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On Purpose with Jay Shetty

Rachel Hollis ON: The Courage to Make Mistakes & How to Stay Motivated in Difficult Times

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

iHeartPodcasts

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business

4.730.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Hollis sits down with Jay Shetty to talk about loving yourself and seeing failure as success. We all need to learn to see the positive aspects of every failure in our life, to take proper care of ourselves by taking good care of our health, to sit down and process pain and grief at our own pace, and to never lose ourselves just to keep a relationship. Rachel is #1 New York Times Best-Selling and a motivational speaker. She authored three self-help books including Girl, Wash Your Face and Girl, Stop Apologizing. Aside from keeping herself busy with her podcast, The Rachel Hollis Podcast, she's also founded The Hollis Company, a media company that exists to arm people with the tools to make positive and lasting change.  What We Discuss with Rachel: 00:00 Intro 02:06 Mental illness is not just about taking prescription medicine 06:00 Being intentional about trying to live in a healthy way 12:17 What the evolution of social media is doing to us 21:05 “My advance for my first book, which was Party Girl was $1,000.” 24:02 When something shakes the best life you think you have 38:24 Journaling every single morning to remember conscious moments 41:53 Pushing yourself to get over a difficult moment in your life 46:31 A different view of failure 54:48 You create something that you value and believe in and put it out there 59:10 There are many parts of us that can make a better version of ourselves 01:05:38 Feeding into your own narrative 01:09:24 “An apology without action or change is empty.” 01:12:27 Having support from people who cares without high expectations 01:17:14 How do you establish boundaries when you haven't done it before? 01:22:33 What’s your love language? 01:26:00 Don’t make other people’s process of pain about you 01:29:10 You’re trying to be the person who your partner thinks you are 01:37:19 We need to stop seeing the end of things as failure 01:40:40 Rachel on Final Five Like this show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally! Grab a copy of your own Think Like A Monk book. Get the audiobook here: https://amzn.to/2THCYUu  Episode Resources: Rachel Hollis | Instagram Rachel Hollis | Facebook Rachel Hollis | Amazon Hollis Co. Achieve success in every area of your life with Jay Shetty’s Genius Community. Join over 10,000 members taking their holistic well-being to the next level today, at https://shetty.cc/OnPurposeGenius

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0:00.0

I honestly think I maybe have a different view of failure than other people do.

0:06.9

I think that it's one of the things people are most terrified of in the world, especially in my community.

0:12.8

So many women in my community petrified of failing.

0:16.3

And I always think like if you can understand that 99% of the time you're not afraid of failing.

0:23.6

You're afraid of other people seeing you fail.

0:32.4

Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose, the number one health podcast in the world,

0:36.6

thanks to each and every single one of you that come back every week to listen, learn, and grow.

0:42.6

Now this is a guest, a friend that I've been talking to, DMing, messaging with for a bunch of

0:49.8

years now, and I've been waiting for this moment to actually sit with her in person.

0:54.0

I'm a huge fan, I've had my other work for a long, long time, wanted to be in the same room.

0:58.6

We've actually never crossed paths in person, but we're finally here in the studio.

1:03.5

I'm speaking about none other than three times New York Times best-selling author and the founder

1:08.9

of the Hollis company, Rachel Hollis. Rachel, thank you for doing this.

1:12.7

Oh my gosh, I'm so tickled. I'm tickled just to get to hang out with you and the fact that

1:16.4

there are cameras is also great. I know, I've genuinely been looking forward to this,

1:20.8

you were kind enough to have me on your podcast last year. We had to do it digitally.

1:25.6

But it was still wonderful. I felt like we really got along and connected.

1:30.0

Even now you've just walked in and I'm already like, I feel like I already know you, like genuinely.

1:34.6

100% and I anticipated that. No, this is wild.

1:39.2

It's honestly wild too, just because with everything that's happened in the last year,

1:43.7

year and a half maybe at this point, we haven't, I just haven't had the chance to connect with

1:49.9

colleagues or with people who sort of have the same mindset or kind of striving for the same thing,

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