Amanda Kolbye is a coach with her own business and marketing coaching firm. She coaches and gives mentorship to “service-based entrepreneurs who are looking to start or scale their own online business in order to live a freedom and location independent lifestyle.”
As a business coach, Amanda Kolbye specializes in “building and establishing a personal brand online, social media marketing, business logistics and systems,” and “shifting your mindset and confidence to feel truly aligned in your business and life.”
What makes Amanda Kolbye’s services unique is her approach to marketing herself and her brand. She has found success in getting her brand out there only through social media marketing, with almost 100% of her clients coming from Instagram. Her clients also come from all over the world, such as Israel, Slovakia, Venezuela, England, and Vietnam.
Amanda Kolbye also offers a “signature group coaching program” called Laptop Lifestyle Bootcamp. This bootcamp goes for 12 weeks, and it is open to aspiring entrepreneurs “who are looking to get their online business off of the ground,” and who “need help with everything from A to Z as far as how to run a business and set themselves up for long term success.”
Through her coaching, Amanda Kolbye wants everyone to live a freedom lifestyle. She wants people to realize that “they don’t have to walk that normal path of getting married, having kids, and working a 9-5 office job for the rest of their lives.”
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I think what makes my brand stand out is our global network and how my brand embodies the freedom lifestyle through travel. Amanda Kolbye
Jerome Knyszewski: What do you think makes your company stand out? Can you share a story?
Amanda Kolbye: I think what makes my brand stand out is our global network and how my brand embodies the freedom lifestyle through travel. While my company on a basic level provides business consulting services and programs, it also represents an education hub for entrepreneurs and a global network of powerful women from every corner of the world who want the same things and are being empowered together through entrepreneurship. The global perspective and connections are something that were so important to me to build not just a brand, but a community. We have such an amazing vision for how to expand the business more through education and community in the coming years.
For example, I have a client who is from Indonesia and went to school in the Midwest and now lives in London and she was hired by another woman in my community who lives in the Midwest and then she also became best friends with another client who lives in London and they got to meet up in person. Everywhere you go around the world you can connect and meet people through my network and programs. It’s wild to think about sometimes.
Jerome Knyszewski: None of us are able to achieve success without some help along the way. Is there a particular person who you are grateful towards who helped get you to where you are? Can you share a story?
Amanda Kolbye: This could not be more true. I would not be where I am without my team or mentors or so many people along the way but one person in particular that has helped me the most is my partner Zach. I have had some amazing mentors but Zach is also a digital marketing and entrepreneur and as the person closest to me he understands my values and vision better than anyone else. Whether it is figuring out a marketing campaign, dealing with tough decisions or just riding out the mental ups and downs of building a business, I could not have built this without him.
Zach has stayed awake at the co-working space in Bali with me until 2am for calls just to drive me home, he has jumped in to write sales page copy for a last minute launch, and always been my biggest supporter. I think having someone in your corner is one of the most important parts of entrepreneurship.
Jerome Knyszewski: Are you working on any exciting projects now?
Amanda Kolbye: Yes we are! We are working on expanding my signature program Laptop Lifestyle Bootcamp which is a business foundations program for new entrepreneurs as well as the cornerstone for the network and community that I’ve talked about here as well. We want to be able to serve more aspiring entrepreneurs next year and are working on expanding the capacity of the program as well as the support within it. We have just recently revamped all the material in the program as well to be even more in-depth and up to date with all things marketing, branding, systems, tech and more about 6 figure business foundations for service based online entrepreneurs.
Don’t just jump in, jump all in and do it right now!
Jerome Knyszewski: How have you used your success to bring goodness to the world?
Amanda Kolbye: Part of my mission, and how we have brought goodness to the world through our success, is to empower women as leaders and CEOs to be able to change the workforce and our lifestyles to be more aligned with their own values and quality of life they each desire. Through being able to reach women from countries all over the world and empower them to support themselves financially and feel unstoppable, we are creating a generation of female leaders who can use their newly found freedom of time and money to actually make an impact in a way that is most meaningful to them.
Another way in which we are bringing goodness to the world is through direct education through online courses that translates into usable skills and knowledge for a very accessible cost and just by having access to wifi. I’m so excited to see the landscape of the online space change over the next 5 to 10 years as we see how, when people are more fulfilled and able in their daily lives, they will be more energized and fueled to create a better world to live in.
Jerome Knyszewski: What are the main takeaways that you would advise a twenty year old who is looking to found a business?
Amanda Kolbye: Don’t just jump in, jump all in and do it right now! Building a business is both the most terrifying and exhilarating thing you will ever do and it has truly provided exponential opportunities for my future, my mindset and my lifestyle. You don’t have to have it figured out, but you have to be okay jumping in and taking action even when you are unsure — that is entrepreneurship.
Jerome Knyszewski: What is the best way our readers can follow you on social media?
Amanda Kolbye: The best way to follow me is on Instagram @amandakolbye
Jerome Knyszewski: This was very inspiring. Thank you so much for joining us!
