Today on the Rise Podcast, it's my pleasure to bring you another chapter from the audiobook

of Girl Stop Apologizing. In this chapter, I wanted to talk about leadership, because here's

the thing, whether you are a CEO or a stay at home mom, you are leading in your own way.

And it is imperative that you step into that calling on your life and show up for it well.

So I wanted to have a conversation about how I've grown as a leader and how you can show up in

your community as a strong, bold, courageous woman who is ready to shine the light so that others

can walk down the path behind her. Welcome to the Rise Podcast. I'm Rachel Hollis and I've

built a multi-million dollar media company with a high spilt diploma and a Google search bar.

Each week will be sharing tangible direct advice or inspiring interviews with the same intention.

These are the tools to change your life.

Skill 6. Lead her ship. In sixth grade, I took a picture inside a T.P. It was Girl Scout camp circa

1995 and I still have the photo in an album covered with peace sign stickers and multiple artistic

renderings of the STUCES. In the photo, I'm dressed as a young Native American girl as a

Imagine by a young and ignorant white girl. Brown, tie dye and knock off Timberlands aren't a part

of any tribal dress that I'm familiar with, but my 12 year old self felt beyond cool to sit beneath

that mock T.P. for a solo picture donated by the local Olin Mills. Cultural appropriation aside,

that particular Girl Scout experience sticks out in my mind for two reasons. One, because we made

scrambled eggs by boiling them inside Ziploc bags. Since I have never been a camper, these sorts of

wilderness skills still seem highly impressive. And two, my best friend Amanda and I made up an

entire dance routine to attend a draw song and taught it to the whole squad. The song was in the

inout law, I mean obviously, and it involved choreograph steps and moving into more than one

formation. The dance was originally something we did during a break as a way to fight boredom,

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