#247 – Scaling Up a 1-to-1 Service with Ravi Mehta and Victoria Young of Scale Higher

What's up, everybody? This is Cortland from ndhackers.com, and you're listening to the nd hackers podcast. More people than ever are building cool stuff online and making a lot of money in the process. And on this show, I sit down with these Indie Hackers to discuss the ideas, the opportunities, and the strategies they're taking advantage of so the rest of us can do the same. Alright. I'm here with Ravi Mehta and Victoria Young, the founders of Scale Higher. How's it going? Good. How are you doing? I'm doing excellent. I wanted to have you two on the show because, from my perspective at least, there's been this, like, explosion in coaching the last few years. Like, my girlfriend wants to be a life coach. Like, all my startup friends have, like, business coaches. Like, everyone's just, like, tuned in and, like, I need a coach. And I think it's, like, the coolest thing ever because I don't know. Maybe it's just, like, people in recent generations who are more in touch with their mental health, who are more in touch with the fact that, like, we all need help. And I think an increasing number of us are, like, very conscious about our careers, and especially if any hackers are conscious about the fact that they they've quit their jobs. And now they're their own boss, and they need some help. Yep. And so, I think what you you two are doing at Scale Hire is very awesome. It's like you're basically helping people find coaches. Can you get can you just describe to me, like, what Scale Hire is? So we started it about six months ago. Victoria and I met, about two years ago, right as I was leaving Tinder and Victoria was thinking about what she wanted to do next. And for about a year and a half, we would catch up every once in a while, help each other with the writing we were doing, talk about some of the coaching that we were each doing. And, this recurring theme came up, which is that we just kept hearing from people that they don't feel like they have the support that they need to be really successful. And I think this was a problem for people. And, you know, we weren't sure, is it really possible to solve this at a higher scale or is this really like a one to one relationship, which is more of a more of a service industry? And we got inspired when we started to look at what was happening with apps like Peloton and Noom and Talkspace and Headspace and Calm and BetterHelp. There were all these examples in a person's personal life of ways in which companies were making it easier to get one on one guidance and support, whether it was around fitness or nutritional counseling or therapy. And so we started scale with the goal of democratizing professional coaching and doing it specifically …