The Eds: unEDited with Keely Watson (Part 1)

Summary

Podcast Summary: Two Ts in a Pod – The Eds: unEDited with Keely Watson (Part 1)

Release Date: February 2, 2026
Hosts: Eddie Judge & Edwin Arroyave
Guest: Keely Watson (fiancé of RHOBH’s Bozoma “Boz” St. John)
Podcast Type: Conversation/interview

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Episode Overview

In this dynamic and personal episode, Eddie and Edwin (aka “The Eds”) sit down with Keely Watson, a multifaceted entrepreneur and the fiancé of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member Bozoma “Boz” St. John. Keely opens up about his background, career path, life lessons, and shares insights into the realities of growing up in Pasadena, his college football career, his stint in acting, and his journey into entrepreneurship and men’s health advocacy. The conversation maintains a friendly, candid, and humorous tone, peppered with anecdotes and wisdom about family, ambition, resilience, and the value of emotional intelligence. The latter part of the episode dives into the origins of Keely's relationship with Boz, setting the stage for a continuation in Part 2.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Getting to Know Keely Watson

[02:48-05:08] Background & Family

• Grew up in Pasadena, California; family of six, very close-knit.
• Not from Pasadena's "good" nor "bad" side, but right in the middle—learned early on the importance of good choices and surrounding himself with the right crowd.

"I was happy I knew them by the time I got to high school, just put it that way." – Keely, [05:12]

[05:50-09:34] Childhood, Sports & Music

• Active in football and baseball.
• Played cello for 12 years, initially begrudgingly.

"As I got into high school and out of high school, I really appreciated having that in my background because it just made me more well rounded, you see." – Keely, [06:25]

• Humorous stories about the “struggles” of lugging around large instruments, echoed by hosts’ childhood experiences.

2. Pasadena in the ‘80s/‘90s: Grit & Gratitude

[16:33-18:45] Reflections on Home & Community

• Pasadena was tough during Keely’s childhood, with gang violence commonplace.
• Parents were professionals (nurse and cosmetologist) and worked hard to keep the family away from trouble, focusing instead on sports and positive recreation.

"I've lost friends, of course. ...I actually saw a guy get killed at 10 years old right in front of the mall... But I wouldn't take back my childhood for the life of me." – Keely, [18:25]

3. School Daze: Athletics & Higher Education

[21:09-25:01] Student Athlete Life

• Attended Hampton University, transferred to University of Nebraska (business marketing major, ‘95–‘98).
• Played linebacker on a powerhouse Nebraska team.

"You guys will never guess what position I played... I was a linebacker." – Keely, [22:32]

• Lost his father to cancer junior year, deeply impacting his relationship with football.
• Ultimately walked away from a shot at professional football, a decision he reflects on with mixed feelings of pride and regret.

"It just wasn't the same at that point... But playing at that level at that time was sufficient enough." – Keely, [25:01]

4. Career Odyssey: From Events to Acting to Entrepreneurship

[32:32-41:14] Post-College Path

• Briefly considered moving to Atlanta, but returned to California for the lifestyle.
• First job: Director of Events at the Glendora Chamber of Commerce, coordinating city events.
• Dabbled in Hollywood, experiencing the highs and lows of commercial acting and substitute teaching in challenging LA schools.

[38:56-41:14] Teaching Lessons

• Developed unorthodox but effective classroom management strategies using his athletic background (e.g., “Hold Your Education High” with wall sits and textbooks).
• Saw firsthand how parental support drastically affected academic outcomes.

“Teachers really do need support from the parents in the homes to help reinforce what’s being learned in the schools.” – Keely, [36:23]

5. Emotional Intelligence & Acting

[41:21-44:25] The Impact of Acting Training

• Acting honed his listening skills and raised his EQ (emotional intelligence).
• Hosts reflect similarly on how performance arts drew out and matured their emotional self-awareness.

"That elevated my emotional...eq, not my iq, but eq." – Keely, [41:14]

6. Hard Realities & Pivot to Business

[46:45-49:33] The Realities of Pursuing Acting

• Stories of older actors still struggling inspired Keely to switch gears into business development/sales.
• Life insurance, payroll sales, and finally, medical device and wellness industries.

7. Men’s Health Entrepreneurship

[49:33-57:39] Encino Game Day Men’s Health

• Keely co-founded a men’s health clinic in Encino, focusing on hormone optimization, weight management, and overall vitality for men ages 30–65.
• The clinic offers peptide therapy, testosterone replacement, weight loss, and other wellness services—delivered with a concierge approach.

"When men feel their best, they show up their best everywhere." – Keely, [50:06]

• Notable emphasis: optimizing for long-term health, improving quality of life, changing the perception of what’s “normal” for aging men.

“The goal is just to be that go to place within all [San Fernando Valley]... When men think of peptides, testosterone replacement... we really help men feel like their A-plus selves again.” – Keely, [55:14]

8. Meeting Bozoma “Boz” St. John

[58:20-65:38] Love Story

• Eddie and Edwin highlight Boz’s impressive career (Pepsi, Beats by Dre, Uber, Netflix, author, TV host).
• Keely met Boz through his nephew, whose wife is contemporary artist Harmonia Rosales. Boz, an art collector, connected with the family over art, leading to a serendipitous Instagram-facilitated introduction.
• Mutual curiosity, a boutique art show in Woodland Hills, a group “approval” among friends, and a memorable “text-iversary” all feature in the cute, modern romance.

"So my nephew, he posted a carousel of pics ... I see this woman in a red dress. I'm like, oh man, she's bad." – Keely, [62:29]
"Her girls were like, 'wait a minute, wait a minute, let's hear about this uncle.'... They all voted yes." – Keely, [65:07]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Keely on Childhood Realities:
  "I actually saw a guy get killed at 10 years old right in front of the mall." [18:25]
• Keely on the Cello:
  "I used to hate, though, when I first started playing... it was such a funny story how I even got introduced to the cello." [06:26]
• Keely on Career Pivots:
  "I said by that age I don't want to have to audition anymore... that can't be me. And that's when I made the ultimate mind switch, career switch." [46:45]
• Keely on Emotional Intelligence:
  "That elevated my emotional... eq, not my iq, but eq." [41:14]
• On Meeting Boz:
  “Her girls were like, 'wait a minute, wait a minute, let's hear about this uncle.' ...they all voted yes.” [65:07]
• On Men’s Wellness:
  “When men feel their best, they show up their best everywhere.” [50:06]

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Important Timestamps

• Intro/Banter: [02:11-02:48]
• Keely’s Early Life & Family: [02:48-05:08]
• Sports & Cello Stories: [05:47-09:34]
• Pasadena Childhood & Gangs: [16:33-18:45]
• College & Football: [21:09-25:01]
• Father’s Passing Impact: [23:47-25:01]
• Post-College Careers: [32:32-35:48]
• Classroom Management Wisdom: [38:56-39:47]
• Acting & EQ: [41:14-44:25]
• Shift to Business & Sales: [46:45-49:33]
• Launching Men’s Health Clinic: [49:33-55:14]
• Explaining Clinic’s Approach: [55:29-56:42]
• How Keely Met Boz: [58:20-65:38]

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

This episode is a personal, relatable, and inspiring account of resilience, self-discovery, and the power of community—whether in family, work, or love. Keely’s honesty about regrets, growth, and joy (and his humor), paired with the Eds' own life stories, offers listeners valuable nuggets on navigating adversity, aging, and ambition. The “how we met” story with Boz is set to bloom further in Part 2.

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Stay tuned for Part 2, where Keely dives deeper into his relationship with Boz St. John and life amidst Housewife fame!

Transcript

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[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

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[Amanda Knox]

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[Keely Watson]

Evidence has been made to fit.

[Edwin Arroyave]

The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapsed.

[Amanda Knox]

What if the truth was disgu a story we chose to believe?

[Keely Watson]

Oh my God. I think she might be innocent.

[Amanda Knox]

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[Keely Watson]

This is special Agent Riegel, Special Agent Bradley Hall.

[Special Agent Riegel]

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[Amanda Knox]

This is the Eds with Eddie Judge and Edwin Arroyave.

[Eddie Judge]

Welcome to the Eds podcast. I am Eddie Judge. I got my co host with me

[Edwin Arroyave]

and I'm Edwin Ariades.

[Eddie Judge]

Hey bud, what's up?

[Edwin Arroyave]

What's up man? Good to see you again.

[Eddie Judge]

Good to see you too. I'm really stoked about today. We get to interview Keely Watson. Keely Watson is the fiance of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member Beau St. John. Bo St. John has been on for two seasons now. They Are planning two weddings this year and hoping to expand their family. So, Keely, what's up?

[Keely Watson]

Lots to talk about. Lots. Lots to talk about. It's gonna be big year.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah, it sounds. It sounds like it. A big, exciting year with good things happening. I can't wait to hear all about it.

[Edwin Arroyave]

So, hey, I'm excited to have Kelly. I think this is the first Beverly hills husband we've had on here.

[Keely Watson]

Right?

[Eddie Judge]

Excellent point. Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

Am I really the first?

[Eddie Judge]

You're the first Beverly house, Beverly Hills house husband that we've had on here. Yeah. I. I think it's partially because by the time we got our podcast up and running, the Beverly hills housewives were all single. So they had no husbands.

[Edwin Arroyave]

Everyone was separating at the same time.

[Keely Watson]

Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, relationships are tough, man. You know they are. We all know. I mean, we're at that age where we know that. Tough, right?

[Eddie Judge]

So, Keely, let's get started here. I really want to get to know you. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where'd you grow up? Where you from? Any siblings? Tell us who you are.

[Keely Watson]

Yes, yes. We're going to take it way back, huh?

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Yeah.

[Eddie Judge]

Who's the real Keely? Because the one on the show is not the one they always represent. Right? That's just my take.

[Keely Watson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. True to that point there. So born in Los Angeles and then at a very, very young age, not long after birth, moved to Pasaden. Born and raised. Well, raised in Pasadena, California. So I'm a true Cali native. Love sunshine. I'm a beach guy. Do have come from a family of six. Oh, wow. Yeah, So I have two sisters, a brother, and then I have a stepsister or a half sister. Rather nice.

[Eddie Judge]

Are you the oldest?

[Keely Watson]

No, I am number four. Three in line. I was gonna say four. But yeah, I'm number three in the immediate family. And so I have two older sisters, younger brother, and then my oldest half sister as well. And we're all, like, super close. Like, we love each other, you know, regularly. It's great.

[Edwin Arroyave]

Did you grow up on the good side of Pasadena or on the bad side of Pasadena?

[Keely Watson]

No, I'm gonna say I grew up on. In the middle. I would say in the middle. So we weren't quite on the bad side. We weren't. Definitely weren't in the good side. But I'm glad I grew up around the neighborhood, guys, because, you know, I was real big in sports, Played sports heavily, and, you know, as kids, we're all in the same boat, right? But then some of us, just for some reason or another, we take different turns in life and, you know, I was happy I knew them by the time I got to high school, just put it that way. Yeah, yeah.

[Edwin Arroyave]

Well, what sports did you play growing up?

[Keely Watson]

So I played football. Football and baseball were my major. Two sports. Let's see, I'm a classically playing, classically trained cellist. So I played cello for 12 years, believe it or not, was all city cellos, always sat chairs, either one through four, primarily. And, you know, is one of those things that I didn't appreciate as a younger kid. But then as I got into high school and out of high school, I really appreciated having that in my background because it just made me more well rounded, you see.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

I used to hate, though, when I first started playing, it was such a funny story how I even got introduced to the cello.

[Eddie Judge]

Tell us about that. I'm interested.

[Keely Watson]

I mean, I don't mind.

[Eddie Judge]

So I could only imagine coming home from school and parents going, hey, you can't go out play.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

You gotta.

[Eddie Judge]

You gotta practice your cello.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

Oh, man. Yeah. It was treacherous. I did not like it. So, funny story way, way back in primary school, you know, it was kind of pick a hobby day, pick your instrument day. So they had all of these instruments laid out. I've always liked the French horn, you know, just based on being its size, its sound and everything else. So I remember as soon as I saw the French horn, I went to it and I grabbed it and I blew as hard as I could into it and nothing came out. Believe it. So I sat it down, I said, okay, this isn't going to work. I was so disappointed. I took the biggest breath ever, right? And so I went over to the cello and you know, there was a teacher there and based on my height, they said, you know, not a lot of people really play the cello. Why don't you try this? So I said, okay. And from that point on, I was stuck carrying it home after school.

[Eddie Judge]

Oh, yeah.

[Edwin Arroyave]

To carry that big thing trying to play.

[Keely Watson]

Yes, I had. Yeah. You know, I come from the era where our parents made us walk to school. There was no.

[Eddie Judge]

I'm from the same era. I rode my bicycle and I have a similar story.

[Keely Watson]

Oh, did you?

[Eddie Judge]

Oh, yeah. Mine was with the trombone and I was, I think it was junior high. And I was gravitating towards the saxophone. And that's the only reason I signed up for that damn class. And sure enough, they didn't have enough saxophones. To go around. And all they had left was this damn trombone. It's like the size smaller than the tuba. And I'll never forget my struggles taking that damn thing home on my bicycle. I think I tried it twice. And I said that I'm not gonna

[Keely Watson]

be able to do this. Yes, yes. Yeah. You feel my pain there?

[Eddie Judge]

I feel your pain, brother.

[Keely Watson]

Right, right.

[Eddie Judge]

But you kept it going. And you know, not that I would be embarrassed to play the, the trombone now, but I, I. There's not much you can do with the trombone. I'm sure there's a lot more you can do with the cello, right?

[Keely Watson]

I mean, aside from going on and being in a symphony, you know, that just, I mean, that's, I mean, that's end game pretty much. Okay. And so aside from that, I just knew that wasn't my route. I did it as kind of one of those things that make you more well rounded in high school. It'll look more attractive to the colleges. And since I was good at it, I continue, I just continued on with it. And then, you know, with anything, once you get out of high school and you get into that college level of, I would say any type of activity, I mean, it's, it's, they're basically training you to be a professional at that point.

[Edwin Arroyave]

Did the cello, did the cello attract the ladies in high school?

[Keely Watson]

You know what? I would say it was more so the football.

[Edwin Arroyave]

I was gonna say the football. Probably better.

[Eddie Judge]

Hey, Edwin, did you have, did, did. Edwin, did you have any experience with instruments in primary school?

[Edwin Arroyave]

You know, you know, I played the flute and I wasn't really good at it. But I do have a funny story about. I was a fake. When I first met Teddy, I was a fake keyboardist. I would, I would.

[Special Agent Riegel]

Yeah.

[Edwin Arroyave]

So my, my friend had this gothic band, still has it. It's actually a very popular one. And he just calls me up one day and he's like, edwin, I need you to be my keyboardist. I need you to. We're going to go all over Europe. I said, that sounds great, but I don't know how to play the keyboard is. You don't need to know how to play the keyboard. I just need you to look good on stage playing the keyboard. And so that's what I did. I just go on stage and I would act like I was playing the keyboard.

[Eddie Judge]

You know, that's such a, that's such an. Any vanilla thing.

[Keely Watson]

Yeah, exactly, exactly. Kind of looks like when you're kind of bobbing around.

[Edwin Arroyave]

But I had no idea. I actually tried learning. And then I realized that one of the big keyboardists wasn't playing live either. So I was like, if they're not playing live, what's the point of learning? I just act like I'm playing, you know? And that was the whole thing. And. And then Teddy made me quit about a year into it.

[Eddie Judge]

It's all fake. Right?

[Keely Watson]

Right, Right, Right, Right.

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[Keely Watson]

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[Keely Watson]

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[Amanda Knox]

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[Keely Watson]

Lucy Letby has been found guilty.

[Amanda Knox]

But what if we didn't get the whole story?

[Edwin Arroyave]

The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapses.

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[Eddie Judge]

I have a really good friend. He's a very successful attorney and mountain biker. He used to race Moto gp. I mean, the guy is an out. A crazy guy. And you would never imagine that he's got this hidden talent that he brought out. One night at a dinner party at his house, he sat down behind his piano and played something out of like a professional know opera that just had everybody's jaw dropped. And we're like, why are you practicing law? You're so damn good at this. And.

[Keely Watson]

Right.

[Eddie Judge]

It blew my mind, but it really made me appreciate the skill, the talent that you, you gain that you never think you're gonna use.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Right?

[Eddie Judge]

Like one day, you never know, killing. The local opera might call you and say, hey, we need you.

[Keely Watson]

But that happens. That means the opera has failed.

[Eddie Judge]

The world's ended.

[Keely Watson]

Yeah, exactly. Oh, man. But you know, I really, like growing up in Pasadena. You know what's interesting?

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It.

[Keely Watson]

It's different today than it was when I was growing up. Okay. So growing up in the mid-80s, that's when, like, gang banging was at its peak. Okay. In Pasadena. Pasadena, Los Angeles, you would never know. Old Town was not the old town it is today. Old Town. Are you guys both familiar with Pasadena?

[Eddie Judge]

Oh, yeah, I have family there. I love it. It's beautiful. Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

Rose bowl game.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

So beautiful city. Right? But I mean, it was rough. It had its rough areas, drive by shootings. I mean, you know, oh, my God. Epidemic. And so, you know, my parents, they worked really hard to keep us disassociated from that life.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

My dad was an rn, mom was a cosmetologist. So professionals. Right. But they were really hard working and they really worked hard to take us on vacations. I mean, we used to. I skied as a kid. I was a boogie boarder, definitely was into biking. So I loved like that BMX lifestyle back in the day. But at the time, they kept us very involved in sports, so we didn't have time to do a whole lot of. I would say, well, okay, as every kid, we're mischievous, right? Mischievous. A little bit. We go. We go through our phases, but, you know, we always knew where to draw the line. So we never got involved in the gangs, nor did they want us looking like we were associated with the gangs by the style of clothes, the big white T shirts, the khaki pants. So it was really interesting growing up. I've had. I've lost friends, of course. Believe it or not, I saw my. I actually saw a guy get killed at 10 years old right in front of the mall. Got shot in the head by his girlfriend at that.

[Eddie Judge]

Oh, damn.

[Keely Watson]

Right. Right in front of. Right in front of the Pasadena mall. So, I mean, it was an interesting time to grow up, to say the least. But I wouldn't take back my childhood for the life of me, you know, it. It's helped give me some good antennas out there in life now to know something doesn't feel right, so to speak.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Yeah.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah, I did BMX as well growing up. I was. I'm still infatuated by anything with two wheels now. I've graduated to motorcycles, so. Two wheels with an engine.

[Edwin Arroyave]

Okay.

[Keely Watson]

Okay.

[Eddie Judge]

You know what?

[Edwin Arroyave]

One of my favorite movies growing up was rad. If you guys remember that movie, that

[Keely Watson]

super cool, super cool stuff. It really was. It really. I con.

[Edwin Arroyave]

I convinced my dad to buy me a. A mongoose.

[Eddie Judge]

I said,

[Edwin Arroyave]

I Lasted one day with it.

[Eddie Judge]

One day. Why one day?

[Edwin Arroyave]

I got, I got jacked. I was rolling in it.

[Keely Watson]

These.

[Edwin Arroyave]

Yeah, these gangsters rolled out.

[Keely Watson]

They were in bikes, dude.

[Edwin Arroyave]

On the top of the steering, the steering, the bar just gets off and just the handlebars. Yeah. Takes me out of the bike. Lasted one day, man.

[Keely Watson]

Yeah. I don't know if you guys remember the bikes back in the day, but you remember they had the GTs and then they also had another bike called a dyno.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah. Yes, the dyno I had. The red line

[Special Agent Riegel]

was hot.

[Keely Watson]

Yeah. So, so similar story. Edwin actually left my bike outside of a corner store. And this was my, my dyno. You know, I cherished that bike. Loved it. Had the pegs on the back and everything on the front, you know, rotor so the handlebars would spin. And something told me to chain it up. I didn't chain it up. I figured I'd just run in, grab me a bag of chips, you know, like some kind of soda, get out of the came out. Bike was gone. I was crying. I was devastated.

[Eddie Judge]

Those are like hard life lessons. I, I, the kids nowadays in my neighborhood all have, in fact, I just saw them yesterday, kind of like in a group of about 50e bikes in my neighborhood. They're all cruising together like they're a gang. It's, it's funny to see, but they just leave their bikes outside unlocked.

[Keely Watson]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's a tale of two different worlds, right?

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

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Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

I mean, people aren't really stealing bikes these days or really stealing phones. I mean, unless, of course, you go to a third world country. It's a little bit different, you know, you're in, but, you know, we're not living in those areas anymore.

[Eddie Judge]

So you went to college. Would you study in Scotland School?

[Keely Watson]

Yeah, so I went to Hampton University. Started off at Hampton University, transferred to Nebraska.

[Eddie Judge]

Oh, wow.

[Keely Watson]

Football university in Nebraska. And I got my degree in business marketing. So I have a bachelor's in marketing.

[Eddie Judge]

Okay. Did you play ball in college?

[Keely Watson]

I did, I did. I played. I was in, in School from 95 to 98 at University of Nebraska.

[Eddie Judge]

Wow.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Wow.

[Edwin Arroyave]

Were those the, the golden years of Nebraska? Because there was, there was a time.

[Keely Watson]

Corn Huskers. Exactly.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Edwin Arroyave]

Those, there's some years there where they were like number one, number two. I mean, they were just crushing it.

[Eddie Judge]

They were the corn fed boys.

[Keely Watson]

Exactly. So we were what the Alabamas and the Georgias were back in the day, you know, school, it was Nebraska, the Florida State University of Florida, Miami, even Colorado, you know, some of the bigger schools or the powerhouses back then.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah. Wow.

[Edwin Arroyave]

So you must have been really good to be.

[Keely Watson]

Yeah, yeah, I was really good. And believe it or not, you guys will never guess what position I played. I'm going to give you both a shot at what position I played looking at my frame, looking at my size. What?

[Edwin Arroyave]

Corner? Corner.

[Keely Watson]

Okay, good guess. What would you think?

[Eddie Judge]

I would think safety.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Okay.

[Keely Watson]

So I was a linebacker.

[Eddie Judge]

Oh.

[Edwin Arroyave]

Oh, damn.

[Keely Watson]

You guys would never guess, right? Way bigger. I mean, no neck, big old bowling by both sides, like traps, I mean, or delts, traps that stood up to here, you know, big round hair. So I was a weak side linebacker.

[Eddie Judge]

You were the junior refrigerator at the time. Remember that guy?

[Keely Watson]

Yeah, yeah. But then in the pros, you know, they would have moved me to safety had I gone on to the next level because I was fast enough and had the size to play like a strong safety, I would say.

[Eddie Judge]

Nice. So you're very athletic for sure.

[Edwin Arroyave]

Did you have a chance to, to make it to the pros or that just wasn't your thing? You didn't, you know.

[Keely Watson]

Yeah. So, you know, you always have a chance when you play in that type of program. So the answer is yes. But I figured out along the way that it just wasn't my route. It's much different on that level when you're playing. Being a California guy, the practicing in the snow, the playing in the snow just wasn't as much fun.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Wilmer Valderrama]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

I really got a chance to see what life was like as would have been like as a professional athlete. I mean, there's no time off, really.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

And I would say too, another big event that happened my junior year was I lost my father to cancer on my 20th birthday and it was right before a big bowl game and you know, football, it just didn't mean as much to me anymore, you know, there at the games and just there cheering me on. It just. It didn't feel the same. So I really struggled on whether or not I wanted to get go back to school that next semester. I took some time off, you know, over Christmas holidays and really had to have a heart to heart talk with myself, coaches, family, some friends. And ultimately I said, okay, what my dad want me to do, he want me to continue on with school. So I, you know, struggled back, fought back and went on and completed my next semester and got a three. Three, Made up my finals, you know, push through school and you know, it was just a different trajectory at that point.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Edwin Arroyave]

Did you play that last year? Of football or did you?

[Keely Watson]

No, I didn't. I didn't. You know, I didn't. My last year of college, I didn't end up playing my last year. Like I said, it just wasn't the same at that point.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Edwin Arroyave]

Any regrets on that?

[Keely Watson]

Yeah, absolutely. Just understanding that the opportunity was there. And, you know, I still went to Pro Timing Day and everything. And, you know, there were scouts around, of course, all over. It's the one thing I look back on, I wish I would have continued to move forward with. Just to say that I did it. I made it to that next level. But playing in that level at that time was sufficient enough. You say it was just like. Well, the door was open. Like, you know, like, I'm good, but everybody else that went on, I do wish I would have gone ahead and played. It was just, again that time, what was happening, you know, probably grieving. I didn't. But at the time, just wasn't the same, you see?

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Yeah.

[Edwin Arroyave]

Are you able to watch football now or you just.

[Keely Watson]

Oh, I don't want to watch it. I love it. Yeah. That is my sport. As a matter of fact, I'm very sad that after the super bowl, we're gone again. Right.

[Edwin Arroyave]

So did you grow up? So you grew up. You grew up in Pasadena, which means you probably grew up a Raider fan or Rams fan or a Niner fan. Don't tell me Niners.

[Keely Watson]

Okay. I got to tell you the truth. Right. Okay. So I'm a Raider fan. My heart. Because it was the LA Raiders back in the day.

[Edwin Arroyave]

Yeah.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

Still a Raider fan today. And then also 49ers and then the Dallas Cowboys as well. Because, you know, my mom and her side of the family is from Texas, so. Funny thing is, my dad actually is from Nebraska. He's from Omaha, Nebraska, which is what made me want to even choose Nebraska.

[Eddie Judge]

That makes sense. Yeah.

[Wilmer Valderrama]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

Right. And so grew up watching those. Those really good teams back in the day.

[Eddie Judge]

And during that era was the. Probably the only time I actually watched football myself. And I gotta tell you, Edwin, it was. I was a 49er fan, too, because of Jerry Rice. That's it. The only reason.

[Keely Watson]

Thank you. That that team was one of the best teams ever. You know, Jerry. I mean, Jerry Rice, Tom Rathman, all those guys. Right.

[Eddie Judge]

It was a great era.

[Keely Watson]

Roger, Craig, Mace. Exactly.

[Edwin Arroyave]

I had a. I had a nice little championship party at my house on Sunday, and.

[Eddie Judge]

Oh, nice.

[Edwin Arroyave]

Invited some of my friends that I grew up with, and they're all Raider haters. I mean, they're all Raider fans and Niner fans. They couldn't have been happier when the Rams lost. I'm sure. They gave me so much.

[Keely Watson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I can imagine. I actually wanted to see the Rams go, you know, who's going this year? I know.

[Edwin Arroyave]

That was. I was heartbroken. Still heartbroken on it.

[Eddie Judge]

So who is going this year?

[Keely Watson]

Right, right, right.

[Eddie Judge]

Seattle Patriots again. Okay, Interesting.

[Keely Watson]

Right, Interesting teams that ended up making. Right? I mean, the matchup in general. So at this point, I just want to see a good game, hang with some friends, have some good food, that kind of thing.

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[Amanda Knox]

In 2023, a story gripped the UK, evoking horror and disbelief.

[Keely Watson]

The nurse who should have been in charge of caring for tiny babies is now the most prolific child killer in modern British history.

[Amanda Knox]

Everyone thought they knew how it ended. A verdict. A villain. A nurse named Lucy Letby.

[Keely Watson]

Lucy Letby has been found guilty.

[Amanda Knox]

But what if we didn't get the whole story?

[Keely Watson]

The moment you look at the whole

[Edwin Arroyave]

picture, the case collapses.

[Amanda Knox]

I'm Amanda Knox, and in the new podcast the Case of Lucy Letby, we follow the evidence and hear from the people that lived it to ask what really happened when the world decided who Lucy Letby was.

[Keely Watson]

No voicing of any skepticism or doubt. It'll cause so much harm at every single level of the British establishment of this is wrong.

[Amanda Knox]

Listen to Doubt the Case of Lucy Letby on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Special Agent Riegel]

China's Ministry of State Security is one of the most mysterious and powerful spy agencies in the world. But in 2017, the FBI got inside.

[Keely Watson]

This is Special Agent Riegel, Special Agent Bradley Hall.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

This MSS officer has no idea the US Government is onto him. But the FBI has his chats, texts, emails, even his personal diary. Hear how they got it on the Sixth Bureau podcast.

[Keely Watson]

I now have several terabytes of an MSS officer. No doubt, no question of his life, and that's a unicorn. No one had ever seen anything like that. It was unbelievable.

[Special Agent Riegel]

This is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its vault of secrets.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Listen to the 6th Bureau on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Nancy Glass]

I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season two podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpright became the victim of a random crime.

[Keely Watson]

He pulls the gun, tells me to lie down on the ground.

[Nancy Glass]

He identified Jermaine Hudson as the perpetrator. Jermaine was sentenced to 99 years.

[Keely Watson]

I'm like, lord, this can't be real. I thought it was a mistaken identity. The best lie is partial truth.

[Nancy Glass]

For 22 years, only two people knew the truth until a confession changed everything.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

I was a monster.

[Nancy Glass]

Listen to Burden of guilt season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Eddie Judge]

So what did you do after college? Did you go to work for somebody or did you go right into entrepreneurship? I understand you have. You have some history in companies.

[Keely Watson]

Yeah, definitely. Definitely. So for me, it was a decision on whether or not I wanted to move back to California. I just knew I wasn't gonna stay in Nebraska.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

So, yeah, like, I did, my time got out. There's nothing else.

[Eddie Judge]

Not a whole lot to do over there.

[Keely Watson]

Not a whole lot to do. Especially then, you know, maybe now. But there's nothing that would have made me stay in Nebraska. So, interestingly enough, I was trying to decide between Atlanta or either coming back to California. And, you know, I visited Atlanta in college and had a great time there. And so what I did was I went down, spent 20 days, stayed with cousin, and I said, okay, Keely, is this a place you really want to live right outside of, like, college life, the nightlife there and Atlanta in general? Do I think I'd be happy there? And the answer was, I didn't think so. You know, there just wasn't. Outside of that lifestyle, there wasn't a lot.

[Eddie Judge]

What do you think was missing?

[Keely Watson]

Well, you know, the beaches, the trails, the lifestyle. And it was, you know, again, outside of the college life, there wasn't a whole lot else that I was really interested in. Even though it was, you know, I mean, like a mecca for, you know, young black men and women, it felt really good being there. I determined it was a better place to visit and I would essentially go back to California.

[Eddie Judge]

Okay, where'd you land?

[Keely Watson]

And so when I landed in California, this is after my father's passing, my mom had moved to Azusa, California, so I went back home. As I started looking at careers, ended up landing at the Glendora Chamber of Commerce. I was really good at event coordinating, and so my first job out of college was being chief director of events for the Glendora Chamber of Commerce. And so I planned, like, golf tournaments, like a flashback to 50s type of car event. I did the farmer's market, so I was responsible for that along with a few other big activities for the city. So I really learned how to interact with city officials and. And interact on a more mature level with people, you know, I guess, in those types of positions.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah, that's very interesting and very valuable experience, honestly.

[Keely Watson]

Yeah, it was. It was. And then for a while tried to do the Hollywood thing, which is, of course, the acting. Everybody says everybody from California is going to try it. And so got some headshots made. And, you know, while I was trying to pursue that career, it was interesting because again, you have high highs and you have low lows. Right. You have the pizza, you have the valve. Right. So at one point in time, commercials were flowing in, money was good. Okay. And then all of a sudden, it got flat.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah, right.

[Keely Watson]

And so I learned a long time ago, I ended up letting my position go, and thankfully I had substitute teaching, so I was doing some teaching.

[Eddie Judge]

Oh.

[Keely Watson]

And that really taught me how to be a good presenter and how to manage kids. Yeah, yeah, they taught me how to manage kids and essentially kept me from wanting to have kids until I had some help, let's say. But it also helped me to understand that, you know, as. As a partner. Right. Having, like your lady, it really does Matter having support in the homes like, you really. Teachers really do need support from the parents in the homes to help reinforce what's being learned in the schools. And so I saw that side. Yeah, right. The kids who had the support really tended to.

[Eddie Judge]

To excel.

[Keely Watson]

Excel a little bit more than the kids didn't have the support. I remember there was a time, you know, I called. There was a kid acting up. I forgot what he was doing, but, I mean, he was just wilding out, basically, in the classroom. So I said, hey, you know what? I'm gonna call your mother. He was like, go ahead and call my mom. I don't care. You know? So I taught tougher areas. Okay. Think like, south central, east la. Okay. In the more urban areas. And wow. When I called the parents, right. The mom answered and I said, yeah. I said, you know, I'm just gonna say Jay. I'm gonna throw the name out there, but I'm just gonna say Jay. So, yeah, I said, he's not sitting down. I said, he's unfocused. He's throwing stuff across the classroom. And then she helped to start finishing my sentences. She said, yeah, And I bet you he don't want to listen. He don't want to do this. He said, no, don't send them home. Keep them in the classroom. I was like, okay, what do I do? Yeah, exactly. So what do I do at that point? So I had to kind of get creative, you know, in the classroom. And, you know, I. I came up with all kind of things being, you know, with my football background, athletic background, what I ended up doing, I came up with something called hold your education high, right? Because being in a fraternity, I'm an. I'm a member of Alpha Fraternity first, you know, African American fraternity founded back in 1906. So anywhere I go, you know, I have a sense of friendship and brotherhood because I can always find fellow brothers or fellow members of my fraternity there. Yeah, right. So we used to have to hold Alpha high, right? Where we'd maybe hold some bricks up or hold something above our head while sitting in an invisible chair. And so. But I'd have the kid do to kind of, you know, as a disciplinary action in class, I'd have them do, like, what's called the invisible chair. And then I'd have them grab their textbook, and I'd have them hold it over their head, sitting against the wall, no chair.

[Eddie Judge]

Nice.

[Keely Watson]

You got to do that for three minutes, right? And so it was a lesson for the student as well as the class, because I said, I said, hey. I said, pretty, you're going to feel the weight of having an education. And I'd sit there and tell them. I said, yeah, you see, you're sweating now, right? It hurts. I said, you feel that? I said, that's the weight of being educated. I said, I feel that's what's going to carry you through life. I said, you guys, that education is heavy. That's why it's so important. Hold that education high, value that education, feel the weight of that, push you through life. So I turned it into a whole lesson, Right. And, you know, I rallied the kids around that kid to be able to, you know, push him through, encourage him, motivate him. And it usually worked. Yeah, you see, I like it.

[Edwin Arroyave]

That's pretty cool.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

Yeah. And.

[Eddie Judge]

And it's certainly something you could practice at home, too, without question.

[Keely Watson]

Once I do have kids, you know.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

50 years old, no kids. We'll probably talk about that later.

[Eddie Judge]

Okay. All right. I'm right there with you, though. I'm also 52. No kids ever in. I've always. I have adopted kids, but, you know, from my. My wife, but I don't have any kids of my own.

[Keely Watson]

Okay. Okay. Yeah, that's, you know, I don't know the backstory on that, but it could be similar.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

And then after, you know, substitute doing the teachings, the substitute teaching as well as the acting, you know, I put a solid 10 years into it, and something acting taught me was to really pay attention to the person in front of me. It taught me how to be a really good listener. Yeah, right. And to listen to what's being said, but on a much deeper level. Okay. A lot of times when people are talking, you hear, they'll say one. Something on the surface. Right. But that's not the root. What is the underlying context there? So there's always context to it. Okay, so you're saying I'm not spending as much time. I'm not around. You want to go out? So what you're really saying is you need my attention. Attention right now. Okay. So there's always some type of subtext there. What's the root? Really Makes sense. So it's taught me that.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

That elevated my emotional. I would say my eq, not my iq, but eq.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

Iq, Yeah.

[Eddie Judge]

I took acting classes in college myself because I. I registered too late. And it was just one of those things like, oh, I need to learn and have the confidence to stand up in front of people and do a presentation. Because in mind, my vision was, I'M going to be a businessman one day and I'm going to need to speak to either my employees or presentation or whatever. And the biggest lesson I learned in that class was getting in touch with my emotional intelligence and understanding my emotions. Because as a kid I didn't know that I was so damn emotional. Like I'd cry when I was pissed off. You know, eight years old, I'm like, why am I crying? I should be mad. And it really taught me how to understand and work through my emotions. And it didn't really help me as an actor because I still couldn't be a serious actor. And I think generally in life I'm not a serious guy. I try to joke around about everything. I mean, I'm serious when it's business, but I make light hearted jokes and points about everything around me and I look for the silver lining, but it's kept me out of trouble and out of heartache, depression and all those, you know, doubtful feelings that come with that. But I liked, I like to experience emotions, but I also like to understand them and control them as much as possible. So that's. That really was my biggest takeaway because as a kid I was very emotional.

[Keely Watson]

Right? Yeah. How about you, Edwin?

[Edwin Arroyave]

You know, it's funny, I. I did do the acting thing for you. You and I have a lot of in common. So I grew up in Huntington Park. I don't know if you know where that is. It's Southeast hp. So I grew up there. And then I actually got introduced to the west side because a friend of mine got booked on a show called Power Rangers. So he started taking me to the west side.

[Keely Watson]

Never heard of that.

[Edwin Arroyave]

So he, he books the Power Rangers, he starts taking me to the west side to go party. And I was like, whoa, look at the chicks here. They look totally different. Oh yeah, people dress different here. And it's just like, wow, this is where I belong. And so then I got hooked up with a talent agency over there and, and similar, I got some stuff done and I was really doing it for the girls because it was just like every time I'd go, there was like hot girls everywhere and, and then the call center that I worked for after a while was like, hey, you can't keep going to these auditions. And then I had to make a decision. Do I, you know, I was going broke trying to be a actor slash model or do I make some money? And I, I stuck to the call center. And I think I made the right choice. But that's how I got introduced to the west side.

[Eddie Judge]

So.

[Wilmer Valderrama]

Yeah, I guess.

[Keely Watson]

Yeah, yeah, great story.

[Edwin Arroyave]

But in the 80s, yeah, it, you know, gang bangers all around, everywhere. I mean, they were everywhere and everywhere. I befriended some of them, so some of them protected me. But I was never into the whole gangster thing myself, so.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Yeah.

[Edwin Arroyave]

And my mom did a good job to kind of keep me away from all that stuff. Like, I still remember the riots and like there was a shoe store that was like a block away from we lived. And I could see everyone running away with shoes. And I was like, this is my shot at Jordan's.

[Eddie Judge]

And my mom would have let me.

[Edwin Arroyave]

My mom wouldn't let me out.

[Keely Watson]

And I remember crying, like, I could go get Jordan. Like, I should be out there.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

Not out there. Right. Yeah.

[Eddie Judge]

That's a funny, funny irony because that started happening. Was it last year or two years ago when that started happening in California again?

[Keely Watson]

Right. Like, yeah. History somehow repeats itself.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

Whether or not, whether or not it's with events, it always seems to come back around.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Yeah.

[Eddie Judge]

But this time was with purses. Right. They were all going into the purse stores.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Right.

[Keely Watson]

Well, now they know the value, you know. Yeah. We weren't trying to walk out with purses then. It was More so the TVs, the shoes, wetsuits.

[Edwin Arroyave]

And then keely, while you were substituting in in all the. The schools out of the south central area, I was selling home security systems in Watts. In Compton, I was going door to door selling alarm systems.

[Keely Watson]

Wow. Yeah. So let me. So you're familiar with the area and. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're familiar with the area, so you know what it is. But I can say this. They were some of the most fun kids. They were some of the most fun kids that I've had an opportunity to interact with. No central, no sense of entitlement, which is down to earth and fun. So I've had some good times with them, but I just knew the teaching route wasn't the way to go because I didn't want to make money. And I do believe teachers should be paid probably up there with doctors, just because they're educating the young minds, they. They have to put up with so much. Right.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

So I, I definitely support our teachers, but eventually I did have to leave. And so that being the case, reason I didn't continue on with the acting was because, funny story, I had two good friends. And I remembered just looking across. I'll start with the audition. So I remembered being at a couple of commercial auditions. I looked across and I saw, you know, older people, you know, 60s, 70s, still auditioning. And I said, wow. I said by that age I don't want to have to audition anymore. And here I am at about 33, 32 now, so this is about 8 Zen. Came close to getting some big breaks, but just didn't get that thing right. And in talking to one of my buddies, I remembered he was. I went over to his house to, to work on audition. And I had an epiphany. I saw life for an actor at 56, still trying to make it, you know, just a two bedroom apartment, roommate still and just not a whole lot. And I said, man, I said this is life when acting, still trying to make it at 56. Right. And then there was another lady who eventually came under me, you know, as a, as like a trainee because after acting, you know, I was transitioning into my business development side. So I did like some life insurance sales and we'll talk about that. And so she was one of my trainees, right. Brought on as an agent and she essentially had a master's degree. I mean she had a master's degree, published author, very, very smart lady. Left corporate America to pursue writing and producing. And I'll never forget she had to ask me for like $450 to help cover her rent. I'm like, wow. She was early 50s as well. I said, wow. I said, that's life for someone in entertainment, trying to make it. And so I said, that can't be me. And that's when I made the ultimate mind switch, career switch, and then started going the business development route, the sales route, did payroll sales, payroll sales. I got into medical sales, surgical device sales, and excelled in all of that. And that's what, what essentially catapulted me into where I'm at now, which is business development, entrepreneurship, and stayed in the health and wellness space. So I do have a men's health clinic here in Encino. So it was first when I, my business partner and I opened up about it just over a year ago. So a year and three months ago. And we're working on growing that business now.

[Eddie Judge]

Tell us about that, tell us about that business.

[Edwin Arroyave]

I'm in Encino, so I would love to go visit.

[Keely Watson]

Oh, absolutely. Especially if you're in Encino, you're gonna have to come by. So yeah, it's called Encino Game Day Men's Health. And we specifically exist to help men show up better in their lives. Right. Not just in their day to day lives, but for their families, for their careers and just for the world in General. Right. So when men feel their best, they show up their best everywhere.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Right.

[Keely Watson]

Would you guys agree with that?

[Eddie Judge]

100?

[Keely Watson]

Absolutely.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

And so what most guys in our age range here, so my Sweet spot is 30 to 65. And guys in our age range, you know, where the guys who come in, we just don't have that same level of energy anymore. That same same level of energy anymore. I want to give you guys that claim we might be suffering from fatigue. Let's say we don't have the same mental clarity because it's all of the stresses, you know, now, you know, we're in our 40s, 50s, we have our businesses and so our testosterone levels drop. Right, right. And so what typically ends up happening is it's not necessarily stress related with why we can't keep up or achieve the same results we used to achieve in the gym or just running or being as active. It's hormones. It's because of our hormones, you see. And so our testosterone levels are low. And so I'm very passionate about aging as best I can. Right. And so it's about getting older, stronger, better, healthier as we age. And so we offer peptide therapy, testosterone replacement therapy. You know, as men, somehow no matter how is it that we eat less and still seem to put on weight, right. We don't have those big appetites we used to have. Now it seems like I have a pizza weekend, you know, some wings during super bowl, get it, get into the holidays and I'm up £7 and can't lose. And so we help guys re optimize their vitality, their energy levels and through non surgical ways. So we are a men's specialty clinic. We've essentially condensed three visits into one. We're not replacing your primary care physicians, we're working alongside your primary care physicians. But we're specialty, we're a specialty clinic. So think testosterone peptide therapy, the GLP1, GLP2. So clinical weight loss, vitamin wellness, MSK treatment. That's the, the, you know, sore tendons, the soft tissue injuries, things like that. We do hair prp. So I do my hair PRP shots. As a matter of fact, I'm sitting in my office within the clinic now and did a B12 plus mix shot just because my energy was low. So it's all about optimization, you guys. Yeah. And do is we have our in house lab and we run your testosterone for free and your psa levels and within 20 minutes you have your results. So you're not going to see all these different specialists out there. We are a Specialty men's health clinic.

[Eddie Judge]

I love it, love it. That sounds amazing.

[Edwin Arroyave]

By the way, what, what level do you recommend a 50 year old's testosterone level to be at?

[Keely Watson]

You should be over 650 easily. Easily 650. So I think for me, I try to stay within that 650 to 900 range. And because I still want kids, I've never gotten on the testosterone, I've always fallen within that. Okay. But I will do peptides. You know, I just finished a stack about a month ago and I'm gonna jump on another, a very specific stack because I want the lean muscle mass, I need to burn the vegetables, I want the energy and I want the collagen production. So yeah, about what you do now, that's going to show up five years from now, add an ad, Correct.

[Edwin Arroyave]

No, I love that 100 because, because I heard if it goes too high, it's also not good, right?

[Keely Watson]

It is, yeah.

[Edwin Arroyave]

Where it gets a little dangerous if it's too high for. But I have heard that 650 is a great, great range.

[Keely Watson]

650, it really is. And you know you can, you can actually talk to your primary care physician about it or your endocrinologist about it. But the thing is, insurance doesn't really cover it until you become clinically. No, but at, by that time you're feeling blah, you know, you, why should you be walking around feeling like a zombie? Basically. Basically. Right. And so you want to keep, you want to keep your libido up, you want to keep your lean muscle mass and you just want that energy to go. And so many guys who come in, they walk out with their lives changed.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah, it's cool.

[Keely Watson]

So good seeing these guys come in one way and we're dealing with, these are, these are working professionals. I mean like die hard attorneys coming in, doctors coming in to see us.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah, right.

[Keely Watson]

Because again, we're 100% cash pay. We don't do insurance just because it requires too much to do insurance. Most guys just want a quick appointment, they want to start. And we've turned it into a concierge approach where we actually have, it's, it's not the traditional white office that you walk into. There's ESPN on, all the TVs, drinks available, snacks available. It looks nothing like, like you would assume a clinic.

[Edwin Arroyave]

Do you guys offer any meal prep kind of stuff?

[Keely Watson]

No meal prep, but I mean of course we can refer you out. Yeah, we don't do the dietary portion of it, but we form partnerships within our community to be able to do that. And our goal is just to be that go to place within old Tarzana, Reseda and the San Fernando Valley in general. When men think of peptides testosterone replacement to get everything, I mean, we do what are called libido tune ups. You see, great business. We really help men feel like they're a plus selves.

[Eddie Judge]

Again, it sounds like a male med spa.

[Keely Watson]

Similar, but there's a difference. So, you know, I've gotten this question a lot. What's the difference between a medical clinic and a med spa?

[Eddie Judge]

Okay.

[Keely Watson]

Med spas typically focus on things like microneedling, let's say fillers, the Botox, maybe skin, you know, anything that's very aesthetic.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

You see, and so they rarely ever prescribe. Maybe the peptides they don't treat like erectile dysfunction. Sorry for saying that on your, on your podcast here, but you know, we're men, so we're libido tune up. So they're more spa folks. You walk in, you have the soft music playing. Perhaps it really feels like a spot. But we are a medical practice. You know, it's clinician driven. You're talking to clinicians, you know, nps, pas, or a medical director. We have our own in house lab. So we're, we're able to treat you where we, we try to treat the symptom, but we don't treat disease states. So we're not the people who you come to for, let's say kidney failure. Right. You're having GI tract issues.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Okay.

[Keely Watson]

We stay in our lane and we're the best at what we do.

[Eddie Judge]

It's interesting. How many men have you had come through your facility that have adopted the feeling like all the time as a normal thing, like, you know, it's just the way it is. And all of a sudden you change their life and all of a sudden they feel young again and they have this clear mind and lots of energy and feel vibrant, learned.

[Keely Watson]

Yes. So many guys. So many guys. And it's such just, it's so great to see the arc. That's what essentially got me into the, the medical device world as well as the health wellness space. You know, just knowing that you've impacted somebody's life just a little bit, even if it's 5% or 10%, you're helping them show up better. And I love. And my goal is to get the word out there that we exist. Encino Game day Men South. We exist.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Awesome.

[Keely Watson]

And, and so that being the case, Eddie, I'd love for you to come in at some point or Edwin, being that you guys both in California, we're getting ready to start our telehealth practice as well for guys to stay a little bit further out. And again, we are definitely going to be opening more of of these. That's the plan. We just have to get this one up and running. Up and running. I mean, at cruising altitude. I mean, we all have startups, right? We know the business.

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah, yeah.

[Keely Watson]

And defeat the competition.

[Edwin Arroyave]

When did you meet your Bose? How did that whole thing come down?

[Eddie Judge]

Well, before we go there, I want to preface this with a little bit about Bose, only because she's. Yeah, she's a very successful woman, has accomplished tremendous things in life. And I'm going to list a few. Yeah, I'm going to list a few items here because I want the listeners to really hear what you got, you know, what you got on your lap. Like, this is a unique situation that most men can't handle. You know what I mean?

[Edwin Arroyave]

Like the resume. Quite the resume for sure.

[Eddie Judge]

So Bose was a marketing executive at several companies. Pepsi, head of music and entertainment. The Beats by Dre, head of marketing, chief brand officer at Uber, chief marketing officer at Endeavor, chief marketing officer at Netflix. She wrote a memoir, the Urgent Life. And she even co hosted a competition reality show with Jimmy Fallon called On Brand.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Yes.

[Eddie Judge]

This girl's done a lot of really big things, man.

[Keely Watson]

Like I said, she's a titan. I mean, she's big. And you left off one other thing. I mean, hall of fame marketer, right? Yeah, Marketing hall of fame. And wow, she recently launched her hair company, Eve by bows. Oh, my God, she is always moving. I love it. I love the energy with such a great match for that reason now. Okay, so you finished the intro. Okay, go ahead. I'll let you get to the questions because I could talk about my woman all day.

[Edwin Arroyave]

I am curious, was she like getting recruited from every company after? Because it seemed like every two years somebody she was at a different company was that she was kept getting headhunted.

[Keely Watson]

Yeah, that was it. I mean, that was it.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Wow.

[Keely Watson]

So you know people, you know the game. It's. It's people. When you're hot, when you're up there, people are going to try and recruit you away. That's. That's just the name of the game.

[Wilmer Valderrama]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

Right? Very cool. In every place she's had success.

[Eddie Judge]

So here's, here's the biggest question. How in the world did you meet her? How did you guys meet?

[Keely Watson]

Yep. So I love the story because it's one of those that you don't hear that often. Right. It's kind of like a dream. Weren't like talking online or anything, but we did talk a little bit about it on the show and I met her through my nephew. Okay, so Bozma, you know, that's how you pronounce the name for everybody out there. Some people say boss or Bozma, but it's Bozma Bozeman.

[Eddie Judge]

Okay.

[Keely Watson]

Yep. And so my nephew, he's married to a very well known artist. As in like she. Her genre is art, like canvas, like that type of work. Right.

[Eddie Judge]

Wow.

[Keely Watson]

And so Bose is an art collector and she was online googling certain types of. A certain type of art piece that she was looking for and she happened to come across Harmonia Rosales, that's my nephew's wife. And so she fell in love with her work, got in contact with my nephew, like, hey, how do I become a collector? And so that being the case, my nephew just happened to say, well, we actually have a show that will be showcasing her artwork at. It's down in Atlanta. You know, you can come down to Atlanta if you want to. And so she packed up, flew down to Atlanta and got a chance to be in Harmonia, got a chance to meet my nephew. And here I am on the west coast. So I'm just doing my thing, you know, thinking work, business, everything else. And you know, I'm scrolling Instagram one night and my nephew, he posted, you know, some. A nice carousel of pics from the event that night. And I'm scrolling through and I see this, you know, woman in a red dress. I'm like, oh man, like she's bad. And you know, so I messaged my nephew. Who's that?

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Nephew?

[Keely Watson]

Yeah, you know, just met her, you know, she's a fan of Harmony as Work and I had no idea who she was when I messaged her, you know, I'm just thinking like, okay. So he told me, super cool, right? She's very cool and everything else. And with her being in Atlanta, I automatically figured she lived there. And I know long distance relationships typically don't work out, so I just said okay. Didn't think much of it.

[Special Agent Bradley Hall]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

And so my nephew and his wife ended up having an intimate event at their place right up here in Woodland Hills where it was a pre collection release, you know, just kind of like something or showcase just to kind of introduce her next collection. Talk a little bit about her book that she was writing. And with that being the case, you know, she was going to be there. So she and her Friends ended up showing there. They invited her to that event. And again, I live in San Diego, so I had no idea this was really about to happen. And so my nephew, he approaches her because when she was at the event, she was actually there with the guy. So she thought, I mean, my nephew thought that maybe it was, you know, somebody that they were kind of talking, dating possibly. And he said, you know, the energy just seemed off. It didn't seem like they were together together. And so, long story short, we're gonna fast forward. He essentially pulled her aside. He was like, so, boss, tell me, like, what's up? Like, you dating anybody? What's the deal? You know, I saw his somebody down in Atlanta and she said, why? You got somebody for me? He was like, maybe. And she said, why? She said, of course. Who? And then that's when he said, my uncle. And she was like, do I look like I date uncle? Because my nephew, he's 38 now. So you think, okay, Uncle 65, somewhere in there, you know, the guy with the matching suit, the shoes, that kind of thing. And so her girls were like, well, wait a minute, wait a minute, let's hear about this uncle. So they pulled up my Instagram. It was about five or six of them. His wife co signed for me as well as her friends because I had met all of them before. They're like, no, no, no, no, no. You want to meet this uncle, right?

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

So, you know, they were having a whole bowling committee just going through my Instagram, looking at it, saw that I traveled, look it up. I mean, Tina Knowles was there, Justina was there. So I mean, there were some, some, some good people there, you know?

[Eddie Judge]

Yeah.

[Keely Watson]

And they're looking at my Instagram. They all voted yes. And so it was kind of like, yeah, let's, let's go ahead and connect. So my nephew put it, put us on a three way text message and we started talking that way. And then I took it over from there. It was, I. We still got the text message and we have what's called a text bursary. You know, my latest response, you know, I forgot about it. But my lady and she's like, hey, this is the second anniversary of when we first met, you know, kind of thing. So it's the three of us on a, on a text message. Shane. And so we have a text bursary.

[Edwin Arroyave]

That's cool.

[Eddie Judge]

Our conversation about Bose is just getting started. Stay tuned to part two of Kelly's interview on the Ed.

[Keely Watson]

This is an Iheart podcast. Guaranteed human.