Paige Lorenze On Reinventing Yourself, Trusting Your Gut, & What She Doesn't Share Online

**Michael Bosstick** (0:01)
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**Lauryn Bosstick** (0:15)
Our office is freaking out that you're on the show.
The girlies love you. Like they're all so excited.

**Michael Bosstick** (0:20)
Really going nuts buzzing.

**Lauryn Bosstick** (0:21)
So I, and I told you this off air, want to just showcase what a mogul you are in this episode. You've built an incredible business. We're going to get to it.
What age did you start to know that you were entrepreneurial and what did that look like?

**Paige Lorenze** (0:37)
Well, first, thank you so much. I'm so honored to be here. I'm a huge fan of both of you.

**Lauryn Bosstick** (0:41)
Thank you.

**Paige Lorenze** (0:44)
This is a great question because people actually don't usually ask me this. They usually just ask me about Dairy Boy, but it did start so much earlier than Dairy Boy. I mean, I've always sort of been like this. I used to have lemonade stands and be out there at 6 a.m. On the dot, if you ask anyone on the street that I grew up on, I was grinding out the lemonade stand. There should be a study about children who do lemonade stands and then end up being entrepreneurs, but do serious lemonade stands. I was not playing around. I basically treated it like a little coffee shop.
I even had a charity component to it. But yeah, that was sort of I think when my parents were like, oh, she kind of has that dog in her to be out there all day. All the kids are at the beach. I was just trying to save up money and also have my own money to have independence to do what I wanted and to sort of build my own career. I've always been very career driven and competitive.
I just felt like the world is my oyster even when I was younger.

**Lauryn Bosstick** (1:46)
How did your parents water that?

**Paige Lorenze** (1:48)
I think it's a little bit, I was just born that way, truly. Like I think I was, it's in my bones. I think many entrepreneurial people would probably say that. But I also have incredibly severe ADHD and ADD.
And I think that I was very hyperactive, but also competitive and interested in that at a young age. It's like my personality.

**Michael Bosstick** (2:15)
I think some people's ambition is to one day do so well that they can end up doing nothing. It's like, I want to be productive enough so that one day I don't have to be productive. And there's nothing wrong with that. You want to go sit on the beach.

**Paige Lorenze** (2:25)
But that's actually not me.

**Michael Bosstick** (2:26)
I stress, there's no version of me that will ever stop and sit on a beach. I don't, no matter what achieves, I can go sit on a vacation for four days until I'm like, I got to get the hell out of here.

**Paige Lorenze** (2:36)
100%. My fiance is a tennis player and he's going to retire one day. And he is like, I'm going to be at home and you're probably going to still be working and starting businesses. I am obsessed with it. I'm obsessed with work. Even if you look at my career, even when I was younger, I always took being a creator really seriously. Like I didn't, I treated like a job from day one. And I saw it as a business from day one.
But yeah, he's like worried, not worried, but he's like, oh yeah, you're going to be working forever.

**Lauryn Bosstick** (3:10)
How do you have the foresight to see it as a business from the beginning? Because I think a lot of influencers are opposite. They kind of started posting and then it becomes a business. It sounds like you knew from the beginning it was going to be a business.

**Paige Lorenze** (3:24)
I think that it goes back to sort of, I guess, also my interests when I was younger. I think I grew up in a part of Connecticut that is very different than maybe a lot of people see on TV or see online. It's a smaller town, or like a very small town with a lot of land and a wood sort of and being outdoors a lot, riding horses.
I was into video and photo at a very young age. I was just really obsessed with world building. I loved music videos specifically. I felt like I wanted to be in them. When I saw a music video when I was younger, I just thought of myself in, not even in them, but just a part of that little world. I would make a lot of videos. I loved GoPro videos. I was a downhill ski racer my whole childhood as well.