dating and you think you want to downplay that or somebody might not love that you know you're in a want to downplay that or somebody might not love that you know

you're in a divorce or you're divorced or you have children like just lay it on the line. Be up front. Be up front. I thought it was hot. I mean this is the way

to hit on a girl if anyone is listening and needs some tips. You know I Careful of the grab though. We talk to a lot of like a lot of our friends are single

and there's a lot of game playing now. I don't understand it because I love a game. Yeah but it just seems like I don't understand it because I love a game I love a game I do love a game a little game

what do you mean how do you think I got you how did you guys I mean I guess we met when we were 12 it's a whole long story but I played games for about 20 years

continue playing games I do sometimes I still open up your call we want a little but I think like the men a lot of men are like what should I text

okay what's I'm like just it's a little strange to me I little. Sure. But I think like the men, like a lot of men are like, what should I text? Okay, what's the, I'm like just, it's a little strange to me. I think it's very rare that people are just upfront and honest and vulnerable. Yes, I would agree. I do.

I think a little hair of a game though to keep them, a little like dangle of the carrot. Yeah. Yeah. Are we in a game right now? I feel like I'm in a game. You never know.

Like I avoid your call sometimes. You guys are talking about, like, your next spouse, so, you know, that's kind of, you know, keeps you on your toes. You know, we did a sexy stranger one time in Malibu, but it was so awkward. She did it completely wrong. One of our favorite... What's it, Giorgio Baldi over there?

Yeah. Okay, so, sexy stranger, you're supposed to go to a bar, and, like, ideally, like, I pick her up, and she dresses up. Were you so sexy stranger, you're supposed to go to a bar and like ideally like I pick her up and she'd dress up. Were you dressed up? Were you in like a wig? No, she was fully dressed up. You should do this at Wally's

and have him grab you. But she went to one of our favorite places that we go all the time and schedule the reservation. So we're sitting there in wigs. People think you're

a bunch of freaks. People notice it there and we're like. Did you look like a different person? Yeah, I looked like. And that's where rumors start. That's bad.

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Go to harmlessharvest.com and use promo code SKINNY. You get 20% off your first order. I have used my own code for my kids, or you can use their helpful store locator to find the best location or a retailer near you. So now that you have Scott and it's easy to blend with David, it sounds like. It's easy. I have to give David huge credit because he really encouraged the kids to accept him and let them know that it was okay to accept him and love him. And I've been on the other side of that. And that's, you know, another big part of blending a family, separating, designing a working relationship. If you don't allow your children that freedom to be open and receive and eventually love someone or just be open to that relationship, friendship, whatever it might be, then there's so much in the way of that that they don't allow themselves the comfort. They have guilt in being close to a new person. So David was amazing

with that scott's really easy to love and like and he's an honorable man he's a he's a he's a quality man an amazing father so it was easy and i've been in it before where it wasn't in other relationships and it's a disaster i think you need to write a book that's and maybe you already are it's already in the works but i feel like a book and a guide to navigating all of you I think it's so you do it with a very eloquent. I appreciate that I Had conversations about doing it before and I always said no because I thought I haven't figured it out And I'm still getting it wrong, and it's not successful yet And I've had two divorces and like who am I to speak

about that but now now I feel like there's little things that you do to come out on the other side of it with love and acceptance and respect and integrity maybe a podcast you need something like I feel like people because you you're actually a practitioner and someone who's been through it and you've tried all different kinds of ways and seen what works and what doesn't. And it seems like you really got to the other side. Thank you. I think it's style. I think it's tone and timing.

I think it's self-respect. I think it's meeting your partner with respect. And when I say partner, I include David to be that partner too. Like for life, we're raising our kids. I define really clear boundaries and I'm lucky that my kids are accepting. And I'm lucky that Scott's kids accept me.

And I'm lucky that David is a strong enough man to allow that. I mean. I mean, honestly. You have to take your ego out of it. Thank you, David. Check your ego. Yes. And we had a lot of ego in our marriage.

Oh my God. It was part of our problem. We both did. And we were young and hotheaded. But it's worked out. It's worked out. Thank God. I have to ask you the question that I'm sure every single person who's listening wants to know. How do you have four kids and look so good? I would love to know your pillars of what you do. For example, do you eat a lot of meat? Do do weights do you do pilates like what are your pillars that you stand by i really love to simplify it for people because i design this lifestyle for

many men and women i started my app to be able to teach people how to do it with a limited amount of time and do it and do it well i used to eat five meals a day i used to weigh my food i was probably more voluptuous as a younger woman. I was in that gold gym phase. You guys are too young to probably even remember that, but working really hard to maintain my body. And now I spend less time when I do it more efficiently and I work out smarter and differently. So I intermittent fast, big believer of that. It's the easiest thing I've ever done. An eight hour eating windows, 16 hours of rest. I'm not much of a rule follower in life. I believe in a healthy lifestyle and boundaries. If I go to dinner late, I'm not really counting the clock if I'm starving.

I will tell everybody you will not be hungry if you intermittent fast properly. And it's not for that chick that's just skipping breakfast and binging. That's not intermittent fasting. Exactly what you mean. Like, let's take today. And it's confusing if you research it. So intermittent fasting means that you are giving your body and your gut a break and time to repair most of the time you're sleeping. So I woke up today at a really busy day. I can't even tell you all the things that I did today. But I taught my workout class, sweat my face off, knew that I was going to have a long day and I was going to be on the road.

So I had a shake at about 1130 noon. That was my first meal. I broke my fast. But in that shake, if somebody were to ask me if I count calories, hell no. There's probably more calories in my one shake that most people who are dieting,

which I hate that word, have in an entire day. So my shake has a superfood powder, almond milk, maybe MCT oil, which is a lot of fat, almond butter, super fat, not a lot of sugar, but a little bit, maybe cinnamon for antioxidants,

like a lot of different things, but it's heavy frozen banana. I never ate a banana as a younger woman. Are you making the shake or does someone make it for you? I usually make it at home and I'll usually double or triple it up for my kids. So I'm all about saving time.

Today I was at Rafi's teaching my class, so I grabbed a shake to go and then I hit the road. But generally speaking, I'll have one delicious filling, high calorie, high fat shake. That breaks my fast. I have coffee in the morning. So you broke it at 11 o'clock? Exactly, black coffee doesn't break your fast. Well, see, here's the thing. So I do coffee with half and half. Okay. But still. You could do coffee with full cream. I was a nonfat girl my whole life. Nonfat milk. It's loaded in sugar.

Nonfat everything. It's full of shit. Sugar. So high fat would be full cream. Think of it like an Italian coffee. Half and half, full cream. I never used to drink half and half. Is there a brand of half and half that you drink? Whatever's organic. I think Horizon. I don't know. Whatever I get at Whole Foods. Just like an organic.

Nothing fancy. Okay. So you're having a coffee with half and half. And by the way, that's a lot of fat, but it's no sugar. Right. So I'm full. And I have two of those. Your sugar's what kills people.

I have two cups of coffee. And that's like an Italian creamy coffee. So I froth my milk. I have my coffee. And I'm full's like an Italian creamy coffee. So I froth my milk. I have my coffee. And I'm full. And then I'll have a second one because I need energy because I have a lot of stuff to do. Then I'll work out or I'll teach my class. Then I have a big shake.

And then I'm kind of satisfied. So on most days, I haven't had anything since then. So you'll stop eating after your shake until dinner. I'm full and I'm satisfied. I get that. I'm full and I'm satisfied. I get that. I'm the same way. I'm not someone who wants to sit and eat all these meals all the time. So I get what you're saying. And if I had a lunch, a late meeting, because I do like to eat. I enjoy eating. I would have, for example, a Cobb salad that maybe had a little cheese in there, a little bacon. I'm not afraid of dressing. I'm not afraid of olive oil. I would go have sushi. I would have grilled salmon and some

vegetables. I would have a Caesar salad with chicken. A lot of people that are dieting are like, I can't eat that. There's so many calories in that dressing. I don't mind that fat. Avocados, olive oil, nuts. So good for your skin. So good for our hair, our brain, our skin, our nails. So I had to retrain my brain. Now I eat a lot of good fats, dinner. And I also eat rice. Look at the Asian culture. And I don't do brown rice. It has more calories. It's too heavy. I try to keep it pretty simple and basic and clean, but I eat rice. What kind of rice? Jasmine rice, Basmati rice, sushi rice.

And so when you have dinner- See, that's the thing is like, I told you, like my grandma's full Japanese, my mom's half, and we grew up white rice. We didn't have brown rice. It was's the thing. I told you, my grandma's full Japanese, my mom's half. And we grew up white rice. We didn't have brown rice. It was just a thing. And if you look at that culture, Japanese, it's thriving on that. Exactly. And I love rice.

And some people would say it's too many carbs and it's a staple and it's too filling. You really do have to listen to your body. But for me, a typical day would be my shake. It would be a big lunch if I was not, you know, I would time that. Because lunch is for me a big meal. I don't like to eat a big meal if I was not, you know, I would time that because lunch is for me a big meal. I don't like to eat a big meal before I go to bed. And dinner would be steak, chicken, salmon, maybe soup, a really crunchy, healthy salad, lots of vegetables. I drink a lot of water. I drink a lot of green tea. I'll have a glass of wine if I need it. I'd rather do tequila and be a

little bit more organic and no sugar. So if I was really being strict, I would have tequila on the rocks with maybe an orange wedge. But I eat and I eat well and I love to cook because I know what I'm putting into my body and I'll do a lot of vegetables, a lot of salads, lean proteins. If I'm starving, I'll have a handful of macadamia nuts. Maybe I'll grab a few dates. If you're out at Wally's, what are you ordering? I don't love the food at Wally's. Sorry, everyone. You're going out to dinner. What's your order? I'm going to order a filet mignon with like tomatoes and onions or a Caesar salad or sauteed spinach, a side of vegetables. I'm always going to have a salad. I'm always going to drink a lot of water before I eat. If you're hungry, you're probably dehydrated. So if you're hungry and you're not drinking enough water, you are thinking you're hungry and you're really dehydrated. So I'll drink sometimes my body weight

in water. So whatever your body weight is, change it to ounces. It's an amazing flush and cleanse. And you're not hungry because you're full from the water. And by the way, if I go to an Italian restaurant and I want to have pasta, I have pasta and I'll have a bottle of wine with Scott. And then tomorrow I'll get back on my program. I don't do that all the time. I don't stress about it. I don't do guilt about it. I design a healthy lifestyle and a nutritional program that's sustainable, that works. And honestly, my shake is so yummy. It's like a milkshake. Can you please put the shake on your Instagram story? I will put it on there. And I have chicken. If you click on the longevity button or even click on recipes, you'll find it all. So longevity is a superfood blend that I did a collab with. I put two scoops

every day. I make it for my kids. It's so good. It's cacao. I'm going to try it. Energy. I've heard you talk about Sun Life, too. You like Sun Life. I used to go there every day and I was spending 20 bucks on a shake. And then they have the billionaire that's like a $27 shake. I'm like, what the frick is wrong with me? Khalil, what the hell, man?

Khalil, I love you, Khalil. Khalil, make a Brooke Burke smoothie. Khalil. Here, I think that you guys should do a collab and make a Brooke Burke smoothie. Come on, Khalil.

I mean, it was my daughter's first job was at Sun Life and I love Khalil, but by the time you take four kids in there, I just spent $100 on a smoothie. Khalil, get real, dude.

I love you. He lives out in Texas with us now. I know. Yes, I didn't know that. And then I would line up all those fantastic... What about the billionaire? It was like $27. The bone broth is my favorite. So I make bone broth at home too.

Why do you have to put out so many pockets? I got four of these smoothies I'm making. Do you make bone broth in your crock pot? I make it in the crock pot for two days. It's the greatest thing ever. Okay, you need to do a collab with crock pot. Make it like a nice, pretty white. You're right.

I'm not joking. Mine's like brick red. It's so ugly. Yeah, make it delicious looking. We have a good crock pot, Lauren. You just keep kicking it in there. And then also Sun Life. Because it'd be so cool to be able to Postmates your smoothie.

I'm going to. Gosh. Because people are busy. I know. If I could Postmate it from Sun Life, Khalil, that would be really nice and i'm just saying literally i've heard you talk about the smoothie when you did a podcast with jorge cruz yeah i remember taking notes this is like three years ago so long ago and that was way back when so now i've simplified it so now i have one superfood blend and instead of the five ten ingredients that i used to line up it's all in

this one blend and it's really good. And it's by Longevity. It's Longevity. I'm going to buy that. So everything is... I'll send it to you. It's all just one scoop. You've got like 10 mindful, young, superfood ingredients in one scoop and I double it up. And it's Longevity by Brook Body. We did this collab. I went to the lab. It's solid. What's in the scoop?

So there's maca, matcha, probiotics, cacao, goji berry, flaxseed, like everything that we love and need. You know who's going to buy that? Me. I'm going to send it to you. He's really wellness-y. I'll buy it. And it tastes great.

It doesn't have that dirty, earthy. And it's got natural protein in it. I'm not a big believer in protein powders. I don't think we really need them. Because people go too crazy with them. I think so. Can we give away like a membership to your app? Yes. Oh, I would love that. All you guys have to do is follow at Brooke Burke on the Brooke. Yes. So at Brooke Burke. And then there's also at Brooke Burke Body. And I'm really everything is easy to find even on BrookeBurke.com. So if you want to see where you can meet me, live events,

retreats, come to a class, come to a breathwork, like find some feel good. I'd love to connect and hear from your audience. And I'm happy to give away several memberships. I mean, honestly, this is an act of service for me as much as it is a business. I'm really passionate, obviously, about the space. So give me a handful of people that need a change and we will sort them out. You tell me how many. What do you want to do? Let's give away a dozen. I don't mind.

That's amazing. She's giving away a dozen memberships to her app. All you have to do to win is follow her on both accounts. Tell us your favorite takeaway of this episode. I know there was a lot.

I mean, you can get as cheeky as you want on my latest post at Lauren Bostic. And then where can everyone find? You said, I know that you have your app, but is there anywhere else that they can find you, shop, do anything? I think...

Your longevity powder. I know. I mean, everything's on brookbrook.com. That's probably the hub. And I feel like even you guys and my deep research, there are so many Instagrams that are feeding all of these opportunities

that it's just important to stay connected. And I love those conversations with people. I do. You're welcome back anytime, but I hope that you get a podcast. This was fun, Brooke. Let's do a podcast. Anytime you want to stay connected. And I love those conversations with people. I do. You're welcome back anytime. But I hope that you get a podcast. This was fun, Brooke. Let's do a podcast. Anytime you want to come on.

Thank you. Thank you, Brooke. Thank you. Brooke Burke is giving away so many memberships to her platform. All you have to do is tell us your favorite takeaway from this episode on my latest post at Lauren Bostic. Also, I'm going to have her back on the podcast because she's so much fun.

I feel like I need her alone in a solo episode to talk beauty and wellness. So we'll kick Michael off.