Genre: Nonfiction / Self-Help
Length: 240 pages
Audiobook Length: 6 hours and 56 minutes
First Published: 2020
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Publisher’s Description
Dave Hollis used to think that “personal growth” was just for broken people.
Then he woke up.
When Dave Hollis’s wife, Rachel, began writing her #1 New York Times bestselling book, Girl, Wash Your Face, he bristled at her transparency and her willingness to talk about such intimate details of their life. But when a looming career funk, a growing drinking problem, and a challenging trek through therapy battered the Disney executive and father of four, Dave began to realize he was letting untruths about himself dictate his life. As he sank to the bottom of his valley, he had to make a choice. Would he push himself out of his comfort zone to become the best man he was capable of being, or would he play it safe and settle for mediocrity?
In Get Out of Your Own Way, Dave tackles topics he once found it difficult to be honest about, things like his struggles with alcohol, problems in his marriage, and his insecurities about being a dad. Dave helps us see our own journeys more clearly as he unpacks the lies he once believed—such as “I Have to Have It All Together,” “Failure Means You’re Weak,” and “If They Doesn’t Need Me, Will They Still Want Me?”—and reveals the tools that helped him change his life.
Offering encouragement, challenge, and a hundred moments to laugh at himself, Dave points the way for those of us who are, like he was, skeptical of self-help but wanting something more than status quo, and helps us drop bogus ideas about who we are supposed to be and finally start living as who we really are.
About Dave Hollis
Dave Hollis was a Disney film global distribution chief and is now the CEO of The Hollis Company. He is married to acclaimed entrepreneur and author Rachel Hollis, and published his first book, Get Out of Your Own Way, in 2020. He currently lives in Texas, with his wife and four kids.
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