I'm Rachel Hollis and I've built a multi-million dollar media company with a high school diploma and the free information I found on the internet.

In the 15 years that I've been building and scaling my company, I have become deeply passionate about helping other entrepreneurs to do the same.

So, each week I'll be sharing tangible and tactical advice and inspiring interviews with the same intention.

These are the tools to change your life and your business. This is the Rise Podcast.

Guys, I have asked our leadership team to speak to you. Some of them you will recognize from our dance squad. They feel very comfortable on this stage.

Some of them are sweating, they're flop-swetting right now backstage. So, I need you to give a rockess loud all your love support to the Hoco Leadership Team.

Give it up!

Let's go ahead and sit down guys. I want to make you all jump and jump in down but I won't because you're wearing heels and I'm a nice person.

The best is that these people have been in t-shirts and sweating and denim. Brad has sweat through like 17 shirts right?

And then also I saw him in the hallway and I'm like what happened? We leveled up. Okay.

So, can we go through, you guys have in your workbooks if you're wondering what they do, what their history, you can read their resume.

We want to jump right into the conversation so that we can add the most value. So, I'll just tell you really quick, this is Dave.

Hey!

Kristin is our CFO, Brad is our head of business development, RC, whose actual name is Rachel but when I hired her I said there can only be one of us.

So, we changed her name to RC, that sounds like Devil Wars product. So, she's our head of product and D is the head of the start today brand.

So, also running the merch booth, running the thing in the back, leading out on the D.Va's also the cruise director on the Lido deck, also checking people in, also the world's greatest MC. Am I right?

Hello.

Okay. So, we know I'm obsessed with finance right and so I want to start with our CFO, who's just tickled pink to have to be on this day right now.

So, what I think is really interesting about having Kristin join our team is that as soon as Dave and I started working together, every day he was like we need a bad S-C-F-O.

We need a bad S-C-F-O, we need a bad S-C-F-O, we need a C-F-O. And I had only ever really had a countenance and then we had a director of accounting and then we had like a, I don't even know like an accounting coordinator.

So, we had this team and I was like what? I mean, they make sure we don't get audited. Like, why do we need? I can see my thing, I know how much money we have and Dave kept trying to explain to me that you need this person to help you.

Like, you need to know how I describe the relationship is. I go on gut. I go on gut. The dreams are based on gut. I know you really well, I go on gut.

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