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The Cathy Heller Podcast with Cathy Heller

Alli Webb Shares The Messy Truth of How She Sold Her Business for Millions but Almost Lost Herself

The Cathy Heller Podcast with Cathy Heller

Cathy Heller | QCODE

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.97.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

How can you embrace the messiness of the human experience? Alli Webb, founder of Drybar, serial entrepreneur, NYT bestselling author, and business advisor returns to discuss the journey documented in her new book, The Messy Truth, which involves selling her business, going through divorce and her son's addiction, spiraling into depression, and piecing her life back together again. She shares how to navigate the wild pendulum of good days and bad days, how to stop seeking external validation, why it's okay to admit you don't have all the answers, how to have the courage to speak your truth, and how to wake up from being on autopilot so you don't miss the important things in life. - Join Cathy's Quilt Membership cathyheller.com/quilt - Get Alli's book, The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself https://www.alliwebb.com/ - Follow Alli on Instagram @alliwebb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

I used to always say like it's not personal, it's business where I don't feel like that at all anymore.

0:04.4

I've learned that they are so connected and we take our shit with us wherever we go.

0:10.6

And to own that and to tell people that and to be really transparent about that is just such a better way to live. In our imagination, anything is possible, this is our imagination.

0:37.5

Hi guys, it's Kathy Heller.

0:38.6

Welcome back to the Kathy Heller podcast.

0:41.0

Today is a great conversation with Ali Webb. It's so vulnerable. She really

0:46.4

shares all the hard stuff and the beautiful stuff and the breakthroughs and the

0:51.6

challenges that she's gone through over the last few years.

0:55.6

You guys probably all know her because she created Drybar.

0:58.8

So I'm really just so proud that she was willing to have this kind of a conversation. I think it's so important

1:04.5

that these conversations about what's really going on in people's lives that we have these

1:09.2

conversations. So we're going to dive into that. Speaking of real conversations, if you want to join me every week in the quilt, we meet once a week and there are so many added yummy bonuses coming for members of the quilt and it's a time for us to come together in real

1:27.0

honest connection. We meditate, there's coaching, there's time for hot seats, it's a time for sisterhood and the women who are in there are really

1:36.9

really connecting in such a beautiful way being such a celebration for each other, a witness for each other as we go through these journeys together.

1:45.0

And I'd love to see you in there. If you want to join us, go to Kathy Heller.com slash quilt and be a part of it.

1:51.0

So as I said, today's conversation is really amazing. You probably all

1:55.9

know Ali Webb because she founded Dry Bar. She's also the co-founder of Squee's

2:00.8

Brightside Beckett and Quill canopy and she's a New York Times best-selling

2:05.2

author, and she's also a business advisor.

2:07.9

We had her on the show a few times before, and she was talking about how she grew the dry bar,

2:12.3

and now she's back because her new book just came out this week and it's called The Messy Truth, how I sold my business for millions, but almost lost myself.

2:20.0

And in the book, Ali shares her story of reinventing her personal and professional life,

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