Welcome to the Bostics, starring Lauren Bostic and Michael Bostick. Together, they are the Bostics.

So the way that I discovered your content was your book popped up on my for you page and it's it's manifest

I don't know if it was your first book yeah but I saw it and I thought who is this creative

to use this color everyone was in their beige neutral everyone looks the same white sterile era was You were in that era? I did it for a bit and I'm not ever going back to that. I'm over that. It's not enough depth. A little bland for me. A little bland. It's a little hospital. I have to say I'm obsessed with the Browns and the earthy toes. Yeah, we gotta bring it in. Yeah, I'm so here for it. Yeah. So I see this book and I'm like,

who is so creative in a world of beige to do orange? Thank you. And I clicked something and it landed on your page and I was like, I have to have this girl on the show. And this was years ago. Yeah. I feel like it was two years ago.

Yeah.

And I messaged you, and now here you are.

Two years later.

I honestly can't believe it.

I feel like I've two years ago. Yeah. And I messaged you and now here you are two years later. I honestly can't believe it. I feel like I've been such a fan of both of you for so long. And when I first saw, I think you posted about the book, you did a story or something or was in there and I was like, oh my God. I was so excited. And I feel like this has been a long time coming. So we manifest. Thank you We didn't. Thank you for making the trip all the way. No. Thank you so much. It's so nice to be here in Austin. Okay. So let's get the lay of the land here with you. Talk to us when you first had your first inkling of manifesting. Like, and maybe it was like when you were five. Go back way, way back.

Okay. So my first sort of introduction to manifestation was back in May 2018.

So I was 27, about to turn 28. So I was about to have my sat in return for anyone that's interested in psychology and astrology. And at this point in my life, I had been addicted

to cocaine for a decade. So I had discovered drugs when I was 16, 17. And up until that point,

I had been deeply, deeply unhappy. I had been suffering depression since I was a kid, but I didn't know that I was suffering from depression.

People weren't talking about mental health then.

But looking back, that's definitely what it was.

And I came from a very sort of emotionally unstable home.

While we were privileged in many respects, you know, I went to a private school and

I had a roof over my head and I had food on the table, but emotionally, it was just a very

unsafe place. And on top of that, I was an Iraqi growing up in Oxford and Islamophobia was huge.

You know, everybody thought that all Muslims were

terrorists and I was really horrifically bullied. And so I actually changed my name from Rowan to Roxy

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