Michelle Smit

The Empowered Edupreneur

Business EN ↓ 161 episodes

Hosted by online teacher turned online business coach Michelle Smit, The Empowered Edupreneur podcast is here to impact educators and edupreneurs all around the world to start, grow and scale their freedom-filled online business with their humanity and joy at the heart of it. Featuring in-depth solo episodes and exclusive interviews with inspiring teachers in business, The Empowered Edupreneur is here to help you learn the tools, mindset, and energetics of growing a thriving online education business you adore. The podcast is a blend of shorter solo episodes hosted by Michelle, where she share...

Author

Michelle Smit

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Business

Podcast website

digiteach.biz

Latest episode

Mar 12, 2026

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Episodes

Common mistakes educators make going from 1x1 classes to digital courses 06.06.2023

Send a text Hello, amazing one! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. In this episode, I am going to be continuing my conversation from the last episode on my 6-step process to turning your 1x1 classes into a scalable digital course! This time, I am going to be jamming on all the common mistakes I see people make in this journey that can affect their results. In this episode, I will sh...

6 Steps to turn your 1x1 classes into a scalable course 30.05.2023

Send a text Hello, amazing one! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. In this episode, I am going to be sharing something amazing and free that I have made for you! And it is all on the topic of how to turn your 1 x 1 classes into a scalable digital course or group program. Online teachers and teaching business owners are very used to a trade-your-time-for-money model to earn. I very c...

3 ways to overcome a scarcity money mindset and step into more abundance in business 23.05.2023

Send a text Hello, fabulous human! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. In this episode, we'll be diving into the topic of overcoming a scarcity mindset in order to embrace abundance and invite more prosperity into your business and life. As edupreneurs and business owners in the teaching industry, it's common to find ourselves caught up in beliefs of scarcity, lack, and fee...

4 signs to know when to raise your prices 16.05.2023

Send a text Hello, fabulous one! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. I have a really important episode for you today all about the dreaded ‘Pricing’. Many entrepreneurs, and especially education business owners, really struggle when it comes to pricing their products and services and it can be a really scary thing! What tends to happen is that educators in business undercharge and ov...

Evergreen vs Live Launching 09.05.2023

Send a text Hello, fabulous human! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. In this episode, I'm diving into the topic of evergreen versus live launching, discussing the pros and cons of each and helping you determine which strategy is best for your online education business. I've had great success with both strategies. My first evergreen funnel generated $5K - $10K per month fo...

Paid vs free launches. Which one should I do? 02.05.2023

Send a text Hello, fabulous human! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. In this episode, I am jamming on free VS paid launches, the pros and cons and how to know which one you should do in your online education business. I think I have done over 20 free launches, and 4 paid launches and so I have some proper experience in the launch game to talk on this! In this episode I am going to...

Behind-the-scenes of a $67K course launch 25.04.2023

Send a text Hello, amazing one! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. In this episode, I am going to be pulling back the veil on one of our most epic launches to date! This is the first time I am being so transparent with our numbers but I think it’s going to be super informative and eye opening for you. This was our first ever paid launch and let me just tell you, it was a wild ride....

4 Steps to finding your viable niche market in your online education business 18.04.2023

Send a text Hello, fabulous human! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. In this episode, we're going to be discussing the four steps to finding your viable niche in your online education business. Choosing the right niche is a critical part of building a successful online education business. By the end of this episode, you'll know the key questions to ask yourself, the key a...

How to run a successful launch event to fill your course with students 11.04.2023

Send a text Hello, fabulous human! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. In this podcast episode, we explore the key elements of running a successful launch event to sell your course, group program and any offer really. Creating an epic event that gives your students an amazing appetizer experience with you is KEY to filling up your online offers. These events ARE your launch… and if y...

10 ways to grow your email list in your online education business 05.04.2023

Send a text Hello, fabulous human! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. Today we are diving into a very important topic: Email List building! Anyone who has worked with me or been a part of my online orbit for a while will know that I am a huge fan of growing an email list in our business. I get a lot of pushback from educators who are more interested in just growing a social media fo...

Trials, tribulations and lessons of running an online business 28.03.2023

Send a text Hello, fabulous human! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. Today I have an amazing guest episode for you with the one and only, Ola Kowalska. She is meant to be a ‘competitor’ as we are in very similar niches, but she is far from that and has become a great business buddy of mine. We have great conversations and so I thought I would take you behind the scenes into one of...

How to reframe the struggle of using social media in your business 21.03.2023

Send a text Hello, fabulous human! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. Today we are talking about organic marketing and the struggle that comes with getting consistent with social media posting in your business. So many teaching business owners have resistance to social media, fear of visibility, and find the process of posting on things like Instagram.. pretty painful, to say the le...

How to overcome imposter syndrome in your business 14.03.2023

Send a text Hello, fabulous human! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. If there is one thing that continuously creeps up in my life, in my DBA students' lives, and in my coaching clients' lives… it is imposter syndrome. And it is incredibly pervasive and can lead to more suffering in your business journey AND it can lead to massive resistance where you simply can’t move for...

How to harness your intuition to grow an aligned business you love 07.03.2023

Send a text Hello, fabulous human! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. Today I am talking about something that I think is so essential if you want to build a business you love and don’t want to escape! So what is that? Learning how to harness your intuition in the process of building your business. This is very much like a muscle that you exercise which you get stronger in. Through p...

How I have invested to grow and sustain a 6-figure business 28.02.2023

Send a text Hello, fabulous human! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. Today we are talking all things investing! In terms of my business journey, I have made a lot of sexy investments that I am so grateful to have made. And I have shifted from being very fearful around investing to believing wholeheartedly that my investments are bringing an epic ROI. This is what I want to share wi...

Three areas to focus on to hit $5k a month 21.02.2023

Send a text Hey, amazing one. Welcome back to The Empowered Edupreneur Podcast! I have been thinking a lot about what it really takes to hit $5K-$10 months in business and what I have had to focus on in my business to hit those numbers for a couple of years in a row (this is revenue by the way, not profit). To me, there are 3 things that we should focus on to start creating those bigger cash month...

The ONE thing you are overlooking to make more money in your business 14.02.2023

Send a text Hey, amazing one. Welcome back to The Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. Today I am coming to you with some woo-woo talk! My favourite😊! What I am seeing repeatedly is that business owners (especially educators who go into business) are ignoring a very important part of growing their business and they are focusing just on strategy. They spend hours trying to learn the strategy and they for...

5 ways to turn your launch around and boost sales 08.02.2023

Send a text Hey, amazing one. Welcome back to The Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. We have just finished our Digiteachers Biz Academy launch and I am so excited to be serving this whole new round of ambitious educators in launching their courses and building their businesses! On this topic, someone asked me ‘’what can you do to turn your launch around and make more sales if it’s not going how you wan...

5 money making skills to learn if you want a profitable online education business 31.01.2023

Send a text Hey, amazing one! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. Today I am talking all things skills related!!! You will hear me scream from the rooftops about how important it Is to upskill ourselves if we want to build a profitable online education business… As educators at heart, we have so many skills already that make us great for online business and course creation BUT we do...

5 strategies to launch and sell your online course or group program 24.01.2023

Send a text Hey, amazing ones! Welcome back to The Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. Today, I am going to be talking about the five strategies that you could use to sell your course or your group program. Each one has pros and cons and has their own unique way of doing it. There are many ways to launch and sell online but today I will share just five very common ones. In this episode, you will learn: ...

6 steps to a 6-figure online education business 17.01.2023

Send a text Hey, amazing ones! Welcome back to The Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. Today I am going to be talking about the 6 steps you can take to getting your online education business to 6-figures. Now, don't get me wrong, there are a million ways to get to 6-figures. There is no one size fits all strategy to reaching this milestone. I have seen businesses do it in ALL types of ways and so t...

Q&A podcast episode 10.01.2023

Send a text Hey, amazing ones! Welcome back to The Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. This week I have decided to spontaneously do a Q&A podcast and answer some of your questions regarding online business, marketing, launching, and making money online! In this episode, I will answer these 5 questions:   What happens if you launch a course, and no one joins? Do you abandon ship or keep the idea but...

3 ways to create and deliver online course as an educator 03.01.2023

Send a text Hello, fabulous human! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. Today I am answering a very common question that I get with regards to course creation and that is ‘’How can I create and deliver my online course?’’ I decided it was such a common question that I would record a short, but concise podcast episode on it to give you the full low down. In this episode, you will learn...

Set yourself up for an epic 2023! 27.12.2022

Send a text Hello, amazing one! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast. Today we are going to be reflecting on our 2022 year and intention setting for 2023! This is going to be a little different to your normal goal setting conversation as I have a new take on it. In this episode, you are going to: Learn how intention setting is more playful and less restrictive than goal setting. Reflec...

How to stop trading your time for money as an educator 20.12.2022

Send a text Hello, amazing one! Welcome back to the Empowered Edupreneur Podcast.   Today I will be chatting to you about ‘How to stop trading your time for money as an educator’. This is a really cool topic because it boils down to being the main reason I love the digital course / group program business model. In this episode, you are going to learn: How best to stop trading your time for money a...

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