Kari Schell was an accountant who loved to quilt. When she retired, she decided to see if she could do something meaningful with her quilting business. At On Point Quilter, she helps other quilters unleash the power of the Electric Quilt software. She provides 10-minute video lessons and written instructions to make using Electric Quilt a joyful experience. She didn’t discover this winning formula overnight. At first, she focused on a number of different niches,…
By the time she was 31, Corinne Crabtree weighed 250 pounds and was exhausted. After struggling and seeing no results with every fad diet out there, she found a new way forward. She made a series of very small changes over 18 months and lost 100 pounds. Now, she’s on a mission to help other women get the opportunity they deserve to lose the weight – mentally and physically. At Phit-N-Phat, Corinne has been…
Early in their lives, Jonathan and Amanda Teixeira were terrible with money. After living paycheck to paycheck and even getting into a fight about money on their honeymoon, they decided to learn how to make their money work for them. They knocked off $25,000 worth of debt in a very short time period by budgeting – and their friends wanted to know exactly how they did it. This is how Jonathan and Amanda Teixeira founded…
Lauren Gayfer launched her career as a nutritional therapist with a private practice, seeing patients one-on-one. However, she found herself limited by two things. She lived in a small town where there was only a small number of people she could serve. And she was family first, needing time to care for her two children. This left her feeling restricted, bored, and struggling to make ends meet . Business coaching encouraged her to create her…
Sarah Williams serves people who love monogrammed and personalized items. As she got to know her customers and what they like, she turned her monogramming business into a one-stop gift shop. Over time, she realized that she could be providing monogrammed gifts through a subscription box service, built a site and a team, and launched Framed by Sarah. She experienced organic growth for nine straight months, then suddenly found herself with a decline in subscriptions…
Kathy Kalawec has always loved animals and she always wanted the dogs and horses that she worked with to be her true collaborative partners. After having great success in the world of sheep herding competitions, she started teaching her unique training methods on her farm and across the Midwest. However, bad weather, or months of ice and snow, led to financially devastating cancellations for weeks on end and left her wondering if her new career…
Deborah Stewart has been an early childhood educator for over 30 years. Her membership site, The Honey Bee Hive, helps teachers create strong foundations for young people. She provides proven strategies they can use to keep kids engaged in learning activities, play, and exploration in the classroom. However, before launching her membership site, Deborah struggled to turn her unique skill set into a sustainable business. She built an online following and was providing valuable resources…
Audria Richmond spent six years in a cycle of launching businesses, shutting them down, and failing to retain customers. Her struggles revealed that the piece missing in her work was effective marketing, which sent her on a deep dive through every course and book she could get her hands on. Now, as the founder of the Uncloned Marketing Membership, Audria helps fellow creative entrepreneurs market their businesses – effectively and creatively. She shows her clients…
After leaving a corporate job of 15 years, Belinda Rosenblum founded Own Your Money to help women and couples earn more, save more, and stop stressing about money. Although she was speaking all over the country, leading workshops, and hosting a TV and radio show, she found herself wanting a family and a different lifestyle. From there, she launched her first course, published her book Self-Worth to Net Worth, and sold hundreds of thousands of…
Wendy Batten spent years running a successful retail paint store – and discovered that she had a true gift for helping other entrepreneurs like her. This gradually led to her taking a step back from her retail operation in order to focus on coaching, and ultimately allowed her and her husband to make the decision to leave the city, sell their home and store, and move to a fishing village by the sea in Nova…
