Real stories from one of a kind business owners who started with courage and ended with successful digital courses.
This is Rachel’s
Digital Course Academy Success Story
Rachel Gainsbrugh Founder & CEO
“My journey has been nothing short of incredible. In just over 2 years, my digital course has now served over 380 students and made over $650,000 in sales. And my new business as a whole surpassed the $1.4 million mark!”
Results are not guaranteed. Please see earnings disclaimer for more detail.
From a young age, I knew I wanted to be a doctor. But once I achieved that dream, I found myself with PILES of student loans.
No matter how hard I worked and how many extra shifts I took, I could not get my head above water. So to make some easy extra money, I started renting out the guest room in our home to traveling nurses.
I very quickly realized that renting just that ONE room was now covering my mortgage. And years later, what once started as one room has now turned into a 7-figure real estate portfolio!
I KNEW I had to share my story with women in the medical field looking to make a change and create independence in their life, and that’s when I started to think about creating a course.
When I heard about Digital Course Academy, I was so skeptical of joining that my plan was to check out one module, realize this wasn’t for me, and request a refund!
But as I started to dig into module 1, Amy’s approach, one filled with hope and confidence, connected with me.
And that’s what pushed me to keep going and follow Amy’s easy-to-accomplish steps on the crystal clear path she laid out.
In just over 2 years, my journey has been nothing short of incredible. My digital course has now served over 380 students and made over $650,000 in sales. And my new business as a whole surpassed the $1.4 million mark!
But it wasn’t just the DCA curriculum that made such an impact on my success…
Having the community behind me has been invaluable!
From the beginning, I leaned into the accountability pods and got surrounded with like-minded DCA students who pushed me to take action. And they helped me work through how NOT to be a perfectionist so I could get my course launched and out there.
But they also had my back when things weren’t going as planned.
Like that one launch where I only got 1 sale… but thanks to DCA, I wasn’t discouraged.
Instead I reengaged with the course material, got guidance from Amy and the other DCA’ers, changed my approach, and my very next launch was a record-breaking one—$93,600 in sales!
That experience helped me to shift my mindset, teaching me to see challenges not as failures but as opportunities for testing, refining, and tweaking. And it empowered me to embrace mistakes as part of the journey, knowing I can easily bounce back.
I’ve now grown into an entrepreneur who feels powerful and capable of achieving anything!
And this new self belief is what gave me the courage to say goodbye to the “golden handcuffs” and leave my prestigious medical position to work for myself—on my own terms.
I now enjoy the freedom to make choices and live as I please. (I choose to only work 4 days a week). I even spent nearly all of October traveling, without worrying once about work!!
And I’ve been able to donate some of my profits to a charity near and dear to me that feeds kids and families in my home country of Haiti.
Celebrating these milestones and the incredible growth over the past two years wouldn’t have been possible without DCA!
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If committing to creating and launching a course feels equivalent to climbing Kilimanjaro, listen up…
Every journey starts with one step. If the questions “who am I to create a course?” or “where do I even start?” are coming up for you, know that they came up for every single successful course creator you see on this page.
Whether you’ve never owned a business before, you have no idea what your course would be about, or you’re totally allergic to tech — we ALL start somewhere. What matters most is your willingness to put one foot in front of the other.
Each of these course creators started with one thing: THE COURAGE TO TRY
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