August 2026 Income Report EP 214

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August 2026 Income Report: Why We (Temporarily) Closed the Doors on Web Designer Academy

This month Erica Nash and I get into the real numbers behind August... $25,640 in revenue, $15,318 in outflow, and the big decision we finally tested after ten years of keeping Web Designer Academy open all the time. We walk through exactly where the money came from, why we closed the doors and moved to a six-month cohort model, and what happened in the first two weeks that made this experiment feel like a success before it had even officially started.

In This Episode:

The full August 2026 revenue and expense breakdown, and where the money actually came from

Why we closed Web Designer Academy's doors after a decade of being open all the time

What changed inside the program to make a six-month cohort work (and why the price stayed the same value, just split differently)

Early wins from our first six-month cohort, including a student who sold a high-ticket package before the program even started

Why Shannon stopped setting arbitrary success metrics for business experiments

The mindset shift around time and capacity that's opening up space for what's next

Resources Mentioned:

Web Designer Academy — waitlist now open for the next six-month cohort, opening February 2027