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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00:00 Hi, I'm Lo Bosworth, the founder and CEO of Love Wellness, and I am about to give Marie Claire
00:07 a sneak peek into my library. Welcome to Shelf Portrait!
00:11 So here we are in the little corner of my room, and I have maybe 40 books. I think there's a
00:25 couple more in a different part of the house. My library - I mean, does anybody really have a
00:29 library? We have a bookshelf, right? But I have a lot of different types of books. I love fiction,
00:36 non-fiction, all over the place. I'm a big reader, and especially lately I've been trying to read at
00:42 least two books a month, get off my phone, get off TikTok. One of my first favorites is this one,
00:50 My Year of Rest and Relaxation, is a very interesting book. It basically is the story
00:56 of a woman who sort of sleeps for an entire year or more in her New York City apartment and has a
01:02 friend come by and give her sustenance. But for anybody who has ever been depressed, has anxiety,
01:09 anything like that, this is a really interesting read. I feel like it really helps you get outside
01:15 of yourself. It certainly has helped me, so this is one of my top five books for sure.
01:19 This is less of a read and more of a guide, but this is Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of
01:27 Tidying. And this book, I think I bought this copy actually in Thailand at the airport. I was on a
01:36 vacation a couple years ago and I was going through, or about to go through, a really bad
01:42 breakup and the life-changing magic of tidying actually saved me, truly. Clean house equals a
01:52 clean mind. And I have been subscribing to this method of tidying up, not exactly, but I would
01:59 say 70%. I'm not very good at folding in the way that Marie Kondo suggests, but I have really
02:06 become a minimalist because of this book and I absolutely love it and recommend it. It's an oldie,
02:12 but a goodie. All right, next, Robert Greene. He's one of my favorite authors and this is The 33
02:18 Strategies of War. You might think I'm crazy for suggesting that you read this book, but if you
02:25 want to learn how to negotiate, how to hold your own, and how to interpret other people's behavior,
02:32 whether it's in business, dating, friendship, like truly anything, this is the book for you.
02:39 I absolutely love it and any budding entrepreneurs out there should definitely give this a read.
02:44 This is a book that I'm reading right now, but I'm almost done and so I'm going to give it a
02:48 shout out. This is The Idiot and it is a really fun, funny, sort of coming of age story of a
02:58 student at Harvard and sort of the mistress she gets into. So I love it. It's a Pulitzer Prize
03:06 finalist. It's definitely worth a read. For anyone into health and wellness, it's my own book. This
03:12 is Love Yourself Well. It is available right now. I wrote this book to really tell my own health
03:19 story about how I was dealing with vitamin deficiencies, gut health issues, vaginal health
03:24 problems, and how I was able to get better. All three organs are connected and if you take care
03:31 of your gut, that means that your brain and vagina is going to be happy too. And this book also
03:36 includes an incredible five-week plan to bring your body back to homeostasis. If you've been
03:41 dealing with anything like gut health issues, mental health issues, vaginal health issues,
03:45 this is the book for you. It took almost two years to bring this book to life. I worked with
03:50 medical professionals at Love Wellness, spoke to a lot of doctors, worked with Janine Higby,
03:56 who's a certified nutritionist, to come up with our five-week plan. The book has a ton of
04:01 evidence-based research in it also, so it required a lot of reading before putting all the
04:07 thoughts together on paper. So what is my favorite genre? I think it has to be nonfiction,
04:15 anything that is science-related, which is probably why I love running my company and why I
04:24 wrote a book that was very similar in that genre. I love David Sedaris. His short stories are so
04:32 incredible and we used to do a lot of books on tape growing up on long car trips with my family
04:38 and David Sedaris, we would always give him a listen. Favorite childhood book? For me, it was
04:43 more of a series. I loved anything that was Ramona Quimby. Remember Ramona and her sister Beatrice?
04:50 And I think it's because I have a sister and we had a funny relationship like them. My favorite
04:54 place to read? It's gotta be the bath. I take a tub every day and yeah, the bath is a great place
05:03 to read. In New York City, there's a great bookstore called McNally Jackson in Soho and
05:09 that is where I go to get most of my books. It's an incredible bookstore. If you ever come to New
05:13 York, definitely visit McNally Jackson or The Strand. Thank you so much to Marie Claire's
05:20 shelf portrait. Thanks for hanging out with me in my tiny little nook of a library and don't forget
05:25 to check out Love Yourself Well. It is available wherever books are sold. If you want the gut,
05:32 brain, vaginal bliss you deserve. See ya!