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Amanda Jay Anne

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Founder of Life Ever Up

Amanda is a former Fortune 500 management consultant with a psychology and science background, who will soon be returning to graduate school at Columbia University to study Social-Organisational Psychology. She is the founder of Life Ever Up, a personal development organisation with a mission to harness the power of psychology and neuroscience to empower high-achieving women to master their mindset and overcome self-sabotage in order to reach the next level of growth and success both professionally and personally. She is a certified success and high performance coach for high-achieving professionals and entrepreneurs and is determined to help others reach their full potential and create a life and career they can be proud of. 

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