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

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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of The Bostics. Today, Lauren and I are solo in the studio.

We're going to have a conversation. We recently, can we say we're graduates of Harvard? I'm saying it. You put it on your LinkedIn. 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, and 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 we're there to learn and we're going to talk all about that. It's the first time we've both been back to school in what, 20 years? Yeah, it was rough. Not to age ourselves that much, 20 years. It was rough. No, it was 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.

And then we also recently just got back from France. We were over there in Antib, and then we went to Can Lion and spoke into a segment called the Bostic Blueprint with Ad Week, 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, I guess, like blogger, influencer creator to executives, business owners and now operators. And so that resonated with a lot of people. We thought we'd recap all of it. It's been a while since we've done solos like this. And so we're just going to talk about our life a little bit in RIF. 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. And one of the things people want to know is why we decided to go back to school in the first place. So maybe you could just like share how this all happened

because you're the one that kind of made it happen. So I get a wild hair and I'll make a vision

board every single year and 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 school that, to me, when I was growing up, was like the school. Harvard was the school. 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 Lauren told us or told me that we were going to do this, I kind of was like, what the hell are you talking about? And I kind of laughed it off. I was, and I'm sure that there's a segment of our audience that resonates with us. I was a terrible student. 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, Lauren Covers on that part. And I just really didn't like school. And 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 I'll 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, you know, I think school rubs a lot of people the wrong way. 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. You can stay home with the kids and all go alone. He would not allow that. No way were you going to allow me to go to Harvard and come back and rub that in your face.

No, I would rather. So you had to go. You also wanted the merch. No, I just, I couldn't bear the

idea of hearing that you went to Harvard and I didn't. And I almost did it just to make sure that like

you don't, your head doesn't get too big. Okay. So we even the score. Okay. So I think what we all do in this episode is we'll sort of like ping pong and go off what we learned. The course was definitely centered around media sports entertainment, which is the world that we obviously engage in, mostly on the media side. There's a lot of athletes there. Maybe to start actually, we could just talk about who was in the class. Sure. There were, it was an incredible group of people.

There were executives from the entertainment industry, the music industry, there were sports

executives. There was actual athletes, active, you know, NFL players, active soccer players,

I guess they call it football over there.

There was ballet dancers.

There was, you know, Olympians.

There was some really prestigious people in there.

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