Case Studies - Karen Campbell
Genre
Website
2022
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Her Results
Additional Income
Generated significant additional income from being a published author.
Coaching Business
Started a successful coaching business.
Increased Engagements
Received more invites to podcasts and speaking engagements.
Writing a Second Book
Currently working on her second book, expanding her writing journey.
Memoir Success
Published her memoir “On Borrowed Breath,” which reached hundreds of readers, providing inspiration and strength to those facing major health crises.
Her Story:
Karen Wilkinson worked as a respiratory therapist for 15 years at Level One Trauma centers.
She and her husband, David, chose to move to sunny Naples, Florida, with their two sons and rescue dogs.
Karen retired from healthcare and shifted into real estate. She helped people buy and sell homes – but also used her expertise to help customers set up new medical practices.
She was settling into her move and career change. But she had no idea her story was only just beginning.
The moment that changed her life:
Alone in the darkest part of her life, she was forced to make life-and-death decisions. One such decision outranked the rest: should she fight for her husband’s survival with a double lung transplant?
Without David to talk to, she turned to her journal. Pouring her thoughts onto the pages helped her process her feelings and get through the toughest times. Miraculously, he survived.
Karen felt compelled to share her and her husband’s story. She decided to turn her journal entries from that time into a book. So, over the next year, she slowly moved her journal entries onto a Google doc.
“I didn’t know anything about outlining [a book] or about how this process really should go. I was literally taking it from a journal to Google Docs, not knowing what in the world I was doing.”
Her “Why”:
She also worried that people wouldn’t want to hear about COVID-19 anymore, which was a major part of her story.
Despite these doubts, selfpublishing.com became her support system. The team reminded her that her book’s ultimate message wasn’t about the pandemic, but about navigating a health crisis with faith and hope.
Karen asked herself, ‘what’s the cost if I don’t do this?’ And she decided to dive in and commit to publishing her book.
Her favorite parts of working with us:
Supportive Team
Writing and Publishing
Advanced Trainings
Her Transformation:
Initially, she worried that people wouldn’t want to hear her story. Thankfully, her coach continued to remind her that the story was so much bigger – and more impactful – than even she realized.
“I literally thought it would be, let me put my words out there and if someone wants to buy it, great, and if not, that’s okay too.”
Publishing On Borrowed Breath was the catalyst for so much growth in her personal and professional life.
She made more money from her book than she had imagined.
She began coaching. She wrote additional pieces. She now does coaching. She’s regularly invited for podcast interviews and public speaking engagements.
“Publishing with selfpublishing.com gave me that podium to say I’ve been there, I’ve done this, and this message needs to get out… The sales have been incredible. It presented this whole new business. Those are wins that I did not expect at all. I didn’t [initially] see it as a business and it’s become that.”
Through her book, she helps readers walk through something larger than themselves. Her memoir offers strength, love, and hope—no matter what situation her readers are battling.
Karen stands as an example that difficulties can be overcome.
Her book is proof of it.
Taking the leap to get publishing support for her book brought results Karen never dreamed of. In fact, she loved her experience so much that she couldn’t identify just one favorite part of the program.
So she chose three:
- The one-on-one coaching
- The workshops
- The community
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