Public Speaking Coach Achieves $16,000 Month After Eight-Month Client Dry Spell

Hi, I'm Jordan Hirsch, and the name of my company is Fish Tree. At the end of 2025, in early December, I woke up one day and realized that I wanted to quit my job, but I didn't know how because I work for myself. [chuckles] So if I'd had a boss, I would've gone to them and said, "This is too hard. I don't know what I'm doing. The stuff I'm good at, I'm not getting to do anymore. I am a failure at this. Goodbye." But going back and getting a nine-to-five job sounded even harder than doing that, so I was definitely feeling stuck. And I was in a little support group with some fellow coaches at the time, and one of our members said she had to drop out of the group because she was too busy with client work. And I texted her immediately and said: How did that happen? And she said, "Well, I've joined this training program." And she told me a little bit about it. She said, "Actually, they have this free summit coming up in a couple weeks." And so I registered for it, fairly certain it was gonna do nothing for me. I was like, "Uh, it doesn't... I don't know, a free weekend. [chuckles] Sounds like they're making a lot of promises. We'll see." And by the end of the weekend, I was signing up for a year. So after that, I realized I don't know exactly what they did, but whatever they did worked, and I wanna learn how to do it too. During the Client Attraction Summit, I'd say two things led to that moment. So one was just hearing the testimonials from some of the Thrive coaches. Like hearing Molly Mandelberg speak about her journey and just hearing that people's businesses were in the same low stuck point that mine had been, and hearing how they had gotten out of it and sort of where they were now was so inspiring, and I thought, "Well, if they can do it, maybe I can do it too." And another one is during one of the breaks, they said, "Okay, during this next break, we have a little challenge for you," and it was something like, you know, reach out to five people in your network, former clients, people who didn't work with you, past colleagues. Just reconnect. And so I did, and one of those almost immediately led to a referral, and I thought, "Oh my God, the stuff that I haven't been doing for a year, like, of course, this is the stuff I need to start doing again, and I need support to keep me accountable for doing it." My business turning point was actually starting to take consistent action and take a lot of things that had been in my ideas. One day I should reach out to this person. I should start reconnecting with people in my network. That's... With this webinar that I used to do, like I should kind of revamp it and make it stronger and do it again, and that was huge. Just the idea of actually starting to take that action felt like kind of cranking the engine back up and then creating my own talk. Thrive helped me realize... So I'm a public speaking coach, and I love public speaking, and I hadn't been doing it, really. I'd been kind of holding back from it when I was sort of shrinking when business was really low. And just creating this webinar and putting it out there, having a thing to go out and talk about and just invite people to, that's been a huge turning point. I've delivered it, I think, three or four more times since then, and each time it has led to a client. So my goal is to do it eight more times this year, and I'm beginning to see that this thing that I know I'm good at but I hadn't been doing, like I don't need to wait for someone to invite me to do it. I can start doing it myself, and Thrive is really giving me some tools to go out and create opportunities to get in front of the right people. So my first month in Thrive, so let's see, I started mid-January, so my first month, I think nothing much happened on the business front. My second month, I signed a client for $450 a month, just a once-a-month, like very small, small engagement, but it was more than I'd had. I hadn't signed anyone new in around eight months. And then in March, I signed a second 450 a month client, and in April, I signed three premium clients for over $16,000. And I'm even like hesitating as I say it 'cause it sounds unreal. If you had told me in December, like, "By the way, by April, here's what you're gonna make." [chuckles] I was like, "Yeah, right. Sure." And then it happened. And as you can tell, now I'm kind of become... I'm now a true believer in the Thrive program 'cause it works. Well, for one thing, I'm showing up with a lot more confidence. I am no longer bringing this energy of almost begging someone to work with me. I don't chase misaligned clients anymore because I think they might have the money to spend on me. I feel like I can actually show up with the confidence that my clients want to have when they get up and speak to people, and modeling that confidence is really powerful and really magnetic in a very different way than I think my energy was last year. So it's changed not only how I approach sales and speaking, but also in the work itself. I'm showing up to my coaching work with a new level of confidence, like, yeah, actually this stuff does work. These things that I'm gonna show you, I know they work. And having a few people hire me has really boosted my ability to feel confident, even during the days when it feels like maybe no one's ever gonna hire me again. I'm able to kind of stop going down that rabbit hole and which means I can help pull my clients out of it too when they find themselves sort of spiraling out in the same way. Feels great. I mean, for one thing, my business is making money again. [chuckles] And it had frankly been a while. And so just simply even like, hey, I'm paying the bills now with money that I made. I'm contributing to the family budget, whereas I've been relying on my wife for the last six to eight months. That feels great. I'm not second-guessing every small financial decision. You know, I'm not going wild. [chuckles] I haven't, haven't bought a Lamborghini yet. But I feel a new level of kind of stability and a new, definitely a new feeling of confidence that I can create these kind of results on an ongoing basis. You know, maybe not every month's gonna be 16K. That's pretty wild. But it no longer sounds like science fiction to me to be able to hit those numbers, and I'm able to create opportunities for myself in a whole new way just a few months into the program. I mean, I'm... delivered this, you know, this workshop that I mentioned. Got my fourth one coming up next week with two other Thrive coaches. We're putting together a mastermind all about sustainable speaking and just sort of reminding myself that I have the power to create opportunities in my business feels awesome. I would say if you run your own business and you want it to stop feeling like painful work to run a business, if you wanna feel supported and safe and powerful and even playful while you do it, come to Thrive because your clients are waiting for you, and you will be supported there at whatever level you show up.