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  • A Skeptic's Guide to Growth and Fulfillment
  • Written by: Dave Hollis
  • Narrated by: Dave Hollis, Rachel Hollis
  • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (268 ratings)

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Get Out of Your Own Way

Written by: Dave Hollis
Narrated by: Dave Hollis, Rachel Hollis
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The idea that you could be more but got in your own way should wake you up in the middle of the night. Dave Hollis used to think that “personal growth” was just for broken people, then he woke up.

When a looming career funk, a growing drinking problem, and a challenging trek through therapy battered Dave Hollis, a Disney executive and father of four, he 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 and his insecurities about being a dad.

Offering encouragement, challenges, and a hundred moments to laugh, Dave will help you:

  • Discover the way for those of us who are, like he was, skeptical of self-help but wanting something more than the status quo
  • Drop negative ideas about who we are supposed to be and finally start living as who we really are
  • See our own journeys more clearly as he unpacks the lies he once believed—such as “I Have to Have It All Together” and “Failure Means You’re Weak”
  • Learn the tools that helped him change his life, and may change your life too

Get Out of Your Own Way is a call to arms for anyone who’s interested in a more fulfilled life, who, along the way, may have lost their “why” and now wonders how to unlock their potential or be better for their loved ones.

©2020 Dave Hollis (P)2020 HarperCollins Leadership

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You need to read this!

This book was so incredible, and I highly recommend! The chapter on balance is so insightful, and so needed. Dave is vulnerable and real! Loved it!

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he said Porn!

in this book...your gonna hear the truths that we all to some degree struggle with at one point or another. great book to listen to!

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Motivator

I have shared this book with 4 others, advising 1 how to enrol in audible!

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good read


Worth reading or listening to. Dave is honest and recounts situations that we can all relate to

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How to become a better human being.

Worldly sensible advice that we humans could definitely use, my 4 adult children need this book.

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Must read

Loved this book and I could relate 100%. I appreciate the raw and realness of the book. The performance was very well done on the audio recording and the story is easy to listen to and hard to put down.

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Outstanding book!

Great insight for choosing a life of more meaning! Good for women too and how the choices we make limit the full potential of our lives. This book touches on many aspects of life and is a great starting point!

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This book is for everyone even my 81 year old dad is reading it!

I am fortunate enough to have received an advanced reader copy of Get Out Of Your Own Way from the publisher after being apart of Girl Stop Apologizing Launch Team, and I have preordered on Audible as well I am reading the first half of the book, it’s an easy read and even though it’s written from a male perspective, personal development is for everyone and all genders can identify with Dave’s story, since I’ve started reading the book, I have decided to sign up for an upcoming Emotion Focused Family Therapy series of workshops, excited to see where this leads because I need change! Everyday I am taking baby steps to getting out of my own way!

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Great read for both men and women

I read this book after following Dave in social media and reading Rachel’s two books. This book had great stories and great insights that you can start right away. I’m passing it on to my husband to read right away.

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Outstanding Book

Outstanding book. Highly recommend it. Amazing first book Dave! Great that is read by Dave as well makes it even better.

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