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Open That DoorYou Are The ContainerFriends! It's been a week! I'm fresh off my very first TEDx Talk! Last Saturday, I went to Pocatello, Idaho to deliver a talk called The Power of Self-Permission. It went GREAT... except for the part where I completely went blank on stage and had no idea what to say or do next. Luckily, like most moments of COMPLETE TERROR, it only lasted a few seconds and I was off and running again. The good news is that those moments when we lose it, when we completely forget our way, panic, falter, fall...
2024-11-0811 min
Open That DoorOnly ConnectIn this week's Open That Door podcast episode, "Only Connect," host Hollis pops on to remind us that no matter what we are up to in life, everything is a work of progress. Folks, there is no arriving, and the sooner we digest that shift in perspective, the faster and easier it will be to find satisfaction and success in each step we take that brings us closer to our goals and dreams. The most direct route to opening that door to a life and livelihood we love is by only connecting.
2024-10-2705 min
Open That DoorBorn CapableDear you! You are born lovable and capable, no matter what anyone else says. It's your birthright to walk the earth knowing that you have the capability in you to become whatever you set out to be. Some of us mix up CAPABILITY with COMPETENCY. These are two different things. Listen in and learn the difference so that you will never again be afraid to go after anything you desire. You got this, my capable friend. Watch on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/sjlX1...
2024-10-1708 min
Open That DoorAdvocacy with Jen AdkinsFriends, this episode of the Open That Door podcast is PACKED! This is my longest interview to date with the beautiful, smart, savvy, heart-led Jennifer Adkins, an executive director in the animal advocacy world and an "accidental advocate" for women's healthcare rights. During Jen and her husband John's second pregnancy, a routine 12-week wellness checkup revealed that their unborn child had Turner Syndrome and would not make it. In the state of Idaho, where Jen and I both live, the 6-week abortion ban prevents any medical practitioner to give care for or even advice about an...
2024-10-111h 36
Open That DoorOur Identity MarksFriends! In this week's episode of the Open That Door podcast I explore how our identity marks support us in our full authentic expression, or hinder us if they don't fit any more.What is an identity mark, you ask? Our name is the most obvious one, and in this episode I share my recent decision to change my last name to Rohrer, and the story behind that decision.What parts of your identity might be asking to be set free, changed, transformed? In the end, it's all about giving yourself permission to...
2024-10-0216 min
Open That DoorFlip the Switch with Greg SimsHollis proudly welcomes acting teacher and goal setting coach Greg Sims to the Open That Door podcast. Hollis is a big fan of Greg's having been his student in his one-of-a-kind PATH for the Actor classes on Zoom during COVID. Greg brings so much passion, enthusiasm, encouragement and energy to his daily 4-hour classes, and teaches a completely dynamic and effectively simple process for nailing auditions and delivering high-level, spontaneous performances with less stress and preparation time. His work and teachings are so much fun that you lose yourself in the process and...
2024-09-261h 08
Open That DoorReclaim What is PossibleIt's time to pause, create much needed time and space for yourself, and reclaim what is rightfully yours: possibility. Access to what is possible, to opportunity, even in the face of adversity, is available to you right here, right now, my dear friend. I used to get stuck a lot in my life, feel disempowered and a victim to my circumstances. It was an awful way to live. Today, I live 180 degrees from that reality. I created a pathway for myself that allows me to use what is showing up...
2024-09-1722 min
Open That DoorUnder the OverlaysHost Hollis asks the question that we all should be asking if we want more fulfillment, purpose and joy: Do I give myself permission to think, feel or act this way? Our beliefs and actions are a byproduct of the permissions we've been granted and have accepted. Until we become aware that we are still adhering to rules and expectations — permission given to or taken from us by others — we are living under someone else's parameters. We may believe we are in the driver's seat, but if we are on autopilot or in adult amnesia when it c...
2024-09-1005 min
Open That Door25 Episodes! Moments Worth RevisitingThe Open That Door podcast turns 5 month old this week and 25 episodes strong!Hollis celebrates 2this milestone with Moments Worth Revisiting from the interviews she's done with Greg Bennick, Lauren Weedman, Brenda Winkle, Malik Isasis, Laura Anderson, Diane Altomare and David Paul Mickinzie.Dive into these short and meaningful sound bites that remind us to be present, make space for all that we are, and give yourself permission to follow your unique path and open that door to a life and livelihood you love.These wise souls share so much...
2024-09-0623 min
Open That DoorPermissionIn this week's Love Note on the Open That Door podcast, host Hollis talks about the need to give ourselves PERMISSION to effectively change our lives. We can try all we might to invoke change in our lives, but if we don't actually give ourselves the permission to grow or transform a part of our lives that we're struggling or unhappy with, our efforts are in vain. It's in the granting of permission, to ourselves, that opens that door to us becoming the greatest version of who we know ourselves to be, or...
2024-09-0305 min
Open That DoorDivine Direction with David Paul MckinzieHost Hollis proudly welcomes David Paul Mickinzie to the Open That Door podcast! David is a successful media and entertainment entrepreneur, a host, a branding expert, a former college football player, has been featured on NBC, Good Morning America and CBS, interviewed mega-influentials like Mark Cuban, Charles Barkley and other notables, a spokesman for the PGA, NBA and NFL, and (fun fact) was one of only three black children featured on the kid's show Barney and Friends in the early 2000s. Needless to say, David is a man of many talents who wears...
2024-08-291h 02
Open That DoorTrust What Calls To YouHello OTD friends! I've started a new mini-series within the Open That Door Podcast called LOVE NOTES that will come out every week usually on Mondays or sometimes Tuesdays (us feminine-led leave a little room for flexibility while staying rooted in our commitments). LOVE NOTE #1: Trust What Calls To You is your invitation and permission to show up as you really are in the world, full of shadows, yes, and also full of LIGHT. What if, in our habitual ways of trying to keep ourselves safe and protected, we are dismissing the whole...
2024-08-2705 min
Open That DoorYou Are Your Ticket with Guest Kristin ReitterHost Hollis welcomes sound healer, astrologer, and bonafide Goddess Kristin Reitter to the Open That Door podcast to talk about ASCENSION! Buckle up, let your hair down, and get ready to RISE, friends! Kristin has been studying and teaching astrology for decades and practicing sound healing since 2003, and says that we—humanity—is ripe and more than ready to transcend the old ways that no longer fit who we are and welcome in the new. In her melodic, empowered and playful way, Kristin reminds us that we don't yet know how powerful we actually are because we'v...
2024-08-2149 min
Open That DoorCount Your Daily VictoriesHost Hollis keeps it short and sweet this week, and invites you to count your daily victories.What if, instead of focusing on everything that is not going the way we want it to, or all the ways we are falling short, we instead turn our focus this week on everything that works, is going well, and meets or exceeds our expectations?What might the next 7 days be like with a microscope held up to our everyday victories?Make a point to make note each time you experience a victory...
2024-08-1403 min
Open That DoorThe 2.0 Version of You with Guest Laura AndersonHollis welcomes guest Laura Anderson to the show to discuss how we can overcome what is on our way to becoming the 2.0 version of ourselves. By the time we turn 18, the average person from the average family has heard some form of "no" 148,000 times! It's no wonder that when we start adulting, we are so often mired in a disconnect from what we secretly desire but don't allow ourselves to go after or call in. Or, we may not even know what we want because we've already told ourselves it's a no and so it's too...
2024-08-0746 min
Open That DoorGive Your Inadequacies the Week OffFriends and especially WOMEN and the feminine-led, this episode is for you. It's time to give yourself permission to take up the space that belongs to you and replace your perceived inadequacies with the KNOWING that you are indeed enough and more than adequate to be the unique divine expression that you are here to be. If you are one that is heart-led, and know that your head is your servant, even if that rational brain takes over again and again, this episode is your invitation to let that voice in you that...
2024-07-3111 min
Open That DoorGet Out of Our Own Way with Diane AltomareWant to learn how to get out of your own way and make room for more joy, confidence, freedom, purpose and impact? Host Hollis welcomes special guest Diane Altomare to the Open That Door podcast this week to help guide us through the exact process for opening the door to our greater selves, our greater capacity, and our greatest fulfillment. Diane is a Master Certified Integrative Life Coach, regular featured expert on NBC and ABC, motivational speaker, a mother, wife, and best-selling and award-winning author of the book Clarity. Her...
2024-07-2453 min
Open That DoorTrading Up Comfort for HappinessComfort is a natural quality we're all drawn to as humans... but what happens when our habitual habit patterns and limiting beliefs keep us in a state of comfort at the expense of our lasting happiness? Host Hollis of the Open That Door podcast shares her 3-step process for initiating and creating lasting change in our lives in a safe, respectful, and even celebratory way. This change process takes you gently into your resistance so that you can make friends with your fear and pay homage to what keeps you stuck—in a wa...
2024-07-1714 min
Open That DoorTurn Insecurity Into Your SuperpowerHost Hollis shares how, when we uncover what's really at the core of us, beneath the layers of protection mechanisms and shields we hide behind to try to save face in the world, life does a 180 into true liberation. What's at your core? For Hollis growing up, it was deep fear and insecurity. In her quest to pretend that she didn't feel like an outsider, maybe like you, she pretended her way through most of her life... until she was finally willing to let it all go in exchange for her true authenticity and power.
2024-07-1015 min
Open That DoorWhat's Between You and ChangeOn the Open That Door podcast this week, host Hollis talks about a missing step in achieving real and lasting change. When we decide we really do want to transform an area of our lives or tackle a previously out-of-reach goal, what is required of us is to become anew. It's in this process of having to release an old way of being or our grasp on old beliefs that we might experience a sense of self-betrayal (or familial betrayal) — to the person you have had to be to maintain the status quo in your life. An...
2024-07-0314 min
Open That DoorStop Weaponizing Our Emotions with Guest Malik IsasisHost 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 jus...
2024-06-261h 05
Open That DoorSpecial 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...
2024-06-121h 14
Open That DoorChanging Your Life Takes Very Few StepsListen 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...
2024-06-0522 min
Open That DoorTransformation Can Happen Just Like ThatHost 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...
2024-05-2914 min
Open That DoorThe Power of "Why Not?" with Guest Laura HuntWelcome 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-05-2133 min
Open That DoorEngage and ReceiveYou 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-05-1422 min
Open That DoorLet 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...
2024-05-0751 min
Open That DoorDon't You Dare Diminish YourselfJoin 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. Hosted on Acast. See...
2024-04-2317 min
Open That DoorBecome 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 No...
2024-04-1634 min
Open That DoorWhere Our Power Comes InOn 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-04-0915 min
Open That DoorEyes Wide OpenJoin host Hollis as she explores why familiarity breeds contempt, as the saying goes, and how being adaptable to change—which is unavoidable—helps us move through our lives powerfully, with more freedom, ease, joy, and with our eyes wide open. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-04-0212 min
Open That DoorYour Reasons Are Not Helping YouIn episode 3 of the Open That Door podcast, host Hollis puts your commitments to the test, shares her evolution from self-doubting to purpose-led, and encourages you to become unreasonable in pursuit of your happiness. Open that door and come on inside! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-03-1910 min
Open That DoorIt's Not PersonalOn episode 2 of the Open That Door podcast, host Hollis dives into why we tend to take things personally, how taking things personally keeps us stuck in limiting loops, and how we can open that door to more freedom and power when we don't take everything that comes our way personally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-03-1214 min
Open That DoorOpen That Door Podcast PILOTOn the Open That Door podcast pilot, host Hollis Rohrer introduces you to what you can expect from listening, including creating meaningful breakthroughs that get you into alignment with who you are and where you want to go, so you can open that door to a life and livelihood you love. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-03-0510 min