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Maria Wendt · YouTube

How I Manifest (from $0 to $400k Months)

Maria Wendt breaks down the four mental shifts and three practical habits she says carried her from $63 in year one to $400,000 months eleven years later.

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Big Idea

The argument in one line.

Manifesting more money is presented as reprogramming four internal defaults — believing an outcome before there's evidence, taking full ownership of your results, replacing desperation with gratitude, and using language that assumes the outcome is already decided.

Who This Is For

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READ IF YOU ARE…
  • You run or want to run an online business and feel like your income is capped by your own beliefs about money, not your skills or offer.
  • You're already open to law-of-attraction or manifestation framing and want a more structured, repeatable version of it.
  • You catch yourself hedging with 'if I hit this goal' and want a concrete daily habit to replace it.
SKIP IF…
  • You're looking for tactical, numbers-driven business strategy — this video is entirely about mindset, not marketing mechanics or offer structure.
  • You want independently verified evidence that mindset work drives revenue — the claims here are personal testimony linked to a self-published proof page, not third-party data.
TL;DR

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The video argues that scaling income is a mindset-reprogramming problem, not a tactics problem. The creator names four internal prerequisites — faith (believing without evidence), ownership (accepting you created your current reality), gratitude (over desperation, which she says repels money), and extreme intentionality (language that assumes the goal, like swapping 'if' for 'when'). She adds three daily habits: stop worrying about the mechanism of how a goal happens, stop discussing an in-progress goal with people outside the work, and deliberately celebrate small unexpected windfalls. She closes by recommending two books and a guided audio meditation as accelerants.

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Where the time goes.

00:0001:48

01 · Intro: $63 to $400K

States the income jump and frames the video as practical, not abstract woo.

01:4809:03

02 · The four things you need to reprogram your mind

Faith, ownership, gratitude, extreme intentionality — each illustrated with a personal story (finding the law of attraction at 18, her divorce, correcting 'if' to 'when').

09:0313:56

03 · 3 pro tips to manifesting

Don't worry about the how; don't discuss your in-progress goal with others; celebrate every unexpected dollar.

13:5615:43

04 · 3 resources to help you manifest more

Two books and a guided meditation audio, shown via screen-share with a viewer testimonial as social proof.

Atomic Insights

Lines worth screenshotting.

  • Faith is defined here as belief without evidence — treated as a prerequisite for change, not something you earn after proof arrives.
  • Taking full ownership of a bad financial situation, rather than blaming circumstances, is framed as the only starting point from which the outcome can change.
  • Money is repelled by desperation — panicked, frenzied language about needing money is treated as self-sabotaging, according to the model.
  • Swapping 'if I hit this goal' for 'when I hit this goal' is offered as a near-zero-effort daily habit to change how you talk about your own future.
  • Worrying about how a goal will happen is separated from believing that it will happen — the advice is to release the mechanism and hold only the belief.
  • Staying quiet about an in-progress goal is recommended specifically to prevent other people's skepticism from eroding your own conviction before it lands.
  • Deliberately noticing and celebrating small unexpected windfalls, like a found coin, is framed as training your attention to notice larger opportunities later.
  • The $400,000-a-month claim is backed only by a self-published bank-statement page linked in the description, not by anything shown in the video itself.
Takeaway

Four defaults that quietly cap what you can earn.

MONEY MINDSET

Income ceilings are framed here as mental defaults rather than skill gaps, reduced to four trainable habits plus three daily behaviors.

  • Believing an outcome is possible before there's evidence for it is treated as a prerequisite, not a delusion — the model calls this 'faith' and puts it first.
  • Taking full ownership of a bad financial situation, rather than blaming circumstances, is framed as the only starting point from which you can change the outcome.
  • Panicked, desperate language about needing money is treated as self-sabotaging; replacing complaint with stated gratitude is presented as the actual fix, not just a mood adjustment.
  • Swapping 'if I hit this goal' for 'when I hit this goal' is offered as a low-effort daily habit that reprograms how confidently you talk about your own future.
  • Worrying about how a goal will happen is separated from believing that it will happen — the advice is to let go of the mechanism and focus only on the belief.
  • Staying quiet about a goal while pursuing it is recommended specifically to avoid outside skepticism eroding your own conviction before the goal lands.
  • Deliberately noticing and celebrating small unexpected windfalls, like a found coin or a coupon, is framed as training your attention to notice bigger opportunities later.
Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

Law of attraction
The belief that a person's thoughts and words directly shape the outcomes they experience, including financial ones.
Money mindset
A person's underlying beliefs and emotional patterns around earning, spending, and receiving money, treated here as trainable rather than fixed.
Resources

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13:24bookDollars Flow to Me Easily by Richard Dotts
13:25bookYou're Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero
Quotables

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05:23
Money is repelled by desperation.
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07:21
Never say if. Say when.
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10:43
Don't worry about the how. It's going to happen. Worry more about your own lack of belief.
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11:53
Celebrate every unexpected penny.
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13:19
Money loves me because I understand money, and I love money, and I receive money, and I welcome money.
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00:00Eleven years ago when I started my business, I started from absolute scratch. I was living with four or five other girls in a terrible neighborhood.
00:09I was making no money, and I had every reason in the world to believe that making, know, business, making money online would not work for me.
00:20And I made $63 in my first year because my money mindset and my ability to attract money was that bad.
00:30I was in a ton of medical debt. I was in a ton of student loan debt. It's just like as not maybe maybe not as bad as bad can be, but it certainly felt that way, and I certainly feel like I started from zero.
00:44And now here I am, eleven years later, consistently making $400,000 every single month. I profit about 60% of that, I take home a little more than $200,000 every single month in profit.
01:00That is a really big jump, and I was able to make that jump because I reprogrammed my mind. And this mental reprogramming, this money manifestation can feel very overwhelming and very not practical.
01:18And so I'm actually very good at the practical stuff. And so in this video, what I wanna do is teach you very practically how to reprogram your mind, how I went from $0 to $400,000 a month through the power of mental, like, money mindset, affirmations, and mental reprogramming, basically, is the word I'm looking for.
01:42So there's four things that it takes if you wanna reprogram your mind.
01:48And and it's very I don't wanna say it's very difficult because I don't wanna, like, put that limiting belief on you, but it takes you can't just accidentally stumble your way into attracting the level of money that I am attracting. Like, that's that's not an accident.
02:01It didn't just doesn't just happen. You don't go from zero to excuse me.
02:07You don't go from zero to $400,000 a month accidentally. You have to be very, very, very mindful, and you have to do a lot of money mindset work.
02:16And the more I talk to everyone in my audience, the more I realize that we're all kinda lacking basic money mindset tenants, and that's what I wanna go over with you today. So it takes four things in order to reprogram your mind.
02:27All of them are really important, and we're gonna go over each one. First thing it takes is faith. You have to believe that you can actually change your reality.
02:36You have to believe that you can actually make money. You have to believe that you can actually attract wealth to you.
02:42You have to actually believe that you can be someone who's wealthy. You have to actually believe that this stuff works. And, I mean, frankly, just getting very, like, real with you guys, I was so young, I was, like, 18 when I found out about the law of attraction, and I was so young, and I had been homeschooled, and so I had been very sheltered, and I was so young and sheltered and naive that I just believed the law of attraction, and I never even thought to doubt it.
03:10And now, as someone who's, like, a little bit older, I'm like, Like, that was such a gift. I had no skepticism at all about the law of attraction.
03:19Probably maybe when I should have had a little bit. Right? I should have had a little bit of, well, what if this doesn't work?
03:23But I just didn't. I just had complete faith. That's the first thing that you've got to have, and faith is belief without evidence.
03:30Right? And that's kind of what you need here. You need to believe without evidence that it will work.
03:34And I'll talk about evidence later because that actually is gonna come up. But you have to believe at its fundamental level, if you do not believe you can change your reality, you won't.
03:44Like, fundamentally, you have to believe in the law of attraction. You have to believe that what you put out is what you attract, um, and that you can control your reality. You have to believe that it's possible because nothing else, like, everything else will not follow.
03:56Second thing that it takes is ownership. It takes ownership.
04:01Can you accept that you have created your current reality? You've created it.
04:07And that's a hard pill for a lot of us to swallow. It was certainly a hard pill for me to swallow when I felt like the world was against me, and my past was against me, and my situation was against me, and that I had been screwed over by a lot of people, and that it was unfair.
04:27It was very hard for me to accept that everything I was struggling with was my fault. That was very hard, and it's very hard for a lot of people to accept that. We don't want to think that.
04:35But if you can't accept that you've created your current reality, how do you think you're gonna change your future reality? So you have to take full ownership.
04:44You're in charge of your reality. You create your reality. Believe it or not, like it or not, you create your reality.
04:51Third thing is that it takes gratitude. Money is repelled by desperation. So when someone's maybe either in my coaching group and they post and they're like, I have to make money, and I have to do I have to do it right now because because because of this reason, and and they're just so frenzied and so frenetic, and you can sense I can smell the desperation a mile like, miles away.
05:14And it's not to judge. It's just to say that part of the reason you're feeling like it's not working is because you're so panicked about it working.
05:23Money is repelled by desperation, and the fastest way to get out of that place of money being repelled by you is to start expressing gratitude for what you have. This is something that I was really, really bad at.
05:34I did not have you would never believe it if you talk to me now, but I used to be a very negative person. I would fill the spaces in conversation by complaining about anything and everything. I was a big, big, big complainer, like habitual complainer.
05:48And you would never guess that now that you know me, you would never guess that. But I used to complain constantly, and I had to re again, reprogram.
05:56I had to reprogram my mind to put my default setting at gratitude. To now, it's like even when like two years ago when I went through my divorce and everything that led up to that and it was brutal and and it truly a lot of it like did not feel like it was my fault. It felt very unfair.
06:11It felt very cruel. I was able to go through it. Someone commented, you were so grateful.
06:17You were so positive going through this. And I wasn't polyanistic.
06:21Right? I wasn't just, like, ignoring the hurt that I was going through and the and the feelings that I was feeling, but it was more like I was finding what was good from that situation, what I was grateful for from that situation, and I was allowing myself to see the positive in everything I was going through.
06:38And that's such a gift, and that actually attracts more money, that attracts more opportunities, that attracts more abundance. So the third thing that you have to have if you're gonna reprogram your mind is gratitude.
06:48And then it also takes extreme intentionality. So like I said earlier, you do not stumble your way into a $400,000 month or $400,000 months consistently.
06:57You don't stumble your way into a 6 like, a $100,000 a year. You don't stumble your way into any kind of money. You have to be extremely intentional, like way more than you would think.
07:06I'll give you a very practical example. When you're talking about your goals, never say if I hit this goal.
07:12So if I get a 100,000 followers or if I make a $100,000 or if my business takes off, or if I get my first sale, never say if. Say when. When my business takes off, when I get my first sale, when I hit a 100,000 followers, when I make a $100,000, when I make, you know, hit x y z goal, finish your sentence.
07:32So never say if, never say when. Anyone who works for me, so anyone who's an employee of mine who spends any amount of time with me, will tell you that I drill this into them. I am constantly and I'll do this to my friends without even thinking.
07:44They'll be like, oh, yeah, like, you know, if I ever, like, you know, if I, um, decide to run that marathon, you know, I, uh, if I get first place in that marathon, I'll be like, when you get first place in that marathon?
07:55Like, I'll just almost, like, to a level that's antisocial, just sit there and correct them because it's such a habit for me. I don't even mean to. I just have become so reprogrammed in my own brain to correct my own brain saying if that I just do it to everybody.
08:10So your thoughts and your words have so much power, and you have to be so careful what you speak over yourself.
08:18Another example could be like like, oh, of course of course my tire popped as soon as I spent the money on that. Of course, as soon as my paycheck was deposited, my car broke down and needed to spend money on that. Of course, as soon as I booked the flight to Florida, it decided to, like, pull up a hurricane.
08:34Right? Like, of course of course this bad thing happened. Why?
08:37Why? Why are you saying that? Of course implies you expect bad things to happen.
08:42Start expecting good things to happen. So your language and your thoughts create so much of your reality more than you're even aware, and so you've got to start self policing yourself.
08:53You've got to start even at at the first level, have some basic level of awareness to what you're saying.
09:01So each one of those things, faith, ownership, gratitude, and intentionality, are really big.
09:08They're just really big things you're going to work at over time. So where I'm at with my like, I basically, just so you know where I'm at now, I actually know that anything I want, I'm going to get.
09:19And I know that sounds like in like, probably insane, but I really do believe that from the bottom of my heart and every fiber of my being, from the top of my head to the soles of my feet, if I want something, I will get it without a shadow of a doubt, without a question.
09:35It is it is it is decided already if I want it. It's already mine. And you think I got there on day one?
09:43No. It took me eleven years to get to that point. But even if it looked like I was dying, I would still not think I actually was.
09:51Like, I would not it would happen for me. And I never worry about the how, so there's an I have a couple of pro tips coming up. I never worry about the how.
10:00Like, how am I gonna get this? How is this gonna happen? Like, I'll give you an example.
10:03I really want more kids. I am not interested in dating at all right now, and I don't really feel like having kids without being partnered to someone. It's just my preference.
10:14So do I know right now how that's going to happen? No. But do I know I'm going to have more kids?
10:20Absolutely. I have no doubt about that. That is going to happen for me, and I'm not worried about it.
10:24I'm not worried about the fact that I'm turning 30. I'm not worried about the fact that I don't really want to worry about dating for like a decade or more. Like, I'm just not worried about it because I know that if I want more children, I'm going to have more children, and it is already decided.
10:37It's done. It's already done. So pro tip number one, don't worry about the how.
10:42It's going to happen. Worry more about your own lack of belief. Pro tip number two, do not, I mean this with such a level of intensity, do not talk about your journey of manifesting with anyone.
10:55Don't breathe a word about you manifesting to a single person because what they're going to try to do is they're going to try to show you all the evidence why manifesting doesn't work, why your goals won't happen, why you're silly for believing it. And I learned this the hard way. Right?
11:09I just you've got to shut up about manifesting. You've got to not talk about it. Even I love like, your significant others, oftentimes, they mean well, but they don't they're not in our world, so they don't even really know what we're talking about here.
11:22And so oftentimes, our significant others, we trust them so much, and we, like, put such a high level of weight to their opinion that they can really damage our own journey and our own growth by not understand again, it's not to say, like, oh, you your significant other isn't properly rooting for you. It's just like they don't know.
11:42They don't know. And so they're just doing the best they can with the information they have. They just don't have enough information.
11:47So do not talk about your journey of manifesting with this single soul. Do not open your mouth. Don't open your mouth about it.
11:52And then three, another pro tip is to celebrate every unexpected penny. When I was getting started, would pick off pick up change off the sidewalk, um, and I would have expressed gratitude.
12:03Oh my gosh. I found a nickel. That's awesome.
12:04I'm so grateful. I love it when I find money. I'm always finding money when I'm not expecting it.
12:09Um, if I got a little unexpected coupon for, like, $3 off a pizza, I would be so happy about that. I started celebrating every single unexpected dollar.
12:19Like, the unexpected is what I particularly mean. Like, money you weren't expecting to get. That's what's fun to celebrate.
12:24And what happened is the unexpected money just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger to the point now where I just recently, last month, I got a check-in the mail that was so big, because I still have a bank on the East Coast, and I got a check that was so big, I could not deposit it mobily.
12:43And so when I happened to be on the East Coast last week, I had to deposit it there while I was, like, in an area where my bank branch was. So I had to go deposit this check that was so big, I couldn't even deposit it mobily on the app, and that was it was an unexpected check.
12:58And so you kind of like that's what happens is like when you I started by celebrating Nichols off the sidewalk. Gradually over time, I just started attracting I just attract money.
13:08Money loves me because I understand money, and I love money, and I receive money, and I welcome money, and I'm open and ready to receive as much money as as I want. And so couple of other things, three other things.
13:23I have two books I want you to read. And by the way, guys, if you're new here to the channel, um, I make content like this all the time, so be sure to subscribe. Um, I make videos like this twice a week.
13:32I also do a lot of so I do a lot of the, like, inner mindset work you need, but I do it very practically because this world can be very overwhelming.
13:40And then I also do the majority of the content I make is, like, very, um, like, how to.
13:47It's very, very practical, like, how to go launch a digital product or how to grow your audience. That's a lot of what I do too. So it's the mental stuff, but then it's also the, like, how we actually do this stuff.
13:57Okay. So two books that I think every single person needs to read. Richard Dot's dollars flow to me easily, and then You're Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero.
14:08Both of these are super important books. They really, really, really helped me. And then there is a video that I want you to watch.
14:15I'm just gonna share my screen super quickly.
14:20This one here, it's by Paul. I'll link it in the description as well. It's by Paul Santisi.
14:25I listen you can see he publishes nine years ago. I listen to this money manifestation, like, this money manifesting meditation over and over and over and over again, and I noticed an immediate and dramatic difference in my income.
14:40So I highly recommend this audio. Um, I don't know what it is about it. I have listened to it so many times.
14:44I almost have the, like, hour and a half meditation memorized. Like, I could probably sit here and say the whole thing to you. So I highly recommend that.
14:51If you look at the comments on this too, by the way, there's a lot of people, um, saying, like, okay, first comment. I've listened to this for about two weeks, and I told the universe I wanted a thousand dollars.
15:00I want a thousand dollars today on a $5 scratch off. I'm so grateful and so ready for more of what the universe has for me. That's just the top comment.
15:07Um, so I highly, highly recommend this. So another person says, everyone who believes in the law of attraction knows that thoughts create reality.
15:15Not only does this meditation change your thoughts, it also uses the thoughts of Paul, the guy who made it, to create your reality. Um, Yeah. Just really, really, really, really good stuff, so I highly recommend that.
15:24Um, again, if you're new here, my name is Maria Went. I run a basically $5,000,000 business at this point.
15:31I'm teaching women how to make money online. I really think that when women have money, they do really good things with it. So my mission is to help women make as much money as humanly possible.
15:40I'll see you in the next video.
The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

Maria Wendt opens with the gap she wants you to sit with: $63 in her first year of business against $400,000 a month eleven years later. The rest of the video is her answer to the obvious question — not a funnel or a launch strategy, but four internal habits she says had to change first.

Frameworks

Named ideas worth stealing.

01:44list

The Four Things to Reprogram Your Mind

  1. Faith
  2. Ownership
  3. Gratitude
  4. Extreme intentionality

Her core framework: four internal shifts she says are prerequisites for changing your financial reality, presented in order.

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10:43list

Three Pro Tips for Manifesting

  1. Don't worry about the how
  2. Don't talk about your manifesting journey
  3. Celebrate every unexpected dollar

Daily-practice layer on top of the four internal shifts — habits rather than beliefs.

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CTA Breakdown

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VERBAL ASK
13:23subscribe
if you're new here to the channel... be sure to subscribe. I make videos like this twice a week.

soft ask folded into the resources segment rather than delivered as a standalone pitch, paired with a content-cadence promise (twice weekly) instead of a product offer

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