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Episode 581: The Secret to Hitting Your 2026 Goals (That Has Nothing to Do With Strategy)

podcast Oct 27, 2025
The Secret to Hitting Your 2026 Goals (That Has Nothing to Do With Strategy)

In this week’s pep talk, I am sharing the real secret to hitting your 2026 goals—and it’s not another funnel or a new content plan. It’s about surrounding yourself with the right people, finding true accountability, and finally building with the support you deserve.

 

In today’s episode, I share:

02:49 – Why the biggest difference in your results isn’t strategy—it’s who’s walking beside you

04:35 – How community, not more information, builds real momentum and follow-through

06:21 – The investments that made the biggest impact (and why they were all in people)

08:38 – Why you can’t grow sustainably by doing it all alone—and how to fix it

09:49 – The “aha” moment that changed everything for one client at retreat

10:43 – The power of pairing strategy with accountability for long-term success

11:47 – Three ways to shift from planning harder to building smarter in 2026

13:26 – How to audit your support system and prioritize what truly moves the needle

14:52 – The role of the right people, not just platforms, in creating sustainable success

 

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Holly Marie Haynes

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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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A FREE PRIVATE PODCAST FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

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.

Less than 1 hour a week. Whole weeks offline. No algorithm. No burnout.

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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™.