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RACHEL HOLLIS
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Rachel Hollis is a bestselling author, TV personality, in-demand speaker, and founder
and CEO of Chic Media, the foremost authority on premium digital content for women.
Named one of Inc. Magazine’s "Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30,” Rachel uses her
infectious energy to empower women to take control of their lives and pursue their
passions without fear. Motivational, inspirational, and always approachable, Rachel’s
tell-it-like-it-is attitude is a refreshing approach that allows her to authentically
connect with millions of women around the world. Rachel has worked with top brands
including Walmart, Disney Junior, JCPenney, Rubbermaid, Sprint, and Keurig to create
innovative and compelling content for Chic Media’s award-winning women’s lifestyle
blog. Her highly anticipated new book, GIRL, WASH YOUR FACE: STOP BELIEVING THE
LIES ABOUT WHO YOU ARE SO YOU CAN BECOME WHO YOU WERE MEANT TO BE,
will be available February 6, 2018. Rachel resides in Los Angeles with her husband and
four children.
Why Rachel Hollis?
...
• From her blog to her booming social media platform, millions of followers and readers turn to Rachel Hollis for
inspiration and practical guidance every month.
• No one tackles tough issues like Rachel. With an unmatched blend of grace, hilarity, and gut checks, she writes
about relationships, sex, jealousy, motherhood, work, body image, goals, and more. Rachel shares deeply personal
stories that leave us feeling connected and empowered.
• Rachel is hilarious. In a chapter devoted to sex in the upcoming GIRL, WASH YOUR FACE, she writes, “I wish just one
time before I got married someone had said, ‘Look, here are my experiences. Here’s what you need to know, here’s
what you should consider, and also, the first few times you have sex you should pee afterward so you don’t get a
UTI.’ Somewhere in Texas a reader just fainted.”
• Embracing the fact that women are multidimensional, Rachel speaks with savvy strength about fashion, faith, and
absolutely everything in between. She is also a sincere cheerleader––but she has high expectations: “I absolutely
refuse to watch you wallow.”
• Rachel is an entrepreneurial hero. She built a booming media empire from nothing––all without a college degree
and while raising four babies. As Rachel traces her evolution from top-tier Los Angeles event planner to Chic Media
company CEO and bestselling author, she encourages readers to pursue their biggest dreams.
• As a working mom and wife, Rachel speaks with emotional grit and wry humor about the fulfillment, guilt, and
multifaceted gift of growing a career and children at the same time. Focusing on her baby daughter, she writes, “I
will not set her up to believe that having a career (or not) has anything to do with how much she’s committed to her
partner or how much she loves her children…should she choose to have either.”
“ There are hundreds of ways to lose yourself,
but the easiest of them all is to disavow who
you truly are in the first place.
“ You are more than you have become,
and you are utterly in control over
what you do with that knowledge.
” ”
- Rachel Hollis, GIRL, WASH YOUR FACE - Rachel Hollis, GIRL, WASH YOUR FACE
Media Contacts: Heather Adams, 404-423-8411,
CH IC M E D I A Heather@ChoicePublicity.com and Maggie Rheney,
731-394-2139, Maggie@ChoicePublicity.com
GIRL, WASH YOUR FACE
Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be
Bestselling author, www.TheChicSite.com creator, Chic Media CEO, in-demand speaker,
and all-around wonder woman Rachel Hollis is back with a new dose of hilarious
wisdom in GIRL, WASH YOUR FACE: STOP BELIEVING THE LIES ABOUT WHO YOU ARE
SO YOU CAN BECOME WHO YOU WERE MEANT TO BE (Thomas Nelson; ISBN:
978-1400201655; February 6, 2018; $22.99). Relying on Rachel’s signature blend of wit
and motivating spirit, GIRL, WASH YOUR FACE explores issues all women face with
peerless candor and grace. Rachel is vulnerable and laugh-out-loud funny as she
exposes the lies holding all of us back. Story after story, GIRL, WASH YOUR FACE urges
readers to see that the power we need to change our lives and realize dreams is
already ours.
Thomas Nelson | ISBN: 978-1400201655
February 6, 2018 | www.GirlWashYourFace.com
Why GIRL, WASH YOUR FACE?
...
• With wry wit and hard-earned wisdom, popular online personality Rachel Hollis helps readers break free from the
lies keeping them from the joy-filled and exuberant life they are meant to have.
• Founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Chic Media, Rachel has
created an online fan base of hundreds of thousands of fans by sharing tips for living a better life while fearlessly
revealing the messiness of her own. Now comes her highly anticipated first non-fiction book featuring her signature
combination of honesty, humor, and direct, no-nonsense advice.
• Each chapter of GIRL, WASH YOUR FACE begins with a specific lie Hollis once believed that left her feeling
overwhelmed, unworthy, or ready to give up. As a working mother, a former foster parent, and a woman who has
dealt with insecurities about her body and relationships, she speaks with the insight and kindness of a BFF, helping
women unpack the limiting mind-sets that destroy their self-confidence and keep them from moving forward.
• From her temporary obsession with marrying Matt Damon to a daydream involving hypnotic iguanas to her son’s
request that she buy a necklace to “be like the other moms,” Hollis holds nothing back. With unflinching faith and
tenacity, Hollis spurs other women to live with passion and hustle and to awaken their slumbering goals.
“ I want to shout at the top of my lungs until
you know this one great truth: You are in
control of your own life. You get one and
only one chance to live, and life is passing
“ I hope, pray, wish, cross my fingers
and my toes that you will look around
and find an opportunity to be your
own hero.
”
you by. - Rachel Hollis, GIRL, WASH YOUR FACE
”
- Rachel Hollis, GIRL, WASH YOUR FACE
Media Contacts: Heather Adams, 404-423-8411,
CHIC M E D I A Heather@ChoicePublicity.com and Maggie Rheney,
731-394-2139, Maggie@ChoicePublicity.comTOPICS RACHEL CAN ADDRESS
Choosing Happiness
Rachel emphasizes the power we each have to change our lives––and that we have to fight the feeling that says
we’re not in control.
“This is your life. You are meant to be the hero of your own story. This doesn’t mean you become selfish. This doesn’t
mean you discard your faith or quit believing in something greater than yourself. What it means is taking responsibility
for your own life and your own happiness. Said another way––a harsher, more-likely-to-get-me-punched-in-the-face
way––if you’re unhappy, that’s on you.”
Work-Life Balance
Rachel is a self-described recovering workaholic who had to teach herself how to slow down. With vulnerability
and self-deprecating humor, she shares the hard lessons she’s learned and habit changes she’s made.
“I forced myself to stop working so many hours. I went to the office from 9:30 to 4:30 and was shocked to discover
the world continued to spin on its axis. I pushed myself to rest, to sit and do nothing. It gave me massive anxiety, so I
poured myself a glass of wine and kept right on sitting there.”
Motherhood
Rachel shares innocent words from her children that have crushed her working-mom heart, the joy in letting go of
trying to do absolutely everything all of the time, finding your own mothering style, her own struggles with
postpartum depression, and more. The result is a vivid portrayal of modern motherhood and call for all moms to
give themselves some grace.
“The worries were overbearing, and I managed them with the dignity of a geriatric terrier––which is to say, I barked
at anyone who got too close, and I needed a special stepstool to hoist myself in and out of bed.”
Jealousy and Judgment
Drawing on stories from her own life in which she’s been judgmental, jealous, competitive, and more, Rachel pushes
us to clearly see how we’re holding ourselves back when we tear others down.
“Our judgment prohibits us from beautiful, life-affirming friendships. Our judgment keeps us from connecting in deeper,
richer ways because we’re too stuck on the surface-level assumptions we made.”
Marriage and Sex
Rachel reveals early struggles in her relationship with her husband, and her heartbreaking honesty about
self-worth, compromise, and more will serve as a moving wake-up call for anyone currently in a similar dilemma. In
a funny, smart chapter entitled “I’m Bad at Sex,” she also offers healthy guidance.
“So many women have made mistakes or done things they regret or become versions of themselves they aren’t
happy with. So many other women have survived and come out the other side stronger because of it. Every day
you’re choosing who you are and what you believe about yourself, and you’re setting the standards for the
relationships in your life.”
Media Contacts: Heather Adams, 404-423-8411,
CH IC M E D I A Heather@ChoicePublicity.com and Maggie Rheney,
731-394-2139, Maggie@ChoicePublicity.comTOPICS RACHEL CAN ADDRESS
Body Image
From her struggle with Bell’s palsy and the facial paralysis that ensues to her own battles with eating disorders,
Rachel holds nothing back. Today, her view that we were made to be active and not obese, but that we are not
defined by our bodies, either, is unique in its nuanced appreciation for health and true beauty.
“The lie I used to believe was that my weight would define me, that it would speak volumes about who I was as a
person. Today I believe it’s not your weight that defines you, but the care and consideration you put into your body.”
Adoption
With empathy and gut-wrenching honesty, Rachel traces her and her husband’s path to adopting their baby girl,
which included trying to do the right thing in foster care, first adopting newborns only to have them taken back
by the biological family, international vs. domestic adoption, and more.
“I don’t want you to see someone who went through a long, intense process to adopt a little girl. I want you to see
someone who kept showing up again and again, even when it was tearing her apart.”
Building a Life After Childhood Trauma
Social media followers love Rachel’s beautiful photos of a happy life––but it wasn’t always that way. Rachel’s
childhood was traumatic, from holes punched in walls, a mom who would stay in bed for weeks, and an older
brother who committed suicide. She shares such devastating truth not to gain pity, but to emphasize her
message that we have the power to recover and build the life we want.
“If I wanted a better life than the one I’d been born into, it was up to me to create it.”
Embracing Who You Are
Rachel ties identity to goals, then she explains why it’s up to us to love and cultivate who we truly are. From how
to react to hearing “no” from gatekeepers to practical steps like writing down goals and vividly imagining
dreams—in a hilarious example, she shares that when she was younger, she was convinced it was her destiny to
marry Matt Damon and could see it all unfolding––she shows us how to grow.
“Those dreams you have for yourself are not silly; they are the road map to your divine calling! Don’t sit this one out.
Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you determine your worth.”
Entrepreneurship
She left home for Los Angeles at the age of 17; four years later, Rachel was running a successful event planning
business in Hollywood; in 2008, INC Magazine named her one of the top 30 entrepreneurs under the age of 30.
Today, she is CEO of Chic Media and creator of one of the most popular lifestyle websites around. But what are
the secrets to her success?
“I am successful because I refused to take no for an answer. I am successful because I have never once believed my
dreams were someone else’s to manage. That’s the incredible part about your dreams: Nobody gets to tell you how
big they can be.”
Media Contacts: Heather Adams, 404-423-8411,
CH IC M E D I A Heather@ChoicePublicity.com and Maggie Rheney,
731-394-2139, Maggie@ChoicePublicity.comTOPICS RACHEL CAN ADDRESS
Being a Boss
Hollis has transformed her admittedly chaotic life into a smashing success: a lifestyle website with almost two
million readers each year; more than a million actively engaged followers on social media; CEO of the thriving
digital content creation company Chic Media; partnerships with companies like JCPenney, Sprint, Covergirl,
Walmart, and Target. She has officially solidified her “BOSS” status and wants to share it with the world.
“Part of the reason I work so much is simple: I love my job. No, I freaking love my job. The people I work with are
some of the kindest, coolest, most creative cats you’ll ever meet. When I walk in and it’s running well… I feel proud.
Beyond that, my heart wants to burst because all of these people are working their butts off for my dream.”
Faith
As a small-town preacher’s daughter, Rachel’s faith has deep roots and she wholeheartedly believes that, even
though it may not be easy, God gives all of us the love, strength, support and tools to be better every single day.
“As a Christian I grew up learning that God was in control, that God had a plan for my life, and I believe in the
marrow of my bones that this is true. I believe God loves each of us unconditionally, but I don’t think that means we
get to squander the gifts and talents he’s given us simply because we’re good enough already.”
Media Contacts: Heather Adams, 404-423-8411,
CHIC ME D I A Heather@ChoicePublicity.com and Maggie Rheney,
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