Featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post, Inc, and Business Insider, Amanda Abella has created an online community where millennials can learn how to make money online and actually enjoy their financial journeys. Her ever growing community is currently made up of over 30,000 individuals across social media and email subscriber channels. The world’s fascination with money – and her own need to learn about healthy financial habits – led her to start her career as a freelance writer who focused on financial topics in 2010. Since then her company has expanded to creating content marketing and financial education courses for companies like Credit Karma, Santander and Discover. In 2014, Amanda launched her Amazon bestselling book, Make Money Your Honey: A Spirited Entrepreneur’s Guide to Having a Love Affair with Work & Money which has been featured in Yahoo! Finance and Seventeen Magazine.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“For me one of the biggest struggles was overcoming that fear of numbers because I knew that if I wanted to make this happen I was going to have to get real comfortable with profit and loss statements and projections and sales and that type of stuff and another one for me was I have this personality where I can be very naturally good at sales and I had jobs that taught me how to do sales but again because I identified so much as a creative I didn’t even make that connection until I had a business coach point it out to me”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World book by Chris Guillebeau
- Click this link to listen to the Chris Guillebeau podcast on The Entrepreneur Way
Favourite Quote:
“There is no such thing as certainty”
Recommended Online Resources:
Afford Anything is based on the radical notion that money should never hinder your dreams This site isn t just about money and career it s about freedom
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Stop trying to be perfect and figure everything out before you take action”…[Listen for More]
More About Amanda Abella:
- Make Money Your Honey
- Amanda Abella
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.” Brian Koslow
Other Quotes From the Chat with Amanda Abella:
- “Clarity comes from engagement not thought”
- “People just give up too easy”
- “Owning your stuff is like quiet confidence, you don’t even have to say a word, it’s just like an energy that you have and people respect it and they know, that’s very different than like trying to prove yourself
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