And Ingrid de la marck any I'm the CEO and founder of the method she's also my wife and she's the smartest woman I've ever met. First of all, she's my mom and she's really cool. She's all that and she's a Superhero. This is the part of my French podcast. Yeah. Hi everyone. Welcome to episode 17 of pardon. My French not 17 is my lucky number. I was born October 17. So it is no surprise and I promise you it is definitely definitely a coincidence that I would bring on my dear friend the beautiful Lauren Everts Bostick from the skinny confidential on this episode today and please Don't think of it as an interview. I don't even think of it as a podcast episode. It's more like Lauren and I was just sitting there talking to each other over the phone or on Skype sipping on our inulin coffee on are simply inulin coffees in our clear gangster Chic Budu mugs and just chatting it out. We talk business. We talk Instagram influence. We talk about how much we love our audiences we talked about How we met how our friendship has become a real one. We also talked about the copy cows. We had to I had to put her on the spot and we talked about wellness and Lauren's Journey with intermittent fasting exercising anything that you guys see on our daily lives. We pretty much touch and tap into we also answer some of your questions now if you guys Is don't know Lauren which is certainly unlikely. I feel I feel even so awkward introducing her as far as I'm concerned with my audience. She doesn't need any introduction Lauren efforts. Bostic is an incredible blogger. She's an influencer a businesswoman. She's a fucking Tycoon, but when you look at her she's also a bombshell she is badass. She also is someone that I consider Almost like an alpha. She's got a lot of masculine energy, which is something that I'm so attracted to because she looks at things in a less emotional way than regular women. Do she looks at it with a clear head. She's very level-headed. She's very mature. She's 33 years old. Now, you will hear it on our conversation. Lauren actually says she's 32 and she's convinced the whole episode that she's 32, but then afterwards she sent me a message and she Oh my fucking God you were right. I'm 33. Anyhow, as far as I'm concerned, she looks 20 and she will continue to look 20 because as we all know she is all into skin and she does a great job at us. She's gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous, but that is really not. All Lauren is about this a lot of brain and guts behind all that beauty. But most importantly she is someone that I have come to love that's become like one of my best And I speak to her almost every day and I adore her if you don't know her which like I said is very unlikely you will fall in love with her on here. And if you already know her, I hope this episode shows you a side of Lauren that perhaps you didn't know yet without further Ado to Let's dial in my beautiful friend Lauren Evert Bostick and let's just enjoy this literature. over coffee over simply inulin coffee Hi, Lauren. Hi. Thank you for coming on. Pardon. My French this is so cool. I know it's so exciting. I'm so excited to be here. So you are Lauren Everts Bostick. I can't forget the bus dig. You are first of all my close friend. You've become my close friend. I feel like most of my followers and my audience already knows you a lot of them have migrated from your community to mine. But for those who don't know you give us a small introduction. Yeah, I'm Lorna Barrett's I'm the creator of the skinny confidential. It's a Blog a brand new podcast a book. I started at eight years ago, which is so crazy. And I met Ingrid I think we'll get into it. I'm sure you'll ask me some questions, but I I.E met you on Instagram. I think six years ago kind of and we've become friends and we had incurred on our podcast. She shared her story. And so I'm so excited to be on pardon my French cool. Yes. I was on your butt cast for me. That was a huge breakthrough. Mint it's something that I've been waiting to do and I've been afraid of doing for so long, but I have to say that doing it with you and my call after our friendship became a real thing felt like the safest place for me to do it and you guys give me such a you know, such a safe environment and I do want to talk about that. I do want to talk about how we met how it's incredible to build a real relationship through Instagram. But yeah coming on your podcast with definitely something huge for me and it's changed my life and the kids life in so many ways so publicly even though I've told you this a million times I asked thank you and Michael so much for letting me come on and do that. Well, we loved having you on and I thought it was so cool. How you took your power back in the conversation and completely told your story on your own terms. And you know, I've told you this a hundred times that you know, as to me someone who doesn't have a colorful past it's boring like there's so many mistakes and adversity that we've all gone through when I feel like it gets you to where you are today. I mean, I don't think you'd be in the same position that you're in, you know in Monaco living this beautiful life. If you hadn't gone through that kind of adversity definitely not and it's definitely a way to look at it. Of course now in retrospect it's a lot easier to look at it that way but yes the podcast Told me is going on your podcast and telling my truth showed me that people have a way of not judging and understanding adversity and the way that it's gotten so it was amazing. I felt much closer to you guys. Also after we did that I appreciate incredible. Yeah someone else if we were high and on that picture, we weren't High we were drunk not drunk. We're Tipsy. We were Tipsy Tipsy on that picture. I think that was like right before we podcasted and we had gone to La Petite Maison and we had a lot to drink we had passed out also and we might have been a little bit tipsy. Yeah, which is why I fell in love with you to begin with because I think the French mentality and we'll probably talk about this is so different than the American mentality and not that one's better than the other but I just find so much. Sheikh - and and and and a lot of different opinions when it comes a to the way the French eat the way they drink even down to and we'll talk about this to like the coffee cups. You drink out of your hormones. Yeah, your God has different things that I've learned from you. Yeah, it's true and it's you know, I'd like you said it's not that American is bad friend. She's good. I have both nationalities in my Mentality and you know like you say with everything else when you give information to your audience. I kind of take the good of each and leave the bad like the French, for example, they're still good with everything that's at two cats and style and eating in a Chic way rather than you know quality rather than quantity fighing but for example, when it comes to the mentality, they closed minded they not as open-minded As Americans that's what I love about you you This open-mindedness each time. You come to Monaco. I said to Jill I'm like this so much open-mindedness there. It's so much fun. It's so you know authentic and open where the French were a lot more close-minded and stiff and maybe a little more judgmental. Well, I think that you and Jill are not like that at all. I don't I experience so you guys are so open minded. So I think you have the best of both worlds. We're both, you know, we're both raised in the states. She was raised in the states and so was I so I think that coming This is so fun. It is it really is I'm proud of you feel like you have both sides. I get what we need to convince Michael to move next door to you in Monaco. You know what someone send that question I have to find this question. Someone asks me in, you know in the form that we send. Someone said, when are they moving to Monaco? That was one of the questions Michael? When are we moving to Monaco? Then she make a deal with him about like having babies potentially. And you know God doing so only when you move to Monaco, I would love a summer house in Monaco. I don't think that's asking for too much now, you don't definitely don't ask for much. You can make it close by that be great also, so we can have our inulin coffees together your gossip. I'm actually having my email and coffee right now with cinnamon and a little Maca. Is that how you say it? Yes, my prince great and almond milk unsweetened. And that was a question. I saw so so many times we asked our audience has questions to ask us and everyone was asking if almond milk breaks the intermittent fast and I was saying that it was the one that the almond milk that I use doesn't break the fast because there's no sugar in it. It's just water and almonds that correct. It's supposed to be almond sugar. Sorry, I meant water and often salts like the planets milk that we use and that does not break the intermittent fast. You're absolutely correct. In the way that intermittent fasting is about arresting your digestive system. So anything you're going to be any liquid you're going to be drinking are supposed to not disrupt that rest. And I think dr. Gone tree when you came out on your podcast said the same thing that you can drink this you can drink that as long as it doesn't disrupt the digestive rest. So your people for you know, people that put butter in there in their coffee like the Bulletproof Coffee and they think they're intermittent fasting while the other is fact, so like sugar it's going to disrupt the fast but but like you said your almond milk is love as long as it's not sweet enough as long as it doesn't have any shit added you're fine. It's not disrupting anything and it will help actually withhold the fast until whatever time you want to do it for ya. I've been intermittent fasting you recommended it like five months ago, and I've been doing it five days a week and if anything like the thing I've noticed most It is I have so much mental Clarity it bouncing off the walls. It's true. I found that it worked for Dylan when he was much younger, you know, we was born in the states. Dylan's my son, you know that most of my audience know because I always talk about him but a lot of the brain got access, you know connection is is a thing and with Dylan I experienced it when you was super young each time. I give him breakfast because school used to send these notes. In America schools used to send these notes that your kids are supposed to have a healthy and heavy breakfast before they came to school so they could concentrate and so I fell into that trap and I used to obligate him to eat which he would refuse and each time. He ate he felt really sick when you got to school had to go to the bathroom could not concentrate got brain fog. So I decided to just not give him breakfast if you didn't want it and Mom you would be able to concentrate you had a lot less. Attention deficit symptoms. So this this goes to show you if it works for a child. It's definitely true for us. The brain got access connection is a real thing. It's been medically proven. Yeah, and I think that I think with intermittent fasting you have to be your own Guru, you can't like you can't take advice from anyone blanketly. You have to try out things on your own self talk to your doctor, you know, talk to your friends to see what other people are doing. Definitely at the end of the day you have to do what's right for you. And so far for me. I have liked experiencing except experimenting with intermittent fasting. I find that I'm way sharper. I have more clarity. I have a lot less bloat and I've noticed that I've lost a little bit of weight to so I think for me it's sort of a win-win I was I was waking up. I was rushing out the door shoving food down my throat while I was literally on the elevator, you know, I remember one day I was I was you know rushing out the door. My cortisol is at an all-time high. I'm stuffing a hard-boiled egg down my mouth and stuffing a GG cracker in it just to get it in and it was it was so stressful and I think with the you know my life like the second I wake up after my morning routine. It's like go go go go go. So to take the breakfast element out of it is actually been really therapeutic and relaxing for me. It's true. It is true. That is it's very connected with the cortisol levels. I feel like it's so great that you speak about that so often because you do have a voice people do listen to you. But what's the best about you? Is that your guinea pig? You try things out you don't stand by stuff just because they're a trend you try them out and some of them work some of them don't and you report on it in a way that is so objective. But before you started listening to my advice before, For you started working out with me. You actually just followed me on Instagram, which I think it's crazy. Yeah, so so we need to talk about that. I mean we did talk about it so many times but I filled it for those that are just jumping in and that don't know either of us, which is so difficult to not know us when you're on our Instagram always tagging each other, but we need to tell the story we have to talk about it on this episode. How did we meet Lauren? So this was like actually I think Instagram came out six years ago. So this is right when Instagram started and it's so funny because I DM do you have a picture of yourself with you and Savannah in the mirror of when I first told you and your Savannah's like I want to say she's like 12 or something. I fixed years ago. Yeah. She's just 12. She's turning 18. You're absolutely right. She was 12 and I was on our friend Nina Rob clothings page and for some Your name popped up. I think she tagged you in a leather jacket that yeah Warren and I went and I started consuming your content and just looking through your Instagram and there was all these like recipes that were so interesting and different you were you were using you were I don't even think it was GG cracker at the time. It was before like I don't it was so long ago. It was like you were I was using fiber crackers that I would fight at their Scandinavian fiber crackers that I would find it. A supermarket actually, no region crackers that I would find here in the supermarket that my mom used to use before me. I can't remember the name, but that's what I was using at the time. Yeah, I almost think they were like a baby blue. I can't remember. This is they were absolutely you're so right. I can see the packaging. I can't remember what they were called. I don't even know if they're still on the market and they weren't trendy or anything under time. No, they weren't trendy and you would show you would show your outfits and what you were cooking and I remember like six years ago. Adding everything you cooked and I thought wow this this woman is like it's a different you would talk about rice but it like was a different kind of rice and pasta. Yeah, and I went on Amazon and I bought all these different things from France. I like hack the system and then all these all these UK Brands. I remember this. I don't even think I told you all this I found you know, you've never told me about I had to like, I remember one time. Even tell you this yet there was like this one thing that you talked about. I think it was a certain kind of rice from France and I spent yeah 80 bucks on shipping to get it over and I was so intrigued because you know, my whole business is finding people online that are interesting and have something interesting to say, I don't care how many followers someone has I don't care. How famous yeah, and at the time I had like six followers, I think yeah, you know you had you had like I want to say you had maybe a thousand. Maybe something like that. I even think at the time I bought followers to tell you the truth. I was not a huge influence. Its I what I think you almost I want to even say you might have had blonder hair to me. I was I was a platinum blond and I do think that even at some point my account was Private because I had just gotten divorced. So it's like I don't I think you ended up requesting me if you were my friend because I was super private. I had just gotten divorced I was trying to To protect a little bit of my ex-husband's privacy with the kids moving hear people asking questions. But yeah, I was a platinum blond which is almost my natural color. I'm a natural blonde originally the hair you see me with now is not my natural hair color eye dark. I darken it what you were cooking. But what I was most attracted to That you would write out in the captions exactly what was happening so it wasn't like yeah, you posted a picture of French toast. And and that was that you would really really explain how to do it where you got it just the details and you know how detail-oriented I am so I followed quietly I think for like 4 years and then it's so funny because because I just felt like you were in France, you know, what are we going to do make a friendship like I did so one day a I'm at Eden Roc hotel and south of France and I'm sitting with Michael and this is probably like a year and a half ago. And I look over and there you are sitting next to me not next to me like a couple a couple tables down the tables of the husband and your mother and I'm like Michael. That's the girl. I'm a talking on Instagram for the last four years and it's weird when you when you followed someone and you know, their tips and tricks. So obviously the first thing I immediately did was I was like, I have to see what she's eating and you were eating I think you were eating greens and fish but We were drinking wine and I guess like half a piece of bread on your plate and you were having like a bite of pasta like it was very it was exactly what you had been preaching on Instagram and showing to us so I say hi. She's so crazy. I'm like one of which is which today I'm so pissed about because we could have been friends even sooner. I know I didn't say Hi and then I thought you know what? I think this is what happened. You'll have to remind me I said, I'm going to message her on Instagram and I think I messaged you I love your content. You messaged me the next days or maybe you were gone already and you wrote something. Like I think I saw you with your husband and your mother-in-law in Eden Roc the other day, and I love you content something really nice like that. And I remember answering you. That was not my mother-in-law. That was my mom which I remember it. So well because it's so sweet how she takes care of her people always think that he is her son. I think I think I thought that was your mother-in-law exactly. And so we started to talk. We I started to follow you and at that point I'm like, what the heck how does this yuge influencer? Follow me? How is that happening? And yeah, I started to get obsessed with your content and we started to chat a lot and the next step was to meet the next step was to me and we We just developed this relationship over Instagram, which I think is really cool. People say that's you know, that's that's weird. You met on Instagram or that's weird you met on Tinder or that's weird. Yeah. I'm at on Bumble whatever it is, and I actually think that some really interesting diverse relationships that I would have never been exposed to have come out of Instagram. You know, I have people like I have five people that I talk to on Instagram every single day that has become my friends through Instagram. I mean At my audience. I talked to all the time and I'm in contact with them and some of them have become, you know, like like friends of mine. If I saw them out I would go up to them and I think vice versa and I mean, I think the internet is such a powerful tool if it's used right exactly what I like text, you know over Instagram all the time. We'll send pictures to each other. It's exactly like a normal friendship. It's just New Age. Exactly and I feel like you know what you make a huge effort on Instagram to actually share more than you would if you would just next to each other or see each other quite often. I find that you and I have gone so personal because of the distance because of the fact that we were on Instagram you kind of trying to put yourself out there to get to know the other person more. That's what I do with my followers to but I learned that skill from you and I learned this thing that hey this is not a fan club. Followers are people and we're Community. It's not about them admiring me or me, you know kind of not following them back. You really taught me all of that. I mean, you can't you can't it happen Instagram and use it as a learning tool on both ends. I mean, there's been so many times that that readers have messaged me about tips and tricks from everything from charcoal sticks in your water too. Oh don't don't put your herbs next to your onion in your refrigerator, like little like tips that I would would have never thought that I picked up through Instagram and it's been such a good tool. So my advice with with this whole thing is that if you follow someone on Instagram and you think that you like their style you like their Vibe, but maybe they're across the country. I would still tell you to reach out. You never know what can happen. You can develop a really fun relationship, you know, we went out to Monaco and we visited Ingrid and her husband and it was so much fun and it was it It's such an interesting relationship. I mean, I always say like give me anything but don't give me boring and it's been such an interesting colorful friendship that's off the cuff and something different. So I would tell everyone out there who's listening if you admire someone on Instagram or you like their content and you think they're just fucking cool message them. Absolutely. Absolutely. I so agree with that. I'm so glad that you did that. You took that lip and also not finding yourself too important to do so. That's something I admire so much about you actually somebody in your questions as to how do you navigate relationships with influencer peers? And you have a lot of those that's a good question. I mean, I I'm I'm very careful about it because I think that this business can be weird sometimes and I think it can be interesting in the sense that sometimes it can be high. School like very high school. Yeah. I try really not to sort of succumb to that. I think that my main priority is my community and providing value and providing takeaways and I know I say that all the time but I'd be lying if I said anything else that's my main priority. It's not you know whose party I'm invited to or you know, what a launch event is happening or you know who I can squeeze into an Instagram photo with to get tagged on. It's just not My Prerogative it bores me. And if that's going to take me longer to like, you know, create my brand, I'm okay with that. I don't have any interest in just you know, putting myself out there in ways that that feel I hate this word but inauthentic like I agree do you know and if I develop a relationship with an influencer, that's really cool and something that I would like want to share with my audience because they're cool. I totally pushed that and I'll push it. Our time total Gemini like that. If I if I amazing with that like all push it out. I want everyone to consume it. You know, there's this one girl named Drew me from Fashion toast. And when I moved to LA, you know, she reached out to me and she sent me all these different places to go and was really warm and nice and looking at her. She's like this beautiful model that has you know, this amazing platform amazing brand. She didn't have to reach out to me. It was just really It's cool how she did and I wanted to share that with people that follow me because it's really it's I like when I meet an influencer that I really would want to be friends with in real life and that's so great. You know, I want to tell you something that I've never I've probably have never told you but I think I've hinted it, but I never tell you because I don't want to make you sad I don't want to hurt you but very often since we've become closed. We weren't always close. I think we become With time sharing certain things that we don't necessarily share with our audience as far as you know, a personal friendship and relationship and but very often when you see pictures of me and Savannah specifically your when you hear us on the videos and then when you went when you went out with us in Monaco, and you came to the house and then we went to suss Cafe together you often said to me you have the best mom daughter relationship. And you said I'm so jealous. And I know your story and I know that your audience makes knows your story as well because you decided to own the narrative. But when you said that to me, it was such a pinch and it still does it each time. You say it it pinches my heart and it makes me love you more and have this huge surge of affection towards you like I don't want to see motherly because I'm older than you but not old enough to be your mom. But almost like a big sister and I feel so attached. You and the more you say this to me the more I kind of want to take you and bring you in into this circle, as you know of love and whatever we have at home when you came. I think you must have felt it. Totally. I think the one thing that I the reason I'm so comfortable telling everyone that follows the skinny confidential to check you out to is because I think that I think you have a lot of warmth. And I and and I think that that's a very unique quality. I think a lot of people have strength, excuse me. A lot of people have strength. A lot of people have a coolness with that strength, but you have strength and warmth and I think that that is really unique and I'm attracted to that and I think you're a really great mom and that's your first priority and to see you sort of share that with all of your followers and share. You know what you're cooking or or just behind the scenes of your Only is really special but you also while you're doing it you also give so many takeaways. Like I've learned so many different things from your platform that I wouldn't have learned. And so that's why I'm so comfortable saying hey, like skinny confidential readers like you have to check out Ingrid and just like playing off that and we've talked about this a lot. I think it's so important to bring other people up like it can't just be the, you know, Lauren Everett show like blow my head off how you know, II need to have other people come on, you know my platform or my blog and and showcase what they're doing and look at different ways and challenge what I think and as an influencer, I think it or Creator whatever you are create or blogger podcaster YouTuber. I think the more you bring other people up the better that it feels in the end. That is something I spoke to you about two days ago. That's something about you. That is so amazing. A lot of people it's become the trend now in the influence of space and you know, there's social platform space are talking about women supporting women and Busby babes and you know, a lot of it is great. But a lot of it is just for show I find that you're very Millennial in that thinking I've seen you bringing on gorgeous women on to your podcast powerful women smart women women that if you wear my jacket, generation if you were 40 or 50 years old, you would probably feel threatened by because that's that's that's my generation and the generation right before me that's how it was the only you know, put people forward that work for them or that you know, where they consider to be beneath them in a way that they would never go and take the CEO that they should be looking up to and Shining Light on that person and you can actually bring people that you can please He admired that have may be accomplished more than you because they're older because they have a degree of some sort and you do not feel threatened at all. You feel so empowered. I want to understand how you do that because that's so impressive. That is so this generation. Yeah. I mean, I think that Jillian Michaels said to me she came on her podcast and she said she's shocked by this generation of how millennials lift each other and they collaborate instead of compete and she just can't believe it and I would attribute it to two things. Yes, it's our generation, which is really awesome. But also like if you're getting it the nitty-gritty of it, I think that it's this Instagram and social media is very much like you scratch my back or I scratch your back you scratch my back kind of thing. I think before social media, there wasn't anything like that. It was more having to do with you know, how much money you have. And now that's the narrative is kind of changed. I think social media like to grow you have to be collaborative. So some so some Millennials I would say it's sort of pushed you into the corner others are obviously going to be more collaborative than others. I think that if you're building a long-term brand with a foundation you have to uplift other people. I mean for me like ever since I was little I'm an overshare like I remember being too if I find something I like like the whole neighborhood's going to know I mean You know, I was like there the I was at the cul-de-sac of like 40 houses and everyone was at my house and I was you know, like on the Whiteboard teaching, you know science and then I would bring the next girl up to teach math. I was always very like I wanted to bring people together and I wanted to share everything that I loved. I've never been someone that's that it doesn't want to share what's happening. Like I want to share every detail and I think the reason that I do that is because If I think of what I would want, so when I started the skinny confidential I thought what is missing in my life on the internet that I would like to go to and I don't think I've ever talked about this on the on an interview but that's exactly the mindset that I had. It was like what's missing on the internet that I would want. And so that's sort of how the creation of the skinny confidential came. It was like everything I would want in one it was models. It was influencers. It was these people that I admired from afar getting them on one platform and sharing all their secrets and so that's always been so interesting to me and then I know how detailed I want things like you you know, like if you send me yeah. Oh like do this. I have like 20 questions for you. I want to know every detail. So I'm always thinking sort of as as someone who's similar to me is the consumer and you know, what and the thing that's amazing is that you haven't just built a community. Your community is unbelievable because they've not migrated to me a lot of them have my Really to me and they always have one thing in common is this kindness and supportive supportive attitude towards me that all comes from you. I guess your Vibe attracts your tribe and for you that is so true. But you've put people on the map you've put brands on the map. You've put me on the map as far as Wellness. No, that's not true. You're it is time you've recommended a lot of people to me to give I mean, you're you're doing amazing like I mean, you know what it It don't even take it that way. It's just you I know that you have tried it and you you say you say I've tried this this is working for me. But you have a voice that people listen to and the fact that you're so aware of that powerful tool that you have and that you use it in such a way is incredible. That's very nice of you. I do have to say the community the skinny confidential Community is fucking amazing. They are. Yeah, so great and I think the theme of It would be it's a non-judgmental community. If absolutely it's everyone is different. Do you believe what you don't like take what you like apply it to your own life if you like it and and and really do you and whatever that looks like. It doesn't matter, you know your gender and race like that is so true. It's do you the way you want to do to you and at the end of the day like the whole thing is be the best version of yourself and whatever that looks like is is fine and I think you know I can we look at the skinny confidential Facebook group with 40,000 women and it's so rare that there's a problem. I mean obviously there's going to be problems here and there there's 40,000 women in it, but it's very very open enough that Groove are like I'm on it there. So I love it and it's so cool to see because it's like these are all girls that I want to be friends with and going back to your question about influencers. It's like I have time to spend with people like there's so many. Women out there that I've met through the internet like I want to I want to tap into that whether it's meetups or Live tours are going to Monaco and doing a live podcast. You know, why you said one thing to me once and I think you've said it to your audience as well. And I think that's amazing you're so right. You said my audience is full of influencers. Everybody is an influencer and I love that. You said that a hundred percent you it's a losing Formula to put yourself as the captain of the ship and every single thing you're not going to know everything, you know, my audience is taught me things. Like I said that I've never not like I've picked up so many tips and tricks. I've had them on the blog. I've you know featured them like whatever it is, they they're all influencers and if you think of them like that and then you think of, you know, you maybe you meet someone like Erica of Urban Chic - who we both know she's a follower that both of us. And I have known and like such an awesome awesome smart driven Hustler that is constantly trying to be the best version of herself. She started out as a reader. She's become a friend, you know, we talked to her a lot over DM and she has had so many tips and tricks for me and you know, I know that if I'm giving sound advice and bringing experts on the podcast that have a lot to say and people are listening they're going to go tell 10 of their friends if they liked it. And that to me is influence. It doesn't matter if they're telling one person 10 people 20 people. That's it. Everyone has an influencer in them. It's not just people with a million followers. Absolutely. It's such a smart way of looking at it. But like I said, it's very Millennial My Generation. I'm 40 yours. Will your 33 right? I'm 32 32 gosh, don't let me add age to you, but you know my generation and the generation right before me so like Technically people I look up to because they started in the business before me they're not like that. It's very rare to find this like I'm learning from you actually surrounding myself with your generation and I'm your teaching it to me. I know that each time. We Skype to work out you always give me about 30 minutes and you asked me a lot of questions, but I get so much value from you. You're like a business advisor to me not too long ago. We were talking and You were asking me all about. I don't remember what maybe probiotics or something like that and then you said to me I have a great idea Ingrid you have to separate your product from the method because the methods the workout people are confused when I talk about in your Lynn do a page do an Instagram page with your recipes with inulin explain what it is with your products. It should just be separate from the method so people aren't confused and it's very funny because I listened and I shut up. And as soon as we hung up like the next day was a weekend. It was a Saturday. I sat on the couch for about an hour and I created that account and when I saw the results coming in right away from people saying oh shit. I was so confused not this all makes sense. Now, we have all the recipes here and like people started following it. I would like I told you I was sitting with shit. I'm like, she's so powerful. I don't even need a business manager when I have Lauren just Whispering a few tips in my ears all have to do is shut up and Listen to her. Okay, that's very nice that you say that but I'm going to call you out on something in front of everyone and tell and tell everyone something that you do that. I do not do that. I wish I did and this is like a this has value in it for anyone who's listening. So what Ingrid does so well, is she launches fast and adjusted adjust to Consumer feedback. So what he if she has an idea she executes on the idea immediately. Even if it's not a hundred percent perfect, which your stuff like is amazing, but as you've grown, it's not perfect. You've evolved the stuff like, you know, when you first started you were doing England out of the blue jar and now it's like this Chic black beautiful jar that you want on your kitchen counter. So the takeaway here is that if you have an idea and you're waiting around for it to be perfect and trust me, I have perfectionism Syndrome from a visceral level. I understand. It's better to just put it out there get the consumers feedback and adjust accordingly and you have really really done that with all your products. You've put it out there. You said this is what it is. It's a good product and the labeling is changed or maybe now what you bite is changed or you added travel packs or you start you've watched the consumer and more importantly in this is like so important for anyone that's doing product you've listened to the consumer and you know talked to the Consumer and I think that when I eventually launched product which has taken two years because I'm a perfectionist and I am right now. I'm tapping in to the audience every day asking them questions seeing what bothers them seeing what they don't like seeing what they like seeing colors they like and when I launch product I'm going to involve them in every single step of the way whether it's like how something feels or how it looks or whatever it is. I want them involved and I think that you do a good job. Job of marrying that with launching fast and adjusting accordingly, which literally gets Michael. So horny he loves when people do So yummy. Yeah, Michael and I are very very compatible in that sense. Very compatible. Would you notice that it's that's what you tell me. I think we really get along because even my colour so compatible in certain aspects of Life. Totally you guys have the same mentality like, you know, Michael watched your media with one show on his Network and now it's turned into 35 shows growing growing growing and you know, they they partnered UTA which is the big agency. Oh, that's amazing. I'm a huge fan of taking an idea putting it out there and seeing what sticks and what doesn't and just adjusting as you go. So if you're out there and you're listening and you have an idea put it out there. Yeah, don't do what I do at did and wait I waited a year to launch the skinny confidential because I wanted it to be so so perfect and looking back eight years ago. What I launched was not perfect, but then it looked perfect to me. So perfect is relative. It's Ever going to be perfect. I agree with this. It's you know, we spoke about it on the podcast where I had Tracy Clark on and you know who she is. I know you listen to that podcast, but it was all about people talking about manifesting and reading books like the secret and just sitting there and waiting with positivity for things to happen and she's not like that and she mentored me a lot throughout all of my progress with my my life my profession all of that and she always said she And you need to manifest and then you need to come up with Creative Solutions for everything so great to manifest. But if you want a business, the first thing you should do is make a website. You don't have to give the address to anybody but make the website. It starts existing already. Give your company a name give your company description. I completely agree with you. I mean II think that that and if you can't make a website, what you should do is you should microblog through Instagram and you don't even probably know this but you are a great example of someone who started their platform through microblogging through Instagram. I don't have the fucking know what microblogging it I if I'm so funny because you did it. You didn't even know it's basically where you you use Instagram as a Blog and people then fall in love with you through anger and Graham account which then has you create an Instagram story where your where your microblogging through Instagram story and then they love you so much that you end up creating a Blog. So I think there's not this one-size-fits-all formula. If you're out there you're listening and you're like, this is so overwhelming. Where do I start start an Instagram account with your idea and start using the captions and all that space to write and get people to get to know you put really beautiful images up and then people fall in love with you there and then you move it to Instagram. Story and then you know from there potentially launch a website or a Blog it doesn't have to start with something first or second or third. You can get creative right now with social media how you launch things. It's good advice. You know, what speaking of which I don't know if you're aware because you just woke up, but for me, it's already 7 p.m. Here. They was a glitch with Instagram where a bunch of us have lost a lot of followers overnight. Okay, so I think I lost about 200. I think Neta said she 400 you might have lost some some really famous people lost up to a million followers and I don't know but two three years ago or six years ago when I bought followers when I first started I would have flipped out. But today it did not even affect me. I was like, you know people that can see my story today will realize that they no longer follow me. Somebody wrote me two days ago and said, I didn't find a story from you. I really got worried. I was like where is Ingrid and then she went looking for me and she realized she wasn't following me anymore. But I want you to speak about that. Like it's not a fan club. It's not like a contest how important it is to have a lot of followers. Yeah. I mean first of all is Instagrams going to do sweeps. That's what happened is they do not they do a big sweep. They do it probably every six months so they go in and they sweep out all the Bots which are like Rome and it's great. Yeah, it will it clears out all that. It's like Most like think of it like spring cleaning your closet they come in they they wipe out all the Box they wipe out fake followers. They Wipeout accounts that haven't been used and they do it in one sweep. So that's why probably a lot of people are affected and the celebrities that lost a million followers. It's because if you have 20 million followers, you know that it's again. It's all relative. Like the percentage is that they lost are probably equal to everyone else's so that the bottom line is today. You even if you realized it, I don't hear you flipping out. Why aren't you thinking? No, I don't. I don't I can't put energy into that. I wake up every morning. I have my and I talk about this all the time, but I think that it's important as I have my cell phone battery charge of energy and you have to really be strategic and methodical about where you're putting that energy if I woke up this morning got out of bed and thought Oh my God. I lost some followers that is first of all raising my quarters. All which we can talk about not yeah, and we will it's putting my energy when I need energy for this podcast right now. And then after this we're going to work out I need energy for that and then you know, I have a meeting for four hours to do finances after that. I don't have the energy to give to that and if you notice and anyone who's listening if something really really upsets you and next time something does really really upset. You notice how much energy it takes from? Day and the second thing you make the correlation of holy shit. This is taking so much energy from me. You take your power back and I always talk about stoicism because that's helped me so much. I really try not to worry about things that I cannot control. It's a pointless worry. It's taking my energy away from my community my platform my business my family my friends in a way if you start to think about it like that. It's self. Fish when you're allowing things like that to take energy. It's selfish and on you and you should readjust the self-talk. I literally the followers thing if I read an article on that this morning, I would have read it shut down the computer and like moved on like I don't even want to think about it. I don't care. There's nothing I can do. What am I going to do? Exactly. I always say and I said it in one of my podcast, you know concentrate on the things you can control and control them. Well, yeah and the ones you can Troll just leave them aside. You want to talk about perfectionism go ahead and just control the best you can the things that are actually under your control and that gives you so much power. So I can't agree with you more. I want to ask you some follow-up questions. Somebody asked you did in treated eating always come naturally to you to actually to both of us or was there a struggle at some point people know about me. I talked about it on this podcast all the time. So how about you Lauren did intuitive eating always come naturally. To you. I'm not I've never had an eating disorder. I definitely experienced being pressures in high school like where I live. Try not to eat as much to lose weight, but I never experienced a full-blown eating disorder as far as eating intuitively. Yeah, I mean, I think my parents I think it starts with for me. It starts to my parents. My parents did a really good job of not giving food power. So like food was always something that we enjoyed my parents owned a restaurant. It was celebrated. My mom cooked really great meals very similar to you how you are, you know, very A full presentation every single night five days a week sometimes even seven so I didn't give against food too much energy. I do think that that as Americans we tend to overdo it and overindulge. I think if I had grown up in France or Italy I would have a different relationship with food than I do Living in America. So, you know, I would say that eating intuitively intuitively guess I eat intuitively but I do think I could be better. I do think that you use intuition because very often you can send me a message about certain things and then I speak to two days later you say, you know what I was kind of wondering about this, but then I just decided this and not so you do have the intuition but you do is as well as you research. So once you're in form, like now, I see you going to the farmers market because you have all the tools to understand. Exactly what to look for and then when I look at your grocery list, I'm like I'm amazed. I'm like, wow, look how much you done with intuition. So you do have it. Well, here's the thing about me is I'm always open to learning. I don't think I know it all and I think that I'm really lucky that I have access to experts like, dr. Gundry the food babe having you on the podcast. There's all these people around me. It's like having like a team of people and I've learned A lot and I'm constantly learning like I do not think I know everything about anything. I'm what when you watch my Instagram story and read my blog. I'm sharing my journey and what's like, what what how I'm experiencing life through my eyes, but I certainly don't think that I know everything and I don't want anyone to think that I'm just sharing what works for me at the moment. Another question for you. This one is tricky. So this one says Lauren used to be all about collagen and I know Ingrid is against it. Is she now against it as well. I mean, that's a good question. I don't think I don't think though if the word is against it. I think collagen like you you have to be your own guinea pig like again to give a blanket statement about if I like collagen or not if I'm making a smoothie while I put collagen it sure I'll put collagen. It do I see what you're saying though, like with about collagen. Yes, I do and when you and you if you want to give a brief synopsis of what you say about college and just so everyone knows so I'll tell you I'm against it in the sense that you'd cannot take collagen to produce collagen, you have to eat certain things that will enhance your collagen production and that's not collagen because technically collagen could only be injected into you. But not absorbed through collagen powder. So a lot of the times also what's in this collagen stuff and I showed it not long ago. There's less kitchen and there's soy which is a problem for women that are in estrogen dominance and all of that stuff, but technically as a French person the French mind where we're carnivores and we eat butter and we have olive oil and we have whole eggs and we're not afraid of this food because we know they are good for us. A lot of these fatty acids that America is So afraid of so because they don't want to have all these real food they go and substitute for stuff that's called collagen powder but collagen powder is not going to produce collagen. So I prefer as a French person to say eat some meat, you know have some fatty acids have sesame seeds. I have things like that. This will boost your collagen production. This will enhance your ability to to build collagen because that's a natural way. That's the way We brought into this world that you can eat something over taking something that's always the way to go for me. Like if I can eat something with collagen. I'm all about it. You know, the main problem. I think we run into As Americans is we don't have access to the same kinds of foods that you guys have if I lived in France, you know what I take supplements. I don't I don't know. I don't think so. I don't know. I mean if I'm getting everything in my food, I just think with America. It's Hard to get the same things that you guys get so you I mean again like you have to test it on you and see if it works for you. And if it doesn't move on, I think again you have to do your own research needs to try it on yourself talk to your doctors talk to experts talk to people around you talk to your friends and and do what works for you. It's a good it's a good way of looking at it. I know you always say that and this is very good way of looking at it than I agree with that. I'm not against it one more question and then you're going to ask a question because I know you got a bunch even though II picked some of yours as well because you sent them to me. I have to do this. I'm sorry some few people asked so I'm going to formulate it in the simplest way possible. What do you think of the Copy Cow? Or how do you deal with a cupcake? How how do I deal with coffee cows? How do I deal with people that copy on the internet? Yeah, that that first of all I think everyone is going to be inspired by everyone. I think that that's how the internet works. I do think that you know, when you are on a platform you're going to get copied. It's part of the game. It's like business. It's like running a business. You're going to get copied. And I think you know when I've had someone that you know, we had to send a cease-and-desist to on the internet there was literally copying pasting my content and putting it on her blog and you know, it's hard when you work so hard on something and someone rips it off like that. It's really hard my advice for, you know, people that are copying people on the internet it would be to not give it energy. Like that's that's what I wouldn't this girl was literally taking all skinny confidential content and and and the pictures and whatever and putting it on her own platform. It was it was upsetting for a minute and then I thought okay. I'm going to send a cease-and-desist which we already have on hand very easy and hope she stops and thank God she stopped because I didn't want to have to keep pursuing it. I mean like literally copying and pasting like, you know, eight page blog posts on her on Platform and I would say to I in a way it kind of gets me off because it pushes me to keep evolving my call. Yes. That's how I look at that's why I called it a copy cow, you're aware of my situation. You've supported me through it. You you've told me your opinion about it. So obviously you made me feel very validated and you're very supportive. But for me, I called it a copy cow instead of copycats because I actually milk that shit the fact that this this person was constantly copying me. I remember you and I did the YouTube video here at the of us making day kneeling coffee and other time. I was not I didn't put my I didn't have any Newland brand yet. I was recommending my manufacturers brand and you said to me you said Ingrid your copycat is going to take in Ulan for sure unless you do something about it. And so it motivated me. Say hey, you know what? I know where to find the best in you land I've experimented with so many of them. There is no way this bitch is going to come around and make it our own it. Lauren is right. And so I milk that fucking cow and decided to give me all the energy that I could to create my product and to come out with the best possible and literally she's always like two three weeks behind me. Sometimes a little less the coffee mugs and this and that That I mean the recipes and sometimes a whole section of a newsletter that I wrote about cardio and and each time. She does now. I'm like, okay either I get really upset which I do because you know, you feel violated like you work so hard on your content, but then 10 minutes later. I look at my small team and I look at Susan is my director of operation and she's like very calm and she's shaking her head and I'm like, you know, what if she's copying us right now if we made cupcakes and a week later. Two weeks later. She's making fucking muffins. We need to evolve into better. That means we're late and that's what I do. So you're absolutely right. And that's why I called it a copycat because I milk that shit the more she copies me the more I'm going to go do better. I mean, I think that like everyone has the unique perspective to bring to the table and like the best thing to do with any of this it like to begin with. It's just collaborate again. I wish I wish it was that smart so many it's so many different. Aunt perspectives and brings so much to the table like we're doing this thing on on the podcast called round tables where we bring different perspectives on and you talk it out and some of them like, you know, don't agree like, you know, but some of them have similar theories and they can come to this table and they can talk about their different perspectives in a respectful way. I think what you're going to see in 2020 2021 2022 is people realizing that there's Power in numbers and there's power and coming together and creating stuff together solutely and I've really seen that through the podcast and I know that you've seen it through your podcast to it's like the more the merrier like everyone's welcome at the table. How can we how can we create something? How can we create content? That's fun for an audience to consume that showcases different opinions, but also has similar opinions, but look the perfect example is Kim Kelly and I we do do not have the same disciplines at all. You would think I am against a type of workout that she does but I actually am not because she has a very soft way of working this this type of Fitness disciplines and now we're collaborating and she's carrying simply inulin. I love her and I love everything she stands for and everything she does and that's incredible. Yeah. I hope that the eye my goal for 2020 with the podcast is just continuing roundtables and continuing discussions. Respectful way where everyone brings their opinion and and and again everyone's going to have different opinions. But some are going to have similar opinions. That's that's probably my advice there is like collaborate not compete. I love it. So if I put you on the spot on the spot and censored, who would you put me on a round table with Oh that picture. There's so many different directions. You could go. I mean you would be funny with Scotty. Tuna who we just had on. Yes, he'd be hysterical you it depends what what the conversation was if it was wellness and fitness. I actually think you and Kim Kelly would be interesting because you guys share so much of the same opinion, but you also have different opinions and let me see not everyone's going to agree with everyone. That's the beauty of the internet in mind. But the thing is with Kim does a lot of respect and I love her. Become very close friends. So the respect is a place where you can sit and talk. Yeah, I think you guys would have a really interesting conversation because it's almost like she's the American version of you and your the French version if you were to live in America and if she were to live in in France and be so different, but at the same time you guys have similar ideas. We do you work out with her you work out with me and I'm very very happy with the way she compliments what I do and I hope she's happy with the way. Way, I compliment what she does with you. The result is amazing. You look so good. Yeah, I love working out with both of you guys you both do low resistance like, you know yesterday or the day before yesterday Kim and I were working out with a towel perform. We've worked out with those like the bands that go the band. Yeah, and that's like low resistance and then was what I do with you with the bar is low resistance. So it's yeah, it's different workouts. It's like, you know, I also think of where Go instead where you live in the world. It's going to be you're going to have different influences. Its worry America. If you're in France Michael, I feel like I need the book The Best of Both Worlds get on it summer house in the south of France near us do the house. Next door is still up for sale. By the way. Oh my God, it's okay. It's okay. People know I just called you an and it's just like really wrong the casual conversation. It's not deer media. Polity sound yet soon. Maybe soon. Do you want to ask a question from one of your followers? Sure. All right. There was so many good questions. They were. What do you do? This is by Chelsea Reva. What do you do when you get cravings for unhealthy Foods, so you go first. I get creative with everything. I don't deprive myself if I want something. I find a creative way to eat it and that could be anything from taking a GG cracker and putting you know almond butter on it and a couple, you know dark chocolate chips to having Ingrid's inulin bread. It's like a we just bought these Bagels holders and muffin pans and you can make like the simulant bread and you could add boysenberries. Or you know a good one is making waffles or pancakes but making it more of a healthy way. I don't know if I have a sweet tooth. I'm going to indulge the sweet Tunes. Yeah, I do too. I first of all if I really didn't want to be eating because I have another workout coming up or something like that. I'll try first and yelling coffee because it does hit the spot. It does such eat me. But if I really have the munchies like you said, I'll eat the girl. I like dates. I know that they get a bad rap because they're sweet but a date hits the spot for me or I live love a date. I know you love a date or I'll have a brioche. Like you said this continual in brioche. We have one one is enough, you know, the French mentality is all about quality over quantity. So it's not about making something healthy so you can have more it's about making something healthy that will hit the spot that will hit my saturation hormone my leptin hormone in you know in the right place. So just one will make me happy and satisfy me. So I make them and we keep them from actually two three days. And if anybody has a sweet, you know craving we go for it, which is go for it. That's what I do. I think you have to balance your diet like a checkbook for me having sweetened almond milk in my coffee is not worth it. Like I don't care about no, but I care about having pasta when I'm in an Italian restaurant and I care about having chips and salsa and margaritas when I'm at a Mexican restaurant, but I don't like it if I'm at a Japanese restaurant. Don't like I'm not I don't care about the desert there or I'll do no rice. So you have to kind of almost sit down and write out what you care about when it comes to food the foods that you really, you know want to indulge in and then the ones that you don't care so much about so, you know, I don't need five gallons of salad dressing on a salad I could do all of oil and champagne vinaigrette and some lemon and I'm completely satisfied. In fact, I like it better, you know when it comes to alcohol, I don't Need the sweet mixture in my drink. I'm fine with lemon and lime and you know, maybe a little bit of Honey or something, but that's that's completely satisfying to me, but you better bet your ass when I'm going to you know, France I'm stuffing my face with bread. So it's like you have to you have to just pick what's like your non-negotiables and now gaining raid, by the way, because you told me even when you went to Switzerland, you said I had bread and I did not get weight I bread and pasta and drink so much wine and I was completely unpacked. I ate a Berliner every single day stuffed with raspberry jam and didn't gain one pound. It was if I like that in America, I would gain 10 pounds in a month, but you know what? I think that yes the quality of the wheat and all that stuff has a lot to do with it. But I do think that the quality of your mindset at that point the fact that when you're in America you go to Dunkin Donuts, you have a donut which you know is already very processed not the same quality flower whatever as friends or To learn but also what you put behind it as far as your feelings right as your cortisol levels and brings insulin resistance into play. And so just the thought that you've put to guilt you put into eating it makes you gain weight. Whereas when you're in Switzerland or in French. I like to know what this is all good stuff. It's what I'm supposed to do. You're so relaxed about it that you're not emphasizing the weight gain by bringing your cortisol levels up. Does that make sense? Absolutely. I totally I mean I'm like Like I'm Carefree when I'm in France, I'm not worried about the sulfates and the wine, you know, it is a disadvantage. It sucks. I wish that there was some someone that could could bring all real French Italian products here. And you knew exactly what you were getting. I mean because I struggle the struggle is real. It's true and one more question before I let you go. Actually we have to go work out. So one more question before we go work out. Oh, you want me to ask it? Okay. Yeah, it's one of yours. I give you a bunch of wonderful ores God. There's so many good questions. We talked about how the how it the milk doesn't break your intermittent fast. Yeah, we did someone wants to know our morning routines and you can start with yours. Okay. So my morning routine is going to be different depending on how I start my days the four days a week at the moment, but not much longer. I train a client. I trained some professional athlete. So I wake up very early to train them we need It's now I'm going to interview you what time exactly so professional athlete is usually going to start his training around 7:30 or 8:00 o'clock in the morning. So I'll wake up super early and those are usually the days that I liked to do intermittent fasting because it's just much easier than like you said run out the door, you know with an egg in my mouth or whatever and on top of it. I want it. I want to work out on an empty stomach to burn fat for fuel. Okay quick. Are we talking? A five or six are we talking to 6:30 or 7. So we're talking 6:30. I'll leave the house around 6:30 to be I'll make my very important so I don't wear makeup when I go work out with professional athletes obviously, but I do my hair nice to make myself feel good. Make sure that I'm wearing a really nice workout outfit because it helps with my motivation. So when people say how do I get motivated go buy yourself a few cute outfits to go work out with because that's a very motivating. I know that if I'm wearing a new Pair of neon pink leggings from Nike or whatever. I'll I'll feel better. So I'll put something chewed on I'll do my hair shower put my are borean cream on my face and the glow I love the herb Orion glow cream. I think I got everybody addicted to it because makes me feel like I'm wearing makeup, but I'm not and I'll make my inulin coffee and at that point I will just run out the door and go work out with one of my athletes. That's really Early in the morning that I can't really do much more at that point. And yeah, yeah my coffee my water and I sip on my coffee as I drive to work. So by the time I arrived there I'm feeling full and saturated and I have a very clear mind. I feel very performant and I work out with my client. So I work out a few hours in the morning. That's not going to last very long because I will no longer be teachings as of March 1st. Can you speak on that? Well, actually you you talk about this all the time. Sometimes you have to know how to say no to grow your business and I realized this tuna my business was growing beautifully in so many directions and I wasn't needed my brain was needed a little bit more than my body. My body's a little bit tired. I have to admit so I've learned to delegate a little bit more. So I have someone that I trust enormously that's becoming a business. Partner because I feel that's the only way to really motivate someone to treat the company has their own that's going to take over with my practice. So training. My clients. Lauren is the only one I'm keeping with another person. That's very close and dear to my heart as well. But yeah, so as of March, I need to be on the field a little more and working out a little less. The only thing I will keep doing is training Professionals for certification to certify them. Um and open franchises all around the world. I hope but it's so exciting. I also foresee and we haven't even talked about this and you can edit this out. If you want. I also foresee after this conversation a simply gangster Chic website launching suffering. Maybe maybe I think we have two people have been complaining about the fact that it's difficult to shop on the method website. So I do think we might just migrate. Shopping Parts with different website. Yeah, I mean, I think it's like I think you've created this this Fitness brand now you have product and I mean you've created the Instagram account and I think it would be really really pretty and cute as an added addition and I haven't even talked to you about the so you can edit this out if you want, but I wanted it out why we still we still standing but you know, you know, I listen to everything you whisper in my ears. But yeah, we've been even thinking about that just not getting to it because like you like I said before this is not enough. Enough hours in the day is to devote to training clients and you know also developing the product. So I've learned to delegate Susan who is my director of operations at the method who I met through you. That's how she knew I was looking for somebody so that's amazing. She used to follow you and then she started following me after you came to the south of France and I was looking for someone and I put it on Instagram somebody to hire and she came and applied for the job. She got it she became my director. Operation and she's taken a huge load of my back. So she's amazing. I know you like her too that you deal with her a lot. I like her a lot. I love her bracelets. I actually just took a picture of them. I'm going to put them on Instagram story today. Those have an amazing story and for breast cancer survivors. It's definitely worth a story. I agree. Yeah, she's very sweet. And I feel like she has just added so much value to your business. She has kids she's changed my life. She's changed my business, but she's definitely you know, She's also like an asset in my life. She's one of those people that is like this quiet voice behind me. But has so much power at the same time. She's a soundboard. I value her opinion. She's important and I love that. Yeah, you do a really good job of making people feel important. You've always done a really good job of that and I think that she feels like she's part of a family. So you have to tell us about your morning routine - boring. Yours is a little more interesting. Well, I I have anxiety and I believe that that with anxiety you have to find preventive ways to preventive measures to not get to the point where you're freaking out. So everything I do in the morning it has to do with a ritual of making sure that it doesn't get to the point where I feel so anxious and again that's going to raise my cortisol. So I feel like it's a win-win I am I asked you like 10 times if we were recording the podcast after the workout or before you did. I'm just not I'm not I'm I'm my sharpest at night. So my morning routines really important I and I'll just do it very quickly because it's also on my Instagram and I don't, you know want to bits on your podcast. It's on your Instagram, but people love to hear it and you explained it very well. So go for it so quick. So I wake up immediately open the blinds I think light I don't you know, I don't like sunlight on my face, but I like light in the room. I do like light immediately because it tells my brain time to wake up. Meditate for 10 minutes using headspace or Tony Robbins priming session. I like to be walked through meditation. I can't just sit there. I need someone to walk them through it. So I use those two apps then immediately I'll have tons of water and I started to realize that I wasn't absorbing the water because I wasn't drinking mineral water. I was drinking plain just playing water. So I ordered Mountain Spring Valley water off Amazon and I'm drinking mineral water in the morning if this is a problem for you, and you don't have access to Neural water you can put pink Himalayan salt in your water that really helped. I like lemon in it. I like to do a huge thing of water. And then I like to get up and throw on the same clothes. I throw on every single day. I don't want to think about it. I'm unlike Ingrid where I work out on Skype if I worked out at a gym. I think I would put more effort into it. But the only two people I see are Kim and Ingrid, so I feel like they've seen me at my worst. So it's not a big deal. And you look amazing. So you're so full of shit just stuck and I do not check my phone at all ever in the morning. And if I do it, I'm telling you it ruins my whole day. I don't want to check my phone. The only time I'll check. My phone is to talk with the people. I'm Skyping with that's only that's the only time I want to check my phone. So I wake up I get up I walk to go get coffee. I get a black coffee and everyone says why don't you make coffee at home because I want to get Get outside and I want to walk for five minutes and I want to just listen to a podcast while I'm walking. I only like to listen to podcasts that are uplifting. I don't want to listen to gossip or entertainment. I want to listen to something where I'm learning you or something inspiring or motivating and so I get my coffee and iced tea and sweet and I come back to my house and I got just got this white frother and I froth my almond milk with the cacao in English. And cinnamon and you could get creative Ingrid says Ah Chuan gone amok out whatever you want to add and it's broths it right up. I pour it on top of my coffee and I take my coffee and my water and my T3 drinks downstairs to my mat in my room and I start to set up the Skype situation and I like to work out and you know drinking my water and my coffee as I work out and then afterwards it's Off to the Races like I I literally schedule a conference call the second. I'm done with my workout because I I want to be able to get that work. I work out in but then I think immediately when I'm done I have to start my day sometimes so weird with my morning routine. Perfect. And it's everything you say is true because I see it. The other thing that I love about you is that you always take the time like 15 20 minutes that are already reserved right before the workout to actually have human contact with me. I know you do the same with Kim and that's so nice because that is important for yeah, that's important. But before I Skype was Kim or angry we take 15 minutes, you know, 20 minutes to have like coffee talk and exactly what you just talked about like Everything from intermittent fasting to you know, the foods were eating too like what's happening life. Yeah, just just having like human connection that is important. That's something that I do and I find go doing Skype is so much better for me because I don't have to get up and get like fully ready and I don't have to be running into people or driving to the gym. It's just like right in my house and the second is over. I can pick right back up into my My business life so it saves me a lot of time to it's perfect. One more question before we go. It's a quick one today. I actually put another small short video of the Vlog that we did in the south of France because someone had asked to why did you get Michael to chase you for eight years and we act we had that conversation. Do you remember we had that conversation? It's in the Vlog. And you said yeah. I had Michael chiefly for about eight years because I just felt like It would be a right thing to do. Someone wanted to know why you got him to wait for eight years before getting ready like Michael and I dated when we were 12 13 14, and then I went off he went off we did our own thing. We both went to high school. We still like, you know would make out every so often or see each other, but I was to understand we were in the same grade and when you're in the same grade in high school, it's not appealing for the girl. The girls always going for the older guy. That's just how it was that my high school. So having someone in the same grade that was chasing me was like, oh like that's cute. It was like very like eventually I was always trying to go for a guys, you know to two years older than me the cool guy the seniors whatever so I think because of that Michael saw Challenge and I always tell you know girls that follow the skinny confidential a challenge is so powerful to a man. And I think that because of that environment it just caused him to aggressively chase me and I was kind of like always Mana it's fine. It's fine and we were just always friends and I think that that like really deep and his connection to me and I think we got back together at you know, 22 years old after not after being a part since we were 15 and he was like ready to commit immediately because I had sort of because you made him run a marathon. On for 8 years. Yeah, you know I'll work for it. I feel like you still giving him a heck of a challenge. I love this conversation. I feel like it's our everyday conversation that we let people and on unless you have any last words we have to go get into her gym clothes and start working out. So I have to let you go. I could keep you on work talking for hours. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you for having me on your platform. If you guys want to hear more about Ingrid. She's also an art. Podcast I've learned so many tips and tricks from you and I'm ready to work out in a little scared. If you're always scared about Littlefinger reason. I want you to everybody knows where to find you. I find ridiculous asking you but I have to do it that's like the podcast way and if Michael ever screams me or considers me for dear media. I have to do it right. So where can everybody finds you pimp this out confidential the skinny confidential? Her on iTunes and the skinny confidential blog perfect and on Instagram the skinny confidential if you follow me on Instagram, you've definitely found Lauren because I'm always tagging her and she's always tagging me. Thank you so much for coming on. I love you so so much and I really love you. Thank you for having me. Thank you guys. I was fun. Bye that was so amazing to have Lauren on for that long and to share a little bit of our intimacy. Mercy with you and our realness. I hope you enjoyed the conversation. Now the sound quality is definitely not podcast interview quality. The sound quality is just two girls having their morning coffees and just chatting it up. So I hope you will excuse the sound. I know you probably won't mind it. You can hear the dogs in the background and all the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, but that's how we wanted it. We wanted to bring it to you. Raw and exactly like we are I loved everything that we touched into I hope you will recognize some of your questions. We try to kind of badge them and answer as many as possible. They were more but I bet you the next time Lauren comes to Monaco. I will definitely be going back on her podcast her in Michaels podcast, and she will definitely come back on mine if you want to work out with me. Oh, perhaps not the way Lauren does as you've heard I don't give private sessions over Skype anymore. She's one of the only clients I will be keeping as I'm expanding and concentrating on expanding the business in other directions, but you can still work out with me on the virtual platform. Now, the master sessions Lauren does when we can work out together. She said she gets on the virtual platform this five to six videos at all times. You can pick from all the videos with me. All the videos are outdoors in beautiful sunny mom. Because you get to travel also and the master session that you get to do is extremely similar. If not sometime even harder because there's less of a rest this less chatting than real life session with me like Lauren and I do on Skype. So she also relies on those matter sessions on the virtual platform where when I'm traveling when she can't log on at the time that would work for me because we do have some time different and she loves them and you will get some incredible results. Have you seen her ABS lately? She looks incredible. She's definitely one of like my advertising walking Billboards lucky me. There's also a lot of dedication on her part. She's extremely careful with what she eats not that she restricts herself know she's careful with the food that she eats as far as she goes to the farmers market. So I hope you heard that part on this episode. She speaks about it. She feels a lot more empowered now that she knows exactly what Is in our food and what Fuji's consuming speaking of which we've come up with simply kefir champagne champagne lacked a which is a pro biotic. It's the little big sister to Simply in your lane and it makes for symbiotic therapy, which is the perfect balance between Prebiotic and probiotic for your gut. If you are looking to see some real digestive changes if you have some stubborn weight gain and that you can't lose and you Believe that it's probably correlated with a gut issue hormonal issues then if simply in your limbs been doing a great job for you you need simply kefir as it is the other half of your gut Balance and Health being handled. We just posted on my Ig TV on Instagram how to you should only know you should also know that it comes with full instructions. It's very very easy to make and it's now in the shop. It is all going to be linked in the show notes speaking of the show notes. Everything about Lauren is going to be in the show notes as well. So you can just click links and go find her and all of the goodness that she has to offer on her blog on our IG and everything else this also TSC body guide, which is really amazing which she co-wrote with Kim Kelly and I am a big fan of all of their tips and tricks when it comes to Wellness and Fitness. If you want simply in your lane, you can also find it in the shop. If you want to prepare some of my Moroccan French recipes. You can get my e-cookbook also in the shop. Everything is going to be linked in the show notes as always you are not sure you want to jump in into a virtual platform membership, which is a monthly membership. Then you can also do my workouts my flash workouts. They are free. All you need is a towel. Those are always in the show notes. All you have to do is click the link get them out in towel and start doing it. You don't have to pay anything and you get a nice taste of what working out with the method with my protocol is like you're going to get a nice burn in your butt and especially in your apps and start get a long lean. Gorgeous feminine body. I hope you enjoyed this episode. I think that this is going to be one of my absolute favorites and yeah, I'm biased I adore law. Or I'm so I hope you really enjoyed it. Don't forget to leave comments on the latest pictures on our Instagram pages and let us know what you thought of this episode bisou bisou from Monaco.
Today Ingrid calls her friend Lauryn EVARTS BOSSTICK of THE SKINNY CONFIDENTIAL. They sit over a clear Bodum gangster chic mug of Simply INULIN coffee, and talk it all: business, insta friendship, micro-blogging, being a small influencer, interacting with your audience, Intermittent fasting, SIMPLY INULIN coffee, working-out, and to each her own copy-cow Show Notes: Follow Ingrid on Instagram at instagram.com/Ingriddelamarekenny    Follow THE METHOD® Instagram.com/themethod.mc   Find our Simply INULIN by THE METHOD®|THE BODY - INGRID’s SIMPLY THE BEST E-COOKBOOK & SPICE, and THE NEW PURE PROBIOTIC Simply Kefir Champagne Lacté at shop.themethodmc.com     Do THE METHOD Free FLASH WORK-OUTS — no equipment needed  Flash-Workout # 1 https://vimeo.com/250033415/a161c4a0f9    Flash-Workout #2 https://vimeo.com254216501/8983e725b8    You can workout with THE METHOD ORIGINAL MASTER SESSIONS from the comfort of your home ANYWHERE ANYTIME by subscribing to the monthly membership at virtual.themethodmc.com     You can leave us a voice message with questions or comments we may future on the next episode here:https://anchor.fm/pardonmyfrench    For all recipes mentionned in this podcast subscribe FREE at subscribe.themethodmc.com  Follow Lauryn at instagram.com/theskinnyconfidential   Visit her blog theskinnyconfidential.com   Lauryn’s podcast https://tscpodcast.com/ 