From Side Hustle to Six Figures: Kiri Mohan’s Manifestation-Fueled Freelance Journey

🎧 In this episode of the Manifestation and Money Podcast, Jen sits down with business coach and freelance expert Kiri Mohan to explore how a desire for freedom, flexibility, and financial abundance led her to leave the traditional 9–5 and grow a thriving online business. Kiri shares her honest and deeply personal journey—from meteorology major to virtual assistant to six-figure business coach—highlighting how manifestation played a huge role, even before she knew what it was.

Expect real talk on freelancing, strategic pricing, time freedom, and money mindset. Whether you're dreaming of a work-from-anywhere lifestyle or already freelancing and want to scale, this episode is your sign to think bigger.

💫 In this episode, we chat about:
✨ How freelancing gave Kiri freedom during personal hardship
✨ Why boundaries and pricing are key to scaling your income
✨ The mindset shift that helped her manifest clients weekly
✨ How she uses journaling and scripting to call in abundance
✨ Common freelancing traps—and how to avoid them
✨ Practical tips for building your business with intention and strategy

Kiri Mohan is a business coach and former virtual assistant turned six-figure entrepreneur. She helps service providers ditch the burnout and build businesses that support their lifestyle dreams. Through her group programs and coaching, she teaches freelancers how to raise their rates, own their worth, and manifest clients with ease. Kiri is also the host of the Freelance to Freedom podcast and the creator of the Money Mapper income tool.

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Episode Transcript

(00:01):
In a freelance world, I feel like there's so much more potential there. , let's hear in your words. What are some freelance type jobs that are out there today in 2025?
You're basically running your own business with your own clients. No one's handing you. A job, right? That's the difference between an actual job that you're going to, you applied for it, you went through an interview process, maybe you were able to negotiate a little bit, but it was probably pretty set within plus or minus five to $10,000, right?
Almost more on the line. I think sometimes as a freelancer, as you're in charge of your income, but then you have the potential to make so much money because you have multiple clients and you can keep increasing rates, and you can provide benefits and referral programs in all kinds of different ways to increase your income, which is.
When I started getting job offers, , you start, , in the middle of nowhere. You have to practice with no audience. And I was married at the time and I'd have to take my husband where there was just no jobs really for him. And after thinking about it and having crises and crying, I was like, you know what?
But I was always bored. I was always bored. It just felt like, , it's a, it's a hard job, but. I was very good at it. And so I just felt like I was always hitting the ceiling and just, okay, I'm gonna find another job. 'cause it's just like not enough for me basically. And while I was looking around for another job, I decided to see if there was any work from home jobs and, , that was way pre COVID and there was not, but I stumbled upon freelancing and I was like, oh, this is interesting.
And I just felt trapped and unsupported and just, I can't be here. And at that time I was just looking at the freelancing as a side hustle. Bring in extra money every month, , for us. I said, what if I could take that full time? So I started looking into doing it full time. I thought, , what's the easiest path to the money?
Without realizing it, I started embodying it. When people asked what I did, I did even mention what I was. I said, I'm a freelancer. And when they asked for more information, I said, oh, I freelance as an executive assistant, but I have skills and social media and copywriting and all these things. And people would be like, oh, you know what?

Kiri (00:08):
It was 11 months. 11 months. Uh, no. I mean, you know what, I, I did get a lot of traction in the beginning and then I just had a pause where no one was biting and nothing I was doing was working. And I remember it was about from December through, maybe April or May, and I just thought, oh my gosh.
A lot of people start low. I knew in my area where I lived, I had to have high rates. So that also was a big barrier., but I eventually figured out. What I teach my students now, I call it the profit pathway, but a way to step away from hourly pricing and move to like packages without any mention of hours.
Yeah. So. One of the first things I do in my group program is I set up a one-on-one. , so someone joined, we set up a like personal one-on-one onboarding call and we just dig deep into their pricing and what they're offering. A lot of times people wanna charge more and
I get that. And in terms of mindset, I think a lot of it. Actually where my students struggle the most are on the boundaries. 'cause if they're coming from a more corporate environment, they're working. I do it too. I look at a time and I'm like, oh, it's one 20. I still have another four hours to work.
It's what can you do with those dollars once you have them in your free time that you're gonna go do So in say today's 20 25 market, you're in the United States. What do you feel is kind of the average that your coaching base clients are able to charge as a freelancer?
, people do not wanna pay a lot for assistance in the freelance world. , I had a website designer, so she was project based, but she was able to raise her price from 200 hour to like $2,000 a website minimum. Right? So these people are making big jumps. I have a client right now who is working. $40 an hour, she was able to triple her income and surpass , her corporate salary with what she was doing.
never talk about how much time it's taking. I always tell people, don't do that, because then they're gonna bring out the calculator and that's the last thing you want is them bringing out the calculator. 'cause then something's gonna happen more. They say what? Like, uh. Three 50 an hour for this, right?
Oh, I'm so excited you asked that. So I'm trying something new.
And just in the past three or four weeks, I decided to just start. This all started with a mindset exercise I was working on with a coach and I was having a mind block around my intelligence and to try and get me to say , I am brilliant, right? , and with no hesitation. , so I just started writing it.
And then I went into client, clients come to my coaching practice weekly. , I've been writing this every day, and in the past three or four weeks, I have had clients coming weekly, like sometimes , more than once a week, but once a week minimum, to the point that. This past, , last Thursday, I said, oh my goodness, what's gonna happen next week?
Haven't had calls with them yet, but I couldn't figure out how to make the writing work for me. And I think just doing this like opening almost of my aura or soul or whatever and just writing what feels in the moment has. Shifted something. Yeah. And you know what? Last fall when I was doing manifesting for it, I had just launched my group program and I got, I, I was manifesting by people and I got six.
Our words are so powerful and for you to be writing it out like that every day and then today for you to be reading it out loud, I bet you'll find that supercharges it even more. And what I ended up doing was writing it out like you did and then recording it myself, reading it out. Yeah. So if you have a moment where, or morning where you can't sit down and do the exercise and you just hit play and you listen to that, or at the end of the day, you listen back to what we recorded in the morning and it's . Just affirming what you're wanting. Yeah. What you're feeling, the energy behind it and yeah. That technique that you're doing can supercharge things.
So then I would go and I would add into essentially my script of what I wanted and just kind of keep building out. 'cause listening to it, it gave me a different perspective on it too.
I wasn't feeling that urgency. By week 10. I could stop listening to it. I think I started slowly weaning off of it. Mm-hmm. But that was my first experience with recordings. And even just once a day, I listened to once a day, as soon as I sat down. Maybe that's similar to what I'm doing with the writing, you know, like every day.
Lack feeling almost. Mm-hmm. And I told him, you know, , I don't talk about this stuff very often, but you wanna come from a place of inspiration and not desperation. So you wanna have flowing through you inspiration. And that stuck with him. And he was like, you're right. I'm coming from like a mopey, silky place.
Yeah. So for you, I know you've got your own podcast. You didn't wind up being a weather girl, but you managed to get your face out there regardless. I would love for you to share with the listeners what a taste in your world's, like your podcast and fun things that you have coming out.
It's really cool. So you start with , Hey, it's just me. I'm gonna put in these numbers, how much my expenses are, my income is, and then how much the taxes are gonna take out. And that's what I'm left with and that's what I can pay myself. The next tab is if you're a single income earner, but then we go into , what if you wanna hire contractors?
The people I've seen who succeed. I mean, you can manifest all day, but if you're not obsessed with your business and what you're doing and pushing every day to try to meet that, the manifestation is gonna fall a little flat and probably won't work as well. Because when you're obsessed with your business and all your brain power is revolving around it, and you're thinking about it all the time, that's something that's not saying you're like forgetting your partner or your family or whatever, but there's something in you that's always kind of thinking about it.