Hello Hollis Podcast

Nothing says peace and quiet like hiding from your kids on the back deck as you take out the recycling, feel inspired and record a quick podcast episode. Join me on the deck, as I talk about why we need to stop using this common phrase "I don't want to brag but....." (insert something wonderful here) I am done with that phrase and that sentiment. It is absolutely 100% keeping you small and is doing nothing good for you. I mean when you say that you're taking the time to tell someone the news so stop making yourself small before doing so, just BRAG. When we stop ourselves from sharing and/or bragging it comes from the thinking that there is a limited amount of success or goodness in the world and you having some means someone has less and that couldn't be further from the truth. There is infinite good. So PLEASE I am begging you celebrate your damn self. 

Yes I am still here unloading groceries. Costco shops are no joke. I share in this episode about my upcoming meeting with my husband. I always find it so helpful learning the inner workings that work in the lives of others and thought I would share one of ours. We meet usually weekly about all of life's bits and pieces - our businesses, children's extra curricular schedules, our finances... all the things. And its honestly something I look forward to each week. Budgeting is not my favourite yet is essential. I look forward to uninterrupted time to talk without 4 small humans interrupting. On this week's agenda is: what is happening with our kids this summer - who is watching them when, why my outside hoses are not working and when they will be fixed, finances and are we buying a new tent for camping this year. Sometimes I find the most mundane things to be where I learn the most. Hope you do too. 

Unload not just any groceries with me, but a Costco-sized haul. Yes the kind that takes an hour to put away. Thats why I recorded an episode while doing it. Multi-tasking for the win. While I unload the car, I share my download with you about why having a goal is critical to building momentum and getting where you want to go. I share about my recent half marathon and that I have not worked out since. What I need in my calendar is a date, a goal a target I am working to achieve so that I can set up the structure and systems to hit that goal. Not only is having a goal necessary but also knowing who you can call to support you with said goal. When you speak your goal to someone the stats are clear - you are 70% more likely to actually do what you want to do. A no brainer right? Oh and find out how I really feel about Rib Fest in this episode while we are at it.

Am I the only one that gets a full body energetic shift when I walk into a craft store?! A Michael's, Hobby Lobby.... I don't discriminate. I just have this overwhelming feeling that I can literally do anything, craft anything, make anything and its hilarious to me that even things I may have previously never been aware can suddenly become my latest obsession. I'm not going to talk about all the craft supplies I have at home. No, that would be silly. I am going to talk about putting yourself in places that make you feel like you can do anything and then asking yourself more often, what makes me feel alive? How can I feel this more often? And no, I don't think going to Michael's everyday is the answer...sadly. 

There's nothing like a softball game to get my brain going. And go it did. In this episode I share the importance of building a circle, a community, a board of directors for your life - whatever you want to call it is ESSENTIAL to success in life and business and really everywhere. The beauty of this life is about connection and relationships and learning and what better way to do that than by building diverse relationships in your life. What if your normal and what comes easy to you, was exciting and fascinating to someone else (spoiler alert it is) and the same is true for others. You can't always see the forest for the trees you know, so what I gift it is to be in rooms with people that show you your own magic. If you don't know where to start building your community, start with a few DMs, drop a text to a friend you haven't connected with in awhile. Just start. 

There is absolutely something you are not doing right now because you are waiting for the perfect time, resources and execution. Listen, as a former perfectionist I get it. I want everything that I put out to the world to be perfect and polished and high quality. And yet if I know anything I know that done is better than perfect and there's a lifetime of projects that people haven't shared with the world because it's not 'perfect'. What a freaking crime that is. In this episode I share why and how I started this very podcast you are listening to, without all the bells and whistles of perfection and just STARTED. I asked myself: How could I make this easier? How could this feel light and fun? How could I get started now? I want you to ask yourself the same questions about what you want to put out in the world then go do the damn thing. And then let me know how it goes!

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Brace yourselves. I bet you didn't know a hair brush and leave in conditioner could get me so fired up about entrepreneurship but here we are. I never said these episodes made any sense after all. But I do think this will land for you. There is ABSOLUTELY something you are not doing right now that you say you want to do but can't because you don't have right _______________ (tools, time, clothes, strategy.... you fill in the blank) and I think its absolutely a lie. You CAN do it. It's your fear holding you back, not your lack of whatever you think you're lacking. If you want to be lovingly shouted at to get your shit together and do the thing, this is the episode for that. 

Here I am getting unready again for the day and yet another thought strikes me about all the different and past versions of ourselves. So often we are worried about what everyone else thinks, but let me tell you we are also VERY worried about what the past version of us would think! And she isn't even around anymore, yet we are still worried about it. My hot take is that I want you to be doing things your old self would have judged you for, that you would have thought was cringe. Because hello, that means you've grown. Listen in for what I would have judged myself about not that long ago. 

I know this sounds like I am beauty and wellness influencer from the title but I can assure, nothing is further from the truth. You'll have to listen to prove me right on this one. It's less about washing your face and skincare and more about making the things you don't want to do easier and more accessible. It's one of those sneaky analogies for business and life. Get to know me real well today we I share my ineptitudes and BTS of my beauty regime and YET how I used washing my face as my gateway drug for self care. 

Get a very detailed story about what I am making for lunch - hello veggies and protein... could I be more predictable. In any case, I reflect on the stories that we all tell ourselves about what is possible for us and how those we know the most can have a hard time seeing us as anything more than what we have already been. Which is why opportunities for reinvention should be sought out so that we can grow and change! You don't have to wait for the opportunity, you can create it for yourself.