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Shameless Leadership

98: Holly Joi Rigsby: Finding Everyday Joi

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Management, How To, Self-improvement, Education, Business

4.7801 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Holly Rigsby is a Lifestyle Design Coach for Moms over at HollyJoiRigsby.com. Over the past 11 years Holly has coached over 29,500 women to become the best version of themselves through her programs and products. Holly also has two sons, Tyler and Alexander, who inspire her to live in joy (JOI) everyday.    In this interview, Holly openly and bravely shares how she has found herself at different times in her life unable to find the joy she knew she wanted. Holly has always worked in service to others – as a teacher, a personal trainer, an online fitness expert to moms, and a mom. Serving others is extremely rewarding, but it can come at the expense of creating joy for one’s self at times.    When Holly looks back at her boldest moves in life – to leave her first husband when her son was still very young, to change careers, to make a dramatic shift in her business, she can identify that she makes a move when she is searching for a new level of joy. This is the inspiration for her most recent professional move, the launching of her Lifestyle Design Coaching programs and creation of her new Everyday Joi community.    Listen in to hear Holly share: How she has become a sought after leader, even though she never identified as one Why leaving her first husband was an imperative step in finding true joy in all areas of her life How she built a powerful online community for women to “walk side-by-side, encouraging each other” to reach their goals How the traumatic loss of her sister inspired her to make a bold professional change Why the pursuit and acknowledgment of Everyday Joi is essential   Links Mentioned: Holly’s Website: http://hollyjoirigsby.com/ Holly on Facebook   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 98, with Holly Joy Rigsby.

0:05.6

Show notes for this episode can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 98.

0:15.2

Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you and other

0:20.5

passionate, dedicated

0:21.6

moms the tools you need to bridge the gap between motherhood and living the life of your dreams.

0:26.6

I'm also here to help you be a little more shameless every day, because if you aren't building

0:31.1

a life you're extraordinarily proud of, what kind of legacy are you building? So let's dive in.

0:36.6

Holly Rigsby is a lifestyle design coach for

0:41.2

moms and the owner of hollyjoyrigsby.com. Over the past 11 years, Holly has coached over 29,500

0:48.7

women to become the best version of themselves through her programs and products. Holly has co-authored three

0:55.1

best-selling books and contributed to popular media outlets like Women's Health, USA Today, and Shape

1:00.5

magazine. And she is the creator of Fit Yummy Mummy, the top selling fat loss program for busy moms.

1:06.6

So I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Holly is someone I've long admired.

1:15.3

And when I first sat down to put together a list of who I wanted to interview for this podcast, it was over a year ago now.

1:17.9

I just started brainstorming a list and people who would come to mind from different areas,

1:21.6

people who I'd connected with, some of them I'd never met.

1:24.1

I made a list of a bunch of people, anyone from like one of my good friends who lives down the

1:28.4

street who's a great mom to a super famous influential person like Cheryl Sandberg. So this was a big

1:35.7

list. The number one name on the list was Holly Rigsby. And it was funny. I didn't remember that

1:41.1

before we went to do this interview. And when we finished the interview, I was like, oh my gosh, I have to go find my list and cross her off. And I went and I noticed that

1:48.3

she was the first person on my list. But that is because Holly is someone who was an inspiration to me

1:53.4

when I was getting started with my online fitness business a few years ago. And since then,

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