Have you ever wondered how someone could possibly juggle the roles of attorney, CPA, author, and ordained minister, all while embodying spiritual fulfillment? Lynita Mitchell-Blackwell, Esq. a beacon of multi-dimensional success, joins us to unravel the tapestry of her life, revealing the transformative power of empathy and authenticity in a diverse career.
Navigating the worlds of law, finance, and spirituality, Lynita's story offers a blueprint for integrating our true selves into our professional lives, with a dash of divine inspiration from her encounters at a vision board party that altered her life's path.
Then, there's Lynita, whose experiences with prayer and stillness amid life's tempests are nothing short of miraculous. Imagine grappling with the concept of fractions as a child and finding a spiritual revelation within it. From overcoming a life-threatening health crisis to embracing the teachings of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Lynita's narrative is a beacon of hope, highlighting the essential practices of self-care and the courage to prioritize well-being over the relentless push of the daily grind.
Wrapping up, we pivot to the pursuit of a life 'on fire,' where one's ambitions are fueled by a burning desire for self-discovery and spiritual richness. Our ambitious guest sets forth an audacious goal of reaching 100 stages, intertwining their professional aspirations with a journey of personal enlightenment.
Her story exemplifies the art of self-acceptance and the release of external pressures, urging us all to seek out peace, joy, and fulfillment by honoring our spiritual existence within the human experience.
Join us as we share these empowering tales and offer a guiding light toward a life of contentment and bliss.
Lynita Mitchell-Blackwell, Esq.
Intuitive Business Coach
www.LynitaMitchellBlackwell.com
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello everyone, welcome to our Spiritual
Spotlight series.
Today I am joined by LinnidaMitchell Blackwell.
She's an accomplished attorney,cpa, best-selling author,
christian life coach, emotionalintelligence practitioner, and
she's also an ordained newthought minister, christian
minister and intuitive businesscoach.
She has a lot going on everyoneand I am really, really excited
(00:26):
that she's here today.
Thank you so much for coming toSpiritual Spotlight series.
How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I am wonderfully well .
It's so honored to be here,Rachel.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Thank you so much.
So, linnida, can you maybeshare with us what initially
inspired you to pursue such adiverse career path, combining
law, finance and spiritualcoaching?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Actually it was following my life path.
Now I can say that now on thisside of the rainbow, as I was
walking my path, I was veryfrustrated with myself because I
was like, why is it?
It seems like everybody canjust find their groove and just
walk and I'm all over the place.
(01:08):
But what Spirit has shown me atthis point in my life is that I
needed different experienceswith different people so that I
could appeal to a very broadaudience and really have not
just compassion but empathy forpeople.
My mother selected myundergraduate major, which was
accounting.
(01:28):
I did not like it.
I'm a very outgoing person, sojust sitting there doing a
little beanie thing, that was mything.
So then I went back for law,love law, but still felt like
there was something missing, andso I did what I was raised to
do.
I started serving in thecommunity and found a lot of
passion and joy there, and Ialso found women who were just
(01:52):
like me, a few years younger,who were looking for ways to
serve and to move up thecorporate ladder, but they
weren't necessarily getting theopportunities to do so.
And I wrote my first book, whichwas leading through living a
guy for women seeking growththrough leadership.
And in that book I shared how Iuse my community activism and
(02:16):
involvement, those skills, giftsand talents, and bought them
into the workplace so I couldgrow, because I was not
necessarily given theopportunities on the job to get
those skills.
And then people read it and itreally resonated and even though
it said for women, the men werelike I don't care that, that
was said for women, I'm using ittoo.
(02:36):
So I was invited to come speakand then people asked me to help
them to write their own booksand so then I started coaching
with that.
But then I had a life challenge, which I'll go through a little
later because I know you'regoing to ask, because everybody
asked.
So that's how I wound up doingthese various things with the
(02:59):
coaching, the speaking, the law,finance.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Wow.
So let me ask you this have youfound ways to integrate your
spiritual beliefs and practicesinto your professional life,
especially in fields like lawand finance, which are often
seen as more secular?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So I especially use my skills, gifts and talents in
the secular, because we like tothink, rachel, that we are the
separate and apart beings, likeI'm one person at work and I'm
another person at home.
That is a lie, and even when weput on, I call it our battle
suit, right?
Yes, yes, the mask, whateverwords you want to use, your
(03:41):
light still peaks out in thelittle cracks and crevices, in
the slits.
Okay, so who you really are,people see that.
And so I got to a place where Iwas just like, well, let's just
go for the full shabring.
And I threw all that off and Ijust show up as me, and
particularly when it comes totense situations at work, that
(04:06):
showing up with that intuitiveintelligence, really listening
to what the soul is saying notnecessarily what my clients are
saying, or the wonderfulcounselor and advocate that's
sitting across the table for me,sometimes showing their natural
crack, allows me to be a lovingand empathetic human being
(04:27):
toward them, even when they'renot acting like one.
So, yes, I love that.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I'm having a moment.
Everyone, so I'm having amoment.
You have achieved significantsuccess in your career.
You mentioned feeling somethingwas missing.
Can you maybe describe themoment you realized this and how
it impacted your approach tolife and work?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Absolutely.
I remember exactly where I wasand what I was doing.
I attended a vision board partythat was jointly facilitated
facilitated, excuse me, byJeharry Sword and Benicia Ponder
, who are amazing speakers inyour own rights business for
women and this one was differentbecause I had been to vision
(05:17):
board parties before where youget your magazine, cut your
pictures, put it on there, rightbut this one, they started it
off with an extended meditation,and so, instead of us just
grabbing our magazines andpictures, it was what is spirit
telling you?
What are you feeling?
What is the call, how are youbeing called for?
And so I wrote what was beingdownloaded into me, and then I
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got pictures to match up withthat, and that was when I was
able to hear myself and hearspirit, and I was like there's
got to be something more.
I have had a blessed life Rachel, wonderful family and friends
and community, amazingopportunities but I think we all
(06:01):
know that those thingscheckmarts do not define life
satisfaction, and so that's whenI was able to look in and say I
would really like to dosomething that was meaningful
and impactful for many people,and that's where the book came
from.
My first book came, which setthe trajectory for today.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That is amazing Now.
You have mentioned now a coupleof times listening to spirit.
So was listening to spiritsomething that you maybe heard
or felt when you were young andthen kind of tap more into it as
you aged, or is it somethingthat you've always known?
Within you is something that'sa higher power connection to God
, if you can elaborate a littlebit on that?
(06:46):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
When I was very small , my parents tell me they always
knew that I was having aconversation with somebody else.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Love that, love that.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And I was introduced to God from the time that I
could talk.
So it was, and I'm verygrateful for that foundation.
But my personal connection toGod happened when I was in the
fourth grade.
I was having a time withfractions.
I did well on everything elsebut fractions.
(07:22):
I just could not get theconcept it was the same, thank
you.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Thank you, and I'm really good at math and I'm a
registered nurse.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Thank you, but that concept it just.
And my parents paid for tutors.
They sat down with me, so thiswas right.
There were all these, myteachers.
Everybody was come on, leneita,you can do it.
But I was like it just.
But one day I was sitting thereand I was nine years old.
I was sitting on the bed and Ihad my book open and I said, god
(07:52):
, I'm not moving from this spotuntil you show me how to do this
.
Now, in my mind, a small amountof time passed and it just
clicked and I got it.
But I realized when I looked atthe clock two hours had passed.
Whoa, yeah, yeah, excuse me, sothat was my first encounter
(08:16):
with God my personal encounter.
I love this.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, wow, like a snapshot.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
So that was the first time that I and when I say
understood, because when you'renine you don't really get right
Okay, that was the first time Iunderstood the power of
meditation, like sitting quietlyin his presence so he can talk
and do the work to make thechanges in you that need to be
made for what you have asked for, cause we asked for things all
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the time but we don't sit stillenough for God to do what he
needs to do within us Because,remember, the problem was not
the fraction, the problem was mycomprehension of the fraction.
So the change had to comewithin me.
But I wish I could say thatI've maintained that
understanding throughout mywhole life.
That's alive.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I love your honesty.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
And you know we get caught up in the world and what
people are saying and showing usabout it all begins and ends
with you, and so I fed into that.
I really, really did and Iworked myself to the bone and I
almost died a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yes, so with these near death experiences it sounds
like, did you have momentswhere you crossed the other side
and saw spirit, or are you okayto share a little bit about
that?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Oh, we're friends.
Rachel, let's go, honey, let'sdo it, and so you're the best.
So I have.
Yes, it'll be two years.
In June, I was in the hospitalfor bowel obstruction, which was
(10:07):
a complication from a previoussurgery that I had had.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
My gosh, that is such a serious thing, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
It sounds it's just bowel obstruction.
Two words no, no, it is, thatcan end your life.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
You could die 100%.
Yes, ma'am, I know that for afact.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, and so I had this experience.
Well, I didn't know it at thetime, but I was dying of
pneumonia.
I didn't know.
Yeah, I was in the hospital.
And two years ago this isduring COVID- it's during COVID
right, it's during COVID, right,right.
(10:45):
So I'm in the hospital and I'mgetting shoddy care.
Those people are lucky that myhusband is a same man now,
because when we met he put adifferent result.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You guys, what about an experience?
Is what I'm hearing.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yes An experience.
An experience.
That's what we're saying, right?
And I was just like, how did Iend up here?
And I was out of my body.
I was at the end of theuniverse.
I looked and the whole worldwas in my hand.
(11:27):
I took that to mean from God,you've created all of this If
you want to change.
You know how.
I said stop and everythingstopped.
I said we're resetting.
And I came back Y'all, don't dothis at home.
I started pulling those wiresand IVs out of me.
(11:50):
I pulled that tube out of mynose and it was the first time I
was able to blow my nose inalmost a week.
And all this flim and I couldsmell, because I've had
pneumonia before.
I smelled it and I was like myGod, if I had been here another
day, my family would have beenburying me.
(12:12):
I called my sister and I saidcome get me.
She did the only thing that Iwell okay, I want to be that
graphic, but there was only onething that I didn't pull out for
myself because I was scared.
But when the oh, I know whatyou didn't pull out.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, you know what?
You didn't pull out.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am, the alarm started going
off and they're coming in.
She signed on AMA.
Yeah, I was like I'm gone, I'mdone with this place.
I'm a dad, let's stay here.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, that is such a powerful experience.
Even as you're just saying it,I can feel the emotion and the
transformation and just it'salso the power that you had in
that moment.
Oh, my goodness, now, sincethat experience, how has that
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shifted your intuitive coachingbusiness career?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh, absolutely.
The first way that it haschanged is that I tell all of my
clients from the job you'regoing to have a lot of rest time
, that we're building into yourschedule.
If you're not good with doingthat, not just saying that we're
not going to work well together.
Years ago I read this book byhis holiness Sri Sri Ravi
(13:36):
Shankar, who is the founder ofthe Art of Living Foundation in
Bangalore, india.
He has a set schedule formanagers and directors and up
One long weekend a month, sothree-day weekend, one week of
vacation every six months andthen once a year you gather due
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two weeks.
As Americans, we're like whatis that?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Time off, excuse me.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Now my European class .
They were on vacation.
In the middle of a sentence.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I love you so much I got to go.
I'm on a vacation.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I was working with a young lady on my app and, I
promise you, I send an email andI got a response back at office
.
But what if we learn to do that?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Seriously, yes, we feel shamed to take time for
ourselves, and it is such ahustle culture that's not
serving us any good.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Not at all.
You're talking about servingthe people who gave us this
hustle culture.
They were not, I believe,ill-intended.
I would agree with you Right,they taught us what they knew to
do.
But if we're looking at it fromthe perspective of what they
knew to do, we all get to aplace where we are like to our
(15:10):
parents.
I love you and I appreciateeverything you taught me.
All that was one point.
I have to do some thingsdifferently for myself.
That I know.
That's one of those things.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yes, that is one of those things.
The perfect example to yourpoint is smoking.
Doctors used to prescribesmoking and then, several years
later, after they had to publishscientific articles, oh wait,
it causes cancer, Right?
So I mean, that's the perfectexample, so help.
(15:42):
So let me ask you this you havea five-step formula to the
ultimate successful life.
Can you maybe elaborate on thisprocess and what are the key
realizations or experiences thatled to its development?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Absolutely so.
The key experiences were mysurgeries, because I had
achieved everything I everwanted, but I still didn't have
that lasting happiness.
I was still on this hamstool.
I would achieve, be happy, andthen feel like I need to do
something else again, and so Iwas like I'm not looking for
(16:18):
happiness, I'm looking for joy,and joy is an external job,
right, whereas happiness isexternal, and so that is what
led to the framework or theformula.
The first is that we focus onpeople and not on process.
What does that mean?
It means that what is happeningright here, right now, which is
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this conversation with you andme, rachel, that's the only
thing that matters, because wespend so much time planning,
strategizing on tomorrow that weforget that if today is not
taken care of, tomorrow can'tcome, not won't.
It cannot.
There are no foundationalbuilding blocks for tomorrow to
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form if we're too ill to enjoyit.
True Facts, true, yeah.
The second thing is tounstretch ourselves.
Then we have told ourselvesthat if we're not busy every
minute of the day, that we'refailures.
Yes, y'all, there's a reasonthat you pay that money for that
(17:24):
couch.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Lay on it.
There's a reason why you haveNetflix.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Watch it.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Right Bravo is there for a reason it really is.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Watch that fine man take off his shirt.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yes, ma'am, yeah, I need an out-of-the-office reply.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I take once every quarter, a Saturday, and look at
everything that I'm involved in, and then I start eliminating
things that are no longer inline with my purpose.
Now, I didn't say that we'renaked Right.
Go ahead, Rachel.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I know that you're a genius.
Once a quarter Is it aligned,or is it no longer aligned?
It's almost like once a year Igo through an unsubscribe from
emails.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I'm sorry, do not want a quarter.
Yes, it makes life so mucheasier, and you have the promise
that you're not going toreplace it with something.
I know it was hard, for me too.
I have chills.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
No, I am so grateful to be speaking with you today
because I there's this thingcalled a misogy, which is one
big event that you plan for theyear.
One big goal, and for me is towork on my health and my
well-being, and includes mentalwell-being.
What you are saying is speakingto my core, like I'm like yes,
(18:52):
ma'am, I am implementing this.
When we hang up this call.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Well, good.
And then the last god bless youback.
No, no, no, no.
This is, this is good, this isgood.
And then the last major thingis Shifting from a I want to
live a perfect life to wantingto live an excellent one, and
(19:16):
the difference between them isthat, if you look at perfection
in the dictionary, it is meetingor exceeding standards.
But I have to ask you, rachel,who set those standards?
Because it probably yeah, no,somebody else gave you that list
, oh, yeah it's called my yes,it's societal expectations
parents, friends, family,boyfriends, lover.
(19:37):
That's right, that's right andall these people love you, and
so it comes to a place where youhave to say I love y'all too,
but it's, this is not workingfor me and so I need to move
over to an excellent life, whichis the understanding that not
only am I setting my ownstandards, but there's grace
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built in.
So if something doesn't turnout exactly like I had in mind,
that's fine.
You know why?
Because it was in line with mylife purpose, my journey, what
my soul needed to accomplishthis time around.
And Once you get there, otherpeople's expectations they
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really do not impact you the waythat they used to.
Now I won't say they won't evermatter, because you care what
your mama.
Things Come on Absolutely.
But but it doesn't sting somuch when there's not
necessarily that 100% approval.
80% is good, it's still a bee,I'm good.
I.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Love that.
So you have a book that youhave written, and I know you've
written a couple books behindyou.
Can you please show the book tous and tell us about that?
This amazing book?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Absolutely so this is Thank you.
This is live life on fire, theultimate guide to the successful
life full of peace, joy andfulfillment, and it is a cheat
sheet to answer the questionwhat am I living for?
Because it can't be stuff.
If it was stuff, you would havebeen happy the moment you got
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your car, your money, your house, everything that you ever
wanted on your list right.
Instead, you keep going likethere's something else that you
have to have.
Yeah, I'm not saying youshouldn't want those things, I
want them to.
I like having a roof over myhead, right.
Yeah, what I'm saying is theycannot define your happiness,
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they cannot define your joy,right.
And so I take you through aprocess that includes being,
just being in the present,living a life of flow, so just
going with everything andtrusting that life is for you,
not against you, so that eventhings that are almost like the
(21:52):
boogeyman jumped out, they'retrusting that that was for you
too, building you up, making youstronger so that you can live a
life of all Once you're in.
All that allows you to tap intoyour intuitive intelligence.
All of us have the clear skillsand gifts All knowing, all
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seeing, all hearing, all beingbut we don't necessarily tap
into them Once you're living inall you can and that allows you
to be better and to serve yourclients, your family and
yourself, that's beautiful,thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
So you Amazon your websites All the good places
Anywherecom.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
That's right.
The best place, though,seriously would be my website,
and it's also on Audible, so ifyou want to drive around and
listen, please, check it out.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
And, for the listeners, what is your website?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It is my name Leneeta Spell-L-Y-N-I-T-A
MitchellBlackwellcom.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
That's such a beautiful website.
She has an amazing website.
If you want to see like all ofthe amazing things she has going
on, you need to check out herwebsite.
I'm like I need her webdesigner.
It's amazing.
So can you please share apersonal story of transformation
, either from your own life orfrom one of someone that you've
coached, that embodies theprinciples of your ultimate
(23:20):
success life formula.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Absolutely.
I've spent a lot of timetalking about myself, so I'll
pick a client who I know is goodbecause she shares this story,
coach Carol Rodin.
When we met she was over thechildren's ministry at our
church and Spirit had me ask herhave you ever played in a
league?
Now, coach is not tall, coachis maybe about 5'7", 5'8".
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And so she paused and looked atme and she said why did you ask
me that?
I said God told me to have youever played in a league.
She said yeah, I was cut from ateam for the WNBA and I was
like what exactly?
Now, my hazard was justappointed to this church.
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I did not know her from Adam,but from that point on we were
like peanut butter and jelly,exactly together.
So we went to lunch that woundup turning also into dinner, and
she laid out everything sheever wanted to do and she was
like I know that I'm all overthe place, but I took the pieces
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of paper and I just put them inorder and I said coach, you're
not all over the place.
This is the life plan God hasgiven you.
This is a 10 year plan.
And she was like I feel so muchbetter.
She said but like, what do I do?
I said well, first you've gotto own that you being cut was a
blessing and not something to beembarrassed about, because I
(24:56):
get the impression that thatstill stings, even all these
years later.
I mean, that happened when shewas in college.
Since then she's been an awardwinning coach for various levels
.
She has earned her master'sdegree.
She is an educator.
She's done amazing things, butthat thing was still there, and
(25:19):
so we did her bio and that islanded right in the first
paragraph saying that she tookthat experience and learn to see
God's hand on her life and howit can help other people,
because when she talks to herstudents now she can tell them I
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made it to the lead, I got cutbecause XYZ.
This is what we're going to doto fortify you so that if it
doesn't go all the way for you,it's OK.
Right, you're still a complete,whole, successful, lovely being
.
And we published her first bookthat talked about her journey,
which is called Carol's Dream.
We published her devotional foreducators last year Exactly.
(26:05):
She is speaking all over thenation and she was recently
inducted in the collegiate Hallof Fame for the Sports Hall of
Fame.
So these are all things that wehave accomplished.
I say we because I'm her coach.
I'm chill because she waswilling to to embrace that
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painful part.
But without that, if we don'tembrace every part of our story,
even though the painful ones,we leave things on the table.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
We do 100 percent.
You are so correct, 100 percent.
It's interesting when you lookback at your life, at what you
thought it was going to end upat, you see the twists and the
turns.
You're like there's amazinglessons in all of these.
You can either learn to elevateyou or take you down.
Yes, absolutely yes.
So let me ask you this Lookingahead, what new goals or
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aspirations are you setting foryourself, both in your personal
and professional life?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
So, personally, I have been going to the gym every
day.
As a matter of fact, when wefinish up, I'm headed out.
She's like bye, rachel.
This is big for me because Iused to go work out first thing
in the morning.
I got to the place where I wasjust like I really like my bed.
So Spirit was just like go atnight and I was like but I'm
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going to be too tired.
But what has happened is thatwhen I go at night, I'm able to
release the day.
Then I come home and I give tomyself a bubble bath every night
.
That's beautiful, right,exactly Now.
I know some of you are like Ihave small kids.
That's not going to work outfor me.
They go to bed.
(27:52):
After you put them down, get inthe tub.
That's your time, that istotally your time.
That was my big thing andthat's something I'm committed
to and I'm moving forward.
That's personal.
Professionally, I want to be on100 stages this year.
Amen, yes, and that's happening.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I have a feeling.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yes, and I'm already on stage too, because I'm here
with you, amen.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Again, hope you don't mind me saying amen, I feel it.
I can feel the back of yourhead.
Thank you, I love that.
100 stages international or allin the United States.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I am open.
Half passport will travel.
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
All right, then for our final question.
For our listeners who areseeking more than just success
in their lives, what advicewould you offer for finding a
deeper sense of peace, joy andfulfillment?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
The best way for you to find that peace, joy and
fulfillment is for you toembrace that you are a spiritual
being having a human experienceand you are living the best way
that you can.
Once you remove theseexpectations that other people
have of you, that you have ofyou, and just realize that you
(29:17):
are perfect just the way you are, life shifts.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
That is a beautiful piece of advice.
Thank you so, so much forcoming to the Spiritual
Spotlight Series.
I am excited to see you on over100 stages this year and I wish
you nothing but success.
Thank you again, no further.
Hello everyone, welcome to our Spiritual
Spotlight series.
Today I am joined by LinnidaMitchell Blackwell.
She's an accomplished attorney,cpa, best-selling author,
christian life coach, emotionalintelligence practitioner, and
she's also an ordained newthought minister, christian
minister and intuitive businesscoach.
She has a lot going on everyoneand I am really, really excited
(00:26):
that she's here today.
Thank you so much for coming toSpiritual Spotlight series.
How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I am wonderfully well .
It's so honored to be here,Rachel.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Thank you so much.
So, linnida, can you maybeshare with us what initially
inspired you to pursue such adiverse career path, combining
law, finance and spiritualcoaching?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Actually it was following my life path.
Now I can say that now on thisside of the rainbow, as I was
walking my path, I was veryfrustrated with myself because I
was like, why is it?
It seems like everybody canjust find their groove and just
walk and I'm all over the place.
(01:08):
But what Spirit has shown me atthis point in my life is that I
needed different experienceswith different people so that I
could appeal to a very broadaudience and really have not
just compassion but empathy forpeople.
My mother selected myundergraduate major, which was
accounting.
(01:28):
I did not like it.
I'm a very outgoing person, sojust sitting there doing a
little beanie thing, that was mything.
So then I went back for law,love law, but still felt like
there was something missing, andso I did what I was raised to
do.
I started serving in thecommunity and found a lot of
passion and joy there, and Ialso found women who were just
(01:52):
like me, a few years younger,who were looking for ways to
serve and to move up thecorporate ladder, but they
weren't necessarily getting theopportunities to do so.
And I wrote my first book, whichwas leading through living a
guy for women seeking growththrough leadership.
And in that book I shared how Iuse my community activism and
(02:16):
involvement, those skills, giftsand talents, and bought them
into the workplace so I couldgrow, because I was not
necessarily given theopportunities on the job to get
those skills.
And then people read it and itreally resonated and even though
it said for women, the men werelike I don't care that, that
was said for women, I'm using ittoo.
(02:36):
So I was invited to come speakand then people asked me to help
them to write their own booksand so then I started coaching
with that.
But then I had a life challenge, which I'll go through a little
later because I know you'regoing to ask, because everybody
asked.
So that's how I wound up doingthese various things with the
(02:59):
coaching, the speaking, the law,finance.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Wow.
So let me ask you this have youfound ways to integrate your
spiritual beliefs and practicesinto your professional life,
especially in fields like lawand finance, which are often
seen as more secular?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So I especially use my skills, gifts and talents in
the secular, because we like tothink, rachel, that we are the
separate and apart beings, likeI'm one person at work and I'm
another person at home.
That is a lie, and even when weput on, I call it our battle
suit, right?
Yes, yes, the mask, whateverwords you want to use, your
(03:41):
light still peaks out in thelittle cracks and crevices, in
the slits.
Okay, so who you really are,people see that.
And so I got to a place where Iwas just like, well, let's just
go for the full shabring.
And I threw all that off and Ijust show up as me, and
particularly when it comes totense situations at work, that
(04:06):
showing up with that intuitiveintelligence, really listening
to what the soul is saying notnecessarily what my clients are
saying, or the wonderfulcounselor and advocate that's
sitting across the table for me,sometimes showing their natural
crack, allows me to be a lovingand empathetic human being
(04:27):
toward them, even when they'renot acting like one.
So, yes, I love that.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I'm having a moment.
Everyone, so I'm having amoment.
You have achieved significantsuccess in your career.
You mentioned feeling somethingwas missing.
Can you maybe describe themoment you realized this and how
it impacted your approach tolife and work?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Absolutely.
I remember exactly where I wasand what I was doing.
I attended a vision board partythat was jointly facilitated
facilitated, excuse me, byJeharry Sword and Benicia Ponder
, who are amazing speakers inyour own rights business for
women and this one was differentbecause I had been to vision
(05:17):
board parties before where youget your magazine, cut your
pictures, put it on there, rightbut this one, they started it
off with an extended meditation,and so, instead of us just
grabbing our magazines andpictures, it was what is spirit
telling you?
What are you feeling?
What is the call, how are youbeing called for?
And so I wrote what was beingdownloaded into me, and then I
(05:39):
got pictures to match up withthat, and that was when I was
able to hear myself and hearspirit, and I was like there's
got to be something more.
I have had a blessed life Rachel, wonderful family and friends
and community, amazingopportunities but I think we all
(06:01):
know that those thingscheckmarts do not define life
satisfaction, and so that's whenI was able to look in and say I
would really like to dosomething that was meaningful
and impactful for many people,and that's where the book came
from.
My first book came, which setthe trajectory for today.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That is amazing Now.
You have mentioned now a coupleof times listening to spirit.
So was listening to spiritsomething that you maybe heard
or felt when you were young andthen kind of tap more into it as
you aged, or is it somethingthat you've always known?
Within you is something that'sa higher power connection to God
, if you can elaborate a littlebit on that?
(06:46):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
When I was very small , my parents tell me they always
knew that I was having aconversation with somebody else.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Love that, love that.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And I was introduced to God from the time that I
could talk.
So it was, and I'm verygrateful for that foundation.
But my personal connection toGod happened when I was in the
fourth grade.
I was having a time withfractions.
I did well on everything elsebut fractions.
(07:22):
I just could not get theconcept it was the same, thank
you.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Thank you, and I'm really good at math and I'm a
registered nurse.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Thank you, but that concept it just.
And my parents paid for tutors.
They sat down with me, so thiswas right.
There were all these, myteachers.
Everybody was come on, leneita,you can do it.
But I was like it just.
But one day I was sitting thereand I was nine years old.
I was sitting on the bed and Ihad my book open and I said, god
(07:52):
, I'm not moving from this spotuntil you show me how to do this
.
Now, in my mind, a small amountof time passed and it just
clicked and I got it.
But I realized when I looked atthe clock two hours had passed.
Whoa, yeah, yeah, excuse me, sothat was my first encounter
(08:16):
with God my personal encounter.
I love this.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, wow, like a snapshot.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
So that was the first time that I and when I say
understood, because when you'renine you don't really get right
Okay, that was the first time Iunderstood the power of
meditation, like sitting quietlyin his presence so he can talk
and do the work to make thechanges in you that need to be
made for what you have asked for, cause we asked for things all
(08:49):
the time but we don't sit stillenough for God to do what he
needs to do within us Because,remember, the problem was not
the fraction, the problem was mycomprehension of the fraction.
So the change had to comewithin me.
But I wish I could say thatI've maintained that
understanding throughout mywhole life.
That's alive.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I love your honesty.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
And you know we get caught up in the world and what
people are saying and showing usabout it all begins and ends
with you, and so I fed into that.
I really, really did and Iworked myself to the bone and I
almost died a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yes, so with these near death experiences it sounds
like, did you have momentswhere you crossed the other side
and saw spirit, or are you okayto share a little bit about
that?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Oh, we're friends.
Rachel, let's go, honey, let'sdo it, and so you're the best.
So I have.
Yes, it'll be two years.
In June, I was in the hospitalfor bowel obstruction, which was
(10:07):
a complication from a previoussurgery that I had had.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
My gosh, that is such a serious thing, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
It sounds it's just bowel obstruction.
Two words no, no, it is, thatcan end your life.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
You could die 100%.
Yes, ma'am, I know that for afact.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, and so I had this experience.
Well, I didn't know it at thetime, but I was dying of
pneumonia.
I didn't know.
Yeah, I was in the hospital.
And two years ago this isduring COVID- it's during COVID
right, it's during COVID, right,right.
(10:45):
So I'm in the hospital and I'mgetting shoddy care.
Those people are lucky that myhusband is a same man now,
because when we met he put adifferent result.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You guys, what about an experience?
Is what I'm hearing.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yes An experience.
An experience.
That's what we're saying, right?
And I was just like, how did Iend up here?
And I was out of my body.
I was at the end of theuniverse.
I looked and the whole worldwas in my hand.
(11:27):
I took that to mean from God,you've created all of this If
you want to change.
You know how.
I said stop and everythingstopped.
I said we're resetting.
And I came back Y'all, don't dothis at home.
I started pulling those wiresand IVs out of me.
(11:50):
I pulled that tube out of mynose and it was the first time I
was able to blow my nose inalmost a week.
And all this flim and I couldsmell, because I've had
pneumonia before.
I smelled it and I was like myGod, if I had been here another
day, my family would have beenburying me.
(12:12):
I called my sister and I saidcome get me.
She did the only thing that Iwell okay, I want to be that
graphic, but there was only onething that I didn't pull out for
myself because I was scared.
But when the oh, I know whatyou didn't pull out.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, you know what?
You didn't pull out.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am, the alarm started going
off and they're coming in.
She signed on AMA.
Yeah, I was like I'm gone, I'mdone with this place.
I'm a dad, let's stay here.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, that is such a powerful experience.
Even as you're just saying it,I can feel the emotion and the
transformation and just it'salso the power that you had in
that moment.
Oh, my goodness, now, sincethat experience, how has that
(13:08):
shifted your intuitive coachingbusiness career?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh, absolutely.
The first way that it haschanged is that I tell all of my
clients from the job you'regoing to have a lot of rest time
, that we're building into yourschedule.
If you're not good with doingthat, not just saying that we're
not going to work well together.
Years ago I read this book byhis holiness Sri Sri Ravi
(13:36):
Shankar, who is the founder ofthe Art of Living Foundation in
Bangalore, india.
He has a set schedule formanagers and directors and up
One long weekend a month, sothree-day weekend, one week of
vacation every six months andthen once a year you gather due
(13:58):
two weeks.
As Americans, we're like whatis that?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Time off, excuse me.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Now my European class .
They were on vacation.
In the middle of a sentence.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I love you so much I got to go.
I'm on a vacation.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I was working with a young lady on my app and, I
promise you, I send an email andI got a response back at office
.
But what if we learn to do that?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Seriously, yes, we feel shamed to take time for
ourselves, and it is such ahustle culture that's not
serving us any good.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Not at all.
You're talking about servingthe people who gave us this
hustle culture.
They were not, I believe,ill-intended.
I would agree with you Right,they taught us what they knew to
do.
But if we're looking at it fromthe perspective of what they
knew to do, we all get to aplace where we are like to our
(15:10):
parents.
I love you and I appreciateeverything you taught me.
All that was one point.
I have to do some thingsdifferently for myself.
That I know.
That's one of those things.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yes, that is one of those things.
The perfect example to yourpoint is smoking.
Doctors used to prescribesmoking and then, several years
later, after they had to publishscientific articles, oh wait,
it causes cancer, Right?
So I mean, that's the perfectexample, so help.
(15:42):
So let me ask you this you havea five-step formula to the
ultimate successful life.
Can you maybe elaborate on thisprocess and what are the key
realizations or experiences thatled to its development?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Absolutely so.
The key experiences were mysurgeries, because I had
achieved everything I everwanted, but I still didn't have
that lasting happiness.
I was still on this hamstool.
I would achieve, be happy, andthen feel like I need to do
something else again, and so Iwas like I'm not looking for
(16:18):
happiness, I'm looking for joy,and joy is an external job,
right, whereas happiness isexternal, and so that is what
led to the framework or theformula.
The first is that we focus onpeople and not on process.
What does that mean?
It means that what is happeningright here, right now, which is
(16:40):
this conversation with you andme, rachel, that's the only
thing that matters, because wespend so much time planning,
strategizing on tomorrow that weforget that if today is not
taken care of, tomorrow can'tcome, not won't.
It cannot.
There are no foundationalbuilding blocks for tomorrow to
(17:01):
form if we're too ill to enjoyit.
True Facts, true, yeah.
The second thing is tounstretch ourselves.
Then we have told ourselvesthat if we're not busy every
minute of the day, that we'refailures.
Yes, y'all, there's a reasonthat you pay that money for that
(17:24):
couch.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Lay on it.
There's a reason why you haveNetflix.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Watch it.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Right Bravo is there for a reason it really is.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Watch that fine man take off his shirt.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yes, ma'am, yeah, I need an out-of-the-office reply.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I take once every quarter, a Saturday, and look at
everything that I'm involved in, and then I start eliminating
things that are no longer inline with my purpose.
Now, I didn't say that we'renaked Right.
Go ahead, Rachel.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I know that you're a genius.
Once a quarter Is it aligned,or is it no longer aligned?
It's almost like once a year Igo through an unsubscribe from
emails.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I'm sorry, do not want a quarter.
Yes, it makes life so mucheasier, and you have the promise
that you're not going toreplace it with something.
I know it was hard, for me too.
I have chills.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
No, I am so grateful to be speaking with you today
because I there's this thingcalled a misogy, which is one
big event that you plan for theyear.
One big goal, and for me is towork on my health and my
well-being, and includes mentalwell-being.
What you are saying is speakingto my core, like I'm like yes,
(18:52):
ma'am, I am implementing this.
When we hang up this call.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Well, good.
And then the last god bless youback.
No, no, no, no.
This is, this is good, this isgood.
And then the last major thingis Shifting from a I want to
live a perfect life to wantingto live an excellent one, and
(19:16):
the difference between them isthat, if you look at perfection
in the dictionary, it is meetingor exceeding standards.
But I have to ask you, rachel,who set those standards?
Because it probably yeah, no,somebody else gave you that list
, oh, yeah it's called my yes,it's societal expectations
parents, friends, family,boyfriends, lover.
(19:37):
That's right, that's right andall these people love you, and
so it comes to a place where youhave to say I love y'all too,
but it's, this is not workingfor me and so I need to move
over to an excellent life, whichis the understanding that not
only am I setting my ownstandards, but there's grace
(19:58):
built in.
So if something doesn't turnout exactly like I had in mind,
that's fine.
You know why?
Because it was in line with mylife purpose, my journey, what
my soul needed to accomplishthis time around.
And Once you get there, otherpeople's expectations they
(20:19):
really do not impact you the waythat they used to.
Now I won't say they won't evermatter, because you care what
your mama.
Things Come on Absolutely.
But but it doesn't sting somuch when there's not
necessarily that 100% approval.
80% is good, it's still a bee,I'm good.
I.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Love that.
So you have a book that youhave written, and I know you've
written a couple books behindyou.
Can you please show the book tous and tell us about that?
This amazing book?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Absolutely so this is Thank you.
This is live life on fire, theultimate guide to the successful
life full of peace, joy andfulfillment, and it is a cheat
sheet to answer the questionwhat am I living for?
Because it can't be stuff.
If it was stuff, you would havebeen happy the moment you got
(21:10):
your car, your money, your house, everything that you ever
wanted on your list right.
Instead, you keep going likethere's something else that you
have to have.
Yeah, I'm not saying youshouldn't want those things, I
want them to.
I like having a roof over myhead, right.
Yeah, what I'm saying is theycannot define your happiness,
(21:31):
they cannot define your joy,right.
And so I take you through aprocess that includes being,
just being in the present,living a life of flow, so just
going with everything andtrusting that life is for you,
not against you, so that eventhings that are almost like the
(21:52):
boogeyman jumped out, they'retrusting that that was for you
too, building you up, making youstronger so that you can live a
life of all Once you're in.
All that allows you to tap intoyour intuitive intelligence.
All of us have the clear skillsand gifts All knowing, all
(22:12):
seeing, all hearing, all beingbut we don't necessarily tap
into them Once you're living inall you can and that allows you
to be better and to serve yourclients, your family and
yourself, that's beautiful,thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
So you Amazon your websites All the good places
Anywherecom.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
That's right.
The best place, though,seriously would be my website,
and it's also on Audible, so ifyou want to drive around and
listen, please, check it out.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
And, for the listeners, what is your website?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It is my name Leneeta Spell-L-Y-N-I-T-A
MitchellBlackwellcom.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
That's such a beautiful website.
She has an amazing website.
If you want to see like all ofthe amazing things she has going
on, you need to check out herwebsite.
I'm like I need her webdesigner.
It's amazing.
So can you please share apersonal story of transformation
, either from your own life orfrom one of someone that you've
coached, that embodies theprinciples of your ultimate
(23:20):
success life formula.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Absolutely.
I've spent a lot of timetalking about myself, so I'll
pick a client who I know is goodbecause she shares this story,
coach Carol Rodin.
When we met she was over thechildren's ministry at our
church and Spirit had me ask herhave you ever played in a
league?
Now, coach is not tall, coachis maybe about 5'7", 5'8".
(23:48):
And so she paused and looked atme and she said why did you ask
me that?
I said God told me to have youever played in a league.
She said yeah, I was cut from ateam for the WNBA and I was
like what exactly?
Now, my hazard was justappointed to this church.
(24:08):
I did not know her from Adam,but from that point on we were
like peanut butter and jelly,exactly together.
So we went to lunch that woundup turning also into dinner, and
she laid out everything sheever wanted to do and she was
like I know that I'm all overthe place, but I took the pieces
(24:33):
of paper and I just put them inorder and I said coach, you're
not all over the place.
This is the life plan God hasgiven you.
This is a 10 year plan.
And she was like I feel so muchbetter.
She said but like, what do I do?
I said well, first you've gotto own that you being cut was a
blessing and not something to beembarrassed about, because I
(24:56):
get the impression that thatstill stings, even all these
years later.
I mean, that happened when shewas in college.
Since then she's been an awardwinning coach for various levels
.
She has earned her master'sdegree.
She is an educator.
She's done amazing things, butthat thing was still there, and
(25:19):
so we did her bio and that islanded right in the first
paragraph saying that she tookthat experience and learn to see
God's hand on her life and howit can help other people,
because when she talks to herstudents now she can tell them I
(25:40):
made it to the lead, I got cutbecause XYZ.
This is what we're going to doto fortify you so that if it
doesn't go all the way for you,it's OK.
Right, you're still a complete,whole, successful, lovely being
.
And we published her first bookthat talked about her journey,
which is called Carol's Dream.
We published her devotional foreducators last year Exactly.
(26:05):
She is speaking all over thenation and she was recently
inducted in the collegiate Hallof Fame for the Sports Hall of
Fame.
So these are all things that wehave accomplished.
I say we because I'm her coach.
I'm chill because she waswilling to to embrace that
(26:27):
painful part.
But without that, if we don'tembrace every part of our story,
even though the painful ones,we leave things on the table.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
We do 100 percent.
You are so correct, 100 percent.
It's interesting when you lookback at your life, at what you
thought it was going to end upat, you see the twists and the
turns.
You're like there's amazinglessons in all of these.
You can either learn to elevateyou or take you down.
Yes, absolutely yes.
So let me ask you this Lookingahead, what new goals or
(27:01):
aspirations are you setting foryourself, both in your personal
and professional life?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
So, personally, I have been going to the gym every
day.
As a matter of fact, when wefinish up, I'm headed out.
She's like bye, rachel.
This is big for me because Iused to go work out first thing
in the morning.
I got to the place where I wasjust like I really like my bed.
So Spirit was just like go atnight and I was like but I'm
(27:30):
going to be too tired.
But what has happened is thatwhen I go at night, I'm able to
release the day.
Then I come home and I give tomyself a bubble bath every night
.
That's beautiful, right,exactly Now.
I know some of you are like Ihave small kids.
That's not going to work outfor me.
They go to bed.
(27:52):
After you put them down, get inthe tub.
That's your time, that istotally your time.
That was my big thing andthat's something I'm committed
to and I'm moving forward.
That's personal.
Professionally, I want to be on100 stages this year.
Amen, yes, and that's happening.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I have a feeling.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yes, and I'm already on stage too, because I'm here
with you, amen.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Again, hope you don't mind me saying amen, I feel it.
I can feel the back of yourhead.
Thank you, I love that.
100 stages international or allin the United States.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I am open.
Half passport will travel.
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
All right, then for our final question.
For our listeners who areseeking more than just success
in their lives, what advicewould you offer for finding a
deeper sense of peace, joy andfulfillment?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
The best way for you to find that peace, joy and
fulfillment is for you toembrace that you are a spiritual
being having a human experienceand you are living the best way
that you can.
Once you remove theseexpectations that other people
have of you, that you have ofyou, and just realize that you
(29:17):
are perfect just the way you are, life shifts.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
That is a beautiful piece of advice.
Thank you so, so much forcoming to the Spiritual
Spotlight Series.
I am excited to see you on over100 stages this year and I wish
you nothing but success.
Thank you again, no further.
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