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Episode 2: “From Borrowing $60 to pay rent to $6,000 in one week”

In this weeks episode of Your Breakthrough Podcast, I deep dive my first year of business. I’ve learned a lot along the way because I stumbled A LOT along the way. Most of that stumbling was so unnecessary.

That’s what Your Breakthrough Brand is all about. Inside this community we’re going to work step by step to getting your side hustle launched and growing so you don’t have to question whether you’re doing the right things.

The greatest realization I’ve had this year has been seeing just how much opportunity there is in digital marketing. I hope my story serves as an inspiration for you to DECIDE that 2025 Will Be Your BEST YEAR YET!

If you didn’t get a chance to watch this week’s episode, you can check it out it here:

Creator Spotlight 🔦 

Since this publication is all about bringing you insight and inspiration, this week I’m starting something new. Each week we will be highlighting creators who are excelling with their personal brand.

The idea is to bring you examples of successful creators. My hope is that this section will premier people like you next year because we’ve catapulted you into your own success!

Check out this weeks Creator! 👇️ 

Erica Burkhardt

After spending over 10 years in a sales role where I worked 100% off commission I became burnt out and started exploring ways to work smarter, not harder because I knew if I wanted to scale my income, I needed to buy back my time by taking advantage of systems and automations.

At this time 100% of my leads and income were all coming from social media, specifically Instagram so I went on the hunt for Instagram automation and systems and that’s when I came across Manychat. I’m a figure it out kinda girl so I dove in head first, failed fast, learned from my own mistakes and just kept improving my processes/automations until one day somebody asked me what I was doing and how I was automating my Instagram.

That turned into several people asking me, and those people became my first “clients.” I say that in air quotes because I didn’t even charge them, I just wanted the experience. Then, my passion for creating Manychat automations began to expand, it was all I could think about, and I think I even had a few dreams about it, not kidding lol.

But I knew I had to learn a few things before I started really scaling this offer…and that’s when I came across the program that also helped Katelyn find her success, The Roadmap Exclusive. I combined what I learned from The Roadmap with my experience in Manychat and I created my own one woman agency and now build out extremely robust Manychat DM Funnels + other Automations for my clients.

Now, I’m happy to say I not only work smarter instead of harder for myself, but I also help others do the same, however, the dreaming about automations still hasn’t stopped lol.

Check out her content on Instagram!

Like so many of us, Erica didn’t know where taking that first step would lead her. But her action gave her a work-from-home business where she can take her passion and the skills she’s developed to serve others! She is just another example of the limitless possibilities to build a brand online.

You too can learn these skills, take action, and build a brand that can earn you thousands of dollars per client!

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I use ChatGPT every day. I use it for work, I use it for random information in my personal life, I’ve even used it for my health issues, and I’m also using it to help me organize the book that I’m writing.

The ability of AI to make things 10X easier in your daily life is no joke.

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All my love!
Kate 💙