Amanda Green grew up in a home where her mother was extremely frugal but when she became an adult and was living on her own, she decided to try the materialistic lifestyle. She soon became caught up with maintaining a particular image and got entrenched in debt. She was an investment banker and knew that she was doing it all wrong, but still she had problems correcting her lifestyle. That is when she made the decision to go back to what her mother taught her and that is how she became free of debt and was able to live a stress free lifestyle.