Courtesy of Amanda Frances
Amanda Frances.
- Amanda Frances is a self-made multi-millionaire, digital course creator, writer, and podcaster.
- But before that, she held a huge variety of jobs - everything from worker at a sheet metal company to newspaper intern. But her longest job was working as a nanny for wealthy families.
- Five years ago, she left a PhD program hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. Now she's a multi-millionaire CEO in Malibu.
- To get there, she decided what she would have, held both long- and short-term goals, and listened to what was right for her.
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I've had a lot of jobs in the 33 years I've been alive.
I used to be a cocktail server. I also worked as a hostess, a steakhouse server, Mexican restaurant server, newspaper intern, and barista.
I've worked at a bookstore, a jewelry store, a cable company, a sheet metal company, a church, an inner city school as a therapist, and a family counseling center as a play-therapist.
My longest running job, however, was as a nanny to a few wealthy families in the wildly affluent Highland Park, Texas. Through my undergraduate studies in psychology, while I earned a master's degree in counseling, and well into the PhD I eventually left behind to start and grow my business, I burped babies, cooked chicken nuggets for snack time, and folded someone else's downy-soft Egyptian cotton bath towels.
I spent the rest of my waking hours hanging flyers for my life coaching business on every bulletin board at every Starbucks in Dallas every day, working with the early clients those flyers brought me, and trying to piece enough money together to pay my rent and create the life I wanted. I built my first website myself by reading very non-blonde-girl-friendly message boards and watching how-to YouTube videos. There were many all-nighters as I taught myself internet marketing, online branding, and digital content creation, but I was determined.
By the time I graduated with my masters degree and dropped out of my PhD program, I had a couple hundred thousand dollars in student loan debt, no money in savings, and had gotten enough of a taste of entrepreneurship through my baby life-coaching business that I knew I absolutely could not work for someone else. I was afraid - really, really afraid of failure, but I had a hunch that I could do this. I had to figure out how to make money and make a difference.
It's been five years since I quit my PhD program, and five years and three months since I launched my first digital course. Today Amanda Frances Inc. is a multi-million dollar company that provides unique business development and personal development courses to hundreds of thousands of women, teaching them how to launch their own online businesses, and empowering them to design lives and businesses they love. I am completely self-taught when it comes to technology, marking, branding, and messaging side of my business. My company grossed nearly $3 million in revenue last year and earned $1 million in the first quarter of 2019.
Catapulting my life from being a nanny from Sand Springs, Oklahoma to a multi-millionaire CEO living in Malibu, California while running the company of my dreams might seem like a far-fetched meteoric rise based on pure luck and chance, but if there's one thing I know for certain it's this: You can have the life you've designed in your dreams, every single bit of it.
Lots of people like to ask me what mentors did I have, what business books did I read? Who did I follow? I have never read a single business book or taken a business course. I don't listen to podcasts. I simply chose (and continue to choose) to learn how to master my own wealth and destiny, and then teach other women to do the same.
Here are my top three best and biggest pieces of advice for moving your vision forward and achieving your dreams.