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Episode 563: How I Used My Business to Pay for Our Hawaii Vacation (and All the Specifics So You Can Do It Too)

podcast Aug 25, 2025
How I Used My Business to Pay for Our Hawaii Vacation (and All the Specifics So You Can Do It Too)

In this week's pep talk, I share exactly how our business paid for a 10-day Hawaii vacation (yes, including flights + hotel), using a combination of travel savings and credit card points.

 

In today's episode, I share:

  • The 5% monthly travel fund strategy we use—no matter where we’re going
  • How we pivoted from Maine to Hawaii just 6 weeks before leaving (because our points went further!)
  • The exact cards we used, how we combined points, and why we never redeem them for anything but travel
  • How asking for an upgrade scored us a beachfront room + free breakfast
  • My “sandwich strategy” for saving on food without skipping the good stuff
  • Tour + activity tips (and one I’d skip next time)
  • How we ran our Holly-Days promo while on vacation—adding an extra five figures in revenue without daily posting

 

🔗 LINKS MENTIONED:

 🎧 Download the New Anti-Social School™ Workshop → hollymariehaynes.com/workshop

 🌟 Join our new Anti-Social School™ (completely revamped and redone for 2025) and build your audience with less stress now → https://www.hollymariehaynes.com/antisocial

 🌎 Website → hollymariehaynes.com

 📲 Follow Along on Instagram → @thehollymariehaynes

 

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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™.