Do only business coaches make money? Nope. This season of the Coach Pony Get Paid to Coach podcast, we're going deep on five wildly different coaching niches to prove you can get paid to coach — and design the life you want — in almost any niche.
In episode 3, Coach Pony founder Christie Mims talks with Richelle Gamlam, the Move Abroad Coach.
Richelle Gamlam is the founder of Move Abroad Coach. After her own experience being stranded in rural China, trapped in a contract she couldn’t afford to leave, she came to believe that moving abroad shouldn’t mean following someone else’s path or spending years overwhelmed by research.
After 13 years abroad, six countries, and four continents, Richelle now helps aspiring expats and digital nomads take control of their own moves. Through expert guidance, practical tools, and proven frameworks, she helps people navigate everything from choosing where to go and securing visas to creating location-independent income and building a freedom life that allows them to work and live from anywhere.
Her mission isn’t simply to help people relocate abroad. It’s to give them the confidence and skills to build a Freedom Life, enabling them to choose what comes next - to pivot, evolve, and intentionally build a life aligned with their goals, values, and dreams.
Here's the twist: Richelle made $4,000 in revenue in 2021. The next year she made $100,000. Last year she made over $780,000, and she's on track for $1 million this year. She shares exactly what changed: the $37 paid bootcamp that replaced her free webinars, the $8,000 program that gives every client a private coach, and the scary decision to take out a loan to invest in coaching for herself.
Listen to the full episode to hear about:
- How a rough first year teaching English in China (including a contract that would have cost her a full year's salary to leave) turned into a coaching business
- Why she rebranded from helping people move to China to Move Abroad Coach, for people who work for themselves
- Her launch model: a $37, four-day paid bootcamp instead of free webinars, with ticket sales that pay for her ads
- Her signature Freedom Life Experience: an $8,000 hybrid of group coaching plus a private coach for every client, many of them her own alumni
- The growth: $4K in 2021, $100K in 2022, $780K+ last year, and on track for $1M
- "The kiddie pool": how being afraid to charge or spend money kept her stuck for years
- Why she took out a loan to join a $6,000 coaching program, and how her first bootcamps made $4K, then $10K in six months, then $45K profit on her third
- What she does when revenue plateaus: let herself build the thing she already wanted to build
- Her best advice for new coaches: "If you could only ever win, what would you want your business to look like?"
- Why Christie took Richelle's bootcamp herself (and what it has to do with a French chateau)
To learn more about Richelle Gamlam:
Join the Freedom Life Bootcamp: 4 days, $37, October 26–29. Christie took it and loved it!
Richelle on Instagram
Richelle on YouTube
(NOTE: the bootcamp link is an affiliate link. Coach Pony may earn a commission if you join, at no extra cost to you.)
To learn more about Christie Mims:
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