Welcome to the Dias Podcast. My name is Rachel Hollis and I've built a multi-million-dollar

media company with a high school diploma and a Google search bar. Each week we'll share

direct, tangible advice or inspiring interviews with the same intention. These are the tools

to change your life. To celebrate the launch of Girl Wash Your Face, I'm giving all of

our Dias listeners the first three chapters of the audiobook for free. My hope is that

by sharing my honest stories as a working mother, former foster parent and a woman who has

had all kinds of insecurities that it will spur other women to live with passion and take

ownership of their own lives. Enjoy this gift of the first three chapters and if you want

to hear the rest, all narrated by me, order Girl Wash Your Face on Audio wherever books

are sold.

To. Number of times I've declared, from here on out, I'm going to walk a mile every morning

before work and then never made it past the third day, infinity. I had this habit for years

as many women do. We talk about the things we'd like to do, be, try and accomplish, but

once we get to the moment of actually doing it, we fold faster than a card table after

a bunco night. Maybe we've created this habit because we were brought up observing this

pattern. Magazines and TV shows spend a lot of time focusing on what to do when we fall

off the wagon, rather than teaching us how to stay on it in the first place. Life happens

and the plans we make fall through. But when it becomes such a regular occurrence that

the promises we make hold very little actual power in our lives, we need to check ourselves.

A few months ago I was out to dinner with my closest girlfriends. It was an in-prom-to-happy

hour that turned into an in-prom-to dinner and ended up going later than any of us anticipated.

I got home after the kids were in bed and Dave was already deep into a game of Majorly

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