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EP 69: Letting the Worst Moments of Your Life Lead You to Where You Want to Go with Rachel Ritlop

Aug 5, 2019

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EP 69: Letting the Worst Moments of Your Life Lead You to Where You Want to Go with Rachel Ritlop

Life is a journey. It can take years of discovery to find what we are called to do. Sometimes our past mistakes and huge disasters can lead us to where we are supposed to be. I’m excited to have blogger and podcaster Rachel Ritlop here today to talk about having the courage to move on, even when you’ve screwed up so badly that redemption seems impossible. Rachel helps millennial bloggers and coaches build online engagement and full-time businesses.

Rachel is the founder of the Confused Millennial, a site dedicated to helping Millennials live their best lives while they figure out this whole adulting thing. But today, she’ll be sharing a story that she’s never actually fully shared publicly before. It’s a pretty shocking story, but I’m so grateful for her courage and daring to talk about an episode in her life that she’s not all that proud of, in the hopes that it might help other people.

Highlights

[04:58] – After exploring internship options, Rachel began working in counseling and got her Masters in mental-health counseling.
[06:03] – She soon discovered that being an employee was miserable for her.
[07:19] – She immersed herself in self-care, but was still so miserable at work that she ended up getting fired twice.
[10:39] – Rachel realized that she needed to spend time working on herself and finding what she wanted to do.
[11:35] – Rachel had built a great reputation as a counselor, and she had several millennial clients.
[12:20] – She created a life styles curriculum and started teaching lifestyles for about a year. She also did consulting.
[13:48] – She then launched the Confused Millennial blog. This was the first time in a long while that she had the freedom to do and say what she felt.
[15:52] – It took about a year for the blog to become Rachel’s main revenue stream. She helps others embrace who they are while navigating being an adult.
[17:54] – Millennials are just more willing to be vulnerable and call things what they are. They may be the first generation to admit that people are just making it up as they go.
[22:40] – Rachel had a rough childhood, and she was drinking heavily by the time she was a teenager. She was driving and was in a car accident where two people died.
[24:37] She was trying to escape her hurt and ended up creating more hurt.
[25:14] – She had to get to a place where she was unlearning everything that had been taught to her spoken or unspoken. She felt it was her job to make everyone else happy. Realizing this helped relieve her depression and anxiety.
[26:52] – She also learned that she was responsible for killing her own wounds.
[27:30] – Rachel began going to therapy.
[28:34] – Medication and therapy helped Rachel as she went on to college, but she didn’t know if she was going to be prosecuted for the car accident.
[29:19] – Breathing helped with the anxiety.
[31:00] Rachel ended up going to jail for a year. It was very scheduled. The system is truly designed for people to fail.
[35:51] – Rachel prepared for jail by getting a lot of books to read including, Man’s Search for Meaning.
[41:15] – Rachel was afraid of the permanence of having an online presence. She stopped overthinking everything and just started doing what felt right.
[44:04] – Rachel breaks all of the rules.
[45:02] – Asking questions and always learning is a form of self-care for Rachel.
[46:10] – Rachel has recently been focusing on her YouTube channel and taking care of her baby.
[47:15] – Her journey has been about trusting her own advice.

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    Loved this episode. I have subscribed to her site. She is brave and inspiring. Very vulnerable and courageous. Thanks for this

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    I just listened to the episode with Rachel Ritlop and I am humbled by her honesty. One of the comments I have heard others say about millennials is that they are so concerned about how the world will be left in their hands. My experience of being a past business owner and hiring many millennials is just what Rachel pointed out. Millennials will talk you about anything in the hopes it might help the listener somewhere along the way. Past generations “situations” weren’t talked about and were shrouded in shame for the family. Though not all people’s mistakes are handled the way it was in her case, she’s an inspiration in being honest about your past and how to move forward. I could have listened to her and her life for another hour.
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