tanya aliza

Tanya Aliza

Founder, Digital Creator Studio & Network Marketing Coach

Hometown

British Columbia, Canada

Living In

High Rock, NC

Former Career

Finance Specialist

Special Achievement

Won the Online Entrepreneurs "Expert of Experts" Award in 2013

Living Int'l

Built an international network marketing team while living in Costa Rica —using Skype

Matt Tanya Aliza drove 45 minutes to her friend's house one evening in November 2009 just to be a good friend. She sat on the couch with her arms crossed the whole time, thinking the flip chart presentation was the cheesiest thing she'd ever seen.

Then someone said the average income at the top level was $400,000 a year. She grabbed an application.

That's Tanya. Skeptical right up until the numbers make sense —and then completely all in.

From Finance Specialist to Full-Time Entrepreneur

Tanya grew up in British Columbia, Canada. After college she moved to Vancouver, spent years waitressing double shifts, and eventually worked her way into the finance industry — where she traded late nights for 12-hour days, six days a week.

She was making good money and had no time to spend it. One slow afternoon at her desk, she found a YouTube video of a family who'd quit their corporate jobs and traveled the world with their daughter. Something in her cracked open.

She read The 4-Hour Workweek. She read Rich Dad Poor Dad. Weeks later, her friend called with a business presentation.

She signed up, bought the easel and flip chart, and started doing home presentations. She had some early success —mostly because her friends respected her and she was the only one with a "real" job.

But she wasn't taking it seriously yet. That changed in Easter 2010 when she got a frantic call from her mom: her stepfather Jim had had a stroke getting ready for work.

She drove four hours, barely packed, and spent nearly a month with her family in ICU as they said goodbye.

While she was home not working, she noticed something: money was still coming in from her network marketing business.

A small amount —but it was there.

She'd never experienced residual income before. And Jim had always said life is too short to play small. He passed at 61, healthy and active, with no warning.

Six months later, her company asked her to train an 18-year-old niece to replace her business partner and split her commissions 50/50. She gave her notice instead. No backup plan. Just savings, a network marketing check, and a one-way decision.

Costa Rica, A Surfboard, and a Brand Worth Millions

A friend called with an opportunity in Costa Rica. She moved. Lasted two days in the restaurant before remembering why she'd left that world behind.

So she stayed anyway —laptop, surfboard, and a growing determination to figure out digital marketing. She generated 1,000 leads and made zero sales.

A webinar by Michelle Pescosolido changed that: call your leads. So she did. Using Skype because there was no phone.

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The first person who picked up said, "The Tanya Aliza?" — as if she were famous. She was baffled. Her content had been working without her realizing it.

Back home, she kept building —blogging, YouTube videos, free weekly Skype training calls she didn't even know to call webinars yet. People started asking how she was generating leads. She started teaching.

In 2014, she launched her first course called The Ultimate Branding Blueprint. Nobody bought it —because nobody knew they wanted branding. She changed the messaging to "How to Enroll 2-5 New Teammates Every Week Like Clockwork Without Bugging Friends and Family."

Same course. That version sold $3.5 million.

Today Tanya is the founder of Digital Creator Studio, a company helping entrepreneurs and network marketers build personal brands and leverage AI-powered content systems. She spent a full year off social media —no posts, no videos, no blogs — and still generated 3,000 to 5,000 leads a month from existing content.

Her YouTube channel, blog, and podcast continue to compound years after she recorded them.

She lives with her husband, travels almost every month, and has built a business that runs whether she's posting or not. The flip chart is long gone.

The results are still coming in.