Peaceful Profits Podcast Ep. 108 - How Oliver Manalese Scaled His Business and Transformed His Life!
Synopsis:
In this Client Spotlight episode, Chanelle Nielsen interviews coach and author Oliver Manalese, creator of The Daily Prosperity Method. Oliver helps high-performing entrepreneurs and business owners move from spiritual bankruptcy to peaceful prosperity by expanding their capacity and aligning life and business.
He shares how he went from burnout in real estate to running a high-impact, low-hour coaching business—then scaled into a group model with Peaceful Profits’ support. In the process, he rebuilt his offer from the ground up, published a powerful book, and designed a business that helps more people while staying rooted in his values.
If you're ready to trade hustle for high-ROI living, and you're looking for a more spacious, aligned business model that still delivers real results—this episode is a must-listen.
Transcript:
How Oliver Scaled His Business and Transformed His Life!
[00:00:00] Chanelle: Hello, Peaceful Profits Nation. Chanelle here with an exciting Client Spotlight episode for you today. So today we're talking to our client, Oliver Manalese. Oliver, welcome to the podcast.
[00:00:12] Oliver: It's a pleasure. I'm really glad to be here with you.
[00:00:15] Chanelle: I have heard great things about you and your business. I'm super excited to dive into this conversation.
[00:00:21] Chanelle: To start off with a brief introduction, Oliver Manalese helps entrepreneurs go from spiritual bankruptcy to peaceful [00:00:30] prosperity through high ROI work. ENERGIZING days and life business alignment. Oliver is an expert at coaching and training entrepreneurs to achieve their most profitable and sustainable business results while enjoying their fullest and most revitalizing lifestyle.
[00:00:45] Chanelle: Working with Oliver of our clients achieve things like going from 10 K to 20 K per month in revenue within 12 months, going from 60 hour to 30 hour work weeks within 12 months. Expanding client and project capacity by three x, but the most satisfying wins [00:01:00] are hearing stories like my wife is 10 times happier.
[00:01:03] Chanelle: I'm five times the man I used to be. My children are the most true beneficiaries of this work. So good. Okay. I love that introduction and I love the specificity. That's something that we talk about often with clients, getting that clear on who we help and how we help them. So I think that's really powerful.
[00:01:23] Chanelle: Now, I want to, in this episode, really understand. The evolution [00:01:30] of your business, what you've been through to get to this point. So I hope that we can get deep into that. So you came to peaceful profits with a successful business already. You were doing a one-on-one business that you were looking to scale so you could teach more people,
[00:01:44] Oliver: yeah, so I've been in this business coaching entrepreneurs for over 11 years and working with people on a one-on-one basis. And ultimately it came from my own experience of I was in the real estate. I. Business and I thought it was all about get [00:02:00] rich, get wealthy, buy a bunch of properties. And I found myself, three years into that path, realizing that it was, to me, it was really meaningless and purposeless and there was a deeper calling for my gifts.
[00:02:13] Oliver: And so I went through my own. I guess valley of despair at that time of, a darked of the soul, if you will.
Yeah.
[00:02:20] Oliver: To reinvent myself and reconnect with, what is a life of meaning, how do I make an impact? How do I use my gifts? And so I went through this whole [00:02:30] process of rediscovering who I am and I realized just how many.
[00:02:34] Oliver: People I knew were out there and I was already connected with who were on that same path, right? Entrepreneurs, real estate investors, high achievers who look really great on paper, but behind the scenes in their life and the relationships, their really mediocre or even worse. And I realized that a big part of you know this calling that I had was to serve those people who were.
[00:02:59] Oliver: Go going through the [00:03:00] same pain that I've gone through. And so over the last 11 years, it's been really, refining that process of how do I help, who do I help? And I appreciate that you noticed the specificity and I think it's an ongoing evolution. I. But yeah, it's definitely, it's taken a long time to realize who I'm meant to serve, how I'm meant to serve them, what type of results I'm really excited about creating.
[00:03:24] Oliver: And the last few years has been really wonderful. I've been able to [00:03:30] experience what. I've been working a really long time to achieve, which was an eight hour work week. Awesome. I only needed to work with five or six one-on-one clients clients on a yearly basis to reach the goals that it wanted to achieve.
[00:03:43] Oliver: I. And I celebrated that and I really appreciated being able to accomplish that because it was it was a long time that I was trying to find out how do I do this really well for the people I really love? And then it got to this point where I'm doing some my own self-discovery and my own healing [00:04:00] and questioning what's the next evolution of my purpose?
[00:04:03] Oliver: And after many months of deliberating. I was like smacked in the face of are you, is helping five people a year? Really? The best use of your gifts, Oliver? That was such a huge wake up call. 'cause I'm like I work with business owners, entrepreneurs, parents, and it, the work trickles out, to how they are with their kids and their team.
[00:04:26] Oliver: Yeah. And the impact that they make. But then also at the [00:04:30] same time as I'm sure we'll get into this in a bit, but. Realizing that the pain and the problems that you know my clients face, it's not just unique to them and their situation. There's people who are in different situations who are also facing that same type of issue of I.
[00:04:48] Oliver: What does it mean? There's no meaning or satisfaction or fulfillment in all this goal achievement. And I've moved forward in my business and in my career, but I feel collapse at the end of the day and I have [00:05:00] no energy for my kids. And that, that spans across different demographics. So I think I realized that there are people that I, that I.
[00:05:09] Oliver: Can help and can serve, but I was I was blocked in what it would look like to go from working one-on-one. Something that I believe that I've done really well at for a long time to, how do I go from one-to-one to one to many?
[00:05:21] Chanelle: Yeah. Oh I love hearing that story in that background because, it's interesting, a lot of us.
[00:05:28] Chanelle: Come with that [00:05:30] idea. Okay, an eight hour work week, amazing. Let's do that. And you arrived, you made it to where you wanted to be, and then there was something more. And I think how interesting that is in this whole entrepreneurial journey, that's often the case. You get to one milestone and you're, for whatever reason, it's this isn't the end now this, and I love that yours is really focused on someone else. It's not now that I'm working an eight hour work week, how can I triple my income and still work in a eight hour work week? It bega it. It, the [00:06:00] question was different. The question was, how can I help more people?
[00:06:03] Chanelle: And I think how powerful when that's the question. When it's focused on helping someone else. Now that's what led you to Peaceful Profits is you had this one-on-one and you're like, okay, but I wanna help more people with it. So where was the the holdup there? You said you had done one-on-one for a long time, but what was holding you back from being able to scale to do one to many?
[00:06:28] Oliver: So I've been, like I said [00:06:30] I've been in this industry and I've worked with I've had clients who are coaches, I've worked with other coaches, and I've done lots of trainings. So I've been exposed to many different paths to, to grow or scale. And none of them ever felt aligned with me, and I was, I never saw.
[00:06:49] Oliver: A, a sense of resonating with what those messages were until I came across Mike Shreve's work, peaceful Profits. And, I think to me the biggest block [00:07:00] was, alright, so now I've increased my rates significantly. I. To work with these high level people on a one-on-one basis. They work with me at least for a year to start, and a lot of them renew.
[00:07:12] Oliver: So the lifetime value has been amazing. They'll work for a year and a half, two years, three years, four years with me at this really powerful level and. I was just like, okay, how do I do this with a group? So I tested out on my own before being introduced to Peaceful Profits trying to start working with [00:07:30] groups, and I just realized, I'm like, man the block inside of me was, I'm trying to achieve this.
[00:07:37] Oliver: Massive transformational result on such broad spectrums of life and business alignment. And that's just not, it's not doable if I was gonna try to do it from one to one to many. And I think one of the lessons that I've learned working with you guys is realizing that you can help people.
[00:07:58] Oliver: But in maybe smaller chunks, [00:08:00] maybe it's smaller results. And I think one of the biggest lessons that I did learn from your program was this idea of, okay, if you had a given timeframe, how do you create a reliable and predictable and sustainable result for those people? 'Cause before I thought my mindset was, spend enough time with me.
[00:08:20] Oliver: I'll transform your freaking life. Yeah, I just, and I knew that because of many years of doing it. So if you said, okay, now I have a group of people and I have a shorter [00:08:30] time span, there's a lot of doubt, there's a lot of, I have no idea can I produce that size of a result. So it meant deconstructing and unpacking where I was blocked to realize, what?
[00:08:42] Oliver: How do I be appropriate to where these people are on their path for this timeframe and given this context of being in a group or a course setting and do really well there, and then have the journey continue maybe with further offerings afterwards.
[00:08:58] Chanelle: Okay. So in that [00:09:00] process then, and breaking it down to a smaller result, a smaller chunk of time, what did that look like in practice?
[00:09:08] Oliver: So I, one of the things that I asked myself, based on, the work and the course of the offer accelerator, I asked myself if I only had. Six weeks or 12 weeks with somebody what is what's gonna make the biggest shift, what's gonna move the needle the most for them?
[00:09:28] Oliver: And I looked at I'm [00:09:30] grateful that I have a body of data, I have many thousands of hours of sessions that I've done. Yeah. And lots of case studies of my own. To look back and okay, who were my best clients? The best results, my most favorite experiences, and what did they have in common?
[00:09:45] Oliver: And that was part of the work that was in, in your program, was to do that homework. And I realized that it didn't matter what situation. 'cause I've helped people in different businesses and in different environments didn't matter. Didn't matter what they did. But what I [00:10:00] realized was a lot of them are overrun.
[00:10:03] Oliver: By their business, they're overwhelmed by their life and they have so many tangled messes that actually gets in the way of the next step in their progress, right? So if they want more purpose in their life, if they wanna make more impact in their business, they wanna take things to the next level. Like, how are you gonna do that if you don't have the capacity, if you don't have the energetic [00:10:30] bandwidth?
[00:10:31] Oliver: And. A lot of the work that I do consistently is about how do we free up capacity? How do we make you bigger, right? How do we make you more able to do the really difficult things like, what's next of my purpose? Those are really. Difficult questions to face and the steps and the decisions and the choices and the letting go along the way.
[00:10:55] Oliver: That's not easy. You can't just read a self-help book or a business book and just do [00:11:00] those things, right? You need to have enough space in your life to, to hold that discomfort. And a lot of times we have all these things that are burdening us and sapping our energy that prevents us from do, from doing those difficult things.
[00:11:12] Oliver: So I ultimately realized how do I help people own the day? Meaning expand their capacity so that they can do the difficult things that are necessary for life transformation, for business transformation. And we can put the foundational principles in a 12 week window. And that [00:11:30] was kinda like the first iteration of the program was to really focus in on that.
[00:11:35] Chanelle: So did that change then the way that you positioned your offer? Like how did you talk about it? Did it change the outcome in what you were promising people as you worked with them?
[00:11:51] Oliver: I. I don't know if it changed the outcome. I think it changed my understanding of what I did in a way. Okay. [00:12:00] Because I went in saying I want people to experience this feeling of, own the day. Which, which means you're, you get to the end of the day, you've done everything that you could.
[00:12:12] Oliver: Yeah. And you can enjoy and just be in the moment. Then also own your value and. If you can't if you're trying to make an impact and use your gifts to serve others but you're. In your, you have imposter syndrome or you feel insecure around owning your [00:12:30] gifts, owning your value it'll be very difficult.
[00:12:33] Oliver: And so that's definitely the direction that they were headed. The feedback that I got, the initial members of this program, they just kept, after three months, they renewed. And they renewed. And they renewed. Now they've been with me for almost an entire year because of the momentum and the progress, which has been really, that's been very satisfying.
Yeah. But
[00:12:53] Oliver: the thing that really surprised me was they consistently say, I. This is the calmest [00:13:00] I've ever felt. It's Oliver, this is crazy. There's so much change and there's so much excitement and like I'm, there's so much fear, but also I'm so like weirdly calm. And then they say this is the clearest I've ever felt.
[00:13:13] Oliver: Like they know the direction that they're headed, and this is the most confident that they've ever felt. So even though they're stepping into the unknown when it comes to, their life and their business, they have this sense of you know what? I got this and it's. That them saying that over [00:13:30] and over again consistently.
[00:13:31] Oliver: It just validated something really big in terms of, what it, what is it that I'm delivering to people? What are they receiving compared to what I initially theorized in my head is, I'm gonna give them this. So that was really powerful.
[00:13:46] Chanelle: That is, and what a testament to the work that you're doing that people keep staying with you.
[00:13:51] Chanelle: That they're like, oh I've gotten so much from this and I want more. I love that. So what have you learned from the process of running [00:14:00] that, that 12 week group, that first iteration of that. What were some of the business learnings in that process?
[00:14:09] Oliver: I honestly, I was thinking about this and. I think the thing that stands out a lot is this idea of, there's so much, I had an idea of here's the curriculum, here's everything that we're going to cover. And I had this sense of okay, I wanna make it fresh and new and powerful [00:14:30] and move the thing forward.
[00:14:31] Oliver: But if you are doing like what are, whether you're a business coach or a life coach, I think there's so much value in reminding people. And helping them remember. So I think I would've thought before validating this program, I think I would've thought I gotta have new material, new content every single week.
[00:14:51] Oliver: But ultimately they, I. I think we all need to hear some of the same things over and over again, and we need to be reminded of like, [00:15:00] why am I in this program? What pain was I in? So I would constantly say, where were you three months ago? Like, where were you six weeks ago? I. And then compare them to where they are now, and so they can actually see the progress.
[00:15:12] Oliver: What brought you here? Remind us, remind me of why you are here. And not only that, even the things that I teach, it's wow they're getting so much value and they're getting new aha moments from hearing the same principles over and over again on the day. Own your value, expand your capacity.
[00:15:28] Oliver: Do high ROI work [00:15:30] like I would say these things. Learn to surrender, learn to let go. I would say it over and over again, and they would find other ways of relating with and connecting with those ideas. And they just need to be reminded to stay Yeah. On the path. So it, it wasn't like so much demand on me to have all this new content, all this training.
[00:15:50] Oliver: It was realizing, hey, there's some fundamental things that actually move the needle for them and just keep those things and deepen them. For them.
[00:15:58] Chanelle: Oh, so good. [00:16:00] I hope listeners that you are getting this because this is very common. I feel like it's something we hear a lot that, oh, they, I have to put more information and do more and we think go wider.
[00:16:11] Chanelle: And what you're saying is go deeper on these core points and this idea of people need to be reminded of the same thing over and how much that helps with implementation, which is really why we're there as coaches. We're there to help. Implement, and that is a matter of going deep. So that's really powerful.
[00:16:29] Chanelle: [00:16:30] Now, what changes do you see, you've talked about this evolution in your business where you were to where you are now. What changes do you see in the future for your business?
[00:16:40] Oliver: Yeah, so initially what brought me into the whole Peaceful Profits world was one book Millions Method. And that got me excited.
[00:16:48] Oliver: I thought the path for me was, I've always wanted to write a book. It would all, it would, every year I would ask myself, if I had one year left to live, what would I regret? Not writing my first book. And I would say that year after [00:17:00] year. And then finally like I said earlier, I couldn't find any strategy or method that really aligned with me until I read one book, millions Method.
[00:17:09] Oliver: And I said, this makes sense. And so I got into the process of. Writing my book re ready to scale and bring in more people. Then I realized after talking to you guys that my, my offer was truly broken. Like it was, there was so much needed. So for a year I was like flipping back and forth, [00:17:30] like work on the book, work on the offer, work on the book, work on the offer.
[00:17:33] Oliver: And it was a very, it was a, honestly, it was very difficult. It was a very challenging path. But I'm happy to say that the book is finally. Launched and it's available. It's called the Daily Prosperity Method. How to expand your capacity by owning the day. And so ultimately it is a way of truly, helping and serving people, create some results for them, but also introduce them to the work.
[00:17:57] Oliver: And so the, the next, what is next [00:18:00] is to continue to, work with the group that I've got right now, but I'm starting to realize there, there are some, there's some other aspects that are becoming more, more relevant. Like this idea of helping people develop a more of a lifestyle business.
[00:18:16] Oliver: And so there, I think it's turning into either a separate. Like another group offer that's gonna I feel like the life path mentorship, which is my initial 12 week I would say it's 80% like life and untangling the messes of your life, and then maybe [00:18:30] 20% around business. And I feel like the lifestyle business accelerator that I'm.
[00:18:35] Oliver: Leaning into is more, is like maybe 70% business and 30% life. And I think they work hand in hand. Yeah. They're like a stage one and stage two. Yes. So I'm heading in that direction of I've been able to have a one-on-one practice, increase my rates free up lots of time, do that with lots of other one-on-one clients.
[00:18:53] Oliver: How do I turn that? Into a group offer for the people who are, who have expanded their capacity, who know these [00:19:00] fundamentals, and now they're ready for that business transformation as opposed to, I think I originally thought I would do all of that in 12 weeks, but that's that's a lot.
[00:19:08] Chanelle: Yeah. Yeah. And it's amazing.
[00:19:11] Chanelle: You mentioned that the year, you spent a year fixing your offer, working on your offer, and then also working on your book. Talk to us a little. You said it was hard. And talk to us a little about what the challenge was like, what part of that was really difficult and challenging for you, [00:19:30]
[00:19:30] Oliver: I think.
[00:19:30] Oliver: Okay, so I thought I, I said I'm going to take a little bit of a step back from my one-on-one coaching practice renew clients at a lower frequency. So I had more bandwidth to focus on this book and I'll finish it in three weeks or three months. And it took 16 months, so it took multiple times longer.
[00:19:51] Oliver: I would say I accidentally became a full-time writer in the last year, which was, that was not my intention, and that there was a huge price to diverting my attention to [00:20:00] it. But then also it was like, to focus on one important thing for such a long time and keep coming back over and over again, and spend 11, 1200 hours working on this book.
[00:20:16] Oliver: That was, it was rewarding in the sense of I saw how good it could be and how helpful it could be, and I was confident in that, but it was so isolating and challenging because you. With [00:20:30] other business ideas, if I have a new program or a workshop or a weekend thing or a retreat or whatever it was, you would know you would know really quickly, does it work?
[00:20:39] Oliver: Do people get value from it? But with a book that took that long, I didn't know. I really didn't know, like if people are gonna get value, if it'll turn into business, if it'll turn into clients. And so not having that. Quick level of validation was really difficult to be with. Yeah. For such an extended [00:21:00] period of time.
[00:21:00] Oliver: So like now it's in people's hands. People have been booking calls and it's turned into business. So it's really cool.
[00:21:07] Chanelle: That's awesome that was gonna be my next question. And on the other side, and so that's amazing to see and that sense of accomplishment after going through that really challenging thing.
[00:21:17] Chanelle: So that's awesome. Now to finish off a couple of last questions. One is. Advice for other people. What is the number one piece of advice you would share with other business owners who see [00:21:30] themselves in your story, whether this is, they're at a one-on-one and looking to scale, or they're, just as you talked about the things you've talked about today, what advice would you share for those people?
[00:21:43] Oliver: I would say if this is your, if this is your path and this is your deepest calling and you're meant to serve people, then remember that because it'll be really difficult. You'll be faced with your own [00:22:00] fear and your inadequacy, and you'll be facing a lot of di discomfort and you'll be in, in the unknown.
[00:22:06] Oliver: You won't see immediate results for, it'll feel like you are putting all this energy into something and it's being sent into a vortex, into a vacuum, and you have no idea if it'll ever come back and. That's really, it's really painful. It's not the, it's not for fun in any way, but if this is what you're meant to do, then keep remembering that.
[00:22:28] Oliver: On the other side, there's [00:22:30] people who are in pain, who have problems that you're, you are meant to solve who need your message and to keep. And if you. Reminding yourself over and over again of that it'll help you to keep going. I think that the easiest thing to do is to jump ship and find the next shiny object and start some new method, or start some new business.
[00:22:52] Oliver: But it's not in the business is just a vehicle. What you do is just a vehicle. But I think if this is, if you have that inner [00:23:00] motivation and that drive to help others that is the thing that'll help you. Keep going. So really, I've seen so many people in over a decade cut and run for their own reasons, and that's perfectly fine.
[00:23:14] Oliver: There's no judgment there. But I've also seen simultaneously people who were in the same difficulty not knowing when the next client's gonna come in, when the next, check is gonna come in and they keep going. And in the middle of that valley of despair, in the middle of that breakdown, [00:23:30] something is.
[00:23:31] Oliver: Released and let, and they're able to let go of something and just be in that, this, that storm and that discomfort, and right around the corner the breakthrough happens. And you realize oh, that's what it, that's what it was for. And that's that's the price you gotta pay.
[00:23:45] Oliver: If you want to create that lifestyle for yourself where you're serving others and it's in, in a meaningful and impactful way. You gotta face that, those inner demons. And it's not gonna be easy, but keep freaking going. If this is your calling, [00:24:00] then keep going.
[00:24:01] Chanelle: Oh my gosh, that is the most beautiful advice.
[00:24:04] Chanelle: I got a little teary-eyed with that advice that just hit me. I think you're here to coach me today and I'm sure all of our listeners too. But thank you for that. I can see why your coaching is so impactful. On that note, where can people find you and learn more about your work, your book, your coaching, all of the things?
[00:24:24] Oliver: Yeah. I think the coolest thing right now is the book, the Daily Prosperity Method, how to [00:24:30] Expand your Capacity by owning the Day, and you can find that@oliverman.com slash dpm. And that's a, it's a $5 book and it's powerful. It's a 10 and a half hour audio book, and it's like 80,000 words, and it's actionable.
[00:24:49] Oliver: The whole thing is actionable and inspiring, and you follow the journey of four different clients that I've worked with. Along that path of owning the day and learning to, [00:25:00] do the hard things, but also enjoy the journey, enjoy the process along the way. I'm pretty active on Instagram and LinkedIn, so you can just find me there as well.
[00:25:11] Oliver: And I think that's pretty much it.
[00:25:13] Chanelle: Perfect. Thank you. We will definitely go and check out the book. I'm excited for all your progress and all the good things to come. So thank you for being here.
[00:25:21] Oliver: What a pleasure. It's an honor. And all the can I just say one last thing? Yes. Is that okay?
[00:25:26] Oliver: Of course. So Peaceful Profits, okay. Like I [00:25:30] said I've been aware of many different methods and businesses and read many books, and I've been self-employed for almost 15 years or more. I swear working with you guys is the only time where I ever said to myself, if I ever had to work for somebody.
[00:25:47] Oliver: It would have to be Peaceful Profits because the people, the message the way that you do business and how you help people and the like, just the way that you guys all are. [00:26:00] I'm like, I would, that's the only company that I would ever consider like getting a job at, like working at. That's so funny.
[00:26:05] Oliver: It, that's how awesome you guys are.
[00:26:07] Chanelle: It's a great place to be. It's a great place to be because the culture, starting from. Where most of us come in one book, millions method, and then the culture that has been built up around helping people is just unbeatable. So thank you, Oliver.
