
Course business strategy with a human pulse.
The gist
Gemma Bonham-Carter talks through the practical mechanics of online course entrepreneurship, from launches and evergreen offers to Black Friday promos and brand partnerships. The tone is direct, conversational, and skeptical of tactics that strip the human element from creator-led businesses.
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About The Course Creator Show
The Course Creator Show is a strategy podcast about turning expertise into sellable digital education. Gemma Bonham-Carter keeps the focus on online courses, memberships, launches, evergreen systems, and the marketing choices that help a creator business grow. The show is candid. It has the feel of a business debrief from someone willing to name what works, what feels overhyped, and what might cost creators trust with their audience. Recent episodes move between solo commentary and guest interviews. In one episode, Gemma Bonham-Carter questions AI-generated podcasting and argues for the value of stumbles, laughter, warmth, and unscripted opinion. The point is not anti-technology. It is a warning against replacing the human signals that make a personal brand feel worth following. Other episodes get more tactical. Sam Adler breaks down a Black Friday promotion that used a scrappy offer structure and produced $15,000 in sales. That conversation also looks at higher-ticket one-on-one work, buyer timing, and why some offers need a different sales rhythm. Justin Moore brings a sponsorship angle, with experience landing more than $5 million in sponsorships and coaching creators on pitches and long-term collaborations. Veronica Romney adds a positioning lens through identity marketing and the relationship between message, self, and brand. Kate Scott’s episode looks at pivots and lessons inside a real creator business. Jason Zook’s appearance widens the frame to course software and the history behind a platform used for hosting online courses. The show is best when it treats creator marketing as a sequence of testable choices rather than a personality contest. It values experiments. It also values taste. Listeners get numbers, anecdotes, offer decisions, and the occasional strong opinion about where online business culture is headed. The overall register is casual but strategic, with enough specificity for operators who are already building something and want sharper judgment, not generic encouragement.
Made for: For entrepreneurs, educators, and creators building online courses, memberships, or digital products. It best suits operators who want practical marketing decisions, real examples, and candid commentary on creator-business trends.
What sets it apart: The show pairs course-launch strategy with unusually plainspoken judgment about what feels trustworthy, human, and commercially useful. Its strongest episodes connect concrete sales examples with broader questions about personal brand, buyer behavior, and creator integrity.
In their own words
The Course Creator Show is your no-BS guide to building a wildly successful online course business—without sacrificing your sanity. We’re talking big revenue, part-time hours, and the kind of freedom that lets you work in your pajamas or from a café in Paris (because why not both?). Hosted by Gemma Bonham-Carter, an online business strategist who’s helped over 14,000 entrepreneurs through her paid programs, this show dishes out the insider strategies, real talk, and no-fluff advice you need to hit those big business goals. From behind-the-scenes peeks into her own 7-figure business to lessons from the best in the digital product game, Gemma keeps it real. When she’s not teaching you how to c…
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Episodes
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Episode 237 | The AI Stuff That's Giving Me the Ick
Hidden gemGemma Bonham-Carter uses The Course Creator Show to argue that AI twins and AI-generated podcasts are the wrong fit for personal brands built on trust.
Nov 3, 2025·26m·1 clip - 2
Episode 236 | How a Food Photographer Crushed Black Friday, with Sam Adler
Hidden gemSam Adler says her Black Friday in a Box week brought in $15,006 for her food-photography education business.
Oct 27, 2025·30m·2 clips - 3
Episode 235 | She Made $51K in One Week Using This Strategy… in the photo organizing niche!
Oct 20, 2025·30m - 4
Episode 234 | She Made $20K Using My Black Friday Strategy (featuring Stephanie Kase)
Oct 13, 2025·26m - 5
Episode 233 | My $158K Black Friday Strategy Revealed
Oct 6, 2025·25m - 6
Episode 232 | Your AI Era Starts Right Now
Gemma Bonham-Carter interviews Kinsey and Joyce about Her AI Era, a five-day summit for women using AI in online businesses.
Sep 29, 2025·31m·2 clips - 7
Episode 231 | How to Unplug AND Stay Profitable (2 months off, $131K in)
On The Course Creator Show, Gemma Bonham-Carter reports $131,522 in July and August sales while taking six to eight weeks mostly away from work.
Sep 24, 2025·30m·2 clips - 8
Episode 230 | How to Win Black Friday 2025 [Interview with the Black Friday Summit hosts]
Gemma Bonham-Carter interviews Mara and Becca, two hosts of the 2025 Black Friday Summit, about campaigns for course creators and service providers.
Aug 18, 2025·38m·2 clips - 9
Episode 229 | Productivity Slumps, Big Projects, and Evergreen Wins (a mid summer update)
Gemma Bonham-Carter says a 10-day mid-July "check-in week" between family trips left her brain "buffering", and she concludes she works better either fully off or fully on.
Aug 11, 2025·25m·2 clips - 10
Episode 228 | Solo Episodes vs Interviews: Why Your Podcast Strategy Might Be Backwards
Aug 4, 2025·18m - 11
Episode 227 | How I Crushed My Webinar Nerves (+ had my biggest revenue day EVER)
Gemma Bonham Carter recounts her first webinar in early 2017, when her Florida rental's internet failed and she could not finish, though she re-recorded it and still made sales.
Jul 28, 2025·27m·2 clips - 12
Episode 226 | Playing The 7-Figure Business Long Game
Jul 21, 2025·29m - 13
Episode 225 | 4x More Testimonials (Without Begging Your Clients)
Jul 7, 2025·21m - 14
Episode 224 | Hate social media? You need THIS launch strategy. [Interview with Holly Marie Haynes]
Jun 30, 2025·30m - 15
Episode 224 | The Biggest Copy Mistakes You're Making, with Anita Siek
Jun 23, 2025·25m - 16
Episode 223 | Summer Slowdown? 3 Smart Ways to Set Your Biz to Thrive While You’re Off the Grid
Jun 16, 2025·29m - 17
Episode 222 | Why Your Clients Might Be About To Fire You
Jun 9, 2025·22m - 18
Episode 221 | Why I'm Taking Every AI Shortcut Possible
May 28, 2025·16m - 19
Episode 220 | Your Future Self Called. She Loves AI. (feat. Courtney Chaal)
May 26, 2025·34m - 20
Episode 219 | The 2025 AI Glow Up
May 19, 2025·24m - 21
Episode 218 | Landing Dream Collabs Using Personality Types, with Linda Sidhu
Apr 7, 2025·29m - 22
Episode 217 | Your AI Dream Team = Less Work, More Profit {Here’s How}
Mar 24, 2025·30m - 23
Episode 216 | AI Needs More Women - Are You In The Room?
Mar 17, 2025·12m - 24
Episode 215 | Inside a Facebook Ad Agency: What’s Really Working? with Stephanie Omotosho
Mar 10, 2025·36m - 25
Episode 214 | The Holy Grail Document Your Business Is Missing (+ why your AI content kinda sucks)
Mar 4, 2025·18m - 26
Episode 213 | Instagram in 2025: What’s Actually Working? [Mallory Rowan Takeover]
Feb 17, 2025·18m - 27
Episode 212 | From $0 to $5M in Brand Deals with Justin Moore
Host Gemma Bonham-Carter interviews Justin about securing sponsorships and building a successful online course business.
Feb 13, 2025·33m - 28
Episode 211 | The Digital Product Sales Hack You’re Probably Not Using
Feb 11, 2025·19m - 29
Episode 210 | Hogs and Swifties? Identity Marketing Explained, with Veronica Romney
Host Gemma Bonham-Carter interviews Veronica about her book Identity Marketing, discussing how to align brand message with authentic self for online course businesses.
Jan 29, 2025·35m - 30
Episode 209 | What Worked (and Didn’t) in Kate Scott’s Business in 2024 [Interview]
Host Gemma Bonham-Carter interviews entrepreneur Kate about her 2024 business pivots and lessons learned in online course creation.
Jan 20, 2025·27m - 31
Episode 208 | 18 Weeks Off and Still Hit $1M: My 2024 “Coast” Year
Jan 16, 2025·32m - 32
Episode 207 | The Teachery Story: Building Software for Course Creators with Jason Zook
Host Gemma Bonham-Carter interviews Jason, co-founder of TeaTree, about his journey and insights for online course creators.
Dec 9, 2024·54m - 33
Episode 206 | Lessons from 15 Years Online: Gemma & Meagan Williamson Share All
Dec 2, 2024·45m - 34
Episode 205 | What to Do When Your Course Is Stolen, with Jaime Bell
Nov 27, 2024·20m - 35
Episode 204 | Is Launching Dead? Not for Sam Vander Wielen
Nov 20, 2024·43m - 36
Episode 203 | The Big Shift in Online Courses: Here’s What to Do
Nov 18, 2024·26m - 37
Episode 202 | Social Media Black Friday Tips from Marketing Expert Mallory Rowan
Nov 13, 2024·21m - 38
Episode 201 | Creating a Team of AI Assistants in Your Biz
Nov 11, 2024·21m - 39
Episode 200 | Why “Implementation Weeks” Work Magic for Low Ticket Offers
Nov 4, 2024·23m - 40
Episode 199 | Can We Use AI and Stay Authentic? with Kinsey Streib
Oct 29, 2024·29m - 41
episode 198 | Writing Coach Daniel David Wallace shares his tips for using summits for lead gen, hitting $39k in a week, and building his 6-fig business part-time
Oct 23, 2024·34m - 42
Episode 197 | How Apple, Amazon, Starbucks, and Glossier Crush Promotions—and What We Can Learn for Black Friday
Oct 21, 2024·18m - 43
Episode 196 | Secrets to Doubling Your Sales in One Week - Interview with Katelyn from Virtually Everything
Oct 17, 2024·20m - 44
Episode 195 | Want My Personal Help? Black Friday VIP Week Starts Soon!
Oct 14, 2024·12m - 45
Episode 194 | Paula made $94K during Black Friday. Here’s How.
Oct 9, 2024·25m - 46
Episode 193 | My $91K Black Friday Week [How I Did It]
Oct 7, 2024·26m - 47
Episode 192 | She Quit Live Launching for THIS: Katy Caldwell’s $165K Strategy
Oct 2, 2024·30m - 48
Episode 191 | No Ideas for Black Friday? I’ve Got 12 for You.
Sep 30, 2024·25m - 49
Episode 190 | Making $52k in a week - How Anna Walker grew her marketing for therapists business
Sep 25, 2024·35m - 50
Episode 189 | Your Business Needs a PSL Product (lessons from Starbucks)
Sep 23, 2024·18m