MARIA WENDT: From Single Mom to $10M: How she Built an Empire With $300 Products | DSH #1664

Maria isn’t just another online business educator — she’s redefining what integrity, transparency, and mission-driven entrepreneurship look like in the digital era.

She shares her bank statements, tax returns, personal spending, and real profit margins — not to flex, but to rebuild trust in an industry crowded with fake screenshots and inflated claims.

📘 What You’ll Learn From This Episode

💛 How mission-driven entrepreneurship leads to long-term success

💰 Why low-ticket offers are exploding & how she scaled from $1M → $10M

📈 The strategy behind her 60% repeat customer rate

🔍 How radical transparency builds trust in a skeptical market

👩‍👧 How she balances motherhood with running an 8-figure brand

🙏 How rediscovering God brought her peace during life’s hardest chapter

🧩 How she builds courses that eliminate confusion and overwhelm

📣 The funnel strategy that brings in 30,000 leads a month

🎯 Why she believes she was “put on this planet to help people make money”

🔥 Her philosophy for creating massive student results at scale

Chapters

00:00 – “I was put on this planet to help people make money.”

00:27 – Maria arrives with unstoppable energy

01:32 – Her first event: 300 people, zero hiccups

02:07 – Why IRL events stretched her team to a new level

03:19 – What Maria actually teaches (& why beginners trust her)

04:12 – Radical transparency: bank statements, tax returns & integrity

05:06 – Becoming a single mom & rebuilding life from scratch

06:16 – Pivoting from high-ticket → low-ticket (1M → 4M → 10M)

07:14 – Why low-ticket is a blue ocean and her 60% repeat rate

09:57 – How she builds courses that prevent overwhelm

10:45 – Ethics, religion & restoring trust in a broken industry

11:07 – Running an 8-figure business while being a full-time mom

12:23 – Sacrifice, the long game, and choosing time with her daughter

13:29 – Homeschooling, childhood, and shaping Ellie’s future

15:16 – Why her audience is 60% women, 40% men

16:03 – The secret to her crazy engagement rate

17:02 – ManyChat, email funnels & 30K leads per month

18:07 – Posting revenues monthly — the good AND the bad

18:35 – Spending $300K/mo on ads & scaling with her sister

19:56 – Growing up Catholic with 8 siblings

22:49 – Learning entrepreneurship from her dad’s business

24:17 – How client work led to coaching & consulting

26:36 – What’s next: workshops, events & hitting $10M

28:33 – Navigating divorce, healing, and staying in integrity

32:15 – Rediscovering God & finding peace again

35:03 – The pressure of being the breadwinner & public figure

37:01 – Single mom life, pets, and “Rick the Rabbit”

39:36 – Why she wants millions to earn an extra $2K/mo

40:59 – Final message: start with free content, learn, implement

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