From Food Stamps to Seven Figures: How Nikole Mitchell Did it Utilizing OF

0:05Welcome back to Founder Story. Today we have Nicole Mitchell who is the founder of Nicole Mitchell Inc. I was saying before we got started that it might be one of the most interesting one-sentence short bios that I'm ever going to read so far. So you were known as the pastor-turned-stripper who went from food stamps to seven figures with OnlyFans and OnlyFans creator. I'm very fascinated with the future of the creator's economy and how people on all different platforms will create generational wealth for families and completely change their lives. Thank you so much for being on the show today.

0:41I'd like to start off with what made you want to even get into the creator's economy? I've always been a creative. It's almost like I've been waiting for this moment in time where the power was really given back to the individual. And we had access to things that were once very limited. It's the most powerful and the most wealthy. And so over the years, I've had many different entrepreneurial gigs to try to find out what I wanted to be. And I was a high school teacher for years. I was a megachurch pastor. I was a bartender. I was an Etsy shop owner. I was a face painter, just kind of trying to find myself and what I wanted to be.

1:13And then when I discovered the platform OnlyFans and the freedom it gave me to make whatever I wanted and that I could charge whatever I wanted, pick the hours I wanted, something to me lit up like this is what I was born for. And I was so excited to take advantage of it. So what were some of those early days like? How was the process transitioning from all those other things that you had mentioned into OnlyFans? It was really fun for me and really difficult for all my family and friends. I had always been a religious good girl and always was done what was like the right thing. And when I finally really took control of my life, my destiny, my finances, my pleasure is very triggering and I'd say even alarming for my close family and friends.

1:55So I did have a lot of fallout, unfortunately, as I followed my pleasure and my passion and my desire. And as as difficult as that was. I'm so glad I didn't let that stop me because the amount of money I've made, the legacy I've been able to leave behind for my children, the people I've been able to support through both my life coaching business and through my OnlyFans work has been worth it a hundredfold over. So something very interesting that you've done is you didn't just rely on one platform. I think throughout the history of social media, or even when we used to sell a lot on Amazon, we fall into this trap and this danger of relying on one single platform to control everything because we know we are not really in control when the platform is in control.

2:38So what have you done to diversify yourself than just focusing on the content creation? Yeah, we don't own the platforms that we use, right? And so this is where we do have to abide by the rules. I see a lot of people get upset by the rules of the platforms, but we're using it in a lot of these platforms like Instagram and Facebook for free. So we can either get mad or we can learn to abide by the rules, but also be smart and diversify. So typically as a creator, you're always going to have multiple accounts because things happen. Even if it's not even an adult thing, just sometimes accounts get shut out.

3:11I had an Instagram account with zero violations just get shut down and had 25 ,000 followers and it was gone. Right? So we have to be smart about having multiple social media accounts. I have OnlyFans. I have Fansly. I have Minivins. I have all these other sites. And I think that really, what really made people aware of the smartness of diversifying is back in 2020 when OnlyFans was going to shut down the adult sector. And people were freaking out because everyone had put all their eggs in one basket. So it's just a good lesson. We've all here repeated. It's very cliche, but it's very true. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

3:44Things are always changing. Things are always moving. And those of us who make it are the most adaptable. I remember that in 2020. I don't exactly understand why they, because it seemed like that's what they were known for, right? And whatever you're known for, you want to double down, triple down on the thing that you're known for, not do a complete 180 away from it. What do you think is the appeal for the person that pays on OnlyFans? Like, why go to OnlyFans? Why has OnlyFans become so big? I think it's a couple of things. I think it's normalized adult work for the average person. Now you don't have to be a six foot, 100 pound, blonde hair, blue eyed model.

4:24You could be a mom of five who works from home. That's me, right? So it really gave the power to the masses. And I think COVID really blew it up because everyone was working from home. People lost their jobs and you need to make money. So a lot of people turn to OnlyFans and similar platforms to do just that. So I think just it giving the power to the masses and the timing of it was kind of perfect and it blew them up to be the number one platform in many ways. I'm so excited about the creator's economy. I think if you ask anyone under the age of 25 what they want to do when they grow up, they want to be a content creator.

5:01And I think if you ask older people, they would love to do it, but they don't even have it in their mind that it's something they can do. I was reading some stats that OnlyFans, and don't quote me 100%, but OnlyFans last year gave out like$6 billion plus in payments around the world. It's crazy. So how do you see the future of content creation happening among different generations? Yes, you see that shift right from traditional workplaces to now non-traditional workplaces. And how by the time my kids are in college, they're going to have degrees that we don't even know about at this time. The economy is changing so quickly that I'm genuinely so excited for my children.

5:40I have my master's degree. I love traditional education, and I love being an entrepreneur. And so I love that I get to bring that to my kids of like, yes, there's a lot of value in traditional education pathways. There's also a lot of value in being a creator and like taking charge of your own reality. Find your sweet spot and run with it. So I just think like staying open to possibilities and you know me, I really believe our pleasure leads to our greatest profit. So I teach my kids and my clients, what turns you on the most? What lights you up the most? What's the thing that keeps you at night because you feel so excited about it?

6:11We can monetize that. We can monetize anything with this modern day economy. And I feel like that is one of the greatest gifts it's given the average person. It's very interesting when we look at the future of intelligence. We had an interview with someone who's really been in AI for two decades. And they were talking about how, in their opinion, IQ will not matter in the future. It'll be EQ and emotions, right? You can learn anything. You can get any information on the phone through chat, TBT or AI in the future. So what's the point of even being so smart? It's the emotions. it's like you say what makes us still human i love that i'm you know in my coaching business we're really about emotional intelligence emotional mastery it's no longer enough just to be the smartest in the room that's not things have changed so much since my parents generation and is so much of it is emotional intelligence so much of it is social networking and there's a common phrase that says you know the ai is gonna take over or replace people's jobs no it's not ai It's people who know how to use AI, right?

7:09So I'm already incorporating AI into both my businesses, both my life coaching business and my OnlyFans business. And I feel really good. I don't feel like I'm being left behind. I feel like I'm being smart. Speaking of diversifying, I trust a lot of my human skill, but I'm also smart enough to utilize advanced technology if it's going to help grow and expand my business. So you don't have to live in fear of it. You need to learn how to use it. And that, again, is another thing that will either inspire you as an entrepreneur or will deter you from an entrepreneur. It's not as simple as just like wake up one day, make a lot of money.

7:38You have to learn how to use the current tools to grow and expand your empire, your business or your company. So I know you have a coaching and you're helping other people who want to enter into the space of content creation. What would you say that you're hearing from them and your personal experience as to what some of the misconceptions are of the creator on OnlyFans? Yeah, there's this fear of you can only be one thing. if I have an OnlyFans platform then I guess it's all I can be no one's going to take me seriously if I also want to be a public speaker no one's going to take me seriously if I want to be part of the uh PTO at my kid's school no one's going to take me seriously and I'm you know I'm living proof that that's not true I just got paid to be the keynote speaker at a sexuality conference in 2025 like people chose me because of my OnlyFans so you can either focus on all the lost opportunity or focus on all the opportunity you're going to gain because you're choosing this endeavor.

8:33But I deeply take a stand for you get to be both. And I think traditional society wants you to peg you as just one thing and one thing only. And I think what the newer generations are realizing and really owning as a beautiful thing is we are multifaceted, multi-talented, multi-passionate. We get to leverage all of those without ever reducing ourselves to just one part of ourselves. The days of you post something on social media for the rest of your life, they're going to see this photo. Remember that was like, if you put something online, or really nobody remembers anything past two minutes. We have full attention span.

9:06I don't think people even really care anymore. I now hope I'll be remembered in that picture. That's actually my hope because we don't remember anything. It's like, please remember this picture for the rest of my life. Like I look good. Don't forget. So that has definitely shifted from this could be the worst thing to happen to where now I'm like, literally that could be the best thing to happen is if I'm remembered in this outfit. And you're right. I always tell my clients, The internet is a very forgetful and very forgiving place, meaning you put something out, you don't love it. Once upon a time, this is the worst thing to happen to you.

9:35Now we know like no one remembered five minutes later. So like you get another shot. You're going to be okay. So what are you finding to be the skills that are the most needed for people to be a content creator? So many. One of them is, which we already covered as being adaptable. Things are always moving and changing and you can either get mad at it or you can get excited about it. OnlyFans has changed drastically. Social media, Instagram has changed drastically than when I was on it years ago when I first started. It's like, but that's part of the evolution of human and society is what else is new?

10:10How can we make this better and how can we make this different? So being adaptable, I think really being creative, like I think it's easy to get into a rut, but the reason you typically get into this industry of being your own creator is so that you can be creative. So you have to stay true to your creative genius. There's so much pressure like, oh, they're nailing it in that way and they're crushing it that way, maybe I should do it their way. Always do it your way. Like find tweaks that you can take from other people, but stay true to your creative heart. That's the whole reason you got into it.

10:38And third, you have to learn how to monetize. I see a lot of people do awesome, crazy, creative stuff and they either don't charge or they undercharge. And so what I help clients do is charge appropriately and then how to scale from there. Because your income should never be capped. Just like your creativity is never capped, your income should never be capped. Yeah, I think that's so important. You talk about monetization. I feel I know so many people who have been creating content, they've amassed these big followings, and they make no money. I was just reading like the average creator makes under 20 grand or 50 grand, something really, really low compared to what we think they make, right?

11:13I'm curious around stigmas, stigmas around OnlyFans and maybe even as a whole around the world based on clients you see in different parts of the world. Because I know countries just look at things very different. Somebody might be judged in the U.S. for something where if you go to Greece, it's the norm. Yes. I have a very global audience. I've gone viral so many times as a passenger shipper. So I have people from all over the world who subscribe to my page. And am I so fascinated learning about where they live and get exactly what you said? What is how do they view OnlyFans or people who are on OnlyFans?

11:49And I know for in Brazil and in Germany, I've been written by multiple people in Brazil and Germany. I'm esteemed as a hero. Like they look up to me as a model. Like this is a woman in her power, in her femininity. She's smart. She's a businesswoman. Right. And then I get messages from Americans that I'm the head of the Illuminati and I'm the worst thing to happen to America. I'm the Antichrist in Flash. And it's like the extreme reactions I have makes me appreciate that I have a very global audience and especially the countries that are like, this is so normal and celebrated and respected in our part of the world.

12:24We think America is crazy. So it is very fascinating how cultures are different. I was watching an interview that you did. It was a very emotional interview. And I even myself got choked up because you were talking a lot about the impacts on your family and everything. So can you dive into that? Because I think people might learn what the expectations are when you become a content creator. I know you just dived into that a bit now, but can you go more into how that impacted your family directly? Yes. I always tell people if you decide to go into OnlyFans, for example, or in a similar industry, you have to go with eyes wide open.

13:02You can't be naive. And so I knew going into this, I would lose some family. I would lose some friends. I also knew I'd gain new family and I'd gain new friends. That's really what I focused on. But it was a very painful process. I became estranged from my entire family, my parents and all three of my siblings and their spouses and their children. I lost all three of my best friends in the process. And the crazy thing for me was like, I still felt like Nicole Mitchell. I still felt like the exact same person. And the fact that I would be written off because they disagreed about part of my career was like, mind boggling to me.

13:32But I understand they come I come from a very conservative, very religious background. This is obviously in direct contrast to what I was taught to value and do. And so that was a very painful part of my journey. But like I mentioned to you earlier, I am so glad I did not let that talk me out of it because I'm the happiest, healthiest and wealthiest I've ever been and the life I've been able to give my children and the future I'm giving my children and myself like I decided to live life in my terms, which I believe is every person's right. Just be prepared for when people have a really big problem with that.

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15:50I don't have to worry about it. But something that fascinates me with content creators and something I struggle with is coming up with content. I feel you always have to reinvent yourself or do something new or be creative. So how do you deal with that? Right, that is part of it. It's like, this is where your creativity can work very well for you or can turn against you because you can't get on a hamster reel and you end up churning out creativity or content for them and no longer for yourself. so everything I create is first and foremost for me because if I'm not going to love it if I'm not going to enjoy it I'm going to get burned out and so I think I've really kept my pleasure as the center as a priority and I know if it brings me pleasure because it's authentic and genuine people who consume it whether it's a coaching course or my only chance content they're going to get pleasure from it because they can feel the authentic energy and I think also too is like I think creators are very scared to slow down because things are moving fast and things are changing and trends.

16:47As soon as a trend begins, another one has started. You can really feel the rat race energy, but I like to actually slow down. I did this on Sunday. I slowed down on Sunday and I sat down and I came up with my Black Friday offers two months in advance. Either I can wait last minute and be frantic like everyone else, or I can slow down long enough. I want to blow people away with what I create for Black Friday. I'm going to take time for that. Doing those things over the years has really, for at least for me, prevented burnout. And I still very much love what I do. How many hours a day do you say that maybe in the beginning to now that you put into the content creation side?

17:26I would say it's a lot less now, but it's on my mind way more, right? Because you're always thinking of how can I scale and how can I grow this? It's no longer like, oh, I need to make a custom video. I still do that, but I'm already like on like the next level empire growth of my company. So I'd say my brain is on 24 seven. The actual hours I work or in creating content probably averages out to two hours a day. But outside of the content creation, there's the messaging, right? There's the client for my coaching clients, client support, there's the programs I'm teaching live, there's the photo shoots that take all day that I drive up to LA for like there's a lot of moving pieces, which I love.

18:08It's a lot of variety. So it never gets boring for me. I think it's more hours than people expect, but you can also make more money than in a traditional job, in my opinion. Hey, if you put the hours in, right, you hope to get something out of it and then maybe not have to work those many hours. Once you've built the foundation, you're building the empire, I should say. So something I've always lived by is my big audacious goal, something that 30 years from now, I want to achieve something so crazy that it's probably too, too big. Mine is to impact a hundred million people. What would you say is your massive goal that you see for yourself?

18:49I love this question because I have a massive goal and I will hit it. So right now people look at me as like, Oh, she's made it very successful, right? Like I've made more money than I thought I'd make in my lifetime. I have a very successful coaching business. I have a very successful OnlyFans. And to me, this is like the cute little appetizer to what I came here to do. So my goal is to be a billionaire. I want to have multiple global companies. I want my own lingerie company, makeup company, high heel company, fashion, like clothing company. I want to have my own TV show. I want to have multiple bestselling books.

19:20Like this is all the cute little preamble to my massive global empire that I am working on behind the scenes for? Whoa, one day I'm like, hey, I spoke to Nicole Mitchell, the billionaire. She's on the Forbes list. Look around. She was just a multimillionaire. When she was just a cute little multimillionaire, I got to meet her and now she's a billionaire. We can't even get another interview. She's way too busy to, hey, it seems if you can do what you've already done, why can't you? I almost feel getting to where you're at is the hardest part. And then it's easier to get to the next level. I agree.

19:54You know, like I have found making the first million is the hardest. After that, now, once you cross that seven figure, you just now know the next seven figures is inevitable. So I don't even stress about my next million. I just know I'm going to hit it. But the first million, you're like, am I, am I, am I? So if everyone is listening, it gets so much easier the farther you get. So don't give up. Don't quit short because it does get easier, does get better. I work the least amount of hours I've ever worked in my life and I'm making the most money I've ever made. And it seems unfair that that's how it should be.

20:26Like you work so hard in the beginning, you make so little, but the flip side is so freaking worth it. So when it comes to like OnlyFans, people make all kinds. They make anywhere from$100 a month to a million a month. I've seen it all. So I really believe it's like any other social media platform. It's like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, the money you can make is unlimited. You have to be smart. You have to be strategic. You have to be relentless. You have to be authentic. I think that works the best. And you can make as much money as you want. And this is what I help my OnlyFans creators and all my clients really is let's find the smart, strategic, authentic strategy to make sure you're making the most money possible.

21:08And so I've made multiple seven figures on my OnlyFans and same in my life coaching business, it's unlimited. And I will say this, I get pushback on this, like, well, you're one of the lucky few, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I have worked with so many content creators that have blown up and make as much, if not more money than me. So you can either say it's a fluke and say, I'm lucky, or you can get on board and become the next lucky one. All the things that you've gone through, the ups and downs. Thank you for sharing that and being vulnerable today. If people want to get in touch with you, they want to find out about all the things that you're doing, how can they do so?

21:44Yes, just come to my website, NicoleMitchell.com. Nicole is spelled with a K-N-I-K-O-L-E-M-I-T-C-H-E-L-L.com. And you can find me in all the places. Well, Nicole, thank you so much for joining us today on Founder's Story. Thank you.

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