Rachel Hollis.

Rachel Hollis is the Founder of The Hollis Company and a bestselling author whose book Girl, Wash Your Face became a global publishing phenomenon, selling over 4.5 million copies and spending over a year on the New York Times bestseller list.

Hollis built a media and personal development empire encompassing books, podcasts, live events, and online courses, reaching millions of women with messages of self-improvement and entrepreneurial empowerment. Her RISE conference attracted tens of thousands of attendees and featured prominent speakers from business and entertainment. Before her publishing success, Hollis founded Chic Media, an event planning and media company in Los Angeles. While her public persona has evolved through personal challenges and public controversies, her commercial impact in the personal development space is significant. She demonstrated how a content-first approach to business-building an audience through authentic storytelling-could create a major consumer brand. Her influence on women's entrepreneurship and the self-improvement industry has been substantial.