{"id":1561,"date":"2014-11-21T23:43:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T23:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revenuebreakthrough.com\/breakthrough\/?page_id=1561"},"modified":"2026-07-28T09:23:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:23:02","slug":"host","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/revenuebreakthrough.com\/breakthrough\/host\/","title":{"rendered":"The Breakthrough Year Event &#8211; Host"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module no-bottom-padding\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h3>YOUR HOST | MONICA SHAH<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_divider_0 et_pb_divider et_pb_space et_pb_divider_position_top et_pb_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_internal\"><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_block_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_1 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module no-bottom-padding\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h1>To build a million-dollar business, I had to stop waiting for my big break.<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_2 et_pb_row et_block_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_2 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_image_0 et_pb_image et_animated et_pb_module et_block_module\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/revenuebreakthrough.com\/breakthrough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BBB2015_Day1-Evening-46.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revenuebreakthrough.com\/breakthrough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BBB2015_Day1-Evening-46.jpg 500w, https:\/\/revenuebreakthrough.com\/breakthrough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BBB2015_Day1-Evening-46-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 500px, 100vw\" class=\"wp-image-4567\" alt=\"Monica Shah smiling from stage\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_3 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_2 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module no-bottom-padding\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>Like so many women, I thought my intelligence and hard work would naturally lead to more clients, more money, and an amazing life.<\/p>\n<p>I was wrong about that. Big dreams are wonderful, but a dream is not a plan. (I learned this the expensive way.)<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, I left my job as a brand manager at L'Or\u00e9al Paris, MBA from Kellogg in hand, absolutely certain I was going to crush it. (I most definitely did not crush it.\ud83d\ude29)<\/p>\n<p>Within a year,<strong> I was $25,000 in debt<\/strong>, launching offers that flopped, and running my business from my friends' couches.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_3 et_pb_row et_block_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_3 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>Here's what I finally figured out: I had <strong>no plan<\/strong>. No big-picture understanding of how the pieces of a business actually fit together, and honestly, <strong>no clue what order to do any of it in.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So I built the very first version of what I now call my<strong> Peaceful Profit Plan<\/strong>. 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.<strong> I paid off the debt within 12 months, and doubled or tripled my income nearly every year after<\/strong>. Turns out a plan beats a pep talk.\ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_4 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">But here's what took me years to learn: that first plan made me money, and it also ran me straight into the ground. <\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_5 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_6 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">That's the Peaceful Profit System\u2122. <br \/>And it's what I teach now.<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_4 et_pb_row et_flex_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_5 et_pb_column et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_12_24 et_flex_column_12_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_divider_1 et_pb_divider_hidden et_pb_space et_pb_divider_position_top et_pb_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_internal\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_7 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h3>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.<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_8 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>I crossed 7 figures in 2013 and have stayed there ever since. I've now guided <strong>thousands of entrepreneurs<\/strong>, from their very first client to multiple six- and seven-figure incomes in 12 to 18 months.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_9 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">My Peaceful Profit System\u2122<br \/>\n in a nutshell:<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_10 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>It's how my clients grow their revenue <em>and<\/em> get their lives back. And it's how I do it myself.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_6 et_pb_column et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_12_24 et_flex_column_12_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_image_1 et_pb_image et_animated et_pb_module et_block_module\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/revenuebreakthrough.com\/breakthrough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Monica-Shah-Breakthrough-Year.jpg\" title=\"Monica-Shah-Breakthrough-Year\" width=\"900\" height=\"1174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revenuebreakthrough.com\/breakthrough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Monica-Shah-Breakthrough-Year.jpg 900w, https:\/\/revenuebreakthrough.com\/breakthrough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Monica-Shah-Breakthrough-Year-480x626.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 900px, 100vw\" class=\"wp-image-6455\" alt=\"woman taking notes\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_5 et_pb_row et_flex_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_7 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_24_24 et_flex_column_24_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_11 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.3em;\">The impressive-on-paper part:<\/span> I hold an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management. I'm a former brand manager at L'Or\u00e9al Paris and a recovering entrepreneurship professor from New York City. I've written three books: <em>Getting Rich: You're Doing It Backwards, PAUSE: 52 Questions That Lead to More Money and Time<\/em>, and <em>The Breakthrough Planner<\/em>. And I'm based in Brooklyn, New York, powered largely by matcha lattes and a very organized calendar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_12 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h3>But perhaps the aspect I'm most proud of:<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_13 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>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).<\/p>\n<p>That's the whole point. <strong>The money and the peace. 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