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Scott DeLuzio: 00:44 Hey everyone. Today my guest is Lyn Christian. She is a founder of Soul Salt and a motivational speaker. Lyn speaks on topics related to leadership, time management, career reinvention, and how to find your purpose and live a badass life. So, Lyn, thank you for being on the show. Welcome. Why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do?

Lyn Christian: 01:08 Sure. So, I grew up in rural Utah. My father was a Marine from the Korean War. And so, I grew up with a jarhead uniform in my father’s closet that he would put on occasionally. And so, I grew up in a very rural setting and so I would have a lot of freedom. I got my chores completed. I could ride my bike down to the family farm, saddle up my pony and be gone for the rest of the afternoon. So, I knew a lot of freedom. I grew up and decided that when I was in high school, I thought I wanted to be an attorney because I was good at debate in high school. And in every debate, I was in for the three years I was in high school, each time I got the highest points.

Lyn Christian: 01:59 And so I thought, well, it’s out of the speaker’s presets kind of pointing me to an aptitude I have. I should probably develop that. And of course, I thought, well, the logical thing is to go study political history and social science and then go get a lot of greens. And, in high school I had some habits that were sort of pulling me one way. I was running and training for a track team. I was supposed to be a mild sprinter and I had really done some things to my body the night before. And I’ll leave that to your imagination that I just couldn’t perform. And I sat down literally on the curb with my feet in the gutter and thought, what am I doing? And then I also thought, not just in this moment, I am trying to force myself to do something and I didn’t prepare my body for it.

Lyn Christian: 02:52 So I had this epiphany, and then I thought what am I doing with my education? Like I really want to go to law school and then spend the rest of my life arguing. And it’s not that I don’t have great respect for law. As I asked myself that question, I didn’t get a resounding, yeah, that’s true for you. In fact, I thought that’s going to just eat away at me. I’m competitive, I am driven, and I am going to just get into a rat wheel or I’m going to be on one of those hamster’s wheels the rest of my life. And I’ve looked across the street and sitting in front of my elementary school, I had run so far that I was at the other end of town and I was sitting in front of elementary school and I decided I want to go do it.

Lyn Christian: 03:43 Those people in that building did for me. I want to go inspire and elevate people’s opinions about what they can do with their lives. And so that’s what I did. I bagged a scholarship and I went and got a degree in education, became a schoolteacher. I taught for 15 years at the time. When the 15 year came around, I was a single parent raising three children. I wanted to look at the National Guard and see if that was a place where I could earn...