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The Kelly Roach Show

1171. Confidently Leading Through Change: Mindset Shifts to Thrive in 2026

The Kelly Roach Show

Kelly Roach

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.9 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Kelly Roach Show, Kelly shares the key mindset and leadership shifts she made coming into the year that set her and her businesses up for success. From preparing for market contraction, to pacing with speed of change, to making tough team calls, Kelly walks through the exact adjustments that freed her as a leader and positioned her companies for explosive growth. 

If you've been feeling weighed down by your team, slowed by your systems, or uncertain about how to lead into the next cycle—this episode will give you both clarity and courage.

Timestamps

    • 0:45 – 2:15 — Why September/Q1 planning determines next-year results

    • 2:15 – 4:00 — Market outlook (contraction) & why expectation → preparation → execution

    • 4:00 – 6:00 — Mindset shift: stop slowing down for people who can't pace with you

    • 6:00 – 8:00 — The "no-rehire" decision and why Kelly implemented it this year

    • 8:00 – 10:00 — Pruning layers: moving market-facing, regaining creativity and bandwidth

    • 12:00 – 14:00 — How to build/keep high-performance teams 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to The Kelly Roach Show, the place for no fluff, easy to implement 20 minute or less

0:09.9

business and leadership lessons to help you build a sustainable business that scales.

0:15.7

Lead with integrity and create a lasting legacy.

0:20.1

I'm Kelly Roach, former NFL cheerleader and Fortune 500 executive

0:23.9

turned eight-figure entrepreneur. Let's get started. Today on the Kelly Road Show, we're going to

0:29.8

talk about some mindset adjustments that I made coming into this year that I think really set

0:36.8

myself and the business up for success and how

0:39.9

that impacted how I am leading, how I'm making decisions. And I'm hoping that by sharing some of

0:47.5

this internal work that I needed to do for myself, that maybe it will also empower you and

0:53.9

help you with making decisions to sell

0:57.1

yourself up for the coming year. And I know it's crazy to think about, but we are at the time in the

1:04.0

year right now as we speak. We're setting up our Q1 right now. The business is always behind us

1:09.7

and the things that we're doing in this month of

1:12.0

September as we speak is literally determining our first quarter results. So it's a really

1:18.1

critical time of year and it's the time to really be thinking about not just where you want to go

1:23.2

and what you want to do next year, your business model, your offers, those kinds of things.

1:27.7

But what do you want to experience? How do you want to walk through life next year?

1:32.2

What do you want your experience of being a CEO and being a leader to look like and to feel

1:39.5

like? And I had asked myself these questions coming into this year. And I knew I was very, very clear coming into this year, this was going to be kind of the collision or the culmination, a lot of the circumstances in the world and the economy and changes that were happening in the online space.

2:00.3

Like I almost felt a

2:02.1

strong intuition last year that the crescendo of all of these things was going to kind of clash in

2:10.8

2025. And so I knew that I was going to have to make some adjustments in my leadership,

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