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
00:56of a woman who sort of sleeps for an entire year or more in her New York City apartment and has a
01:02friend come by and give her sustenance. But for anybody who has ever been depressed, has anxiety,
01:10anything like that, this is a really interesting read. I feel like it really helps you get outside
01:15of yourself. It certainly has helped me. So this is one of my top five books for sure. This is less
01:20of a read and more of a guide, but this is Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying. And this
01:29book, I think I bought this copy actually in Thailand at the airport. I was on a vacation a couple years
01:37ago and I was going through, or about to go through, a really bad breakup. And the life-changing magic of
01:46tidying actually saved me, truly. Clean house equals a clean mind. And I have been subscribing to this
01:56method of tidying up, not exactly, but I would say 70%. I'm not very good at folding in the way that
02:02Marie Kondo suggests, but I have really become a minimalist because of this book. And I absolutely
02:11love it and recommend it. It's an oldie, but a goodie. All right, next, Robert Green. He's one of
02:15my favorite authors. And this is the 33 Strategies of War. You might think I'm crazy for suggesting that
02:23you read this book. But if you want to learn how to negotiate, how to hold your own, and how to
02:30interpret other people's behavior, whether it's in business, dating, friendship, like truly anything,
02:36this is the book for you. I absolutely love it. And any budding entrepreneurs out there should
02:43definitely give this a read. This is a book that I'm reading right now, but I'm almost done. And so
02:48I'm going to give it a shout out. This is The Idiot. And it is a really fun, funny, sort of coming
02:56of age story of a student at Harvard and sort of the mistress she gets into. So I love it. It's a
03:05Pulitzer Prize finalist. It's definitely worth it. For anyone into health and wellness, it's my own
03:11book. This is Love Yourself Well. It is available right now. I wrote this book to really tell my own
03:19health story about how I was dealing with vitamin deficiencies, gut health issues, vaginal health
03:24problems, and how I was able to get better. All three organs are connected. And if you take care
03:31of your gut, that means that your brain and vagina is going to be happy too. And this book also includes
03:36an incredible five-week plan to bring your body back to homeostasis. If you've been dealing with
03:41anything like gut health issues, mental health issues, vaginal health issues, this is the book for
03:46you. It took almost two years to bring this book to life. I worked with medical professionals at
03:52Love Wellness, spoke to a lot of doctors, worked with Janine Higbee, who's a certified nutritionist,
03:57to come up with our five-week plan. The book has a ton of evidence-based research in it also,
04:03so it required a lot of reading before putting all the thoughts together on paper. So what is my
04:10favorite genre? I think it has to be non-fiction, anything that is science-related, which is probably
04:19why I love running my company and why I wrote a book that was very similar in that in that genre.
04:28I love David Sedaris. His short stories are so incredible. And we used to do a lot of books on
04:35tape growing up on long car trips with my family. And David Sedaris, we would always give him a
04:40listen. Favorite childhood book? For me, it was more of a series. I loved anything that was Ramona
04:47Quimby. Remember Ramona and her sister, Beatrice? And I think it's because I have a sister and we
04:52had a funny relationship like them. My favorite place to read? It's got to be the bath. I take a tub
04:59every day. And yeah, the bath is a great place to read. In New York City, there's a great bookstore
05:05called McNally Jackson in Soho. And that is where I go to get most of my books. It's an incredible
05:11bookstore. If you ever come to New York, definitely visit McNally Jackson or The Strand. Thank you so
05:17much to Marie Claire's Shelf Portrait. Thanks for hanging out with me in my tiny little nook of a
05:23library. And don't forget to check out Love Yourself Well. It is available wherever books
05:29are sold. If you want the gut, brain, vaginal bliss you deserve. See ya.