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135. Lauryn & Michael Bosstick: The Unfiltered Truth About Running a Business With Your Spouse

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Jan 28, 2025

Lauryn and Michael Bosstick, co-founders of The Skinny Confidential, share their journey of building a thriving digital media empire together. They candidly discuss the challenges and rewards of working alongside a spouse, offering humorous anecdotes about balancing their personal and professional lives. The duo explores the importance of authenticity in entrepreneurship and wellness, while providing insights on raising healthy kids. They emphasize that love can be a powerful secret weapon in business, proving that couples can succeed together.

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ANECDOTE

Childhood Sweethearts to Business Partners

Lauryn and Michael Bosstick met at age 12 and had intense chemistry, dating on and off throughout high school.
Despite going separate ways, they reconnected and have been together ever since.

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From Bartending to Building an Empire

Lauryn and Michael's entrepreneurial journey wasn't straightforward.
Michael was a serial entrepreneur, while Lauryn bartended and started her blog.

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ADVICE

Turning Disadvantages into Advantages

View any job as an opportunity to gain experience and find micro-mentors.
Turn perceived disadvantages into advantages by being resourceful.

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Navigating Entrepreneurship and Authenticity in Media

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Building a Business Beyond Mentorship

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The Dynamics of Spousal Business Partnerships

32:12 • 4min

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Navigating Business and Marriage

36:30 • 11min

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Evolving Perspectives on Health and Wellness

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The Importance of Authenticity in Health and Wellness

51:40 • 2min

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Nutrient Efficiency and Kids' Nutrition

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Balancing Business and Relationship

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The Skinny Confidential: A Babe’s Sexy, Sassy Fitness and Lifestyle Guide

Lauryn Evarts Bosstick

This book provides a total lifestyle guide with easy exercises, delicious and affordable recipes, and accessible tips on everything from keeping hair healthy to wardrobe makeovers. It emphasizes learning to balance life, adopting a healthy and happy lifestyle, and faking confidence until it becomes natural. The guide covers various aspects such as managing cravings, strength training, skincare, and maintaining a positive attitude.

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Rocket Fuel

The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business

Gino Wickman

Mark C. Winters

Rocket Fuel details the integral roles of the Visionary and Integrator and explains how an effective relationship between the two can help a business thrive. The Visionary is typically the idea generator and strategic thinker, while the Integrator is the manager who ensures the business operates smoothly. The book provides assessments to help determine whether you are a Visionary or an Integrator and offers advice on how to find and work with your complementary partner. It emphasizes that when these two roles work together, they can achieve significant growth and success for the company.

Building a business is hard. Building it with your spouse is supposedly impossible. Yet, Lauryn and Michael Bosstick turned their 12-year-old playground romance into a successful digital media empire, The Skinny Confidential, that proves love and business can be a winning combination. In this episode, this power couple shares the unfiltered truth about working together, and how they have carried on their shared vision not only to their audiences, but also to their children. What could you build if you stopped seeing your relationship as a business liability, and started seeing it as your secret weapon?

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro of Show

02:44 Working Together as a Couple

06:03 Lauryn and Michael’s Back Story

09:20 How The Skinny Confidential Started

13:35 Pursuing the Podcast and Having Micro-Mentors Despite the Naysayers

20:27 How to Build a Genuine Community

23:03 Providing Value, Not Marketing

28:00 Practical Wellness Tips

31:42 Working with the Big Names in the Industry Takes Persistence and Patience

34:05 Having a Shared Vision Without Competing

43:30 Gary and Sage Meeting the King of Bahrain

47:05 Business and Podcast Morphing into the Health and Wellness Field

56:23 Influencing Their Children with Being Healthy

1:04:59 Advice for Couples Starting a Business

1:11:50 Final Question: What does it mean to you to be an “Ultimate Human?”

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