 This is some fancy stuff. He just plugged the orange blossom honey. This is literally chocolate. You simply can't have that. He's like, I don't give a shit. She's a woman after my own small frigid heart. You're laughing. Are you laughing? We're done here. Discipline. Hi. Thank you so much for watching. My name is Jonathan. This is Noodle, and this is Tools of Trade, the show where we look through curated boxes of successful entrepreneurs and figure out exactly what tools do they need to succeed and get through their day. Now Noodle is a GoDaddy affiliate. The word that we use around the office is the entrepreneur Noodle, and he was originally brought into consult and he's taken on a bunch of different roles. He's worked in finance in the office of the CEO, and now he's working security. So this week, we're going to be opening the box curated by Kristen Voss of K-Voss Beauty. Now, K-Voss Beauty is a makeup and skincare line that is 100% organic, 100% vegan, 100% cruelty free, and 100% amazing. Kristen Voss is a Chicago native who is an ex-restaurant tour who decided in the middle of her restaurant business I've got to launch in a skincare line. I'm going to launch something that's going to impact people and is going to help make them healthier, feel more confident, and take better care of their skin. As a friend's mother once told me in seventh grade, you wear your skin every day, unless you're Buffalo Bill. Anyway, let's get into the box. So I don't know if you remember the box that we had last time. It was white. It was covered in words like fragile and be careful. And this one, it could very well say that underneath, but they decorated it with silver wrapping paper and a bunch of branded stickers that they had made of me and Noodle's face, which I'm totally thrilled about. They did go a little overboard, but nothing succeeds like excess, right? The Dowager Countess sent that. Now, the first thing we've got in this box, oh my God, I don't know anything that's in here. So the first thing we've got, it's a filtered drip coffee maker. Oh, these are those fancy things that I see at startup offices. So what I think is really cool about this, not only because I am a coffee drinker myself, although recently I've had to switch to decaf because caffeine makes me start to white-knuckle it after like 10 minutes. This is the best way that I have figured out how to get going throughout my day. I know a lot of people run, I'm not gonna run, it's seven o'clock in the morning, but I can do this. And I love the idea that Kristen, someone who worked as a restaurateur and has started her own skincare line, she is no stranger to burning the candle at both ends. And I think this is not only indicative of the hard work that she does, but also the way that she likes to treat herself. This is some fancy stuff you can see on the side. I don't know what it says, but this is super fancy right here. And I'm really excited this is in this box. Okay, the next thing we've got in the Kristen Voss box, oh my God, what am I gonna pick? I wanna pick this, because it looks like skincare. Yeah, moisturizing hand and body lotion by the Naked Bee, orange blossom honey. Oh no, I'm not gonna, oh, noodle. He just pugs the orange blossom honey. This must be burned. Thank you so much. Thank you for the new product, noodle. You can't do that anymore. A lot of people don't know this, but pugs actually let off a small amount of radiation. And they also have a bit of poison in their snout. And so he was about to absolutely erode this bottle. Anyway, what I love about this, and I think is really true for all entrepreneurs, is this speaks to taking care of yourself. I cannot tell you how many times I listen to podcasts or I'll see a video from an entrepreneur or something very successful. They talk about the grind, and I'm working on Saturdays, I'm working on Sundays, and that's very true. But you gotta treat yourself. How many times do you have to shake hands with people in the middle of the day? Watch, Pa, you won't even think to touch me. Watch, he's literally gonna do it this time. Watch, watch, watch, watch. Pa, almost, you're so talented. Wow, it's like when your kid doesn't win Little League, but you give him a trophy anyway. So, the next item we have in the Kristen Voss box are, is, quest protein, one of these protein bars. This is Noodle's favorite thing. This is literally chocolate, you simply can't have that. He's like, I don't give a shit. I can imagine that this is really good to keep on hand no matter what. Whether you have low blood sugar or you just get tired in the middle of the day, a quest bar is on a mission to make the food you crave work for you, not against you, wow. Which I would argue is exactly what GoDaddy's trying to do. The next item we have in a Kristen Voss box is, oh, it's a scented candle. Oh my gosh, she's a woman after my own small frigid heart. Candles are amazing because, and I don't know if you guys know this, the old factories, which are your nose sensors, have the highest potency of memory retention. So, if you're walking down the street and you get a whiff of something, you could very easily have a memory from something you totally forgot when you were three. For example, I was walking one day down New York City streets and I got a whiff of a smell of my mother's best friend's basement. It was a combination of mold and water damage. But I haven't been there in almost 20 years and I smelled it. I was like, damn, I'm in her basement and she has to get a new sun pump. So, this is, it just smells like perfect. Between my hands and this, oh my God, you can't even smell that I don't think I put deodorant on today. I did, but it's this new paraben-free kind and I don't think it's doing me any favors. What do you think, sir? Oh my God, he just sees licking his lips. He's like, oh my God, I gotta get in that candle. Well, you can't, because it's wax. He doesn't care. Anyway, if you have an office, or if you work from home, no matter what, I think it's very important to keep creature comforts with you no matter where you go. The next thing we have in the Kristen Voss box is, oh, they're mints. I was looking at them. I picked up the backside and I was like, there's a lot of words here. It's mints. These are mints and I think these are very straightforward. You need to be fresh to death to be successful. Could you imagine having a successful handshake with someone and then saying hello and the breath? It's like that scene in The Great of the Lost Ark when they open the Ark and the guy's face melts off. That's all you need, mints. But really, this is a really great something. I keep these on me all the time because I thought I've been living with halitosis for six months now. I am a survivor. You're laughing. Are you laughing? We're done here. No, we're not done. So much more shit to go through. Anyway, these are mints. Your brush has to be fresh. Otherwise, you are a failure. The next thing we have in here is a book called Disciplines, a book of daily devotions. Oh, I love this. These are daily devotions. I think having something like this, whether it's a calendar, a quote calendar, something like that, to sort of keep you grounded and to sort of add perspective and to remind you of why you're doing all of this, I think is really, really key. I'll be having a super busy day and then my co-worker who's got one of those quote calendars will just pull one that's like, remember today is a gift. That's why they call it the present. And I'm just like, oh my God, it is a present. And then I have a much better day. And I think that's something that this will, this also helps to contribute to. And Kristen is an incredibly positive person. Anyone who can go from owning a bar and restaurant to launching their own skincare line absolutely has discipline and absolutely is grounded, discipline. It's not even good whiskey. It's just on the rocks. Okay, so the very, oh God, the very final thing we have in the box, let me tell ya, I never liked Becky, but no one deserves to die in the belly of a swan like that. So the very last item we have in the Kristen Voss box is, oh, I was waiting for this as a brush set. I was absolutely waiting for this to come. Oh, these aren't makeup brushes. These are paint brushes. Okay, wow. So I was not this, whoa, right off. Okay, so a brush set. I can imagine that Kristen keeps this because she has, she can't possibly paint on the side. She can't possibly have any time. Her free time is her job. You know what, I bet she does my time to paint. I bet she is such a badass and she hustles so hard because she knows I have to carve out this amount of time to do something that's gonna keep me grounded. It was gonna help me relax. I'm actually gonna open this to show you what it is. Beautiful brushes. I do not have any artistic talent at all, but I do understand the need to pursue a creative outlet, especially if you're working in spreadsheets all day. Super important, but possibly repetitive or very hard on the brain. And this I could see is just being something to do for fun. I hope that these are in here because Kristen's just like, when I go home at night, I paint. But I wish it were those balloons filled with paint and then she threw darts at them like they did in Princess Diaries. Remember that? Her mom was an artist who lived in a refurbished firehouse in San Francisco. I'm so sorry, honey, you could not afford that. Let's see, noodle. What do you think of the brushes? He's riveted, he's riveted. I've never seen him take to something like this before. Noodle also is a master painter. I don't know if you guys know this, but Noodle actually studied the classics. All right, that was the Kristen Voss box. Thank you guys so much for tuning in. I don't know about you, but I am hugely inspired. I'm moisturized, I smell good. My breath smells better, I feel disciplined. And the brushes, I still can't get over the brushes. I think that's so incredible that those are here. Thank you for Noodle, for myself. We are so excited to be presenting this to you once a week. Thank you so much for watching. Thank you so much for watching. Please make sure to subscribe on YouTube if you did like watching this video, and be sure to tune in next time.