Reid Tracy – The Powerhouse Behind Hay House

Reid Tracy – The Powerhouse Behind Hay House

Interview by Dirk Terpstra, Founder of SoulLove

Reid Tracy is the President and CEO of Hay House, Inc., the largest and most influential self-empowerment publishing company in the world. Acquiring hundreds of prominent authors over the years, Reid has played a crucial role in the strategic development of authors such as Wayne Dyer, Christiane Northrup, Jerry and Esther Hicks and Doreen Virtue. He has also produced more than 12 successful PBS Specials that have raised over $100 million for Public Television. Most recently, he was the executive producer of several movies, including The Shift, with Wayne Dyer and You Can Heal Your Life, a documentary about Louise Hay’s life. Reid is also directly responsible for establishing Hay House’s offices in New York, London, Sydney, Johannesburg, and New Delhi.

 Exclusive Interview with Reid Tracy

OMTimes: In 1988 you started working as an accountant for Louise Hay, who believed that our thoughts could change our lives. That must have been an interesting experience. What did you think about all this?

Reid Tracy: At that time it was a very unique thing for me to hear. I wasn’t at all into metaphysics or self help or any of that sort of thing. I worked at a CPA firm across across the hall from Hay House and I was already doing the accounting for Hay House before I started working there.

All of us in the CPA firm thought that ‘those people’across the hall were crazy. They had all these crazy ideas and Louise was like you said: “Your thoughts can create your life”and “what you think about can help you heal”. The impression that I had, which was different from a lot of people, is that she really believed all that. It wasn’t just something that she was saying, she really wasn’t trying to make money, she was just doing it to help people and that was the part that made an impression on me.