6. No Spend Months, Career Changes & Unconventional Everything with Amanda Sannella

Most people think wealth-building requires either a high-powered entrepreneurial venture or decades of climbing the corporate ladder. But Amanda Sannella proves there's another way entirely. At 30, she walked away from fashion merchandising to restart in tech, and now she's saving thousands of dollars a month while living in one of the most expensive regions in the country.

Amanda is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Shopify who approaches her corporate career with an entrepreneurial mindset. She's mastered the art of what she calls being an "intrapreneur" - someone who brings innovative thinking and strategic money management to traditional employment. Through unconventional choices like remaining child-free and renting instead of owning, she's created financial freedom that rivals many business owners.

Join us this week as Amanda reveals her counterintuitive money strategies, including no-spend months that generate thousands in savings, how she overcame scarcity-based saving habits, and why she now budgets specifically for luxury spending. You'll discover how to leverage transferable skills in career pivots, create multiple money games to build wealth faster, and design a life based on your own definition of success rather than conventional expectations.

Join me in The Mission, a monthly Business Coaching Membership designed for women with big visions for their life and business. No one on the planet is teaching time and money to women in this way, so get ready to unlock a level of business owner that you didn't know was in you!

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• How no-spend months work and why they're actually fun.

• Why saving from scarcity versus abundance creates completely different results.

• How Amanda pivoted careers without starting from scratch financially.

• The way Amanda uses YNAB (You Need A Budget) to gamify financial goals.

• Why creating a surplus requires intentional spending, not just earning more.

• How to overcome the guilt of luxury purchases when you're naturally a saver.

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Featured on the Show:

• Level up with the Masterful CEO $chool.

• Join me in The Mission.

• Amanda Sannella: LinkedIn

• 2. 6 Money Games Every Woman Needs to Master

• 4. “Making Millions Isn’t Hard.” Unlearning Money Group Think with Multi-7-Figure Founder Cris Gordon

• YNAB

• Panier Cadeau

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manningjessica/

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