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How To! with Mike Pesca

How To Put Your Wife's Career First

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Andy would do anything for his girlfriend Cassie. Well, almost anything. As Cassie looks to move away for vet school, Andy has to decide if he's going with her, leaving his job, family and friends, and two bands behind in Austin, TX. In this episode of How To!, we bring in Rachel Hollis, author of Girl, Wash Your Face and her husband Dave, author of Get Out of Your Own Way. The Hollises have a lot of experience navigating this question, because for most of their marriage, Dave's job as a Disney executive took priority—until he quit to support Rachel's career. He tells Andy the first step in making this decision is to treat it like a choice, not an obligation. 

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0:00.0

I can recognize that on some level I felt guilty because I knew it was hard for him

0:07.5

that I was having this success and anytime I would describe that to people I'd be

0:11.6

like you know he left this huge job and he gave up everything.

0:15.0

And someone finally stopped me at a much older woman like a grandma and she said,

0:19.0

why wouldn't he?

0:22.0

Why wouldn't he? Why wouldn't he?

0:25.0

Welcome to How Toe, I'm Charles Duheg.

0:28.0

Charles?

0:30.0

Hi, how you doing?

0:31.0

Good, how are you guys?

0:33.0

Living the dream, brother.

0:34.0

We have invoked your name publicly so many times.

0:37.0

I feel like Beagle Juice should jump out of these microphones.

0:41.0

This is Dave and Rachel Hollis and Dave was a successful executive at Disney for 17 years

0:47.2

where he helped put all those enormous box office hits from like Pixar and Marvel into

0:52.2

theaters around the world.

0:54.0

It didn't take a ton of work necessarily to convince a theater to take a Star Wars or Avengers.

1:00.0

But if you have heard of Rachel and Dave Hollis, it is probably not because of Dave.

1:06.4

It's because two years ago, his wife, Rachel, wrote a book called Girl Washer Face, which became

1:12.0

one of the top- selling books in the nation.

1:14.6

And then she wrote another book, Girl Stop Apologizing,

1:17.0

and that became this enormous hit too.

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