22 Career Coaching Business Success Stories [2023]

Hi, I’m Patrick Curtis and I’m the CEO and Founder of Wall Street Oasis, the largest online community focused on careers in finance.

The community has now reached over 100 million visitors over its 14-year history and is currently getting over 2 million visits per month.

My name is Austin Belcak and I run a site called Cultivated Culture where I teach people how to land jobs at the world’s best companies without applying online.

The company has been around for 3 years now and we’ve had 50,000+ people come through our community going on to land jobs at places like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, SpaceX, Salesforce, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, ESPN, and more.

My name is Lydia Lee and I’m the Work Reinvention Strategist and Small Business Coach at Screw The Cubicle. I started my company six years ago to support mid-career transitioners who wanted to find alternative pathways beyond the 9-5 existence.

My monthly revenue is approximately $10,000/month, where I measure my progress based on how much time I have for my life. Money isn’t the only metric of success for me, and I’m constantly evaluating how I can scale my time and work less to achieve more.

My name is Nissar Ahamed, and I am the Founder and CEO of CareerMetis.com.

Our current monthly revenue averages around $1000, and all of it is by me working on this part-time mainly as a side hustle.

Moe found a problem on the market when trying to hire a marketing intern. He built a platform to provide training and job opportunities for students.

Hi, I am Julmar Grace Locsin, and I am the owner and co-founder of Filipino Virtual Assistance by FVA Business Consultancy. FVA offers online and offline training, coaching, consulting, workshops, services, franchising-related virtual assistance, offshoring, outsourcing, and remote work for brands and businesses, here and abroad.

Our very mission is to equip freelancers, empower marketers, and enable businesses. We envision FVA for global digital leadership that will impact the world through digitalization, one life at a time. FVA has three arms, namely FVA Online Academy- have trained 25,000 students from our 31 courses, FVA Services- from training to hiring programs, and FVA Franchising with 16 Coaches assigned from different territories. And we are fifteen in the FVA team, including FVA co-founder Jay Locsin and me.

• Hailey Thomas holds a Bachelor's degree in organizational & leadership communication from Illinois State University.
• In 2015, she left her corporate desk job of four years and started hustling to do something of her own. She failed and learned a lot in the process.
• In 2017, she started working independently as a project manager virtual assistant.
• Later she decided to launch her own company named Brainspace Optimized where she works as a business and life coach.
• Hailey offers business strategy and mindset coaching to first-generation entrepreneurs to help them build the strategic skills and gain the emotional maturity required to build a successful entity.
• Her ongoing business and mindset coaching program is called "One Year From Now". Through this program, clients witness the significant change her mentorship has brought in one year.

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Hi! My name is Bill Flynn. I am a multi-decade, serial entrepreneur and decided recently to work for myself as a business coach. Before that, I was part of the leadership team of 10 different startups in the Boston area.

My business revenue has doubled every year since I started (until COVID, it was poised to double again in 2020), I speak internationally and have written a book - Further, Faster - The Vital Few Steps that Take the Guesswork out of Growth.

I’m Amanda Shepherd, the owner and lead mentor at the Social Media Manager Society. Aside from social media consulting to businesses in the food, beverage, and hospitality industries, I created a program to teach other women how to run successful social media businesses so they can have the time and financial freedom they’ve always wanted!

I quit my 9-5 and in one year made almost $100,000 working an average of four hours per day - and still growing!

Hi guys! My name is George Avgenakis, and I’m the founder of Loopcv. I started the company more than 2 years ago to automate my job search, and it became viral on Reddit, helping thousands of users.

We are growing about 15% MoM, and we are currently improving our business solutions to help businesses that support job seekers!

We've helped hundreds of customers land their dream job offers and are currently at $120K annual revenue.

Hello, my name is Naisa Scott, and I am the co-founder of MentorDial. We are a platform that connects business professionals and entrepreneurs with professional mentors who are in the top 3% of their industries and who work in top-level positions at leading companies and startups around the world.

Since launching six months ago, we have helped thousands of entrepreneurs around the world launch and scale their businesses, raise money for their businesses, and grow their teams. We’ve also helped thousands of professionals land jobs get promoted, transition careers, grow their skills, manage teams, and more.

• Trey Cockrum is the founder of the Trey Cockrum coaching business. He helps people to start and grow profitable consulting businesses.
• He started "The Trey Cockrum Podcast" for an online course to help students go from $0 to over $20k with their online course.
• His 3-step online coaching business help people discover what expertise they have and what type of products or services they can sell.
• Trey made $5.6k in his first 20 DAYS selling online courses.

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• Amanda K founded Inner Beauty Bybel, a school for business and personal development that also offers certification in money and mindset mastery.
• She wanted to start something of her own that was both meaningful and impactful because she comes from a family of entrepreneurs and her father ran a successful business while she was growing up.
• With their signature programs and resources, you can grow your online business or learn how to become a coach.
• Amanda started Inner Beauty Bybel in February 2019, charging $20 for a 20-minute mentorship session.
  

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My name is Danica Octa, and I am a Filipino career and life coach, HR practitioner, sustainability advocate, and startup entrepreneur.

Through our efforts, we’ve built an ecosystem of talents, coaches, and employers of 15,000+ individuals.

Hi, my name is Carly Kay and I’m the founder and owner of Blue Sky Coaching.

Hey! My name is Dominic Monn, I am the founder and CEO of MentorCruise, the go-to place if you are looking for career coaching.

Currently, we’re making around $24,000 per month in commissions and we’re processing north of $120,000 every month for our mentors.

• Adrian Rosebrock founded PyImageSearch, a company that offered digital courses on visual image detection and image classification in Python.
• Adrian originally had a Ph.D. in computer science and worked a day job before becoming an entrepreneur.
• PyImageSearch was successful, and Adrian sold the business in 2021.
• This case study contains Adrian’s journey as an entrepreneur, including the decision to start blogging, launch a Kickstarter campaign, and hire employees.

How they got started

• PyImageSearch was founded to provide a basic product that could be created and sold within 30-60 days.
• The goal was to learn marketing and customer communication skills.
• Previous ventures had focused on scientific or healthcare markets and were unsuccessful.
• PyImageSearch focused on providing knowledge that would help customers professionally.
• The aim was to invest in personal and entrepreneurial development.

Success Story Of PyImageSearch

• In the early days of PyImageSearch, Adrian relied on social media and discussion groups like LinkedIn, Reddit, and Hacker News to promote the business.
• PyImageSearch was a blog aimed at explaining technical computer vision and artificial intelligence concepts through code and working projects rather than theory.
• Reddit and Hacker News were essential in attracting an audience interested in practical applications and demos of the code.
• PyImageSearch aimed to spark its audience’s imagination by showing projects’ code and output results.
• Adrian wrote the first PyImageSearch book in 10 days.
• He had a small email list of 100-200 people when he launched the book.
• He created a sales page and set a price of $19 for the book, not knowing if anyone would buy it.
• He sent an email to his list announcing the book and made a few sales on the first day.
• The experience of making sales through email was very rewarding for Adrian.