Lo Bosworth is an investor, author, television personality, and, most notably, the Founder and CEO of Love Wellness. Today, Lo is taking Marie Claire on an exclusive tour of her bookshelf! We get insight into her favorite authors, the best bookstores in NYC, and talk about her book, "Love Yourself Well."
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00:00Hi, I'm Lo Bosworth, the founder and CEO of Love Wellness, and I am about to give Marie Claire
00:07a sneak peek into my library. Welcome to Shelf Portrait.
00:18So here we are in the little corner of my room, and I have maybe 40 books. I think there's a
00:25couple more in a different part of the house. My library, I mean, does anybody really have a
00:30library? We have a bookshelf, right? But I have a lot of different types of books. I love fiction,
00:37nonfiction, all over the place. I'm a big reader, and especially lately, I've been trying to read
00:42at least two books a month. Get off my phone, get off TikTok. One of my first favorites is this one,
00:49My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a very interesting book. It basically is the story of a woman who sort
00:58of sleeps for an entire year or more in her New York City apartment and has a friend come by and
01:03give her sustenance. But for anybody who has ever been depressed, has anxiety, anything like that,
01:11this is a really interesting read. I feel like it really helps you get outside of yourself. It
01:16certainly has helped me. So this is one of my top five books for sure. This is less of a read and
01:21more of a guide, but this is Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying. And this book,
01:30I think I bought this copy actually in Thailand at the airport. I was on a vacation a couple years ago,
01:38and I was going through or about to go through a really bad breakup. And The Life-Changing
01:45Magic of Tidying actually saved me, truly. Clean house equals a clean mind. And I have been
01:54subscribing to this method of tidying up, not exactly, but I would say 70%. I'm not very good
02:00at folding in the way that Marie Kondo suggests, but I have really become a minimalist because of
02:09this book. And I absolutely love it and recommend it. It's an oldie, but a goodie. All right, next,
02:14Robert Green. He's one of my favorite authors. And this is The 33 Strategies of War. You might think
02:20I'm crazy for suggesting that you read this book, but if you want to learn how to negotiate,
02:28how to hold your own and how to interpret other people's behavior, whether it's in business,
02:34dating, friendship, like truly anything, this is the book for you. I absolutely love it. And any
02:41budding entrepreneurs out there should definitely give this a read. This is a book that I'm reading
02:46right now, but I'm almost done. And so I'm going to give it a shout out. This is The Idiot. And it
02:52is a really fun, funny, sort of coming of age story of a student at Harvard and sort of the mistress
03:01she gets into. So I love it. It's a Pulitzer Prize finalist. It's definitely worth a read.
03:08For anyone into health and wellness, it's my own book. This is Love Yourself Well. It is available
03:15right now. I wrote this book to really tell my own health story about how I was dealing with vitamin
03:22deficiencies, gut health issues, vaginal health problems, and how I was able to get better. All
03:28three organs are connected. And if you take care of your gut, that means that your brain and vagina is
03:34going to be happy too. And this book also includes an incredible five-week plan to bring your body back
03:39to homeostasis. If you've been dealing with anything like gut health issues, mental health issues,
03:44vaginal health issues, this is the book for you. And it took almost two years to bring this book to
03:48life. I worked with medical professionals at Love Wellness, spoke to a lot of doctors, worked with
03:55Janine Higbee, who's a certified nutritionist, to come up with our five-week plan. The book has a ton
04:00of evidence-based research in it also. So it required a lot of reading before putting all the thoughts
04:07together on paper. So what is my favorite genre? I think it has to be non-fiction, anything that is
04:17science-related, which is probably why I love running my company and why I wrote a book that was very
04:26similar in that genre. I love David Sedaris. His short stories are so incredible. And we used to do a lot
04:35of books on tape growing up on long car trips with my family. And David Sedaris, we would always give
04:40him a listen. Favorite childhood book? For me, it was more of a series. I loved anything that was
04:47Ramona Quimby. Remember Ramona and her sister, Beatrice? And I think it's because I have a sister
04:52and we had a funny relationship like them. My favorite place to read? It's got to be the bath.
04:58I take a tub every day and yeah, the bath is a great place to read. In New York City,
05:04there's a great bookstore called McNally Jackson in Soho. And that is where I go to get most of my
05:10books. It's an incredible bookstore. If you ever come to New York, definitely visit McNally Jackson
05:16or The Strand. Thank you so much to Marie Claire's Shelf Portrait. Thanks for hanging out with me in my
05:22tiny little nook of a library. And don't forget to check out Love Yourself Well. It is available
05:29wherever books are sold. If you want the gut, brain, vaginal bliss you deserve. See ya.