Scale your education business to 7+ figures with your freedom and integrity intact.
From the mentor behind your favourite creators.
My journey didn’t start as an entrepreneur. It started in a smoky pub as a jazz musician and in a classroom as an English teacher.
When I started my business, my goal was simple — make a living without losing what I loved.
In 2013, from a dusty café in the Middle East, I started my first education business, StoryLearning, to teach my passion for languages.
I grew that passion project into a $10M business that generates 7-figures in annual profit, needing only 4 days a month of my time.
That freedom allowed me to write books that sold 1.5 million copies, start multiple other 6 and 7-figure businesses, and invest in founders I believe in.
Today, I mentor established education entrepreneurs to grow profitably, teach with integrity, and keep the freedom they started for.
Building a profitable business is the easy part… The hard part is building a life you love.
Too many 6- and 7-figure entrepreneurs get trapped by hustle culture, only to wake up one day trapped in a business they hate.
Building an aligned business means respecting the things you care about:
This is about using your expertise to benefit those who need it, so that as you scale, you build a business you love.
That’s what I’m here to help you with.
With the right strategies, frameworks and mindset, you can design your education business to be simple and highly profitable.
It’s the ability to see the hidden leverage in your business, and it’s how I help entrepreneurs learn in hours or days what took me a decade to master.
The best way to understand this is to see it in action. My free case study breaks down the strategic thinking behind StoryLearning’s growth to a $10M business.
Anyone growing an online education business should seriously check out Olly's stuff!
I've managed to work myself out of the business!
Revenue is up 2X, while I'm working 50% less
Welcome to week número dos of documenting the evolution of my education business, StoryLearning. I’m making the biggest move in 13 years by building a consumer app. And trying to do so without: You can read background about the project here, including results from the soft-launch of the app. The week in numbers: • Active users: 656 (351) • […]
Welcome to something new… Olly in Maker Mode. From here on, I’m going to focus this newsletter on documenting how I’m evolving my 13-year-old business, StoryLearning, by building a new AI-powered software product alongside it. The first milestone goal: $1m ARR. In my mind, if we can hit that in the next 12 months, it puts firmly […]
I spent most of 2017 working 50-60 hour weeks. Revenue stayed flat. I had a content calendar, a launch pipeline, three half-built funnels, a podcast I was trying to grow, and a product idea I kept tinkering with on weekends. I was busy. And I had almost nothing to show for it. If you’re running […]
Scaling to a 7-figure business means building a team, but the hard part is mindset. Here are the 5 fears that stop solo creators, and how to beat each one.
There’s a strategy I’ve been using for years to get extra sales that involves giving a certain amount of stuff away for free. I used this strategy again last week, and it brought in 4-figures of extra revenue. So I thought I’d share it here. Here goes… So, I just launched a new intensive course, […]
There’s a comment I get fairly regularly on my StoryLearning YouTube channel that always makes me chuckle: “Oh, you’re the guy who wrote those books I’ve got!” See exhibits A, B and C… See, in the StoryLearning world, there’s a circuitous pathway that people take to becoming a customer. Often it starts with discovering our […]
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