What We Learned At Harvard & The Ideas That Will Change How You Think, Work & Build Your Future

**Michael Bosstick** (0:01)
Welcome to The Bossticks. Starring Lauryn Bosstick and Michael Bosstick. Together, they are The Bossticks.
Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of The Bossticks. Today, Lauryn and I are solo in the studio. We're going to have a conversation. We recently, can we say we're graduates of Harvard?

**Lauryn Bosstick** (0:23)
I'm saying it. You put it on your LinkedIn.

**Michael Bosstick** (0:25)
I don't think we can say it. I did put it on my LinkedIn. Well, we recently, for somebody that follow us closely, took a course called The Business of Sports, Media & Entertainment at Harvard Business School. It was a four-day course. This is not the typical influencer going and standing in front of the Harvard sign. We actually went as students and sat in the class and were there to learn. We're going to talk all about that. It's the first time we've both been back to school in what, 20 years?

**Lauryn Bosstick** (0:48)
Yeah, it was rough.

**Michael Bosstick** (0:49)
Not to age yourselves that much, 20 years.

**Lauryn Bosstick** (0:51)
It was rough.

**Michael Bosstick** (0:51)
No, it was rough in the sense like going back to schools we haven't been, but it was a great experience which we'll get into. Then we also recently just got back from France. We were over there in Antibes and then we went to Cannes-Lyon and spoke into a segment called The Bosstick Blueprint with Adweek which was received very well and thought we'd also recap with you guys here. It's all about how we've transitioned our careers from blogger, influencer, creator to executives, business owners and now operators. So that resonated with a lot of people and we thought we'd recap all of it. It's been a while since we've done solos like this. We're just going to talk about our life a little bit in RIF.

**Lauryn Bosstick** (1:22)
We're just going to give you guys all of the juice and the knowledge and the tips that Anita, the teacher, the professor taught us.

**Michael Bosstick** (1:30)
One of the things people want to know is why we decided to go back to school in the first place. Maybe you could just share how this all happened because you're the one that made it happen.

**Lauryn Bosstick** (1:39)
I get a wild hair and I'll make a vision board every single year. Two years ago on my vision board was Harvard Business School. I was a C plus B student and I thought it would be really impactful and fruitful to go back to school and to be a student and to learn from someone who is so intelligent and amazing, like Professor Anita and go to a school that to me, when I was growing up, was like the school. Harvard was the school.

**Michael Bosstick** (2:06)
Well, it was the school that I could look at from afar because they would have thrown my application right in the trash. I think for me personally, when Lauryn told us or told me that we were going to do this, I was like, what the hell are you talking about? I laughed it off. I was, and I'm sure there's a segment of our audience that resonates with us. I was a terrible student.

**Lauryn Bosstick** (2:23)
The worst.

**Michael Bosstick** (2:24)
I was counting every second to get out of school. I did the bare minimum. I like always eeked by with like C averages. I probably could have done better if I wanted to, but I just never applied myself. I didn't get it. I didn't understand it. I have a prestigious degree from the University of Arizona. I mostly went there to party and chase girls on cover years on that part.
I just really didn't like school. I think there's a lot of people that come up through the school system and they just, they don't know what they want to do. They don't know what they want to be. They don't know what their passions are. They don't understand why they're there. That was definitely me. So when she said, we're going back to school, I'm not going to lie, my ego was a little in it. I was like, why the hell would I go back to school? I've already kind of built a career and a business and why do I need school?
And how dare I say that when we got there, that was still kind of my attitude. But as the course ended and went through, I'm really glad that we did it and I really saw the point in it. But I think school rubs a lot of people the wrong way.

**Lauryn Bosstick** (3:16)
Let me be clear about something. I said to you, we both got accepted two years ago. We couldn't go last year because I literally had a baby on June 9th and I think the class is a few days later. So we had to move it to this year. But let me be clear, I told you, I was like, Michael, I'll just go.