He Said She Had No ROI. She Said Watch Me. Sixty Days Later She Was Billing Her Annual Salary Monthly and Turning Relationships Into a Multi-Six Figure Business

What happens when a male CEO tells you that you have no ROI for his company? If you are Jamie Sandifer, you say watch me. In this episode of Manifest, Manage and Multiply Money, Audrey Faust sits down with Jamie Sandifer, founder and CEO of Coastal Connections Group, a multi-six figure strategic consulting firm that connects the dots for clients across Florida's healthcare, education, municipal, and private commercial sectors. Jamie is a third generation North Florida native with over 23 years of experience and a Rolodex that reaches from her childhood neighborhood all the way to Wharton and Washington DC. But before any of that, Jamie was a single mom with an infant, a one year old, and $6.76 in her bank account. She rebuilt from nothing, climbed back up through corporate, and then on Good Friday of 2024 received what she calls a violent shove. A phone call from a male CEO telling her she had no ROI for his company. Within sixty days she had three new clients and her monthly billing totalled her annual corporate salary. And she has never looked back. In this conversation Jamie opens up about the faith that carried her through every hard season, what it really took to monetize relationships that most people give away for free, the identity shifts required to go from corporate employee to business owner overnight, and the hard lessons she learned when clients who became friends did not hold up their end of the contract. She also shares how embracing her financial information from day one, knowing her numbers, tracking her revenue, and getting her financial house in order early, combined with her tenacity and relentless drive, is a big part of what allowed her to scale so quickly and so solidly. If you have ever been underestimated by someone who did not know what you were made of, this episode is for you. **Chapters** 00:00 — Introduction to Jamie Sandifer and Coastal Connections Group 01:10 — What the business looks like today and what Jamie loves most about it 03:53 — The violent shove on Good Friday 2024 and what happened next 06:17 — Watch me: sixty days, three clients, monthly billing totalling annual corporate salary 08:25 — Faith, divine timing and trusting the whisper before the shove 10:02 — Identity shifts going from corporate employee to business owner overnight 14:00 — Monetizing relationships most people give away for free 18:00 — Money mindset shifts and the challenges of being your own paycheck 22:00 — Getting your financial house in order as a solopreneur 28:00 — The $400 million higher education project and how it came through LinkedIn 32:00 — Hard lessons learned when clients and friends are not the same thing 35:56 — Where to find Jamie and what is coming next for Coastal Connections Group 38:13 — Message to women on the edge of their next level: bet on yourself **In This Episode You'll Learn:** - How Jamie turned a violent shove from a male CEO into a multi-six figure business in under a year - Why relationships most people give away for free can be monetized into a thriving consulting business - What the identity shift from corporate employee to business owner actually feels like from the inside - How faith and divine timing show up in business when you are willing to listen - Why being a single provider meant Jamie had to be intentional and prayerful before making any moves - How embracing her financial information from day one helped Jamie scale quickly and solidly - What happens when client friendships and business boundaries get blurry and how to protect yourself - How Jamie landed a $400 million higher education project through LinkedIn and deep market knowledge - Why getting your financial house in order as a solopreneur is one of the most important things you can do early - What it means to keep going even when you do not want to do a cannonball into the deep end **Connect with Jamie Sandifer** - LinkedIn: Jamie Sandifer (personal) and Coastal Connections Group (business page) - Instagram: @coastalconnectionsgrp and @jsandifer27 # Where Is All My Money Going? 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