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Dave Hollis

Dave Hollis was an American author, speaker, podcaster, and former president of worldwide theatrical distribution at Disney. His work centered on personal growth, leadership, and resilience, and his notable books include Get Out of Your Own Way and Built Through Courage. He also reached a broad audience through the Rise Together podcast.

Biografie & Werdegang des Autors

Dave Hollis built his public career in two distinct acts. After early work across talent management and other entertainment-media roles, the Pepperdine University graduate spent roughly seventeen years at Disney, rising through distribution posts to lead the studio’s theatrical distribution business and helping guide releases from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm. By his early forties, however, corporate achievement had begun to feel limiting. In 2018 he left Disney to help run the Hollis Company, moving from film-industry leadership into the more personality-driven world of personal development. That career change became the hinge of his story: a turn from selling movies to translating ambition, doubt, and reinvention into a public message. ((https://seaver.pepperdine.edu/alumni/storytelling/alumni-stories/alumniinentertainment.htm?utm_source=openai))

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I left a thing I knew for a thing I needed
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When those days show up, grab your shoes instead of the bottle
-The Brendon Show: Get Out of Your Own Way with Dave Hollis
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The gift of this transition is the clarity of how wildly I overestimated how much people were paying attention to what I was doing with my life
-The Brendon Show: Get Out of Your Own Way with Dave Hollis
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It gets easier every subsequent time that you are asking your courage to present itself
-That Sounds Fun: Episode 341
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You embrace the reality that control was always an illusion
-That Sounds Fun: Episode 341
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The entry is the win
-That Sounds Fun: Episode 341
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A plan is the antidote to fear in so many ways
-Think Unbroken: E157
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How do I feel about myself when I'm by myself?
-Think Unbroken: E157
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Most of the things that I needed were never on the list of what I would have had on the menu
-Think Unbroken: E157

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