Meet Amanda Heintz

Amanda, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
I guess you could say it started the day that I lost it all. I’m sure we could go back to the childhood moments of who I was, and the personality traits I embodied as a young girl that led me to be here today, but as much as I resemble her at times, she was lost somewhere along the way.

When I decided to leave college to get married and start a family at 21, I was told I was taking the hard road, and I was at peace with that in my heart. I was willing to work whatever shift was available, spend long hours away from my family to provide, and rarely see my first child while he attended daycare from sun up to sun down and came home with my husband when he got off work. To me, it was all I knew of working-class middle America, being the daughter of a Houston Police Officer, I knew the life of rare but precious time spent with my dad was because he was providing for our family and following his passions and dreams.

A busy Mom of 3, Wife, Entrepreneur, and millions of other hats I wear daily… We have built our businesses and dreams off the moments where we feared we had lost it all while life sat in complete broken shambles. Overcoming traumas that have brought me to my knees in constant prayer and self-reflection, I realized we ALL deserved more in life, financially, and as a family. There is something about a woman who knows what real-life loss and mental torture feel like; she fears nothing and never looks back unless it is to remind the skeptics who she is.

A background in sales/customer service in banking and aviation gave me the bare bones needed in understanding what the highest end and business-focused individual expected in their investments and communication. When I stumbled upon one of the biggest blessings while in the lowest and most unassuming places of my life, Network Marketing in an innovative Health and Wellness Nutritional Company in November of 2014, I realized quickly that my clients were now not just people just like me but also anyone I could reach and interact with and anywhere!

So many experiences, failures, and life-changing achievements brought me to leading a team to over seven figures in sales and thousands of happy monthly return customers for four years. Successes in this space were in correlation of sharing with purpose and empowering the men and women who are looking to change it all, even with adversity and life constantly changing the game. After learning that it was OK to pursue my passion and love for helping others in a space that many people look down on, judge, and misunderstand I truly saw a vision for more in my personal space and future. This is when I felt confident it was time to take all of my life experiences, the personality and gift of gab, and genuine love for meeting new people and help them smile while empowering them to see more in themselves and for their futures.

Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall, and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
In 2012, I was working in banking and pregnant with my second son. Even though financially we lived to pay our monthly bills and barely have anything left over when we started a new month, we were making it. I thought that was what I was supposed to have, all that I was worthy of, but had no idea I was out to almost lose everything.

October 29, 2012, I remember checking in on my best friend Sandra Kay Perry who was due to have her first baby at any moment. I had Nolan who was one month old and Hunter who was 4, and I just remember I wanted to tell her about how hard my day had been with the new baby and see how she was feeling. She texts me back after a brief call to tell me she would call me after her guests left, but I never received that call and assumed it was because she was tired I didn’t worry about it one bit. That was the last time I ever spoke to her.

My world came crashing down that next day as I stood in my parents’ living room. My mom received the phone call, I could hear your voice something was wrong, but I didn’t know who was on the other end of the line. So as I stood there holding my one-month-old baby, I felt my mom grab him from my arms and hand him over to my dad while telling me I need to sit down. I guess you could say that is where this all began. I guess you could say it is also where the woman who I had once been left forever. This is the moment I lost my best friend and her unborn daughter to the hands of domestic violence. We had planned our lives together as mothers, just like sisters, and had envisioned our children growing up together, but it looked like I had no idea the direction my story would take next.

November 2013, after battling depression and anxiety over the last year and losing my job at the bank, I was learning to deal with the grief and this trauma in the best way I knew how while still being a wife and mother. One night after coming home from work, my son had hit his head and started to act a little strange, so we took him to the ER to be checked out. It was also during this long and difficult year, Nolan had presented seizures, but they had been dismissed by the pediatrician as febrile and nothing concerning. I had a gut feeling it was more, but trusted they knew more than I did and we’re doing the right thing. So we rushed Nolan that evening to the emergency room for scans, and I still believe there is a piece of my heart laying on the floor of that room. I never imagined I would hear the words “Mam, I need you to sit down” in the same tone my mom has just used a year previous to tell me what I heard next.

“Your son has a 5 cm mass in his right temporal lobe.”.

I could go over all the emotions with you all, but words do not describe it. I could describe the aches the torturous pain’s, the breath being sucked out of my body, the pulsating swelling feeling in my brain it because it couldn’t process the information… but honestly, there are no words to describe at all. People ask me still today “How” “how did you do it?”, and my answer is so honest and simple because it is what a parent dies when their child is incapable of understanding or being able to face fears in their own strength. It is what a mother dies when their child hurts or is scared.

So, Christmas Eve, we started our journey at children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital with Dr. David Sandberg and his amazing UT physicians neurosurgery team. I can tell you that I have never been a trusting person until the moment I met Dr. Sandberg in the emergency room that night, his eyes locked in with mine while I held a screaming baby wrapped in a hospital blanket to get his IV line in, and that was with God that we know this was the man I would put be putting all my faith in to keep my child alive and thriving.

Well, that wouldn’t be the last time I would have to meet him and that same scenario, we met again a few months later for a second repeat brain surgery, and this one would be different. After his second surgery, when we went back to the recovery unit, we were met with doctors and nurses shoving us to the sides as they ran to our child’s bedside. This is where we learned Nolan with no rhyme or reason had lost all function on the left side of his body, and with no explanation, we had no answer whether it would be temporary or long term. God was definitely testing my faith, to be honest, I believe I lost it and didn’t regain it until a couple of weeks later when Hunter, his big brother, came to visit and play upstairs with him for a few minutes. The light that we had seen and Nolan before was back. He’s so badly wanted to play with his big brother that he got up out of the wagon, wobbly and week with his strength on his right side, but then moved his left leg. We knew this was the moment our baby was not going to give up; he wanted more. He faced a 3rd brain surgery seven months in and this is where I realized he was a true miracle, my biggest hero, and he taught me my new outlook on life wasn’t to just sit down and give up but to FIGHT for the life WE deserve.

She Changed It All – what should we know? What do you guys do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
Being a small business owner of multiple online businesses has evolved simply by sharing personal life experiences along the crazy road of self-betterment and pursuing bigger opportunities with growth.

As a Le-Vel Brand Promoter, aka “THRIVER,” I entered the direct sales and network marketing space for the first time ever nearly five years ago. I was just getting home from My son’s third brain surgery, physically and mentally defeated, and I’m not looking for a business of any sort. I reached out to a friend who had posted on Facebook a handful of times, and all I was seeking was a little boost in energy to help me keep up with doctor appointments and daily life. I had no idea what I was in store for, but I did know I was onto something HUGE after a few days of clear mental focus, happy, positive mood, energy to run and keep up with my boys and feeling motivated to do things for myself and family I hadn’t EVER done before. So I started telling people about what I was feeling… Boy, I had no idea how many people WANTED & NEEDED everything I was sharing and experiencing.

After realizing so many people saw these changes in me that I was so excited about myself, I decided to click the button. It was absolutely free to promote, and I also was told I could earn my product for free with the referral of two friends as a customer or a promoter… That was an absolute no brainer for me. I had no money after the last year spent in the hospital and paying for my son’s surgeries! My husband even said he did not want me to go a day without this, so I simply started posting on social media about my experience, and the blessings started to flow. Bonus is that paid for my groceries, medical bills, house payment, And after three months I became a Le-Vel Autobonus Earner.

Now, five years in, our team has grown to almost 4,000 customers and promoters, 7+figure sales, lives changed forever, and countless bonuses and luxury getaways earned that I never would have experienced before Le-Vel and finding myself again!

This has been the biggest steppingstones to my biggest accomplishment now today. AmandaHeintz.com and the “She Changed It All” Thriving Personal Mentorship and Motivational Speaking Brand. I have a dream to stand on your stage, get deep and personal with you about who I have been in my life and what I have overcome, using my traumas and life obstacles as stepping stones to success and building the life I always knew I was capable of achieving and desired. My story is much more than I can share in an article, and that is why I am so passionate about booking events to reach masses, dig deep in our hearts together and connect because life’s messes all have a purpose and are meant to deliver a message when told/used correctly.

What sets me apart from others is my fierce determination to impact lives with raw vulnerability and honesty of my poor personal choices, the pain and torturous moments where I could have chosen a different path, and the signs from God that led me to CHANGE IT ALL.

What moment in your career do you look back most fondly on?
The proudest moment of my career so far is simply the moment I have decided to pursue my Motivational Speaking and Personal Mentorship Brand; it was the moment I saw my reflection for all it is worth… the moment I was proud of my story and saying it out loud to impact & change lives!

I’m so grateful for my Husband, Forrest Heintz, for always supporting me in all I do and being by my side through all these years of growth and change.