We recently connected with Dr. Lin Morel and have shared our conversation below.

Dr. Lin, appreciate you joining us today. The first dollar your business earns is always special and we’d love to hear how your brand made its first dollar of revenue.

My first corporate client was Bell of Philadelphia back in the mid-1980s. I was in a mediative place, drinking tea, and an inspiration told me to reach out to Bell of Philadelphia. I knew no one who worked there and asked inwardly if I would be told how to get in contact with them. Within a half hour, a former personal client of mine called to tell me that Bell of Philadelphia was about to hire a consultant that she felt wasn’t a fit for the position. I asked her the name and contact number of the person I should call within the company.

I took a few deep breaths and asked inwardly for what to say when I spoke to the Head of HR. To my surprise, the words were, “Hi Gene! I hear you need a Band Aid for your boo boo.” He laughed and said, “Is the news that bad on the street?” I answered, “Yes,” and we had an immediate connection.

It was the Christmas season and I sent him a copy of my recent book and a meditative audio tape I had created. He called back and asked for 25 copies of each.

During the next few months, I stayed in touch with him. Coincidentally, I met one of his employees on a flight and I was completely unaware at the time that he was also a Bell employee and had worked for Gene.

The rest was history and I was hired as a speaker to assist the HR personnel with some impending changes within the organization.

A year later, I checked in and found that Gene had retired and started a dude ranch in Wyoming. That was a direct result of our conversation where we shared the things we would most like to do in life. He answered that his passion was to start his own dude ranch in the beautiful state of Wyoming. He loved the wild openness of life in the west.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

My own traumas led me to the work that I do today. I work primarily with thought leaders who are driven to make the world a better place. My expertise comes from extensive studies as a martial artist and a lifelong learner, which helped me to develop the ability to read people in the ring of life. This extended into the ability to have conversations with individuals in ways that create safety and opens the space to embrark on the curious adventure of maximizing their full potential and gifts.

My brand is one that provides soothing comfort while dealing with the hard issues that limit their success. This process does not involve reliving their trauma. Rather, it helps them to transcend their pain and incorporate these past experiences into greater energy, power and the courage to live on the edge and become wisdom keepers in their own right.

I’ve been word of mouth since 1984. As a nationally ranked karate champion, I leveraged my skills in ways that made people feel safe and strategically brought our shared experiences together.

I’m the author of several books and have had the privilege of serving hundreds of thousands of people through the media, documentaries and appearances.

I’m here to be of service to the world and to those who cross my path in search of meaning and significance as human beings and change-makers.

Any advice for growing your clientele? What’s been most effective for you?

My clients allow me to get to know them and their challenges, strengths, and weaknesses. I’ve come to them through trusted referrals, and I’ve attracted clients through speaking, training, retreats, and media.

Their success creates ripples that continue in both seen and unforeseen ways. I love my clients deeply. They’re attracted to me through my genuineness, wisdom, and compassion.

Together, we uncover their genius, release the past that binds them and create a space for them to thrive as a result of their healing and ensuing clarity.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

My journey is one of resiliency that took me to the edge. Within a six month period in the late 1980s, my life was impacted by one tragedy after another.

My retreat center burned to the ground and I made the nearby chinese restaurant my temporary office. My mother died in February 1989 in a house fire just weeks before my retreat center burned down. Several weeks later, my husband died in a plane crash, and I was sued by social security for a mistake that I reported them (I won the case). My daughter was abducted by her father. The IRS did a field audit on my business. I worked with the field agent with an issue independent of the audit and I got through it with flying colors.

What could have easily broken me served to make me even stronger and more resilient in my compassion.

I’ve come to view life from the eyes of a loving being and if I can’t find the love, I put it there myself. So everything I do and say is through the lens of loving compassion.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.drlinmorel.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drlinmorel/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PositiveJoywithDrLin/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlinmorel/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/drlinmorel

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