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79: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Marriage
January 16, 2020
Dave is back in the driver's seat this week, answering questions from the community about marriage, commitment, and the ever-elusive...
78: Let's Talk About Kids!
January 9, 2020
Adoption, fertility, when to have kids and when to STOP having kids - we cover it all this episode! Rach and Dave sit down together to...
77: Dave's New Practice Will Propel You Into the Best Version of 2020
January 2, 2020
Welcome to 2020, dear podcast listeners! To kick things off, Dave is going to introduce his new practice that has fundamentally changed...
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RISE Together is more than just a conversation about this relationship. Each episode is filled with tangible advice that will get you and your partner to be the best version of yourselves. Hosted by New York Times Bestselling Author and Hollis Co CCO Rachel Hollis and Hollis Co CEO Dave Hollis,
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79: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Marriage
January 16, 2020
Dave is back in the driver's seat this week, answering questions from the community about marriage, commitment, and the ever-elusive...
78: Let's Talk About Kids!
January 9, 2020
Adoption, fertility, when to have kids and when to STOP having kids - we cover it all this episode! Rach and Dave sit down together to...
77: Dave's New Practice Will Propel You Into the Best Version of 2020
January 2, 2020
Welcome to 2020, dear podcast listeners! To kick things off, Dave is going to introduce his new practice that has fundamentally changed...
The Five Love Languages with Dr. Gary Chapman [Rebroadcast]
December 26, 2019
Hey everyone! As we take some time off to enjoy the holidays with our family, enjoy this rebroadcasted episode from earlier this...
76: How to Deal with Your Family Over the Holidays (Hotline Question)
December 19, 2019
Today's episode of RISE Together comes courtesy of our brand-new podcast hotline! Jessica called in to share her story about struggling...
75: Our Love Deserves More Than Four Walls (with Brit Barron and Sami Lane)
December 12, 2019
Y'all, this week's episode is SO SPECIAL to our hearts because Rachel is sitting down with two of her best friends in the whole world:...
74: Ask Rachel Anything (Part Two)
December 5, 2019
We're back after the holidays with our first-ever Q&A with Rae! This time Rachel's going in on topics like codependent spouses, living...
The Episode from Vacation! [Rebroadcast]
November 28, 2019
Hey there! Rachel and Dave are in Hawaii this week celebrating Thanksgiving with their family, so enjoy this flashback episode from...
73: Ask Rachel Anything (Part One)
November 21, 2019
While Dave is away recording his audiobook, Rachel is here solo hosting our first-ever Q&A with Rae, we're digging in deep on...
72: Asking This One Question Could Change Your Whole Relationship
November 14, 2019
What if I told you that asking your partner this one question has the power to fundamentally transform your relationship? If you don't...
71: How to Check In On Your Relationship
November 7, 2019
A relationship audit: we know it sounds like a scary thing, but in reality it could be the thing that saves your relationship, or the...
70: The One Where We Do Couple's Counseling on the Podcast with Love Taza
October 31, 2019
This episode is a little... nonstandard. Rachel surprises Dave with an impromptu couple's counseling session with one of her podcast...
69: It's Time for Another Ask a Husband Anything! with Dave
October 24, 2019
Get your hearts ready, because it's another raw and super-real conversation with Mr. Dave Hollis about everything from relationships and...
68: Losing Our Spouses, Finding Each Other (with Brittany and Daniel Brooker)
October 17, 2019
This week on RISE Together, we share a really beautiful, hard, important, joyful conversation with Brittany and Daniel Brooker about...
67: Tackling Hard Questions About Kids with Teachers Wade and Hope King
October 10, 2019
Where my educators at y'all? Where my parents at, where my aunts and uncles and grandparents and siblings and anyone who has kids, works...
66: Every Day You Get to Wake Up Is a Bonus Day (with Kyle Carpenter)
October 3, 2019
It's another installment of our ongoing series within a series featuring real conversations with people who've lived through...
65: What's My Partner Thinking? (Ask Me Anything with Dave)
September 26, 2019
Have you ever wondered what's really going on in your partner's mind? Prepare your hearts this week for a very open conversation with...
64: The Worst Day of My Life Was My Beginning (with Doug Bopst)
September 19, 2019
We're back this week with another from our series on doing life with people who are different from you. This week Dave sits down with...
63: Doing Life With People Who Are Different From You (with Amit Paley)
September 12, 2019
For 62 episodes now we've been creating content on this podcast all about how to rise together as a couple, but what about the way we...
62: Accomplishing the Impossible With Your Partner
September 5, 2019
This is it: the episode about the mountain. You've probably already heard us talk about the incredible experience we had in Utah a...
61: How to Set Intentions With Your Kids for the School Year
August 29, 2019
If you've been looking for some real, tactical advice on how to encourage your children to live each day intentionally, the this is the...
60: Make Time for Random Conversations With Your Partner (Like This One)
August 22, 2019
Join us today for another conversation about everything and nothing - we hit on wide-ranging topics such as sending your kids to camp...
59: Working Through Codependence... Together
August 15, 2019
By popular demand, this week we're talking all about codependence - our history with it, how we work to overcome it every day, and what...
58: Rachel and Dave Answer Your Burning Relationship Questions
August 8, 2019
This episode is a little different from what you're used to hearing on RISE Together, but we had an absolute blast recording it! That's...
57: How to Fight With Your Partner (Without Causing Damage)
August 1, 2019
This week, by popular demand, we're talking about confrontation styles. How do you fight with your partner? Do you aim to wound, or are...
56: How and Why We Built A Gym in Our Garage
July 25, 2019
We built a gym in our garage! You might be wondering, why did we do that, or maybe how did we do that? Well, we'll tell you. This...
55: An Important Conversation About Grief
July 18, 2019
Recently, we lost someone close to us. That loss made us reflect on our lives and what we hold as important. We can all get stuck in...
54: The Importance of Being Financially Aligned As a Couple
July 11, 2019
Today we are talking about finances. We feel it is incredibly important to be aligned financially as a couple, especially when it comes...
53: How to be the Best Version of Yourself ALL the Time
July 4, 2019
The best version of yourself is with you, all the time. Yes, even when you're on vacation. This week we're challenging the mindset that...
52: A Conversation About Everything and Nothing
June 27, 2019
This week, we are on vacation! While on our vacay, we sat down and talked about all kinds of things. From our fans and Hawaiian dinners...
51: How Partners Can Sabotage Each Other's Health
June 20, 2019
This week for Rise Together we're discussing health based sabotage. We've defined and named four partner types whose behaviors can...
50: What Women Actually Want
June 13, 2019
This week on Rise Together, it's my time! I'm going solo and responding to Dave's episode, "What Men Want" with the five things that...
49: How Being Different Shapes Your Relationship
June 6, 2019
Dave and I are not like other couples in a lot of ways, and proud of it! In this episode, we discuss how being different has shaped our...
48: What We Did Wrong and What We Did Right in Our Marriage
May 30, 2019
Today on Rise Together, it's our anniversary! We've been married for an incredible 15 years this week, so it seems like a good time to...
47: The Fight of Their Life with Devon Still
May 23, 2019
Today on Rise Together, we are so privileged to have Devon Still as our guest. Devon is a former NFL player who famously took the field...
46: What The Man in Your Life Needs
May 16, 2019
Dave sits down with his 40+ years of experience of being a man and gives his perception as to what men may want or need to feel...
45: Excuses to Let Go Of As A Couple
May 9, 2019
In this episode Dave and I take a trip down memory lane and all examine all the excuses we use to live by. What are the excuses you have...
44: How We Vacation With Our Kids
May 2, 2019
This week on the podcast, we are talking about everyone's favorite past time -- family trips. We discuss how we keep each other...
43: What If Your Partners Dreams Scare You
April 25, 2019
In this episode, Dave talks about what happens when your partner's dreams scare you. If your partner is a dreamer or if you have big...
42: How We Keep Each Other From Spiraling
April 18, 2019
Today on the podcast we are talking about how to navigate hard seasons with your partner. In it, we discuss our own experiences and how...
41: Working Together & Still Making Out
April 11, 2019
Today on Rise Together, we’re answering one of our most asked questions...how do we work together and still want to make out with each...
40: How to Get Healthy as a Couple
April 4, 2019
Today on Rise Together, we’re tackling an issue that you’ve asked us about time and time again - how to get healthy (and STAY healthy)...
39: What to do if Your Partner Isn’t Into Personal Development
March 28, 2019
Today on Rise Together we’re throwing it back to an important episode from the way early days of the podcast. In the episode we discuss...
38: Five Things You’ve Always Wanted to Ask A Sex Therapist with Vanessa Marin
March 21, 2019
Today on Rise Together, we’re at it again. Conquering the butterflies in our stomach to talk about the thing that we all want to talk...
37: Make Sure Your Relationship Is Always Growing
March 14, 2019
Today on Rise Together we are throwing it back to our first official episode! We’ve welcomed lots of new listeners recently so we wanted...
36: What if My Partner Doesn’t Support My Dream?
March 7, 2019
Today on Rise Together we’re celebrating the launch of Girl, Stop Apologizing by discussing something that weighed very heavily on...
35: Our Adoption Journey
February 28, 2019
Today on Rise Together we’re talking about something we’ve never discussed in detail with our audience, the incredible and...
34: A Sneak Preview of Dave’s Upcoming Book
February 21, 2019
This week on the Rise Together Podcast, we’re doing something a little unconventional. If you don’t know, we do a daily morning show...
33: “The Truth About Men” with DeVon Franklin
February 14, 2019
Today on Rise Together, we’re talking to New York Times Bestselling Author, film and TV producer, spiritual success coach, and “bonafide...
32: Let’s Talk About Sex Throwback
February 7, 2019
Today on Rise Together, we’re throwing it back to one of our most fun, yet most cheek-reddingly awkward conversations. Today we’re...
31: Who Are You and What Do You Want?
January 31, 2019
If you haven’t heard, we had our first monthly live coaching session in January, in both life and business coaching. I had such an...
30: You Can’t Grow Unless You Fail
January 24, 2019
In celebration of the announcement of our latest RISE Weekend, we’re throwing it back this week to Dave’s speech from our Los Angeles...
29: The Five Love Languages with Dr. Gary Chapman
January 17, 2019
When we first started this very podcast, we made a wishlist of guests that changed the way we think about love and relationships. Dr....
28: How to Overcome Other People’s Opinions
January 10, 2019
On this week's Rise Together podcast, we’re digging into the opinions of other people, and how we dodge or sometimes even positively use...
27: The Weekly Ritual that Keeps Our Relationship Healthy
January 3, 2019
This week we're throwing it back to one of our favorite episodes in which we talk about why we believe date nights are important in a...
26: Why Planning is Better Than Hoping
December 27, 2018
In Today’s episode, we're revisiting one of our first episodes in which we share our tips and tactics on how we plan out our life as a...
25: Year in Review: The Biggest Wins and Fails of Our Relationship in 2018
December 20, 2018
As the end of the year approaches, we think it’s incredibly important to take stock of the highs and lows you’ve experienced as a couple...
24: Are You Showing Up The Way Your Partner Needs?
December 13, 2018
On this week's Rise Together podcast, we're going to talk about the roles and identities we each take on in a relationship and how...
23: Fatherhood - A Full Hour on Being a Good Dad in 2018
December 6, 2018
For the first time ever on the Rise Together podcast, we're having an hour-long conversation about fatherhood -- what does it take to be...
22: HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: Something You Want, Need, Wear, Read...and Something for Fun in the Bedroom
November 29, 2018
In this week's episode, Rachel and Dave surprise each other with the five gifts they're "giving" each other for Christmas this year in...
21: Thanksgiving Throwback - Gratitude for 5 Million Rise Together Listens - The Set Up
November 21, 2018
This week on Rise Together we're celebrating Thanksgiving and the incredible feat that in just 5 short months this Rise Together podcast...
20: Overcoming the Opinions of Others
November 15, 2018
The opinions of outsiders can create havoc within a relationship. Just the word "mother-in-law" is likely to bring one or both of you...
19: Mail Bag Episode - Dave and Rachel Answer Questions About Sex and Parenting
November 8, 2018
Here it is...Our first ever Rise Together attempt at answering some of the ridiculously difficult questions you, our loyal listeners...
18: Four Things Men are Terrified to Talk About
November 1, 2018
In today's episode Dave takes a solo mission deep into man country and tackles the four things men can't talk about to their partners....
17: How to Get in Shape as a Couple
October 25, 2018
This week on Rise Together we are joined by Anthony Trucks, a serial entrepreneur, international speaker, gym owner and the only NFL...
16: Five Relationships You Need To Quit
October 18, 2018
This week we are diving into the 5 relationships that you need to quit. These may not all be with actual humans but maybe it's also your...
15: Habits For Relationship
October 11, 2018
In today's episode we are talking about building healthy habits in your relationship. Whether you like it or not, habits are controlling...
14: Rise Together Conference: Dave’s Opening Keynote
October 4, 2018
We are coming at you with another EXCLUSIVE from our RISE Together couples conference! This week we are bringing you Dave's opening...
13: Rise Together Conference: Opening Keynote
September 27, 2018
This week's episode is an EXCLUSIVE! We are bringing you Rachel's opening keynote from our couples conference RISE Together in Austin...
12: Your Relationship NEEDS To Change
September 20, 2018
Change can be scary and the fear of the unknown almost paralyzing. In today's episode we are breaking down the reasons why change is...
11: Why Hard Conversations Are Key To Building An Exceptional Relationship
September 13, 2018
This week we are throwing it back to a hard conversation that we had a few months ago. It was the hardest and most important...
10: Five Ways To Show Up For Your Partner (Dave's Perspective)
September 5, 2018
In this week's episode it’s Dave’s turn to give you his 5 best tips for showing up for your partner. Since Dave is an overachiever, all...
9: Five Ways To Show Up For Your Partner (Rachel's Perspective)
August 30, 2018
In this week's episode we are doing something a little different! I'm by myself and I'm going to give you my 5 best tips for showing up...
8: Conflict resolution, Enneagram number and how knowing both can change your relationship.
August 23, 2018
Have you ever heard of the Enneagram test? It's like Myers Briggs or a DISC test, only this personality test dates back hundreds of...
7: Let's Talk About Sex Baby
August 16, 2018
Get your hearts and minds ready because we are going for it! We are talking about sex, baby! Join us for a real and frank conversation...
6: You Have to Fail to Grow
August 9, 2018
In this episode we wanted to share Dave’s speech from our RISE Weekend Conference. Dave talks about his feelings of experiencing his...
5: We're Married and We're Dating!
August 2, 2018
On this episode we talk about why we believe date nights are important in a relationship. We share some of our favorite ideas and how we...
4: How to Plan Out Your Life as a Couple
July 26, 2018
In Today’s episode we share our tips and tactics on how we plan out our life as a couple. This includes our work, our goals, our...
3: Help! My Partner Doesn’t DO Personal Development: 6 Tips to get motivated together
July 19, 2018
In this episode we are answering a direct question from our fans "what happens if I’m super motivated for personal growth but my partner...
2: The Relationship is Either Growing or It's Dying
July 12, 2018
In this week's episode of Rise Together, Rachel and Dave Hollis are digging into the core of our beliefs when it comes to romantic...
1: The Set Up
July 5, 2018
We have gotten so many requests about doing a podcast together that we needed to make it happen! In this episode we share a little bit...
