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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, we have our hot
seat guest right now on In your
City Show and it is RainieHoward.
And let me just tell you alittle bit about her.
She's a nine-time bestsellingauthor, ceo of a multi-million
dollar publishing company andhas touched lives of millions
through her transformativeteachings on relationship.
She empowers others to buildimpactful platforms.
She shared the stories with theworld.
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With over 17 years ofexperience, rainie is also a
renowned keynote speaker, hostof the Rainey Howard Show
podcast.
She has touched the lives againof millions, as we talked about
, and her book I have with meright here, the Love Habit.
Love is my favorite word.
We have, like that word allover our house Love, peace and
joy, yeah, and the greatest ofthese is love.
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And the greatest of these islove.
Thank you for bringing that in.
Welcome to the show, Rainey.
Thank you so much for joiningus.
Thank you for having me.
I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I appreciate it, you
look lovely.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I love the colors on
you and you're just.
You have a different hairstyleevery time I see you, which is
fun.
I'm the same.
We look back at pictures of ouryears together.
Oh my gosh, I've had adifferent hairstyle every year
that I've known you.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And even one of the
different colors.
You have to switch it up.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
The image Guys get
new cars, I get a new hairstyle.
That's just the way it goes.
So nine time bestselling, thatmeans you have nine books out
there.
What did you decide that youlove to share?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So I had a dream to
become an author years before I
became an author and I thoughtit was impossible because I'm
like, I don't know any authors,I don't know where to start, how
to do it, but I just rememberone day just journaling and
being in my quiet time like Iwould love to be an author one
day, and I just began to getserious about it and just
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started researching, and so Ilearned about self-publishing
and wrote my first book in 2015and just went from there.
I um, it was really organicbecause it started with me
building an audience throughsocial media and talking about
things that people could relateto, like relationships.
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One of my blog posts went viralafter sharing about my
anniversary with my husband.
At the time I think we were webecause we got married pretty
young I was, we were 21.
We got married, and so aroundthe time I shared my anniversary
post, people were like inspired.
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The post went viral and peoplewas like asking relationship
questions and like, wow, you'regiving me hope, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
And that's what I'm
looking for.
I'm like what did I do with allmy amazing questions?
I have to ask you.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I'm like I mean got
married young, so relationships
and having kids are kind of likethe same.
We just kind of jump into itwithout even knowing what we're
really doing Exactly, and Ireally felt that way and I
didn't know it would.
Now, here we are.
I'm going to date myself.
We just celebrated 21 years.
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We're way dated past you.
We celebrated 21 years ofmarriage.
We have two college studentsbut, yeah, starting off, you
know, being young and trying tofigure things out, you don't
really know what you're doing.
You know and just learning howto have a healthy relationship
and how to thrive in your life.
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And so people were inspired byit and I just started connecting
with more people, writing booksand build this community of
people who wanted to grow intheir lives.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
And, looking through
your book, one of the things
that I really liked about it isthat you talked about you can
become addicted to living a lifeyou don't like, and since I
read it, I thought about it somany times because I get really,
you know, and I get anxiety andI get, I got to take it back to
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one box at a time.
I do 20 boxes.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
She starts stressing
about things for six months down
the road that she's got to do.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But I'm working on
them up until that six months.
That comes, you know, andthere's a lot happening and you
worry.
I'm very empathetic, so Ireally take on a lot of energy
from others and worry, and soit's hard to to kind of bring
that down and you can get in ahabit.
Habits are.
Habits can be great, habits canbe really bad, yes, and you get
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into a habit of breaking downall the time when something
doesn't go your way.
Or you know you're, oh my gosh,just the simplest things of
what am I going to wear.
Or you know my hair doesn'tlook right or something.
And then you get put back inyour humble place.
When you meet Skylar, you knowat the make a wish whose life is
just, you know, surgery aftersurgery or things that she's
going through, it's like, oh wow, really I'm worried about you
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know what I'm going to wear.
Or you know we worry aboutmoney, people.
You know we worry about ourkids, we there's so many things
that get in the way of life andwe start getting addicted to
worrying about it.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yes, you know and you
know the patterns.
One of the things that Inoticed is I had a big issue
with people pleasing and Irealized how it was affecting my
relationships whether it wascoworkers, family, you know
where I felt like I needed toget other people's approval.
So I was addicted to peoplepleasing and then it was.
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It was a habit that I had tolearn how to break free from,
because it started to deplete me.
I felt like I was losing myself, I was exhausted and it was all
about just serving other peopleand I had to learn how to say
what is it that I want?
And just started to focus moreon my goals and the things that
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that build more self-care in mylife and social media doesn't
help.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
It's like how many
likes did you get?
Oh my gosh, nobody liked mypost.
It must be a bad one.
Let me delete it.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Because I mean that's
the dog or the baby, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I mean, we've been
put in this world where we're in
the spotlight all the time, andhow do we keep that image or
that going?
It's exhausting to worry aboutthat.
And in my case, you know, I'vebeen through like many, many,
many hardships whether it was,you know, my first marriage or
losing everything in 2008, andall these things and so I had a
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that's the other that I reallyloved reinvent.
You know, because you, I reallyloved reinvent.
Yeah, you know, because youcan't be afraid to reinvent
yourself.
You don't have to stay in thatsame boat, in that same place.
It's okay to change.
And you talk about getting outof situations, being able to see
the manipulation.
You know that's the thing.
When you're manipulated, youdon't see it.
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I mean, that's the whole pointof the word, right, until you
get away from it.
Then you're like wow, how was Iever in that before?
And someone will think they'lllook at you.
Oh, you are one strong, badasswoman.
You know, you're like think ofthat, but we all have our own
deep things, don't?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
we.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And people don't
realize that we've fallen or
we've come short of things orhave been in angry moments or
been manipulated and peoplethink you have it all going on
and it's not always.
You know the case that it'sokay to say you're not okay and
what you can do to get out ofthat, right yeah you know, I
think we are so committed to acertain identity.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
sometimes you can be
in the flow of life and you're
like this is who I am, this iswhat I do.
But to reinvent yourself is towalk away from whatever you
thought you were, that identitythat's holding you back.
So just being able to recognizewait a minute this is keeping
me in a place I don't want to beanymore.
It's time for me to re-identifywho I am and where I want to go
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and who I want to be, and soit's all about having a vision
for yourself and for your future.
And it really does take youstepping back, because sometimes
we're too close to everythingand you got to turn down the
noise, you got to cut off thesocial media sometimes.
Sometimes you, you know somepeople in your life.
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You make like if people aredealing with manipulation, or
maybe just people who arepulling on to them or draining
them of energy.
Just make some space in orderto see OK, this is who I am and
this is where I want to go in mylife, in order to reinvent
yourself.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
And we've been
prepped and taught.
Don't you think?
Whether it's your job, whereyou're working, especially a
long time ago?
Now people quit because it'ssunny outside, but it was a time
where people really stayed withcompanies and were really
dedicated to one another and youfelt obligated to stay, to get
that watch at 10 years, to getthat you know to be in that
place.
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And then the same with amarriage man.
You get married.
It's like I mean, those aresome heavy words, death do you
part?
I always tease and say thereshould be five-year contracts
because no one would be upset.
You're like, oh, we're comingup to the end, I'm done.
Or oh, I want to renew.
You know so we just had ourfive-year and I renewed.
So 18 months off the album,yeah so.
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But we grow up in these times,especially our you know age,
that you have to stay committedand you have to stay where
you're at and you have to stayin that marriage or stay in that
job.
And it causes so much damageinternally and physically and
mentally, depending on.
You know the relationship, youknow that you're in.
How do you see that?
And how do you?
I know you said to be get quiet.
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Sometimes that's hard whenthere's so much bad noise going
around you.
But how do you, how do you seethat and make that choice to, to
, to walk away?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, you know.
I always tell people yeah, Ialways tell people that it's not
about how many years you'vebeen in a marriage, it's about
the quality of the marriage,because I've always been the
kind of person where it was like, if this is toxic or if this is
not work, listen, it's okay toget a divorce If that's just not
for you, if it's unhealthy andpeople endure some very toxic
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situations and it's like youdon't have to go through that
just to stay in a relationship.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
But it's hard when
you're manipulated or it's hard,
when there's money or thingsthat you have or children to be
able to, to make that choice.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It's very hard.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I think it's probably
super important.
You've got to find somebody youcan trust and have support,
somebody that you can talk to,that's really has you know, your
back, your care.
What can someone get by readingyour book?
And it has so many great thingsin there so many things that
resonated with me, you know.
Tell us what they can get.
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Give us some relationship tips.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, well, I want to
say one of the techniques in
the book, the love habit,because it's a daily self-care
practice to a happier life andhealthier relationships.
But one of the things is theacronym love, l, o, v, e L for
listen, learn.
Learn to listen to your body,learn to pay attention to your
mind, body and spirit, learnabout you.
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And O is to optimize Begin tocreate some type of plan that
optimize what helps you to havea better mental health in your
life, whether it's meditation orexercise or whatever that's
best for you, and so you couldfind that out in the book.
And then V is to validateyourself, because we often look
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for validation out of otherpeople, just like we talked
about with social media, lookingfor the likes what do you think
about me?
But learn how to validateyourself based on your own
personal goals.
And then E is all aboutexperiencing the life that you
desire by just embracing eachand every moment of now, where
you are presently, instead ofthinking so far in advance.
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But practice breathing in andbreathing out and taking in
where you are now.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
That's such great
advice.
We're definitely sisters fromanother mystery, because my um,
when I was speaking in that um,the word chocolate and all the
letters had, um, uh, a word ofwhat it meant you know you were
chocolate, and then I also didlove.
When I to the golf and the the,I let people pick their own
letters.
That was what I did for that.
But love is a chunk, so it'slike we're so yeah we're so
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meant to be friends.
Yeah, so I look forward to somuch more.
So the love habit, it is adaily self-care practices for
happier life and healthierrelationships, and it really I
want to say it is truly possible, no matter how bad your life
can can get that it is trulypossible to have true love If
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you don't allow yourself to stayin a situation.
Give yourself some time tobreathe, Um, and you can really
find it.
And when it comes to evenreinventing yourself that the
word, I just love it, becausewhen things go wrong, you do
have the ability to reinventyour life.
You don't have to stay whereyou're at and who you are and
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you're a prime example of thatas well and reinventing and
finding out that you're anauthor, you know and you never
thought that was possible.
And not only one book, but ninebestselling.
So that's incredible.
I know that we have yourinformation on the screen so
that people can be able to getin touch with you, find out more
and tell them a little bit.
So you wrote your books, butyou also do speaking.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yes, yes, I am.
I am also a speaker and I havea podcast as well, so I enjoy
all of that and just workingwith other people who want to
grow as a business owner andauthor and how to turn your book
into a business, because a lotof people think that it just
ends with the book, but there'sso much more and I'm so excited
to learn more too.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
We've got a meeting
set up, so here that goes.
So, rainy, rainy Howard, thankyou so much for being on the
show with us and enlightening usand helping us to think more
about our relationship and walkaway from toxic mess and know
that we can reinvent ourselves,and you just need to have some
love in your life.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Thank you for having
me.
I enjoyed this Wonderful.
Thank you so much.
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