Rachel Hollis
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first heard May 2025
last heard 6 Jun
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So for me, really understanding the importance of that time, like I have four kids, so waking up before my kids wake up, I know it sounds so simple, but if you start your day on offense versus on defense, it makes all the difference. So waking up before anyone else in the house, having my coffee, I sit in the same spot every single day. I read nonfiction. I do a gratitude practice.
I do those things that are really paramount to what I am trying to accomplish in my life right now. But that's not something I understood I needed a long time ago. So I know that's kind of like a bigger scope, but building that morning routine around your life and your goals is the key.
Well, I would say if you don't have anything that requires you to be up early, then you should go with whatever your natural rhythms are. So if I didn't have four kids, I'm not sure what my normal rhythm would be, but I have to make sure everybody gets up and gets out the door to school.
And then there are other people listening who might have a nine to five job that they have to start a commute for. But if you don't have to, like I have a ton of friends who are entrepreneurs and they might not wake up until 11 a.m., 12 o'clock because they don't have to. And they can stay up all night and really lean into when they feel most creative.
That's why I was saying having a routine that works for you. Take a bunch of the information and do the research. Find out what works for other people. But at the end of the day, it needs to be applicable to your life or it's not going to get you the results that you want. Now, I will just...
caveat or add a little bit here, for someone who does need to be up early and they really want to have a morning routine, they want to be a morning person, but they don't feel like they are, that's a learned skill. Nobody comes into this world, nobody gives birth to a baby and the doctor looks at the baby and they're like, oh, it's an early riser. That's not a thing.
So if you want anything in life, if you want a habit that you don't currently have, you can teach yourself that habit. So if I were you, and let's say you get up every day at seven and you want to get to a place where you're part of the 5 a.m. club. Set that alarm 15 minutes earlier every single day. Let your body adjust to getting up earlier.
Make sure that you have something exciting to wake up for. Like I love coffee. So it's really easy for me to pop out of bed. Or if I have a new book that I'm reading, because I'm super nerdy, but if I have a new book that I'm reading that I feel like I'm learning a ton from, that'll get me out of bed.
Have something that you're headed right into so that you've got a reason to meet your alarm where it meets you instead of hitting the snooze.
Yeah, I don't know if this is every entrepreneur. I sort of think it is. A lot of my friends who are in the space or who are entrepreneurs, I feel like every five to seven years, there starts to be a shift. Or if there's not, I think the work begins to feel a bit stale. Especially if you're an entrepreneur, you're a risk taker, you're ambitious, you're competitive.
And so I think you're always looking around for what's happening in the market and how you might move with what's going on. So I actually started, my very first business was as an event planner. In Los Angeles, I started planning weddings and bought mitzvahs.
And then I slowly moved into getting to do corporate events, getting to work on movie premieres and press junkets and working in the entertainment industry. And then in 2007, 2008, I kept hearing about this thing called a blog. Everyone was blogging. I didn't really know what that meant. So I just started to blog.
I would literally write about what I ate for dinner last night and I just kept putting it out. And I had an intern one day that said, you know, blog's actually supposed to be about something, right? And I was like, oh, thank you. So I started to blog about events and how you could host events in your home and set a beautiful table.
And slowly but surely, I kept figuring that out and figuring it out. And then one day a brand reached out and said, posts. And I will never forget, it was Eggland's Best Eggs. And they offered me $250. And I was like, I am rich. And this is a business. And I realized that there was, I mean, now it's so common, but back then we didn't really know what we were doing.
So we just started to build a company around having a website that brands wanted to be a part of. And if we could just create content that was really, really good, that maybe people would pay to get in front of our audience. So I did that for a while, built that up to a place I was really proud of it.
And then because I was writing every day for the blog, started to dream about writing my own book. I've always been a book nerd. I've wanted to be an author since I was a little girl. And so I was like, okay, I'm just going to try this. And I published my first book in 2014. And, you know, like five people cared.
I wasn't an overnight success by any stretch of the imagination, but I just kept writing. I'd come out with a book every year. And on my sixth book, which was in 2018, I wrote a book called Girl, Wash Your Face, which unbeknownst to me or anybody else in the entire world became this runaway success. And it really launched my career in personal development.
I never, I cannot even believe that this is my career, to be honest with you, Hala. But yeah, I just tend to, I think, move at the risk of being a hippie, like move with flow and move with where I feel like I'm being guided. And then I test stuff. If it's just easy to move into it, I expand with what's going on. So my career has had a lot of different...
versions of itself, but the entrepreneurial spirit is at the core of everything. So it's one thing to be interested in a certain kind of content, but to figure out how to monetize that in a big way is the key. And I think as long as I have done it, I've kept the same customer base. So the woman who was reading my blog in 2008 is the same woman who reads my books and listens to my podcast today.
There is no such thing as an overnight success. I cannot tell you how many journalists, when I came out with Girl, Stop Apologizing, which followed Girl, Wash Your Face, were like, oh my gosh, are you so excited to have your second book out? And I was like, this is my seventh. So part of what I think happened there is something that happens a lot with athletes at the highest level.
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