Stitcher Startups

John Lee Dumas built Entrepreneur on Fire, a daily podcast interviewing successful entrepreneurs, which grew to over 1 million unique monthly listeners. Leveraging this audience, he launched Podcasters Paradise in October 2013, a membership community teaching podcast creation, growth, and monetization. The community has generated over $3 million in revenue with 2,500 members through strategic pricing increases (starting at $197, now $1,297) and scarcity-driven cart opens, with June 2014 bringing in over $360,000 in monthly revenue.

Kat Lotozo built a seven-figure online business empire starting from a fitness blog in 2007, scaling to $80,000/month before pivoting to business coaching in 2012. She launched The Tribe membership in July 2015 with 24,000 email subscribers, and by March 2016 had 150+ paying members generating over $500,000 in revenue in just 8 months. Her growth is driven by prolific content creation (3-6 daily emails with 2,500+ word posts, 47+ self-published books, and 4-5 weekly podcast episodes) and word-of-mouth referrals, with total 2015 revenue exceeding $1 million.