877: LIFE UPDATE | We Moved into a FULL Construction Zone

The Rachel Hollis Podcast

Rachel Hollis

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4.6 • 16.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Rachel Hollis Podcast, Rach shares an in-depth update on her current life events, including the challenges of remodeling a nearly 100-year-old home in LA. Rach also highlights the logistics of managing a home remodel while balancing family life and work commitments. Despite the setbacks, she emphasizes the importance of prioritizing family and maintaining an optimistic outlook. Shot and recorded in the back of her car! Get your copy of Rachel's New Book Here: Audible, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Millon, Bookshop.org, or wherever books are sold! 01:03 Podcasting from the Car 01:53 The Fixer Upper Adventure Begins 03:31 House Hunting and Zillow Dreams 07:26 The Offer and Renovation Plans 10:27 Contractor Woes and Delays 18:08 Dealing with Unreliable Contractors 18:45 Ke's Strongly Worded Email 19:57 Discovering the Project Manager 20:57 Becoming Our Own Contractors 22:00 Jackson Steps Up 23:12 Navigating Construction Chaos 23:47 Thumbtack to the Rescue 24:51 Painting and Priming Challenges 25:57 New Office and Future Plans 30:05 Balancing Family and Business 36:37 Looking Ahead to New Podcast Format Sign up for Rachel’s weekly email: https://msrachelhollis.com/insider/ Call the podcast hotline and leave a voicemail! Call (737) 400-4626 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	Hey guys, it's Rach. Welcome to the show. I'm so glad that you're here with us today. And I have a
0:10.9	favor, which sounds kind of harsh if we just met, but I'm assuming that most of you have been a part of
0:16.8	this community for a hot minute. And so I got to ask, are you subscribed to the podcast?
0:23.0	Subscribing to the podcast you listen to regularly is one of the best things that you can do
0:27.9	for hosts like me. It helps to support the show and the staff that works on it. It ensures that you
0:33.9	never miss an episode when we drop a new one. And here's a cool thing about
0:38.4	subscribing. If you do it, and then you hate this show, just unsubscribe. It's one click away.
0:44.7	In the meantime, if you're listening, we would so appreciate it if you would just tap that
0:49.4	button and make it official.
1:03.0	Thank you. and make it official. Okay, here we are.
1:05.8	Here we are, and we are doing a podcast, not just in my car, but in the back seat of my car. The front seat,
1:14.3	there's too much sunlight. I don't want to get some video footage for Jack. And I guess that's
1:19.5	not the most important thing. The most important thing is why are, why am I in the back seat of my car?
1:24.9	Life is wild right now. Even for me, if you've been with me for a while,
1:29.9	you know, tend to, tend to encounter some drama sometimes in life, but this, this is, this is a new
1:37.7	level. I feel weirdly calm. Maybe I'm getting way too comfortable with chaos. Maybe I'm getting really good at grounding
1:46.5	myself. I don't know. But let me tell you what's going on in life right now. Where do we begin?
1:53.5	Months ago, we bought a house. My husband and I bought a house that is a fixer-upper, and we knew that. We knew going in.
2:05.7	She's a fixer-upper. She's going to need a lot of work, but she has so much potential, and she's
2:12.9	in a neighborhood we wanted to be in with the kids, and we just loved everything about it,
2:17.3	but we knew it was going to be a lot of work. And to be totally with the kids and we just loved everything about it, but we knew it was
2:17.9	going to be a lot of work. And to be totally fair, I definitely led out on the whole let's get
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