Your Freedom Season

Turn what you already know
into a simple online business.

Turn what you already know into a simple online business.

Courses, free guides, and the exact tools I use to build a business around a full life
(with Claude speeding up the process).

Courses & guides

Start small, finish something, then build on it.

Every one of these is built the same way: a visible result at the end, the prompts I actually use, AI speeding up the time-consuming parts, and your voice and decisions still yours.

Sound Like You, the free interactive guide, on a tablet
Free guideInteractive

Sound Like You

Teach AI to write the way you talk, so everything it drafts sounds like you.

This interactive guide walks you through five short steps on Claude or ChatGPT.

The Business Build course
Course

The Business Build™

Turn what you already know into a working digital business: the product, the audience, the store, the branding, the emails and the social, in order, with Claude speeding up the entire process.

Join the waitlist✦Doors open Dec 1
TemplateCarousels

Carousel Templates

The Canva templates I build my carousels with: every slide type and a Bulk Create version for quicker editing. Included in Slide by Slide.

Get the templates✦Launching Nov 19
Slide by Slide carousel mini-course
Mini-courseCarousels

Slide by Slide

Carousels and captions in your own voice. The prompts, six formulas, 30 hooks and short lessons, with the Carousel Templates included.

See the course✦Launching Nov 19
Cut by Cut reels mini-course
Mini-courseReels

Cut by Cut

A quick guide to filming and editing talk-to-camera reels on your phone, plus the tools and prompts that write engaging scripts, on-screen hooks, and captions.

Get notified✦Coming soon
Clip by Clip faceless reels mini-course
Mini-courseReels

Clip by Clip

The same lessons for faceless reels: voiceover, b-roll, screen recordings, and other faceless video, with the prompts tuned for that format.

Get notified✦Coming soon
Follow along

Zero followers, a $100K goal, and one year. I'm building this business in public.

The ideas, the numbers, the tools, and the processes. Two accounts, same brand: one with my face, and one without.

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Mel
About me

If you have tons of saved ideas but no business yet, you're in the right place. Hi! I'm Mel.

Maybe you already know the thing you'd sell. What's missing is the order to do it in, and the hours to figure that out. That was me, with 20 years of design and marketing behind me, almost all of it spent on building someone else's business.

I homeschool my two teenagers and run a karate studio with my fiancé, so my time for this is limited. Organizing all of my ideas and trying to keep up with what other creators do have kept me stuck in the past.

And I've taken a lot of courses, and learned what actually helps you finish (and mostly what doesn't). So I've built all the things I wish I'd had: the steps in the right order, a visible result at the end of each, and only the tools you really need.

Claude speeds up the planning, the admin, and your drafts, while your ideas, words, and the final say stay yours, the same way mine do.

Everything here is something I've built for myself first, and I'm sharing all of it so you can use what works for you.

Tools I use

The whole business runs on five tools.

Most have a free plan that's enough to start.

Stan

Where my courses live: storefront, checkout and hosting in one place. You can try it for 14 days for free.

Try Stan

Flodesk

Emails, landing pages, and the workflows that deliver my guides. The prettiest email tool I've used.

Try Flodesk

ManyChat

The comment-a-keyword DM automation that turns comments and DMs into sign-ups on my Instagram accounts.

See ManyChat

Canva

Carousels, covers, templates and every graphic you see here, most of it made on the free plan.

See Canva

Claude

The AI tool I build everything with. It drafts, plans and checks my work; every idea and final call is mine.

Try Claude

Some of these are affiliate links, so I may earn a small commission if you sign up (at no extra cost to you).

The weekly email

One email a week, with what I'm building and what's working.

Numbers, the posts that did well, the ones that didn't, prompts, hooks, and occasional discounts. No spam ever.

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You're in! The next one lands Tuesday. In the meantime, the free voice guide is the best place to start: Sound Like You.