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Episode 531: What to Do When Business Feels Hard: Creativity, Courage, and Your Summer Strategy

podcast May 05, 2025
What to Do When Business Feels Hard: Creativity, Courage, and Your Summer Strategy

In today's pep talk, I share how to stay creative, courageous, and consistent when times feel tough.

 

In today's episode, I share:

  • How to manage tough seasons without giving up
  • The 4 key actions I’d focus on right now (no matter where you are in business)
  • Why creativity and connection are your superpowers
  • How to use follow-up and grassroots marketing to grow, even during challenging times

 

Links & Resources Mentioned:

🎟 Reserve your seat for the Design Your Summer Success Workshop → hollymariehaynes.com/summer

📲 Connect with Holly on Instagram → @thehollymariehaynes | www.hollymariehaynes.com

🙋‍♀️ Join the Crush the Rush Club (Monthly Strategy, planning, templates, live coaching and more)→ hollymariehaynes.com/club

 

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Hi, I’m Holly Marie Haynes!

Holly Marie Haynes is a business strategy coach, podcaster, mom of twins, and founder of the Crush the Rush brand. She helps women create simple scaleable offers and systems to grow to multiple 6-figures.

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Holly Marie Haynes

Business strategist, host of the Crush the Rush™ Podcast, and founder of Anti-Social School™. After 22 years in Fortune 500 strategy, I built a life-first business in part-time hours. Now I help women entrepreneurs grow without living on social media.

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How to Grow a Profitable Business without Social Media

A 9-episode private podcast for the founder in the messy middle of business growth. Inside, I'll walk you through the same framework I've taught 1,000+ women entrepreneurs, the one I use to run my business on less than 1 hour a week of social media. Email marketing, AI, GEO, and the systems behind a sales-generating business that runs whether you post or not.

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Holly Marie Haynes is a business strategist helping women build profitable, life-first businesses without social media, through Crush the Rush™ and Anti-Social School™.

Holly Marie Haynes is a business strategist helping women build profitable, life-first businesses without social media, through Crush the Rush™ and Anti-Social School™.

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