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96. Pursing Goals in Business with Gabe Cox

December 2, 2025·44 min·2 clips

Gabe Cox says the real secret sauce is not planning but "the action."

1. Small Business Growth Tools features a conversation about pursuing goals in business with Gabe Cox. 2. Gabe Cox is the host of Pursuing Goals God's Way and a goal planning and business strategist with Red Hot Mindset. 3. The episode asks how Christian women can set goals and build a business plan without copying "the gurus" or "the culture." 4. Gabe says her online business has existed since 2019, and she still wants plans that fit "their season and capacity." 5. She says every business decision should be filtered through priorities, values, faith, and whether something is "life-giving." 6. She says bookkeeping is one task she hates, but content creation should be something she can sustain "for the long run." 7. Gabe says a plan needs direction and flexibility, and she quotes the idea that "blessed are the flexible." 8. She connects that flexibility to Abram and Sarai in Genesis, saying they trusted God at first and then tried to force outcomes their own way. 9. Her first goal-setting pillar is "see it," meaning to write the vision, dream again, and notice what stirs on the inside. 10. She says she lost her own dream after early motherhood, then had to reclaim the habit of dreaming for herself and for her children. 11. Gabe says she is "not a manifester" and rejects the idea that wanting something makes it happen on its own. 12. She says a "100 dreams list" helps uncover desires ranging from saving $1,000 to saving $5,000, helping people, starting ministries, or creating memories. 13. She says the next step is to narrow the list to a top 10 and then to one big vision. 14. Gabe says the second step is a simplified game plan built by reverse-engineering the goal into stepping stones. 15. She uses marathon training as the model, moving from 26.2 miles to 20 miles, 13 miles, 10K, 5K, and then a first mile. 16. For business goals, she breaks results into actions like talking to 20 people a month, which becomes five conversations a week. 17. She says the "real secret sauce is the action," not a checklist, because intentional action reveals what works and what does not. 18. She describes her own pivot from social media to collaboration as an example of changing a strategy when the old one produced little return. 19. The tone is conversational, faith-based, and practical, with repeated examples from running, motherhood, and business systems. 20. Women rebuilding goals after hustle culture will likely love this episode, while listeners wanting theory without action steps may skip it.

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Gabe Cox breaks big goals into smaller steps that feel easier to act on.

Gabe Cox treats goal-setting like a working plan, not a mood board. The episode keeps circling one plain idea: do not start with the huge number. Start with the next thing you can actually do. One client. One conversation. One small batch of outreach.

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You need goals that turn into weekly actions, not pressure.

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