Linda Butler, a former HR executive turned entrepreneur and coach, is passionate about empowering midlife professional women to become the CEOs of their own lives.
She focuses on uncovering and overcoming limiting beliefs, embracing authentic leadership styles, and establishing healthy boundaries. Her holistic approach ensures a harmonious blend of career, family, and personal health and well-being for a more fulfilling second chapter. Linda’s mission is to inspire midlife women to stop settling and become the architects of the future they truly deserve.
Kuel Life is excited to add Linda to the roster of thought leaders this month. Linda will be covering all things Midlife Matters!
Welcome Linda Butler To The Kuel Life Thought Leader Roster:
KUELLIFE: What type of business do you own/run?
Linda: I own a company called Linden Lotus Consulting, and I am a Midlife Reinvention Coach for professional midlife women
KUELLIFE: What prompted you or drove you to become an entrepreneur? When?
Linda: After 25+ years in a corporate career in Human Resources, I found myself suddenly laid off in 2019.
I was over the age of 50 at the time, and it felt like I was truly at a crossroads in my life. I could either continue down same path, seeking a similar role at another company, continuing to feel increasingly dissatisfied and unfulfilled, or I could take this as a sign, an opportunity, to make real positive changes in my life.
“I created a new chapter for myself.”
So, I took time and space for the first time in my life just for “me”, to figure it out. Through my own journey of self-discovery and exploration, along with study and certification in Neuroscience coaching techniques, I created a new chapter for myself.
I became a coach so I could use my strengths, acquired corporate skills, along with training in the field of neuroscience, and my passion, to assist other midlife professional women to create their own next best chapter with the guidance, support and accountability from someone who’s been there.
Resetting Mindset:
KUELLIFE: What’s your biggest struggle?
Linda: My biggest challenge has been recognizing and resetting my mindset – how I see the world and my true possibilities. I’ve learned that we spend so much of our lives in a comfort zone of our own making, our own acquired and learned view of what is “real” about ourselves and our capabilities.
And yet, many times these stories we’ve grown up believing about ourselves are not true, and in fact can keep us from growing and evolving.
Learning to shed my corporate mindset, years of ingrained behaviors and personas – so I can be authentic, use my true voice, approach problem solving and making decisions on my own, without the backing and resources of a corporation, has truly been a roller coaster at times in starting my own business.
“My biggest challenge has been recognizing and resetting my mindset..”
I’ve learned so much as an entrepreneur about who I am, what I am capable of, and that has at times felt both scary and empowering.
Creation Of Life:
KUELLIFE: What is your biggest fear as an entrepreneur? How do you work through it?
Linda: Honestly, it’s the reality that I am fully responsible for my own success. That it is my own actions, or inactions, that will determine my financial stability, and creation of the life I want to achieve.
We are so conditioned in our society, particularly as women, to want to be perfect, to know in advance we are making the right decisions, that it can keep us stuck. I’ve learned to stop waiting for the “perfect” way, the absolutely one right decision, seeking external validation that I’m doing it “right”.
I’ve learned that it is through taking small yet consistent action steps that true progress is made. I’m still a work in progress, I still have moments in which I question myself, but have made great strides in my ability to just to act, being o.k. with learning as I go.
KUELLIFE: How do you measure your success?
Linda: Success for me is doing something I truly love, creating a life on my own terms, helping others to do the same, and creating a legacy and environment that allows other women to thrive, at any age. And of course, creating the long-term lifestyle I want to achieve.
” I found that working with the right financial expert, one who is willing to listen and take the time to understand..”
Find Your Tribe:
KUELLIFE: Finally, what advice would you give other women about taking an entrepreneurial path?
Linda: First, I think it is important to be very clear on your finances – what are your baseline income needs to cover your monthly lifestyle expenses, the cost of benefits you may need to replace from leaving a corporate job, such as health insurance.
I found that working with the right financial expert, one who is willing to listen and take the time to understand and respect what your goals are, was helpful in providing options I hadn’t thought of to assist me in starting a business.
Second, create or find your support team, your “tribe” – a group of likeminded people who have similar goals, or are a few steps ahead of you, or have had a similar experience as an entrepreneur.
This will be a wonderful resource for you to ask advice, brainstorm, discuss options and gain inspiration from.
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