How Natasha Willis Generated $100M Through Instagram DMs and How You Can Too
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In this episode of the Spiritual Hustler Podcast, host Jessica Zwag introduces Natasha Willis, founder of School of Bots, a marketing agency that has generated over $100 million in sales for clients by mastering social media direct message (DM) strategies. The conversation begins with Natasha’s personal story: at 19, she left college on full scholarships to start a business with her now-husband, traveling the world for a year and a half before settling in San Diego. She built her agency from scratch, focusing on DM marketing after Facebook opened that channel in 2016. Jessica and Natasha discuss the difference between content that builds reach and content that monetizes. Natasha’s key advice is to post frequently and include a call to action in every post or caption, as data from 2025 shows this can increase leads and revenue by 2 to 3.5 times. She also highlights the power of tools like ManyChat to automate DM conversations, turning comments into sales and email list growth. The episode underscores the importance of in-person community and sisterhood among female entrepreneurs, which Jessica calls a "cheat code" for success. Natasha’s approach combines tactical marketing strategies with a spiritual, generous mindset, helping entrepreneurs scale their businesses while staying aligned with their purpose.
Welcome to the Spiritual Hustler Podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Zwag, multi-seven figure serial entrepreneur, best selling author and branding and business coach. And this is the show where we are redefining the word hustle, reclaiming our true feminine nature of magnetism, and putting down the self-judgments in shame around loving to work and making a lot of money at it. On this show, you're going to learn how to stop hustling and start spiritually hustling. By pressing play, you are now part of a new movement of women who don't hustle for money. We hustle for meaning. We don't hustle from lack. We hustle for love. We don't hustle from survival. We hustle for humanity's thriving. We hustle towards healing the ancestral programming of fear and step into a new understanding of safety in the body to receive. This shift isn't going to only heal your life. It's going to make you a whole lot richer too. This is the Spiritual Hustler Podcast. I am so freaking excited to be with you guys today. I wish I could be with you every day, but I only come in a couple of times a week and I make the most of my time with you and I hope you make the most of your time listening to this podcast. If you're new to the show, welcome. If you're not new, welcome back. I am hitting y'all hard these days with the conversations around business. On the Spiritual Hustler Podcast, we pretty much straddle all things magic, spirituality, consciousness, quantum mechanics, astrology, Feng Shui, kosher records, microdosing mushrooms, plant medicine, you name it, we covered here, but we also talk about all things business in the same breath because we will only grow our businesses to the extent of which we grow our souls and our capacity in our nervous systems to hold our expansion and to hold our wealth and to hold our impact. They are not mutually exclusive. If you didn't get the memo and if you've been here a minute, you already know that. If you're new, you're going to know that. I had probably some of the brightest, biggest, most profitable and successful female entrepreneurs in my home a couple weeks ago for a beautiful event that was co-hosted with my guest today, Natasha Willis. One thing I just want to say, I had Jasmine Star, I had Amy Porterfield, Julia Solomon, Adley Kinsman, Maria Went, Jamie C. The names could go on and on and it was really just the most beautiful day for so many reasons. I cannot encourage you enough no matter where you live, who's your community, who's in your network to get together in person, talk shop, share codes, don't get keep, help each other out, make introductions, make connections. That is the spirit of sisterhood. It is the spirit of the female entrepreneurs that are winning today. It is the biggest cheat code to success. Find your women, keep them close, create reciprocity and generosity where everyone gets to win. There is no less audience, community, clients in the market because someone else is getting clients, community and audience in the market. That's just such a projection and a story. The more that we can really link arms and rise together, the more we all win. That is the new paradigm of define feminine leadership today. I actually worked with Natasha a couple of years ago. I hired her company School of Bots, which is a world class marketing agency that specializes in social media direct response in the DMs. You know when you leave a comment on someone's Instagram posts, like someone says, "comment money." Then you get a DM in your Instagram with a link that takes you into their world that signs you up for their webinar, that then brings you into their program. That's what Natasha's School of Bots has mastered. Her company has generated over $97 million in revenue for her clients who include Cody Sanchez, Jenna Kutcher, Amy Porterfield, Russell Branson, Dean, Graziozi, Nike, Mind Valley, and 3,000 more clients. They triple client revenue from short form content within 90 days and then help scale it month over month. Their clients on average are with School of Bots for 12 months more than regular marketing firms. She's been featured in over 300 publications including Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Inc. The clients she manages range from people with 20,000 followers to 60 million followers. And really, her mastery is in what's really working on meta and TikTok and YouTube and Snapchat and LinkedIn and all of them. This woman that you're about to learn from today is at the tip of the spear in the industry. And we became friends over the last few years and it was Natasha's vision to host this event because like every woman I bring onto my podcast, she operates in the spirit of generosity, education, empowerment, transparency. In any stage of your social media growth, you have to learn the power of many chat. You have to learn the power of automations because we're not using social media anymore just exclusively to build brand and grow community. We're using it to sell and we shouldn't feel weird about that. Everyone's doing it. If you're going to play the game, play it to win. And I cannot tell you from the bottom of my heart, the gift that you're about to get today by learning from Natasha herself. You're going to learn her story. You're going to learn about her business. You're going to learn of what's working real time more than you'll hear it anywhere else. And I also just want to say that if you're not in a place in your business to hire an agency like School of Bots, she does have a coaching program that any brand selling on Instagram can benefit from. This is the program that I used. I jumped into her done with you cohort, learned all of the tools and tactics and methodology and skills. And within less than six months time, I had scaled FFBS to a seven figure program. That is the magic of her codes. Now if you can't join her cohorts, don't worry about it. Natasha gives away some of the best insights and advice and expert strategies for free on her Instagram. So I am going to encourage you to take a first step, listen to this podcast the whole way through and boss up on your social media game starting today. This is honestly one of the most informative conversations I've ever had on social media on my podcast ever. And that is saying a lot because y'all know how much I love social and how much we talk about brand and building an audience and a true community here. But to take it to the next level so that your Instagram followers or your Facebook followers or any followers you have on your social media platforms translates to revenue. And that's what we're all here to do. You have come to the right place. So without further ado, here is my amazing conversation with the phenomenal Natasha Willis. I am like every time I'm with you, I feel so blessed. Thank you for being here. Thank you so much for having me and your home is freaking amazing. So it's so much fun to be here the day before we get to also co-host something special of our own. It feels like this baby we've been like away. I know. Now to the world. Let's do this in April and September. I was like, that's so far away. Yeah. But it here tomorrow. Thank you for like taking the space and time to sit with me in this podcast community. Like the women that listen to the show are really, really hungry for your codes and you've got so many. I'm not trying to blow smoke. I'm throwing flowers. You're one of the smartest people I've ever met. That is so kind. I don't even have words to say. I thank you. Really wish I could be in your brain for like a day. I don't know if I could handle it. It's a lot sometimes. There's really something to be said about what you have accomplished with school of bots. It's something that like has really changed the face of so many people's lives. I mean, we're all in this world where we're living on social media. We're using it as a vehicle to grow our dreams, grow our revenue, grow our impact, grow our legacy. And you have really cracked the code on how to do that. And I want to get really tactical with you today. I want to dig into all of the strategies your brilliance. But before we do, I actually would love for you to kind of go back because school of bots has had an insane rise in the last few years. But take me back because I think you were no mad. You and your husband were like living all over the world scraping pennies together. I mean, you're an OG spiritual hustler, babe. You are the epitome of a spiritual hustler. And before we get into the riches of your work, let's maybe go back to the rags. Yeah. I love it. What I love about the RDR while still like inserting some juicy detail is that when I was, I think about 17, I read the four hour work week by Tim Ferris. And if anybody knows that book, like, gosh, I need to reread it now because it's kind of one of those works of art or, you know, where you come back to it. And you're like, wow, I'm taking so many things differently than I did in that season of life. I should move abroad and start this business at the same time. At 17? Yes. Although I didn't do it until it was 19. But I read the book and I was like, this is amazing. And so anyways, I enrolled into college and I got about 200 grand in scholarships. And so I was really determined to not be in debt when it to college. And I went to the most expensive school at the time, which was the University of Southern California in LA. Wow. And so I get there and I'm like, you know, I don't come from much. I think my mom made like 20 to 40 grand.
a year like growing up. And so we still luckily like had a home and we lived in a nice area. And so like there was a lot of wealth around. And I learned a lot through that process. And so anyways, I go to college and then I'm about six months in and I go, this is just not for me. I think I'm like two brainwashed already to be anti college that I just can't be here. And this just feels like a waste of time. And everyone's just parting and, you know, not thinking about what's next. And so I just had this like feeling deep inside that I need to go and make something of myself. And I need to start to build wealth for my family. And I want to essentially just like make myself and my father proud who passed away when I was seven. And one of the things my mom shared with me later about him was that he had said, I don't want to die an employee. Like we want to make sure that I'm an entrepreneur by the time I pass. And so his passing happened very quickly because he was diagnosed like, and then six months later, he passed away. But I don't remember like too too much of it. It's just these like little bits of information I got later as I was going into adulthood. I'm like, wow, maybe that's where like is somehow DNA, you know, or universally like just within me. So anyways, at that point, then I'm six months into college. And so I decide I'm going to take a leave of absence because it was just the cleanest way to do it instead of having to do a bunch of paperwork. And so I decide to leave. And my boyfriend at the time, Kyle, now husband, he was like, well, this sounds like a great idea. You're going to start this marketing agent. See, I've done marketing like we should do something together. And he was either going to go pursue his own thing or essentially we would join forces. So we ended up deciding to join forces. We started our business. And then we thought, well, we should get away from everybody that we know and all the familiarity in our lives and just go and essentially pursue this in a new environment. And we lived in like central California for about three months. And then we went to Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, in Mexico. And that was over like a year and a half. And so that first year was absolutely insane. Because we removed all stability from our lives. Right. It was like no one local that we know, sometimes even the language, you know, you're going to new environments. It's like, where am I going to work out? Where am I going to eat like all the different things? Right. And so it was very identity forming. And I think as soon as we came back to the states, we realized like, maybe we shouldn't have left and we should have like maintained a pillar of stability. So then we could really work on the business. Right. And otherwise I was so distracted and pulled in all these directions. So the first year we went from zero to a hundred K and revenue, which was like good proof of concept. Right. And I was like, we can do so much more. And then we ended up moving to San Diego, California. And I've always had a love for speaking. And so I thought, okay, well, there's all these marketing events like we should go to these events. And I should try to speak and get clients. And that's exactly what ended up happening. And just like serendipitously, the first mastermind I went to, which I got into for free because a friend invited me. It was, I think admission at the time was like 60 K. Yeah. Yeah. So like, okay. And this is where all the OGs of like the marketing world were and some of them were the hosts of some of the biggest conferences in San Diego at the time. Like traffic and conversion summit was like a massive one that you probably know of. I think it was like 10,000 or 20,000 people at its peak. And so I spoke there. I spoke at social media marketing world, which was another one. And so all these opportunities then made me realize like, wow, that is something that I really need to like pour more energy and effort into. And you were howled by this time. I was 20. I think I had just turned 21 when I did my talk. Yeah. Like that same month. Okay. Yeah. So it was, it was still a long time. And I was still figuring a lot of stuff out. And so ultimately anyways, fast forward, you know, this business was really my like college education. I feel like I learned so much. Yeah. How to run a business by running a business. Yeah. And then on top of that, it's like my now husband and I moved in together, started the business together and moved away, you know, all kind of at the same time. So I feel like I also got this whole education in like relationship dynamics and like who I want to be. And so it's been very, very formative. But it's an interesting time to be at where I am now. Because I feel like all that experience now is aggregated. And I know exactly what I need to do anything I want to in life. Clearly, you're unstoppable. And you're just getting started. I mean, we're going to talk about your business as it stands right now. And insanely impressive. And you are really in a category of one in my view. And I've been around the block and marketing agencies for quite some time. You started as a marketing agency. What was the sort of decision point that made you go this deep into social media, specifically in meta working with the many chat function? Like, how did that all evolve? Yeah. So in 2016, it was when they opened up the functionality to use the DMs as a place to actually conduct business and like talk to consumers essentially or B2B as well. And so when Facebook opened that up in 2016, it was like this portal of, okay, well, now we can talk to people here instead of email or their websites, which was the default prior to that. And so from their Kyle and I had watched that presentation and we had a couple of friends who were like starting to explore the technology kind of like now or it's like, okay, everyone's talking about AI or one crypto. Okay, round. It's like, okay, everyone's talking about crypto. Like what is this? And so it kind of felt similar where it's like this new technology. How are people going to use it? We don't know yet. It's kind of in its fart app phase. Yeah. It's like, it's not useful enough yet. But it's going to be. And so we just bet like everything on that idea and decided from the get go that we were going to help businesses with this. So that was like truly from the beginning, we've been doing only that and just spending all of our, you know, waking hours essentially trying to deepen the understanding of how to get the best results with it. And you've cracked that code. I mean, I had this like aha moment before I met you like social media. Let's pray it doesn't get so co-opted by AI. Yeah, because it's the place to connect human to human. Like there is no third wall. Absolutely. You can reach into influencer celebrities, CEOs like with the function of a direct message. Yeah. And that's really become the cornerstone to scale. If you're building an online business, it's all about the DMs. And you've driven 97 million across 100 million. So this is good timing. Yeah. So we just crossed a hundred million dollars in sales generated purely from the DMs across all of your clients, which is insane. 100 million dollars for your clients in your business through the power of conversation in the DMs beautifully. So insane. Let's can we like get into this because it's such a big number and it's so aspirational. But like anyone at any stage needs to learn this. 100%. I learn from you every day. I just want you to know that I follow your Instagram. Everyone needs to go follow Natasha right now. Put it in the show notes. Obviously you provide so many free resources. You're so generous with your knowledge. I will take your tools and I will like upload them into cloud and be like, follow this script. And I have such a huge success in my like story strategy for FFBS. Yes. And things that I learned from you. That makes me so happy. It's true. So there's a difference between content that scales and gets reach and content that monetizes. Like what is the journey? What is the advice to you? If someone's like, how do I take all this content that I'm creating? And it's getting views and it's getting traction. Yeah. But your real message is like turning the scroll into sales. So what is the first thing that you coach your clients on looking at when it comes to their content strategy? Yeah. So whether you have just you working on your own content or you've got even multiple team members or a whole maybe multiple agencies like whoever you're working with essentially, you can apply everything that we're going to talk about. So the first most important thing is that you want to make sure that you are first of all posting as often as you can. And so with the call to actions, we used to think, okay, we should not put them in every single post every single story because that would dilute maybe the effectiveness of it or kind of burn out, you know, your audience quote unquote. And that was actually with the data told us however in 2025, like mid 2025, this shifted completely. And what we're seeing now is that overall for the month, if we just look on like a monthly basis, we get so many more leads and so much more revenue, usually two to like 3.5X is what we've been able to measure if we have a call to action in every single post. Now that doesn't mean that you need to say the call to action in every single video, but it means that you have it somewhere in the caption, like at bare minimum. And so we can kind of start there and then move into stories because they're a little bit of their own world and breakdown many chat as you go. Yeah, absolutely. If anybody's not familiar with many chat, it is a software that allows you to connect like a CRM like email platform almost to your DMs. So you can think of it like, hey, I'm sending out these emails, but they're DMs and said it's like what you see when someone's like, comment money and I'll send you my free download. And then you get the DM from that account that's like, hey, what's your name name email? Then you're growing, I think I've grown my email list by like 10,000 people of you. Yeah, that's awesome. In the last few years since I met you, you know, it's such a powerful strategy. So you see it everywhere on social media. That is the many chat function. That's like $15 a month. Yep. And it can change the course of your entire business. Continue. 100% Yeah. Thank you for doing that because I was recently on another show or it's like, okay, no one knows what this is. Like I need to. Yeah. I'm just so in my own world. So sometimes. Right. So yeah, anything like that we can break down. I want to make sure that we do along the way, but to come back to the posting strategy. So very first thing that we do is we look at, okay, how do we like make sure we have enough traffic. And so if you are not already posting at least a couple times a week, which could be at bare minimum four times a week on your feed, first focus on that because the many chat automations are really helpful to have alongside that. But if you are low,
on time and resources right now, the best thing to do is first increase visibility and then you can add that in. But if you're already there, then that's a great time to say, "Okay, we're going to put a call to action in every post. Ideally, you do want to be saying it in your videos where you can, but that doesn't need to be every single time." Like, if you, let's say, have seven posts for the week, at least four of them should have the call to action in the video itself. Like, you saying it? And the call to action specifically is follow me then comment. And that changed. It did change in 2025 for us. And the reason why that change was because I can't remember exactly why we started to test it, but we started to test it on a bunch of different accounts. And like two examples, I'll give you super quick, is one was our client dan go. And at day 30 of us doing this, he gained 200,000 followers. And we by like month four had 91,000 new email subs. Holy shit. And a lot of revenue behind the scenes also through that process. And so it's like, okay, that worked. And then we tested it with somebody else. And he also started to grow. He went from 30 K new followers the first month that we worked with him to 60 K to then 90 K. So by month three, he was like way, way higher. And I'm not saying that like just by implementing that, you know, that's going to happen because you do need to have a good content and be like consistent volume, which is an important thing. But if you start to use this, then it actually not only helps you with the followers, but it also helps you with being able to get the DMs into people's, DMs more effectively. Right. So it doesn't get stuck in what's called the message request. Totally. Essentially like three different inboxes in your DM, you have your primary, you have your requests, you have your general. And if someone's not following you, they're not going to get your message and their primary experience. Yes. I actually learned that it's a hard way when we first launched FFBS under your guidance. I had a post go viral. We also boosted a remember. I remember. Yeah. I was in the comments. I was promoting my book, The Lightwork. I had this big event, 888 with like Michael Beckwith and Koywood and Danielle Page. Yes. And I just implemented your school of bots method, which we'll talk about. It was brand new and it was just comment X versus follow me and comment X. And here's one thing I would just love to remind everyone listening. I think like we need to be so explicit with like what our audience wants us. What we want our audiences to do. It's kind of like the caveman theory like run like it has to be so obvious and so forward for that. And people respond like if you don't tell them what to do, they're not going to know to do it. So follow me and comment you saw in just that tweak in 2025, a massive uptick and revenue for your client. Yeah. Revenue because of the deliverability of it. Because ultimately one thing that we didn't talk about to go back to the fundamentals is that one of the easier ways to think about like why this is such a critical move for your business to make is that the landing page or the website has been the conversion vehicle up until this point on the internet, right? From social, you say, Hey, get people to my website and then they will buy something or they will become a lead. And once we started to use the DMs, the DMs actually became the conversion vehicle. Because now what you want to do is instead of let me get thousands of thousands of views on my website page, you want to get thousands and thousands of DMs. And that's what we can dive deeper into too is like, okay, well, how do you do that? Because if you're just speaking to people who already know who you are, then it's very easy for you to get like 100 people, maybe max in your DMs each week versus if you can go much wider and you can filter those people out in your DMs, but you just get so much more volume if you can speak to more people. Larger. Yeah. And that's what everyone wants, right? So it's what they think they want until they have to do it. And we can talk more about that too. Because I've been actually about that. So I have wanted to do YouTube for the longest time. And I finally like hired an agency to help me with it back in September. And it has been like the hardest thing that I have done mindset wise, I think ever in my business because I'm constantly fighting myself and trying to find my voice at the same time. And so for example, in order to like get millions of views on YouTube, you have to talk about these mass market topics. So it might be how to make money blah, blah, blah, blah. How I did this with money, blah, blah, blah, just these very large like total addressable market topics. And that's always going to like resonate with you as a brand or you may need to figure out how you want to speak to it. I was like, every time they'd give me a video where it's like, here's how to make your first 10k. I was like, I literally cannot do this video. And it was so difficult for me to like get to that point and be like, I'm just not going to do that. But I can talk about how you can scale a product that you have right now. And then let's talk about the stages that, you know, exist through that process. So it's about the framing, but that's one thing that I think almost nobody talks about. But in order to get the views you want, you do have to go a lot larger. Can we stay on this for a second? Yes. Because it's such an important topic for everyone listening because we can be a little too precious about our brands. And hi, I ran a personal branding agency for seven years where it was like the crown jewel and it was everything came down to brand. And what happens when we stay too close to our brand is we talk to our own bottom of the funnel echo chamber all the time. And while that's great and those will be your initial adopters in your first conversions in your client base. If you want to scale, you kind of have to be less precious about your brand. 100% and I'll just use myself as an example. Like I have gone wider on I use Instagram primarily. Yeah. And I am doing dumb shit. Yeah. But I love it. They buy the way. Thank you. I'm happy. He was very you. Thank you. And a bit of like obviously testing and learning of what feels wide but still on brand and still on the spot. He is a sweet spot. Yeah. And you just have to not give a fuck. Exactly. You just have to like continue to play, continue to experience. I've had the reels that I thought would like go nowhere like popped off and viral and the reels that I worked hours to perfect go nowhere. But it's less about like which real and just understanding when you're creating content where in the funnel are you speaking? Top of funnel is wide. Yep. Reach middle of the funnel is education like you're bringing people into your world and bottom of the funnel is like you get to be all Natasha's brainiac. I get to be just because why I get to speak my own language to my people who are going to love no matter what I post. But if we stay there, we're not going to scale. And I think having that vantage point while you implement a tool like many chat 100 plus one equals three. So with all of this in mind, what is the ideal posting strategy when it comes to implementing the DM component, getting people into your actual world? Yeah. One easy framework people can use is if you're already posting more than three times a day or three plus, then you want to be putting it in every single post. If you use that because it's going to give you more shots on goal. So in other words, as Instagram is it's almost like run more ads than less ads for the people understand paid traffic or like just in general, it's like the more stuff you put out there, the better. And more non followers are seeing your posts continuously as Instagram's moving towards the interest graph. Yeah. Just like TikTok has right where TikTok is way in that direction though. So much so to wear a lot of people like for example, our clients who might have three million followers on TikTok and only a million on Instagram, Instagram is still 70% of their revenue. And the reason why is because they can't reach the people on TikTok predictably and sustainably. And they keep posting there and it's bringing in traffic, but it's not predictable enough whereas Instagram you're still getting some of the follower reach, especially with things like stories. And so that helps a lot. So to go back to that, if you're a three plus times a day posting, then put it in every single post caption at minimum. And then if you are less than three times a day, so one or two or a couple times a week, then do it every other post. Got it. And when it comes to types of posts, messaging, style, carousels versus reels, can we break all of that down and what seems to be because you're so up to date with like data and trends, what seems to be the most high converting content right now? Yeah. There's only one account that I have seen actually a friend of ours. I won't name her just in case she doesn't want her metrics out there, but she was with us a couple months back at a party. And she showed us her Instagram and she gets 60 million views a month. And is the like category of one in her space. She is the only person I have seen have carousels consistently that reach 97% non followers. Most accounts, almost actually every other account, sorry, not even most only reach about 3% non followers and it's 97% followers for carousels. So carousels are great for conversion for converting kind of retargeting almost in that way. And so a great carousel strategy is take a reel that did really well and just turn it into a carousel and even do that multiple times with different angles. And that will help convert people more who are already following you. But then for reals, that's where you're really going to get the most audience growth and also reach even conversions to for like people who are cold, but they really need help with the thing that you do. And so they're just going to convert from the first post anyways. What are your thoughts on talking heads versus B roll? Oh my gosh. I always thought I wanted to talk about like anywhere because I wasn't sure if this was the case and now it's for sure the case. So we have a couple of clients who got very like used to doing B roll reels when they were really popping off in like 2023 and 2024. And so they kept trying to like run that strategy. But now because we're in the space where there's so much content now being flooded into the feeds, there's just a lot more supply than demand versus before when there was more demand than supply. And because of that plus all the AI things that are going on plus people like trying to increase their content volume. So B roll reels are just not performing well. I know. And they're so easy. And they don't go anywhere. Now I will say if you are willing to be really freaking controversial or polarizing in them, then they will do very well. Like one of our clients, her first 100k who has made over $5 million from her DMs collected over 500,000 email subs. We've been working with her for almost
three years. She's about us. Yeah, she's about us. And her B-roll Reels from three years ago, she's still repost them. And they still get millions of views. Like when she repost them. But she is very just like very opinionated, right? And like wanting to really speak deeply, whereas a lot of people are not willing to be that bold. Sometimes in their content. And so B-roll Reels are usually not the move because a lot of the time people lean on them as a crutch. And they're not willing to do talking heads, but talking heads are the thing like if you never heard someone's voice, like, how would you buy? Well, can you expect? Yeah. How can you expect to for them to have made a connection with you and want to buy? And so that's really the biggest premise is like, if anyone takes anything away from what I just said, it is simply that if they don't hear you speak, then their likelihood of buying is much lower. I could not agree more. And I'll let's take, can we triple click into the talking heads piece? Yes. Because do you have a data or point of view on the ideal style of a talking head? Like we all know the hook. But like, there are certain length is there certain angles that work settings? And we all know authentic content like works the best. But what have you seen performing the best when it comes to talking heads? So I will say the thing that like if I look at some of our top posts. So the highest one has 220,000 comments on it. And the lowest that I'm thinking about in this current realm has 26,000 comments on it. And so all of them are talking head about 60 seconds. Okay. And they get to the point very, very quickly, right? And the whole thing is to get people into the specific offer that we're going to give them at the end, which is typically a free download. And so if you can frame your content around that and make sure there's a really strong bridge between the concept and then what they're going to get, then that is what allows. First of all, like, making sure it's a good piece of content and then getting just like insane conversion rate on that. And now not every post can be a banger like that. It's just not going to happen. But I will say that our clients like Dan Goho, I was mentioning as an example, like depending on when you listen to this, right? Maybe the content strategy has shifted, but like his talking head still do really, really well in all of our clients who also do talking head in that style where it's edited, they're speaking to the camera, either casually or production, like higher production, it's still the best when it's 60 seconds leads directly to the offer. I always want to add because I know my community and they're listening to like some of them are I call them my hiders. Yeah, they're like, I don't want to show my face. They were getting more used to it. I will tell you that my ads team when I was in all my long seasons are like, Jessica, you have to do talking heads. I was like, fuck you guys. Like talking heads are so heavy. They're so I don't know what to do. I don't feel like a lot, but I've hacked it. And it's practice and it's putting in your reps. Exactly. And not giving a fuck and not giving a fuck that's honestly the thing seriously. If you have a random thought pop open your computer or pop open your phone and just start riffing, even if it's like two minutes, send it to your editing team or like cut it down yourself, find the extracted best 30 60 seconds to try and not be so polished as like the magic of it. I also found a hack. I'm sure you already know this cap cut. They have the teleprompter. The teleprompter. So I script them on. Yes, AI and I make them my own. I mean, the more you do them, the more your audience cuts to know you and actually comes to expect to learn from you directly. And they do make the biggest freaking difference. Every time I post them, I get way more engagement these days than any of the other things that I'm sharing is my talking heads. Aside from like my ridiculous like we will be like what I'm doing. I'm dancing like an idiot. I want to go back to many chat. Yes. Because school of bots has really fucking cracked the code on it. Like we've all gotten like comment money. And then you get like a single DM. Here's the download. At least I've seen that. Like where's the voice of them? It's about 90%. Yes. Yeah. My question is twofold. How did you kind of come up with the methodology? Like where did that come from inside of your own business? And then second question, what is the process? What is the methodology? Yeah. Yeah. So we came to it. I think it was like really early on one of our first clients, mind Valley, who is the number one personal development company in the world, if anyone's not familiar. And I think at this point, they're doing like 150 million a year. They've always had a really impressive business content wise and really cracked the code on like evergreen webinars leading into a course slash membership sale. And so early on, we built like 200 plus funnels for them in Facebook and then in Instagram when we were beta testing it. And we had a lot of different like types of clients at the time, primarily who were in the information space. And so we gathered a lot of good industry data, but them specifically, I just remember that because we were doing the same thing over and over like 200 times also across four different languages, we just got some really good data. I was like, huh, like this formula works really freaking well to capture 80 to 90% of people's emails to actually get them to click to the next step. Like we've got a really high like 90% sometimes completion rate on these funnels. And we need to really like study that and reverse engineer that. So I remember that was one of the many examples that we pulled from to ultimately decide, okay, let's standardize this and like create all these different playbooks. And so now we have 30 different playbooks that we run in our constantly updating for everything, right? It's like, I just mentioned a webinar. There's six different webinar playbooks that we have like depending on how you're going to do the webinar in his life. Is it evergreen? Like what type of evergreen? What type of live? How many? So anyways, that's how you ultimately came to it is at this point, we've sent over 400 million DMs on Instagram. And so there's a lot of data that we've been able to pull from. And that is just like one of those earlier moments that really helped us be able to do the same thing over and over again. So many times that we were able to find a formula. Yes, exactly. Okay, so what's the formula? And so formula wise, if we look at just like overall, I think it'd be helpful. What use case you think would be most useful for people? Like, is you have a number of different funnels you're kind of familiar with what we do? Like, let's use FFBS. Okay. I mean, so I go through my high ticket launches twice a year. They're live launches. They're consolidated in like a lead up and then an open cart to close cart in a matter of like six days where I make the majority of my revenue for the year and six days. I mean, so much of it is on Instagram. And is it a webinar or are you doing a three day, it's a three day master class? It's a free three day event that leads into a high ticket program. Yeah. So I learned from you, I mean, back to brand knowing your voice. Yes. And like really backing up even before you launch anything, this is a long game. There is no hack as I say all the time, you have to build community. You have to build relationship with your audience. You have to offer value, nurture those relationships. I don't love the word followers. I believe in community. You've got to really cultivate that. So by the time you ask them into something free or low ticket or high ticket or whatever it is, they feel like indebted to you in a way that like they've trusted you. And so what I loved learning from you is if I'm going to use like, you know, comment FFBS or comment wealth or comment fire, because I did a whole thing with the fire horse recently. Yes, they're going to get was so successful. So big. They're going to get an instant DM from me that feels like me. I write my own copy. Like it's not like it's a bot, but it's not. It's me. And you have a very clear point of view on how the language, the emojis, the capitalization, the continual dialogue is formulated. That's all your methodology. In this Tasha that like we implement all the time. So can you kind of break down the science of it? Yeah, I love that example. I think the free webinar or like the challenge aspect, the multi day master class story goodness, all the different words. Yeah, same thing. So they're all different playbooks, but like, you know, one thing, right? It's like you being able to go live and share an experience. Right. So let's say signing people up for something like that. Then typically what we want to do is we don't want to drag out the conversation so much to where someone's like, all right, this is not worth my time. Like this way too much work. But at the same time, we also want to give people multiple touch points so that they feel like they're building a little bit of a relationship with you. And so first message typically is all about permission based marketing, which is a great like framework and actually book from Seth Godin, which is one of the most incredible marketing authors. And yeah, he truly is the sweetest. And that concept is essentially just like, Hey, just confirming you still want access to XYZ thing or hey, sounds like you're ready to do XYZ thing. So those are usually two copy frames that work really well for the hook for a great open rate, which we want to see at least 70 to 80% and then we want at least 50% of people to click on the button to go to the next stage, just like high level, that's like baseline stats. So once they say, yes, I'm in, then we go, okay, awesome. What email do you want to use to register? And then from there, great, just so I don't mix you up with anybody. What's your first name? And then at that point, depending on the experience you might either have an upsell maybe for a VIP experience, I'm not saying that's exactly what you do, but that's like a version of it, right? Another version might be awesome. Like you're in voice no quick selfie video, gif, whatever feels aligned for your brand, bunch of emojis, then exclamation points, whatever. And then going, here's your next steps. And then the next steps might be at this tier calendar, join this community, whatever we can do to like get people engaged. And the reason why we want to do that there is because we will get the most amount of people taking action right then in there. So we want to get 50% or more of them like added to my calendar, join maybe a Facebook group or a school community or whatever to make sure that I'm ready to go for this thing. Can I just add something that I just came to me as you're listening, you're probably thinking to my community listening, like, oh, I get those all the time. Or like now I understand how this is being engineered. And I would love to just invite everyone who is sort of on the consumer side. I mean, I'm hoping you're taking notes as the creators, but that this is like the time and energy that online entrepreneurs or any business owner ideally should be putting
into their customer experience. Yeah. Really understanding who they are, wanting them to feel seen, wanting them to feel human, even if they're a bot that's doing the work for them. Totally. It's the amount of attention and detail and love, at least this is my vibration when I'm building out my funnels. It's like, I want them to sound like me. And you mentioned like pre-recorded videos and audio notes, which is a part of your methodology as well, where if like someone ignores your DM, you can set it. Or in like four hours, you get a follow-up message. In 24 hours, you get another follow-up message if they haven't replied. And you can add in to the DM funnel a video or an audio to make it feel personal, which is genius. Like, I'll speak for myself when I'm recording those videos and I'm recording those audios. I am tuning into the woman that's receiving that because she resonated clearly enough with me to follow me, to click the button, to come into the DMs, owe her that level of care and attention. And what you do is layer on the mechanics of the science and the psychology, because that's marketing with the depths of the brand. And you really trained me on like how to make it sound like me every time. And it does. And it's working. Yeah. You know, so take pages as a creator and a consumer as you're listening to this because what you're doing is like working so much so that you've driven a hundred million dollars of revenue into people's businesses, which is insane. And you work with clients of all different sizes. Yeah, actually, no, it was always kind of mixed initially, but we eventually went deep into the information space. So meaning if you sell courses, coaching programs, like any kind of digitally delivered product, that is now our like primary focus. But we do still have some enterprise. And then we have had about I think 30% of our total clients have been e-commerce stores. So we sell a physical product, which is a different playbook, different strategy. But I will say everything we talked about so far can absolutely still be applied to them. Like if you're listening to this and you're like, I maybe don't sell a coaching program. I have services or e-commerce or I'm an agent of some kind. So it's like a lot for us. How do you feel? I mean, with the adoption of AI being so now wide reaching, it's crazy to see all the AI content that we're seeing in the feed. What are your thoughts on this tool and how it's going to impact the way online entrepreneurs market on social? Yeah. When you say tool, are you talking about AI as a whole? As a whole. Okay. And then we could dig into specific tools because I know you use them. Sure. You got a great perspective. But let's start with the broader question. Yeah. Well, you mentioned earlier that like we were talking about talking heads, right? And how that really helps you connect to people more so than ever. We're seeing the rise of that content of the app. You know, essentially. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I think that's where that is actually the most raw form of content and hence why it's doing like better than ever before is because it makes you feel like it's an actual human. Yes. AI can replicate, you know, pretty much anything. But the whole point is like your brand is yours to protect. Nobody else can do it exactly like you, even if AI goes in like copies your likeness, like it still came from you. And so I think that there is both comfort and also like inspiration in that to know that hey, if I just hop on camera and like start to put in the reps enough so that I give less of a fucked every single time, then the game my business will inevitably grow. Yeah. Or whatever outcome you want from it. Maybe it is just making an impact. And I feel like it's the same. AI, I don't know. You caught this. I mean, you're way closer to the platforms than I am. But it was over the holiday break of 2025. Yeah. Where I took like two weeks off and was like a sloth with my husband watching TV scrolling. And I was like, why does Instagram feel like it's just fucking popped in Adderall? Like there's so much content. But obviously, AI, everyone is using it. And I think that it's a really important tool to train on your brand, your voice to help you create captions, scripts, hooks, the whole thing. But you have to work it and you have to feed it. Absolutely. Your avatars, your best original content. Like I uploaded my entire book, The Lightwork into it. That's awesome. That was so helpful for it. And then all of the analyzation of our audiences and our avatars that we do is a marketing department. So it knows who I am talking to. So when I come up with like, Hey, I want to talk about, I don't know why PMS needs a rebrand because so many of my women are like, you know, going through this phase. And I teach a lot about the power of menstrual cycle and how to like build your business around your feminine body. So it can spit out a script that sounds just like me. But at the end of the day, even though it was written by AI, it's being delivered by you. Right. And you can't replicate that. Are there any specific tools that you really love in this world of social that you feel are really helping scale, sharpen, refine content that is leading into revenue? Yeah. I think there's two angles we can look at this from. It's either I want to get more of the content I'm already creating out into the world or I need to create more content. So if you are in the camp of I'm already creating one of the easiest ways that you can amplify is simply by auto posting on every single platform. And so an example of that there's a couple different platforms you can do it with. Bloato is one as an example. I got this kind of funny name, but it's a great platform. They have funny names. They do. And that one was created by a content creator who has amassed I think millions of followers at this point, Sabrina Romanov, hopefully I'm saying her last name correctly. But that tools great because you can literally just pop in there. And in fact, if you want to get a little more technical, you could build what we have done, which is that and it's much more complex than this. But I don't want to like scare anybody and just like what's the easiest way is you could for example, set up like a Google form for yourself, connect that to the API of Bloato and say, Hey, when I upload a video and an Instagram caption, now I want you to go and post that same thing on TikTok on YouTube on LinkedIn on X. And if you want to even go a step further, you could have a I turn that video into maybe a thread instead for X or threads. It'll do it for you and post it for you. Yep. And post it for you. So Bloato is great because it will just allow you to post everywhere with more ease in that way. It's more flexible than using something like an actual drag and drop tool that you have to go into and do that with. So that's a great one for any teams or solo creators who are already posting content. It's just like, why aren't you posting everywhere? Well, because a lot of work. Well, what if you just had to upload once? And if you just upload once, then it's everywhere. Right. And then the first thing that I had mentioned was, okay, what if you're not posting enough right now? And I think the best thing to do is figure out like, where is your constraint? Because for everybody, it's a little bit different. And sometimes it's in the ideation phase of like, I don't know if my idea is good enough. Maybe I don't spend enough time on social, I just have no idea. I haven't done it enough. Second might be the scripting piece. People might get stuck on like, well, what exactly do I say? Like, how do I not look like an idiot? You know, maybe have some credibility already as a business. I don't want to look dumb to people who know me. And then the third thing is typically the filming and editing processes where a lot of people get stuck. Because then they're like, oh my gosh, this is taking way too long to edit. Like I'm done. And then they just never post the content. So there's tools for all of it now. Like a few, just a kind of Spitfire is the first one for ideation, sand castles, which was built by Kane Callaway, who is an awesome creator. That's great for finding outliers. And then like outliers as in this piece of content did 10x better than this creator's normal content. Wow. And then you can like favorite certain accounts that you want to see content from. And it also script writes for you. So it's kind of like both of those things. Sandcastles. Yeah. So sandcastles.ai, great option for that. I would say it's like the easiest interface to interact with if you're not super technical. And you don't want to go and like build your own system, which is what we've done. So we don't need to get into that today. But we can do a whole opposite on that later. And this like 30 agent pipeline that we're building you never see. So amazing. Continue. And then for filming and editing, my gosh, so much is happening right now with this. I have friends who have companies that they run that are hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue a year that put out hundreds of new ads per week. And they are now able to edit even entirely on their own or have their AI agents edit through like, descript, for example, and the API that it offers. And then there's also ones like one of our team members just started using submagic, I think.co or.ai. And that one can automatically edit stuff for you to like captions and all the things. So a couple of different tools that people can like start to look at and use. And I think the challenge is going to end up being just like in business now. I mean, it's already pretty fragmented, right? It's like, what's your CRM? What's your email platform? Yes. We're used for landing pages. What do you use for checkout? All the different things. The goal will be to like try to simplify and consolidate because people are going to get really overwhelmed with all the tools. So if you just listen to that and you're like, okay, I don't want to go and trigger out five tools. Like just pick one. That's your current constraint and just use that and you'll get out more content than you are right now. You don't have to worry about building the whole system from the beginning. I have been saying this a few times on this podcast. Like we are in the infancy of AI. Yeah. Like it's so important to adopt it. I think it's like the iPod version right now of what the iPhone became like. Yeah. That's a great analogy. It really is. It's going to change the face of everything and people are, I've heard so many mixed reviews from my own community, like someone who are like all in other women and refuse. Some are like, I don't know. I'm overwhelmed. And if you can just pick one and start to really play, it is in my view, such a gift because what is our most precious commodity are time. And it gives you back your time. And it's going to be able to think with you, not for you. 100%. That is a true gift.
of being alive at this time. I feel like AI is so exciting, but it is also a reminder that we have to show up and still be human and be consistent in our humanity. Totally. And that's why these talking heads being in the DMs, creating true community, showing up is going to be a competitive advantage that AI can never take on. And I think you have really been able to blend these worlds. You're so technical and so creative at the same time. But one thing I really want to highlight around you is you're bad. You want to come to building a business yourself. You went from being this nomad living across the world, standing on stages like social media, marketing world, in 2021. Now you're a little or not too much, but you're, I don't even know you. You're like an alien in Natasha. You have such codes, but you've built this insane business. Can you talk about what school of bots looks like today? Like the size of your team. How many clients you have? How to work with you? I would love you break all of that down because there's a handful of ways they can. Yes. So we originally started as an agency done for you as you know, and from the agency world. And we still do that work, but we do it with a really small number of select clients because it's essentially our R&D lab. And we're able to just test all sorts of crazy stuff on accounts that are posting five, 10 times, you know, a day and able to create all these different kind of case studies and examples and then be able to help so many other businesses that maybe don't want to or need to do that volume to be able to deploy those same strategies. So our flywheel kind of looks like that where we have this R&D lab, which is our done for you. And you're posting all their content for that. We're not posting their content for them, but we do direct the conversion strategy of it. So we'll pretty much tell them, Hey, like your content schedule needs to look like this. You guys are still producing your content because that's also why we're working with you is typically they are growing at 10k new followers a month and they're doing at least $2 million a year in the business. A lot of them are much bigger, but those are like at minimum some of the growth requirements. So then that way they already have momentum and they know what works. And now we can layer the strategy on top to literally triple their revenue or more in like the first 90 days. So that's the done for you side, which we do still take a few clients on every single month. And our goal is like keep growing that because again, it's our R&D baby. And the fun part though is that everything we do in that business, we're now working on automating 90% of like the initial deliverables. And so then that way we can actually scale that one anymore. So that's in a fun place in process. But yeah, people really enjoy working with us there. Then we have our education division. So this is where we have courses and templates that people can get started with. If they're like, I want to taste, you know, a little bit of the magic first. And then once I have my aha moment of holy shit, this is crazy. Like we had somebody recently actually jumped from going through the course. They collected 7,000 new leads in their first week. And then from there went on to join our done for you service because they're like, I'm sold like, you know, just do it all for me now, though, because it's a whole thing. And they have they have huge, like potential to scale. So that makes sense for them. And then we have our coaching programs. And so that is, for example, what you went through where our team helps you install parts of our system that are most relevant for your business model. Because like I said, we have over 30 different playbooks that we've run in over 400 million messages of data. And so not every business needs like every single playbook. So we'll actually come in like, look at what you're doing in the business, build out projections for what you can realistically expect now. Because we have all these formulas now that we can run in like a split second based on your Instagram analytics and your business. Then we tell you, hey, here's what you can expect to make ROI wise. And then we come in and work with you typically for the first five weeks. And then we have an opportunity for people to work with us on an annual basis to their. So I want to tell you something. I took your program. The very beginning of Jessica's YG Inc. I remember it was like, it was when we fell love, at least I fell in love with you. And I was like, it was one of the best investments I've ever made in my business. Wow. And I've signed up for a lot of courses and coaching programs myself, masterminds, the whole gamut. That was one of the most invaluable things I invested in Natasha. I don't know if I ever told you that. No, I don't think you have, but that makes me so happy. It's really thank you for sharing that. It's true. I learned so much. I was able to immediately implement it. And you know what? I don't know if you know this. One of the best parts of that was meeting all of the other entrepreneurs in my cohort. We still follow each other. We still like like each other stuff. It's such a gift to watch all of them continue to grow too. Like it's a really special thing that you've created. How many people work for you now? So right now we are 15, believe it or not, we're actually not even that big. But that's still a sizable team. It is a sizable team. And what's been really interesting is like this year, I expected us to grow to somewhere between like 30 to 40 people. And I actually don't think that we have to do that to achieve the growth goals that we were expecting. So we might still do it just so we can scale even bigger. But so much has now shifted where like because we've been documenting things for years and years, just plugging in AI has proven to be really fast and like not easy by any means. But like simpler than we thought it was going to be. Yeah. And so yeah, see what the end of the year looks like. But yeah, and you are the COO and your husband is the CEO. Is that still the case? Yeah, that is the case. We're actually talking about like, okay, what do we do kind of going forward as like so much as like shifting for us? Because I think I really like love the idea of being CEO. And he's really amazing at the visionary like founder aspects of here's where we need to go next, etc. So we work co CEOs like more so moving into this year. And I think we're going to maintain those titles just because we do make a lot of like the core leadership decisions together. But now I mean, our leadership team has grown too. So I imagine that'll shift a little bit. What have been some of the toughest lessons you've had to learn as a business owner growing a team at this rate? I think one of the biggest things when you first start to grow your business is your ego comes in right and says, Oh, I've got this big business now and I've got this team and I want to keep growing this team for the purpose of just saying I have xyz maybe people on the team or you know that I actually went back and kind of looked into this more because I was talking actually her first 100k tour down up about this because we had a similar experience where I was like, Oh, you know, got this big business. All these people work for me. And it's the completely wrong metric to look at obviously. Because then you're like, Okay, well, you know, what's your profit? For example, as one question, but what's been kind of interesting is if you think about leverage all throughout history for a very long time, it was labor leverage that actually made you the most wealthiest if you had thousands and thousands of people under your command or employee or whatever ownership, then you had so much, you know, that you could do resource wise and therefore you made a lot of money. But now leverage has changed so much over the years from software and media, capital and then of course, even things like partnerships and whatnot can be looked at as leverage now. And so the number of like people who are working for you is actually not the most impressive thing that you can share about your business anymore. But I think that was a hard lesson for me where it was like almost this like primal thing, right? That was within me. And then I realized like a year later, because we got in person office and we hired a bunch of people in person and we shut the office down. And I was like, Okay, I learned my lesson around like having some kind of ego maybe around the number of people, you know, that work for you. Yeah, it's so fair. Because it's just, I mean, I've got a friend we were just talking about her earlier. She's five people who are not even full time on her team. And she's making $23 million a year. And so the fact of the matter is that, I mean, there's one person, billion dollar companies now too that are emerging with AI. So I think that was one of the harder lessons for me that I'm so grateful I learned pre AI as well. Yeah, I went through that lesson too. Yeah. Big team. Big office. Top line revenue. None of it. It's it actually costs you more of your peace. 100% of all of those things moving. Absolutely. On this topic of like mindset, what do you think people are looking at all of the accounts, the big follower growth, the success metrics. And there's a desire to that stage as well. And we've talked so much about strategy today. We've talked so much about tactics today. You work with some of the biggest names in the game. What is the difference that you see in the mindset of the entrepreneurs that are scaling and winning at exorbitant rates and numbers like you've mentioned and those that aren't. Yeah. They are willing to reinvent themselves every single day if it is required. And I know you have shed so many different skins over the years and moved into so many different identities. And you're in a really beautiful one now. But things are going to look so different in probably a couple of years. And then after that, after that, right. And so what I've found is that the people who win the most are willing to be beginners at almost anything. And it's really showing with AI right now as well. Because you see a lot of people who are more resistant. They're not willing to be beginners. They're not willing to kind of go back to the drawing board and say, okay, I've got to learn this thing from scratch and look really fucking stupid to some people and have to defend myself to some people. So on and so forth. And it's the whole content thing of like not giving a fuck that a lot of people have a hard time with. And so there's a lot of people, for example, who have run ads for their entire business lifetime. And they have a hard time with content because they're not willing to just hop on and be raw and like be bad at something again for the first time, maybe in a long time. So that is a number one trait like above all else. Like coachability is right alongside it. But in order to be coachable, you have to literally be willing to step into an entirely new reality of your life and who you are and how you act every single day. Totally humility. I love that. It's really true. Like
Yeah, you're scaling up business with anything, but in the world of entrepreneurship, I think if you're less than 10 years in you're still a startup. You're still a new business. Totally. If you look at like the standards of industry over the last century, if you're under 10 years in business, you're still a new business. If you're under 50 million, you're still a small business. According to the statistics of our country, I think having humility and the knowing that you're going to be a different business every six months. Because you're going to be a different person. Yes. And you have to be willing to let back to ego, let that die. Learn your lessons, learn them fast. Be willing to be uncomfortable and be willing to not make it perfect every time. Yeah. And the beauty right now is like, nobody wants perfect anyway. That's like kind of the magic of what's working. And that you stay grounded as an always beginner. I think that is a massively beautiful piece of advice. So needed to hear because I have this theory that none of us really know what we're doing. We're all figuring it out as we go. Everybody. Absolutely. You hear it from everyone. Yes. But they're like, I have no idea what I'm doing. Yeah. But you're figuring it out. And I think one piece that is left unsaid that I struggled with for a long time was the decision framework aspect, though. It's like you might not know what you're doing, but you have good decision frameworks to make the right decisions and move faster. And so that is also, I think, a really big learning that maybe people just don't talk about enough. Yeah. And now I can literally help you with those things as well. Be like, hey, I made this decision before it was a good decision. Break it down a decision framework for me and help me apply that to the next thing. Like, what's next for you, babe? Where do you see yourself in like the next five years? Yeah. I think I'm finally at a place where I've accepted speaking of shifting identities is like I've accepted. Okay. I've just been like such a pussy for not building my own distribution network. And like, I love speaking and I love teaching and all the things. But I think it was the whole like, how do I speak to a larger community of people who don't know who I am? Don't know what I do, etc. Right. And so I just like have been behind the scenes for so long. I've done like big podcasts and over 300 like speaking engagements and stuff. And like, I know that's what I like to do, but it's always an ebb and flow, you know. And so now are finally seriously building out our content team and like doing all those things for your brand. Yeah. So that's really my biggest thing over the next five years is I've realized like distribution is really all that matters because business is the same at the like end of the day at the top of the game. It's like any business you have, it's always going to be about the people and the systems. And like ultimately you're doing the same stuff. So I don't need to be married to the business model I'm in right now or the type of business that I have. It's just about like if I build this distribution network, then now I can have any kind of business that I want. And we will always have more demand than we can supply, which work technically already in right now. And so I think it's also been something to I'm like, ah, are we going to like grow and do all this? But I feel really supported now with all the new hires we've been making this year and you feel about your team. Like in a really good spot right now with all the pieces. So I'm so happy to hear you say that. Thank you. That's not taking a long time. I know they take it there. Takes a lot of time. Talking to me. Yeah. That's brilliant. To your people, your business is only as good as your people. And I also believe there's a layer to that. Your business is only as good as your leadership team. Absolutely. And that's really like such an important thing to get right so that you can fly as the founder. First of all, I saw you. I watched you and someone else's webinar. Yeah. You invented. Uh-huh. And I was like her. And no, you I've seen you step into the light. And that's where you should be. You should. That's so much. It's amazing. I'm so honored that you're here. My audience could get to learn from you. I mean, you are like again, I'm not blowing smoke. I'm blowing throwing flowers. One of the smartest people I've ever met. And one of the last things I just really want to amplify for those that are interested in Natasha's work, go check out school of bots. We're going to leave it all in the show notes. You really like this is something I feel like you and I have in common. You really want people to win. Yeah. Like your success is other people's success. Totally. And I feel a little bit too much. Like I know you're in a human design and all the things. And so I've really been digging deeply. Yeah. I'm like, what are you? I am a one three generator. Oh, yeah, you're sure, Jennie. Yeah. So it's like every day. I'm like, all right. What am I fucking up right now? And like, I'm having this problem. It's like, it's your 50, 18, 18 correction queue or like whatever. And I was like, I just talked to a lot every day about my problems. And like, oh, perfect. Okay. Cool. So anyways, but one of those big things for me is that yeah, I take on people's problems a little bit too much. And I'm like, all right, how do I like look at your business as if it's my business? Yeah. So and so forth. And so I think once I become aware of that, it's like, like you said, it is a superpower though at the same time. It's really us being able to understand it. But yeah, it's a long time to get there. It's important to find like where you end and other people begin. I love that description of it. It's real. When you have a servant heart, you know, but there is a code of sisterhood that I walk and you walk it to there's actually two codes, generosity and reciprocity. Every time I've ever needed anything from you, you're always there and you're so generous with what you know and who you know and your support and the way you cultivate reciprocity amongst women, you really walk that. And I just women who are listening today and to your world like know that that's Natasha's frequency and know her like data driven insanely analytical mind can be like scary. But you're a sister. Oh, thank you so much. It's true. It's true. I have a few final quickfire questions for you. We get a little woo woo on my show. Yes. Of course. I was waiting for it. Okay. Well, we'll start with just the spiritual house or bookshelf. Do you have two? Okay. I ask, what is your favorite business book? And if you have a favorite spiritual book or book that's changed your soul and yes, yes. Okay. My favorite business book. This is a hard one right now for me. It's a good book. I haven't come back to it in like so long. It's so long. Yeah. You know what? It's no rules rules. So it's from the founder of Netflix and the culture I just resonate with so extremely because of my human design. But yeah, because it's all about like how do you look at your business as a sports team versus a family? And that might be controversial for some people. But it's all about like are you in the best see? Are you the best person for that? And if you're not, then it's okay. And so our team operates that way and everybody acknowledges like, hey, I might not be the best person in this role. Like maybe I'm not as detailed oriented as this role needs me to be or I'm not as presentable on camera as I should be for this role. And so how can I then still add value to the business and maybe move into another role, which we have done plenty of times, you know, in the company. So anyways, that's the best for sure. No rules rules. That I've read the last three years. Incredible. And then my favorite woo-woo book. Gosh. I have a ton of woo-woo books. I have Rad Ram Das's book, which I'm forgetting what it's called. I think it starts with an end. I don't know about his book, but I remember reading that and I was like, what the fuck did I just read? Because it's like a really interesting, it's pretty much as him being like, hi, I'm not sure who's like explaining like gurus and all this stuff, right? And so anyways, it has resonated with me more as I've like reflected on it. I think you read it like three years ago. And I just still think about it from time to time. So I should come back to it and see like what new, you know, things I get from it. It was a really fascinating read because I think it was the first book I read all the way from front to back that is maybe category of spiritual. I love this super spiritual. Yeah, I'm just one of the pioneers of consciousness and he was right. Do you believe in aliens? Well, I do because of you. Prior to. I think the thing for me is that I will believe in almost anything like, you know, for example, so many people are Christian, right? I'm really just like, if Jesus Christ just like appeared right there, I'd be like, all right, you're like, that's now happening. I don't think there's very many things I can surprise or like shock me because I don't really process things as much in the moment. I'm more like stoic in the moment. I'm like, okay, let's like, what's the analytical like pragmatic thing to do? And then later I'm like, okay, so how do I really feel like about that thing? But yeah, I mean, it makes so much sense. You're looking at one. I know. I've learned about all this from you. So I might switch up the question because it can be kind of polarizing that word totally. And I've also been told that they did way for social engagement. Yeah, definitely. Nothing will help you pop off and go viral. Like say or an internet alien on the internet. I'll tell you that. So great. It's like, I've heard that they don't like to be referred as that because alien is a, it actually has a negative conversation to it. It does. It's more like extraterrestrials or higher beings. And we can talk about this offline, but it's somebody that loves the data and like wants to like go deep on all of the different true mechanics of how something works. If you really study the science of the universe, it's impossible that we're the only life form in all of the entire ever expanding infinite, no end universe. I mean, it breaks my brain to actually think about it. For some. But it's to me, if I were to just narrow down one, I feel connected to them as a way of being in my own life. And it humbles me. Going back to that word, like how small, how much kind of bring you back. Yeah. It frames things into more perspective and peace to be honest when I'm like dealing with like dumb human shit. Yeah. This is just one dimension of multi-dimensions, one version of reality that could not even be reality. I don't have that perspective. Yeah. Because I'm going to spend a lot of time thinking about it. Yeah. But like specifically that, but like sounds like it's been or really useful. I don't want to call it a tool, but it's like it's one of the things kind of in your mental toolbox on them. So like, okay, that's a frame I can use to then help me move through and move on to whatever, you know, all the time comes next. Thanks for reflecting that. I'll give you some bucks you can read. Yeah. I would. I will. I will. I 100% I'm going to send them to you.
Do you, speaking of higher beings, do you feel certain connection to any like spirit guide, angel, ancestor, goddess? There's not a specific like one that I would call out from like history or like certain books or like, you know, mythologies or whatever, but it's almost like myself what's been kind of interesting is like when I have taken let's say a gram to two grams of mushrooms and I'm like around, you know, like the world, you know, outside I've had multiple moments where I have a conversation with my future self. And so that has been really interesting for me because it's like these almost like glitches where it's like, okay, I'm here present right now, but then I maybe like just had that offside conversation for like maybe a minute or two, right? And then it's like almost like time pause and then came back. So that's happened to me a couple of times where I'm like, okay, that's like how I should deal with this thing I'm dealing with right now. So that's been my probably most special experience like kind of around I think that idea or concept fucking love that answer. That makes the most perfect sense that that was your answer. Because you are so quantum Natasha, you're so ahead of your time. So much to learn about it, but you do. But you also are like a sage. You've communed with your future self given where you are in this like linear timeline. Yeah, makes so much sense to me if that makes sense. Yeah, no, it does. It's beyond. Okay, last question. Do you know what I mean when I say the new earth? I write about it in my book. I know. I explain it. No, I can't explain it back to you. So that's what I'm here for. I'll frame it and then I'll ask you the question. So I believe we live in two different polarities. One rooted in fear. One rooted in love. You could call it the 3D or the 5D. The 3D fear based reality is the world that most of humanity is walking amongst its scarcity. It's survival. It's competition. It's lack of resources. It's me versus you. Yeah, that's a paradigm. 5D love based consciousness. New earth based consciousness is a reality that's actually here right now that we are co-creating all the time. Yeah, that is rooted in abundance for all safety, peace, love, joy, vitality, health, limitless possibilities. Yeah, all of the money, all of the community, all of the impact, all of the peace and the harmony. That to me is the world that we get to create. So the last question that I have for you is what does it mean to you to be a co-creator of the new earth? Right, just start. I think that it actually does come back to the identity piece of like what would it take instead of anytime someone asks you to do something or you want to do something? Or you ask them to do it. Typically the answer is either yes, we can do that. Okay, cool. Now we figure out how to do it or no, it's not possible. And when somebody says it's not possible or you even think for yourself, oh my gosh, well, it is possible. But what would it take for you to do that? And if you start, I think reframe things in that way, you don't always have to take action from that. But at least if you think about what it would actually take for you to accomplish whatever it is that pops up as an idea or a concept or someone brings to you and kind of challenges like how far you can expand, et cetera. I think that that is doing yourself a service as well as doing everyone around you and in the world that you can impact a service by being able to shift into. Okay, yeah, what would that person who can do that actually look like and talk like et cetera and stepping into that. Do you know how palladium that is of you? I believe it makes sense. I believe it would come to me. No, it is so like the palladium point of view is thoughts are things that we decide who we are. Yeah, that we are truly limitless. And when we can really truly click into that consciousness, we do change the world and we can get more possibility for other people. And that's who you are and that's who you're working with are the light workers and I'm so grateful that I had you on my show today and then I know you call you a sister. Every time I'm with you, I'm upgraded and I know my community absolutely felt the same today. So thank you for being here. Thank you so much for having me. This was so fun. I love you. I love you.
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The podcast redefines "hustling" as a feminine, meaningful, and love-driven pursuit, focusing on soul growth alongside business success.
Host Jessica Zwag introduces guest Natasha Willis, founder of School of Bots, a marketing agency that has generated over $100 million in sales for clients using social media DMs and automations.
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Natasha’s journey began at 19, leaving college with scholarships to start a business with her now-husband, traveling abroad, and later specializing in DM marketing after Facebook opened that channel in 201
The episode emphasizes in-person community, sisterhood, and generosity among female entrepreneurs as a "cheat code" for success.
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In this episode of the Spiritual Hustler Podcast, host Jessica Zwag introduces Natasha Willis, founder of School of Bots, a marketing agency that has generated over $100 million in sales for clients by mastering social media direct message (DM) strategies. The conversation begins with Natasha’s personal story: at 19, she left college on full scholarships to start a business with her now-husband, traveling the world for a year and a half before settling in San Diego. She built her agency from scratch, focusing on DM marketing after Facebook opened that channel in 2016.
Jessica and Natasha discuss the difference between content that builds reach and content that monetizes. 5 times. She also highlights the power of tools like ManyChat to automate DM conversations, turning comments into sales and email list growth.
The episode underscores the importance of in-person community and sisterhood among female entrepreneurs, which Jessica calls a "cheat code" for success. Natasha’s approach combines tactical marketing strategies with a spiritual, generous mindset, helping entrepreneurs scale their businesses while staying aligned with their purpose.
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It redefines hustle by embracing feminine magnetism and making money meaningfully, focusing on spirituality and business growth.
Natasha Willis runs School of Bots, a marketing agency that specializes in social media direct response via DMs, generating over $97 million in revenue for clients.
She left college at 19 after reading 'The Four Hour Work Week,' started a marketing agency with her boyfriend, and traveled the world for a year and a half before settling in San Diego.
Post as often as possible with a call to action in every post or caption, which can boost leads and revenue by 2 to 3.5 times.
ManyChat is a software that connects a CRM to Instagram DMs, automating responses to comments like 'comment money' to grow email lists and generate leads.
Gathering in person fosters sisterhood, reciprocity, and generosity, helping entrepreneurs share codes and rise together without competition.
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