If the ambitious annual plans you made back in January have already gone off the rails, this might help. I built a Quick & Dirty Quarterly Planning tool because annual planning never stuck for me. Everything would fall apart by March and I'd spend the rest of the year winging it. Switching to quarterly planning changed everything. The tool is a painfully simple 4-step process that takes less than an hour, I do mine in about 30 minutes. It helps you map ONE primary focus for the quarter, instead of trying to juggle seventeen competing priorities and actually track whether you're making progress or just staying busy. In the words of Ron Swanson "Never half ass two things, whole ass one thing" We've got 4 weeks left in Q1—perfect timing to plan Q2 before things get chaotic. Get it here: https://www.michellemacneil.com/quarterly-plan

I’m opening up the application process for Round 3 of the Holistic Marketing Summit… and I would love to feature a few voices from this space if you’re down. ✅ First, the deets. This summit is all about digging deeper and making all this marketing and business feel just good, while it works better at getting us to our goals. ... This season is all about hospitality in marketing — not as a vibe, but as strategy. We’re exploring what happens when being a caring, thoughtful, fully-human human becomes the advantage. When nuance matters. When nervous systems matter. When energetics and buyer psychology and platform behavior and messaging all braid together. 🤷‍♀️ Who the ideal summit listener is (AKA do our audiences align?). This summit is built for seasoned online business owners. Not beginners. The ones who’ve launched. Built audiences. Seen trends rise and combust. The ones who are ready to go past surface-level tactics and dive deep. We’re not skimming. We’re poking around in the Mariana Trench asking, “Okay… but how does this really work?” 🏗️ Format-wise. It’s a 20-minute pre-recorded conversation. You and me on Riverside. No slides. No teaching. No “three tips.” It should feel like two smart friends thinking out loud while the listener gets to eavesdrop. 📆 All the dates. Recording window: March 2 – April 2, 2026 Promo: May 1 – 19 (the ask. two emails to your entire list, sometime in here) Summit live: May 11 – 19 👉 👉 If that sounds amazing to you, drop a comment, and I’ll share the interest form link. ⏭️ What happens next if you drop your interest... 1. Well, first we become besties if we're not already... you're my people, and I love that! 2. Later this month I’ll curate a lineup of 10–15 voices from the interest form that feel aligned and deliciously thoughtful together. 🙋‍♀️ And one more thing: If your audience is seasoned business owners and your brain lights up at hospitality-as-strategy… Don’t let a smaller list or a slightly unconventional angle stop you.

Let’s be honest for a second. It’s usually not a lack of strategy. It’s not a lack of information. And it’s definitely not a lack of ideas in this room. It’s avoidance. So I’ll go first… Right now, the thing I’m avoiding in my business is ________ (answer in comments). Your turn. What’s the one thing you KNOW would move things forward…but you keep pushing to “next week”? Not what you’re excited about.What are you avoiding? Let’s call it out.

Did you check to see how many points you are away from unlocking Level 3? You need to be at level 3 to join in on the Breaking Up With Instagram challenge next week - and trust me, you don't want to miss this (after I run it free this first time, it will become a paid product in the classroom - so if you want to be a part of it, let's make sure you get there!) Some of you are only 5 - 10 points away. Here's how we can help: - comment to this post and we will all reply to get you more points!! - comment on this with a link to a previous post you did (or your introduction) and we'll all go in an leave you a generous comment there to help you level up! 💥 You can also leave generous comments on other member posts...and make sure it has a question, that way you might get the member who posted to respond!! Thanks @Brenda Rigney for this idea 😘

Hey friends. I'm always in the market for a good read or listen. So... whatcha readin'? whatcha listening to? Honestly, whatcha watchin'? I need some fresh inspo. Work-related or fun. I'm all 👂