We recently connected with Lynn Mull and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Lynn, thanks for joining us today. When you’ve been a professional in an industry for long enough, you’ll experience moments when the entire field takes a U-Turn, an instance where the consensus completely flips upside down or where the “best practices” completely change. If you’ve experienced such a U-Turn over the course of your professional career, we’d love to hear about it.

I am the definition of a U – turn. I left Wall Street after 25 years in 2022 to become a full time Reiki Master, Author and Speaker. I had a really big career in financial services operations and service. I ran merger integrations, ultimately ran strategy up and down the west coast. I know and lead major Irrevocable Trusts, had teams of project managers at one point and left when I ran strategy for 6k Client Associates at Merrill. I lived in SF, NYC and now the east coast of PA where I’m raising 2 girls with my husband. We moved here after my Mom fell very ill in 2009. After being sandwiched between major work hours and deadlines and travel, never ending perfectionistic expectations for bonuses that kept dropping without quantative metrics, caregiving, birthing and mothering two small girls, I started exploring other options for work happiness. I’m incredibly driven but hated the toxic grind. Entrepreneurship has a grind of never ending tasks, too, but it’s not toxic becuase I define it. I have several new certifications in Yoga, Reiki, and Coaching that brought me to running a Coaching, Consulting, Energy practice of today. I like to call my transition: From Wall Street to Wellness.

Lynn, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

About me: I’m Lynn Mull, a wall street alum who is now working as a full time Reiki Master, speaker and author. I wrote The 24 Oracle Deck to help clients (men and women) find moments of clarity, hear themselves think, feel into decisions from their intuition, not head only. I use a few key phrases to describe my work including Practical Spirituality, Living in the & and Fancy WooWoo. I’ve never shared all of of these phrases, together, publicly but I believe it’s worth sharing them here. You can have any words to how you help clients and be treated. There is a practioner for you out there.

Who I help: For me, I love to help very successful, driven men and women who feel stuck and need a actionable yet new way to calm down and not burn out. My favorite clients are so close to reaching a new milestone and yet they just cannot get there. Deep down, they know the rules of the game have changed and the ladder rungs are now curving roadway. I create action plans, energy cocktails and bring in your guides all along the way.

Definitions and Niches aren’t for me: As a holistic healer and coach, there is a real call to have a defined business as business and career OR healer. I am both. I am holding space at the table for anyone who wants both things–success and healing. It doesn’t have to be an Eat Pray Love 6 month journey or a 60 hour work week, there are ways to flex both goals.

How I got here: In my adult corporate life, I realized that I was taking a lot of steps, carrying the weight of many coworkers and in general, was so stressed out. I worked on both Wall Street and as a coach for many years. In Covid, I added reiki + yoga to my self development practices + coaching to help clients wind down in a practical way. My friends + coworkers would tell me I looked different after reiki was added to my life. Finally, I had a new peace, a knowing, a clarity that I had not found in other modalities.

Helping others find their own life niche + pathway through uncovering energy blocks is joy-filled for me. After working with many clients, I developed, wrote and designed The 24 Oracle Deck, a way to find clarity at home, each week, without a full session with me.

As a mom, wife and working female I understand the pressures out there to keep going and to be all things we think we must be. We can be all the things, but we’ll never be happy if we aren’t aligned and intuitively moving forward. The Oracle Deck can be added to or start new traditions. I believe that pulling a card, having journal prompts and a new perspective are the little new pathways to change, grow and reset. Little steps lead to new things that align to what you want.

Now, I can truly say, I know my path. I have a deep down belly knowing. I still work on taking steps towards goals. I still have bad moments + long days but my reactions + anger have lessened. I have changed. I am walking the talk and done the research.

Putting training and knowledge aside, what else do you think really matters in terms of succeeding in your field?

Investing in yourself is the most critical area for success as an entrepreneur. But I have a caveat. There are many coaches’ coaches who prey on a cycle of high prices and low results.

Find self care for yourself in the following ways:
Hire coach a year, vet them, ask for results, do this for no more than 3 months a year or else you turn into them. I have stopped reading and hiring coaches right now. I’m embarking on another writing project and I cannot listen to others at this juncture. However, people hesitate to get help. Do NOT be afraid. It can propel you out of your head into action.
Find self care in the form of exercise, breaks, accountability buddy, massage, reiki, books, or evenings away. Every book and documentary and research talks about physical well being. Get to it, already. I recently saw a post of a pic of my former mentee from years ago. She’s the MD at a firm and everyone in the picture was obese. They were smiling with their mouths, not bodies. They have a lot of money in the bank and no phyical or holistic health. You don’t need me to tell you to get outside and walk.
Have a plan each business year and break it down by quarter; look back to your own goals to keep on track. I go so far as to write Business Values and goals. It keeps it in line.
Find a way to network in a way that works for you. This will make or break your business. Networking can feel or sound daunting. It’s just relationship building. Pretend you are at the first day of high school, making new friends. Don’t overthink it, but you need people and calling on them only when you need help is lame.
When you are alone as an entrepreneur, find that water cooler partner who can help you get out of a rut, talk you up for before a big meeting or look over a proposal. I have a friend in CO and another in CT who inspire me to push myself really really out of the box.

You have to find structure in the unstructured space. Working outside of a hospital or corporate job is very loose in many ways. Name your working hours and days. It is my 2023 goal to stick to those hours.

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

I have been rejected more times that I have been accepted. Somedays I feel like that hollywood actress going to audition after audition. There are highs and lows to life, work and certainly entrepreneurship. I’ve been pitching The 24 Oracle Deck and My Workshops (aka The Practical Pause) for awhile. I just keep pushing myself even after I fall.

I’ve learned 2 lessons here:
1) The universe does have your back–if something is not aligned or not the right timing, you will not get the opportunity to sell, write, speak with that client. I have been hoping to be part of a start up, a wellness lead at a spa, declined as a 1.1 coach, rejected for proposals and more. I just keep going. I go back to my mission and also ask, do you want to go back to wall street? I check in and make sure what I’m telling myself is REAL. Knowing my Deck is so good and really loved by those who have it (over 250+) means it will keep selling.
2) Hire help for what you are not good at. It’s unrealistic to be good at everything from numbers, sales, ops, writing, network, tech, etc. Hire help from upwork or other sales folks to get you out of the things you hate and more into a creative, clear genius zone. Moms and Dads, hire sitters for working hours, conferences or breaks for you to workout or socialize. You cannot do it all.

Bonus Tip: I believed that leaving a corporate job would be less stress but I’m putting more stress on myself now than ever. I want to make enough to pay the mortage and send my girls to college with ease. In order to reset my head and break the stress cycles that are there for any Type A person, even one in wellness, I go away once a quarter to a hotel that is discounted or with points to save money in a location I feel safe and comfortable and recharge. From those trips I have created more than sitting at home crying over rejections. Mix it up.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.lynnmull.com
• Instagram: @_lynnmull
• Facebook: https://business.facebook.com/latest/home?business_id=757977874816470&asset_id=1478314085591010
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnmull/

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Stefani Garafolo