Reid Tracy – The Powerhouse Behind Hay House

In our company we work from Monday through Thursday so everyone has three-day weekends. I personally take the month of July always off to be with my family, so it all balances. And the good thing is that my work doesn’t feel like work to me. Some people will look at the hours that I spend in Hay House and say that it’s more than they would want to work, but to me being here at Hay House and doing all this work is just as fun as anything else.

OMTimes: Can you explain to me why Balboa Press was initiated?

Reid Tracy: We started Balboa Press about two and a half years ago because we had too many people who wanted to publish their books with Hay House. Right now, we’re publishing about 50 books a year at Hay House. We started Balboa Press as an outlet for people to publish their own books and also as a way for us to find new authors that we otherwise might not find. We have already picked up several books from Balboa Press. In fact right now we’re just picking up a new book from Balboa Press called “Jump and you Life will Appear”by Nancy Levine which is doing really well. Another book we picked up is “The Top Five Regrets of the Dying”by Australian author Bronnie Ware. It’s the biggest success we’ve ever had in Germany and it has been on the best seller lists for several month now. Currently, Balboa Press has more books in print than Hay House. In those two and a half years there are already over 3,000 different books in print.