Release. Renew. Remagic.
Fresh Year. Fresh Start...
Registration Closes in
Release. Renew. Remagic.
Fresh Year. Fresh Start...
Registration Closes in
The Holiday Council
is a practical and magical online experience that gives you a way to review the year, reconnect to your desires + recommit to yourself.
Our 21 days together will help you process what happened in 2025 + give you space to deliberately decide what you want from 2026. There's still much we can't control about the upcoming year -- but there's many pieces WE CAN. And guess what? You get to choose what that means for you -- none of our journeys will look the same + that's okay.
Together, we'll leave the bullsh*t behind + take with us the moments of hope + joy. We'll recharge our belief so we can keep up the good cause of creating the world we want to live in. We'll get clear on HOW we want to feel, WHO we want to be, and WHAT we want from 2026. This is our 15th year of Holiday Council + I'm so happy we made it.
I swear, HoCo is becoming as familiar to me as Thanksgiving and Christmas. I am SO excited!
Let's set our Intentions for the new year
In Holiday Council you'll learn a goal setting process for smart + soulful humans. It's a mash-up of live calls, deep prompts, gorgeous worksheets, visioning meditations, and flexible action planning templates for each quarter of 2026 — all designed to help you take stock of your world and get specific with your dreams.
The 3 week process I'll guide you through will remind you of your immense capability and ability to renew your life through awareness, alignment, and action.
Awareness
Awareness is the incredibly powerful skill of listening to yourself. It's tuning into your own wisdom + becoming aware of what has gone right, what has gone wrong, and what your wisest self is craving. Awareness is the difference between a year that feels beyond your control and one that feels like you’re aligning with your true potential!
Alignment
Alignment is the connection between what you truly care about + where you focus your resources. Your personal resources of time, energy, + money are precious + must be deliberately harnessed. And yes! Sometimes this means facing the truth on how you are using distractions (social media, TV, alcohol, perfectionism, busyness) in your life.
Action
Action is taking step after step in honor of your vision. Sometimes the action will be big, bold and life-changing. Other times it will be small daily choices to be uncomfortable and to do things that are scary. One thing I know? Action requires a rock solid connection to your “why" and clear vision of where you want to be.
Awareness, Alignment and Action take time.
They require space to notice, time to process, and the audacity to trust yourself.
That’s what we do together during HoCo — create sacred time + space for you to connect to your own wisdom, bravery + “why”.
I have done the Holiday Council every year since it started. Every year, the content of the course changes only a little, but every year, my life changes drastically. The time I’ve spent with the Holiday Council reflecting on one year to plan for the next has made my life my own design. I look back on the plan I made last December, and I am exactly there right now. Thanks, Molly, for helping me create my own magic.
Every year when the Holiday Council rolls around I feel a flutter in my heart – a sense of wonder, excitement and gratitude. With Molly’s reassuring voice on the other end of the phone, I dream my wildest dreams and release my deepest sorrows. There are always tears – of joy and grief. It is my December ritual, and leaves me feeling like the year is complete and I have a plan for success in the year to come.
Last year was the first time in four years I didn’t participate in HoCo – I’d just had a baby and didn’t think we had room in our budget. I regretted that decision all. year. long. I didn’t realize how much I relied on my word for the year and my goals. There have been plenty of times this year where I’ve been floundering and I was craving my word for centering and focus. You better believe I’ll be investing in myself this year!
We’ve been doing Holiday Council for 15 years now + it’s become a treasured December tradition for 1,322 (and counting!) of you.
What’s Included
with the Holiday Council?
Tuesdays at 5 pm PT | 6 pm MT | 7 pm CT | 8 pm ET.
I’ll be teaching and sharing; you’ll be listening and writing (and drinking wine or cocoa/commuting/hiding from your children). The AUDIO ONLY calls will be recorded and posted in our online Headquarters on Monday mornings and then I'll be hosting a Zoom listening party on Tuesday evenings for those who want to gather live! We'll connect for a bit on video + in the chat and then complete the call together. Join us for the listening party or listen on your own schedule. Either way works! There's plenty of women who don't even start their "HoCo" work until January.
- December 2: Releasing + Renewing 2025 So You Can Welcome in a Fresh New Year
- December 9: Dreaming + Scheming for a Magical + Meaningful 2026
- December 16: Plotting + Planning to Create a Personalized Action Plan for 2026
Once you register, you’ll get immediate access to the 2025 Holiday Council Workbook to use during the calls and to complete your challenges in between. You can either print out your PDF worksheets (getting them printed + bound at a Staples/Kinkos works perfectly) or fill them out online!
I'm also providing a "Action Planner" workbook for those of you who want to utilize our quarterly review + planning calls, as well as a monthly check in for self-accountability. I plan on printing out both workbooks + getting them bound together in the same spiral notebook!
You’ll refer to these worksheets full of personal reflections all year long as you plan out passion projects, hard conversations, travel, new habits and prioritizing your desires.
I know, because I definitely do.
JOIN US FOR HOLIDAY COUNCIL
Take the time + space to connect to your own desires.
THE HOLIDAY COUNCIL
- ALL 3 CALLS WITH MOLLY (REPLAY AVAILABLE)
- 2 FULL COLOR PDF WORKBOOKS
- PRIVATE ONLINE COMMUNITY
- 9 EMAILS WITH CONNECTION PROMPTS
- INSPIRING INTERVIEW COLLECTION
- 3 QUARTERLY CHECK-IN CALLS IN 2025
- BONUS LIVE EVENTS (SHAKE + SITS! JANUARY PJ PARTY!)
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Loved tonight’s call! This Holiday Council process is already eye-opening and empowering.
Is this for you?
Set aside your hesitations, your busyness, your fear, your disillusionment, your exhaustion for one moment.
What if this is your chance to release + refocus?
I'm not promising there won't be ups + downs + uncertainty in 2026 -- but I am saying identifying deliberate ways to feel + deliberate ways take action in your life helps remind you of your capacity to thrive no matter the conditions.
This is for YOU if you're ready to trust your own desires.
This is for YOU if you see value in a clear process + welcoming space to do the work.
This is for YOU if want to ownership of the parts of your world that you can control + peace with the parts you cannot.
This is for YOU if it's time to adjust your energy + attitude instead of staying stuck in overwhelm + frustration + fear.
Own those beliefs. Live that life.
Holiday Council is the best money I spend on myself all year. It’s a commitment to myself to check in and process the past year and plan for the next. I am guaranteed to have a few “ah-ha” moments that impact my life in really meaningful ways. Tears and laughter and support from and to the other ladies in the group; I can’t wait for December.
Molly has designed the perfect outlet for self-awareness and reflection during one of the busiest seasons of the year. Having a gentle guide and a supportive community is just what I need to look back at what I’ve accomplished and then, focus on what’s next. I anticipate this tradition with excitement and end up feeling a lightness and hopefulness when I’m done.
Last year was my first year doing Holiday Council with Molly and the Stratejoy community. It came after a tough year and prepared me for another tough year ahead. It was my anchor and life raft in the midst of a very big storm. I already know that Holiday Council will become an annual self-love 3 weeks for me every year. I can’t imagine life without it.
I loved every minute of Holiday Council. Inspiring with a wonderful community of women!
Additional Details and FAQs
It’s hard to get over how much of an impact the planning processes from HoCo have impacted my life! Before HoCo, I thought the idea working for myself was pipe dream that would never, ever happen. I thought it was fanciful and unrealistic and no one would ever hop on board with my ideas. But over the past few weeks I’ve been sharing what I’ve been working on with others and have been overwhelmed by support. I’m almost in tears writing this because I can’t believe that this might actually happen! I could never be in this place without the awesomeness of Stratejoy and the Holiday Council in my life. Thank you!
The Holiday Council was amazing. The insightful questions Molly asked gave me access to parts of myself I had been keeping in hiding. I have never before sat down at the end of the year and assessed how everything went and why. I have never before been so intentional at the beginning of the year, figuring out how I want to be and what I want to pursue. And the support, love, encouragement, and ideas from the other women in HoCo were priceless. It was wonderful to feel such a sense of community, inclusivity, and camaraderie with women from all over world. I think Molly just might have made a lifetime HoCoette out of me!
I’m hoping to share a couple early achievements that are shaping my this year into the year I want it to be. To get back in touch with myself, I completed a 21-day yoga challenge, feeling that I’ve now turned this into a habit. Yay! And to write my own story, I am moving to NYC this summer. I will either by attending NYU (fingers crossed) or working in the charter school system — 3 interviews done, 2 to go. Holiday Council has empowered me in so many ways to shape this year into everything I want and need it to be. Thank you, Molly, and all of you out there for joining in this journey and celebration!
Loving the Stratejoy Holiday Council. Definitely one of my best investments of the year!
I believe in you...
I believe you can identify + trust your desires.
And I believe that no matter what kind of year you may have had...
Let these 3 weeks be an invitation to reconnect with yourself and recommit to your dreams.
And since you made it to the bottom of the page, I'm guessing that means you're considering joining us for Holiday Council, but might be new around here + wanted all the details. Good for you! I'm also guessing you might feel hesitant purchasing from a stranger on the internet. Especially in this day of AI + fake bots bothering the shit out of us...
I can assure you, I'm very real!
I'm Molly Mahar. I founded Stratejoy in 2009 so I've been doing this work a very long time. I'm here to help women identify + live their most authentic lives and honor intimate relationships with themselves.
I consider my work both a deep passion and the most satisfyingly JOYFUL way to support my family.
I'm an ENFJ, Enneagram 7, Libra with Cancer rising + a Virgo moon, Cornell grad who was born in 1980 so I'm too young to be Gen X and too old to be a Millennial. I returned to work/real life in August 2023 after backpacking around the world with my family for a year (Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Thailand + Mexico) and moved back to my hometown of Helena, Montana. I love adventure travel, honor #natureismychurch as often as possible, and got called "bossy but in a nice way" as far back as the third grade.
I've spent 2.5 years settling into "real life" again -- schedules + Stratejoy + deciding what I want this next season of life to hold.
This last year, I continued my adult love of modern dance + performing, turned 45, finished my hospice training, spent July camping all over Idaho in our teardrop trailer, celebrated my 15 year wedding anniversary with Ken in Italy + 8 of our friends, suffered a few months of depression + anxiety (not new to me, but the severity was!) + started Lexapro, and honestly enjoyed being a mama to my two middle schoolers, Max + Juliet.
I'm not super good at posting on Instagram these days (anyone else kinda over it?), but I do still use my personal account as my memory book, so feel free to stalk me over there.
I'm so glad you're here.
I hope you choose to join us for these 3 weeks of intentional reflection + dreaming + planning for 2026. And if you're looking for year-long support, please explore my intimate Reclamation program.
I love guiding you through this process + welcoming you to our whole-hearted, ambitious, very honest community.
To clarity! Sisterhood! Impact! And magic-making!