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Welcome to part two of the How To Run Your Business Like a Boss series!

If you're anything like me, the new year feels like a fresh start, a blank slate, and a new chance to go after those big amazing goals for our lives and our business. 

But if the ups and downs of entrepreneurship have taught us anything, it’s this: our plans need to be adaptable and adjustable. 

That's why I absolutely love turning my big business goals for the year into actionable checkoffable 90-day plans - which is what we’re talking about today. 

How do you dig in and start creating 90-day plans for more momentum in your business?

We’re going to cover:

• Why 90 day plans are so powerful and the intention behind them

• They 3 key systems you need to have in place in your business (& how to implement them)

• The difference between habit-based goals and outcome-based goals as we map out our 90 day plans

• Questions to ask yourself when it comes to breaking down the action steps for each goal

• How to create a 30-60-90 plan to hold you accountable so you can see real momentum and progress

This is basically like an hour long masterclass, so get ready to take notes!

Keep bossing it.

Welcome to the first episode of a brand new series of the podcast: How To Run Your Business Like a BOSS! 

We’re getting started with a big question…

Have you ever fallen out of love with your business? 

You’ll know if you have but it also might disguise itself as other things… it looks like feeling frustrated all the time, things might not be working smoothly, and maybe you even feel like you want to just burn it all down and start again.

Well, good news for you - if you have ever felt this way, it's likely not because you need to start over from scratch, but because you're out of alignment. 

Sounds fluffy? Don’t worry Boss - in this episode, we're going to talk about how you can realign your vision with your business so that you can fall back in love with it again.

We’re going to cover three key areas:

• Your definition of success - I’ll walk you through 5 different core areas of your life, questions to ask yourself to measure your version of success as well as examples from my own life (I know you love a concrete example!)

• How to figure out your owner’s intent, so what you want your business to do for YOU personally, what you want it to provide in terms of time, money & energy

• Your whole business vision in terms of the direction you are going in with your offers, content, systems, etc.

This is a jam packed episodes full of lots of concrete examples!

This will help you SO much in getting realigned in your business and when you feel more aligned, your business becomes more fun. 

And THAT’S when you start to fall back in love because you see that energy, enthusiasm, and excitement come back.

This is my first episode back from maternity leave - I hope you love it!

Let’s dive in.

Oftentimes after you've run your business for a certain amount of time, you will always get asked this one question: if you had to start over, what would you do?  

As I’ve been gearing up for my launch of The Embodied Boss Collective, I’ve been thinking about the different women I’ve been talking to who want to be inside of the programme and the conversations I’ve been having with my clients, and it got me thinking - what would I do differently?

What would I do if I was my own student sitting here, wanting to join The Embodied Boss Collective to take my business to the next level or pivot or even start over?

 So here we are. Here's that conversation. Here are the answers that continued from that thought process. 

 In today’s episode, I’m going to share if I was starting over today in 2024 exactly what I’d focus on. 

I’ll go through what I would differently, what I would do the same, and what I would just do out of the blue that was never even in the mix for me before.  

This is going to be a juicy episode so let’s dive in!

A phrase that I say often to my clients, and that is one of my guiding principles is this: if you want big results, you've got make big moves.

 This is one of the most common topics of conversation I have with potential clients in the DMs who are considering joining The Embodied Boss Collective this year because we look at, okay, well I'm doing this little thing and I'm doing that little thing.

 But then we go through the same motions every single day wondering why nothing is working or changing…

 So, Boss - it’s time to make some big moves. But to make big moves, you often have to take big risks. It is simply a requirement as an entrepreneur to take risks. 

But rather than me just telling you that you need to take risks, let's actually dissect in today's episode what taking risks means, what safety means, and how you can completely reframe the way that you look at taking risks.

 This episode is actually inspired by some of my clients. Over the past few months, I’ve noticed that they’ve been asking me way more questions about my journey and how I’ve taken big leaps in my business pretty much every year since I started.

 So I’ve almost been dissecting this based on their questions and I had this lightbulb moment one day where I thought oh my gosh, I need to talk about this more. I need to talk about this on the podcast. And so here we are.

 I loved recording this episode so I hope you love listening to it! Let’s dive in.

If you are looking to scale your business to consistent £5k income months this year, this episode is for you. 

 If you dream big and know that you are meant to do big things, you've got this amazing vision - this episode is going to share some real uncomfortable truths (that aren’t always shared on Instagram), of the things that you are going to need to do and what it's really going to take to grow and scale a business of that magnitude.

 What I DO want you to know is that it’s 100% possible. And that's what's so exciting about being an entrepreneur to build a business at this scale. 

 But a lot of people do us a disservice by making it seem so easy, and we often feel like we're doing something wrong or we're missing a secret piece of information, or just simply are not prepared for what it truly takes to scale a business. 

 So this episode is the real and raw truth (10 truths to be specific) about scaling to consistent income months in my business based on everything that I have done over the past 4 years, as well as helping countless students and clients scale their businesses to consistent income months ranging from 3k to 5k and beyond.

 Let’s dive in.

Happy 2024, happy January, and happy first podcast episode of the new year!

I hope you had a gorgeous time with your loved ones and I have to say - I'm feeling really inspired and pumped up for this episode which is all about getting your ish together. 

 This is meant to be a little bit of some hard truths - yes Sassy Holly is back for 2024 you’ll be glad to know!

 But also a bit of yes Boss, we're in the new year, it's gonna be amazing. It’s going to be better than last year and I’m going to give you some really good things to reflect on. 

 This is 1000% not another training on 2024 planning because I know you’ve had enough of that by now… PLUS we talked about that topic loads on the podcast, especially in the series that we did at the end of last year.

 Another thing we're going to touch on in today's episode is about who is actually making your decisions.

 Now, I know what you're thinking: “what do you even mean, Holly? Obviously I'm making my own decisions”. But you might be surprised that it's not you that you want to be making your decisions. So stay tuned.

We've got a good episode today so let’s dive in.

Here we are at our last episode of 2023 - can you believe it?!

 The final episode of the year and all I’m going to tell you before you go into this is that this is going to be a classic, Sassy Holly pep talk  - she had to make one more appearance didn’t she? And I couldn’t think of a better way to end the year. 

 So this is going to be short, sweet and oh so so sassy, so let’s dive in.

 This also means that 2023 on the podcast is officially wrapped! Have a beautiful festive break with your loved ones. Eat, drink, rest, be merry.

 I will see you in 2024 when I will be back from maternity leave and let me tell you… I’m coming back with a bang, Boss.

Here’s a little spoiler for you Boss - being a female business owner doesn't have to be so lonely. 

That’s why in today's episode, I want to talk about some observations I have been seeing in the world of women in business, and how we are creating new rooms, new circles for women who are ready to take their business to the next level.

This episode has been sitting on my heart for a long time and the end of the year felt like the best time to bring it to the table.

It’s come about because of the conversations I’ve been having with my private clients and people in my community.

These conversations have led me in this new direction where I'm going from 2024 onwards with what is going to be my new signature group offer, The Embodied Boss Collective.

So I wanted to share with you why I'm truly doubling down on this and on making more space for female business owners in 2024.

Let’s dive in.

Here is the number one reason so many business owners fail to achieve their goals…

They don't have a plan that keeps them focused in implementation mode. 

As an entrepreneur, that translates into forgetting to promote your offers, forgetting to stay consistent in marketing, forgetting to prioritise making sales… and then you find yourself trapped again in that feast or famine cycle. 

Or maybe you let your schedule just get so completely out of control, trying to juggle all the things that you realise you haven't had any time off in months.

Or maybe you find yourself constantly trying out new things, constantly chasing the dopamine hit, going after the next shiny object, and in turn, wasting tons of time, energy, and money instead of doubling down on what actually works for you in your business. 

In our final part of the Your 2024 Gameplan series, we're taking all the insights from this past 4 weeks in this series and turning it into your 12 month gameplan for 2024.

 Let’s dive in.

I want to start off today with two words for you: GOAL SETTING.

 It seems like an easy enough process. You write a goal down on a sticky note. You put it on your wall so that you can look at it every single day and be inspired about what you're working towards. 

 But then five months later, that sticky note has gone missing. It is lost in the shuffle. You have no idea what direction your business is going in. 

Oops! 

This is one of the reasons that goal setting is often a practice that does not work for most people. We tend to only do it once a year and then completely forget about it. 

 That's why in part four of the Your 2024 Gameplan series, we are going to approach goal setting differently, so that you can create goals you'll actually follow through on.

Let’s dive in.

What would it look like if 2024 was the year that you outsmarted the hustle? The year you didn't have to work 24/7 in order to have a successful business. 

I hear from so many women business owners who are just working crazy long hours. 

 They're doing everything behind the scenes themselves, and then it feels like they're always putting out fires because there's always another emergency they have to deal with. 

 Boss - panic is not a business strategy. 

 If your business is constantly in emergency mode, it might be because you're running it by default instead of by design. You're always reactive instead of being proactive. 

 When you learn to run your business by design, everything changes. Things begin to run like clockwork.

 That’s why in part three of the Your 2024 Gameplan series, we're going to consciously design a business that works FOR you in 2024.

 Let’s dive in.

All too often I find amazing business owners who are fighting burnout simply because they're spending every moment worrying and thinking about their business. 

 And with everything we've experienced over the last few years, many of us are starting to feel that burnout. We're starting to feel just this general exhaustion. We haven't had very much fun. It feels like there's always something going wrong in the world, and it starts to really weigh on us. 

 So I'm here to tell you that no matter what might be happening in the world, we can still intentionally build out our dream life while we are growing our dream business, especially if we just take a moment and get clarity about what we want to be experiencing right now. 

 In part two of the Your 2024 Gameplan series, we’re continuing to create your 2024 game plan by designing your dream life for 2024. 

 We're going to life proof your business by getting clear about what you actually want to be doing, feeling, having, and experiencing in 2024.

Let’s dive in.

Boss - we are in the home stretch of 2023 which means the Christmas season is just around the corner. For us business owners though, we are already thinking ahead to our big dreams for the new year. 

So before you make those plans thought and start scribbling out your goals for 2024 over your morning coffee or your festive cocktail, it's important that you don't just look ahead, but that you also take some time to reflect on your progress this past year in your business. 

 I know that the last few years have been a challenge and so many of us just want to move forward and to have that fresh start already so we can stay focused on those big dreams, big goals, big plans. 

 But one of the reasons that so many business owners don't reach their goals is they come up against the same obstacles again and again that cause them to work harder than needed in order to break through to that next level of success in their business.

 That is why I'm so excited because starting today, I'm going to share with you a 5 part series called Your 2024 Gameplan. 

 Over the next 5 episodes, we’re not only going to walk through the same strategic planning process that I personally have used for nearly a decade - but that I have also been sharing with hundreds of women entrepreneurs to help them create a solid and strategic action plan for the year ahead. 

 By the end of these five short episodes, you'll walk away with a 12 month gameplan that breaks down exactly what you need to be promoting in your business, what you need to be marketing, and what you need to be selling in order to have the profits that you're looking for each and every month. 

 It's time to turn those big business dreams into a profitable reality. I hope you are so excited!

 Let’s dive into part one.

Welcome to the fifth and final instalment of “The Path to Predictable Income” series!

Over the past few episodes, I have walked you through the first four steps to help you create steady, consistent income in your business, so you can get out of the feast or famine cycle for good.

Now we’re wrapping up the series with the final part of the puzzle.

If you're anything like me, there comes a point in your entrepreneurial journey where your business needs to support you, needs to support your family, needs to support your lifestyle, if you're going to stick with it. 

We all got through those startup stages in our business where we knew it was going to be a learning curve. We knew it was gonna take a while to figure things out and to get those paying clients in the door. 

But once you're further along and you know this is what you want to do full-time for a long time, your business needs to pay you a real salary.

No one loves to run a business that isn't actually supporting the entrepreneur running it. 

That's why in this episode, we're going to talk about how to create that game plan to make sure you have predictable income over the next 12 months.

We want to make sure you have a real game plan for how you're going to move forward and design that predictably profitable business and actually plan for predictable income.

Let’s dive in.

Welcome to the fourth instalment of “The Path to Predictable Income” series!

Over the next 5 episodes, I am going to walk you through 5 steps to help you create steady, consistent income in your business, so you can get out of the feast or famine cycle for good.

Let’s do a little pop quiz…

 Number 1: Have you ever found yourself just hustling, hustling, hustling in your business? 

 Number 2: Do you ever feel like you're doing all the things to bring in new paying clients and customers, but you're just not seeing the results? You're just not getting in those potential clients who are ready to work with you and happy to pay? 

 Well, if your experience as a business owner has been inconsistent clients and inconsistent cashflow, then I want you to tune into today's episode.

 We are going to talk about the biggest leak that might be happening in your business that prevents those dreamy prospects from turning into sales. 

 This is going to be such an eyeopener if you have been really struggling to have clients and sales come in the doors of your business each and every month. 

 If you feel like you have been doing all the things and you're just not sure why it's not working, I want you to know this is actually a really simple thing to fix once you understand what's happening.

 Let’s dive in.

Welcome to the third installment of “The Path to Predictable Income” series!

Over the next 5 episodes, I am going to walk you through 5 steps to help you create steady, consistent income in your business, so you can get out of the feast or famine cycle for good.

Today we are going to talk about how to burnout proof your business. 

This is so incredibly important to me and I know that it is a hot topic with female business owners, especially because we have so much going on in our lives. 

If you’ve ever experienced business burnout, raise your hand - I know I am not alone in this and this is such an important conversation.

In this episode, I'm going to share a little bit about why I am so passionate about this topic and then I’m going to walk you through 5 questions you can ask yourself, and exercises you can work through to help you burnout proof your business. 

I’m excited for this one so let’s dive in!

Welcome to the second instalment of “The Path to Predictable Income” series!

Over the next 5 episodes, I am going to walk you through 5 steps to help you create steady, consistent income in your business, so you can get out of the feast or famine cycle for good.

 Have you ever found yourself with a family emergency, something that needed your immediate attention and suddenly you had no choice but to completely rearrange your calendar? 

 Or maybe you just wanted to enjoy a few weeks without worrying about your inbox or your clients. 

 You love the idea of being able to take a week or two or more off throughout the year in your business, but the same problem exists which is this: if you're not working, you're not getting paid. 

 I know this is something that's incredibly common, especially for those of you who are value-led service providers. Maybe you're a coach or a trainer or a teacher and you're running your business by offering one-on-one work with clients by offering services. 

 While that is an amazing first step, it can create a bottleneck in your business where if you're not working, you're not getting paid.

 So in today's episode, I want to break down a simple strategy that can start to free you from this time-for-money trap that is pulling you back from being able to take sick days or holidays and help you start thinking more strategically about your business.

 Let’s dive in.

Welcome to a brand new series here on the podcast called “The Path to Predictable Income”!

Over the next 5 episodes, I am going to walk you through 5 steps to help you create steady, consistent income in your business, so you can get out of the feast or famine cycle for good.

Here’s something that a lot of my clients and students, when they first start working with me, they have in common.

They say: “I've taken training after training after training, and it feels like I'm constantly shifting direction, I’m going round in circles and as a result, I'm just not getting where I want to go.”

Have you ever felt that way?