Amanda NorthcuttFounder & CEO | Keynote Speaker, LevelUp · B2B sales as a solo is HARD. I’ve got you. I help consultants & coaches sell high-ticket services comfortably & confidently, while enjoying consistent, predictable revenue | Founder & CEO | Speaker |

From Struggles to Success: My Journey as a First-Gen Mom

19 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this YouTube video, Amanda Northcutt shares an intimate, first‑person narrative about her path from a financially precarious upbringing to becoming a high‑earning chief marketing officer. As a single mother and the first in her family to graduate from college, she reflects on the emotional weight of breaking a cycle of economic instability, the desire to build a lasting safety net for her children, and the significance of her latest earnings milestone—doubling the highest salary she ever earned as a CMO. The story intertwines personal hardship, generational ambition, and a forward‑looking mindset that likens her entrepreneurial journey to "building the plane while flying it," emphasizing resilience, growth, and the drive to create upward mobility for future generations.

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And I know you've seen me cry multiple times when I think about the fact that, like, as a single mom with a first-generation college grad, to be thinking about, like, you know, my parents aren't going to be able to leave me with any— my dad's still a plumber and he's amazing at what he does, but like, to be able to leave my kids potentially with a safety net so that they can then build something and that just keeps passing down. Like, I, I truly am the first generation of my family line to get out of kind of a dicey financial situation. And so this for sure has cemented me. This is the most money this year is the most money I'll have ever made in my entire life. Like hands down doubled my highest CMO salary.
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And it's like, and we were still building the plane while we're flying it.