Open That Door

Open That Door

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Open That Door episodes

  • Stop Weaponizing Our Emotions with Guest Malik Isasis

    Host Hollis warmly welcomes filmmaker/storyteller/social worker and amazing human Malik Isasis to the Open That Door podcast!


    Hollis and Malik met three decades ago as college students when they made a film together—Malik's first feature. Malik has gone on to make many award-winning films (his latest Öte is currently streaming throughout Europe) all while working as a social worker in the NYC school system.


    Malik grew up in the south and experienced poverty, racism, and the loss of his mother who was killed by police officers. He met his father just three times growing up, and learned to steel up and withhold his emotions, anger especially, as a form of weaponization against others. It was only after Malik met a social worker in his late teens that he learned how to share his emotions and be vulnerable in order to gain a deeper connection with himself and those he cares about—a tough order for boys-to-men influenced by patriarchal role-modeling.


    Listen in as Malik so expertly shares why change can be so hard when we are, by nature, always trying to return to our equilibrium, our normal, even when that baseline no longer works for us. Change is possible, though—and Malik is a testament to that truth. It's through the awareness that we have a choice, our vigilance, and repeated practice that new beliefs and habits become our new lifestyle.


    Malik is one of those beautiful humans who tells his friends he loves them, and looks people in the eye to let them know he sees them whether they are advantaged or disadvantaged. The world needs more compassion, and Malik is a goldmine of it. Settle in and give this wonderful conversation a look and listen! Then, head over to https://malik.nyc/ and check out a sampling of Malik's auteur films.

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    1 hr 6 min
  • Special Guest Lauren Weedman: Are You OK Right Now?

    On lucky episode #13, host Hollis dives deep with very special guest and funny woman Lauren Weedman, into the highs and lows of her being a working actor in Los Angeles and simultaneously a single mother, dedicated to creating stability and pathways forward for herself and her son while remaining steadfast to the art-making she was born to do.


    Lauren has been called the funniest woman alive for a reason — her sharp, incisive humor juggles pathos and the human struggle with physical comedy that hearkens back to The Carol Burnett Show or Three's Company.


    In this candid episode, Lauren shows why her comedy is so exacting; it's her willingness to go deep with Hollis about her own struggles with loneliness, paying the bills, and parenting while feeling on the fringe of her wealthy Santa Monica neighborhood that shows her true genius at play: to absorb and respond to life as it comes at her without missing a beat — all while being able to pivot in real time and with genuine humor to the interruptions from Hollis' teen daughter showing up in the middle of the conversation and Lauren's openness to take on coaching around being deserving.


    Lauren's honesty is refreshing, and a reminder to all of us that no one, no matter how successful they may appear on the outside, is free from struggle, self-doubt, loneliness, and anxiety about the future. It's our willingness to redefine what success really means to each of us, and our capacity to ask ourselves, "am I OK right now, in this moment?" that can get us through times of deep discomfort. And sticky notes that remind us that we are deserving can help, too.


    Give yourself an hour this week to listen to the brilliant, very funny, and refreshingly unguarded Lauren Weedman on the Open That Door podcast.


    Lauren Weedman is an award-winning comedic actress, playwright, and author who works extensively in theater, film, and television. She has written and performed over 14 full-length, multi-character, solo award-winning plays, and her essays and stories have been published in New York Magazine, Jezebel, Glamour, The Stranger, and aired on the Dinner Party Download and Unfictional. She's written two books, A Woman Trapped in a Woman’s Body: (Tales from a Life of Cringe), a collection of comedic essays and was named by Kirkus Review as a top ten Indie book for 2007, and Miss Fortune: Fresh Perspectives on Having it All from Someone Who is NOT OKAY, a LA Times Bestseller, published by Random House.


    Among her many television roles, Lauren played Doris on HBO’s Looking, and appeared as Horny Patty on HBO’s Hung. She was a correspondent on The Daily Show, and also appeared in Will and Grace, True Blood, United States of Tara, Reno 911!, Curb Your Enthusiasm, New Girl, 2 Broke Girls, and Arrested Development. Film credits include Looking:The Movie, Joshy, The Little Hours, Wilson, Imagine That, Date Night, and Judd Apatow’s The Five Year Engagement. Currently she’s working on Abbott Elementary and Hacks as Mayor Jo.


    This episode is R-rated.


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    1 hr 15 min
  • Changing Your Life Takes Very Few Steps
    Listen in as host Hollis shares her recent journey through a full-blown fight-flight-freeze week after taking a big life step that confronted her deepest limiting beliefs. Coming out the other side of foot-stopping fear takes focus, attention, lots of breath, and a willingness to dig deep to find what false narratives have taken root in us. But when you are willing to do the work, the outcome is more freedom from fear, a better understanding of yourself, deeper compassion for the human mechanisms in you, and empowerment that comes from replacing a limiting belief with a more honest and truthful one. You're going to want to give yourself a hug after this!

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    23 min
  • Transformation Can Happen Just Like That
    Host Hollis shares how, on the same day she declared her commitment to receiving more support in her life, she got thrown off a horse. What do you do when support shows up as the cold, hard ground? You commit to mining the gold contained therein. When we trust the process of change, within us and all around us, apparent obstacles that might first show up are transformed into new doorways through which we find the exact and direct pathway to the manifestation of our hopes and dreams. Asking is different than committing to receive. Where in your life might you be asking but not yet open to receiving the blessings you desire? Listen in and see where you can transform your own stopping points into breakthroughs to immediate and lasting transformation.

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    15 min
  • The Power of "Why Not?" with Guest Laura Hunt
    Welcome to the Open That Door Podcast! Host Hollis visits with Laura Hunt, a woman, mother, successful business-owner, yogi, chef, fly fisherwoman, and heart survivor. Laura has learned how the power of mindfulness and tapping into the flow of life guides us to unexpected places, and how saying yes—or "why not?"—to what invites us forward can lead to results that are better, fuller, richer than we ever dreamed.

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    34 min
  • Engage and Receive
    You are on assignment to engage with your desires—as your unique path and purpose, not as distractions from an already-lived life. Your desires live in your heart as clues to your unique life journey, and when you engage with and feel what your heart contains, life opens up to deliver you a next-level life. Find the courage to lead a heart-led life, where you meet yourself on assignment, living on purpose, empowered, and open to receive all the support and divine unfolding you deserve.

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    23 min
  • Let Your Body Lead with Guest Brenda Winkle!

    Breathwork coach and energy healer Brenda Winkle joins host Hollis Welsh as they explore one of the most surefire ways to find safety, security, empowerment, and clarity in any moment. When we use our breath deliberately to bring ourselves back to the present moment, we can provide ourselves a much-needed balm to anxiety and fear. Brenda shares her journey from domestic violence shelter to where she is today, with a thriving coaching business and a top-rated podcast (Your Yes Filled Life). Listen in and learn how doing simple muscle testing (The Sway Technique) and leaning on the body's inherent KNOWING can help lead you on a path to greater purpose, passion, enjoyment, and fulfillment.


    Brenda Winkle is an energy healer for high performers helping them to elevate, amplify, and expand their missions while they find, reclaim, and live from their full embodied YES. Through breathwork, somatic coaching, and energy healing for aligned leadership, they are able to create their YES-Filled Lives and move through their days with more freedom, ease, and joy. Try breathwork free: brendawinkle.com/breathe

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    52 min
  • Don't You Dare Diminish Yourself
    Join host Hollis as she explores how harnessing your momentum, which is ready and waiting for you, can fast-track your way to fulfilling your life purpose when you take next right action and trust the process. Hollis invites you to keep your eye out for everyday heroes, and to resist the temptation to diminish the accomplishments or the acts of service someone provides you or that you provide to the world because they seem small or insignificant. It's these steady, consistent, inspired actions that in fact change the world, one step at a time.

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    18 min
  • Become a Master Life Juggler with Guest Greg Bennick!
    Host Hollis welcomes her first guest, keynote speaker, coach, author, philanthropist, filmmaker, and juggler, Greg Bennick. Hollis and Greg have known each other for almost 32 years, both starting their careers as performers in acting school in Seattle. By following their inner nudges, they have both been able to define careers that don't fit into any box. Greg shares his keynote address, Build a Better Now™ with Fortune 500 companies across the U.S. (sometimes while juggling a machete), serves as head speaker coach for TEDX Perth, and is currently writing a book called Reclaim the Moment: 7 Strategies to Build a Better Now, available to pre-order on Amazon here. Greg and Hollis discuss how using creativity and focus (with some punk rock thrown in) can open the floodgates to an empowered and uniquely authentic and fulfilling path for all of us. Keep the conversation going with Greg (and hire him for your next keynote event) at gregbennick.com.

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    35 min
  • Where Our Power Comes In
    On this episode, host Hollis explores how the narratives that run our lives aren't usually sourced from us, and when we realize how our imaginations can create our realities, good or bad, our true power comes in to reshape how we approach life, and open doors to possibilities that move our lives forward.

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    16 min

About Open That Door

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Hello! My name is Hollis Rohrer (formerly Hollis Welsh), your host of the Open That Door podcast. I'm here to share tools, tips, insights, education, and incredibly savvy guests who have learned to…