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 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.

Chapter 4 The Lie I'm Better Than You

I feel the need to confess. I shave my toes. I totally do. Sometimes, not all the time,

mind you, I look down in the shower and see my big toes sprouting locks long enough to

braid. It's embarrassing, sure, but a quick swipe of my razor returns my toenuckles to

their usual silky smooth glory. None of this would be such an epic admission for me to make,

except that I once made fun of a girl in freshman year English class for doing this exact thing.

Borg! I feel like such a jerk even now 150 years later. Friends, let me paint a quick picture

of myself in high school. I was a solid 20 pounds heavier. I wore clothes from the Goodwill,

and I was the president of the drama club. I wasn't someone who teased others. I was someone

who got teased. But there was that one instance when I did tease, the one and only time in my

memory that I actively made fun of someone else. Maybe that's why it sticks out in my brain.

Maybe that's why it still feels so shameful. We'll call this girl, Shmina. Her actual name is

Tina, but I'm trying to write in code here. Shmina was the girl who always seemed totally confident in

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