Hakkola Horizons LLC

Hakkola Horizons LLC The HORIZONS Method™ by Christine Hakkola
Helping founders scale ✨
Strategy • Leadership • Sustainability
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Helping Purpose-Driven Leaders Build Thriving, Impactful Businesses

Hi, I’m Christine Hakkola, and I’m here to support service-based entrepreneurs—like health and wellness practitioners, business growth professionals, and personal care providers—in building profitable businesses that align with their values and make a lasting impact. I know the challenges of growing a business while staying true

to your mission. That’s why I partner with leaders like you to simplify the complexities of scaling, streamline your operations, and guide you toward sustainable success. At Hakkola Horizons, we believe:
✨ Clarity Fuels Confidence – With a clear vision and strategy, every decision feels easier.
✨ Simplicity Drives Results – The right systems and processes create ease and focus.
✨ Support Changes Everything – You don’t have to navigate growth alone. Through strategic guidance and hands-on support, I’ll help you:
🌟 Refine your business model and operations
🌟 Build a thriving team and attract the right clients
🌟 Achieve financial success without compromising your purpose

If you’re ready to transform your business and make a meaningful impact, let’s connect. Together, we’ll create a business that reflects your vision and values—and supports the clients and community you care about.

There’s a big difference between having an idea and building it into your business.Marsha had been thinking about her ne...
09/04/2026

There’s a big difference between having an idea and building it into your business.

Marsha had been thinking about her new offer for a long time. With a clear 90-day plan, she’s not just thinking about it anymore. She’s executing. She’s having conversations. She’s starting to see how this idea can become a real, repeatable part of her business.

That’s what I love about her experience with FLARE.

It’s not about adding more things to do. It’s about having a framework that makes sense and enough structure to help you move forward with clarity.

Marsha, thank you for trusting me and the FLARE community to be part of what you’re building. I’m excited to see where you take it.

There’s a big difference between hoping your business will grow and building it in a way that makes growth feel possible...
08/27/2026

There’s a big difference between hoping your business will grow and building it in a way that makes growth feel possible.

Tricia’s words here really stayed with me:

“With the structure I’ve created, the success of my business now feels inevitable.”

That’s the shift.

Most of the business owners I work with aren’t lacking ideas, ambition, or expertise. They’ve already proven they can build something people want.

What they’re often missing is the structure underneath it.

A clearer business model. Better systems. More intentional decisions about where their time and energy go. A plan that supports where they’re headed instead of keeping them tied to how they’ve always done things.

Watching Tricia build that foundation, grow tremendously, and feel more grounded in where her business is going has been such a privilege.

This is what sustainable growth can look like.

08/27/2026

She'd spent a month deciding she wasn't good enough. The real story was that two-thirds of her outreach never arrived.

She'd sent outreach to about 60 HR directors. Almost nothing came back.

By the time we talked, she had already decided what it meant. The offer was wrong. Her positioning was off. Maybe she wasn't the right person to be doing this.

So we checked the sending, because that's cheap and quick.

Of the 60, only about 20 had actually received her messages.

Forty people never got the email. They weren't unimpressed. They weren't too busy. They never saw it.

I got to say the nicest sentence in my job that week: they weren't ignoring you.

Here's the part I want you to take:

"Nobody's responding" is a feeling. It is not a diagnosis.

Feelings point at your worth. Diagnostics point at a system. And a system can be fixed on a Tuesday afternoon.

Before you rewrite the offer, before you rebuild the funnel, before you decide you're bad at this, check whether the message is being delivered at all. Check the spam placement. Check the domain warm-up. Check what your open tracking actually says.

I'd much rather iron this out now than when the leads are pouring in and there's real money on the table.

08/25/2026

New episode of FoundHer Rising is out.

Rebecca Gerlach filled her solo therapy caseload in four months. Then she hired, and ran straight into the problem most practice owners don't expect. Clients still only wanted to see her.

We talk about the rebrand that fixed it, the one hire that finally let her step out of the day to day, and the moment she decided she didn't want a bigger practice.
That last part might be the most useful thing in the episode. She's not stalled. She priced the tradeoff and chose the ceiling on purpose.

Listen here:
Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/dbbe398c-36f9-4eee-b33d-2a39b9038c12/foundher-rising-with-christine-hakkola
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/foundher-rising-with-christine-hakkola/id1854103475
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3lr9CDmhwCtJMT4y3bsllr?si=PDULONUfT9SUnjIumGRS-w
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y9FE_rd3T2Y

We’re so excited to welcome Elizabeth Robbins to Hakkola Horizons FLARE! 🤍Elizabeth is a holistic health coach and the f...
08/24/2026

We’re so excited to welcome Elizabeth Robbins to Hakkola Horizons FLARE! 🤍

Elizabeth is a holistic health coach and the founder of Health Coach Elizabeth, LLC, based in Kennesaw, Georgia where she helps women and men navigating chronic illness move from confusion, inflammation, and feeling stuck to greater clarity, support, and forward momentum in their healing.

Her work is rooted in an integrative, whole-person approach, using nutrition, lifestyle support, and nervous-system-aware coaching to help clients with mold toxicity, CIRS, gut health concerns, and chronic illness build sustainable habits that actually support recovery.

What stands out most about Elizabeth is her commitment to helping people feel less alone while navigating complex health challenges. The way she approaches her work isn’t just about symptom management, it’s about creating calm, clarity, and practical support for people who’ve often been carrying a lot on their own.

Elizabeth, we’re so glad you’re here! ✨

We’re so excited to welcome Dr. Alissa Goodwin to the HORIZONS Program! 🤍Alissa is a Board-Certified Family Medicine Phy...
08/21/2026

We’re so excited to welcome Dr. Alissa Goodwin to the HORIZONS Program! 🤍

Alissa is a Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician and the Founder of The Fatigue Clinic, based in Mt. Shasta, California—where she helps adults with persistent, complex fatigue move from confusion, dismissal, and dead ends to clarity, personalized care, and a real path toward recovery.

Her work is rooted in a comprehensive, evidence-based approach, using physician-led evaluation, ongoing coaching, education, and individualized treatment planning to create more sustainable healing and improved function.

What stands out most about Alissa is her commitment to giving people real answers when they’ve often been overlooked for far too long. The way she approaches her work isn’t just about symptom relief, it’s about helping people understand what’s happening in their bodies and giving them a roadmap to get their lives back.

08/21/2026

If client growth is the constraint, you do not need more numbers. You need the right ones.

With my clients, we keep the weekly scorecard simple:

Leads per week — are new people entering the funnel?
Conversations started — are those leads turning into real sales conversations?
Clients signed — is the system actually converting?

Those three numbers tell you where to look next.
Low leads? You have a visibility or demand problem.
Leads are coming in but conversations are low? You likely have an engagement or follow-up problem.
Conversations are happening but clients signed stay flat? You likely have a messaging, offer, or sales problem.

This is why I teach founders to track their most important metrics.

Not every number belongs on your weekly scorecard.
Not every financial metric needs your attention every week.
And tracking more does not automatically create clarity.

With my clients, we start with the numbers that help you decide what to do next.

Because the goal is not to become a better data collector.
The goal is to become a calmer, clearer decision-maker.

We’re so excited to welcome Chelsi Lechtenberg to the HORIZONS Program! 🤍Chelsi is a Bookkeeper and the Founder of Bookk...
08/19/2026

We’re so excited to welcome Chelsi Lechtenberg to the HORIZONS Program! 🤍

Chelsi is a Bookkeeper and the Founder of Bookkeeping Owl, LLC, based in Stamford, Connecticut—where she helps small business owners move from financial confusion and messy books to clarity, confidence, and cleaner business decisions.

Her work is rooted in practical, personalized support, using consultative bookkeeping and customized service plans to create calm, structure, and financial visibility.

What stands out most about Chelsi is her willingness to learn and grow as both a bookkeeper and business owner. The way she approaches her work isn’t just about reconciling numbers—it’s about helping business owners feel more grounded, informed, and supported in running what they’ve built.

There’s a point in growing a business when being good at what you do isn’t the problem.You’ve built something successful...
08/18/2026

There’s a point in growing a business when being good at what you do isn’t the problem.

You’ve built something successful. People trust you. The demand is there.

But the business has become more complex, and figuring out what comes next while you’re still responsible for everything happening today is a lot to carry.

That’s why I value the kind of partnership Charis describes here.

My role isn’t to hand my clients a formula and tell them to follow it. It’s to understand the business they’ve built, where they want to take it, and what matters to them along the way.

Then we figure out what needs to change to get there.

Sometimes that’s strategy. Sometimes it’s systems, team, or financial clarity. And sometimes it’s asking the question they’re simply too close to the business to see.

Because scaling shouldn’t require you to become a different kind of business owner.

It should help you become a more confident one.

We’re so excited to welcome Kate Lingoni to the HORIZONS Program! 🤍Kate is a Fractional COO and the Founder of Say What ...
08/14/2026

We’re so excited to welcome Kate Lingoni to the HORIZONS Program! 🤍

Kate is a Fractional COO and the Founder of Say What Marketing, LLC dba BonBon Strategic, based in New Orleans, Louisiana—where they help founder-led service businesses move from operational bottlenecks and founder dependency to smoother systems, clearer ex*****on, and more freedom to grow.

Her work is rooted in diagnosis-first strategy and practical implementation, using operational assessments and fractional COO support to create structure, capacity, and momentum inside growing businesses.

What stands out most about Kate is her commitment to solving the right operational problem before throwing more effort at it. The way she approaches her work isn’t just about fixing today’s bottleneck, it’s about helping founders build businesses that can scale without everything depending on them.

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