A living case study in building a HIGH-PROFIT BIZ THAT MAKES daily sales...
without social media
Except instead of just seeing a polished highlight reel, The $1k/Day Experiment is a real-time look at how an imperfect business actually operates even when life gets messy (which, let's be honest, it is 99% of the time.)
This is the "anti-course"—a real-time business documentary where you shadow a CEO navigating the intersection of neurodivergence, chronic illness, and entrepreneurship.
I started this experiment in 2024 with the goal to turn my $500/day sales streak into $1k/Day. By Fall 2025, I had tripled my revenue.
And now, nearly 600 days in a row of daily sales later (working less than 25 hours/week, no less), I’m aiming higher: $1k/Day in pure profit.
REVENUE IS VANITY.
PROFIT IS SANITY.
The focus is no longer “can this work?”, but “how do I protect profit, capacity, and calm as this compounds?” And I want to take you behind the scenes as I figure it all out.
Join me as I trial and error my way to this goal, where you'll get an unfiltered backstage pass into what gets tested, what gets cut, what compounds quietly… and what’s absolutely not worth the energy.
We don’t have a strategy problem anymore.
We have a judgment problem.
There’s no shortage of advice telling you what to do.
AI can generate endless ideas in seconds.
And yet most business owners feel more unsure than ever.
What you don’t get to see is:
- how decisions are made before they work
- what doesn’t get optimized on purpose
- when “good enough” is the right call
- how someone stays steady when numbers fluctuate
The $1k/Day Experiment shows how a calm business thinks, so you stop reacting, simplify what already works, and make decisions you don’t need to second-guess.
Without that context, most people:
change direction too early, chase every new tactic, and overreact to completely normal ebbs and flows, undoing progress that just needs time to work
Not because they aren’t capable... but because they never get to see real decisions made in real time.
You’re watching decisions and results unfold as they happen,
without pretending the numbers only go up.
This is NOT a course. You don't have to sit down, watch hours of videos,
and learn a whole new strategy and system.
And, you don't need to copy my business.
It’s about developing better judgment while you run yours,
so you finally know when to push, when to walk away,
and when doing nothing is the most profitable move.
The $1k/Day Experiment exists to make that visible.
Not the tactics. The thinking behind the tactics.
IT'S LIKE Reality TV for business.
Over time, that changes how you operate:
fewer emotional decisions, simpler systems, and a business that feels steady instead of fragile.
If you’re already established and want insights and details on how successful entrepreneurs are doing it on their terms, this could be your in. There’s so much information and so many moving parts, and the $1k/Day Experiment gives you a clear look at what’s possible in building a business.
- Tara Kelly T.
What's Included
inside the experiment
🔬 WEEKLY Experiment Diaries
This is not a curriculum with pre-recorded modules or slides. This is like a documentary with director's cut commentary on all my Experiment Logs and Profit Dashboards that show the math behind the money.
Each structured diary shows:
You’ll see experiments around: paid traffic, SEO/GEO, pricing, AOV and profit margins, tech stack changes, and capacity-aware decisions.
Unlike a static course, this is a living timeline. You get new Diaries as I execute them, with space for questions to better understand how or why I'm doing something.
Each structured diary shows:
- what I’m testing (The Hypothesis)
- why I chose it (and what I said no to)
- what data I’m watching
- what actually happened
- what I’ll repeat, refine, or drop
You’ll see experiments around: paid traffic, SEO/GEO, pricing, AOV and profit margins, tech stack changes, and capacity-aware decisions.
Unlike a static course, this is a living timeline. You get new Diaries as I execute them, with space for questions to better understand how or why I'm doing something.
📊 MONTHLY INCOME REPORTS
You’ll see how daily sales really happen without turning revenue into a scoreboard.
The focus is on:
I don't just show you Stripe screenshots. I show you the P&L. I show you where I 'lost' $1,500 on ads that didn't track correctly, and how I pivoted to a 65% profit margin after being in debt without working more hours. You will learn how to keep more of what you make, not just make more.
PLUS, members-only get their own Monthly To Do List with Journal Prompts after each income report. Expect action items to implement in your own business, plus reflection prompts and self-assessment tools related to the report themes and mini challenge to reverse-engineer my sales.
The focus is on:
- rolling patterns, not seasonal spikes
- profit over dopamine revenue
- when to optimize and when not to react at all
I don't just show you Stripe screenshots. I show you the P&L. I show you where I 'lost' $1,500 on ads that didn't track correctly, and how I pivoted to a 65% profit margin after being in debt without working more hours. You will learn how to keep more of what you make, not just make more.
PLUS, members-only get their own Monthly To Do List with Journal Prompts after each income report. Expect action items to implement in your own business, plus reflection prompts and self-assessment tools related to the report themes and mini challenge to reverse-engineer my sales.
👩🏻💻 QUARTERLY LIVE Debriefs
While the diaries are updated weekly, every quarter, we go LIVE on Zoom to debrief a particular campaign, experiment or pivot, complete with Q&A.
These live debriefs break down:
No hype. Just honest reflection.
And yes, all the replays go inside the portal so you can binge the archives anytime.
These live debriefs break down:
- what worked (and why)
- what wasn’t worth repeating
- where profit leaked
- what I’d keep, cut, or change next time
No hype. Just honest reflection.
And yes, all the replays go inside the portal so you can binge the archives anytime.
💬 WEEKLY Office Hours:
VIP Direct Access to Me
Got questions? We offer asynchronous support every week on Telegram. Leave your questions 24/7 and I respond every Wednesday like a private podcast feed with focused, high-value replies for personalized clarity.
Bring questions like:
Bring questions like:
- “Why did you change that?”
- “How would you think about this?”
- “What would you ignore here?”
This is the space to ask clarifying questions that help you make cleaner decisions. Listen anytime, on the go, no “keeping up” required, so you can dip in and out as needed.
🎁 Bonus: Real Reels
In addition to the 2025 archive, Real Reels is a behind-the-scenes record of how this business runs on a day-to-day execution level.
Real Reels captures:
These time-tracking diaries detail exactly how a multi-six-figure business operates in 20 hours a week, so you never have to wonder, "But HOW is she doing that?!"
Plus, every month in 2026, we go live for a "Week in the Life" Google Doc where I record every single thing I do over the course of a week in real time, and you can follow along and ask questions in the comments. It's a sneak peek at my totally unfiltered life—juggling kids, chronic illness, OCD, and, oh yeah, running a business that refuses to play by the rules. Includes daily revenue breakdowns. If you value no-BS transparency over polished theory, this is your front-row seat.
Real Reels captures:
- weekly priorities and focus areas
- how tasks were sequenced and batched
- what it looked like to maintain daily sales in real time
- the operational rhythms behind the scenes
These time-tracking diaries detail exactly how a multi-six-figure business operates in 20 hours a week, so you never have to wonder, "But HOW is she doing that?!"
Plus, every month in 2026, we go live for a "Week in the Life" Google Doc where I record every single thing I do over the course of a week in real time, and you can follow along and ask questions in the comments. It's a sneak peek at my totally unfiltered life—juggling kids, chronic illness, OCD, and, oh yeah, running a business that refuses to play by the rules. Includes daily revenue breakdowns. If you value no-BS transparency over polished theory, this is your front-row seat.
🫶🏼 private Skool Community
Connect with other members for grounded community support, so you can make smarter, calmer revenue decisions.
In the VIP Soul Circle, you’re not just in another noisy Facebook group, you’re part of a high‑caliber, implementation‑driven community where people are actively building long-term assets that make money without living on social media. The feed is full of concrete wins and data (campaigns published, tech issues fixed, conversion rates climbing, ads breaking even for the first time), plus direct access to expert eyes on your copy, strategy, and numbers so you’re not guessing alone or stuck in ChatGPT University.
When you need real, human support, we're here to encourage to take imperfect action and iterate later after you've got the data. You get a calm, drama‑free environment, daily coaching, and a culture that celebrates both tiny milestones and big breakthroughs, so it’s much harder to quietly stall out on your business dreams.
In the VIP Soul Circle, you’re not just in another noisy Facebook group, you’re part of a high‑caliber, implementation‑driven community where people are actively building long-term assets that make money without living on social media. The feed is full of concrete wins and data (campaigns published, tech issues fixed, conversion rates climbing, ads breaking even for the first time), plus direct access to expert eyes on your copy, strategy, and numbers so you’re not guessing alone or stuck in ChatGPT University.
When you need real, human support, we're here to encourage to take imperfect action and iterate later after you've got the data. You get a calm, drama‑free environment, daily coaching, and a culture that celebrates both tiny milestones and big breakthroughs, so it’s much harder to quietly stall out on your business dreams.
This is for you if:
- you already have a business or real traction
- you want daily sales without daily visibility
- you’re experimenting with (or committed to) a social-free or social-optional model
- you learn best by observing real decisions
This is not for you if:
- you want a step-by-step roadmap
- you need guarantees or timelines
- you want hype, motivation, or “big moves” energy
- you’re brand new and still figuring out what you sell
Warning: severe side effects may include:
- Compounding results without compounding effort.
- A business that gets simpler instead of heavier as it grows, where profit, capacity, and sustainability take priority (not urgency, pressure, or comparison).
- A business that feels calmer, more predictable, and easier to run.
- A better relationship to risk and failure (nothing to normalize flops like seeing the exact email I sent when a $2k/month sponsorship fell through, and how I recovered that revenue elsewhere, while navigating a chronic POTS flare-up that kept me horizontal for a week, family AuDHD crises, and more canceled school days than you'd think legal).
About Kate Kordsmeier
Want to learn more about Kate and why reading her diary matters?
This experiment is possible because Kate:
Kate officially began her entrepreneurial journey at 16, winning the Young Georgia Author’s award for a poem published in her high school’s literary magazine. Unofficially, she's been bossing people around since she could talk. And now she's got over a decade of experience reshaping the landscape of female entrepreneurship.
After nailing two summa cum laude degrees from the University of Georgia’s prestigious Grady College of Journalism—a top 10 J-school—Kate jumped into the journalism jungle with bylines in every cool publication you’ve leafed through in a doctor’s waiting room, including USA Today, The Washington Post, Travel + Leisure, Esquire, Women’s Health, Yahoo!, SELF, and Real Simple (literally over 125 mags and counting). Yes, recovering perfectionist is her middle name.
When she was a food writer (ya know, everyone's dream job!), she also published the beloved cookbook “Atlanta Chef’s Table: Extraordinary Recipes from the Big Peach,” and served as the Culinary Expert for the State of Georgia, with features on CNN. A sought-after speaker and guest (these days she's talking more about profit and productivity than peaches), she shares her thought leadership on platforms like Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff, Boss Moms with Dana Malstaff, Millennial Money with Shannah Game, and Online Marketing Made Easy with Amy Porterfield.
Her own podcast, Success with Soul, boasts over 100,000 downloads, with over 100 5-star reviews, reaching listeners in 45+ countries.
Kate launched her first blog, Root + Revel, in 2015 and grew it to 250,000 page views per month, before she sold it for multiple six-figures in 2021. Forbes even wrote about her success here.
Kate is certified as an ICF-accredited Life and Success Coach from the Quantum Coaching Academy, with additional certifications in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Clinical Hypnotherapy, Reiki, Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping), and the TIME Technique, adding just the right amount of woo-woo to her OCD, Type-A spreadsheet brain. Mainstream is overrated.
To date, she’s empowered over 1,200 clients, raked in more than $2.5 million, and did it all working less than 20 hours a week—because, you know, kids and cats. Quit social media? Check. Still killing it? Double-check.
Kate lives in Atlanta, and when not shutting down her laptop at a scandalously early hour, she can be found binge-reading psychological thrillers, scouring ATL for the next best sushi restaurant, and planning her family’s next beach adventure.
- Built multiple seven-figure businesses
- Runs profitable funnels across SEO, ads, email, and partnerships with big wigs like Jenna Kutcher and Amy Porterfield
- Burned out, rebuilt, simplified, and protected profit on purpose
- Continued making daily sales through personal upheaval, platform changes, and market shifts
Kate officially began her entrepreneurial journey at 16, winning the Young Georgia Author’s award for a poem published in her high school’s literary magazine. Unofficially, she's been bossing people around since she could talk. And now she's got over a decade of experience reshaping the landscape of female entrepreneurship.
After nailing two summa cum laude degrees from the University of Georgia’s prestigious Grady College of Journalism—a top 10 J-school—Kate jumped into the journalism jungle with bylines in every cool publication you’ve leafed through in a doctor’s waiting room, including USA Today, The Washington Post, Travel + Leisure, Esquire, Women’s Health, Yahoo!, SELF, and Real Simple (literally over 125 mags and counting). Yes, recovering perfectionist is her middle name.
When she was a food writer (ya know, everyone's dream job!), she also published the beloved cookbook “Atlanta Chef’s Table: Extraordinary Recipes from the Big Peach,” and served as the Culinary Expert for the State of Georgia, with features on CNN. A sought-after speaker and guest (these days she's talking more about profit and productivity than peaches), she shares her thought leadership on platforms like Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff, Boss Moms with Dana Malstaff, Millennial Money with Shannah Game, and Online Marketing Made Easy with Amy Porterfield.
Her own podcast, Success with Soul, boasts over 100,000 downloads, with over 100 5-star reviews, reaching listeners in 45+ countries.
Kate launched her first blog, Root + Revel, in 2015 and grew it to 250,000 page views per month, before she sold it for multiple six-figures in 2021. Forbes even wrote about her success here.
Kate is certified as an ICF-accredited Life and Success Coach from the Quantum Coaching Academy, with additional certifications in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Clinical Hypnotherapy, Reiki, Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping), and the TIME Technique, adding just the right amount of woo-woo to her OCD, Type-A spreadsheet brain. Mainstream is overrated.
To date, she’s empowered over 1,200 clients, raked in more than $2.5 million, and did it all working less than 20 hours a week—because, you know, kids and cats. Quit social media? Check. Still killing it? Double-check.
Kate lives in Atlanta, and when not shutting down her laptop at a scandalously early hour, she can be found binge-reading psychological thrillers, scouring ATL for the next best sushi restaurant, and planning her family’s next beach adventure.
This is an ongoing experiment with zero-obligation observation. There’s nothing to “finish," no homework to do, and no way to "fall behind."
Think of this like a Netflix subscription for your business brain. Binge the archives, watch the current experiment, or ask specific questions during Office Hours. You are here to watch, absorb, and learn through osmosis.
Inside the "anti-course", you don't get more information; you get insight and direct access to Kate's brain.
Think of this like a Netflix subscription for your business brain. Binge the archives, watch the current experiment, or ask specific questions during Office Hours. You are here to watch, absorb, and learn through osmosis.
Inside the "anti-course", you don't get more information; you get insight and direct access to Kate's brain.
- Plus, lurk and learn as you observe diaries, updates, and debriefs in real time as the experiment unfolds.
- Space to observe, reflect, and apply what’s relevant to your business
- No pressure to implement everything—this is about sharpening your judgment, not following a step-by-step plan
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this just another course?
Nope! Courses give you step-by-step lessons—this gives you a front-row seat to my actual business in motion. It’s not “Here’s a framework,” it’s “Watch me test this in real time and see exactly what happens.”
No pre-recorded modules, the $1k/Day Experiment lets you see inside another high-profit business in real time—how I make decisions, what I prioritize, and how I pivot when things don’t go as planned—so you can steal what works and leave the rest.
No pre-recorded modules, the $1k/Day Experiment lets you see inside another high-profit business in real time—how I make decisions, what I prioritize, and how I pivot when things don’t go as planned—so you can steal what works and leave the rest.
What if i don't have a business yet?
Perfect! This gives you a front-row seat to how a profitable, social-free business actually works—before you even start. Instead of guessing what to do when you launch, you’ll already know what’s working right now, what mistakes to avoid, and how to set up systems that make money daily. It’s like shadowing a CEO before you become one.
What if i already have a successful business?
Amazing! That means you already know that success isn’t about a one-time strategy—it’s about constant testing, tweaking, and refining. This gives you a behind-the-scenes look at how I optimize, streamline, and scale so you can take what’s working for me and apply it to your own business (without having to run every experiment yourself).
Can i make my money back?
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i already have mba or THE ROOM, do i need this too?
Think of MBA as your strategic roadmap for limitless growth. It's the courses, the step-by-step roadmap where you LEARN how to do the thing. The Room is where you DO the thing with community, accountability and incentives with Get it Done Weeks. And in The $1k/Day Experiment, you WATCH a real live business do it their way, giving you the permission slip many of us need to take imperfect action and make our businesses personal.
is this a membership?
Yes, but not in the “monthly content drop” kind of way. This isn’t a course or a coaching program—it’s an ongoing, behind-the-scenes pass to my business experiments in real time. You’re getting live access to what I’m doing each week, what’s working, what’s flopping, and how I’m adjusting. No set curriculum, rather a real-time business documentary.
Cancel anytime.
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You don’t need more strategies.
You need fewer inputs, better decisions, and proof that calm, profit-first businesses actually work without posting on social every day (or ever!).
The $1k/Day Experiment won’t tell you what to do.
It will show you how experienced operators decide — so you stop undoing progress, chasing noise, or second-guessing yourself every time the numbers move.
The $1k/Day Experiment won’t tell you what to do.
It will show you how experienced operators decide — so you stop undoing progress, chasing noise, or second-guessing yourself every time the numbers move.