Amanda’s Story

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Welcome to my blog and thank you for stopping by!

My name is Amanda Marie McClellan and my PASSION is to show others how to create true freedom in their lives through online and social media marketing, personal growth and entrepreneurship. I have learned these marketing and social media strategies from the top online marketing GURUS and want to share them with you!

While visiting my blog you will find valuable content, tips, strategies, and general information about online marketing, social media, personal branding, entrepreneurship and living Your Best Life through personal development and self empowerment tactics.

I believe that when you discover your life’s TRUE PURPOSE, your reason for being, you will enjoy the highest level of joy and will never ‘work’ another day in your life. I am passionate about helping others and I envision myself helping as many people as possible through my blog here. Personal branding is a strategy that only the most cutting edge marketers are taking advantage of right now and it is allowing them to do just this… live out their life’s passions and give back to the greater world around them. I am excited to potentially help you get your personal brand off the ground and have it create reliable, life-long wealth for you. I look forward to growing and learning together on this wonderful journey of life. I truly believe that your REALITY is what you make it and I want to show YOU how it is possible to live a life of True Freedom, if you can just start by Dreaming It.

Let me tell you a bit about myself.

I grew up in the Pennsylvania countryside, the oldest of 4 daughters of business owning parents. Living in the country meant that my sisters and I spent much of our time playing together. Along with my best friend, we created many ADVENTURES of our own. I mention this because from a young age my environment enabled my creativity and leadership skills to flourish. This also caused me to feel like a bit of an outcast among my classmates in middle school, because while many of them were interested in fashion, movies, and television pop culture, I was content to ride horses and play in the woods. This instilled in me the sense that I didn’t always have to be like everybody else and that was OK.

Hitting the wall…

Fast forward about 15 years… After a successful high school and college career I found a steady professional job right after graduating. I got married about a year later and my husband and I have a beautiful home together. I was happy, healthy, and living the life I thought everyone wanted me to. There was just one problem… I did not feel fulfilled. No, I’m not referring to my relationship with my husband either. I was professionally unsatisfied which was causing me to feel personally discontent.

All of my life I had been looked upon as the older sister, daughter, and friend that had her act together. Since the time I was in the 7^th grade I (thought I) had known what I ‘wanted to be when I grew up.’ Looking back, perhaps it was that feeling of security in knowing what I supposedly wanted out of life that caused me to stop looking. Needless to say, I could have never anticipated the DISSATISFACTION that I would feel in this profession after just one year. By the end of my second year in the work force, a strong entrepreneurial urge had begun to consume me. I could not fathom working for someone else any longer, with a set schedule, minimal pay, and putting up with the pettiness of the work place. I literally felt like a caged animal in my workplace!

I had hit the wall. As some would say, I was suffering my quarter-life crisis (which is something that I think many people go through and choose to ignore rather than deal with… I’m very passionate about this so feel free to ask me about it!). I knew that I could either live a life of mediocrity by staying where I was or move on and take a chance. I had to revert to my childhood belief that I could be different from everyone else and that would be OK.

My introduction to the forces that would change my life FOREVER…

Then about a month before my 25^th birthday, my Dad introduced me to the concept of Personal Development. Talk about EYE OPENING! I had never been exposed to anything in my life that made so much sense! Many of the ideas I am referring to are discussed in the book and movie ‘The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrne. I studied how to be the best person I could be, how to use the Law of Attraction to create the life of my dreams and even improve my relationships with friends, family, and my husband. I became immediately interested Eckhart Tolle’s philosophy of living in the present and how doing so allows you to peel back layer upon layer to know and understand yourself on a deeper level.

As if the discovery of personal development in my life wasn’t enough, I was soon after introduced to the concept of Online Marketing. I had always considered the Internet just a place to go to chat with friends, shop, and check my email. I guess I always knew people made money by using the Internet but HOW had always been a mystery to me.

Reaching the climax!

The finale came when within a few months I was introduced to a Home Based Business offering cutting edge, top of the line personal development products. I had found the income vehicle that could combine my knowledge of online marketing with my passion for personal development to create the time and financial freedom I had always wanted in my life.

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Betcha weren’t expecting that! Yes, I did find a company that I supported… and I truly thought it would bring me the life of my dreams. For months I worked my tail off doing everything I thought was right with no success. But as I became more knowledgeable about Internet Marketing, I realized that there was more to it than that. I wasn’t getting the proper training necessary to be successful, and I was sick of “selling” people. I knew there had to be an easier way.

Luckily, on a warm July evening I found what I had been looking for while listening to a webinar that I had randomly decided to tune into.

An enthusiastic dedication to knowledge and success…

The webinar that I listened to was by none other than my current mentor, Katie Freiling. It just so happened that she was launching a class called The Blog Mastery Training Intensive and after over an hour of listening to her presentation and theory behind creating a blog, I was HOOKED. I took Katie’s course and haven’t looked back since. I was given the honor of being one of her Top Students and now also am honored to be a Community Leader in her cutting edge Unified Tribe community.

After studying social media marketing trends and tuning into those that have achieved incredible success I have figured out that it’s all about building your personal brand of YOU, Inc. A business model in which you can create rock solid, life-long wealth by doing what you LOVE. It seems too good to be true but I swear on my life that it works… look at Oprah, Tony Robbins, or Gary Vaynerchuk if you don’t believe me.

I am passionate about getting people started off in internet marketing the RIGHT way… by establishing their personal brand…not branding themselves around a product or company, building their list, and diversifying their income streams. When you put in the work and have the patience to let these aspects of your business fall into place, you will see AMAZING differences in the amount of success you will have online.

The time is NOW for Big Changes…

I think it is time that people STOP, take a look around, and REALIZE how POWERFUL they really are! It is time that we stop leading lives of mediocrity, spending our hours blaming and complaining, and take responsibility for our lives. It’s time to build a business around YOUR PASSIONS and make this world a better place by giving of your gifts. I never cease to be amazed when I talk to new people by how uniquely different each person’s dream is, and yet how brilliant their ideas are for making this world a better place. Each and every person CAN BE GREAT if they believe that they can. Each and every person CAN change their circumstances, whether it is professionally, personally, or financially, and create their own reality.

Let’s get connected…

I am PASSIONATE about living the life of my dreams and showing others that ANYTHING is possible. I look forward to sharing my knowledge of personal development and online marketing with you and learning from you as well. You can always contact me through my Contact Amanda page with any questions or just to drop by and say hello!

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Keep in mind that if you are ready to begin building your personal brand and establishing a life-long online presence just by doing what you love, my cutting edge Mentoring program might be for you. I look forward to growing and sharing together along this journey. And Never Forget, Anything is Possible if you Dream It, Believe It, then Do It!

To our Success and Growth,