We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Leah Lynch a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Leah, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?
There are so many directions I could take this…. But the short answer is when I question myself on whether or not I have the strength to get back up, I look back at all the hard things I have gone through before. And remind myself that I have been through things that were just as hard and it didn’t last forever. So even if I don’t know the end date of this level of hard. Am I willing to keep going until I see the end for the result I want?
9 times out of 10 the answer is yes. So I pull my legs underneath me mentally and stand back up. Find my balance no matter how wobbly I feel. And find that next step forward.
That’s the one part that people let stop them. They think they need to know all 100 steps to get out of the struggle they are in. All you need to do is find the one step you can take right now to move forward or make this really hard desition a little easier or manageable.
Life may look easy for people on the outside, but struggles don’t care about your age.
– I was in the ICU for over 20 days with a form of muscular dystrophy that does get progressively better but is so rare that even today the best doctors look at you blankly… I have to work three times harder to do something than someone without it.
– I am a dyslexic-turned-writer who has to push past people in my inbox saying a few miss spellings makes me look unintelligent or makes them think what I have to say is not valuable.
– There was a period of about 14-24 months in my life when a group of people were expecting someone different than me and cast so much judgment I was in physical pain because of the emotional stress. I had to decide was the reason I was in that circumstance worth the judgment and doubt of that group of outsiders. Ultimately yes. I got my prize but at the cost of years of emotional trauma that took 5x as long to heal from.
It’s not to say that if you haven’t been through physical, mental, or emotional struggles you can’t find resilience with in you. You simply have to find YOUR REASON for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and figuring out the next step. No one can want that for you.
Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
I am a content creator helping women who love the country lifestyle to not be broke and burnt out. I teach them task management and income generation from their small backyard farms through my blog, email list, ebooks, and online courses.
After starting more than 15 years ago as a teen business owner who makes multiple four figures a year with a small rabbitry I got a fire in my soul to help other women figure out how to find their worth as stay-at-home wives but also feel like they are contributing to their families income so the lifestyle they dream of doesn’t break the bank.
I am always working to make education accessible to as many people as possible so you can go to https://leah-lynch.com/resources/ to grab a copy of my Profitable Homestead Quickstart Guide.
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Be Patient – It’s not going to come easy or at the speed you want it to. It’s taken me 5 times as long to get to the place where I thought I would be in the first year. There are what feels like so many stories out there of people making full-time incomes before the first year and it sounds great and pulls you in. But that is less than 5% of the norm.
Use your money and time wisely – Invest when you can first in what will help you get more content out faster. Not the things that seem cool or make you look pretty. That will come.
Knowing enough won’t grow your business. Take action on the things you learn. If you feel yourself crawling back into the “I want to learn XYZ” phase that is your brain trying to keep you safe. Don’t stay safe. Make yourself take three actions in the area you are afraid of.
One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?
I am always open to collaboration and helping each other grow. If you are on a mission to help others take action on their dreams and avoid victimhood you can email me at [email protected]
Contact Info:
- Website: https://leah-lynch.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leahlynchblog/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leahlynchblog
- Youtube: http://youtube.com/leahlynchblog
Image Credits
I took these images myself.
