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Lewis HowesIf You Want To Become A MILLIONAIRE, Follow THESE STEPS! | Rachel Rodgers & Lewis Howes
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Is becoming a millionaire possible for anyone? Belief, environment, and responsibility
Lewis asks whether anyone can become a millionaire, and Rachel says yes—while also acknowledging that systemic conditions can block some people and framing it as a responsibility for others to help lift them up. She shares her own low-income upbringing and argues that opportunity exists in every circumstance, especially with tools like the internet. The chapter closes with the first foundational step: believing it’s possible and choosing an environment that supports that belief.
- •Rachel says becoming a millionaire is possible for anyone, while noting systemic conditions and collective responsibility.
- •She shares her background growing up low income with parents struggling with addiction.
- •She argues marginalized perspectives can reveal underserved market opportunities.
- •She highlights the internet as a major tool that made her path possible.
- •She emphasizes surrounding yourself with people, media, and communities that reinforce belief and possibility.
Identify your value: natural talents, self-study, and how your story helps you serve
Rachel explains that many people undervalue their talents and need to get clear about how they add value. She suggests looking back to childhood clues, recognizing different types of strengths (from big personalities to systems-minded thinkers), and becoming a student of yourself. She frames personal history and challenges as potential assets for connecting with and serving others.
- •Rachel urges people to recognize their natural talents and stop undervaluing them.
- •She suggests using childhood patterns to identify strengths (e.g., she got in trouble for talking, now gets paid to talk).
- •She notes high earners can succeed through many styles, including process and systems thinking.
- •She recommends self-study tools like personality tests to gain insight.
- •She reframes life experiences as potential advantages that can deepen connection and value.
Charge accordingly: audacious asks, premium pricing, and raising prices after results
Rachel’s third pillar is pricing: she encourages people to ask for more money and put offers into the world. She and Lewis discuss starting low or free to validate results, then increasing prices, while Rachel adds that premium pricing can work from day one if results can be delivered. The emphasis is on overcoming fear and treating pricing as a reflection of value and outcomes.
- •Rachel says one of the simplest moves is to start asking for more money and making audacious requests.
- •She suggests charging for things like “pick my brain” time and testing offers in the market.
- •Lewis describes a progression: prove results, then charge, then raise prices over time.
- •Rachel says premium pricing can be done on day one if you can back it up with results.
- •Rachel shares her pattern of undercharging early, then raising prices after seeing strong outcomes.
Choose a path you can sustain: consistency beats chasing “hot” industries
Lewis asks about the fastest path to millions for people who haven’t found their lane yet. Rachel argues you shouldn’t choose based on what’s “hot,” but based on what you can consistently do for years—something you care about enough to keep showing up. She shares how starting a law practice helped her discover she loved running a business, and encourages action and experimentation to find fit.
- •Rachel rejects picking a path solely because an industry is “hot.”
- •She says the fastest path is the thing you’re willing to do consistently over the long term.
- •She shares how her law practice wasn’t her ultimate fit but led her to discover business leadership strengths.
- •She references advice attributed to Denzel Washington: act—start doing the work to learn.
- •She encourages following instincts, trying things, and remembering choices don’t have to be permanent.
Why money talk is taboo: shame, belonging, and power dynamics
After the sponsor break, Lewis asks why money transparency is so difficult. Rachel describes shame on both sides—shame for not having enough and shame for having “too much”—and ties it to imposter syndrome and belonging. She also argues money silence is reinforced socially and structurally, including employers discouraging pay transparency.
- •Rachel says women can feel shame both for having too little and for having “too much.”
- •She describes imposter syndrome around deserving money.
- •She suggests society discourages money talk to preserve power imbalances.
- •She gives the example of employers discouraging coworkers from sharing pay.
- •She links money secrecy to fear of not belonging (too broke, too wealthy, or mismatched with peers).
What to share about money: negotiation strategies, investing conversations, and leading with transparency
Rachel explains the kinds of money conversations she has: openly sharing how much she’s paid, how she negotiated, and what strategies she used. She emphasizes sharing money-earning and wealth-building strategies—especially among women and people of color—and describes how private peer conversations often unlock practical investing knowledge. She also says transparency tends to invite transparency from others.
- •Rachel says she shares pay details (speaking fees, book deal terms) and negotiation strategies.
- •She frames sharing strategies as especially important for women and people of color.
- •She talks about learning investing approaches through peer conversations, including with white male peers.
- •She says being transparent first often encourages others to share in return.
- •She argues transparency creates more opportunity and helps address wealth gaps.
From $100K to $1M: early hustle, undercharging, and building systems that scale
Lewis asks whether $100,000 or $1 million was harder, and Rachel says $100,000. She describes the early-stage “busy bee” phase: doing everything, creating custom offers, being inefficient, and often undercharging—illustrated by her story of charging $500 for a major salon transaction. She contrasts that with the shift required for sustainable million-level growth: systems, process, team, clearer offerings, and learning to say no to “bad money.”
- •Rachel says earning the first $100,000 was harder because you’re still figuring things out and often charging too little.
- •She shares early entrepreneurial income swings and an example of charging $500 for a large legal transaction.
- •She describes the early phase as selling everything, staying busy, and lacking efficiency.
- •She says reaching a million sustainably requires systems, process, and a team—not brute force.
- •She and Lewis discuss refining audience/offer packages and learning that “not all money is good money.”
Plateaus and leadership lessons: boundaries, time protection, and getting comfortable with rejection
Rachel describes taking years to move from roughly $500K–$700K to seven figures, citing distractions and learning curves, including leadership and management challenges. She details boundary issues with clients, employees, and even family, and shares how she created focus time by waking up at 4:00 AM. She then names three key skills she’d prioritize early: saying no, getting a personal assistant, and doubling prices—followed by a deeper discussion on refusing to discount and learning to tolerate rejection.
- •Rachel describes plateau years and lessons around leadership, boundaries, and managing a team.
- •She says she had to learn to stop letting people waste her time and protect focus time (including waking at 4:00 AM).
- •She names three skills: say no (without owning others’ feelings), get a personal assistant early, and double prices.
- •She says she would never discount; if sales are slow, fix clarity, belief, marketing, or sales skill instead.
- •She frames fear of asking for the business as fear of rejection and emphasizes repeated exposure to rejection as freeing.
Rewriting money beliefs and building worthiness: evidence, identity, and imposter syndrome
Lewis asks how people break negative beliefs about wealthy people and how to feel worthy when broke. Rachel recommends challenging beliefs by collecting evidence of the opposite, describing it as building a new mental pathway. She ties worthiness to environment—being around people who reflect your strengths—and offers practical self-talk checks for imposter syndrome, including identifying what you love about yourself and “checking the receipts.”
- •Rachel recommends writing down limiting money beliefs and collecting evidence that contradicts them.
- •She describes shifting thoughts as creating new mental pathways through repeated evidence and practice.
- •She says worthiness is inherent and is reinforced by supportive environments and community reflections.
- •She addresses imposter syndrome as a gradual process: challenge the thought, review your value, and validate your experience.
- •She shares that being around confident people helped change how she talked to herself internally.
Money, happiness, and ‘a rich life’: spending aligned with values (horses, homes, and peer pressure)
Rachel argues money doesn’t automatically buy happiness, but it does buy security and options, and dismissing money as unimportant often ignores real financial insecurity. She frames money as neutral—a tool—and discusses avoiding purchases driven by comparison. Together, she and Lewis explore choosing what genuinely brings joy (including Rachel’s horses and Lewis choosing not to buy a home) and building abundance through aligned decisions, boundaries, and curated inputs.
- •Rachel says money is crucial for baseline security and calls the idea that it ‘doesn’t matter’ disconnected from poverty.
- •She frames money as neutral and emphasizes using it intentionally rather than making it a master.
- •She and Lewis discuss not buying things to impress others and recognizing wants vs. social expectations.
- •Rachel shares spending that brings her joy and meaning, including horses and the experience for her children.
- •She describes ‘feeling abundant’ through experiences, boundaries, and curating media and social environments.
Scaling to eight figures: trust your instincts, lead (don’t do), and focus on one offer
Rachel shares her current challenges after reaching eight figures, including thoughts about not knowing how to run the next phase and learning to trust herself with more money. She describes friction with conservative advisors, choosing investments that fit her values (like a North Carolina beach house), and firing someone who repeatedly told her growth wasn’t possible. She explains that the shift from seven to eight figures required removing herself from day-to-day execution and strengthening leadership and delegation.
- •Rachel describes self-doubt at the next level and actively challenging the story that she can’t run an eight-figure business.
- •She shares learning to trust her own instincts versus conservative advice from financial professionals.
- •She gives the beach house purchase as an example of investing in a ‘rich life’ even when advised against it.
- •She says moving from seven to eight figures required learning to lead, delegate, and get out of the way.
- •She emphasizes continually redefining the CEO role as new leaders (like a COO) and teams are added.
Hello Seven’s business engine: membership model, launches, GrowScale assessment, and team structure
Lewis asks about Rachel’s revenue streams, and she explains that the core business is a single membership: We Should All Be Millionaires The Club. She details pricing, a focus-first philosophy after previously running many offers, and the marketing approach—limited launches, a waitlist window, press, a book-driven audience, and light ad spend. She also explains the GrowScale assessment/course as a way to “download” her expertise into scalable intellectual property and outlines staffing, coaching, and company culture principles.
- •Rachel says the business primarily sells one product: We Should All Be Millionaires The Club, with monthly and annual pricing.
- •She describes moving from many offers to focus, guided by what the numbers showed actually drove revenue.
- •She outlines lead generation: limited launches, waitlist openings, podcast/book/press, and minimal paid ads.
- •She introduces the GrowScale assessment and course as a way to coach by stage and scale her thinking through IP.
- •She shares team details (coaches, employees) and describes culture priorities like flexibility, autonomy, and profit sharing.
Doubling revenue and turning growth into impact: nonprofit vision for supporting moms
Lewis returns to the opening question—doubling revenue—and Rachel lists how she’d turn up existing levers: more ads, more peer promotion, more press, more frequent launches, and mobilizing her customer community. They then explore what the extra money could enable, leading Rachel to describe starting a nonprofit (the Hello Seven Foundation) and a plan to support moms through doulas, night nurses, and childcare support. Lewis pushes her to make it immediate and concrete, including creating an application link and committing to helping moms before year-end.
- •Rachel says she’d scale growth by increasing ads, leveraging peers, doing more press, launching more often, and activating customer referrals/affiliates.
- •She shares plans to start a nonprofit and channel more money into impact.
- •She outlines support ideas for moms: doulas, night nurses, and childcare subsidies, including rough cost estimates discussed on air.
- •Lewis encourages attaching meaning to launches (e.g., funding moms as a visible outcome of revenue growth).
- •Rachel commits to creating an application link and supporting moms before year-end, describing a simple, low-hoop process.
Overcoming fear to launch the foundation: urgency, fundraising asks, and ‘heart on service’
Rachel admits she’s been thinking about the nonprofit for at least a year and identifies fear of doing it wrong as the core blocker. Lewis challenges her to act immediately: create the form, call nonprofit-experienced friends, and call potential donors for large commitments, including suggesting a “100 rejections” style outreach goal. They discuss how service reduces nervousness and how doing it imperfectly can model action for Rachel’s clients.
- •Rachel says fear of doing it wrong has delayed launching the nonprofit despite long-term intent.
- •Lewis pushes immediate action steps: build the form, consult expert friends, and call donors the same day.
- •Rachel considers a ‘collect 100 no’s’ approach to fundraising asks and scaling donations.
- •They discuss advisors being too conservative and Rachel’s preference to move quickly.
- •Lewis emphasizes focusing on service over perfection, and Rachel notes modeling imperfect action will inspire her clients.
Three truths and definition of greatness: ease, love, and putting money in people’s pockets
In the closing segment, Lewis asks Rachel for her “three truths,” and she shares core beliefs about money and life priorities. She says making money can be easy, that the happiest moments are often ordinary time with loved ones, and that real allyship means putting money directly into people’s pockets. She ends by defining greatness as autonomy—leading in your own way and trusting your instincts.
- •Rachel’s first truth: making money is easy, and she wants people to challenge themselves to believe it.
- •Second truth: the happiest moments are often simple, everyday moments with people you love.
- •Third truth: allyship and impact should include putting money in people’s pockets, not just talk.
- •Lewis encourages viewers to support the book, the club, and the moms initiative link mentioned in the conversation.
- •Rachel defines greatness as autonomy—making your own decisions and trusting your ideas and instincts.
