On Purpose with Jay Shetty Rachel Hollis ON: The Courage to Make Mistakes & How to Stay Motivated in Difficult Times
Sep 6, 2021
Rachel Hollis, a New York Times bestselling author and motivational speaker, discusses the power of embracing failure as a vital part of growth. She emphasizes the importance of self-care and processing grief at your own pace. Hollis reveals her personal journey through mental health and nutrition, touching on how social media shapes our experiences. She shares insights on authentic self-expression and the necessity of setting personal boundaries in relationships, illustrating how vulnerability can lead to profound personal transformation.
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Learn from Mistakes
- Turn self-criticism into a learning opportunity.
- Own your mistakes, hold space for them, and grow, or the pain will be wasted.
True Apologies
- Apologies without changed behavior are empty.
- True apologies involve making changes based on feedback from others.
Manage Expectations
- Manage expectations by acknowledging your human fallibility.
- Tell those you mentor or coach that you will let them down, because you are human.
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Intro
00:00 • 2min
Embracing Failure: A Path to Growth
01:33 • 2min
Reconnecting and Understanding Mental Health
03:09 • 6min
A Journey Through Nutrition and Self-Discovery
08:41 • 5min
Navigating Food, Focus, and Creativity
13:24 • 23min
Navigating Love and Life's Precious Moments
35:56 • 3min
Embracing Life's Details and Personal Growth
38:37 • 27min
Embracing Authenticity for Growth
01:06:04 • 14min
Navigating Personal Boundaries
01:19:50 • 10min
Navigating Pain and Relationships
01:29:36 • 17min
Embracing Purpose and Resilience
01:46:30 • 4min
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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
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