Decades ago, there wasn’t much diversity in modelling. Models were typically a certain size and shape. This led Coach Tulin to struggle with body image growing up, but ultimately helped her to push the boundaries and become a plus-sized model herself. However, problems with her husband’s business partners, along with his multiple sclerosis diagnosis, derailed their careers and well-being as a family. After hitting rock bottom, they set out on a new journey to rebuild…
Jamie Swanson helps other photographers grow their businesses. She launched her first membership site in 2011, and provided comprehensive resources for photographers in SEO, sales, planning, and more. However, she found herself doing everything at the last possible minute – and despite having a huge audience, she struggled to grow. Then, her own search for a professional photographer led to a breakthrough that revolutionized her business forever. Now, she teaches personal brand photographers one…
After 23 years in sales, Catherine Watkin left her corporate career in search of fulfillment. After years of retraining and many conversations with her friends, she found herself brought back to sales, but in a completely new way. Now, Catherine is the UK’s leading expert in authentic and heart-centered sales. She teaches gifted entrepreneurs who feel awkward about selling how to attract and enroll clients in a way that’s in alignment with their values. Through…
When she finished graduate school, Mary Gilkerson had a portfolio and an MFA — but not the experience, skills, or tools to support herself as a working artist. She spent the next 20 years teaching painting to women all over the world, but also found herself at a crossroads: she could either stay in academia or become more active as her art career picked up momentum. She then started teaching painting online, but found herself…
When Janine Esbrand was growing up, she planned on becoming a lawyer, and she did just that. However, a legal mission trip to East Africa left her feeling like there was something missing when she worked on mergers and acquisitions. This led her on a journey of discovery — and into a new career as a coach. However, she struggled to work full-time in law, build her coaching business, and prepare for the birth of…
For seven years, Anna Saucier struggled with infertility. During that time, she became a practitioner in a natural charting method and medical treatment for restoring fertility, and began teaching this method to other clients. She built a business that she loved, but when she had two children of her own, she struggled to make time to see her clients one-on-one. Out of this struggle came a realization: using the membership model, she could help her…
After working as a marketing director and helping for-profit companies for over a decade, Rianne Klein Geltink got an itch to take a year-long sabbatical and go on an epic road trip across Australia. When the road trip turned out not to be what she expected, she packed up and left for Bali, where she discovered two things that changed her life: digital nomadism and social entrepreneurship. In the months that followed, Rianne explored how…
In 1999, Dr. Mary Barbera’s firstborn son was diagnosed with autism the day before his third birthday. Despite the fact that she was a master’s prepared nurse and married to a physician, she knew almost nothing about autism — and set out to change that. Over the past two decades, she’s studied how parents and professionals can better teach children all across the autism spectrum the things that other children often learn on their own.…
Kasey Hope is the owner of P’zazz Art Studio in Prattville, Alabama. After almost 12 years of teaching, her classes were maxed out beyond capacity. Furthermore, because her studio is located near a military base, many of her students were often moving away. To reach a wider audience and keep in touch with families as they left, Kasey created Whatever Letter — a membership course that teaches hand lettering, fosters deep relationships, and builds community…
Tanel Jäppinen had been working in sales since he was 20 years old. However, when he became a father, he walked away from his career to start blogging about parenthood and fatherhood, struggling to launch a podcast along the way. After a lack of initial success, he returned to work. Over the next year, Tanel found a new niche to help address the challenges and struggles he faced as a parent. Now, he helps other…
