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Rachel Hollis

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Get A Copy of "Smart Girl" on Amazon! - https://a.co/d/gJR2hIh To finish off July Book Club we are ending with Rachel's novel "Smart Girl". Brilliant designer Miko Jin is a bookworm (just like all of you at the end of this month) and with novels as her guide, and her best friends by her side, she is hoping to fan the flame of love with dreamy Liam Ashton. But Will Miko get her own happy ending? Will she find the strength to stand up for what she deserves…even if it means breaking her own heart?We hope you’ve had a great summer and we can’t wait to dive back into conversation next week! 00:34 The Girls Series: An Overview 01:25 Miko's Story: The Most Talented Girl 03:30 Research and Realism in Fiction Writing 04:44 Smart Girl: A Love Letter to Book Nerds 05:32 Chapter Three: Miko's Plan Unfolds 08:00 Cassidy's Reluctance and Miko's Determination 16:23 Landon Joins the Scheme 27:06 Miko's Awkward Encounter with Liam 38:42 Playful Banter and Deflection 39:35 Diving into Liam's Background 41:23 Tension and Confessions 42:49 A Complicated Relationship 47:07 Event Planning Challenges 57:58 Unexpected Illness 01:11:31 A Hilarious Debrief Get the Start Today Journal - https://starttoday.com/products/start-today-journal Have a question you want Rach to answer? An idea for a podcast episode?? Call the podcast hotline and leave a voicemail! Call (737) 400-4626 Sign up for Rachel’s weekly email: https://msrachelhollis.com/insider/ Watch the podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RachelHollisMotivation/videos Follow along on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MsRachelHollis/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Rachel, and in this show, we talk about everything. Life and work, health and healing, relationships with others and with ourselves.
0:14.9	These are stories for the seekers.
0:17.8	These are conversations for the curious.
0:21.3	This is the Rachel Hollis podcast.
0:24.0	Hi guys, it's Rake.
0:29.0	Hi guys, it's Rake.
0:30.0	Welcome to a new episode of the show and the last book in the girls series.
0:37.0	Hopefully you listen last week and earlier this week I have been sharing chapters from my fiction series.
0:44.3	It's called the girls series.
0:46.2	There's party girl, sweet girl, and then smart girl,
0:49.9	which is where we find ourselves today.
0:53.0	Each of these were stories about young women
0:56.7	living in Los Angeles trying to start careers.
1:00.6	And I absolutely loved this idea because I was that woman and I know many of you were those people too.
1:08.0	Like you moved to a new city and you tried to build a new life in your early 20s and maybe that went well and maybe it was
1:15.4	super hard and I just think it's such a cool time to write about because there's so much possibility
1:21.6	and a certain amount of anxiety and most of us
1:24.6	have been through it.
1:25.8	So that was the impetus for this idea and I knew if I was going to take on the last character, Miko, and give her her own book.
1:35.0	I really had to allow her to build her own career as well.
1:39.0	And I think of all the girls in the series,
1:42.0	I feel like I'm a mom like talking about my kids so this feels
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