YOUR HOST | MONICA SHAH
To build a million-dollar business, I had to stop waiting for my big break.
Like so many women, I thought my intelligence and hard work would naturally lead to more clients, more money, and an amazing life.
I was wrong about that. Big dreams are wonderful, but a dream is not a plan. (I learned this the expensive way.)
In 2006, I left my job as a brand manager at L'Oréal Paris, MBA from Kellogg in hand, absolutely certain I was going to crush it. (I most definitely did not crush it.😩)
Within a year, I was $25,000 in debt, launching offers that flopped, and running my business from my friends' couches.
Here's what I finally figured out: I had no plan. No big-picture understanding of how the pieces of a business actually fit together, and honestly, no clue what order to do any of it in.
So I built the very first version of what I now call my Peaceful Profit Plan. It wasn't pretty, and back then it was a lot more profit than peace, but for the first time I could see how every piece of my business fit together and exactly what to do in what order. I paid off the debt within 12 months, and doubled or tripled my income nearly every year after. Turns out a plan beats a pep talk.🙄
But here's what took me years to learn: that first plan made me money, and it also ran me straight into the ground.
I was forcing, hustling, and white-knuckling my way to every goal, and it cost me my health. So I spent the next decade-plus rebuilding it into something that creates the money without the burnout.
That's the Peaceful Profit System™.
And it's what I teach now.
Today, I run Revenue Breakthrough, a 7-figure company I've led for over 16 years, teaching women to build businesses that fund the lives they actually want.
I crossed 7 figures in 2013 and have stayed there ever since. I've now guided thousands of entrepreneurs, from their very first client to multiple six- and seven-figure incomes in 12 to 18 months.
My Peaceful Profit System™
in a nutshell:
Beginning with the end in mind, I show business owners how to design a business around what matters most - family, travel, health, freedom, time - and then map the exact actions to take every day, week, and quarter to get there. All while dissolving the beliefs and patterns that kept them stuck in the past.
It's how my clients grow their revenue and get their lives back. And it's how I do it myself.
The impressive-on-paper part: I hold an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management. I'm a former brand manager at L'Oréal Paris and a recovering entrepreneurship professor from New York City. I've written three books: Getting Rich: You're Doing It Backwards, PAUSE: 52 Questions That Lead to More Money and Time, and The Breakthrough Planner. And I'm based in Brooklyn, New York, powered largely by matcha lattes and a very organized calendar.
But perhaps the aspect I'm most proud of:
I run that 7-figure business on about 30 hours a week. Which means my life still has room in it for long dinners at my favorite restaurants, daily somatic dance breaks (I now teach somatic dance as a part of my business teachings), travel, time with my dad, and for my husband, Jaideep, who is an excellent vacation buddy and fellow foodie (to say the least).
That's the whole point. The money and the peace. I built both, and at The Breakthrough Year, I'll show you how to build yours.
December 9-11, 2026 | Virtual Event