1150. How to Lock In for the Back Half of the Year
Release Date: 06/15/2026
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info_outlineEveryone starts the year fired up about the big goal, the big vision, the big dream... and then life happens. A team member leaves, the market shifts, your funnel breaks, you lose access to a social platform you spent years building, the product you built the whole year around stops selling.
In this week's solo episode of The Kelly Roach Show,Kelly walks through five critical steps to lock in and create the big finish you've been hoping for. She lays out the full system and how to run a weekly gap audit so you can see your progress in black and white and adjust.
Threaded through all of it is her core conviction: most businesses don't have a sales problem, they have a consistency problem. They're doing random acts of sales instead of running a system.
The tide is turning, people are buying again, and there's still enough time to end the year with a massive celebration if you lock in now.
In this episode:
- Why the year tends to turn sideways, and how to reset at the mid-year inflection point
- The question to ask yourself that matters more than your goal
- The AI-era fork: go all iin on technology or allin on analog, community led growth
- Why consistent communication is the real driver of team performance
Timestamps
- 00:30 — The back-half reset: five steps for the big finish
- 02:45 — The mid-year inflection point and the summer focus trap
- 04:00 — The real question: what do you really want?
- 05:15 — The AI fork: all-in on tech, or all-in on analog and community-led growth
- 06:15 — Check your heart: is this goal truly yours, or is it FOMO?
- 11:00 — Why Kelly still does the Miracle Hour with her team
Resources & Mentions
- Grab The Unstoppable Planner: Kelly's planning tool for reverse-engineering a big goal into milestones and weekly rhythm: https://unstoppableplanner.myshopify.com/products/2026-unstoppable-planner
- Grab your copy of the USA Today best-selling book The Miracle Hour, and learn the daily sales practice Kelly runs with her team every day: https://a.co/d/0e8bEbpZ
- Subscribe to Kelly's Substack: https://kellyroachofficial.substack.com/subscribe
- Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellyroachofficial
- Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellyroachint/