Rachel Hollis
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first heard May 2025
last heard 6 Jun
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He said, if they came in for an interview and you knew everything about them that you've just experienced over the last time, would you hire this person again today? And if the answer is no, you need to fire them immediately. And I was like, whoa. And that became such an...
Right, it became such an incredible question, like with friendships or with commitments that I had or with relationships with people where I was like, wait a minute, am I in this relationship with my friend from high school? We have totally different lives and I feel like I kind of become the worst version of myself when I'm with them. Would I sign up for again today? No way.
So why am I still showing up for this relationship? And I'm like, oh, because I'm pot committed. Like, I feel like I've given so much time, I've given so much effort, or I don't want to be the bad guy. And so I stay inside of things I shouldn't be inside of. And I don't know if you've ever heard that quote, it's not the employee you hire that destroys your business. It's the one you won't fire.
And that as a question for me to keep asking, like, would you sign up for this again? Would you hire them again? Would you go on a second date? And I say this again and again in the book, you don't need to make a decision based on the new information you have. If you're like, yep, I wouldn't hire Robert again today. You don't have to do anything.
You might not yet have the courage to do what needs to be done, but just knowing that information is empowering. It changes the way you approach the relationship. It changes maybe how you give them direction, maybe a little fire in your belly. You're like, dang, this costs me a lot of money and I'm not leading well. Dave Ramsey says to be unclear is to be unkind.
I'm not being clear with this employee. Just having the information is empowering. So I looked at times in my life where I'd been given a question that really helped me. And then I tried to share them in the chapters of the book.
We have to be careful, I think, as entrepreneurs, because entrepreneurs, even if we get stuff done, if we knock it out of the park, we do it. We're also dreamers. In our heart of hearts, we're dreamers and we can envision big things and we can imagine big things and that is so powerful. It's also super dangerous. I say dangerous because we'll meet someone.
We desperately need to hire a marketing manager and we meet someone and they're a marketing manager and they're like... sort of good and you really need help. And so you're like, you can envision in your head what Becky's going to be. And you make up this whole fantasy about how great Becky's going to be and how it's going to clear a bunch of time in your day.
And really that had nothing to do with this employee and who they are. You just made it up in your own mind. So continuing to ask yourself again and again, would I sign up? It's also, if someone's listening to this and they're an employee, Let's say you have a side hustle, you're dreaming about starting your own thing.
If you wouldn't sign up for this job again, if you're like, this job is the worst, I hate this, I don't want to be here. What are you doing? There are a lot of ways to pay your rent. There are a lot of ways to make money. And life is too freaking short to be miserable.
So if you wouldn't sign up for this job again, again, you don't have to make a change today, but you definitely have some information now that should affect the way you are living your life. Maybe you start to be on the lookout or maybe you need to increase the side hustle so that you can have more income.
Everything that I do, the podcast or the books or even the website has always been about this idea that we get one shot to do this life. One, you get one time, one journey through this. And I just think we have to do everything in our power to enjoy the experience, to live the best that we can and to stretch into our full potential. And if you are miserable in your day job,
I don't know how much you're gonna be able to show up for the people in your life that you love. I don't know how much you're gonna enjoy your weekends. I don't know that you're giving the full energy and full capacity to the dream that you're trying to build. Because if all of your vibration is being lowered, going into the nine to five all week long,
that's going to affect what you're able to do in the off hours. It's going to affect the side hustle.
So if you could pay your bills in a different way, if you could maybe have a job that doesn't require quite so much, and maybe it's not as exciting, but like we're paying rent and we can like fully put our heart and soul because we have the energy and a higher vibration to put into the dream, I think you'd be shocked at what would happen.
There's a fantastic book that everybody should read. Honestly, everybody in your audience. It's very small, super easy to get through. It's The Dip by Seth Godin. It's so fantastic. If you find yourself in a season of, do I really want to do this? Should I keep going? Should I stay in this? Should I go?
He gives this beautiful quote, which I reference in this book, is the opposite of quitting is not to continue to do the same thing. The opposite of quitting is recommitting with passion. So people find themselves and they're like, should I quit or should I keep going?
But if you decide not to quit, the way that you come back and you add life to that and power to that is you're like, not only am I going to keep doing this thing because I believe in my dream and I believe in my company, I'm going to show up, but you recommit with passion. You're like, I'm all in. You get fired up. You remember your why. You show up for what you're trying to do.
Because otherwise, you're going to be in the exact same spot questioning the exact same thing again next year.
Because I think that the world teaches us that the answer to everything we're looking for is to add more things. The world's like, add a new house, get a new car, get a bigger job, make more money. And the older I get, the more I understand that the clarity and the sense of purpose and the real true impact of our work happens when we start to strip things away, not when we add to them.
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