Show Me the Ozarks August 2022

Meet Amanda Felix and get an autographed copy of her book Be Still.

Blue Moon Boutique 613 S. Main St., Joplin Dates TBD - Follow Blue Moon on Facebook @blue moon boutique joplin for more updates! Find Be Still online on Amazon and at www.AmandaFelix.com. Find music by Amanda Felix on iTunes, Spotify and Apple Music.

Amanda moved to Miami, Florida. She found an agent and started her acting and modeling career. She modeled for Coca-Cola, beauty product lines and has appeared in commercials and television shows. She even acted in a faith-based movie called A Message for Breanna. She also met some local musicians and started dabbling in songwriting. Things started to really take off forAmanda in 2018. She recorded her first Christian music single “You’ll Find Your Way,” which hit Christian radio and streamed well on iTunes, Spotify and Apple Music. The music video is on YouTube and available for use in Instagram reels. She also sang at a tribute following the February 2018 shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. For Amanda, the floodgates of creativity were open, and she was finally starting to find meaning in everything she had been through when tragedy struck again. Her mother passed away unexpectedly October 12, 2019. “For the first 6 months, I wouldn’t let myself grieve. Instead, I wrote a book and a full album in honor of my mom. Then, after everything got silent and I was called to grieve, I picked up everything, put it in storage and ran away. I grieved so badly, I didn’t want to be here anymore, but then God picked me back up and carried me home many, many times. I lost people along the healing journey, including myself, but you would have never known it. Because I wouldn’t stop and kept going. I was crying over her loss while y’all saw a girl on a billboard!” The book is about the obstacles she has overcome. “By the end of it, you’ll be like, ‘How is she still alive after everything she’s overcome?’ But I hope that it shows people that if I can still keep going, they can, too.” Amanda is currently recording with a Christian music group calledAOD Collective and doing some motivational speaking. Locally, Amanda coaches modeling and acting classes online under the leadership of The Maple Leaf Music Academy located in Carthage, Missouri. “I love giving back to my home state and hometown any way I can,” she said. “If I can teach any techniques and skills that have worked for me, then I am game.” Amanda is a woman who has found ways to turn tragedy into triumph all her life. Despite setbacks, she stayed in the driver’s seat and kept on moving forward. “I don’t regret anything I’ve been through,” Amanda said. “All the hardship has made me the woman I am today. I’m not a victim, I’m a victor. When people come to me and learn from my experience, it’s giving them light in their darkness.”

Photo by David Hilliard

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