7 Mindfulness Coach Success Stories [2024]

Updated: November 19th, 2023
Become A Mindfulness Coach

Mindfulness coaches use various techniques to help clients remain mindful in life, so they can relax and focus. Mindful living has various benefits, including relieving stress, lowering blood pressure, improving sleep, reducing chronic pain, and decreasing anxiety/depression.

To start a mindfulness coaching business, create a website and list the services you intend to offer. Start a blog and advertise your business widely on social media to create awareness.

Here are some real life success stories of starting a mindfulness coach:

1. MindTastik Meditation App ($420K/year)

Milena Ionescu, co-founder of MindTastik Meditation App, came up with the idea after personally experiencing the transformative benefits of meditation. She realized that longer, in-depth meditations could provide more effective results and decided to create an app that would make meditation more accessible and convenient for smartphone users. With monthly revenues of $35,000 and a wide range of themed meditations, MindTastik sets itself apart in the market.

How much they make: $420K/year
How much did it cost to start: $50K
Current team size: 3

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How We Created a Meditation App That Generates $35K/Month [From Romania]

MindTastik co-founder Milena Ionescu shares how her and her partner created a successful niche meditation app that generates $35,000 USD monthly by offering longer, in-depth meditations with after-meditation tasks and mindfulness activities, and how they expanded their app family to include themed meditations for specific problems.

About
Milena started MindTastik Meditation App about 5 years ago
Revenue
Milena grew the business to $35K/month
Costs
It cost Milena $50000 to start the business
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2. MindEasy ($36K/year)

Griff, the founder of MindEasy, came up with the idea for his business after discovering meditation during a trip to India. As a firefighter, he found that meditation helped him cope with stress and wanted to make it more accessible to others. He created MindEasy to provide meditation courses and content in a language that is relevant and meaningful to people's goals, focusing on mental optimization, health and wellbeing, and spirituality.

How much they make: $36K/year
How much did it cost to start: $5K
Current team size: 1

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I Left My Old Career & Started A Meditation Online Courses Business

Meditation company MindEasy offers personalized, relevant courses to help people find their way into mindfulness and meditation in a way that helps them achieve their career and personal goals, with focus on mental optimization, health and wellbeing, and spiritual approaches.

About
Griff started MindEasy almost 5 years ago
Revenue
Griff grew the business to $3K/month
Costs
It cost Griff $5000 to start the business
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3. Wandering Aunt ($27.6K/year)

After quitting her corporate marketing job to travel the world, Robin Finney started Wandering Aunt in July 2019. She initially focused on designing trips but later expanded to offer solo travel experiences, retreats, intuitive card readings, and online workshops. With over 200 email list subscribers and a strong social media presence, Robin plans to lead more retreats and develop online courses in the future.

How much they make: $27.6K/year
How much did it cost to start: $100
Current team size: 1

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How I Started A $1.8K/Month Travel Business While Traveling Around The World

Wandering Aunt founder Robin Finney shares her journey of starting a sustainable travel business, including her decision to leave her corporate marketing job of 11 years, using a simple website and free tools like Mailchimp to grow her email list and attract customers, and the importance of investing in a coaching program for support.

About
Robin started Wandering Aunt over 4 years ago
Revenue
Robin grew the business to $2.3K/month
Costs
It cost Robin $100 to start the business
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So... can you actually make money with a mindfulness coach?

Of course. There are millions to be made in this industry.

But how?

  1. Research real, profitable businesses and see exactly how much money they make.
  2. Study exactly what works, and what doesn’t.
  3. Take action, because now you have the roadmap.

Join Starter Story and build your next big thing:

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4. Granite Education ($360K/year)

Grantly Neely, the founder of GRANITE, came up with the idea for his education technology and learning center business after realizing the potential of mindfulness in improving academic performance. His curiosity in mindfulness and its impact on academic stress led him to create a mindfulness-based methodology for standardized test preparation, empowering students to navigate test-taking anxiety and other challenges. Through his bootstrap funding approach, he has been able to retain 100% equity in the business, which now generates an average revenue of $30K/month.

How much they make: $360K/year
How much did it cost to start: $0
Current team size: 4

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How I Created A $30K/Month Mindfulness-Based Test Prep Software

This case study is about a founder who built a profitable education technology and learning center called GRANITE, which offers mindfulness-based test prep software to individuals and schools, with an average revenue of $30k/month and 100% equity retained through a bootstrap funding approach.

Revenue
Grantly grew the business to $30K/month
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