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Holly Marie Haynes

Holly Haynes, a leading voice in the entrepreneurial world, is the founder of the globally recognized Crush the Rush Podcast. With her unique blend of business acumen and personal experience, Holly empowers women to build successful businesses while maintaining a fulfilling personal life and scaling their businesses without relying on the social media algorithm.

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You can’t keep doing what you’ve always done.

Life First Business Strategy for Entrepreneurs Pre-P.S.: 🎟️ Join our free Backstage Pass Open House (Nov 11–14) and get exclusive access to The Collective Co-Op AND live coaching in our private Slack community for three days! This is a great way to get your 2026 growth plan started NOW, and to see if the all-new Co-Op is a good fit for you. Hey Reader, Let’s be real for a second — You can’t keep doing what you’ve always done and expect your business to grow. The truth? The online space has...

Life First Business Strategy for Entrepreneurs This week’s Better Together Round-Up is here! Think: one game-changing strategy, the resources you didn’t know you needed, and a few fun favorites we’re loving right now. Quick to read, packed with value—you in? 🕒 3-minute read, unlimited inspiration. Hi Reader, Right now, I’m writing this on my way with my husband to a quiet dock in Georgia. I imagine sitting by a still, blue lake, with trees that are a full-on firework display of gold and...

Life First Business Strategy for Entrepreneurs Hey Reader, We’re slowly recovering from the time change over here. The pumpkins are still on the porch (my holiday decor is slowly coming out), and I’ve got one foot in cozy fall mode and the other starting to dream about 2026. It always feels like November sneaks up fast—but instead of spiraling into the end-of-year hustle, I’ve been asking myself:What would it look like to close out the year with intention—and start the next one with clarity?...

Life First Business Strategy for Entrepreneurs This week’s Better Together Round-Up is here! Think: one game-changing strategy, the resources you didn’t know you needed, and a few fun favorites we’re loving right now. Quick to read, packed with value—you in? 🕒 3-minute read, unlimited inspiration. Hi Reader, Happy Halloween!!! Flashback to my fav Halloweeen costume! Ever have a week that’s packed to the brim, but somehow peaceful? That’s the vibe over here—equal parts hustle and hocus pocus....

Life First Business Strategy for Entrepreneurs This week’s Better Together Round-Up is here! Think: one game-changing strategy, the resources you didn’t know you needed, and a few fun favorites we’re loving right now. Quick to read, packed with value—you in? 🕒 3-minute read, unlimited inspiration. Hi Reader, This week, I fell down a glorious nostalgia rabbit hole again and landed squarely in the 90s — thanks to the new Lilith Fair documentary. If you’ve been around here a minute, you know...

Life First Business Strategy for Entrepreneurs Hey Reader, There’s something really vulnerable about sharing numbers publicly—especially when they don’t follow the “up and to the right” storyline everyone expects. But I want to tell you the truth anyway. This year, our business revenue dropped 30% compared to last year. And 75% of that? Was completely intentional. We chose to: Launch the Collective Co-Op only once a year (it’s coming back in November!) 👀 Make Anti-Social School™ evergreen and...

Life First Business Strategy for Entrepreneurs This week’s Better Together Round-Up is here! Think: one game-changing strategy, the resources you didn’t know you needed, and a few fun favorites we’re loving right now. Quick to read, packed with value—you in? 🕒 3-minute read, unlimited inspiration. Hi Reader, Like our new format? We changed it again. I blame it on the fact that our house is equal parts glitter and cobwebs right now, and I like to be really creative this time of year. The girls...

Hi Reader, A year ago, I didn’t even have a ChatGPT account. Now? I’m speaking at a summit about how we completely rebuilt our programs using custom GPTs to help our students get results faster—with less time and less guesswork. Here’s what happened:Last spring, I realized I had two choices—ignore AI and hope it fades into the background (spoiler: it won’t), or get ahead of it and figure out how to use it in a way that actually supports the life-first business model we believe in. So I got to...

This week’s Better Together Round-Up is here! Think: one game-changing strategy, the resources you didn’t know you needed, and a few fun favorites we’re loving right now. Quick to read, packed with value—you in? 🕒 3-minute read, unlimited inspiration. Hey Reader, You know that mix of exhaustion and inspiration that hits after hosting something big? That’s where I’m at—still riding the high (and finishing the laundry) after our 9th Camp Creative Retreat. Every time, I wonder if I’m a little...

Hi Reader, I know we’ve been talking about refining your strategy (and thanks again if you’ve already filled out our survey, but I couldn’t not share this in the middle of it all. Let’s play a quick round of “yep, that’s me”… You spend way too long writing a single post or email—and still second-guess it. You want to use AI, but the output feels robotic or off-brand. Your notes app and Google Drive are overflowing with half-finished ideas. Things are technically working… but it feels like...