- I am not answering to my email, it's not my boss,
and I think some people take it as their to-do list
or they have to, I don't want to do that.
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♪ You're a rare one ♪
- Hey there, welcome back to AmyTV.
You know what I'm a nerd for?
Morning routines, I want to know
what everyone's morning routine is all the time.
It was part of the reason I decided
to start a podcast called Detail Therapy
because I wanted to be able to sit down
with people and ask them what they did
throughout the day, specifically how they started their day.
If you're watching this video brand new, #NotificationSquad,
I see you.
It is week three of Detail Therapy,
and we've talked to actress Leah Pipes so far,
we've talked to YouTuber Matthew Santoro,
and yesterday's episode that came out
is with big time blogger and hysterical human being,
Lauryn Evarts Bosstick of The Skinny Confidential.
Shout-out to the sponsor of this episode
Squarespace, because if not for them,
I would not have been able to fly
out to LA to sit down with Lauryn,
which was a real treat.
I'm a fan, obviously you're gonna see
it in the podcast if you could listen
to it and in this episode, you'll see,
it's just, she's hilarious, I can't, I can't even.
We sat down for about 45 minutes,
but there was just a little bit of our conversation
I wanted to share with you here today,
because we talked about her morning routine.
And she talked about the struggle
of other people in your life
as it applies to your morning routine,
and the struggle of just not being a morning person,
and needing to start the day right.
I thought that was gonna be super-relatable
for all of us, so that is what we're gonna talk about today.
Before we get started, especially
if you're new here, make sure you subscribe to this channel.
I make new videos every Sunday and Wednesday
and I'd love to have you back for the next one.
So I sat down with Lauryn Evarts Bosstick
from The Skinny Confidential wanting
to find out even more than she already shares
about skincare and lifestyle and waking
up in the morning and doing it right,
I think she shares so much amazing information
about this, and you will hear it
if you listen to the entire interview on the podcast.
She is paving the way as a blogger
of how it should be done.
There is no more holding your secrets
close to the vest if you are sharing
information with your community,
whether your competitors take it or not,
you will win, and she is such an amazing display of that.
So if you aspire to something like blogging
or starting your own personal brand,
I think you're gonna get a lot of value out
of this interview, but in this particular
piece, if that doesn't apply to you,
I think you might find interesting
what she has to say about her morning routine,
how she does it, what she needs
to do with her husband to make sure
that he doesn't interfere with the perfect morning routine,
trust me, I was taking notes, sorry Vinny.
And specifically the angle of not being
a morning person, but understanding
it, knowing yourself, and working with it.
So let's pop over to Lauryn's offices
in Los Angeles, California when
I had this chat with her about her morning routine.
- My husband used to wake me up
for five years in this way that was erratic.
He would wake up and say (popping), or I forgot
to do this, or look at his email,
and it was so much cortisol in the morning.
- Stress, stop with the stress.
- My whole day is cortisol, I need
a very methodical strategic way to wake up,
and there's one thing I feel like I'm self-aware,
I know not everyone's gonna like me,
I know that I need to be woken up like a cat,
and I know that you cannot scream (popping)
when I'm waking up next to you.
I might turn over and stab you if you do.
So I just had a very open conversation
with him, which was, I need you to basically be quiet
until 9:00 a.m.
I need to.
- Please note, this part of the podcast
where we play this Vin when we get home, thank you.
- Yes, no, it's you have to figure out,
are you a morning person or are you a night person?
For me, I am not a morning person,
so I just need to set the tone
of my day in the way that works for me.
And what that looks like is not looking
at my phone in the morning, avoiding it at all costs.
I like to wake up and meditate for
10 minutes with head space.
I like to open the shades, I like
to let light in, 'cause I feel like
that trains your brain to wake up.
And I like to go walk and get coffee.
And I don't like to check my phone then,
I'll either listen to a podcast or just walk,
I'll get a coffee, I'll come back,
lots of water, lots of lemon, and those
are my non-negotiables, I like to drink
water the second I wake up even when I'm meditating.
And I think, I feel like you're a plant in the morning,
you need water.
And then I like to just do a workout.
Sometimes I read in the morning,
I don't want to go on my email.
My email can wait, I think that I am
not answering to my email, it's not my boss,
and I think some people take
it as their to-do list or they have to,
I don't want to do that.
- But that's the funny thing is we're all
thinking the same thing, that this
is going to be a list of demands
that somebody else is, a bunch
of other people are asking me for,
so when are you willing to engage that?
Do you want somebody else's demand
of what you should be doing when you first wake up,
or can you do it on your own time?
That's what's so fascinating about it.
I said that to Vin once, my husband.
I was, I don't check my email until
a certain period of time because
it's just a bunch of requests of what other people
want me to do, and I've already designed
what I'm up to.
- Yes.
- [Amy] I already know what I'm doing.
- You've designed your life.
- So there may be something in there
that I need for what I've designed
for my day, my week, my month, my year,
but everything else is not a priority whatsoever.
- Yes, today I woke up, I knew
that you were waiting on a time,
so I knew to just go to my email.
- [Amy] And I really appreciate that.
- No and I just knew, I just needed
to search Amy and I don't want
to skip anything else, I just talk
to you over email and then I got off my email.
There was nothing else that I needed
to do until I sat down at a computer at 12 o'clock.
I am also, I like to clean and I'm creating
in my brain while I'm cleaning, so I like
to make the bed, I like to set my kitchen up,
I like oils, candles, all these, I like
to make my space very workflowy, so I can
be a better creator.
I think that I have worked so hard
to design the life I want that if I have
to live by my email inbox, I'm gonna
blow my head off.
- [Amy] Absolutely.
- So, I sit down after, I probably sit down
in my email inbox at about 11.
- Thank you so much Lauryn for sitting down with me.
Is she not such a good time?
You need to go tell her, go to her Instagram,
comment on her latest photo and let
her know you came over from AmyTV,
'cause girl is hysterical.
And she also brings it, so hopefully
you had a lot going on there that you could unpack
and take some tips for yourself.
And now I'm gonna turn that question
around to you, what is your morning
routine like, how do you set yourself
up for success, how do you make the most
out of those morning hours, whether
it's your best hour or not?
Leave that in the comments below.
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and remember to continue to go after
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Cheers.
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