Her Story
About Dr. Linda
I've been an entrepreneur most of my life. I started off as an artist and went into business management, then into a training management position where I trained other managers. I went into my own business as an entrepreneur with a sign and graphic design shop, then evolved that into a design firm. I decided to go back into consulting because I wanted to get back out and get some stimulation and work with people. I ended up building a hospital with my partner who was a veterinarian. During that process, I decided to go back to school to get my doctorate. I originally went back to get my doctorate in psychology, but I realized they don't include the soul or the spiritual component. I wanted to talk about the higher mind and the nature of the soul, so I stopped that program and came across a program in spiritual sciences, which required a bachelor's in clinical hypnotherapy. That turned out to be exactly what I wanted - the whole basis of spiritual sciences is self-creation, transformation, personal empowerment, and self-mastery. I provided therapy for a while but decided that wasn't my thing. I got onto coaching, which was more effective in how you approached problems and worked with people. But with coaching, I felt compelled to teach because I think it's important that we gain the knowledge we need to grow and develop ourselves. So I switched it into more of a mentoring style where I combine the psychology with the coaching and the teaching, so by the time I'm done working with someone, they've acquired new skills.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Dr. Linda
01What do you attribute your success to?
I love learning, developing ideas, and educating myself. Most of my education is actually self-education - I've been in the habit of studying, getting up early in the morning and studying for 2 or 3 hours before I went to work. I decided to go back to school and get a doctorate to make use of my study habits. I don't just read something and repeat it - I read everything on a subject that I can possibly find that's interesting, and then I combine them all in a new way to create a new way of looking at it or a new method for practicing. I believe practicing is extremely important because knowledge is meant to provide you with the basis for practice, and we only truly know what we know through experience. I grew up in a very rough upbringing - I was raised really poor, my mother was on welfare with 5 kids, my father was a drunk. I'm the only one in my family that really helped do that and was able to stay healthy and balanced through it all. I always felt like people would look at me, especially being a girl, and they would say, well, if she can do it, I can do it. So I wanted to help people realize they can do it too, to provide them with the tools and resources they needed to be able to manage their own life, regardless of how bad it is. My mind was my ticket out - I graduated from high school early and started art school for graphic design, working the whole time. I went through really difficult situations - my son was born with an inherited disease that took almost over a year to resolve with 12 surgeries in his first year, I was beaten and abandoned by my husband, and my husband was murdered 7 years later. All these things I used as a means of strengthening myself and growing myself through the experiences they brought. I feel like I can help people because I've done it myself, I know how to do it, I know how they're feeling, I know what they're going through.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
If it is to be, it's up to me. You have to teach people that the Savior that you're all waiting for is yourself. There are no magical forces out there that are going to change things in your life for you.
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