well hi there!
I’m Holly Bray - coach, podcast host, mum, and total productivity nerd.
I spend my working days helping small business owners know what tasks to focus on, put plans into action and build a personalised business model that works for them.
I’m all about building a business that supports your life, so you can build a business that grows with your family and a family that grows with your business.
Your business should support your life, not take over it. I am all about ease and flow over hustle and grind. We all have permission to put our life before our work and remove “busy” as a badge of honour. You can run your business by design - structuring it in a way that feels good that means you’re still getting things done but having the freedom you desire.
Taking messy and uncomfortable action is a non-negotiable if you want to grow. No one knows what our business and our life needs more than we do. We’re all so much more capable than we think we are… sometimes we just need a little push in the form of encouragement, guidance, and support along the way.
Impact is and always will be more important than income. I believe in a business driven by people - not numbers. I promise to always be honest about how my business is run, openly share my experience, and focus on the vision of where you want to be.
Business can be fun. Business gets to be enjoyable. Business gets to be playful. Showing up as yourself + listening to your customers = pure magic. You can give your customers and yourself the best experience in order to make working ON your business as joyful as possible
I live in Preston, UK with my husband, our son, Jacob and our dog, Lola.
I gave birth to my first son in March 2021 and not a day goes by that I don’t feel deeply grateful that I get to spend my life being his mum.
I believe that you can have it all and we should focus on building a business that supports our life - not one that takes over it. That’s why I took five months off for my maternity leave and work 4 days a week because rest is an essential part of productivity.
When I’m not working, you can usually find me spending time outdoors with my family, or making my way through a new movie or TV series (favourites include Sons of Anarchy, Line of Duty and every Marvel film ever!)
I'm a big lover of magazines, scented candles, peanut butter and all the cups of tea I can get my hands on.
Way back in 2013 (after graduating from university with no idea what to do), I started my first blog. It was about all things lifestyle and I called it A Branch of Holly, to represent me sharing all the branches of my life.
I still cringe when I look back at some of my “outfit of the day” pictures!
I started it as a passion project but when I started getting asked more and more questions about online marketing, I had a lightbulb moment. I quickly switched and started blogging about all things marketing and by 2017, I was handing in my notice to become a full-time productivity and business coach. This was something I’d been dreaming of - I knew I wanted to work from home with my dog and be able to take my future kids to and from school. So when I discovered the world of business coaching, I knew deep down in my soul that it was what I was meant to do.
For the first two years I was a workaholic and when I got married in 2019, we were thinking about starting a family, and I hit burnout for the second year running, I knew something had to change.
Now I’m a mum and I’ve built my business by design, in a way that works for me and my family.
I’ve spent the past four years building and running my business, working with hundreds of product and service based business owners to support them on their journey.
I now offer 1:1 productivity and business coaching services, and my incredible Busy To Boss Academy programme - a coaching-meets-mastermind-meets-membership experience that helps busy business owners go from overworked and overwhelmed to running their business like a boss. I am so eternally grateful that I have found so much happiness, joy, and fulfilment in the work that I do.
I have had some amazing experiences, including:
Creating my own unique group business coaching programme and growing it to over 100 members
Being featured on various podcasts and taking part in online summits
Working with some absolutely incredible human beings who have become very dear friends
Going to my first business retreat and combining that with my honeymoon to Las Vegas
And even winning a few awards (Best Marketing Blog at the UK Blog Awards for 2 years running and being shortlisted for a Digital Women 2021 award).
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The best way you can run your business is with your values at the forefront of everything and by doing things in your own way. You are unique. Your business is unique. So your approach and your strategy should also be unique. Showing up as you is the most powerful thing, along with making decisions that align with you.