
About the Power Up Your Life Podcast
Insightful conversations that aim to provide actionable inspiration and practical strategies for living and optimized and authentic life.
Tapping into a universal desire to fulfill our potential, this podcast is dedicated to empowering personal and professional growth. Through insightful conversations, we aim to provide actionable inspiration and practical strategies for living an optimized and authentic life.
Each week, hosts Mandy McAllister and Kelly Resendez dialogue with high-achievers across diverse fields who prove that challenges can be stepping stones. Listeners will be motivated by real stories of overcoming obstacles as well as learn hard-earned lessons on cultivating resilience, clarity and impact.
Going beyond surface-level successes, guests discuss their authentic struggles and ‘make it work’ methods for daily routines, stress management, vision-setting and pushing past comfort zones.
Whether aspiring to start a business, advance a career or design a more fulfilling lifestyle, this podcast champions continuous learning and evolving towards your best self. Walk away equipped to power up your life through inspired action and by spreading encouragement to others on their journey too.

Kelly Resendez

Mandy McAllister

This is the EXCLUSIVE Podcast from Kelly & Mandy, the women behind GoBundance the PREMIER & EXCLUSIVE membership community of powerful and ambitious women looking to scale their businesses, careers, or portfolios. We support and hold each other accountable for every aspect of our lives. We are diverse, eclectic, and impossible to define…or hold down. We value health, financial freedom, adventure, genuine contribution, and above all – unapologetic, unabashed, and limitless joy!
This podcast is for you the woman who will NOT accept less than in her life.
“No” Means “Next”: Big Dreams and Bold Wealth Moves | Power Up Your Life Podcast | Episode 63 with Marissa Nehlsen
🌱 From Farm Kid to Financial Freedom: Marissa Nehlsen on Wealth, Systems, & Living Life Rich
In this episode of the Power Up Your Life podcast (GoBundance Women), Kelly Resendez and Mandy McAllister welcome Marissa Nehlsen, a North Dakota farm girl turned founder and CEO of a debt-free eight-figure financial firm managing over $1B in assets across 46 states, author of Live Life Rich, and financial mentor for the JohnMaxwell Leadership certified team. Marissa shares her upbringing in poverty and abuse, the defining mindset shift from “victim or victorious,” and how “show up faith” shaped her approach to business and life. She explains how she helps entrepreneurs build coordinated financial plans, create wealth with purpose, and reach freedom through clear goals, systems, and a “freedom plan” (sources, number, and date). She also discusses unconventional habits—treating “no” as “next,” getting into new rooms, choosing mentors wisely—and how to instill stewardship, leadership, and work ethic in the next generation.
For more about Marissa’s book:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Marissa-Nehlsen/225967087
00:00 Meet Marissa
01:49 Farm Kid Origins
02:49 Escape and Show Up Faith
04:38 Victim or Victorious
06:17 Mayo Clinic Finance
08:33 Think Bigger First
10:21 Clarity and ODP
12:19 Freedom Plan Numbers
13:26 Systems and Impact
15:32 New Day Mindset
15:47 Every Day Is Gift
16:13 GoBundance Women Spotlight
17:01 Unconventional Success Habits
17:26 No Means Next
18:00 Get In Better Rooms
18:41 Work In Progress List
19:37 Mentors And Until
21:27 Is It Worth Your Life
22:43 Raising Grateful Leaders
27:01 Live Life Rich Resources
29:08 Final Sendoff
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