How Seventy-Two “Perfect” Emails Brought Me Zero Sales—and Intuition Turned It All Around

mindset Jul 13, 2025

I thought I had cracked the code when I hired the launch specialists. They assured me that if I followed their formula my program would sell like wildfire. They crafted an enormous webinar deck, insisted on a paid-ad blitz, and scheduled seventy-two emails to pound my list over the course of the launch. Each sentence was optimized for urgency, scarcity, and every other buzzword in their playbook.

Launch day arrived. I brewed a vanilla oat-milk latte for courage, clicked “send” on the first wave of emails, and waited for Stripe notifications to sing. The dashboard stayed silent. By nightfall the silence was deafening. After the final email hit inboxes my sales total sat stubbornly at zero. My heart felt heavier than my credit-card bill, and that whisper I had been ignoring finally asked, “Where are you in all of this?”

Six months later I decided to rebuild from the inside out. I closed every tutorial tab, poured a steaming cup of jasmine tea, and asked a simple question in my journal: What would serve my community and feel sacred to me?  What my community wanted was intimacy and authenticity, not another funnel. The answer arrived like a heartbeat. A live, soul-centered mini-retreat that flowed directly into an eight-week program. 

I emailed my list a fraction of what I had before. I shared one barefoot reel from my garden. No fancy funnel. Within seventy-two hours of the invitation, the program sold out, and revenue soared past my original goal. The shift wasn’t magic copy or bigger ad spend. It was alignment, metrics and mysticism working together. 

Same audience, same economy, but my energy was present this time and people responded. The numbers proved what my intuition had been saying all along: soul and strategy belong together.

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