Lea 🌈 Turner

If Carlsberg made LinkedIn Trainers | 1-1 & Company Training | Join 470+ solopreneurs & small business owners in my membership community, The HoLT (ask me how)

You've tried communities before but they never live up to the hype, do they? The founder only shows up for calls, the chat is dead or clique-y, they're either women only, or full of d*ck swinging sales bros pitch slapping you into oblivion, and you only get the *good stuff* if you pay for the upsells...and you're left feeling...deflated, womp womp. 

*clears throat, stretches out arms, JAZZ HANDS* until... The HoLT!

We have none of that malarkey. 

No upsells, no tiered memberships, and categorically, absolutely, without question... no knobs. 

"But LEA, what is The HoLT?" I hear you cry. It's an inclusive, vibrant, fun, affordable community of over 500 small business owners, freelancers, side hustlers and employees, coming together for weekly masterclasses from ACTUAL experts, teaching every business skill you could possibly need to improve how YOU do business, from copywriting to confidence building, AI to automation, PR to passive income. 

And unlike other communities, we record every masterclass, add it to the library, and no matter when you join, you get access to ALL of them (currently over 150!)

But there's so much more; weekly community calls for informal networking, content support, tech clinics to tackle your IT nightmares, in-person co-working days, online co-working, wellbeing sessions, LinkedIn clinics... I could go on but I'd ruin your surprise and delight when you join. 

And unlike most founders, I am in The HoLT every single day (in sickness and in health, til death do us part) because I genuinely care about the members, love connecting people, nurturing them and supporting them. 

I was sick of being a lonely solopreneur. I had no one to share my wins & failures with, who'd understand, not judge me, to ask for reliable advice when I needed it without making me feel stupid, to learn with, grow with, and make it fun along the way. So, I created a safe space for others who felt the same. It has grown and evolved over the past 3 years, to become a magical space full of the sorts of people you WANT on your side in business, cheering you on and encouraging you when sh*t gets tough. 

We open the doors to 25 new members every month, and we'd love you to be one of them (unless you're one of the aforementioned knobs). Check us out and get on the waiting list at www.the-holt.com or DM me if you want to know more, I promise I don't bite!

PS. If communities aren't your *thing* we have The Vault. Access 150+ masterclass recordings with new ones added weekly, for just £20/month, no contract or commitment.

Director

Providing bespoke 1:1 and group LinkedIn training, digital courses and in-person workshops for businesses. 

This goes out to all the parents doing it alone. 

It may be hard 
And sometimes lonely 
But it’s absolutely worth it

🩷🩷🩷

You can sit with us (unless you're a knob) | The-HoLT.com

This is how you can easily create a LinkedIn feed with NO ADS. 

No promoted posts. 
No “random person commented on another random person’s post”

It’s 90 seconds long. 

That’s all. 

Share it. Tag someone. Be helpful. Cos no one’s enjoying this feed that looks like corporate QVC. 

*skips off*

Tips like this plus my entire Making LinkedIn Simple course are all inside The HoLT community. Doors open next week https://the-holt.com/

I’ve been doing some ‘competitor’ research over the past few days and I am shook. 

- social media visibility memberships for £40/month
- video content memberships for £75/month 
- LinkedIn growth memberships for £100+/month

And for a second I thought “fk, I’m really under charging for The HoLT”. 

Because we offer trainings on all of that, but we also have a WHOLE lot more inside. 

Community calls, book club, wellbeing circles, speed networking, in-person meet-ups, massive discount library, and over 500 people actively helping and supporting one another every single day. 

For just £65/month 😬

Not one person in 3.5 years has ever said “it’s not worth the investment”. 

Logically, this means I could increase the price for new members this year. Especially as we’re adding even more features and opportunities (like another 4-week LinkedIn mastermind starting in 2 weeks). 

But… I’m not going to. 

Because I’ve got lots of other ideas for creating income within the business that don’t increase the costs for new or existing members. 

And because I *always* set out to make The HoLT an affordable resource for the people who need it most. 

So the price for The HoLT is NOT increasing this year. 
But I guarantee you, the value of it IS. 

Starting today, as we get ready to launch The HoLT Directory tomorrow 🩷

And you’re gonna love it!

(If The HoLT community is on your 2026 wish list, we’re opening the doors again very soon ➡️ https://the-holt.com )

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Hahahah oh holy fk. My head is spinning!

We launched The HoLT Directory on Tuesday, and since then have had... wait for it...

𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗬 𝗘𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗤𝗨𝗘 𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗩𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗦

SEO ranking has gone through the roof.

Members in the directory are getting tens of profile views daily.

Dozens of bots have been trying to break it or scrape it (unsuccessfully 🤪).

Sneaky sausages have been trying to figure out how we've built it.

But we currently have a patent pending and if you 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 want to recreate our directory, we'll be selling it as a white label product. 

If you want to be PART of The HoLT Directory, you need to join the community and be there for at least 3 months. Them's the rules!!

Selfie of me and my partner in crime for this brilliantly fun project Robyn MacMillan 

But don't ask her to create you one. She won't. Her loyalty to me is unwavering and I LOVE her for that! 

Now, back to coffee and world domination. 


Find the community and the directory here ➡️ https://the-holt.com

This is how I want to to take my business from £350k/year to £500k + in the next 2 years, WITHOUT relying on increasing member numbers:

🌈 White labelling The HoLT directory tech as a subscription for other communities to use
🌈 Selling sponsorship slots for The Directory web page as it's a highly visited site
🌈 Short courses and low-priced guides to support new business owners (sold on the website via ads)
🌈 More members in The Vault (all 200+ of The HoLT masterclass recordings for £20/month) using digital ads - check it out on the link above.
🌈 Speaking engagements (sparingly)
🌈 Consultancy for communities (I already do this, but again, sparingly because I don't want to go back to the time for money model that burned me out before)

I'm also considering the option to allow companies with relevant products/services the opportunity to present a masterclass/workshop to our 550+ HoLT members and 150+ Vault members... but I'm not sure how I feel about that yet. 

I am limiting the HoLT to 750 members, to maintain the quality and personal service members get inside. That's intentional, and non-negotiable. But that means limiting the income we can make directly from the member numbers (no, not increasing membership cost!). 

What would YOU do with a community with over 500 amazing members to further monetise the brand?

I'm always open to ideas!

When I first started my businesses, I needed so much help. And I got scammed or fooled by several people who claimed to be amazing, and turned out to be absolute knobs taking advantage of my naivety. 

I didn't have the time or energy to suss out everyone fully. 
They made big promises that sounded sexy and enticing...but the follow through was underwhelming. 

But inside The HoLT members are constantly collaborating. 
The feedback about each other's services is consistently positive. 
I, myself, haven't hired 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 outside The HoLT for over three years, and not a single one has let me down. 

Every week I get dozens of messages:

"Lea, you know good people, who do you recommend for [insert the service they need]" and I respond with a selection of HoLT members I trust to do a good job. 

So, now there's somewhere YOU can go. 
To hire small business owners. 
To support YOUR business. 
Without worrying that they're going to be knobheads. 

Members of The HoLT pay a (very) low annual fee to cover the build and maintenance. 
And YOU can access it for free. 
Any time you need. 

Good people. Great services. No knobs. 

Check it out now https://lnkd.in/eXhGeA5Z

(And for all the sneaky fckers trying to scrape the data -we see you - good luck, it was built by our resident tech goblin Robyn MacMillan and she's prepared for your antics)

I'm hearing about a lot of communities shutting down lately.

And even more struggling to attract new members.

The HoLT continues to thrive, with over 55 new members joining this month, but our experience is NOT typical, and in most cases, not replicable, and here's why:

- I'm active on LinkedIn, Facebook, Threads and Instagram, with a combined following of over 200,000 people, and we get members from all of those places. I have a team of VAs and a social media manager supporting me with this. I could not manage it all alone.

- I pay Alex Thompson and his marvellous team a handsome sum each month to manage all the email marketing and launches. We would not achieve these numbers without them. 

- I had a pre-existing brand, authority, and online presence long BEFORE I started The HoLT, and we've been going for 3.5 years now. Most communities launching today won't hit the numbers we do, because there are now SO MANY communities to choose from. 

- The HoLT isn't just one thing for one type of person. There is something for everyone, at all stages of a business journey. We're for all online small biz owners (as well as some offline and some employees). Pretty much anyone can join us and find plenty of useful resources and contacts. That's fairly unique in the market.

- The HoLT is my full time job and has been for over a year now. It gets my full attention, so do the members. I'm in there watching, listening, and creating solutions for the problems I notice, because I have the time to do that as I'm not trying to also juggle other work commitments. 

The reality is, most people thinking of starting a community do not have these advantages (that I've worked hard for, but they're still advantages).

And I would hate to think people look at it and think 'That looks easy, I'll try that' and then be disappointed by their results.

That's not the reality of launching a community in 2026 for 95% of the people thinking about it.

Don't fall into the trap of comparing your journey to others further ahead than you. I've been there, I've done it, and it's miserable and disillusioning. 

Is it still possible to make a decent income from launching and running a community?

Yes. If you're willing to put in some serious graft, have a lot of good advice, and ample time to dedicate to it. But for the vast majority, who don't have the advantages I had, it's going to be a very tough uphill struggle. 

Just needed to get that off my chest, because I've been having some really heart wrenching conversations with people closing their communities, and I always want to be real with you.

There really is nothing like the sense of achievement as a business owner, when you figure out how to do something yourself. 

I'm a self-confessed technophobe. 

I really struggle because it's all process driven and you have to be accurate and organised, and my (AuDHD) brain just says NOPE!

But today I am patting myself on the back.

Because I've set up workflows, automations, tags, triggers and all those previously scary words inside HighLevel, and it is GLORIOUS. 

New blog submitted? They're directed to a thank you page and an email goes to the right team member to get it on the website. 

New masterclass application received? I'm alerted by email to review, the applicant gets sent to a nice little thank you page, and the spreadsheet is updated. 

No, I don't need to be doing these things myself. 
BUT, I just love the feeling of finally mastering a new skill. 
When it just clicks and you go "OH, I get it!"

Anyway, just thought I'd share this smug sense of achievement. We can DO HARD THINGS!

What hard things are you learning to do at the mo?

PS. Yes I am as tired as I look. Launching The HoLT Directory has been A LOT this week. 

PPS. If you wanna give High Level a try, I have a 30-day free trial (they usually only give 14 days) here ➡️  https://lnkd.in/erJvVnzj

In the most "Lea" move ever... today I launched The HoLT Directory to promote our amazing small business owners...

... and completely forgot to put myself in there. 

🙃  🤦‍♀️ 

Thanks to the eagle-eyed people who spotted that. 

Also, sorry not sorry if you've had The Directory ALL OVER YOUR FEED today. We want you to remember it!


https://lnkd.in/eXhGeA5Z

My favourite thing about today is that I got 100+ business ‘professionals’ to post the word KNOBS on their LinkedIn profile. 

*laughs herself into next week*

😂💁🏼‍♀️🍆

It's been a VERY long time coming, but it's finally happening!

The man, the myth, the legend that is Richard van der Blom is joining me for a live Q&A inside The HoLT! 

Every year, Richard releases an algorithm report with hundreds of hours of research into what has changed, what works, what doesn't, and where we should be focusing our time and attention to remain visible on LinkedIn. 

And with some unsubtle flattery and shameless begging (kinda), he agreed to join me to answer mine and HoLT member's questions as part of our 4-week LinkedIn Mastermind. 

For those already inside, see you at 10am. 
For those not... well, it'll be available to watch back when you pull your finger out and join us. 

What an exceptionally good start to the week this will be!

Knowing where to turn for help as a solo or small business owner is tricky. 

But not when you’re in The HoLT. 

This is just a snapshot of the support I’ve personally seen inside the community app this past week. 

There’s far more that goes on (members feel free to share in the comments!)

Christine hosted her first speaking event, and several other members spoke at or attended it. 

Alex hosted a LinkedIn live with other men from the community about what it is to be a man in 2026. 

Andy had Simon on his podcast. 

Lea B interviewed me for her university course. 

…I could go on and on but you get the picture. 

Unrivalled support. No matter the issue. Everyone putting their skills together to ensure no one gets left behind. 

That’s what a real community does. 
And that’s exactly what we are. 
🩷🩷

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Behold, a selection box of Backdoor Barrys for the new HoLT Members' area.

All the helpful links for members to make the most of their community perks! 

Modelled by our resident security guard who keeps the knobs out. 

It should be illegal to have this much fun and call it work. 

(The HoLT is like no other community out there - we're serious about business, without taking ourselves too seriously https://the-holt.com/)

I had a very exciting call with Adam Jones today, because he's going to be hosting a HoLT 𝗠𝗨𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗠𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧!! 

We'll be able to bring together members from 5 (or maybe 6?) continents for an evening of treacherously fun online networking. 

Date TBC
Fun guaranteed!! 

But who will I pick as the suspects?
And should I dye my hair black and cut a fringe for the occasion...?

There's a murder to be solved. 

And it's down to our Sherlock HoLTies to figure out whodunnit. 

Members from Australia, America, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Scotland, Canada and more will come together in teams over Zoom to interview suspects, pour over evidence, and solve a grizzly murder on The Ashworth Estate. 

Thanks to Adam Jones and Cinderella Events, we're hosting a unique, spine chilling, and no doubt brilliantly fun networking event inside The HoLT Community in March.

But who will solve the murder?

I can't wait to find out!  

Wanna join in on the next one? You best get on The HoLT waiting list. Link below ⬇️

Enrique Kalb

★ Compliance, IT Support, Cybersecurity ★ Stop the worry and get the Continuous Threat Check. ★ Business-focused IT ★ LinkedIn Cyber Ninja ★

Cybersecurity sales leader with 13+ years driving growth across enterprise, federal, and regulated commercial markets.

I’ve spent my career across cybersecurity, compliance, managed IT, managed security, and co-managed IT, supporting teams in the DoD, Intelligence Community, and regulated industries like healthcare, legal, manufacturing, financial services, and construction.

I’ve built and scaled revenue engines inside growth-stage startups while also closing complex enterprise and regulated-market deals across cybersecurity, compliance, and managed services.

What I’m known for is building and scaling sales teams, putting real GTM structure in place, and helping buyers make confident decisions through complex security and compliance requirements without unnecessary friction. I do my best work when deals are messy, stakeholders are senior, and trust actually matters.

Day to day, I’m working with executives, technical teams, and channel partners to move deals forward, reduce risk, and drive sustainable growth with clear communication and practical execution.

I run complex enterprise sales cycles using MEDDPICC and Sandler to qualify, forecast, and close predictable revenue across cybersecurity and SaaS platforms

Bilingual in English and Spanish.

If you’re building or scaling enterprise cybersecurity sales in regulated environments, let’s connect.

Director of Cybersecurity Sales

Continuous Networks, LLC is a locally owned IT company specializing in making IT Personal.
Continuous was started in 1997 as a web hosting company, providing organizations with Windows and Unix cloud hosting. Continuous became increasingly aware of the need for small businesses to offload their internal IT applications from in-house data closets to data centers with redundant power and networks and built their first datacenter in 2004. With the increasing reliance on hosted technologies now called the "cloud", Continuous expanded its services to include personal IT consulting, hardware procurement and provisioning, and MSP services built upon our advanced cloud technologies and expertise. For over 15 years, Continuous has helped companies expand past their IT closet with Cloud technologies, such as daily backups and high availability. Continuous has 20 employees and 24/7 monitoring.

Continuous manages over 1,000 servers, representing 1,000 companies across 100 countries worldwide.

This is why hackers remain single :-)
Luke Matthews  the MEME team

Cybersecurity Sales Leader | Enterprise, Federal & Regulated Markets | Eliminating Downtime & Compliance Gaps, Reducing Cyber Risk

Most password policies were written for a world that doesn’t exist anymore.

Your password is expiring so people do what they always do. 

Go ahead add a number, heck go ahead and swap a symbol, maybe bump the version from 1 to 2, and move on.  

That doesn’t stop threat actors it just trains users to hate security and look for any workarounds.

If someone is using a long passphrase they can remember, isn’t reusing it anywhere else, and keeps it private, forcing a change every 60 to 90 days doesn’t make things safer. It just looks good in a policy document.

What actually really helps in 2026 is:

- Use a long passphrase you can remember
- Don’t reuse passwords across systems
 -Turn on MFA everywhere you can
 -Use a password manager and stop trying to be a human spreadsheet LOL

Passwords should change when there’s only a reason and that is if: 

-It's after a suspected breach
-It's after clicking something weird or when a password was shared or exposed.

Just keep in mind that security has to work with how people actually behave.

If the controls only succeed with annoying users, they’ll be ignored and that’s when the real risk starts.

OMG ChatGPT was hacked!!!

No ChatGPT wasn’t fully hacked, and nobody dumped all its data on the dark web.  I have seen alot of posts about this today.   Let me paint the picture. 

What researchers showed is that you can trick an AI agent that’s connected to other systems into doing stupid things with sensitive data known to it. 

This is basically, social engineering an AI that has access to your tools and email, or apps. 

If for example the agent can see it, there’s probably a way to abuse it.

If you plug AI into email, CRM, or internal systems, you created a new path for data to walk out the door if it’s not locked down.

Most defenses today are still reactive you patch one technique, attackers find another.

AI isn’t magic it isn’t evil not yet. It’s just powerful and without guardrails, it’ll help the wrong person just as easily as the right one.

Open article: ChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues by arstechnica.com

Female hand holding smartphone showing an evil with devil horn on her AI chatbot conversation app in the city. Illustrating the ideas around the risks and dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

ChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues

Incognito mode doesn't equal invisibility bros and gals.
Stop pretending it is.
You’re not anonymous. 

You’re just not saving your browser history. That’s it.
Your boss can still see what you’re doing on company Wi-Fi 😉 

Here’s what Incognito mode actually does....

Doesn’t save your history
Doesn’t keep cookies or data
Useful for testing and logging into multiple accounts.

Here’s what it really doesn’t do....

Hide your activity from your employer so if you are being naughty, they will find you.
Stop your ISP from seeing what sites you visit
Block websites from tracking you by IP 
Prevent malware, phishing, or weird browser extensions

Incognito is great if you’re buying a gift or using a shared computer.
It’s not a security tool. 
If your team thinks otherwise that’s a huge problem.

Incognito mode is good for keeping things clean on your device not for hiding your activity from the outside world.

Security starts with education :-)

How companies handle the aftermath of a cybersecurity breach. Luke Matthews

Companies don’t do enough after a breach.

We got hacked by a simple phishing email. You trusted us with your data for years, but here’s an identity monitoring service if you opt in.

NO!!! 

If your info was stolen, take control immediately don’t wait.

——Change your passwords and start with the breached account. Also, reused passwords make sure you change them too.

——Enable MFA as even if malicious hackers have your password, multi factor authentication can stop them.

——Alert your bank let them watch for suspicious activity.

Check your credit reports. Free once a year from the major bureaus don’t let fraud slip by unnoticed.

Your data is your responsibility. 

Companies failed don’t let that failure become yours so act fast protect yourself, and don’t wait for them to help!

Maybe this is an unpopular take but I have to say it, but I’m seeing a lot of SDRs calling themselves GTM and it doesn’t really make sense.

GTM isn’t a job title I just look at it as responsibility.

Go to market is figuring out who you’re selling to, why they should care, how you price it and how you message it, and how sales actually run. 

That work happens before anyone starts dialing.

SDRs do real work and anyone who’s done it knows it’s not for the faint of heart.

Prospecting, the calling, emailing, booking real conversations. But that’s running a motion, not building it.

Its not the same thing as writing the playbook.

I understand why it happens here I go. 

SDR doesn’t sound too sexy. GTM does and lot of startups blur the lines and suddenly everything revenue related gets labeled GTM.

But here’s the real issue.

If you disappear and the system still runs, you’re not GTM. 
If you disappear and the system breaks, you probably are.

I have no shade to SDRs that role is brutal and necessary I have done it.

But GTM is about ownership and leverage, not activity.

I said what I said.

Go ahead pay $1,000,000 and you’ll get your data back. Let me tell you there is no guarantee. A ransom is just wishful thinking with a huge price tag IMO.

If you pay once, don’t be surprised if you’re targeted again. Unless the real issue gets fixed, you’ve just shown you’re willing to write a check. I don’t see it every time, but double extortion is very real. Threat actors threaten to contact the MSP’s clients directly and extort them too. 

I have watched owners swear they’ll never pay, then change their mind fast when that threat lands and this is why security can’t just be a bunch of tools you stack together like people think.

After an incident, what really matters the most is what happens next and who’s handling the response, forensics, producing the reports? and providing environment is actually clean?

The cleanup and documentation always take the longest, and that’s usually where many clients decide whether they stay or walk. Good security gives you breathing room when things go wrong and it buys time while insurance drags on for months and months and it keeps the client relationship intact.

Security isn’t about how impressive your setup looks on paper but about how well you handle the worst day.

You might be compromised and not even know it 

Most people think they’d definitely know if their computer was hacked.
I used to think that too.

When mine was compromised, I was just at home on my laptop.
No big warning.
No ransom screen.

Just some annoying pop ups.
A couple weird browser redirects.
Things running slower than normal.

I almost brushed it off. I think most people would have. 

We’re so used to tech being SO glitchy that we don’t stop to question it anymore.
We just assume it’s well one of those things.

That’s exactly what cyber attackers rely on.

Here’s what I didn’t fully appreciate until it happened to me that…

Most cyberattacks aren’t loud.
They don’t announce themselves.

They sit quietly, watch and collect.

Once I realized that I shut everything down.

What I did next probably was overkill, but I wasn’t taking chances):

—Killed the Wi-Fi
—Ran more than one security scan
—Changed every password from a clean machine
—Wiped and reinstalled the OS
—Turned on MFA everywhere I could. This step is always missed. 

This isn’t about being paranoid.
It’s about not being naive.

If you ever get that feeling like something’s not right trust it.

PS: This things happens to very technical people too and maybe especially to them.

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