ALIQUANTUM Speaker Profile

Amanda Clarke
The UK’s leading Debt Free & Happy Coach

Amanda is recognised as a local entrepreneur and successful businesswoman, running two training companies. She is the UK’s DebtFree & Happy coach, who helps people in debt to change their mindset in order to change their situation.  She is also an internationally recognised speaker with a long list of very successful presentations to the business community.

Life hasn’t always been so easy for Amanda though.  Over five years ago, Amanda’s business and personal finances were in dire straits so she knows exactly what its like to be in debt! 

In 1999 she was on the verge of bankruptcy. She had £45,000 credit card debt, £145,000 other debts including loans etc. She went to debt management company and one year later she still owed the same amount even though she had been paying £200 per month to the debt management company for the whole period - and she still had companies chasing her for payment. She was in the painful position of making staff redundant and losing her best friend.  Sitting in her office at 9pm on the day her Financial Advisor suggested she declare bankruptcy, with her hands between her head, she made a decision that would change her life forever.  She burned the midnight oil reading up on the techniques others had used when they had been in her situation. Two years later she had paid off all-but-one loan of £5000 and could hold her head up high.  Within 4 years she had paid off all her loans including her mortgage. She was truly debt free. She is now the UK’s DebtFree & Happy Coach. She has received many business awards including the North West Business Insider 42 U 42 entrepreneur award and is the winner of the Cheshire ”Women in Business” 2004 Award. She can tell you exactly what steps to take to get out of debt and build your wealth.  She’s not a financial advisor and doesn’t pretend to be, but she is able to use examples her experiences and share the techniques that have worked for both her personally and her clients irrespective of circumstances – whether they are on senior executive pay or a single parent living in a council house.

Amongst her best stories are:

A 27 years old married woman with £17000 worth of consumer debt, hidden from her husband and two children, and having taken advice that referred her to a debt management company she said she could reduce payments to £21 per month and still be in the same position in next 5 years.  Amanda Clarke showed her how she could pay off all her debts on the same pay she is currently earning, in less than 14 months. 

A 30 year old woman, living in a council house with damp dripping down the wall, on benefits and in £1460 debts with loan sharks knocking on the door (which may as well have been £146,000 to someone with no income).  Amanda Clarke showed her how to get rid of debt quickly.  Within six months she had moved into private accommodation, paid of all the debts, and started her own business.  In 2004 (her first year in business) she earned over £28,000.

Amanda is always happy to discuss ways to slant a particular article or interview to suit a specific audience. She is as comfortable providing strategies for those with £200,000 accumulated debt as she is for those with £2,000.