The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - Q&A Pt. 2: Michael & Lauryn Bosstick Answer Questions They’re Never Asked

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

#884: Join Michael & Lauryn Bosstick as they sit down for a candid Q&A! In part two, they dive even deeper – tackling career pivots, navigating identities, & the biggest misconceptions people have about them. In this episode, Michael & Lauryn share what they would do if they had to start all over, how they balance public vs private life, & why consistency matters more than anything.    To Watch Q&A Pt. 1 click HERE    To Watch the Show click HERE   For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM   To connect with Lauryn Bosstick click HERE   To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE   Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE   Head to our ShopMy page HERE and LTK page HERE to find all of the products mentioned in each episode.   Get your burning questions featured on the show! Leave the Him & Her Show a voicemail at [phone].   Visit http://c1p.org to donate to the Community First Project, a mission to make communities safer by ensuring the quality & integrity of our nation's law enforcement agencies.   This episode is sponsored by Branch Basics  Shop Branch Basics in 600+ Target stores nationwide, or http://Target.com or use code SKINNY15 to get 15% off at https://branchbasics.com/SKINNY15.   This episode is sponsored by LMNT Get yours at http://DrinkLMNT.com/SKINNY.   This episode is sponsored by Bobbie Bobbie is offering an additional 10% off on your purchase with the code TSC. Visit http://hibobbie.com to find the Bobbie formula that fits your journey.   This episode is sponsored by Bon Charge Go to http://boncharge.com and use coupon code SKINNY to save 15%.   This episode is sponsored by Function Health Learn more and join using our link. The first 1000 get a $100 credit toward their membership. Visit http://functionhealth.com/SKINNY or use code SKINNY100 at sign-up to own your health.   This episode is sponsored by Cymbiotika Go to http://Cymbiotika.com/TSC today to get 20% off plus 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 along for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her.

Welcome back to part two of a Q&A where Michael and I are asking each other all kinds of fun questions. If you want to see the first part of this episode, then definitely go back to Monday's episode. Enjoy. What's one thing that you do daily that I have no idea about? That's a hard one because I feel like you, if I say what I think it is, I think you're going to be like, I know that you do that. Well, why don't you say it? And then I'll tell you that. I sneak off to meditate. You know that. You don't sneak up. You don't sneak up. You walk and it's in the house and it sounds like someone's trying to smash holes through the floor. You don't sneak off anywhere.

Okay. I actually will give you one that you don't know. I have one. I, every morning when I open my eyes, close them back and pretend like I'm asleep for 30 extra minutes. I swear to God. Why? Hot tip, because I want to lay there.

Why don't you just lay there? Oh my God, you're going to make me cry because it's so true. I do it every morning? So wait, so like if I look over, I'm awake. But then why if I wake you up, do you act so angry? Because I have to get theatrical. Oh my God, you're going to make my eyelashes. Wait, hold on.

Are you actually awake or do you just open and then you fall back to sleep? No, I'm actually awake. I'm awake. Are you crying? I'm crying because I'm laughing so hard. You're the only person that I know that can tell. a joke and laugh at yourself and laugh so hard

at your own joke. I need a Kleenex because I'm laughing so hard. Because I do it every morning. Lauren will tell jokes. I'm kind of pissed though that I just said that because I don't want you to know that trick. Like now you're going to be like, are you awake? That's the point of these questions. You're the only person I know that can consistently tell your own jokes.

Well, it's hard when I'm really funny. I mean, I think I'm one of the funniest people I've ever met. And cry at your own jokes. it is funny. Does anyone else do that? I just lay in bed with my eyes closed pretending I am dead asleep like rigamortis but I'm actually awake just going through my day. Yeah, but you know what? It's like those people that say they wake up and then they like get up and they meditate in the morning for 30 minutes, but it's really they just fall back to sleep. Is that? No, no, I'm awake. What do you doing when you're awake? I'm just laying there. Sometimes I just like to lay there.

What's going? What's bouncing? I don't even want to tell you that I do this because I feel like you're going to copy this tactic. No, I don't do that. Thanks, Emily. I am not a rotter or whatever. I'm not a rotter. I'm marinate. I'm not a marinate or a rotter. I like to marinate.

I like to like, I love laying in bed. If my eyes are open, I'm out of the bed. Oh, no, no, no. I love my bed. That's why it was so important to me that we invested in the right mattress because my bed needs to be like a sanctuary because I'm in bed so much, which that would surprise people. But I don't fuck around in bed.

I'm marinating. Yeah, another eyelash. It gets on the side of your head now. Okay. literally on the side of your head let me get it off it's marinating on the side of your of your head

I don't even know what marinating means I don't know either I thought it was rotting but no no rotting is where you just lay there and you scroll your phone I don't have my phone in bed ever I don't like my phone all right so now I know every morning that you're not really asleep

I don't like these questions this might be one of the most useful pieces of information I've got on the show by the way I have a lot of other secrets like that but I'll keep them up my sleep It was great that that guy came on and gave me the whole peptide health stack, but this might be more valuable. This question's like, okay, what's the hardest thing about being married to someone who shares a lot online? I wouldn't, I don't, I mean, I share, but it's, there's a balance.

We literally just talked about a lunchtime labia flip or whatever. Yeah, but I don't share everything. That's what's surprised people. What's the hardest thing about it? Well, to go back to the origin story of the podcast and why. even on the podcast and why we even did this is you were sharing so much and I was just off to the side and you were just calling me Susan and all this stuff and I said well I'm going to answer for some of this so like a lot of you know what I think would be harder which you know that was that

one thing where we interviewed Pookie and Jet and I said I don't let you hang out with girls but I don't think I would once again I would not let you overshare about our family yes ladies I would not let her because that's too much and I would have to put my foot down on that and say we can't I don't do that you don't have to worry about that though so I don't worry about but the other stuff like I don't care if you show me looking ugly in a picture or if you show me looking weird or if you talk about what we're actually doing or things that we're working on or feelings we're having we are very thoughtful around how we share the children yeah like I mean I think like what people one if there's anything that they would appreciate about this platform is

Like, it is rather uncensored. And we, and Carson knows this, he's our producer, we actually get more pushback from the teams to censor more. And we typically don't. And so I think I'm an open book and I like to share things and I don't mind being controversial and I want people to actually hear the thoughts of consciousness and streams of reasoning that we have. But no, the oversharing doesn't bother me.

I think like it's it's never bothered me really I think you would bother me if it was things that are like you know that people just shouldn't share in general like you know like we don't need to show our our children being potty trained or where they're going to school or like what they're there's certain things you just don't need to do I also like we'll take it even further I don't need to show their first step I don't need to show like I don't need to show like a lot of this is how I think about it if it's something that I would text my family chat because we have a Bostic family chat and an Everett's family chat. I'm not necessarily, I'm not usually sharing that online. The first step, the first word, like what I don't need to like give it all up. I mean, listen, we've been doing this now for a decade in this format and you've been doing it for close to two decades online. And I think, you know, with that, we've met a lot of people. And the only time that I get somewhat disappointed meeting other people with big platforms is when they say one thing publicly. and the exact opposite privately. Which they do.

I don't mind if people don't say things publicly, because to each their own, but what I don't like is when you meet someone that says something one way because they think that it's either going to rev up a base or it's going to land well or it's going to be good for business, and then they say the exact opposite in private settings. And hopefully this doesn't prohibit us from getting certain people

and guests on the show, but there's a lot of people that do that. And that's disappointing to me. So I would never want to be categorized. I hope that when people meet me or you, it's exactly like it would be meeting them if they were coming here on the show or if they were meeting us in private. And so I don't mind. There's no real thought process of having to switch between like, oh, this is the public

and this is the private persona. It's like it's one persona and then some things are off limit. Kids, certain things in our relationship, family members that don't want it. But other than that, like, I don't care. I do feel like I overshared that I keep my eyes shut for 30 minutes in the morning. Well, now I'm going to, now I'm going to know. I know that's annoying as shit. So I'm just going to be standing there looking down.

The funny thing is you had no idea. No, I just assume when I look over and someone's asleep that they're asleep, I didn't know that they're just like in their scheming in their head. Go ahead. What's the most surprising lesson you've learned about yourself since being with me? I think that you have done a really good job of helping you. me tap into my full potential in business. Like, I think without you, I, you know, would have gone far, but I think you've expanded my brain to what's possible. And with that, I then have expanded

off what you've expanded on even more. Like, I feel like I now really feel that I can really see the whole vision of what I want. And I think you've helped stretch the perception of that. I think you're more strategic and thoughtful about way down the line. And that's helped me to expand off that. And I think it's a good mix because I'm creative and flowy. And together, it's, it's really a good cocktail. I don't think I'm more strategic about down the line. I think, you're always thinking like 10 steps ahead. I think that I can, I think that maybe I've helped you see a bigger potential that was always there, but that you were not looking at. I mean, I mean, listen, I mean, people, there is a few, there is a, well, there's a lot, but there's some things, like people, there's this, it's an old quote. Like, if you're going to think, it's just as easy to think big as it is to think small. So you might as well think big. Yeah. And I think like when we got together, you were, it's not that you, you were always thinking, but sometimes people think smaller. I don't think I ever thought small. I think I don't mean small.

expanded my thoughts. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yes, but it's like, you know, people think that their potential is this when really their potential could be this if they expanded the way that they think about their potential. And now that you've expanded that though, it's like it can't go back in the box. Like now it's like, I almost sometimes am like, oh my God, this is like insane how I'm like, it's like this is insanity. And I'm always like, like I'm pushing and stretching for more, more, more, more, more. Like I'm, it's almost like never satisfied, which I don't know is great. But it's like we did that check what's next i don't see by the way i don't see 10 steps ahead but i was talking i was funny enough i was talking to my mom today about this and i was saying

that if one thing that i think is a tragedy is that people make the big mistakes in life and that's a tragedy compared to like it's okay to make a lot of small mistakes so like a small mistake is like, oh, I took the wrong job or I spent too much money. Or I, you know, shouldn't have given my kid that thing, but I did. Or I yelled at my coworker when I shouldn't have. Or I screamed at my wife. Or I, you know, I didn't eat. I did the small mistakes. People make those and you can, and you should consistently make those and figure out the right path. But what I think is the tragedy is when people make the big mistakes. Like the big mistakes like, okay, I screwed over my business partner. I committed fraud. I cheated on my wife. I left my kids.

Like I like the big mistakes that are not able to, people aren't able to recover from. And I honestly think like Charlie Munger had a line about this. It's not about being the smartest or seeing the first. It's just about making the least amount of big mistakes. And unfortunately a lot of people make big mistakes flippantly. Like they just like like it's like it's not a big deal to make the big mistake. A lot of these big mistakes are really, really hard to recover from. quick break to talk about branch basics listen up everyone big news branch basics one of my all-time favorite cleaning brands is now available at over 600 target stores nationwide and target dot com

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only thing. If I can only change one thing about you, it would be figuring that out. Yeah, I do need to figure that out. Like I would be like, okay, I would have like, I would hire a forensic team. I would have computer scientists. I think it's a control thing. If you really look into it, it's a control issue, I think. I've tried to make it not be that, but I think. I've tried to make it not be that, but I think that's what it is. Because here's the thing, you're such a high performer in so many areas and you're so on it and there's so much together, but there's like this one thing that we can't figure out. And then like, we'll do the things where it's like, okay, let's lie to her about the time or let's change this or let's allow for more time. But it's for whatever, it's like almost

like if you know something's at one o'clock, you have to show up at 115 to 130. I overestimate what I can do. I've realized. Like, I'll be like, I can take a shower, eat breakfast, you know, swaddle my baby, take the dogs out and make the bed in 20 minutes. And that's just not realistic. And I think I think what it is is I almost like romanticize what I can actually do. I think that's what I was. Remember we lost one podcast guest to this. We had the Wolf of Wall Street on.

And he came on. I don't mind putting it on blast. You can see this. And he came on. We had a great episode. Yeah. And he was coming on again to talk about what's Jordan. Yeah.

Bellford. Right? Yeah. And he was coming on again. Hi, Jordan. you see this, you still can come back. And you were like 40 minutes late. I wasn't 40 minutes late. That's not true. 30. I was 20. Okay. And he stormed out. This is not an excuse, but let's give context. I was nine and a half months pregnant. Not nine and a half. That's a bit of exaggeration.

Swear. A bit of exaggeration. Crowning. In the elevator, crowning. Giving birth as I was coming up. I'm your biggest fan. I'm a bigger supporter, but not nine and a half. I was the biggest. Okay, but you were not, not nine and a half. I was nine and a half. No, you weren't. Yeah, I was. I'm going to check the receipts. Okay, we can.

But anyways, we lost, that would have been another good show. I'm going to work on it. I'm not going to defend myself. And I would like to talk to him. It's unacceptable, unacceptable. Unacceptable. Yesterday, I'll give you an example. We were supposed to drive to Houston and back, as you talked about earlier, at we were

supposed to leave at 10 a.m. Yeah. You scheduled a gym session 15 minutes away from where we needed to go from 9 a.m. to 10 a. Yeah, I romanticized time. But we couldn't leave from the gym. But in my world, like that works, but it doesn't. I don't have an excuse.

I need to figure it out. You know why? I think I might need to be hypnotized. What's the tapping thing? Here's why it's important to be on time. It is important to be on time. I'm going to give you a little bit of a reason why. Okay.

When you're not on time for people, it signals to them that you believe your time is more valuable than their time. Agreed. So it's insulting. Agreed. And then people feel offended. Agreed. And there's nothing worse than starting off a relationship with someone with I'm so sorry or thank you for waiting because you're already on the, it's just a bad dynamic.

I don't mean to brag though and Emily you can vouch for this. I am on time for Zooms. Like right on time. No, you are not. Yes. I'm not even close. I literally sit on the Zoom and say, are you getting on the Zoom? Yeah, I'm on time. Emily. I'm, you know, you know, why because it's important because it is important it signals to people that you're a serious person I agree which you are I need to work on it oh this is so much work I'm very passionate about this I understand that's why with the kids I'm like you're you're on time like when I hear so yeah he's dragging him out the house and I'm like you're like don't stress the kids out because they're going to have stress about being late I'm like good one thing I do I putz I'm big get putzing. I ask Kate

like I putts around the house. I don't need to ask. I know. I see. And so I think the putzing needs to be like worked into my calendar. Like give me like 15 minutes to putts and lie about the time. Lying about the time doesn't work. Like what's crazy to me, we'll go. We have to travel a lot. We have to travel off for work. And we're going for like five days. She starts packing an hour before we need to leave for the airport.

40 minutes before. And then we get there and you're like, where's all my stuff? I don't know where anything is and you're stressed out. It's insane. I'm packed a week before. It's already in the bag by the door. That's insane though, too. There's got to be a middle ground.

But I think like if I had to choose one of the other. You have a fucking rolling rack with all your shoes laid out with your shoe horns in it. You know why? I like to putzing around. I like to kind of throw a couple things in that I don't want to be like home. Like you know what's a traumatic scene is that scene in home alone when they're all running through the airport. Yeah. I reach a stage of my life where everything's got to be leisurely.

I think there's a part of me that's maybe addicted to chaos in that instance. And I use that to like drip the IV of the chaos, maybe. Yeah, probably. But that's what I'm saying. If I was you, I would, that's what I would be doing the deep dive. I'd be like doing hypnosis, whatever I got to do. If anyone has any ideas, DM me. This one's a good one for you.

I like this one for you. Because we talk about this a little bit. tomorrow all of our businesses and platforms went away what would you do next from a career perspective if everything went away tomorrow if you're starting from scratch but you know what you know

you have the skill sets you have but you're starting everything's like the podcast's gone the brand's gone the platform's gone skinny confidential doesn't exist I have to say this and listen and your social channels don't exist either I think everyone should have the same

feeling about themselves I have faith in myself and my capability. So if everything went away, I would have that faith. I think and I think everyone should think that they're fucking awesome and they have a lot of value and they have a lot to give and a lot of capability. So if everything went away to me, it's like, okay, how do we solve the puzzle to get out of this? I think what I would do at first is I would go quiet. You know that about me. I would go very quiet and it would take me time to write. my head around what I wanted to do. And I would be with my thoughts. Instead of doing 30 minutes

in bed in the morning, pretending I'm asleep, I might go to an hour. You have a little more time on your hands. A little more time on my hands. And I would really like listen to my inner knowing. I think that's, I think you should think that you are amazing. And I, I try to think that about myself. And if you think that about yourself, you're capable and you can figure something out. I think everything is is figure outable. I think Marie, oh, another eyelash just fell off. It almost fell in my drink. Marie Forio wrote a book as everything's figureoutable. It is, it is. Everything has a solution. And so I think your first instinct would be to freak out. And I would try to go against my first instinct. I would try to really be reflective and thoughtful about what I wanted to do next.

And I would give myself space and time to think about that. And also, I would really have a, my, I really pay attention to my inner voice. I'm very, very, very purposeful with how I talk to myself. This is a lot of work. It's a lot of Louise Hay, but I think the way you talk to yourself is like literally your thoughts become your future. So that would be something that would be really important to me, like how I'm talking to myself to get over the hump of having all my business is ripped away. I also think I think that it's important to find identity. in other areas so that if one does go away, you have something else to put efforts into. So for me, like a big part of my identity is being a mother and a wife and a homemaker.

But would you go back into this line of work or would you go into it completely like, did I miss the question? No, no, you're still going. No, but I'm saying, no, you didn't miss the question, but I'm wondering if you would like try to rebuild in this world or you would go do something completely different. That's interesting. I don't know. I feel like I would have to take time and space away to see.

I would go a completely different world. I would not do anything to do with anything. I don't know. The funny thing about me is I like, I love the razzle-dazzle, rat-tat-tat-tat jazz of it all, but I also love a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff. The hard thing about building a career, though, and I talked to a mentor of mine, and it was just a really smart perspective. It was like you build an entire career of building a specific skill set

that you continue to hone in on and become more expert in as time goes on. and like this is the problem with retiring is like you do all this and then one day you you park that experience and you park that skill set and then you don't utilize it anymore so I don't I'm not a retiree type of person I I think no but I'm saying it's hard to switch like to another line of work but I think that my I hope that what I would do is I would I would embrace the pivot I think you got to embrace the pivot and if that means that you got to go into a different career you got it you got to there's this quote by robert green and and mastery that's like people who can mix a bunch of different skills together in a creative way are incredibly

resourceful and that's that's like that's the vibe that should be the vibe if you you don't want to just get good at one thing you want to have a lot of different things in your rolodex that you can mix and match and be and it's it's clever right you mix and match all these different things yeah but eventually that book does also say you want to like hone in and become a master. Yeah, but it says that the people that are the most clever mix little skills together to make it their own. And so what I would do, I think when you're asking me this, is I would take a bunch of, a bunch of different skills that I have and mix it together and sort of like create my own future. That's like the, I think about this question a lot. And it's an interesting

thing because what's the normal path? The normal path is you like build something, you do well, make a bunch of money and then you typically either retire and get bored at that or then you become like an investor. That's what a lot of these people do. The problem with that is like you're on the sidelines

a lot and so I don't know if I don't think that would be interesting to me. I think at the same time I've operated in a mature way now for a long time and it would be a challenge to go back and start over without

the big infrastructure again because it's just a lot of work and I got to be honest to myself I'm not 20 years old anymore and I've got kids and not as much energy so it's like do you want to like start all like the early days of this and all the other things was like there's a lot of it's all still hard work but it's a lot of like hard labor in a weird way if you think about like a lot of hard on the body travel back and forth no sleep up and down not a lot of help so I don't think I would do that again but I think that I would do if this all went away I would definitely go behind the scenes

I would never be front facing again and I would probably take the skill set that I've learned and find like two to three individuals, younger individuals that I think would have the energy and the resources and like the bravado to do the thing and I would become

their like silent partner and help them operate in whatever categories I found interesting. I could have answered that question for you. I knew you were going to say that. I would be like I would not try to be the guy again myself, but I would find a version of the guy or girl. There's always a guy behind the guy. Yeah, and I would help them,

and I would take all the things that I've learned and help them fast track that with capital and operational skill set. Does that make sense? Yep. But I wouldn't ever want to be like in the press anymore or anything. I would just be gone. Quick break to talk about function. one thing that drives me nuts when it comes to my health and wellness is not knowing what to do.

I have spent years on this show with Lauren trying to decipher and understand the best information and the best products and the best supplements and what to take and what not to take and what's right for my body and what's not right for my body. And it is honestly so confusing, which is why I love platforms like Function Health. More about that in a second. Years ago when Lauren and I started this podcast, we knew nothing about health and wellness outside of, yes, we know. We know you need to kind of eat right. You need to work out properly. But we didn't really know how to do it, when to do it, what was working, what was not working. We definitely didn't know about proper supplementation. And we for sure didn't have any information about what was going on within our

individual bodies, what we're supposed to take, what we weren't supposed to take. One of the biggest questions that I personally get doing this show after all these years is what are the supplements that I should be taking regularly? What should I not be taking? When should I be taking and when should I not be taking it. How do I test my hormones? How do I know my levels? And the honest truth is it's going to be different for everyone. I know it's different for Lauren and I. And there's different levels and different responses and different inputs for each person. This is why a platform like Function Health is so interesting. A few months back, Lauren and I had Dr. Mark Hyman, who's the co-founder of Function Health on this podcast. I highly suggest people check out that

episode. It's an incredible episode. Dr. Mark Hyman, you're welcome to come back anytime open invite. and we got into this incredible platform that he's been building, as well as just functional medicine in general, which I think everybody should look into. Lauren and I being doing what we do here and getting on this kind of crazy train of health and wellness have had access to amazing doctors that lean into functional medicine. And so we are both very familiar now with starting to test our levels, figure out what we're lacking and figure out what we need more of. But it all comes down to getting the right tests with the right practitioners, again,

which is why a platform like function is. so important. So what is function? We chose function because it's the only health platform that gives you access to the kind of data most people never see and the insights to actually take action. Inside function, you can test over 160 biomarkers from hardened hormones to toxins, inflammation, and stress. You can also access multi-region MRI and CT scans all tracked in one secure place over time. It's an enhanced view of what's happening in your body. That's why top health leaders like Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and Dr. Jeremy London are all behind Function Health. Function Health is going to give you all of the data and all of the insights

that I was talking about earlier. It's going to let you know where you're at, where you're not at, what you need more of, and what you need less of. This is so important when you're trying to zone in on your health and make sure that you're doing the right things for your body. Again, it's so important that you take an individual approach to all these things. You know, a lot of vitamin D and a lot of vitamin B and C and all these different things might be good for one person, but not for other. If your hormones are out of whack, you're going to need a different protocol than me or Lauren or somebody else. Again, this is all done at the individual level. And what I love about platforms like function is they're preventative platforms. In modern

society, we're constantly waiting for the problem to rear its head. We're not taking nearly enough approaches when it comes to preventing the diseases or the illnesses that ail us and that caused so much harm in our families and our personal lives. And so taking this approach with a platform like function, a preventative approach where you know what's going on so you can start. stop it before it gets bad is so important. So here's how it works. You go and get your labs done. Lab visits are fast and convenient.

There's over 2,000 locations across the U.S. And it's only $499 a year. Now, I know this sounds like a lot of money, but it works out to only $1.37 per day for cutting-edge health insights. They're going to help you live happier, longer, healthier, and better lives. What sets function apart, like I said earlier,

all of their results are tracked in real time in one secure place. So you see how your health evolves over time. their insights come from top doctors based on your unique results. Again, unique results to you. And again, going back to that price tag, this service could cost you over $10,000 if you were doing this on your own. Again, it's only $499 with function. And there's no perverse incentives. Function doesn't push any supplements or pharmaceuticals. It's just powerful, unbiased health data designed to help you own your own health. Again, this is so important. A lot of what we do on this

podcast is figuring out what information we can trust, what's right for us, what's not right for us. So having a platform like function that just gives you your individual results and then an unbiased perspective of what you could do or not do is so important. Data right at your fingertips unique to you so that you can make the best decisions for yourself, your family, your life. That's also going to help inform you what supplements or what vitamins or what protocols you invest in or not invest in. And it's going to take all the guesswork out of it. What I learned as somebody who takes my health and wellness seriously is when I first started going down the train of supplements and trying to figure out what worked for me. I was just taking a bunch of everything.

I would listen to a podcast like this. I would use every coupon, cold and I had, you know, this cabinet full of all these different supplements and vitamins and minerals and, you know, creatines and this and that and all sorts of different stuff from all these different brands. And it was really just like, you know, in the dark taking all these things. I would take a bunch in the morning, a bunch of night without any insight into what I actually need or was getting too much of. So again, with function, you know exactly what you need to dial up and what you need to dial down. And this is going to help you hone in on what's going to make you feel the best. So check it out and learn more and join using our link. The first $1,000, get a $100 credit toward

their membership. All you have to do is visit www.functionhealth.com slash skinny or use gift code Skinny 100 at sign up to own your health. Again, that's functionhealth.com slash skinny or use code Skinny 100 at sign up. Let's take a quick break to talk about Symbiotica. We love symbiotica so much. We love the people at Symbiotica. But most importantly, we love the products that Symbiotica has to offer. There are so many that we take now that it's hard to recommend just one. We've had the founders of Symbiotica on this podcast five or six times. They're some of our greatest recurring guests. And that is because we love the mission, we love the company, and we love what they're putting out there. And like I said, they have such a strong

assortment of products, but some of the standout favorites that we take all the time, I think they make the best liposomal glutathion out there. Quick note on liposomal supplements. What I love about these kind of supplements is you eat them like food instead of just ingesting them in pill form. Here are some of the benefits that you can expect from the glutathione. Glowing skin, anti-aging properties, gut health, which can support bloating and digestion, and faster nutrient absorption. It also tastes great. One of my other favorites is their magnesium L3.

Many of us don't have nearly enough magnesium in our diets. Some of those key benefits are it's going to enhance focus, reduce brain fog, balance mood. It's going to calm you, help support stress management, help support restful sleep. we all need better, more restful sleep. I like to take it at night, and in the morning, sometimes I like to put it in my coffee and strut around. It adds like a nice little sweetener with those great benefits. And taking Symbiotica supplements is one of the easiest ways I found to stay consistent

with my goals, even during a busy summer. Of course, we have an offer. All you have to do is go to symbiotica.com slash TSC today to get 20% off plus free shipping. That's C-Y-M-B-I-O-T-I-A dot com slash T-S-C to get 20% off plus free shipping. Every day our law enforcement officers face life and death decisions in increasingly dangerous environments from high stress incidents to critical officer-involved events. These men and women are on the front lines, yet they lack the training, funding, and resources they need to protect themselves and the communities they serve. Enter the Community First Project, a service-disabled, veteran-owned nonprofit founded by a Tier 1 Navy SEALs and Army Special Operations Leader. Their mission to provide cutting-edge real-world tactical training that empowers officers to serve, protect, and survive.

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I'm very passionate about this mission and hope our audiences as well. So join us in this crucial mission. Visit c1p.org today to learn how you can help. make a difference. Again, if you can, go do your part and make a contribution at c1p.org. Last and final question before we go to dinner with our kids and Jordan and Nico going for Mexican food, margaritas, chips, and salsa. Ready? Yep. I expect a really great answer. Okay. Like, let's end strong. If you had to describe me to a stranger, how would you do you do it. This is not a good question. No, no. This is an amazing question to end with. I would say

first, really describe me. I want a full description. I would say, brace yourself for the greatest beauty you've ever be held on earth. No, this is not serious. No, I'm being serious. I'm being serious. I'm allowed to answer the question. Okay, go ahead. I'd be like, hold on tight, hold on to something because you might fly off the earth when you see this individual. It's like, it's like spotting a unicorn quickly in the wild. This feels like there's, just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. I would say, be ready to be shocked at the things that you're going to hear come out of this individual's mouth. It is completely unfiltered and it's not like anything you're used to hearing. Okay.

Right? I would say, like, there's going to be no holding back. Okay. I would say, be careful. Be careful. She's paying attention a lot more than you think. Oh. Much more perceptive than she's letting off.

I would say, be respectful and don't write her off like she's not a serious person because she's going to know and she's going to write you off, right? Because you do that. You do that to people. I would say, if you are struggling with a creative idea, ask her questions because she will tell you what to do. You might not like hearing it. It's going to piss you off a lot. Pisses me off so much when you comment on what's not going right with my creative stuff. And then you know it's right. But then I know it's right. And I go off and sulk about it and it's good. And I would say, and if you're trying to build a business, she knows exactly who you should be talking to. And then I would say, and if you need help sorting out your life and not being as stressed and overwhelmed, you could talk to her about it and she will help you figure it out.

How would you tell the stranger to become my friend? How would I tell the stranger to become your friend? I would definitely tell the stranger not to come on too strong. No, no, no. I can't do that. I think that's for both of us. Yeah, because... I would say, just chill, take it easy.

Have like seven to ten interactions before you move in aggressively. Maybe 20. Even for a date. By the way, that's with anyone too. Like, I just like, people come on really strong. You never want to come on too strong. When people lean in too hard, it's too much. What's the question, how to become your friend?

Yeah. I would say, be funny, be interesting, ask questions. Mark's done a really good job. Yeah, Mark's the best. Mark has done it right. Yeah. I would say, bring a personality. But also, like, feel me up before you fuck me.

Yeah, but Lauren, listen, let's just be honest. It doesn't matter, I've known you my whole life, and it doesn't matter who the person is or what they do or how big of a, anything. like if they if you don't jive with if you don't like find them funny and interesting and exciting like you're not going to be friends like you're somebody that needs a little razzle dazzle I need good energy but honestly like I think at this point like what's interesting is when you become a parent you and you're running and you have a career it's it's hard to be so so you have to be very selective and you want to be the you want to find people that light you up right like I think that's anybody that's that's that's anybody because if you're going to take time away

from your family and your children and your career like it's got to be something that lights you up so i think there's got to be that it can't be it can't be like those like dementers and harry potter like you got to be giving more than you're taking you know agreed i don't ask me for coffee on a thursday no don't ask anyone for coffee on a thursday yeah it's not the way unless it's not really coffee sometimes people say like let's get a coffee but that's not really a coffee it's like let's go do something productive oh yeah coffee with a capital c coffee with capital see, Mark, our friend Mark. But if there's...

A coffee. But if it's just like a coffee to waste time, then nobody wants to do that. No. Everybody's busy. Everybody's tired. I think be intentional with the friendship. Yes. Michael Bostick, what a pleasure interviewing you.

Pimp yourself out for the audience. You can find me on this very podcast that you're listening to for the last like two episodes. We are off for chips, salsa, K, so we got to go. And this has been fun. if you guys like this form. It's nice because we're getting ready to go, you know, this is the end of like the maternity leave. No, no, no, I didn't have a maternity leave.

Don't even. Little short stint maternity leave. This is literally fake maternity leave. I was carrying the show. Unbelievable. I was carrying it on my back. If I go on maternity leave again, the way that I'm going to handle this is going to be so differently.

But now that you're back, thank God you're back. Now we can get going again. It's going to be so different. We're going to New York. We got about, what, 13 interviews? 12 interviews going. Yeah, the fake maternity. Then we're going to LA.

We got a bunch going there. Then we're coming back here. We got a bunch of like, we're about to get going quick. And we got to stretch the tongue tie. Yep. And we got to do that. I don't know what that's, yeah. Okay.

Whatever. Thank you guys so much for listening to this episode. Make sure you're subscribed to our YouTube channel where you can watch my eyelashes fall off one by one. Maybe you can do a big makeup brush right down the side of my face and post-op. Maybe NYC Guino can do the lunchtime labia lift live on YouTube. you never know. Thanks for watching. Thanks guys.