What I Learned After 10+ Years on Kajabi
May 25, 2026
I want to tell you something I wish someone had told me before I spent years wrestling with WordPress and LearnDash, patching plugins together, and praying nothing broke before a launch.
You should have started on Kajabi.
I know, I know... easy to say now! But honestly, when I finally made the move to Kajabi in 2014, it felt like someone had quietly removed a very large, very heavy backpack I had been lugging around for years without fully realising how much it was weighing me down.
Where I was coming from
Before Kajabi, I was building on WordPress with LearnDash, a setup that many practitioners still use, and one that works, in the same way that a very complicated set of tools technically works if you know which end to hold.
The honest version: it was stressful. Plugins needed updating. Things broke in ways that were completely mysterious. Every time I wanted to add something new (a course, a new product, an email sequence) it meant figuring out whether it would play nicely with everything else, or whether it would quietly destabilise something I had already built. The tech was always in the background, taking up headspace I would have much rather given to my actual work.
I am a transpersonal therapist. I have been in private practice since 2009. I did not start this business to become an accidental IT technician. And yet there I was.
What happened when I moved to Kajabi
The first thing I noticed was how intuitive it felt. Not simple in a watered-down way - comprehensive, but logical. Everything was where you would expect it to be. The dashboard made sense. The terminology made sense. For someone who had spent years navigating the particular chaos of WordPress, it was, and I mean this sincerely, a revelation.
It felt like it had been built by people who actually understood what knowledge creators need. Because it had been. Kajabi was designed specifically for people who want to sell their expertise online - courses, memberships, coaching programmes, and digital products. That focus shows in every corner of the platform. The tools are not generic and then bent towards online education. They are built for it from the ground up.
The thing that still gets me, ten years in
People ask me what I love most about Kajabi, and the answer has not changed in a decade.
I log in once. That is it. One login, and I am in the place where I can update my website, write a new blog post, send out a marketing email, upload my next podcast episode, add content to my online course, and send a notification to my community. Everything works the same way. Everything is in one place. There is no switching between platforms, no re-learning a different interface, no wondering whether the integration between two tools is still functioning the way it was last week.
For a practitioner who is already managing a full client load, continuing professional development, and the general administration of running a practice, that simplicity is not a nice-to-have. It is genuinely significant.
What I would tell my 2014 self
Start here. Start on Kajabi. You would have saved yourself a considerable amount of stress, a fair amount of heartache, and, let's be honest, a not insignificant amount of money spent on plugins, developers, and emergency fixes for things that should never have broken in the first place.
But here is the thing about the long way round: I understand, now, what practitioners go through when they are trying to build online on a patchwork of tools that were never designed to work together. I have lived it. Which means when a client comes to me having spent two years wrestling with a WordPress setup that has become its own full-time job, I am not speaking theoretically when I say there is a better way.
What this means for you
If you are a therapist, coach, or practitioner who is thinking about moving your work online, or who is already online but spending more time fighting your platform than building your business, Kajabi is worth a serious look.
It is not the right fit for everyone, and I will always be straight with you about that. But for practitioners who want to host a website, run courses or memberships, manage their email list, and build a coherent online presence without needing a background in web development, it is, in my experience, the best all-in-one option available.
The most sensible way to find out if it is right for you is to get into it with no financial pressure. Through my partner link you can access a 30-day free trial (double the standard 14 days) which gives you real time to explore before you commit to anything.
Start your 30-day free Kajabi trial here.
And if you would like a guided introduction to the platform, or want to talk through whether Kajabi is right for what you are building, you can find out more about working with me on Kajabi here.
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