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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Stephanie Cruz

SHOCKING: She reached 10m downloads without ads now her sleep podcast earns 520k - What They Never Told You

Kathryn Nicolai with her 'Nothing Much Happens' book, one of several revenue streams she built around her top-ranked sleep podcast. (Credit: FB/ Nothing Much Happens)

Kathryn Nicolai built one of the world's most popular sleep podcasts without spending a penny to promote it. The paid membership she added years later now brings in more than $520,000 (£390,000) a year on its own.

Nicolai, 45, created Nothing Much Happens, the bedtime-story podcast she started in April 2018 while still running a yoga studio in Michigan. She reached 10M downloads within roughly a year of launching, she said on The Side Hustle Show, with no paid promotion behind it. 'We didn't spend a dollar on marketing' until last year, she said.

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