Rachel Hollis

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279 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard May 2025 last heard 6 Jun

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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast · Rachel Hollis: Reinvent Yourself After Failure and Build a Business That Lasts | Entrepreneurship | E350 · 12 May 2025 podcast

So, you know, if you have people in your community who are working on side hustles and Same with my peeps and whether it's at a book tour or maybe they call in to ask a question on the podcast, I will inevitably have people who are like, I really want to build my own company. I'm like, that's amazing. Tell me about it.

And they're like, well, so I am a dog groomer, but also I am a wedding photographer. And also I bake cupcakes and also, and I'm like, yeah, no, you got to pick one. You have to pick one thing. I don't think that with all the responsibilities we have in this life that we can successfully try and build 10 completely different businesses at the same time.

So this idea of what must you let go of, I ask myself at least once a month, and I encourage everybody to do this. to ask in order to be the best version of myself, what do I need to lose? What should not be here?

Whether that's excuses, whether that's a habit, whether that's something you currently consume, whether that's, you know what, I need to stop trying to do 50 things and just go all in on one. What do you need to let go of is really powerful. It's like, girl, we are not asking you to add one more thing to your life. We're asking you to stop signing up for the class bake sale.

Stop signing up to throw your cousin's baby shower. Stop saying yes to things you don't really want to do so that you can have as much time as possible to work on yourself or work on your dreams.

Yeah, there's a fantastic author named Bob Goff. He's really like everyone's favorite grandpa, very, very wise. And he says he quits something every Thursday. He's like, Rach, I quit something every Thursday. Him and his assistant ask each other, what are you quitting today? I'm like, that is a lot of quitting. He's like, I know, but it really works. So they'll come up with these little habits.

It's more just like creating the intention of asking what should not be here. Especially if you built a business from the ground up It's amazing because it means you know how to do every part of your business. It's also so dangerous because you know how to do every part of your business. So it's so easy to be like, I can do that. I can figure that out. I'll write that. I'll post that.

I'll do the thing. And it's not the best use of your time. What are the things that only you can do and only you should be doing? And if you teach yourself to ask what shouldn't be here, like if you brain dump, you take all the stuff that's in your head right now, write it down in a journal. You're like, I got to do all this stuff.

The first thing to do is look at the brain dump and ask, what is not mine? What can I just absolutely delete? What can I delegate? And then once you've cleared that out of the way, you're like, okay, done. These six things, that's what I actually need to do. And I need to be better about pushing off the other stuff that should not be on my agenda.

I'm sure you've read it, but Traction and Rocket Fuel are both such incredible books every entrepreneur needs to read.

But the idea of having someone who can integrate your vision for you instead of you doing every single thing in the business to have someone who comes in operationally so that you can be the visionary and be the person who's imagining like where you're going to go and what you're going to do. It's really hard to teach ourselves because we're like, it's just faster if I do it.

But what we accidentally do is also then teach our teams to function that way. So then you have someone who's your marketing head who's posting on social because they're like, well, I can just do it. But then they're not able to function at their highest level and give you the results that you're paying them for.

So it's not just important that we lead ourselves, but it's also the reminder that how you function in your role, your team is watching you to understand how they're supposed to function in their role.

So the big thing that is actually little is just asking yourself, are you giving way too much power and way too much energy to something that's really, truly not that big a deal? For instance, if we're speaking in terms of entrepreneurship, are you currently doing something and putting so much emphasis and so much time around this piece and

And it actually isn't giving you the results that you think it is, or it's actually not that huge of a deal, but you're just so in the cycle, you can't step out of it. Or the example I use in the book is so silly, but going to concerts or vacations or traveling by myself is so normal that

But I know a lot of women that that would be their worst nightmare to go to a concert alone or go on a vacation alone. They're like, I'd love to travel, but I don't have anyone to go with. And I'm like, well, if you can afford it, then go on the trip. Like, oh my God, I could never. And I'm like, okay, well, you're making a mountain out of a molehill. This is actually not that big a deal.

I was on a podcast tour a couple of years ago and I would ask the audience, what's a crazy thing you've always wanted to do, but you tell yourself that's for other people. I'm not that kind of a girl. That's for other people. And the overwhelming response was get a tattoo. And I was like, girl, literally you could leave here tonight and go to a tattoo parlor and get like a dot.

It doesn't have to be a big deal. And then all of a sudden, between one breath and the next, you are a person who has tattoos. You've done it. You've actually changed the way that you see yourself.

So you have to be really careful in life that these things that have become really big tent poles or really big belief systems, every once in a while you need to like shake things up and ask, why do I believe that? Why am I so scared of this? Why do I keep doing the same thing? So what big thing is actually little?

And then what little thing is actually big is really a call to understand how powerful we are as individual people. I don't care who you are listening to this, where this finds you today. I don't care how lost you feel or stuck you feel. You are powerful beyond measure. You have so much capability. You have so much potential. There's that great quote, which I'm going to mess up.

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