Rachel Hollis on Empathy and Emotional Acceptance
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4.5 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In the first of a two-part discussion, Ryan speaks with Rachel Hollis about how her success has been defined by perseverance and acceptance, the importance of approaching work without arrogance, improving relationships by working to understand emotional boundaries, dealing with public criticism, and more. The second part of the discussion can be found at Rachel’s podcast, The Rachel Hollis Podcast.
Rachel Hollis is an author, podcast host, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, blogger, and mother of four. Two of her three self-help books, Girl, Wash Your Face and Girl, Stop Apologizing, have become massive worldwide bestsellers, and The Rachel Hollis Podcast inspires a wide listenership with interviews and self-help oriented content. Rachel also founded and grew her own media company, The Hollis Company, which produces books, podcasts, movies, social and live events and physical products. Her work can be found at her website msrachelhollis.com.
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| 0:13.4 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a |
| 0:18.6 | Meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics a short |
| 0:22.3 | Passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life |
| 0:28.8 | And on Wednesdays we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy well-known and obscure |
| 0:36.1 | Fascinating and powerful with them |
| 0:38.4 | We discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom |
| 0:45.9 | In their actual lives, but first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors |
| 0:58.5 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. I |
| 1:08.0 | Got an email a few weeks ago from someone whose work I was familiar with. I'm familiar with the work because they were work as old millions and millions and millions and millions of copies |
| 1:19.6 | Um, I'm familiar with her because she lives in Austin and |
| 1:23.8 | and |
| 1:25.1 | We |
| 1:26.0 | We had never chatted before but I had talked to her ex-husband |
| 1:31.8 | before he'd asked me to blur one of his books and |
| 1:36.4 | They lived out in the hill country which is not far, but I'm a bit of a homebody |
| 1:41.6 | So I'd never ventured out there and she sent me a nice note about how she'd read the obstacles the way |
| 1:47.0 | And it had been very helpful to her and it was just a very nice note and she said hey |
| 1:51.7 | Would you want to come do the podcast sometime and I said you know what let me think about it. I'm just been doing a lot of |
| 1:56.8 | indivisely and |
| 1:59.3 | Not sure I had the bandwidth and then I saw in the news that her ex-husband had just |
| 2:06.8 | suddenly died |
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