I didn't look back.

Is that a life philosophy of yours?

Yes.

Yeah.

Don't look down and don't look back.

You have to stay focused.

And it's the only way to keep your equilibrium

Literally yeah, and I was excited that there was a possibility

Even if it was just a possibility. I grabbed onto that possibility, you know, like, okay, there's hope. Hope is such a gift.

So I'm thinking, I wasn't worried about what I lost.

I was focusing on what the potential was. Hi, I'm Rachel, and in this show, we talk about everything.

Life and work, health and healing, relationships with others and with ourselves.

These are stories for the seekers.

These are conversations for the curious.

This is the Rachel Hollis Podcast. So the one thing that I thought coming in I was on a walk this morning. I was like,

holy crap, this is amazing. What would you ask if you could ask anything?

I'm really intrigued about what it felt like to become a mother

before you made that choice for yourself.

Because so much of your career having watched the documentary

seems like it was launched from the impetus to have to take care of your siblings

so what was that experience like and then maybe how did it shape the mother that you became?

We'll just start somewhere light.

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