Tess Shanahan Wilson & Shaun Wilson On Ambition, Marriage, Peak Performance, & What Success Really Looks Like
The Bossticks
Dear Media
4.4 • 15.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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#989: Join us as we sit down with Tess Shanahan Wilson & Shaun Wilson – entrepreneurs, investors, and one of Australia's most influential business couples. Tess is an Australian media personality, podcast host of Tess Talks the Podcast., and entrepreneur known for her work across health, wellness, lifestyle, business, and personal growth. Shaun is the Founder of Bondi Sands, an Australian beauty brand that scaled from a local startup into one of the world's leading self-tanning companies. In this episode, Tess & Shaun open up about what it really takes to build businesses while building a life together – from navigating rapid growth and the realities of exiting a company, to the health optimization and biohacking practices they use for peak performance. They also break down their strategic framework for growth, and share how they continue to strengthen their relationship while balancing entrepreneurship, ambition, and family life.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we have Tess Shanahan, who is an Australian media personality podcast host, contact creator and entrepreneur. |
| 0:05.0 | Her husband, Sean Wilson, is the founder of Bondi Sands. We really enjoyed these two. |
| 0:09.0 | Enjoyed having him on the show. With that, Tess and Sean, welcome to the Bostics. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to the Bostics, starring Lauren Bostic and Michael Bostick. |
| 0:20.0 | Together, they are the Bostics. |
| 0:27.4 | This blocks you out basically all day, |
| 0:30.5 | and then if you want to get in, you can request to get in, |
| 0:33.0 | but it's a pay on the ass. |
| 0:33.7 | Like, it's a countdown, and then you have to request a break, |
| 0:35.7 | and it could be like 5 to 15. |
| 1:12.4 | So you also can't get in there and just mindless, because it'll also kick you back out. Oh, that's like it's a countdown and then you have to request a break and it could be like five to 15. So you also can't get in there just mindless because it'll also kick you back out. Oh, that's good. Do you like it significantly helped? I looked at my screen time the other day on social and my like maximum time on all social apps is like 30 minutes per day. 30 minutes. Which is like, I mean that's like down. I was on I was on that X, I was going deep. I was going deep. Don't you think so there's something that like makes you mentally tough about just putting the phone away. You know what I've noticed the biggest thing about it is that I don't think people realize how unconsciously you pick it up and just tap it. Definitely what I realized is how much in the beginning I was doing that. |
| 1:13.4 | And now it just basically stops it. And go across apps, emails, all of it. Everyone's addicted. Everyone is addicted. Don't like, no one can lie. Everyone is addicted. Well, think about it. You're in an Uber or you're driving or you're sitting around. Any downtime. You just, any downtime. And there goes our creativity. |
| 1:25.0 | It's like all those moments of boredom where you're supposed to think, get creative, explore, look around you. |
| 1:29.9 | We just don't do anymore. |
| 1:31.0 | Who's talking about that? |
| 1:31.5 | Yes. downtime and I was like, and there goes out creativity. It's like all those moments of boredom where you're supposed to think, get creative, explore, look around you, we just don't do anymore. Who was talking about yesterday? Was that Jim quick? Jim quick. Yeah. You were saying that about connection and content, the first in the morning, what you need to do. How did you guys meet? How did we meet? Yeah. We met actually at a Bondi Sands event, very fitting, probably about I reckon three or four years before we actually got together. |
| 1:49.5 | Did you walk up to her and say hi? |
| 1:51.7 | He did actually. |
| 1:52.7 | I was saying with my boyfriend at the time. |
| 1:55.8 | And I actually think at Bondi at the time, she was an ambassador for us for a little bit in terms of some content. Yeah. But we did have partners at the time. But I do remember when we first met at the Osborne. Yeah. Very, this blonde bombshell. So did you walk up? Was there like a move, a strategy? She actually came to the bar. No, I introduced myself |
| 2:18.0 | because I think we followed each other. |
| 2:19.7 | Obviously I had done content for you guys |
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