My entire life, I thought I was going to be a Doctor just like my father.
 
Then in 2017, I realized it wasn't my passion.
 
So, I decided to end my pre-medicine college track.
 
But, before I could, I had to have a plan.
 
My dad grew his medicine practice by building relationships and grow by word of mouth.
 
These same relationships he built were the foundation for me to seek help and learn about other career paths.
 
So, I started calling his network.
 
The second call I made was to his financial planner, Timmy.
 
Timmy taught me that there's 3 things everybody thinks about before they fall asleep.
 
1st: Did I hurt anyone today? If so, you can talk to someone about that.
 
2nd: Am I healthy? If not, you can call your doctor tomorrow - that's my Dad.
 
3rd: Have I made the right financial decisions for my family? That's where I come in.
 
I'm okay with batting 3rd in that lineup.
 
Since that day, I've spent my time simplifying financial decisions for my clients.
 
How I can help you:

➡️Review every year because life happens and things change
➡️Feel confident to make difficult financial decisions
➡️Develop a simple, implementable financial plan
➡️Hold you accountable to your goals

My results:

➡️The best 1st year my agency has ever seen in its 130+ year history
➡️Rookie of the year 2021
➡️New Advisor of the year 2021
➡️Over 100 households (and counting) receiving my help & expertise

If you want to learn more about how I help my clients and see if we’re a fit, you can schedule on my calendar HERE👇🏼

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Mando Sallavanti III

Build generational wealth without the money stress | Financial Advisor for Big Tech (Paycom, Oracle, Salesforce) | Top 25 MassMutual Financial Advisor (2024)

You closed $4M in deals this year. You hit President's Club. 

You're making $500K... Why's your bank account look the same as 3 years ago?

Let me guess:

→ $80K commission check hit last month - already gone
→ RSUs vesting quarterly, no idea if you should sell
→ Owed $40K in taxes you weren't expecting
→ Looking at houses you can't tell if you can afford
→ Spouse is stressed about money even though you're crushing quota
→ You're one bad quarter away from serious financial stress

You're a B2B Sales Leader at a high-growth tech company.
You close seven-figure deals for your company.
You advise C-suite executives on complex buying decisions.

But your own finances are in total chaos.

Here's why:

Traditional financial advice doesn't work for enterprise sales.

"Just save 20% and max your 401k" doesn't mean anything when:

Your income swings $50K month-to-month
You have RSUs, ESPP, commission, or bonuses all hitting at different times
Your "income" includes stock that might be up 30% or down 20%
You're taxed at rates that nobody explains properly

You don't need a financial advisor who works with "high earners."

You need someone who works with sales leaders who live in your world.

That's us.

We work with Sales Leaders at B2B SaaS and Tech companies.

Here's what we do:

Phase 1: Stop the Bleeding

→ Commission cash flow system (capture money before it disappears)
→ RSU strategy (minimize the tax hit or concentration when vested)
→ Protection planning (life, disability - so your family is covered)

Phase 2: Build the Buffer

→ Build emergency fund (handle slow quarters without panic)
→ Automate commission capture (money builds wealth before spending)
→ Know what you can actually afford (house, cars, private school - no guessing)

Phase 3: Build Real Wealth

→ Diversify beyond company stock (systematic selling, no emotion)
→ Tax planning with your CPA (keep more of what you earn within your control)
→ Build multiple income streams (not 100% dependent on quota)

The outcome we plan for?

You're not just making money. 
You're keeping it.

You're not just hitting quota. 
You're building generational wealth.

You're not stressed about the next deal. 
You have OPTIONS.

THAT is your Freedom Path.

If you're crushing quota and tired of feeling broke, let's fix that.

Message me and tell me to get started!

Mando Sallavanti III, CFP®, CEPA, ChFC®

You’re building a thriving business and are amazing at what you do.

But social media doesn’t seem to work for you. 
You struggle to communicate your impact and value online and attract the right clients. 

Wasting time and effort creating content and chasing prospects to only hear crickets. 

If this sounds familiar, I can help.

Through storytelling and content, I managed to turn my consulting side hustle into full-time from LinkedIn after only 3 months after starting.

Combining my experience working in marketing and sales within Meta and Pinterest with my passion for storytelling and content creation, I grew a community of 30,000 on social media 100% organically, built a consulting business on my own from scratch, and built authority.

💰Now I teach others how to get similar results and monetize their audience with proven systems.
💰With an average of 700K-1.1M monthly views, I help brands and products get more exposure and traffic through sponsored posts ➡️ DM “Partner” if interested

Some clients highlights:
🔥a Freelancer client started to attract inbound opportunities (including a job offer) within the first week of working together on their profile and marketing strategy.
🔥 Agency Founder brought 2 high-ticket clients from LinkedIn within the first two strategic sessions. 
🔥Business Strategist reduced their time on LinkedIn from +4 hours to +35 min daily while getting more results out of it following my systems.
🔥Bestseller author and Founder got new speaking gigs from LinkedIn within 3 weeks of working together on their networking and engagement strategies. 

Other facts about me:
✅ Featured and ranked 2# on LinkedIn Sales Stars 2021
✅ Ranking on Favikon, Spring 2023:
- 37th on Marketing & Sales LinkedIn Worldwide
- 57th Female LI Content Creator Worldwide
- 22nd Personal Branding & Audience Building Worldwide 
✅ Grown a community of 30K on LinkedIn in <10 months of intentional work
✅ Reached 700K-1M monthly content views and 1% SSI. 
✅ Monetised my online presence in < 4 months of creating content intentionally. Left my 9-5 to go full in with business after 6 months. 

If you want to start building a brand intentionally and drive impact and attract the RIGHT opportunities inbound

DM "Inbound" to learn more.

PS. I am a digital nomad, not in London right now

Debora Prossomariti

Executive Director & CEO @ Personal Branding Atelier | Helping you move from unknown to visible and credible online.

You’re smart. Experienced. You know your work has depth.

But when you show up online? 

You don't want to trigger people online, so you share what feels safe. 
Your ideas get diluted and the content doesn't land. 
You feel like you're performing instead of expressing.
You feel like you're not being fully yourself online. 
You soft your message to please people around you.

People don’t misjudge you, they just can’t fully place you.

And when they can’t place you, they don’t buy.

I work with founders, consultants, and experts who are already good at what they do but are operating below their real level of authority.

Not because they lack skill.
Because their identity, message, and positioning are misaligned.

Here’s what usually happens:

You overthink what to say and end up saying nothing

Your content sounds generic, despite your intelligence

You attract the wrong clients or have to over-explain your value

You know you’re capable of more leverage, money, and respect than you’re currently getting

My work sits at the intersection of identity, positioning, and authority.

I help you:

- Clarify your intellectual territory and point of view

- Translate who you really are into language that lands

- Build a position that feels solid, confident, and premium

- Show up with conviction instead of self-doubt

- Turn clarity into demand, better clients, and leverage

This is not about content tricks or personal branding aesthetics (although we work on that too), but how you express yourself authentically, how you show up and what you stand for.

We work at the root of the problem, not just the symptoms. 
When identity is clear, strategy works.
When it isn’t, nothing sticks.

I’ve built and monetized authority online, worked with high-level founders and entrepreneurs, and helped experts move from “talented but overlooked” to clear, trusted, and in demand.

If your work is solid but your positioning isn’t doing it justice, that’s the problem I solve.

→ Follow me for identity-based positioning, authority, and clarity
→ DM "Identity" if you want to work with me.

Personal Branding & Strategic Marketing Consultant | Content Creator | Influencer marketing

You don’t need to be a celebrity or an expert to build online.

Whether you’re a successful executive employed at a company or working for yourself establishing authority online and credibility will open up new doors and attract opportunities.

Having more options will give you more confidence and leverage, and with that, the freedom to choose and live the life on your own terms.

Get a more impactful personal brand. Here's why:
- You’ll attract your ideal clients inbound without chasing them
- You’ll save a ton of money on ads
- You’ll start getting life-changing opportunities coming directly to your Inbox
- You’ll stand out from the mass and get more credibility and authority
- You’ll stay top of mind and become the go-to person when they need the type of support you offer
- You’ll build leverage and with that you’ll have more options, more freedom and the possibility to charge more.

DM for strategic 1:1s or corporate training.

Debora Prossomariti, M.Sc.

6 thoughts to leave in 2025 (personal branding edition):

- “I’m not enough {adjective} to reach this goal”
You can still be a beginner and learn. But you need to drop your ego and freaking start somewhere.

- “the market is already saturated. My voice won’t be heard”
according to the internet everything is always already saturated or d3ad at least every other week, but you still see new people showing up and building successful online empires, so why not you? Your voice will never be heard if you keep silencing yourself. 

- “I’m scared of the competition”
having competition is a GOOD thing! It means there is interest and a market willing to pay. You can differentiate yourself without trying to reinvent the wheel. 

- “I’m too old/young to start”
That’s a lie. There’s no fixed timeline. You can always change your life and your career. And even upgrade your identity. 

- “they are ahead of me” 
It’s not a race, stop comparing yourself to a manufactured version of someone else. You know 1% of others’ life and you don’t even know if what is shared on social is real (>90% of it is not).

- “what if I am seen and.. I am exposed and I stop being safe and liked?” 
This has to do more with your limiting beliefs and fears than the actual truth. Being liked doesn’t equal being respected. Owing your voice and bringing the power back to yourself is in fact safer than outsourcing your authority and being miserable doing what you’re supposed to do but didn’t choose. 

Any of these resonating with you?

Build a brand that reflects the real you | neuroscience driven frameworks | Featured on Business Insider

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Silence is leverage. Use it strategically

"Yeah Debbie, I want to show up online using my own voice but I don't know how to share content that works on social media”

Then you can test things out until something eventually sticks, and be willing to wait months or even years, or get helped by someone with experience.

But I can guarantee you that the price of going for the cheapest and laziest option without having the foundations (ie. outsourcing your entire thinking to AI and posting without knowing what you're doing and random vanilla content without a soul) is going to be expensive.

I am not against using AI 

BUT using it without intention and without the foundations to do it right can kill your credibility.

Using it without knowing what good content looks like

It will cost you in brand reputation and even people's respect, because why should we even follow you? That's nothing new, nothing different, we can find another post that looks exactly the same one scroll later.

Branding is all about associations.
Your actions both offline and online play a role too.

If I start associating you with lazy and cheap from your content and digital assets, then.. I won't be seeing you as a thought leader, or paying premium or trust you can deliver solid results.

What would you like to be associated with?

I used to think money was evil because there are so many men in power doing terrible things for humanity. I changed my mind.

Last year I moved my business to Dubai and met extremely wealthy people who were also genuinely kind, real, and generous. Building legit businesses, taking a slow but sustainable and honest approach.

At the same time, I watched “colleagues” in the personal branding space hit seven figures by lying, faking friendships to exploit others, buying features, engagement and followers pretending they were earned.  

Using their fake social proof to become “big players” and sell more lies. 
Here’s what I realised: 
Money is not evil. Money is an amplifier.

It doesn’t change people. It reveals them.

People with low integrity often grow faster because they are willing to cut corners and exploit others. 

Their lack of ethics accelerates results in the short term. Money simply makes that visible.

On the other side, there are people who build wealth slowly, ethically, and honestly. When they get rich, their values scale too. Their generosity, fairness, and responsibility expand with their resources.

Money doesn’t make you a bad person.
It makes the mask fall.

It amplifies who you already are.

Personal branding consultant & ghostwriter | Founder | Featured on Business Insider

There's a cognitive bias that you need to be aware of (and once you see it you cannot unsee it):

It's called confirmation bias:

According to neuroscience, your brain does not process reality neutrally.

When you hold a belief, whether you are aware of it or not, your attention system prioritizes information that fits that belief and filters out much of what does not. 

As a result, you notice more evidence that confirms what you already think and miss or downplay evidence that challenges it.

In simple terms: your brain looks for proof of what it expects to be true, then treats that proof as reality.

So if you believe: "I cannot share my voice online, it's not safe."

Your brain will scan for anything confirming your belief.

Every troll. Every criticism. Every person who got canceled.

Ignoring the thousands who are thriving, dismissing the opportunities, overlooking the connections you could be making.

And six months later, you're still invisible online while complaining that "it doesn't work for people like me."

Your belief becomes your reality.

So if you want to change your reality, you get to reframe the narrative and the stories you’re telling yourself about who you are. 

PS. I don’t have capacity for new retainer projects (normally in the 5 figures) at the moment but I am reopening my calendar with 1:1 power sessions for a fraction of it for a small number of professionals who are ready to break through their limiting beliefs and finally show up online in 2026, after years of “I want to do this, but… ” and self sabotage. 
Check it out here:
https://lnkd.in/dSPsVvdJ

How you can manifest luck and abundance in 2026 (you might want to save this):

Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Here’s how I train myself to get lucky:
-I prepare like the opportunities are already on their way
- I rewire my thoughts to filter for possibilities
- I focus on what most people overlook

Why does this work?
→ Most people wait for opportunities to show up
 → They’re not mentally ready when a chance appears
 → They miss signals because their brain isn’t trained to look for them
But when you expect opportunities, your perception changes.

You start seeing them everywhere:
→ In conversations others dismiss as irrelevant
 → In problems others complain about
 → In people others underestimate

The difference between “lucky” and “unlucky” people?

Lucky people prepare before they need to.

They condition their minds to notice what’s possible.
They place themselves where opportunities naturally circulate.
So when the moment arrives, they don’t freeze.

They step into it because they’ve already become the person who can hold it.

That's how you get “lucky.”

Some time ago I had a new ghostwriting client who was hesitant to start working together.

Here’s why: 

He was burned in the past by an agency that made clear that they couldn’t care less about his results and reputation.

His story was disheartening. 

He wasted thousands of dollars for a mediocre job: 

- Soulless posts which were clearly copy-pasted templates written by AI without personality and even worse, without a strategy behind

- An increased engagement… coming from (probably fake) accounts in low income countries not filling his Ideal Client criteria

- An increased following base.. from other irrelevant accounts attracted to his profile as a result of the increase (irrelevant) traffic 

It turned out they were put in an engagement pod without them knowing about it (being relatively new on LinkedIn) 

Their reputation became at risk.

And their only fault was trusting a scammer, a very popular LinkedIn creator, with a lot of engagement and whose name was on the most popular “top 1%” lists.

And this client’ results? 
On the surface, they were doing great.

They had more followers, more likes, but the few inbound enquiries that came in where only from people who would never afford their services. 

They saw the red flags and canceled the contract, limiting the damage. 

But the lack of overall confidence remained. 

So I offered them my entry-level, low commitment offer first so they could have an idea of what it looked like working with me and have first-hand experience first before committing long-term. 

Reassured, they signed off on the core program and we continued working together. 

Sometimes it’s okay to take a step back and offer flexibility.

Show empathy and that you get them. 

In most cases, it’s not about you. 

But more about their history and experiences.

~

Ever been burned in the past? How did you overcome your skepticism?

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