MedSpa Performance Academy Review: 59 Members, $2,500/mo

Fifty-nine members. Six admins. Two thousand five hundred dollars a month.

The fourth number is the one that should stop you: zero. That is how many written reviews sit on this listing.

A disclosure before anything else. I am not a member of The MedSpa Performance Academy and no money has moved between me and David Goldman or his team. What follows is built from the community’s public Skool About page, the review section Skool restricts to paying members, and the founder’s own public profile, all captured on 9 September 2026. Where a figure comes from the seller’s copy rather than Skool’s data, I say so.

Quick Decision

Join if you already own a med spa with staff and revenue, the $2,500 comes out of business profit rather than a personal card, and your problem is front desk conversion, patient retention or the numbers you are not tracking. Six admins for 59 owners is genuine access. The library is 248 modules deep and every one of them is about your trade.

Hold off if you are opening your first clinic, if you want member testimony before you spend, or if you need to see the material first. There is no trial, no published refund window, and not a single public review from the people already paying.

You can check the current terms on the listing itself before you book any call.

David Goldman’s Profile Has Nothing To Click

David Goldman has run this community on Skool since January 2024, roughly 20 months at the capture date. His bio is three sentences. Fifteen years in aesthetic and wellness services. Multiple clinics owned and sold. A line about liking to help people push their limits.

Then the profile stops. No website. No Instagram. No LinkedIn. The links object on his account is empty, and the location field is blank.

That is a problem in a way it would not be for a $50 community. At $2,500 a month you are buying one man’s operating judgement about a regulated medical business. The only evidence offered that he has that judgement is a bio he wrote about himself.

What the missing location costs you

Med spa economics are local. Licensing rules, injector pay, insurance and what a patient will pay for a treatment all change by state and by country.

A founder who does not name his market is asking you to assume his pricing playbook transfers to yours. Ask on the call which state his clinics operated in and what year he sold them.

His account does carry Skool’s crown badge, which marks a high-earning community owner on the platform. That confirms the community sells. It says nothing about whether members grow their clinics.

$2,500 A Month, And The Call In Front Of It

The join button read JOIN $2,500/month on the capture date, and Skool’s price record confirms $2,500 monthly in US dollars. Both agree. The price is published in the open, which is more than several communities at this level bother to do.

Run the arithmetic the page does not run for you. Twelve months is $30,000. At a 15% net margin, a clinic needs about $200,000 in extra annual revenue to cover the membership alone.

What the price does not come with

No annual plan. No trial. No refund policy of any kind on the public page.

Cancellation terms are not described either, though Skool memberships generally run month to month. Because the seller wants a call before you buy, the terms you actually agree to may not match anything visible now.

Get the refund position in writing before you pay the first $2,500. If nobody will state one, assume there is none and decide on that basis.

Two Doors, And The Seller Prefers One

The listing does something odd for a product with a live join button. The description closes by asking you to book a complimentary strategy call through an external booking widget instead of joining.

So there are two ways in. Pay $2,500 on the button and start today, or book the call and let someone qualify you first.

The call exists because a $2,500 monthly product sells badly from a page. Somebody wants to hear about your clinic, your revenue and your bottleneck before quoting you anything. That is normal at this price and it is not a warning sign on its own.

It does change what you should do. Do not click the join button. Book the call, because it is the only moment you get to ask questions of a human before the money moves, and because the offer discussed on that call may not be the one printed on the button.

The cost of both doors is the same. You cannot preview the 248 modules, read the 176 posts, or watch a coaching recording before you commit. Every piece of evidence about the product sits behind a wall that only $2,500 opens.

Fifty-Nine Members, Six Admins

Six admins across 59 members is one staff account per 10 people. I have not found a better ratio at any price on Skool. If those six are genuinely running the weekly coaching the page describes, that access is the strongest argument for the fee.

Now the other side of the same number. Fifty-nine members includes the six admins, so the paying room may be closer to 53 people. Nobody was online at the moment of capture.

The feed holds 176 posts. Across 59 members that is about 3 posts each for the life of the community. Compare that to communities where members average 20 posts and you get a sense of how quiet this room is.

Is a 59-person room a problem?

It depends what you came for. If you want twenty case studies from clinics in your treatment mix, 59 people will not supply them.

If you want six coaches paying attention to your numbers, a small room is the only way that works. The design is deliberate. Just be clear which product you are buying.

Fifteen Courses And 248 Modules

Skool records 15 courses holding 248 modules, an average of about 17 modules each. For a community of 59 people that is a lot of material, and it suggests the classroom was not built last month.

Set against the fee, the maths is still uncomfortable. A year of membership costs $30,000 and buys access to 248 modules, which works out at roughly $121 per module per year. Nobody should buy this for the videos.

The public listing shows 1 video and 1 gallery image. That is the entire preview.

What the seller says is inside

Read this section as marketing, because it is. The page states members get weekly owner, sales, front desk and marketing coaching, consultation and patient retention strategies, KPI tracking with financial guidance, SOPs and templates, and marketing automations meant to stop leads going cold.

The copy frames the offer as hands-on coaching and accountability rather than a course, and says the goal is a clinic that does not depend on the owner daily.

None of those deliverables carry a schedule, a coach name or a call time on the public page. They may all exist exactly as described. You cannot confirm any of them from outside, and no member has posted publicly to confirm them either.

Nobody Has Left A Review

Skool records no review count and no average rating for this community. Not a low score. Nothing at all.

That matters more here than anywhere else in this review. Skool only lets paying members leave reviews, which normally makes its review section the most trustworthy signal on the platform. When 59 paying members have written nothing, the most reliable evidence available simply is not there.

Be fair about why that happens. Small communities collect few reviews, med spa owners are busy clinical operators, and a founder who never prompts for reviews will not get them. An empty section is not proof of unhappy members.

It is still the single biggest gap in the case for spending $30,000 a year. You would be buying on the seller’s description and nothing else.

The comparison that makes it concrete

A 127-member home service community on the same platform collected 35 written reviews, a 27.6% response rate. A 59-member community collecting zero is a different situation entirely.

If the coaching is producing clinic turnarounds, ask why none of the 59 has said so where a buyer can read it.

Nobody Is Paid To Recommend This

The affiliate rate on the listing is 0%.

That is unusual and it works in your favour. At a 30% rate, a $2,500 membership would pay whoever referred you $750 every month you stayed. Communities with payouts like that attract a lot of enthusiastic coverage.

Here there is no commission, so any praise you find online was written for some other reason. There is also very little coverage to find, which is consistent with a 59-member room that pays nothing for promotion.

What To Ask On The Strategy Call

The booking call is your only inspection. Go in with a list.

• Which of the six admins runs each weekly coaching call, and what are their names and clinic backgrounds?
• Which state did your clinics operate in, and in what years did you sell them?
• What is the refund position if I cancel in week two?
• Can I speak to two current members before I pay?
• What does the KPI tracking actually consist of, a spreadsheet or a system?

The answer to the third and fourth questions tells you most of what you need. A coach with 59 happy owners can produce two of them on request.

Don’t Join If

• Your clinic is pre-revenue or single-operator. $2,500 a month should come out of profit, not out of savings.
• You need proof from members first. There are no public reviews at all, and there may not be for months.
• You want a large peer network. The room is 59 people including 6 admins.
• You will not show up to the weekly calls. The coaching is the product, so skipping it leaves you with 248 videos at $121 each per year.

My Verdict

I score The MedSpa Performance Academy 3.0 out of 5.

The staffing carries most of that score. One admin per 10 members is exceptional, the library at 248 modules is real rather than a handful of webinars, and the community is narrow enough that every module should apply to a med spa owner. The price is published on the button instead of hidden behind a phone call, and the 0% affiliate rate means nobody online is paid to talk you into it.

The deductions are all about evidence. Zero reviews from 59 paying members leaves you with only the seller’s word on a $30,000 a year commitment. The founder’s profile carries no links and no location, so 15 years in aesthetics and multiple clinic exits cannot be checked. No refund policy, trial or annual option appears anywhere, and the 176-post feed suggests a quiet room rather than a busy one.

Book the strategy call and use it as an audit. If David Goldman will name his clinics and put two current members on a call with you, the price is arguable for an owner with real revenue. If he will not, wait until someone reviews it. For a look at how a mid-priced community handles the same access promise, read our AI Profit Boardroom review, and the La Tribu Divisual review shows what a room with published member testimony looks like. If you decide to proceed, start at the Skool listing.