Open That Door

Friends! 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 new...

In 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 dire...

Dear 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...

Friends, 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 Turn...

Friends! 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...

Hollis 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 au...

It'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 fr...

Host 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 livin...

The 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...

In 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...

Host 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 on...

Hello 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,...

Host 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 f...

Host 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...

Hollis 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...

Friends 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, eve...

Want 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, regul...

Comfort 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 take...

Host 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 throug...

On 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-...

Host 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 scho...

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...

Listen 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 m...

Host 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 w...

Welcome 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...