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EPISODE · Aug 17, 2026 · 27 MIN

Kelsey Left the Make Money Online Niche and Built Something Real

from Beyond the BS: Real Talk for Digital Entrepreneurs · host Vicki Pollack

Kelsey Portwine bought the course.She tried reselling it.She posted the cringey income claims.And every time she hit publish, something in her gut told her, “This is not me.”So she did the thing a lot of people know they need to do but are terrified to actually do.She deleted the account she had already grown and started over.This time, she built around something she had real experience with: postpartum weight loss, consistency, and helping women follow through on the things they already know they should be doing.Seven months later, Kelsey had grown her new Instagram account to more than 14,000 followers, helped over 100 women, and created paid accountability challenges that people actually come back to month after month.In this episode, we talk about why the make-money-online world felt so wrong to her, how hyper-specific messaging helped her grow through trial reels, and why your best business idea might be hiding inside the thing people already come to you for.This is an honest conversation about starting over, building real authority, and realizing that the time you spent doing the wrong thing wasn’t necessarily wasted.You learned something.Now go build the right thing.Follow Kelsey on IG here —Follow me on Instagram and visit my website:Instagram: @its.vickipollackWebsite: www.vickipollack.com 

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