920 | Stop Giving Your Power Away: 5 Steps to Become the Hero of Your Story

The Rachel Hollis Podcast

Rachel Hollis

How To, Society & Culture, Personal Development, Personal Growth, Relationships, Health And Wellness, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Get your copy of Rachel's New Book Here: Audible, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Millon, Bookshop.org, or wherever books are sold! In this episode, Rachel Hollis encourages listeners to stop giving away their power and start acting as the heroes of their own life stories. Rachel provides actionable steps to reclaim power, such as identifying energy-draining interactions, understanding personal authority, changing negative self-narratives, and taking agency through small daily actions. 00:42 Introduction to the Show 01:11 Defining the Hero's Journey 04:11 Personal Stories of Empowerment 08:59 The Importance of Female Role Models 16:34 Taking Your Power Back 20:10 Identifying Energy Drains 25:28 Setting the Scene: Personal Empowerment 26:35 Step One: Awareness 27:10 Step Two: Authority 34:43 Step Three: Changing the Narrative 39:30 Step Four: Agency and Ownership 44:05 Conclusion: Embrace Your Hero's Journey 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: http://youtube.com/@MsRachelHollis 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	You don't need more confidence.
0:03.0	You don't need to keep starting over.
0:05.0	You don't need to fix yourself.
0:08.0	What you need is to stop giving your power away.
0:12.0	It's time to start acting like the hero of your own life story.
0:17.0	You don't need more confidence.
0:20.0	In fact, you don't need to fix yourself. You don't need
0:22.5	to start over again and again. What you need is to understand that you are the hero of your
0:29.5	own life story. You need to stop giving your power away and start designing a life of your own
0:36.4	creation.
0:48.8	Hey guys, I'm Rachel Hollis, and this is the show where we talk about life, real life.
0:56.9	Around here, we cover everything, from habits and motivation to relationships, parenting, and what it looks like to build a life that you love.
1:00.2	If you're trying to grow, heal, or just feel a little bit more like yourself, you're in the
1:06.2	right place.
1:18.2	Okay, let's talk about what a hero is. Let's start right there at the top because I think that it's easy to see the title of a podcast like today and think that it's asking you to be someone
1:26.0	different than you actually are. So I would love to define what I mean
1:30.7	by be the hero of your own life. If you think of books or movies, you think of the hero of the story,
1:40.6	that word on the surface is like the winner, the superhero, the person who figured it out,
1:48.1	the person who solved all the problems.
1:50.7	But in every good story, the hero doesn't start out that way.
1:55.3	In fact, the hero is never awesome at the beginning, middle, and end.
2:00.4	Because as long as stories have existed,
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