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EP 207: Halloween Is the Rehearsal for Black Friday & What to Review Before You Plan It
2026/10/30
In episode 207 of 'On the Whorizon' SWCEO founder and host MelRoseMichaels covers the part of a holiday push nobody does: sitting down afterward and reading what actually happened.A bigger number on your earnings page cannot tell you whether to run any of it again, and Black Friday lands on November 27th. The four weeks between are the most valuable planning time of the quarter. Halloween is the rehearsal.MelRose walks through the three questions to ask of every play you ran, how to read a sexting drip to find exactly where fans stop unlocking, why a flash sale cannot be judged until those subscribers hit their renewal, and why the fans who participated without spending belong on a list right next to the ones who paid.
🎁 Spoil Me is our platform sponsor. Drop your Spoil Me wish list link in the comments for a chance to be gifted off it on an upcoming video.
📚 RESOURCES → Join CEO Society! Our creator-only community for sharing resources, daily co-working spaces, and exclusive course videos…centralizing everything in one app-based, user-friendly platform that's completely FREE!
🤖 GPTΞASΞ→ The Ultimate GPT for adult creators. No restrictive policies. Mix business with pleasure. Create personalized content ideas, write scripts, captions, clip descriptions, mass messages, social media posts & more! The possibilities are endless. Try it FREE. Yes, REALLY. https://GPTease.ai/?try
On The Whorizon is a podcast about what's on the whorizon for sex workers and how to navigate it. We want to elevate sex worker stories and experiences, as well as provide tangible takeaways to approach online sex work as a business model, should listeners choose to envision it that way.
S O C I A L M E D I A
→ MelRose's website: MelRoseMichaels.com
→ MelRose's Instagram: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Twitter: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Snapchat: MelRoseMichael
→ MelRose's TikTok: @MelRose_Michaels
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Instagram
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Twitter
→ Subscribe to SexWorkCEO on YouTube
→ SexWorkCEO's Website
→ Follow GPTease on Twitter
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S E X W O R K C E O
Sex Work CEO is an educational platform where online adult creators can find courses, resources, informational blogs, and industry consulting work through our Influencer Advocacy program. Whorizon is a SexWorkCEO podcast focused on strengthening awareness around the political, societal, and personal impacts on sex work as an industry as well as providing educational resources to help online adult creators grow their businesses. It is our hope that a better informed SW community can better unite and advocate for itself where and when it matters. See more at https://stan.store/ceosquad
C R E D I T S
→ Video and Photography By MelRose Michaels
→ Production By Kevin Byrnes https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01771f13585da1ce42
EP 206: Where Adult Creators Actually Earn in 2026 & How to Pick Your Next Platform
2026/10/23
In episode 206 of 'On the Whorizon' SWCEO founder and host MelRose Michaels walks through what more than 550 adult creators told the SWR Data survey about where their income actually comes from.Only 4.7% use OnlyFans and nothing else. The average creator earns across four platforms. The share naming OnlyFans a top income source dropped from 60% in 2024 to 52% in 2025, which means most creators kept it and stopped letting it carry the whole business.MelRose also gives the four questions she runs before building anywhere new: where the traffic comes from, what she keeps, whether fans can reach it in one click, and what it costs in hours.The 2026 State of the Creator survey is open now, and every response triggers a donation to a sex worker or adult industry organization of your choice. Last year raised more than $8,000. DM us for the link.
🎁 Spoil Me is our platform sponsor. Drop your Spoil Me wish list link in the comments for a chance to be gifted off it on an upcoming video.
📚 RESOURCES → Join CEO Society! Our creator-only community for sharing resources, daily co-working spaces, and exclusive course videos…centralizing everything in one app-based, user-friendly platform that's completely FREE!
🤖 GPTΞASΞ→ The Ultimate GPT for adult creators. No restrictive policies. Mix business with pleasure. Create personalized content ideas, write scripts, captions, clip descriptions, mass messages, social media posts & more! The possibilities are endless. Try it FREE. Yes, REALLY. https://GPTease.ai/?try
On The Whorizon is a podcast about what's on the whorizon for sex workers and how to navigate it. We want to elevate sex worker stories and experiences, as well as provide tangible takeaways to approach online sex work as a business model, should listeners choose to envision it that way.
S O C I A L M E D I A
→ MelRose's website: MelRoseMichaels.com
→ MelRose's Instagram: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Twitter: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Snapchat: MelRoseMichael
→ MelRose's TikTok: @MelRose_Michaels
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Instagram
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Twitter
→ Subscribe to SexWorkCEO on YouTube
→ SexWorkCEO's Website
→ Follow GPTease on Twitter
→ Follow GPTease on Instagram
S E X W O R K C E O
Sex Work CEO is an educational platform where online adult creators can find courses, resources, informational blogs, and industry consulting work through our Influencer Advocacy program. Whorizon is a SexWorkCEO podcast focused on strengthening awareness around the political, societal, and personal impacts on sex work as an industry as well as providing educational resources to help online adult creators grow their businesses. It is our hope that a better informed SW community can better unite and advocate for itself where and when it matters. See more at https://stan.store/ceosquad
C R E D I T S
→ Video and Photography By MelRose Michaels
→ Production By Kevin Byrnes https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01771f13585da1ce42
EP 205: Why Your Creator Skills Transfer Anywhere & How to Start Building for What Is Next
2026/10/16
In episode 205 of 'On the Whorizon' SWCEO founder and host MelRose Michaels makes the case for building your next career while your current one is paying for the runway.Eight years to figure out camming. Three years on Premium Snapchat. One year on OnlyFans. SWR Data backs the pattern: in a survey of more than 550 creators, time in the industry was the biggest driver of income, with new creators averaging around $16,000 a year and creators with five or more years averaging around $74,000.MelRose covers how to describe what you do the way someone hiring you would describe it, the difference between an audience and a community, and the practical overlap exercise for finding what to post now so the right people are already there later.
🎁 Spoil Me is our platform sponsor. Drop your Spoil Me wish list link in the comments for a chance to be gifted off it on an upcoming video.
📚 RESOURCES → Join CEO Society! Our creator-only community for sharing resources, daily co-working spaces, and exclusive course videos…centralizing everything in one app-based, user-friendly platform that's completely FREE!
🤖 GPTΞASΞ→ The Ultimate GPT for adult creators. No restrictive policies. Mix business with pleasure. Create personalized content ideas, write scripts, captions, clip descriptions, mass messages, social media posts & more! The possibilities are endless. Try it FREE. Yes, REALLY. https://GPTease.ai/?try
On The Whorizon is a podcast about what's on the whorizon for sex workers and how to navigate it. We want to elevate sex worker stories and experiences, as well as provide tangible takeaways to approach online sex work as a business model, should listeners choose to envision it that way.
S O C I A L M E D I A
→ MelRose's website: MelRoseMichaels.com
→ MelRose's Instagram: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Twitter: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Snapchat: MelRoseMichael
→ MelRose's TikTok: @MelRose_Michaels
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Instagram
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Twitter
→ Subscribe to SexWorkCEO on YouTube
→ SexWorkCEO's Website
→ Follow GPTease on Twitter
→ Follow GPTease on Instagram
S E X W O R K C E O
Sex Work CEO is an educational platform where online adult creators can find courses, resources, informational blogs, and industry consulting work through our Influencer Advocacy program. Whorizon is a SexWorkCEO podcast focused on strengthening awareness around the political, societal, and personal impacts on sex work as an industry as well as providing educational resources to help online adult creators grow their businesses. It is our hope that a better informed SW community can better unite and advocate for itself where and when it matters. See more at https://stan.store/ceosquad
C R E D I T S
→ Video and Photography By MelRose Michaels
→ Production By Kevin Byrnes https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01771f13585da1ce42
EP 204: How to Beat Decision Fatigue in Q4 & the 90 Day Lock In That Got Me Through It
2026/10/09
In episode 204 of 'On The Whorizon', SWCEO founder and host MelRose Michaels looks ahead at what Q4 does to a creator's decision load. When you run your own business you're the talent, the director, the editor and customer service all at once, so every one of those lands on you as a decision, and your willpower doesn't grow just because your to-do list did.She walks through the three ways she took the choice away during the Slayed lock-in. Then, she takes those three moves into a creator business: batching and scheduling posts in Buffer so there's no daily posting decision, setting alarms for the tasks you keep putting off, like checking your numbers and following up with fans who opened a mass message but didn't buy, and finding someone at the other end for free, through a friend in the industry or the 90-day lock-in thread inside CEO Society.
🎁 Spoil Me is our platform sponsor. Drop your Spoil Me wish list link in the comments for a chance to be gifted off it on an upcoming video.
📚 RESOURCES → Join CEO Society! Our creator-only community for sharing resources, daily co-working spaces, and exclusive course videos…centralizing everything in one app-based, user-friendly platform that's completely FREE!
🤖 GPTΞASΞ→ The Ultimate GPT for adult creators. No restrictive policies. Mix business with pleasure. Create personalized content ideas, write scripts, captions, clip descriptions, mass messages, social media posts & more! The possibilities are endless. Try it FREE. Yes, REALLY. https://GPTease.ai/?try
On The Whorizon is a podcast about what's on the whorizon for sex workers and how to navigate it. We want to elevate sex worker stories and experiences, as well as provide tangible takeaways to approach online sex work as a business model, should listeners choose to envision it that way.
S O C I A L M E D I A
→ MelRose's website: MelRoseMichaels.com
→ MelRose's Instagram: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Twitter: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Snapchat: MelRoseMichael
→ MelRose's TikTok: @MelRose_Michaels
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Instagram
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Twitter
→ Subscribe to SexWorkCEO on YouTube
→ SexWorkCEO's Website
→ Follow GPTease on Twitter
→ Follow GPTease on Instagram
S E X W O R K C E O
Sex Work CEO is an educational platform where online adult creators can find courses, resources, informational blogs, and industry consulting work through our Influencer Advocacy program. Whorizon is a SexWorkCEO podcast focused on strengthening awareness around the political, societal, and personal impacts on sex work as an industry as well as providing educational resources to help online adult creators grow their businesses. It is our hope that a better informed SW community can better unite and advocate for itself where and when it matters. See more at https://stan.store/ceosquad
C R E D I T S
→ Video and Photography By MelRose Michaels
→ Production By Kevin Byrnes https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01771f13585da1ce42
EP 203: How Instagram Trial Reels Work & Why the Content That Grows You Is Not What Pays You
2026/10/02
In episode 203 of 'On the Whorizon' SWCEO founder and host MelRose Michaels explains why Instagram stopped working the way you learned it, using what Meta and TikTok have each published about their own systems.The old model was a social graph. You followed someone, your feed came from those connections, and reach was a property of your account. The new model is an interest graph, where a system tries to match a subject to a person who cares about that subject. What that changes for an adult creator business: your post needs one obvious subject identifiable in the first second, your caption is a classification signal rather than an inside joke, a low view count is a bad draw rather than a verdict, and the content that brings strangers in is not the content that converts them.
🎁 Spoil Me is our platform sponsor. Drop your Spoil Me wish list link in the comments for a chance to be gifted off it on an upcoming video.
📚 RESOURCES → Join CEO Society! Our creator-only community for sharing resources, daily co-working spaces, and exclusive course videos…centralizing everything in one app-based, user-friendly platform that's completely FREE!
🤖 GPTΞASΞ→ The Ultimate GPT for adult creators. No restrictive policies. Mix business with pleasure. Create personalized content ideas, write scripts, captions, clip descriptions, mass messages, social media posts & more! The possibilities are endless. Try it FREE. Yes, REALLY. https://GPTease.ai/?try
On The Whorizon is a podcast about what's on the whorizon for sex workers and how to navigate it. We want to elevate sex worker stories and experiences, as well as provide tangible takeaways to approach online sex work as a business model, should listeners choose to envision it that way.
S O C I A L M E D I A
→ MelRose's website: MelRoseMichaels.com
→ MelRose's Instagram: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Twitter: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Snapchat: MelRoseMichael
→ MelRose's TikTok: @MelRose_Michaels
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Instagram
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Twitter
→ Subscribe to SexWorkCEO on YouTube
→ SexWorkCEO's Website
→ Follow GPTease on Twitter
→ Follow GPTease on Instagram
S E X W O R K C E O
Sex Work CEO is an educational platform where online adult creators can find courses, resources, informational blogs, and industry consulting work through our Influencer Advocacy program. Whorizon is a SexWorkCEO podcast focused on strengthening awareness around the political, societal, and personal impacts on sex work as an industry as well as providing educational resources to help online adult creators grow their businesses. It is our hope that a better informed SW community can better unite and advocate for itself where and when it matters. See more at https://stan.store/ceosquad
C R E D I T S
→ Video and Photography By MelRose Michaels
→ Production By Kevin Byrnes https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01771f13585da1ce42
EP 202: How to Handle Rejection as an Adult Creator & Why Every No Is a Down Payment on a Sale
2026/09/25
In episode 202 of 'On the Whorizon' SWCEO founder and host MelRose Michaels covers the part of selling that never fits into a scripts video: what it does to you to be told no, over and over, by people you know.The money in this industry moved from a place where nobody had to answer us to a place where everybody does. Subscriptions were passive. DMs, customs, PPV and video calls are individual asks, and each one can end in a no or in silence. MelRose walks through the four signs rejection is quietly running your business, including discounting before anyone objects and shrinking your ask until it is easy to survive.MelRose is not a doctor and nothing in this episode is medical advice. If rejection has started affecting how you feel about yourself outside your business, please talk to someone qualified.
🎁 Spoil Me is our platform sponsor. Drop your Spoil Me wish list link in the comments for a chance to be gifted off it on an upcoming video.
📚 RESOURCES → Join CEO Society! Our creator-only community for sharing resources, daily co-working spaces, and exclusive course videos…centralizing everything in one app-based, user-friendly platform that's completely FREE!
🤖 GPTΞASΞ→ The Ultimate GPT for adult creators. No restrictive policies. Mix business with pleasure. Create personalized content ideas, write scripts, captions, clip descriptions, mass messages, social media posts & more! The possibilities are endless. Try it FREE. Yes, REALLY. https://GPTease.ai/?try
On The Whorizon is a podcast about what's on the whorizon for sex workers and how to navigate it. We want to elevate sex worker stories and experiences, as well as provide tangible takeaways to approach online sex work as a business model, should listeners choose to envision it that way.
S O C I A L M E D I A
→ MelRose's website: MelRoseMichaels.com
→ MelRose's Instagram: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Twitter: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Snapchat: MelRoseMichael
→ MelRose's TikTok: @MelRose_Michaels
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Instagram
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Twitter
→ Subscribe to SexWorkCEO on YouTube
→ SexWorkCEO's Website
→ Follow GPTease on Twitter
→ Follow GPTease on Instagram
S E X W O R K C E O
Sex Work CEO is an educational platform where online adult creators can find courses, resources, informational blogs, and industry consulting work through our Influencer Advocacy program. Whorizon is a SexWorkCEO podcast focused on strengthening awareness around the political, societal, and personal impacts on sex work as an industry as well as providing educational resources to help online adult creators grow their businesses. It is our hope that a better informed SW community can better unite and advocate for itself where and when it matters. See more at https://stan.store/ceosquad
C R E D I T S
→ Video and Photography By MelRose Michaels
→ Production By Kevin Byrnes https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01771f13585da1ce42
EP 201: Why Trust Is Replacing Attention & What to Measure Instead of Reach and Views
2026/09/18
In episode 201 of 'On the Whorizon' SWCEO founder and host MelRose Michaels makes the case that the attention economy is handing off to something else, and that the handoff is already underway. Herbert Simon called the attention economy in 1971 with one line: whatever becomes abundant makes something else scarce. Information got cheap, so attention got expensive. MelRose walks through the research on where AI content volume actually sits, why suspicion did not plateau even as that volume did, and what the Edelman finding about trust relocating rather than falling means for a creator business.
🎁 Spoil Me is our platform sponsor. Drop your Spoil Me wish list link in the comments for a chance to be gifted off it on an upcoming video.
📚 RESOURCES → Join CEO Society! Our creator-only community for sharing resources, daily co-working spaces, and exclusive course videos…centralizing everything in one app-based, user-friendly platform that's completely FREE!
🤖 GPTΞASΞ→ The Ultimate GPT for adult creators. No restrictive policies. Mix business with pleasure. Create personalized content ideas, write scripts, captions, clip descriptions, mass messages, social media posts & more! The possibilities are endless. Try it FREE. Yes, REALLY. https://GPTease.ai/?try
On The Whorizon is a podcast about what's on the whorizon for sex workers and how to navigate it. We want to elevate sex worker stories and experiences, as well as provide tangible takeaways to approach online sex work as a business model, should listeners choose to envision it that way.
S O C I A L M E D I A
→ MelRose's website: MelRoseMichaels.com
→ MelRose's Instagram: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Twitter: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Snapchat: MelRoseMichael
→ MelRose's TikTok: @MelRose_Michaels
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Instagram
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Twitter
→ Subscribe to SexWorkCEO on YouTube
→ SexWorkCEO's Website
→ Follow GPTease on Twitter
→ Follow GPTease on Instagram
S E X W O R K C E O
Sex Work CEO is an educational platform where online adult creators can find courses, resources, informational blogs, and industry consulting work through our Influencer Advocacy program. Whorizon is a SexWorkCEO podcast focused on strengthening awareness around the political, societal, and personal impacts on sex work as an industry as well as providing educational resources to help online adult creators grow their businesses. It is our hope that a better informed SW community can better unite and advocate for itself where and when it matters. See more at https://stan.store/ceosquad
C R E D I T S
→ Video and Photography By MelRose Michaels
→ Production By Kevin Byrnes https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01771f13585da1ce42
EP 200: I read 20 affiliate programs and lifetime does NOT mean LIFETIME
2026/09/11
In the milestone 200th episode of 'On the Whorizon' SWCEO founder and host MelRose Michaels reads the published affiliate terms for more than 20 adult platforms and found a clean split. The programs still using the word 'lifetime' were built for webmasters in a different era. Every program built for creators referring other creators has a window on it, usually 12 months. The word 'lifetime' survives because it works as marketing. The clause that limits it usually lives on a different page than the promise does. MelRose also makes the case that referral income is a better business now than it was, using SWR Data findings on how many platforms creators actually use. Almost nobody has a single home anymore, and a short window on a platform creators are joining beats a lifetime cut of one nobody is joining.🎁 Spoil Me is our platform sponsor. Drop your Spoil Me wish list link in the comments for a chance to be gifted off it on an upcoming video.
📚 RESOURCES → Join CEO Society! Our creator-only community for sharing resources, daily co-working spaces, and exclusive course videos…centralizing everything in one app-based, user-friendly platform that's completely FREE!
🤖 GPTΞASΞ→ The Ultimate GPT for adult creators. No restrictive policies. Mix business with pleasure. Create personalized content ideas, write scripts, captions, clip descriptions, mass messages, social media posts & more! The possibilities are endless. Try it FREE. Yes, REALLY. https://GPTease.ai/?try
On The Whorizon is a podcast about what's on the whorizon for sex workers and how to navigate it. We want to elevate sex worker stories and experiences, as well as provide tangible takeaways to approach online sex work as a business model, should listeners choose to envision it that way.
S O C I A L M E D I A
→ MelRose's website: MelRoseMichaels.com
→ MelRose's Instagram: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Twitter: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Snapchat: MelRoseMichael
→ MelRose's TikTok: @MelRose_Michaels
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Instagram
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Twitter
→ Subscribe to SexWorkCEO on YouTube
→ SexWorkCEO's Website
→ Follow GPTease on Twitter
→ Follow GPTease on Instagram
S E X W O R K C E O
Sex Work CEO is an educational platform where online adult creators can find courses, resources, informational blogs, and industry consulting work through our Influencer Advocacy program. Whorizon is a SexWorkCEO podcast focused on strengthening awareness around the political, societal, and personal impacts on sex work as an industry as well as providing educational resources to help online adult creators grow their businesses. It is our hope that a better informed SW community can better unite and advocate for itself where and when it matters. See more at https://stan.store/ceosquad
C R E D I T S
→ Video and Photography By MelRose Michaels
→ Production By Kevin Byrnes https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01771f13585da1ce42
EP 199: Is the Subscription Model Dying for Adult Creators & What I Am Building Instead
2026/09/04
In episode 199 of 'On the Whorizon' SWCEO founder and host MelRoseMichaels gives the opinion she deliberately kept out of Monday's Patreon breakdown.
She runs a subscription business. She also canceled almost every subscription she personally pays for this year and does not miss most of them.Subscription fatigue is a consumer problem, not an adult industry one, and it is showing up in slower renewals, free trials that stopped converting and fans turning off rebill.
MelRose covers why she reads her own spending as data, the pay site she launched in 2013 that never cleared $2,000 in its best month, and why being right too early is its own kind of expensive.
Her position on the Patreon update is that she is not adding another subscription platform to a model that already takes more work for the same result.
If Patreon fills a real gap in your business, that math may look different for you.
🎁 Spoil Me is our platform sponsor. Drop your Spoil Me wish list link in the comments for a chance to be gifted on an upcoming video
📚 RESOURCES → Join CEO Society! Our creator-only community for sharing resources, daily co-working spaces, and exclusive course videos…centralizing everything in one app-based, user-friendly platform that's completely FREE!
🤖 GPTΞASΞ→ The Ultimate GPT for adult creators. No restrictive policies. Mix business with pleasure. Create personalized content ideas, write scripts, captions, clip descriptions, mass messages, social media posts & more! The possibilities are endless. Try it FREE. Yes, REALLY. https://GPTease.ai/?try
On The Whorizon is a podcast about what's on the whorizon for swrs and how to navigate it. We want to elevate swr stories and experiences, as well as provide tangible takeaways to approach online sw as a business model, should listeners choose to envision it that way.
S O C I A L M E D I A
→ MelRose's website: MelRoseMichaels.com
→ MelRose's Instagram: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Twitter: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Snapchat: MelRoseMichael
→ MelRose's TikTok: @MelRose_Michaels
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Instagram
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Twitter
→ Subscribe to SexWorkCEO on YouTube
→ SexWorkCEO's Website
→ Follow GPTease on Twitter
→ Follow GPTease on Instagram
S E X W O R K C E O
Sex Work CEO is an educational platform where online adult creators can find courses, resources, informational blogs, and industry consulting work through our Influencer Advocacy program. Whorizon is a SexWorkCEO podcast focused on strengthening awareness around the political, societal, and personal impacts on sex work as an industry as well as providing educational resources to help online adult creators grow their businesses. It is our hope that a better informed SW community can better unite and advocate for itself where and when it matters. See more at https://stan.store/ceosquad
C R E D I T S
→ Video and Photography By MelRose Michaels
→ Production By Kevin Byrnes https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01771f13585da1ce42
EP 198: Why the 90 Days After a Decision Are Harder Than the Decision
2026/08/28
*This video is a paid partnership with SpoilMe, an official SWCEO platform sponsor*
In episode 198 of "On The Whorizon" SWCEO founder and host MelRose Michaels walks through the three lines to write down on the day you make a business decision: the date you will review the choice, the measurable outcome that proves it worked, and what you will do if that outcome does not show up. The episode maps what the 90 days actually feel like week by week, from the adrenaline of weeks one and two through the silence at week three and the wobble that arrives around week eight almost on schedule. It also covers who to tell and when, the difference between people who disagree with your decision and people who are grieving the version of you who decided differently, and why both revenue and relief will lie to you at day 90.
🎁 OUR PLATFORM SPONSOR
Spoil Me is our platform sponsor. Drop your Spoil Me wish list link in the comments for a chance to be gifted on an upcoming video
📚 RESOURCES → Join CEO Society! Our creator-only community for sharing resources, daily co-working spaces, and exclusive course videos…centralizing everything in one app-based, user-friendly platform that's completely FREE!
🤖 GPTΞASΞ→ The Ultimate GPT for adult creators. No restrictive policies. Mix business with pleasure. Create personalized content ideas, write scripts, captions, clip descriptions, mass messages, social media posts & more! The possibilities are endless. Try it FREE. Yes, REALLY. http://gptease.ai/try
On The Whorizon is a podcast about what's on the whorizon for sex workers and how to navigate it. We want to elevate sex worker stories and experiences, as well as provide tangible takeaways to approach online sex work as a business model, should listeners choose to envision it that way.
S O C I A L M E D I A
→ MelRose's website: MelRoseMichaels.com
→ MelRose's Instagram: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Twitter: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Snapchat: MelRoseMichael
→ MelRose's TikTok: @MelRose_Michaels
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Instagram
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Twitter
→ Subscribe to SexWorkCEO on YouTube
→ SexWorkCEO's Website
→ Follow GPTease on Twitter
→ Follow GPTease on Instagram
S E X W O R K C E O
Sex Work CEO is an educational platform where online adult creators can find courses, resources, informational blogs, and industry consulting work through our Influencer Advocacy program. Whorizon is a SexWorkCEO podcast focused on strengthening awareness around the political, societal, and personal impacts on sex work as an industry as well as providing educational resources to help online adult creators grow their businesses. It is our hope that a better informed SW community can better unite and advocate for itself where and when it matters. See more at https://stan.store/ceosquad
C R E D I T S
→ Video and Photography By MelRose Michaels
→ Production By Kevin Byrnes https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01771f13585da1ce42
EP 197: How to Respond to Industry News Without Losing Money & the One Exception
2026/08/21
*This video is a paid partnership with SpoilMe, an official SWCEO platform sponsor*
In episode 197 of "On The Whorizon" SWCEO founder and host MelRose Michaels shares the rule she built after losing more than $10,000 in the 72 hours between OnlyFans announcing a content ban in August 2021 and walking it back. The rule is 3 days and 3 questions.
No irreversible moves on industry news until that news has held for at least three days, and three questions to sort out what you are actually looking at. MelRose runs the federal age verification bill through the whole framework live so you can watch it work, including why the one-third threshold written into most state versions is the detail that decides which websites a law touches. She also covers the single category of news where waiting three days will cost you everything.
🎁 OUR PLATFORM SPONSOR
Spoil Me is our platform sponsor. Drop your Spoil Me wish list link in the comments for a chance to be gifted on an upcoming video
📚 RESOURCES → Join CEO Society! Our creator-only community for sharing resources, daily co-working spaces, and exclusive course videos…centralizing everything in one app-based, user-friendly platform that's completely FREE!
🤖 GPTΞASΞ→ The Ultimate GPT for adult creators. No restrictive policies. Mix business with pleasure. Create personalized content ideas, write scripts, captions, clip descriptions, mass messages, social media posts & more! The possibilities are endless. Try it FREE. Yes, REALLY. http://gptease.ai/try
On The Whorizon is a podcast about what's on the whorizon for sex workers and how to navigate it. We want to elevate sex worker stories and experiences, as well as provide tangible takeaways to approach online sex work as a business model, should listeners choose to envision it that way.
S O C I A L M E D I A
→ MelRose's website: MelRoseMichaels.com
→ MelRose's Instagram: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Twitter: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Snapchat: MelRoseMichael
→ MelRose's TikTok: @MelRose_Michaels
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Instagram
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Twitter
→ Subscribe to SexWorkCEO on YouTube
→ SexWorkCEO's Website
→ Follow GPTease on Twitter
→ Follow GPTease on Instagram
S E X W O R K C E O
Sex Work CEO is an educational platform where online adult creators can find courses, resources, informational blogs, and industry consulting work through our Influencer Advocacy program. Whorizon is a SexWorkCEO podcast focused on strengthening awareness around the political, societal, and personal impacts on sex work as an industry as well as providing educational resources to help online adult creators grow their businesses. It is our hope that a better informed SW community can better unite and advocate for itself where and when it matters. See more at https://stan.store/ceosquad
C R E D I T S
→ Video and Photography By MelRose Michaels
→ Production By Kevin Byrnes https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01771f13585da1ce42
EP 196: Why Mainstream Brands Are Emailing Adult Creators & How to Tell Who Actually Gets Us
2026/08/14
*This video is a paid partnership with SpoilMe, an official SWCEO platform sponsor*
In episode 196 of 'On the Whorizon' SWCEO founder and host MelRose Michaels explains why mainstream companies are suddenly emailing adult creators, and how to tell the difference between a brand that understands our businesses and one that is only tolerating us.
MelRose also covers the three questions she runs before replying to any offer, the clauses she reads before signing, and the one negotiation ask that reveals who she is sitting across from.
This episode is part of a paid sponsorship with Spoil Me, our newest platform sponsor
MelRose is not an attorney and this is not legal advice. Have a lawyer read your agreements before you sign them.
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*DISCLAIMER: All platform experiences will vary by creator, based on many variables, audience size, buying power, type of fanbase, etc. Please know that just because a platform or product works for me, doesn't necessarily mean you will get similar results. I want to share things that work for me with the creators inside my community, but what you choose for yourself, should be what you find works best for you.
📚 RESOURCES → Join CEO Society! Our creator-only community for sharing resources, daily co-working spaces, and exclusive course videos…centralizing everything in one app-based, user-friendly platform that's completely FREE!
🤖 GPTΞASΞ→ The Ultimate GPT for adult creators. No restrictive policies. Mix business with pleasure. Create personalized content ideas, write scripts, captions, clip descriptions, mass messages, social media posts & more! The possibilities are endless. Try it FREE. Yes, REALLY. http://gptease.ai/try
On The Whorizon is a podcast about what's on the whorizon for sex workers and how to navigate it. We want to elevate sex worker stories and experiences, as well as provide tangible takeaways to approach online sex work as a business model, should listeners choose to envision it that way.
S O C I A L M E D I A
→ MelRose's website: MelRoseMichaels.com
→ MelRose's Instagram: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Twitter: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Snapchat: MelRoseMichael
→ MelRose's TikTok: @MelRose_Michaels
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Instagram
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Twitter
→ Subscribe to SexWorkCEO on YouTube
→ SexWorkCEO's Website
→ Follow GPTease on Twitter
→ Follow GPTease on Instagram
S E X W O R K C E O
Sex Work CEO is an educational platform where online adult creators can find courses, resources, informational blogs, and industry consulting work through our Influencer Advocacy program. Whorizon is a SexWorkCEO podcast focused on strengthening awareness around the political, societal, and personal impacts on sex work as an industry as well as providing educational resources to help online adult creators grow their businesses. It is our hope that a better informed SW community can better unite and advocate for itself where and when it matters. See more at https://stan.store/ceosquad
C R E D I T S
→ Video and Photography By MelRose Michaels
→ Production By Kevin Byrnes
EP 195: How to Re-Engage Silent Fans and Recover Lost Revenue With 5 Simple Messages
2026/07/31
In episode 195 of 'On the Whorizon' SWCEO founder and host MelRoseMichaels breaks down one of the most emotionally loaded experiences in a creator's business and turns it into a system. This episode covers exactly why fans go silent, the four fan segments every creator should have set up on their platform right now, the five re-engagement messages MelRose uses in sequence with the response rates she has personally tracked and the GPTease prompt she uses to batch create fishing DMs every single month.In Q4 of 2025 she ran this system across 100 dormant fans and pulled back 52% response rate, 30% resubscribed and over $4,000 in recovered revenue. If you have fans who have gone quiet and revenue that has quietly slipped away with them, this episode is your action plan for this week.
📚 RESOURCES → Join CEO Society! Our creator-only community for sharing resources, daily co-working spaces, and exclusive course videos…centralizing everything in one app-based, user-friendly platform that's completely FREE!
🤖 GPTΞASΞ→ The Ultimate GPT for adult creators. No restrictive policies. Mix business with pleasure. Create personalized content ideas, write scripts, captions, clip descriptions, mass messages, social media posts & more! The possibilities are endless. Try it FREE. Yes, REALLY. http://gptease.ai/try
On The Whorizon is a podcast about what's on the whorizon for sex workers and how to navigate it. We want to elevate sex worker stories and experiences, as well as provide tangible takeaways to approach online sex work as a business model, should listeners choose to envision it that way.
S O C I A L M E D I A
→ MelRose's website: MelRoseMichaels.com
→ MelRose's Instagram: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Twitter: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Snapchat: MelRoseMichael
→ MelRose's TikTok: @MelRose_Michaels
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Instagram
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Twitter
→ Subscribe to SexWorkCEO on YouTube
→ SexWorkCEO's Website
→ Follow GPTease on Twitter
→ Follow GPTease on Instagram
S E X W O R K C E O
Sex Work CEO is an educational platform where online adult creators can find courses, resources, informational blogs, and industry consulting work through our Influencer Advocacy program. Whorizon is a SexWorkCEO podcast focused on strengthening awareness around the political, societal, and personal impacts on sex work as an industry as well as providing educational resources to help online adult creators grow their businesses. It is our hope that a better informed SW community can better unite and advocate for itself where and when it matters. See more at https://stan.store/ceosquad
C R E D I T S
→ Video and Photography By MelRose Michaels
→ Production By Kevin Byrnes
EP 194: GPTease Has Agent Mode Now and It Will Change How You Run Your Adult Business
2026/07/24
In episode 194 of 'On the Whorizon' SWCEO founder and host MelRoseMichaels takes you behind the scenes of one of the biggest decisions she has made as a founder: rebuilding GPTease from the ground up on its second birthday instead of running a sale.This episode covers why a gift beats a discount every single time, how two years of creator feedback shaped every new feature in the rebuild and what the business lesson underneath all of it means for your own creator business regardless of whether you ever use the tool.MelRose walks through every major update in the GPTease second birthday launch including prompt to persona, the persona library, the prompt library and agent mode. She also walks through exactly how she uses agent mode to plan, script, caption and optimize an entire week of content in one workflow.
📚 RESOURCES → Join CEO Society! Our creator-only community for sharing resources, daily co-working spaces, and exclusive course videos…centralizing everything in one app-based, user-friendly platform that's completely FREE!
🤖 GPTΞASΞ→ The Ultimate GPT for adult creators. No restrictive policies. Mix business with pleasure. Create personalized content ideas, write scripts, captions, clip descriptions, mass messages, social media posts & more! The possibilities are endless. Try it FREE. Yes, REALLY. http://gptease.ai/try
On The Whorizon is a podcast about what's on the whorizon for sex workers and how to navigate it. We want to elevate sex worker stories and experiences, as well as provide tangible takeaways to approach online sex work as a business model, should listeners choose to envision it that way.
S O C I A L M E D I A
→ MelRose's website: MelRoseMichaels.com
→ MelRose's Instagram: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Twitter: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Snapchat: MelRoseMichael
→ MelRose's TikTok: @MelRose_Michaels
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Instagram
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Twitter
→ Subscribe to SexWorkCEO on YouTube
→ SexWorkCEO's Website
→ Follow GPTease on Twitter
→ Follow GPTease on Instagram
S E X W O R K C E O
Sex Work CEO is an educational platform where online adult creators can find courses, resources, informational blogs, and industry consulting work through our Influencer Advocacy program. Whorizon is a SexWorkCEO podcast focused on strengthening awareness around the political, societal, and personal impacts on sex work as an industry as well as providing educational resources to help online adult creators grow their businesses. It is our hope that a better informed SW community can better unite and advocate for itself where and when it matters. See more at https://stan.store/ceosquad
C R E D I T S
→ Video and Photography By MelRose Michaels
→ Production By Kevin Byrnes
Ep 193: The Boardroom Is Live! Why I Built It, How It Works and What Happened in the First 2 Weeks
2026/07/17
In episode 193 of 'On the Whorizon' SWCEO founder and host MelRose Michaels , a 14+ veteran in the adult content industry, shares what she wishes had existed when she was figuring it all out alone. Today, she pulls back the curtain on The Boardroom, her new paid closed community for adult creators who want to stop operating alone and start running their business like a CEO.She walks through exactly why she built it, how the weekly accountability loop works (live calls, test tracking, private check-ins and personal coaching) and what happened inside in the first two weeks since soft launch. Real results from real founding members. If you've ever felt like you're building this business completely alone, this episode is for you.
🔥 KEY MENTIONS→ Join the BOARDROOM: https://www.skool.com/theboardroom
📚 RESOURCES → Join CEO Society! Our creator-only community for sharing resources, daily co-working spaces, and exclusive course videos…centralizing everything in one app-based, user-friendly platform that's completely FREE!
🤖 GPTΞASΞ→ The Ultimate GPT for adult creators. No restrictive policies. Mix business with pleasure. Create personalized content ideas, write scripts, captions, clip descriptions, mass messages, social media posts & more! The possibilities are endless. Try it FREE. Yes, REALLY. http://gptease.ai/try
On The Whorizon is a podcast about what's on the whorizon for sex workers and how to navigate it. We want to elevate sex worker stories and experiences, as well as provide tangible takeaways to approach online sex work as a business model, should listeners choose to envision it that way.
S O C I A L M E D I A
→ MelRose's website: MelRoseMichaels.com
→ MelRose's Instagram: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Twitter: @MelRoseMichaels
→ MelRose's Snapchat: MelRoseMichael
→ MelRose's TikTok: @MelRose_Michaels
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Instagram
→ Follow SexWorkCEO on Twitter
→ Subscribe to SexWorkCEO on YouTube
→ SexWorkCEO's Website
→ Follow GPTease on Twitter
→ Follow GPTease on Instagram
S E X W O R K C E O
Sex Work CEO is an educational platform where online adult creators can find courses, resources, informational blogs, and industry consulting work through our Influencer Advocacy program. Whorizon is a SexWorkCEO podcast focused on strengthening awareness around the political, societal, and personal impacts on sex work as an industry as well as providing educational resources to help online adult creators grow their businesses. It is our hope that a better informed SW community can better unite and advocate for itself where and when it matters. See more at https://stan.store/ceosquad
C R E D I T S
→ Video and Photography By MelRose Michaels
→ Production By Kevin Byrnes https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01771f13585da1ce42 → Music | "Love" by LiQWYD Watch: https://youtu.be/wR_K1qpArU4 License: www.liqwydmusic.com/how-to-use Download/Stream: https://hypeddit.com/link/9p5s0r
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sakana-k 2026/04/04
Heading back into business now
I had a period of very unorganized and uneducated creator work, just because I was inspired by some really good creators and encouraged by a few close...
Real King 2025/08/01
Highly Recommend
Sharing best practices with a positive vibe. If this is your area of interest you are in for a treat.
PodProManagement 2025/07/15
Stop Looking!
This is the single most important adult content business related podcast that anybody aspiring to get into the business should listen to!
Yes, pay at...
JoelBSeattle 2025/05/02
Thank you!
Melrose is so knowledgeable and so genuine. The adult industry is very fortunate to have her as a leader in our community.
Joel Benjamin
Coach Alex Ray 2025/04/23
So helpful
I’m new to the industry and I appreciate this advice so much!
WillTantra 2024/10/14
Love it!
What an awesome podcast. I’ve been listening for several months now and Melrose is an incredible wealth of knowledge, I am learning so much. The infor...
shazey 2024/07/29
GAME. CHANGER.
After only listening to 3 episodes, I already have a list of actionable steps I *know* will make my business more profitable and easier to run!
— Th...
e.wilson1 2022/07/19
Season two
So far season two is even better than season one! It’s not only a great tool for fellow sex workers but it’s also just really educational in general i...
JiminBisbAZ 2022/01/15
Honest dialogue about the lives of sex workers
On the Horizon m, hosted by Jessie Sage and MelRose Michaels is a very open view into the lives of sex workers. The experiences that these two share, ...
BrianM47 2021/12/03
Compelling, honest and entertaining
I’ve been a fan of Peepshow Podcast for a bit and am happy to follow Jessie Sage to this next podcast endeavor. It’s important to listen to those in t...
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