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.

A couple of years ago, the team here at Hollisco started to dream.

We started to ask ourselves if there was a solution to the question that we got most often from our community.

The question was from attendees of my personal growth conferences or my business conference. People would come and they would feel so inspired and they'd take all these notes and they'd meet these cool people and they'd be in community and then they would go back to their very real lives and struggle to keep them momentum.

And struggles feel connected and the thing is I know exactly what that feels like because I've experienced that many times in my life.

And honestly, when people begin to ask, I started creating inside the programming tips and tricks and things that they might be able to take home with them.

In fact, if you've come to a Rise conference then you've probably had me counsel you on the things that you're going to need to stay in that momentum once you get back home.

I thought that was the only solution because I honestly couldn't come up with another way. Like you can't sort of carry me around in your pocket. You can't have a son, the DJ playing your favorite music. You can't have beans.

You know, guiding you in a meditation or sharing her wisdom. I didn't know how to give that to you outside of a live event. And then we had an idea.

Was there a way that we could create an app? And if we created an app, what would it be? And how in the world would we even afford that? And who knows how to make an app? And what would we do?

And we started asking all of these questions, which I think if you're listening to this, there's a good chance that you're a dreamer too.

And that you have something on your heart that you believe that you are called to more. And all of my biggest successes in life, and yes, some of my failures, have started with this process of just asking myself all kinds of questions.

What if? What if this? What if that?

And we started to wrap around the elements that are so core to our events or to our community and project rise app started.

And it was a very long process to get from there to here. On Monday of this week, we launched the rise app. And when I looked this morning, we had over 20,000 members of our community inside.

Doing workouts, taking meditations, going on a gratitude walk with Stacy Flowers, going on a hike with Trent Shelton, doing workouts with me, doing workouts with Chris Chandler.

It is so amazing to see the community already start to take it and run.

I was actually taking this opportunity and to have been able to help tell people what their applications and effectiveness is.

So the dozen communities were able to really take on the assignment plus just because we knew we wanted them.

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