Cubicle to CEO
Cubicle to CEO is a weekly business podcast that features behind-the-scenes case-study interviews with founders and CEOs. Host Ellen Yin explores specific growth strategies that entrepreneurs have successfully tested, detailing implementation and results. The show also shares transparent insights from Yin's own journey bootstrapping a media company from a freelance project into a multi-million dollar business.
Episodes
Bonus: The Later Lie (Why Hitting Every Goal Still Doesn't Feel Like Enough)
Ambitious founders often cling to the promise of: push hard now, so you can enjoy the payoff once “made it”. The problem is, the finish line keeps sliding forward, so the reward never actually arrives.
Heather Sager—an executive high performance coach for visible, visionary leaders— is calling this out. As a former corporate executive turned entrepreneur with two decades of leadership experie
357. An Easy No, Then an Easy Yes: Inside the Mid-7-Figure Sale of Smart Passive Income (After Rejecting Two 8-Figure VC Offers)
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Bonus: How To Plan Good Timing & When To Implement What (The Astrostrategic Data Your Business is Missing)
Is it good timing luck or strategy? If you’ve ever wondered why the same tactics land some months and stall in others, Sheri Moise reveals there's an entire data layer you’re missing in making strategic decisions.
After 25 years in CPG sales and marketing, Sheri now works as a Marketing and Planning Strategist certified in Business Astrology, using what she calls AstroStrategic data to h
356. What Makes A Business Ready to Sell? The 12-Year Path to a 7-Figure Agency Exit
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Bonus. 3 Networking Secrets: The Psychology of Getting Remembered & Referred
Most entrepreneurs treat networking as a numbers game, collecting contacts and hoping something sticks. Drawing from three decades of leadership experience, Kareen Mills helps leaders understand the human behaviors behind trust, reputation, and influence. With a background as a former bank VP and now a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Kareen is the founder and CEO of Friendsgiving Live®, th
355. She Sold Her Company for 8-Figures and Still Runs It (By Choice)
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Bonus: The Hidden Culprit Capping Your Revenue (From a Trauma-Informed Clinical Psychologist)
You can do everything right in your business and still stall at the same level, and Farya Barlas says the reason usually has nothing to do with your strategy. A Chartered Psychologist and trauma expert with 23 years of clinical experience, Farya hosts the From Trauma to CEO podcast and created The Method™, the first framework to bring clinical, trauma-informed psychology into business growth.
354. The 90-Day Exit: Buying and Selling a Six Figure Business, Told From Both Sides of the Table
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Bonus: How to Win Black Friday Without Discounting Your Offers
Most business owners write off Black Friday because they assume it means offering heavy discounts their margins can't absorb. However, Stephanie Paradiso calls Q4 "spendy season" and argues the opposite: some of her clients earn 50% of their annual revenue in these months, without relying on discounts.
Stephanie is a certified marketing strategist and founder of Inspired Social Collective, a cr
353. (Subscriber Q&A) Ellen’s Side Quests, Investments, Reflections on Descaling The Business 1 Year Later
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Bonus: The Buyer-Brain Test That Makes AI Copy Actually Convert
AI can write a hundred emails in a minute, and your audience will scroll past every one. Prerna Malik has spent 15 years writing words that make people buy—minus the sleaze, the fake countdowns, and the "only 2 spots left" theatrics. As the conversion strategist behind Profitably Yours (formerly Content Bistro), she blends buyer psychology with AI and has taught close to 1,000 business owners to s
352. Who Keeps What & Pays Who? Untangling IP From a Multi-Million Dollar Brand & Business Partnership To Launch Her Independent Company
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What happens to your IP when it’s published und
Bonus: The Hybrid Business Model That Made Client Work Optional
Ellen Mackenzie built a booked-out social media agency, then deliberately burned it down. The six-figure client roster she'd spent years filling had become the thing she wanted out of, so she dismantled it on purpose and rebuilt around a model where 1:1 client work is now optional.
Founder of Dishing Up Digital, Ellen runs a multi-six-figure business from Auckland, New Zealand, stacking digital
351. Flipping 900+ KnockOffs Into an 80% Sales Spike (How To Turn CopyCats Into a Marketing Campaign)
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When a copycat company rips off your IP, sometime
Bonus: The Collaboration Stacking Strategy That Generated $800K Without Social Media
A former architect turned marketing strategist, Hope Trory swapped blueprints for business systems, but her collaborative thinking stayed the same. As founder of HOPEWORKSDESIGN, she built her signature ACE Framework around a simple bet: social media hustle isn't the only path to visibility. Instead, she leans into podcast guesting, workshops, and what she calls "collaboration stacking."
350. Licensing Your Service IP to Create 5-Figure Cash Injections + New Distribution Channels In Your Business
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Lyrik Fryer once got a licensing check so large her b
Bonus: The Highest-ROI Referral Engine For Local Service Providers
Emily Kim moved to Boston knowing no one. A single thoughtful post in a local Facebook group of 40,000 members led to 22 coffee chats and $10,000+ in closed business later, in-person networking is still her go-to growth strategy for local service providers.
A former Apple software engineer, Emily left tech to build two in-person businesses from scratch, including a brand photography business wi
349. Should You License Someone Else’s IP Instead of Building From Scratch? The Strategy That Generated $80,378 In Year One
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Léa Jeanmougin licensed someone else's proven course in
Bonus: Are You Exposing Your IP? Hidden Risks Every Creator & Coach Building AI Tools Needs To Know
Most creators sharing AI tools with their audience are unaware they’re vulnerable to two big risks: giving unlimited access to anyone who wants it, and feeding their expertise into a learning model shared with millions of other users. Kelly Sinclair is on a mission to fix both problems.
Kelly Sinclair is a brand and marketing strategist turned "accidental" AI tech co-founder of wAIv by Gravia S
348. She Allocates 75% Of Her Business Profits To Private Money Lending For Double Digit Returns
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Industrial real estate investing without the tenants or toi
347. Does the Stock Market Beat Reinvesting in Your Business? Turning Active Income Into Passive Income
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Reinvesting all your profits back into your own business can f
346. Using Business Profits to Invest In Real Estate: How Thanks for Visiting Made $100K+ Revenue and Increased Property Value by 1M+ Before Opening Day
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Before a single guest checked in, they'd already generated six fi
Bonus: The Social Media-Optional Growth Strategy That Made $166K in 5 Months
Feeling lost in the noise of social media and AI slop? What if the answer to reliable visibility was proximity via partnerships, not posting?
Casey Lightbody, founder of The Quiet Collective, helps quietly powerful women coaches and consultants grow consistent, fully booked businesses through strategic partnerships and relationship-led marketing, without relying on social media to be seen or s
345. Using Business Profits to Angel Invest: The $10K Bet That Returned $1.2M (+ Jaclyn Johnson’s Portfolio Walk-Through)
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Continuing our series on “Revenue → Returns (How My Money Makes Me M
Bonus: The 5-Week Formula to Sell Out Your Group Program
Many coaches overcomplicate their group program launches, and it's costing them clients. Steph Crowder, former sales training director in tech turned business coach, has spent 10 years helping thousands of entrepreneurs sell out their offers without feeling pushy or manipulative.
In this episode, she breaks down exactly what it takes to fill a group program in 5 weeks, why so many service provide
344. My Honest Experience Buying a Brick & Mortar Retail Store as a Second Business
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Introducing “Revenue → Returns (How My Money Makes Me Money)”: our next
Bonus: How to Raise Money-Confident Kids (And The Next Generation of Entrepreneurs)
What’s the most effective way to raise entrepreneurial kids who are confident with money and financially literate? Most parents wait until their kids are teenagers to start talking about money, but studies show age 7-9 is actually the most important window for building financial confidence in children.
Joining us to share the why and how is a parent with first-hand experience in raising money-s
343. (Q&A) How To Land Cash & In-Kind Sponsorships To Offset Your Event Costs
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Sponsorships aren't just for big conferences with hundreds or thousands of
Bonus: To Spend or Not To Spend? How To Evaluate Your Expenses + The Questions Every Business Owner Should Ask Before A Big Financial Decision
Is your next business expense an investment or a mistake? The answer is always nuanced, but the right questions can help you make wiser spending decisions that actually align with your ROI expectations and overarching business goals.
With nearly 20 years of experience across multiple sectors of the financial industry (banking, lending, and now financial planning and investment/wealth managemen
342. 6 Time-Saving Boundaries You’ll Want To Borrow
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This week, Ellen gets behind the mic for a solo episode sharing 6 of her best
Bonus: How to Stop Being the Bottleneck in Your Business
Success on the outside doesn't always match what's happening behind the scenes.
Nata Salvatori is a Freedom-First Leadership & Scaling Coach, host of The Accidental CEO® podcast, and creator of the R.E.T.U.R.N. Framework: helping high-capacity founders exit over-responsibility and build businesses that don't depend on them to function.
In this episode, she breaks down the invisible load high
341. The “Pods” Team Structure That Pulled Her Out of The Day-to-Day & Doubled Revenue (Without Increasing Hours or Headcount)
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What if you could double revenue within 2 years without growing your team h
340. Cutting Her Service Menu In Half Gave Her 40 Hours a Week Back (and 2-3X'd Average Client Revenue)
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In the last two years, KJ Blattenbauer intentionally dismantled and rebuilt her
Bonus: Before You Spend Another Dollar on FB/IG Ads, Listen to This
Have you tried running ads and watched your budget disappear with nothing to show for it? Claire Pelletreau has seen this time and time again, and she's on a mission to make sure you never waste another dollar in the Zuckerberg machine.
A Facebook and Instagram ads expert and conversion optimization strategist, and the host of the Get Paid Podcast, Claire is known for making ads actually make s
339. Systemizing To Six Figures: Increasing Average Earnings From $23 to $303/hr On a 9-Hour Work Week
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Just in time for summer, we’re kicking off our series on working less! Over the pas
338. Press, Pitches, and What's Actually Moving the Needle | PR Expert Roundtable
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The rules of PR are being rewritten, and most founders haven't gotten the memo yet.
Bonus: How the Hybrid Agency Model Is Changing the Way Brands Hire Creative Teams
Most brands have worked with an agency that felt like an external vendor. Rachel Leslie is building something different.
As the founder and editor-in-chief of Lāer Studio, Rachel has spent years developing a hybrid creative partner model that embeds her copywriting team directly into the brands they support - from their internal Slack channels to their campaign briefs. With clients like Away, Z
337. Creative Ways to Leverage PR Opportunities for Content (Even When Your Pitch Is Rejected)
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Plot twist: you don't have to land the PR feature to get visibility from your pitching ef
336. How To Sustain Media Momentum Beyond a Viral Moment (Confessions From A Small Business Made Famous by Taylor Swift)
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Going viral is part luck, but sustaining it is all skill. Kicking off our series on amplifyi
335. What's Working To Sell Out Events in 2026? | Roundtable
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Selling tickets to an in-person event has never been more competitive or nuanced.
Wrapping up
334. Scrappy Scaling: How Co-Branded Events Catapulted an Unknown Company Into the National Spotlight
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Continuing our series on leveraging events for business growth, today’s case study is a masterclass
Bonus: How a 7-Figure Course Creator Used AI to Recession-Proof Her Business
Gemma Bonham-Carter has been making money online since before Instagram existed. After building a 7-figure education business helping over 20,000 entrepreneurs, she made a bold move: retiring multiple signature programs to go all-in on AI education in a market flooded with generic ChatGPT content.
While most online educators struggled in 2025, Gemma had her best year yet and is now targeting $10
333. Creative Community Events That Took a $17K Startup to $22M in Sales in 1 Year
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Continuing our series on leveraging events to grow in 2026, we’re joined today by Tiffany McQuaid.
Tiff
Bonus: Build an Aligned Brand That Converts and Grows With You (Without Burning Out)
Does your brand accurately reflect the quality of your work? Alison Gardner, Founder and Creative Director of Perspektiiv Design Co., believes that when a brand is truly aligned with your values, your voice, and your vision, it stops being a source of stress and starts becoming one of your strongest business assets.
A lifelong creative entrepreneur and mother, Alison brings both strategic depth
332. Create & Cultivate’s Playbook To Sell Out a 2,000 Person Event (Straight From The CEO)
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It’s a stretch for most events to attract 200 paid attendees; Create & Cultivate’s Festival is setting a ne
Bonus: How To Get Chat GPT/AI To Recommend Your Website (SEO Isn’t Enough Anymore)
Krissy Chin and Claire VanBemmelen are the founders of K+C Creative and sisters who have lived through every era of online business. From the early days of blogging to today’s crowded creator economy, they’ve seen firsthand how attention has become expensive and trust has grown fragile.
They don’t follow trends. They design high-converting websites and funnels for coaches, service providers, and
331. 9 Unexpected Marketing Campaigns Crushing It Right Now | Roundtable
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Wrapping up our series on the most unique ways to market and sell in 2026, host Ellen Yin sits down with produ
330. The AI Chat Funnel That Generated 100+ Qualified Leads and Converts at 80%
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Imagine saving yourself 20 hours per month while qualifying over 100 leads for your offer.
Jenna Nelson is a nat
329. Marketing An Agency Like A Consumer Brand: How They Package Their Services Like a 6 Pack of Beer
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Dana Hork is a transformational brand leader, entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of Beers with Friends, an agile crea
Bonus: What 8-Figure Entrepreneurs Do Differently (That 7-Figure Founders Resist)
Julia Carlson is an 8-figure entrepreneur, a top ranked financial advisor by Barron's and Forbes, author of Money Loves You and Let’s Get You Fired, and speaker who’s spent more than 25 years helping women build real wealth without burning themselves out in the process. She has built and scaled multiple companies, including a financial services firm, while raising a family.
Today, Julia helps wo
328. How Auctioning a VIP Day on Instagram Generated $9,700
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Dr. Nata Salvatori, founder of the Accidental CEO, works with entrepreneurs who have built reliable revenue but are sti
Bonus: How a Non-Viral Threads Account Landed $6K in Sponsors
You don’t need a viral audience to monetize social media. Jess Freeman is proof.
With a small, non-viral audience on Threads, she secured $6,000 in summit sponsorships in just two months — without a hard sell, course, or product launch. The founder of Jess Creatives and The Ordinary Business, Jess has spent 14 years building a service-based business, but recently found incredible success when the
327. The Next Era of Cubicle to CEO: What’s Coming in 2026
Cubicle to CEO is entering its next era!
After six years of creating 400+ free episodes, we’re making big changes in 2026 to support our show’s next level of growth. Host Ellen Yin & producer Sabrina Nasser explain everything in this episode.
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Bonus: This Is How You Turn Listeners Into Leads (Backed by 100 Podcast Launches)
Many entrepreneurs start podcasts to “build awareness,” but very few turn their show into a real revenue engine. Cait Howard wants to change that.
As a podcast strategist who has launched more than 100 shows over the last six years, she’s seen exactly why most business owners fail to turn listeners into leads — and what strategic podcasters do differently.
In this episode, Cait breaks down the
326. 7,200 Leads, $596K In Program Sales, Zero Ad Spend
What if a partnership workshop strategy could quietly generate 7,200 leads—and nearly $600,000 in coaching revenue?
That’s the organic engine Cassie and Shay built.
For the last two years, the founders of Bucketlist Bombshells have used a simple workshop strategy to bring in an average of 450 new subscribers per workshop, adding more than 3,600 high-intent leads to their list every year. All ad
Bonus: The 5 Steps Helping Burned-Out Women Cut Their Workload by 30%
Burnout is pervasive among high-performing professionals. After more than 20 years as a physician, Dr. Erin Hurley hit her own breaking point and rebuilt her life using a method that now helps women reclaim 5 to 20 hours a week.
As a productivity and well-being coach, she turns evidence-based research into simple habits that reduce overwhelm fast. In this episode, she breaks down the patterns dri
325. How Giving 10% Equity to One Employee Tripled This Business to 7 Figures
When a traumatic brain injury forced Jenny Groberg to step away from her company for two years, it could have ended her business.
Instead, it became the catalyst for exponential growth.
Jenny, founder and CEO of BookSmarts Accounting and Bookkeeping, handed day-to-day leadership to her manager, Emily, granting her 10% ownership of the business plus profit sharing. During Jenny’s absence, the com
324. How a New Founder Landed 200 Clients in 6 Months
When Ipek Gray launched her business The Born Method™ — a system rooted in decades of her mother’s research but newly introduced to the US — she generated $50,000 in 1:1 coaching revenue in her first year.
Booking 200 private clients in just six months as a new founder, her growth came entirely from community partnerships.
By embedding herself in values-aligned groups, Ipek turned small, trusted
Bonus: Turn Your IP Into Global Revenue By Translating It Into New Languages
What if the fastest way to scale your income wasn’t by creating something new — but by translating what already works?
That’s exactly what Léa Jeanmougin did when she licensed an existing American program and brought it to a new spoken-language market. Within just three months of launching the beta offer, her monthly sales grew from $3K to $9K — all while navigating the nuances of a different cul
323. Landing $100K in Corporate Contracts in 90 Days
When Dr. Taryn Fletcher walked away from her six-figure leadership career in education, it wasn’t because she failed—it was because she outgrew it.
Within just 90 days of starting her business, she turned her professional network and reputation into $100,000 in corporate contracts. Three years later, her business had generated over $1 million in revenue—all through organic visibility and relation
322. Replacing Yourself in Your Business: The Strategy That Increased Revenue By 94%
Fractional CFO Pam Jordan fell into the classic service-based business owner’s trap: she was the business. She was handling sales, delivery, managing the team, and still trying to grow—but she recognized this limited her scaling.
Then she made a bold, uncomfortable move: she fired herself from fulfillment and sales.
By stepping fully into the CEO role, Pam overhauled her team, hired A-players fo
Bonus: What’s Possible When You Delegate 80% of Your Workload to a Force Multiplier
Entrepreneurs know they should delegate — but few actually know how.
After 15 years as the right hand to high-growth CEOs, Hallie Warner has seen the difference a true Force Multiplier can make — the kind of partner who can help a founder stop making 80% of the decisions in their business, and finally scale faster.
As the co-author of the Amazon best-seller The Founder & The Force Multiplier, Ha
321. Let’s Collab & Mastermind in Mexico Together in 2026!
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320. Converting Cold Leads Into High Ticket Clients Through Threads, Upwork, + ChatGPT
Most service providers rely on selling to their warm audience and using launches, funnels, or daily posting to book high-ticket clients. But Latesha Lynch lands 2–3 every month — while working just 20 hours a week and skipping sales calls.
In the last five months, she’s booked 13 clients. 69% were cold leads who found her through Threads, Upwork, ChatGPT, or even old YouTube videos — and still co
Bonus: Hosting an Event? Our Pop-Up Community Playbook To Elevate the Attendee Experience
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What if the real magic of your event didn’t happen at the event — but in the months before and after it?
That’s exactly what happened when we built a private pop-up community inside Kajabi for our 200-person event this past September, Bloom Together. By launching the community as soon as tickets opened and keeping it open for a
319. Largest Launch While Pregnant? The Business + Bio Hacks That Funded an 8-Month Maternity Leave
While 8 months pregnant, Stefanie Adler pulled off her largest launch ever—securing six-figures in revenue from her group program, The Well Woman Collective. That financial foundation allowed her to take a spacious 8-month maternity leave without sacrificing income or business momentum.
The secret wasn’t working harder—it was syncing her business strategy with her biology. By leveraging her own f
318. $1.1 Million Dollar Launch Debrief (Uncommon Tactics That Outperformed Industry Averages)
In the spring of 2025 — with a small but mighty email list of 3,000 — Callan Faulkner pulled off a $1.1 million launch for her 10-week AI course, Automate to Accelerate.
She enrolled 197 clients at an average cart value of $5,000, with conversion rates far above industry norms.
So what made it work? Callan’s willingness to out-teach and out-deliver her competitors. Across 18 hours of live train
Bonus: Closing 63% of the Room — How Speaking Can Outperform Social Media To Drive Sales
Most entrepreneurs think of speaking as only a visibility play — but done right, it can be your most profitable marketing strategy.
Laurie-Ann Murabito went from a shy girl who couldn’t make eye contact to a five-figure keynote speaker. After one client used her framework to go from zero leads to closing 63% of the room, she knew she’d uncovered a repeatable system. Today, Laurie-Ann helps coache
317. Building a 30K+ Community in 2 Years Through Sold Out Events
In just two years, Miss EmpowHer grew into a 30,000+ member community — without spending a cent on ads.
Using offline experiences to drive digital momentum, founder Caitlyn Kumi scaled Miss EmpowHer from a personal side project into a national women’s empowerment community. By curating FOMO-worthy events that doubled as content engines, Caitlyn turned real-life connections into explosive online g
316. Tripling Brick-and-Mortar Sales + Foot Traffic: Inside This Retailer’s 12-Month Growth Surge
When Maryland legalized recreational cannabis in July 2023, most dispensaries assumed success was automatic. Dispensary owner Hope Wiseman knew better, leaning into proactive strategies to satisfy demand and scale sustainably.
In today’s case study, we examine how in a span of just 12 months, Hope tripled Mary & Main’s revenue and foot traffic. Hope used data to optimize staffing for peak hours,
Bonus: Healthy Habits That Stick — The Nutrition Blueprint for Busy Business Owners
Entrepreneurship is hard on the body — long hours, skipped meals, constant stress. But what if improving your health didn’t have to mean overhauling your entire routine?
Functional Medicine Nutritionist Ali Virtue, founder of Parkside Nutrition, helps entrepreneurs create realistic, balanced plans that actually stick. With a Master’s in Human Nutrition & Functional Medicine, she’s known for turni
315. The $50K “Sold Out Party” Strategy With a 90% Close Rate
In this data-rich case study, we examine how marketing coach Michelle Vroom sold out a brand new program in 30 days with a 90% close rate.
Michelle’s tested strategy that powered this $50K launch? Hosting a private “Sold Out Party” for her warmest leads (existing clients in her program), where repeat clients claimed half the seats before the offer even went public.
By testing her messaging with
314. $17.5K in 72 Hours: Launching Exclusively Through Close Friends on Instagram Stories
Today’s case study is one of the most creative launch strategies we’ve covered this year.
Brittany Roberts sold out a new VIP group program and generated $17,500 in revenue in 72 hours through Instagram’s Close Friends feature.
Here’s how it worked: over 250 people opted into a three-day private training series by requesting to be added to Brittany’s Close Friends on Instagram, and then tuned
Bonus: The 2-Week Sprint + Prioritization Test That Transforms Operational Chaos Into Clarity
When operations break down, growth stalls — and for most companies, the warning signs creep in long before anyone notices.
Tammara Carr, founder of Audacity Management, has seen it all: from Fortune 50 boardrooms to fast-moving SaaS startups. With a Master’s in Project Management, top-tier Agile and Six Sigma certifications, and experience leading multimillion-dollar initiatives, she’s the go-to
313. Charging $30K Per Keynote: A Fighter Pilot’s Playbook for Landing 20+ High-Paying Speaking Gigs a Year
In less than six months, Michelle “Mace” Curran went from being a $20K speaker to commanding $30K per keynote—while scaling her speaking business to over 20 high-level engagements a year and crossing six figures in revenue.
In today’s case study, Michelle briefs us on how she applied the tactical frameworks from her career as a fighter pilot to grow her speaking business with military precision,
312. How the “Hot 100” Method Generated $100K in 6 Months (Content-Free Growth)
After leaving her corporate career to start a coaching and consulting business, Brianca Johnson Kirkman wanted a lean, high-impact growth strategy that could generate trust — and clients — fast.
In her first six months, she crossed six figures in revenue without a team, paid ads, or social posting, thanks to her self-created Hot 100 Method: a focused visibility strategy built on intentionally nur
Bonus: In-person Clinic to Online Clicks: The “Sexy Niche” That Built a $1.6M Personal Brand Without 10K Followers
Dr. Lauryn Brunclik didn’t rest on the success of her seven figure chiropractic clinic, instead building something even bigger alongside it.
In this episode, she shares how launching a podcast helped her stop relying solely on new patient bookings and start growing a personal brand that’s generated over $1.6 million online (long before she ever hit 10,000 followers.)
With over 1,000 podcast down
311. How Customer Storytelling 5X’d Roadster’s Sales Pipeline and Led to a $360M Acquisition
When Michelle Denogean joined Roadster as CMO, the company had a great product—but no one knew who they were or why their solution mattered. Digital retailing in the automotive space was still emerging, and skeptical dealerships weren’t ready to dive into their innovative model. Eighteen months later, Roadster had grown its sales pipeline 5X, slashed its sales cycle by 25%, and increased branded s
310. Outperforming In-Person Teams: Inside The Remote Culture That Beats Industry Benchmarks for Work Satisfaction
Many remote teams struggle with connection, culture, and performance, but Ginni Media is raising the bar.
Founder Ginni Saraswati Cook recently led a company-wide culture assessment to evaluate how her remote team was experiencing work satisfaction across five core drivers: Sense of Progress, Challenge, Autonomy, Meaningful Goals, and Team Support.
When comparing the results, Ginni Media beat th
Bonus: 4 Website Pages That Convert Clicks Into Clients (Plus Common Mistakes to Avoid)
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