Let’s Work Together
The Crush the Rush™ Podcast

Grow your business. Without the algorithm.

Strategy, systems, and life-first business for women entrepreneurs. New episodes every week.

This is the show for the woman who already built a business and is done trading her life for it. Every week you get real strategy for scaling on email, search, and partnerships, so your growth stops depending on how much you post.

LISTEN NOW:
Listen to Crush the Rush on Apple Podcasts
Listen to Crush the Rush on Spotify
Watch Crush the Rush on YouTube
The Crush the Rush™ Podcast

Grow your business. Without the algorithm.

Strategy, systems, and life-first business for women entrepreneurs. New episodes every week.

This is the show for the woman who already built a business and is done trading her life for it. Every week you get real strategy for scaling on email, search, and partnerships, so your growth stops depending on how much you post.

LISTEN NOW:

Listen to Crush the Rush on Apple Podcasts Listen to Crush the Rush on Spotify Watch Crush the Rush on YouTube

640+

Episodes

#73

Apple Entrepreneurship

1000+

Women helped

<30 min

Most episodes

Weekly

New drops
Holly Marie Haynes smiling in headphones at her desk beside a podcast microphone
Why press play

Proof you can grow the business and keep your life

This isn't another hustle podcast. Nobody here is going to tell you to post more, show up harder, or add one more thing to your plate. Every week you get real strategy from someone who built a seven-figure business in part-time hours, on under an hour a week of social media. If you want proof that growth and a life can happen at the same time, this is your show.

Listen to Crush the Rush on Apple Podcasts
Listen to Crush the Rush on Spotify
Watch Crush the Rush on YouTube
Listen now
Listen now
Listen now
Holly Marie Haynes smiling in headphones at her desk beside a podcast microphone
Why press play

Proof you can grow the business and keep your life

This isn't another hustle podcast. Nobody here is going to tell you to post more, show up harder, or add one more thing to your plate. Every week you get real strategy from someone who built a seven-figure business in part-time hours, on under an hour a week of social media. If you want proof that growth and a life can happen at the same time, this is your show.

Listen to Crush the Rush on Apple Podcasts Listen to Crush the Rush on Spotify Watch Crush the Rush on YouTube

Listen now

You'll love this show if...

You already built a real business and you're ready to scale it, not start over from zero

You have the list, the podcast, the freebie, and no idea which one is actually bringing in clients

You've been burned by a guru and you want an honest strategist, not another hype machine

You're worn out by the pressure to post every day, and you suspect it isn't even working

A family moment made you want your time back, and a business that fits your real life

You'd rather grow on email, search, and real relationships than live inside the algorithm

You'll hear from names like

Jenna Kutcher · Amy Porterfield · Dana Malstaff · Tanya Dalton · Sam Vander Wielen · Jess Ekstrom · Jereshia Hawk · Ashley Brock 

Listen to Crush the Rush on Apple Podcasts
Listen to Crush the Rush on Spotify
Watch Crush the Rush on YouTube
Holly Marie Haynes smiling, sitting on the floor in a yellow sweater and jeans

You'll love this show if...

You already built a real business and you're ready to scale it, not start over from zero

You have the list, the podcast, the freebie, and no idea which one is actually bringing in clients

You've been burned by a guru and you want an honest strategist, not another hype machine

You're worn out by the pressure to post every day, and you suspect it isn't even working

A family moment made you want your time back, and a business that fits your real life

You'd rather grow on email, search, and real relationships than live inside the algorithm

You'll hear from names like

Jenna Kutcher · Amy Porterfield · Dana Malstaff · Tanya Dalton · Sam Vander Wielen · Jess Ekstrom

Listen to Crush the Rush on Apple Podcasts
Listen to Crush the Rush on Spotify
Watch Crush the Rush on YouTube
Why this show is different

Not another "post more, hustle harder" podcast

Most business shows for women still build everything on social media. This one does not. Here is what you will actually get every week.

Marketing without social media

Email, search, and partnerships do the work the algorithm only pretends to. You get the exact systems that bring in clients, not another reminder to show up online.

Built for the messy middle

This is for the woman who already has real revenue and real clients. Every episode is about scaling what you built, not starting over from zero.

Organic, relationship-first growth

Real relationships, referrals, and partnerships bring in better clients than any algorithm ever will. You'll hear how to attract aligned buyers who show up already sold, not strangers you have to convince.

Short, specific, done

Most episodes run under 30 minutes with real numbers and a takeaway you can use the same day. No filler, no fluff, no listen-and-forget.

Start here · Free curated playlists

Free podcast playlists, sorted by where you are

Not sure where to start with 600+ episodes? Pick the season you're in and get a free, curated set of the exact episodes to listen to first. Delivered straight to your inbox.

Thinking about leaving corporate? Five honest episodes on planning a smart, sustainable exit into entrepreneurship without panic or burning bridges.

Get the free playlist

Grow serious, full-time income on part-time hours using smarter structure, cleaner strategy, and scalable systems.

Get the free playlist

Design an offer suite that works together instead of competing, so revenue gets predictable and launching stops feeling like a guessing game.

Get the free playlist

The five episodes listeners download, save, and share the most, chosen from more than 600. The fastest way to see if this show is for you.

Get the free playlist

Not sure what to listen to first?

Take the 2-minute quiz and get a personalized place to start.

TAke the quiz
Fresh this week

Latest Episodes

Start with the newest drop. With 600+ more in the archive, we've got you covered.

Latest Episodes

Episode 648: Fewer, Better Things: Raising Your Prices and Slowing Down

What if the right move in your business is to take something away? Carol Gavhane walked away from a thriving, award-winning mon...

Episode 647: What Actually Turns Freebie Subscribers Into Buyers

Raise your hand if you have ever run a launch that was fine. Not a disaster, but the numbers were not what you expected, so you ...

Episode 646: Why Most Business Books Get Forgotten (and How to Write One That Sells For You)

 

If a book has been on your list for months or years, this episode is the one that gets you moving. Book coach Holly Ostrout ex...

BROWSE ALL EPISODES
Listener favorites

Best of the Podcast

The episodes listeners come back to most. A good place to see if this show is for you.

Listener favorites

Best of the Podcast

The episodes listeners come back to most. A good place to see if this show is for you.

Holly Marie Haynes in headphones at her laptop beside a podcast microphone and notebooks
Hey, I'm Holly

I'm a business strategist who spent 22 years building strategy for Fortune 500 companies before I gave myself 20 Mondays to build something of my own.

Four years later I've built a seven-figure business in part-time hours, spending under an hour a week on social media. I retired my husband, I travel with my family every quarter, and I'm there for the bus every day for my twin girls.

I'm not the coach who will help you manifest your dream life. I'm the strategist who hands you a real plan for the business and the life you actually want. That's what this show is for.

More about Holly
Holly Marie Haynes, business strategist and host of Crush the Rush, in a black blazer
Hey, I'm Holly

I'm a business strategist who spent 22 years building strategy for Fortune 500 companies before I gave myself 20 Mondays to build something of my own.

Four years later I've built a seven-figure business in part-time hours, spending under an hour a week on social media. I retired my husband, I travel with my family every quarter, and I'm there for the bus every day for my twin girls.

I'm not the coach who will help you manifest your dream life. I'm the strategist who hands you a real plan for the business and the life you actually want. That's what this show is for.

More about Holly

What our listeners say...

What our listeners say...

Five-star listener review: Really appreciate the short and to the point advice on what's worked for Holly
Five-star listener review: Listening to Holly and her guests feels like listening to friends a few steps ahead
Five-star listener review: Holly is always dropping in with so much value and real-time strategies that work
Five-star listener review: Love this podcast. Holly has great delivery on subjects I want to know more about
CHECK ALL REVIEWS
Ready to dig in?

Your next three steps

It really comes down to three moves. Press play, get on the email, and get your business found in search and AI.

Listen

Hit play on the newest episode, or grab a free playlist for the season you're in. Under 30 minutes, real strategy, every single week.

Start listening

Get the Newsletter

Join the Better Together newsletter for the new episode plus the strategy I only share with my list. One useful note every Friday.

Join the list

Get Seen

Every relationship starts with someone finding you. See where your business shows up in Google and AI, and fix what's keeping the right people from finding you.

Run the audit
Holly Marie Haynes with a callout that reads 71% of my sales come from email, not social
The Friday newsletter

The Better Together Newsletter

The algorithm decides who sees a social post. Your inbox doesn't. Email is the one audience you actually own, and it's where 71% of my sales come from.

Every Friday I send one short, strategic note. No fluff, no daily noise. Just what's actually working in my business and the businesses I coach, plus the new episode before anyone else.

The new episode each week, in your inbox first

One strategy that's working right now, in real businesses

Behind the scenes of what I'm testing and building

The occasional tool or resource I actually use

Subscribe free
Get seen · The tool behind the show

The right clients find you. That starts with showing up.

This whole show runs on one idea: you grow through relationships and referrals, not by chasing the algorithm. But a relationship can't start until the right person finds you. This skill runs the audit for you. In 5 minutes you'll see where your business is showing up in Google, ChatGPT, and Claude, and the one thing to fix first, so more of the right people land on your work and the relationship can start. It's the same audit I run on my own business every month.

Holly Marie Haynes smiling as she works on her laptop

The full SEO + GEO Audit Skill loaded into your Claude account

Unlimited audits for your site, your content, and your clients

A plain-language punch list of what to fix first

Your single biggest gap in search and AI, named for you, with the fix

Lifetime updates as search and AI keep changing

Normally $97

$27

One-time payment. No subscription. No upsell.

Run your first audit
Start the binge

You didn't start your business to work more. You started it to live more.

That's what every episode is here to help you do. Press play and start with the one that speaks to where you are right now.

Listen to Crush the Rush on Apple Podcasts
Listen to Crush the Rush on Spotify
Watch Crush the Rush on YouTube

Listen to Crush the Rush on Apple Podcasts Listen to Crush the Rush on Spotify Watch Crush the Rush on YouTube

Want to be a guest?

You might be a great fit

The best guests bring something we haven't covered yet and share it in a real, useful way. You're a good fit if:

You're an expert on a topic we haven't shared on the show yet

You have real takeaways people can use the same day

You're willing to share your story in a real, honest way

You want your message in front of more of the right people

Apply to be a guest
Holly Marie Haynes at her podcast desk with headphones, a microphone, and notebooks

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™.