Lin: Find alignment.

In this episode, Kristin speaks with mindset trainer and entrepreneur Lin Yuan-Su (she/her) about ambition, reinvention, and learning to trust yourself when something no longer fits.

Lin shares her journey from growing up in China to becoming the first international student licensed as a registered dietitian in Ontario, only to realize within weeks of starting her career that it wasn't the path she wanted for the rest of her life. She reflects on the pressure to achieve, the parking lot breakdown that changed everything, and the decision to leave a stable career to build a business aligned with her purpose.

Together, Kristin and Lin explore what it means to listen to your intuition, why no experience is ever wasted, and how to recognize the difference between achievement and alignment.

Because sometimes the bravest thing we can do is admit that we've outgrown a dream.

How to get in touch:

• LinkedIn at Lin Yuan-Su
• enlightenedsuccess.com

Transcript

Kristin 0:03

Welcome to Everything Counts But Nothing Is Real, a podcast about careers, detours, and the absurdity of work. Here we explore the twists, the pivots, and the tiny choices that shape our work lives with humor, feminism, and honesty. I'm your host, Kristen. Let's get into it. Hello and welcome to Everything Counts But Nothing Is Real. Today's guest is Lynn Sheher. She's a former registered dietitian turned multi-seven-figure entrepreneur and internationally recognized mindset trainer and strategist. As the founder of Enlightened Success Institute, she helps high-achieving women break free from burnout and build soul-aligned multi-six and seven-figure businesses with clarity, confidence, and joy. With her years of experience in transformational coaching, Lynn brings bold energy, spiritual depth, and practical wisdom to every conversation. Whether sharing her signature success trifecta or her own parking lot, breakdown to breakthrough story, Lynn lights up audiences ready to step into their purpose and redefine success on their own terms. Welcome, Lynn. Wow, thank you so much for that introduction. That was awesome. You're telling me. I'm like, I feel like I have so much to learn from you. I'm so looking forward to having this conversation with you. Me too. Can we start by tell us what you tell people you do for a living?

Lin 1:24

When I say what I do, and I start with mindset, I say I'm a mindset trainer and a strategist. I say just like you go to a gym, you hire a personal trainer to achieve your physical goals. And my specialty and expertise and my passion is in helping others understand their own mindset and what is happening in their own head. Because that is our powerhouse. Whatever you want to achieve in life, that is a starting point. So usually I ask lots of questions instead of just telling other people what I do.

Kristin 1:57

You turn it on them and you're like, I have questions for you. Yes, exactly. I question first. I love that. That's incredible. I want to know, you know, as you have conversations and you're doing your work, what are some things that are giving you hope right now?

Lin 2:10

I think it's really seeing the truth of humanity is regardless of what is the news throwing out there, what is happening. I'm not, I don't, I do not deny the facts, whether it's a war, whether it's whatever humanists would call horrific events. It's up to me to bring myself because I cannot control anybody else's thoughts or anybody else's opinions, but I can bring my own self-awareness back to the truth of I am love. I truly believe in the essence of humanness, this beating heart. Why we when we draw a symbol for love is a heart. I truly believe in that in our heart at the individual level, we all have that love. And when we really just tap into that for ourselves, for me, that is my hope. That is when I see my husband, and regardless how long we've been married, I just have still have this passion for him, have this love for him. I look at our kids, and yeah, by all means, when you know, when you're a parent, there are moments when you're just like, uh. And when I take a breath, I look at their face and I look at their eyes, I just feel like, wow, you're the things that I can truly say, without you, I don't know if I would experience love to this level.

Kristin 3:29

Yeah.

Lin 3:30

Um, when I look at my parents, I'm very fortunate that my parents are very close by and they have been tremendous support and help for myself and my husband for as we our kids are nine and three, so they are still little. When I see my father, how he looks at my daughter, and sometimes part of me just like, oh, that is ridiculous. Just like you're spoiling her. Yet that kind of love that gives me hope.

Kristin 3:56

That is the most beautiful answer. Thank you so much. I love to sort of go back to the beginning and look at our backgrounds, our foundation, where we came from, and how that might have shaped where we landed or where you are currently. So, do you have any reflections on your childhood? Maybe I I like to talk about astrology, but any other framework that you know you have helped make sense of the world using.

Lin 4:21

I think for me is I was born and raised in China, which is a very different culture compared to North America. Yet I left China when I was 20 years old, when I was a full-grown young adult. I did I didn't quite have my solid understanding of the world, of humanity, of you know, my take on life yet, but I had just enough to form enough confidence to move forward to explore the world. I was very fortunate to have had that experience, moved from China to Canada, that's where I live right now. At a relatively young age, yet Chinese Mandarin is still my mother tongue. That is still very deeply, you know, Chinese New Year is still for me the biggest holiday in a year. I take my kids out of school for that year to celebrate because that is still very much deep rooted in me. And I very much adopted into the North American Canadian culture, obviously the language, and understanding the way how the different customs, if you would, how we interact differently. I can observe all of those from a mature set of eyes rather than, you know, if I had left China when I was younger or when I left as an older adult, that I have quote unquote my my ways are set. But I I feel like that divine journey of, you know, I left China exactly that the time I did, the age I did, and I went through this journey allowed me to fully explore my truth. I truly believe I am that I am. It is whether I'm Chinese, I'm Canadian, I'm ethnicity-wise, I'm Asian or you know, whatever. All of that are surface level. The deep truth is I am that I am. I am a spiritual being, having a human experience. And it's up to me to make this human experience however I want. And my intention is to make my the most impactful in my life and in other people's lives as well, in a very positive way. And how I look at it is this is just how I uh have been interpreting my own journey. And uh, obviously the things I've experienced as I was back home as a child in in China is not something I would ever experience here. But I don't call it good or bad, I just simply look at it as wow, that is my treasure because it is my, it is my history, my experience. And I walk away with the lessons I've learned about life in general, and I can take it anywhere. So that is that is my kind of like origin story, if that if that makes sense.

Kristin 7:00

It does, and it's it is so cool. And I think you're right about the like particular age when you decided to leave. You were perfectly right there in the middle. Okay, so talk to me about being a young adult and finding your first path when you became a dietitian and you were probably navigating several things at the same time. How talk to me about your early adulthood?

Lin 7:22

Well, that was uh so so true story. This is literally how I decided to become a registered dietitian. I chose the program. Uh it's the program's name called Foods and Nutrition. So that's the title of the program. When I was picking my major, honestly, I I changed my major five times from biology to psychology to um moraine biology at one point. I couldn't land on what do I really want to do in my life. And then I looked at the program called Foods and Nutrition. I thought, hey, I love food. Like I love food. And I have always been very curious about what happens after you eat it, you know. So combining both passion and curiosity, I chose this program. And there I was first year as an international student. I was one of the two international students in the entire program. There's like over 100 students in the classroom. Uh, the department chair came in to teach this first year introduction course. And I was sitting there, I was like, I have no idea what's going on. Uh, because I was still learning, literally, I was still learning English, even. And I was definitely still learning the Canadian culture, you know, all of that. And she opened her mouth and she said this. For those of you who are majoring in foods and nutrition, you want to become a registered dietitian. All right. I was an international student. English was still my second language. I had never heard the term dietitian before. I didn't know what she was talking about. I couldn't spell it, I couldn't even repeat after her with what? But I knew that all right, she is a department chair, she's a big deal, she is a power figure. So I told myself, yes, ma'am, I will become whatever you just said, even though I cannot repeat it. Without knowing nothing, no squat of what it takes, what it is, I just follow that path. But I'm very grateful I did that because one thing, I loved what I studied. And two, if I didn't have that vision, have that dream, I wouldn't have done a lot of things I had done through my academic career, which is includes go out and volunteer and get a job so I could get a work-related experience, and all of that were totally out of my comfort zone. If I didn't have that vision, have that goal, I wouldn't have done all of those things. In turn, I wouldn't have learned so much more about life, about Canada and everything else in general. It took me six years. I did an undergrad in nutrition and a master's degree in nutrition. I absolutely loved everything I learned. And I was very proud at the end of the six years. I got a piece of paper said, You're you're now a member of College of Registered Dieticians of Ontario. Later on, I found out I was actually the first international student to be granted a license to practice as a registered dietitian. Wow. People say, Wow, that's very impressive. I humbly accept that. And here's the fact because nobody else was studying nutrition. All the international kids were like, they are either in business or economics, like a money-related thing. There, I was studying nutrition. So later on, there were so many more other international students who entered this passion, this path. So that was my academic career of becoming a registered dietitian. And I think we're gonna dive into the next phase, which was my career as a dietitian. Literally within two weeks, I thought, yay, I did it, great. And I found a full-time job right away, which was very uh fortunate, and I was very grateful. But literally within two weeks practicing, working as a registered dietitian, I heard myself saying, Is this it? I don't think I want to do this for the rest of my life.

Kristin 11:11

Boom. Yeah. So I think it sounds like even as a young adult, you were extremely ambitious. And like maybe you didn't necessarily know you were ambitious at the time, but you knew that you were gonna go after something and you did it.

Lin 11:25

Uh yeah, I I think I think it's a full, full cycle. We started talking about my childhood, you know, in China is very competitive. The culture itself in general is very competitive. Uh, how parents raise their children, the conversation of look at so and so, how much better they are than you is I'm not saying that's a very that's it's not even very healthy. It's not a healthy way to talk to your kids. People now, out of us now, uh, my basically my generation, we we came to realize that that is not a way we enjoyed to be talked to. So I think nowadays parents do not use that tactic as much. But when I was a kid, oh my goodness, is you'd better be whatever it could be a very small quiz. In China, there's no such thing as a privacy, especially for students' marks. Even a quiz would be made public. The the the marks will be available for all parents to look at the entire class mark and uh the ranking as well. So for me as a kid, my parents were very, very demanding on my performance in academics out of love because they feel like there are so many population is large. So if you want to do well, you'd better do well in academics. That is a way for you to have this kind of like um heads up or advantage compared to anybody else. It's a constant comparison, it's constant demand on you'd better get to the top three in your classroom. If you're not, you're in trouble. So that's I think I I I would say I'm not competitive, but then I realize, well, my subconscious is very competitive because that's up until now. Yeah, up until now, and because that's how I've been raised. And as I got into the program, you know, when I heard the word dietitian and you better be a dietitian, I made that decision. I didn't realize how ambitious I was. Apparently, the national in Canada, the national acceptance rates or success rate for people entering a nutrition program and eventually become a dietitian is about 30%. Oh, wow. I didn't know that. I didn't, I was I was winning very blindly, just like, I'm going to become whatever you just said. And yet the journey taught me so much. So this is something, you know, talking about everything counts. Sometimes when we look at our life, we've done something, and then later on we change the course. Some people will say, oh, what a waste of time for that, whether it's undergrad, your university, studying, whatever. I truly believe there's no such thing as a waste unless you keep telling yourself that. Because everything counts. Your journey, every single step, every single turning corner, and every single rock that formed your past, they all counts.

Kristin 14:12

Wow. I'm gonna just take that soundbite and have it be my part of my trailer because yes, that's exactly it. It's nothing, no effort is wasted, no lesson that you learned is wasted. It's all so important. Absolutely. Uh it forms who we are. I love that. Tell me about the early days of being a dietitian and what happened when you had that little that first thought of is this it?

Lin 14:33

Oh, yeah. When when I heard that thought for the first time, immediately there's another part of me saying, shut up, don't even entertain that thought. How dare you? Um, because as an international student in in Canada, uh my parents were responsible, or my myself were responsible for all the financial cost of achieving a degree, pretty much as everybody in the United States. My parents spent every single penny they have saved, they have generated during all that years I was studying abroad because that's important for them. And and they they did it out of love. I'm very grateful. And that's exactly the reason when I achieved that kind of like achievement. Uh, I heard this thought of, uh, I don't think I want to do this for the rest of my life. Fear kicked in right away saying, No, you're gonna do this until you die. And so that's that's okay, fine. I'm gonna I'm gonna zip it. I'm I'm gonna be just doing the work. Literally, when I first heard this thought, I haven't gotten my first paycheck yet. So I was like, no, that's not no way we can entertain this. But you know, maybe it was my ego, maybe I I think it is a combination of both. It it was my ego, and my spirit is calling me to really do what matters for me. Yeah. Um, and so that's when I started to just kind of like, okay, what else? What else can I do? I can make a bigger impact in the work that I do. So I started climbing the ladder for for lack of better description, applying for promotions, get into management jobs, and um I stayed in healthcare for eight years, thinking there's no way I could get out. Yeah. And and that led into my my parking lot crying event.

Kristin 16:24

Okay, tell us about your parking lot crying event and then what happened after that.

Lin 16:29

That was because, really, because I was ignoring what my truth was. My truth was that I was not a fit to that particular environment. I'm very grateful for Canadian healthcare. You know, we have more kind of like a universal healthcare, and at the same time, it's it's run as a business. There's a lot of policy, there are there's a lot of politics around how a healthcare system is run. I get it, it's required, but it was not a fit for me. So this whole of I'm not doing the thing I can do. I have more, I want to make a bigger, better impact in other people's lives. And I was not doing that, not doing that for my patients, for my clients, because I was bound by a scope as a registered dietitian, as a by this license. So that hole grew bigger and bigger and bigger because I was so afraid to leave that field, that that system of healthcare. Because, you know, I was getting paid very well. I had a pension and a benefit and all of those things. And eventually, that hole inside of me, that hollowness inside of me, grew bigger and bigger to the point where I couldn't ignore it anymore. It it had manifested into a physical pain. To the point uh crying was uh because I was I at the time my awareness was oh, I'm just stressed out from work. And now I'm thinking, wow, it's like really like you're crying for work. That's not a healthy sign. You want to look at something. But I obviously I didn't have the awareness at the time until it was a beautiful July morning, like in Canada, summer is beautiful in where I live. It was it was sunny and there is a uh race in the morning, it was beautiful, but I left work, left home for work so early that either my child, my my toddler, my son was a toddler at the time, nor my husband were either, either of them were awake. That was how early I left home, not even just getting up. And because I felt obligated to be a good employee, and part of me thought if I show up earlier, even though I have no idea what I was gonna do with my time, because I felt like the work is just not making much impact, uh, in my opinion. And yet I still showed up so early, there was nobody else in the parking lot. I was staring at the entrance of my previous workplace. It I I it literally had a like a hallucination point uh where it the door, the entrance, became a black hole. I felt like it's gonna suck me into it, and I had no idea if I would survive for the day. And that is when I burst into tears. I just started to cry. And um, because of the sadness of wow, I worked so hard for this and for what? And because of this devastation of I don't think I can keep keep going like this. I I didn't know how long I cried for. I'm probably thinking I'd better, you know, first of all, not ruin my makeup. That's that was my priority. And second of all, I I was so afraid to let other people see me because I was I I was somebody had put on this persona that I love my job, I'm passionate about it, I want to make a difference. I truly did, but it's it's not for that environment nor that position. So I wiped my probably my you know snot of tears, whatever. And then in that moment I made a decision. It was a very calm decision. It's not shouting, it's not coming out of fear. It was a very calm spiritual decision of something got to change. I didn't have a plan, I didn't know what I need to do. I certainly didn't have everything figured out, but it was a decision of something got to change. I cannot keep going like this anymore. And that decision was very powerful. It felt like suddenly, okay, I have an anchor in my knowing of it's all gonna be okay. So I entered the work, finished the work that day, and after that moment of that, no matter what, something got to change decision. I start to really look at life differently. And the opportunities start to rise up. The conversations I start to have with other people became so profound in a way. Things I would never say yes to before I started seeing yes to them. The conversations I would never entertain before I started to entertain now. Eventually I discovered life coaching. That was back then, it was more generalized. Life coaching. I think I love life coaching. I love coaching others. I think I'm I have a gift. I I think this is life coaching. I even didn't even dive into exactly what it was. And that's when I realized this is this is really my calling. This is what I meant to do. And fast forward, that's when I made a decision. I found a mentor. It took me nine months, but I did. I found myself a mentor, my a coach, who I I believe in. I if I want to do something, I want to learn it from people who have already done it. And even though it was took me nine months, I found her. And um, within a few months after that moment of crying my car, I handed my letter of resignation to the CEO of my previous workplace. I was able to close that chapter on a very high note. It was on my own choice. It was my on my own term. And I was able to maintain really great relationship with people on lead on the leadership in within that organization. So that was my journey. And I think again, circling back to everything counts is when we're willing to just listen to the nudges of our own wisdom. It listen to what is your intuition guiding you to do next. And if we have enough courage to simply take one simple act, it doesn't mean right now, if you're like, yeah, I've been sick and tired of my work too. I'm going to quit my job today. Hey, if that has your name on it, go for it. But that does not mean that's what you're going to do, is to go through this journey following your own intuition. That will take you to what you truly mean to do with this gift of life.

Kristin 22:51

Yeah. I mean, I think that the story you're telling it probably resonates with so many people. And I'm sure you find that in your daily work these days. So ultimately, you leaned into coaching, and then it sounds like you broadened your ability to coach further. So you have additional programs that folks can do. Tell me what your work looks like today. Like what's a day in the life?

Lin 23:14

Yes. It's that that was a whole other chapter. Is okay, let's be an entrepreneur. Uh what? What how do you spell entrepreneur? That's um, that was my starting point, is to first is a mindset switch for me to even realize, oh, I I was being trained as an employee. I didn't understand or know what it takes to be what even it means to be an entrepreneur, to be a business owner, to be your own boss. I mean, they're all nice words flowing in my head, but I didn't understand what they really mean until I started the journey. I started uh making lots of mistakes and going through the ups and downs of uh building something new for myself. And you know, as a life coach, when I got certified, it was very general life coaching. The principle is all the same. How you want to achieve success in your health. The principle is the same as how you want to 10x your business. Yet through my journey, I discovered I always had this passion, which is to learn what I've learned, to create what I have and turn around and helping others who want to have the same result. Even I was a registered dietitian, I always mentor students who also want to be a registered dietitian. And so right now, my passion is to really help other entrepreneurs, especially the entrepreneurs who previously they were working as an employee and to create this leap, moving from being an employee to being a business owner and entrepreneur and expand their business faster through what I share with them, which is to shorten their journey so they can avoid a lot of mistakes that I've made. And they can not that I don't ever tell people what to do because that's not the style I use at all. I believe you're the highest authority, you know exactly what is the best way to approach your life. My job is to simply help you and support you to discover your true divine wisdom. That's why I always say mindset is the first thing, it's the first thing we gotta address, especially doesn't matter who you are, especially if you're an entrepreneur, you're building a business, you want to expand your business. So, my passion is to serve other high achieving, quote unquote, type A people like myself. I, you know, just kind of a go-getter. I can do it, I can work harder. Okay, that is great. All those are great qualities. And now you moved from being an employee, now you're building your own business. What my passion is to support them to create that business they love faster through ease. So on a daily basis, this is what I do. I have different coaching programs uh that comes my first priority, is always mindset, is always that awareness of for people to really know where they want to go and why they want to do it, and what is the their own next step to achieve their quarterly goal, monthly goal, and turn it into a yearly goal. So I I I'm passionate of what I do. I have one-on-one clients that is my highest supporting structure. I also have a masterminds and different programs that supports people who are on a different phase of their journey. So that is my that is my life right now.

Kristin 26:39

It's so incredible. I mean, I'm I'm really inspired by it. Thank you. I would love to go to the lightning round. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What was your very first job and what did it teach you about work?

Lin 26:52

My very first job was unpaid. I was working for my mother in her retail store. I was working 16, 17 hours a day because there was a division within her business and the leadership team. And one of the leaders left and took literally half of the employee of that store overnight. So they were very short. My mom just, I was 18, I think, just threw me into uh that that job. And uh I what I learned was that it's the fundamentals are all the same, especially nowadays, reflecting on through all of my different jobs is it's about people's skills. Doesn't matter your extrovert, introvert, it has nothing to do with your personality. If you're coming from the place of what can I do for you? How can I help you? Let me find out, figure out a way. It's okay if I don't know, but let me find out a way. So it was it was physically tiring, but I was 18, so I did it. I did it for like I think for three weeks. Well, she didn't give me a paycheck, but she gave me all her savings so I could have an education in Canada.

Kristin 27:56

That's amazing. Um wow. What is the best or worst piece of advice you've ever received?

Lin 28:03

It's it's not I I don't have a specific example of quote unquote the worst advice, but I have a general tone. So you should do this. And a boring one of my clients who who um I shared this with me, uh, she just like, I'm gonna stop shooting myself. And I love that, yeah. So it's like, okay. Um, the best advice was when my coach, I worked with many coaches, and one of my coaches, and she is so she's amazing, just so wise, so intuitive. And there was one time I was just, I thought it was a casual thing. I I said, her name is Kirsten. I said, Kirsten, I'm just curious because I've noticed this for a few years ago. I noticed that I've been getting cold more often than usual. Uh, do you think there is anything in my mind that's leading it? Uh, she started to giggle and she she I thought, Kirsten, be serious. I'm serious. And and she just said, let's not be interested in things you do not want. And that was like lightning strike me for me to realize, oh my goodness, I didn't even realize I was interested in why I was sick. I was my mind was focusing on sickness rather than what I really want, which is health. And I there I was, uh thinking I was a seasoned coach and very sharp in identifying limiting beliefs and thoughts in other people. Yet there I was, you know, stuck in a thinking pattern that was mine that I couldn't see. And that is one of the profound moments I've had working with a coach for myself. And uh yeah, it was a big aha moment. So focus on what you want. Like if you want health, then focus on health and don't make up a story about why you keep getting cold and sick, sick, especially in the wintertime. It's supposed to happen.

Kristin 30:01

It's it's normal. Yeah, that's great advice. I'm gonna take that one. Do you have an embarrassing work story?

Lin 30:09

Oh gosh. A couple years ago, I was doing a three-day event. It's called Enlightened Success Live. I do this um very often in in Toronto area. You know, when I do those those events, I was a trainer, I was a speaker on a stage. It's like a multiple six-figure production, and I have a team supporting me. And I had this person I met through another network opportunity, and she came all the way to Toronto from uh Detroit area, and uh she lived in China for a few years, so she can speak some Chinese, but she's Caucasian, and she started talking, she started to follow to me. We had a break, and then she started following to me to the bathroom. Oh gosh, and I was you know, sitting on the toilet and doing my thing, and she just talking to me. And part of me is like, okay, call me from love, call me from and I'm just like, I'm I'm doing my thing, and yeah, that was um too much information, but like trying to not make too much noise doing my business. Yeah, it's this person just won't stop talking, um, and after that, I implemented an assistance structure during those three days, like somebody who is like a bodyguard follows me everywhere and protects my space and energy. That was that was pretty embarrassing.

Kristin 31:35

Yeah. Well, that's a really good one. Oh man. Um, what is your socially acceptable work vice? What is something random that brings you comfort during the day? I don't wear shoes.

Lin 31:51

Because my most of my work are on Zoom or on uh online. And and uh I'm very grateful for that. Most of my clients are, I would say 95% of my clients are not living in my same city. Um, so I'm very grateful for technology and I I wear flip-flops uh you know at home and uh just like that. Is uh brings me a tremendous amount of comfort, and um I wear clothes that are comfortable, professional and comfortable, especially my bottom, because you know, very often they don't need to be shown. And I don't wear pajamas. I still wear, you know, either athletic, you know, wear just something very comfortable, stretchy, breathable. So yeah, that that brings me a lot of comfort, and uh yeah, that's that's something I'm grateful for because it's uh you know, working from home, working most of my work are at home unless I'm on stage. Even I'm on stage, I don't wear I used to wear high heels, and then I realized no thank you. Nowadays I wear sneakers on stage.

Kristin 32:58

I'm I'm so glad that we have sneaker culture now. Yes, such a savor. Yes. What is something about your job that sounds impressive but isn't actually that glamorous?

Lin 33:09

I have a wall that is painted with gold glitter. And uh and and there is a painting that I commissioned one of my acquaintances, my friends, who did a painting for me with my favorite color uh that is hot pink. And uh many people look at that that background, because that's the background I use when I teach, when I have a session online, and people feel like, wow, that's so you know impressive. And then it's just one wall. It's uh it's one wall that I decorated intentionally. It does host energy for me. And at the same time, you know, it's my office is in my basement. People think, wow, that's just so glamorous or whatever. And yet is we are real. When it when we're real, we are real, if that makes sense. Is you know, it doesn't matter who you are, what kind of car you drive, what kind of house you live in. We all go through the fundamental needs, you know. We eat and then things come out from the other end. Me and my toilet related jokes, like I can go on and off.

Kristin 34:14

See, that's all that matters. That that's the authenticity of it all.

Lin 34:17

Absolutely. I I believe so. We're all real. Like, I love authenticity. I don't pretend, I don't, especially as a coach, come out from love. Very often I'm the one who is gently kicking my clients at the rare end with love because that's my job. I'm not here to be your friend and tell you what makes you feel good. I'm here to tell you what I believe is gonna push you towards to your next level of success because that's why we are working together. So um, authenticity is uh is let I think we are going through a change, uh, evolution uh in society to more and more people wanting to be real, wanting to be authentic. And that's a wonderful thing.

Kristin 35:00

I agree. I think that we are turning a corner as a culture, and I'm excited about it. I'm ready to be real. Yes. Okay, last route lightning round question, and that is do you fix typos in casual communication? I do.

Lin 35:16

I think I think it's it's my Chinese. That's fair. I even I I'm I have very proper spelling uh in my even in my casual texting. I would use capitalized letters when it's required, even though yeah, I think that's yeah, that's coming from my years of Chinese education.

Kristin 35:36

Sure. And like, you know, once a perfectionist, always a perfectionist. Okay, the actual last substantive question of the interview is what would you tell someone who feels off track right now?

Lin 35:48

It's to take a breath. And while you're taking this breath, remind yourself this one shall pass. Sometimes we go through a certain instant or experience, circumstance, challenges. Like right now, you know, I've talked with quite a few of my fellow coaches, and because the there are bills to pay and things are getting more challenging, they are taking on quote unquote real jobs, you know, a steady job that they get paid, which are all great. And it's is when you're doing that, whatever you're going through, remind yourself this one shall pass. Nothing lasts forever. Whether it is something that is so incredibly beautiful and bring you so much joy and happiness, like you go onto the beach and have a fantastic vacation, this one shall pass. And same with difficult situations. So, whatever you're going through, give yourself that reminder because that is hope. As long as your heart is beating, as long as you're breathing, there is another tomorrow, and it you can create a very different future.

Kristin 36:51

That's so good. Thank you so much. I also, your work and spirit is so aligned with the energy of this podcast. So thank you for coming. This was so good. Where can people find you?

Lin 37:04

Yes, um, thank you so much for having me. This has been such a great conversation. I believe everything is divinely. So uh to find me is simple, simply you can Google my name and my website and and enlightenedsuccess.com will show up. Or you can uh look look me up on Facebook, Instagram, uh, as well as LinkedIn. And my my name is quite unique. So when you when you type it out, you will see uh I don't believe there's another Lin Yuan Su who is a life coach who is a mindset trainer.

Kristin 37:33

Excellent. I will include links in the show notes so folks can click through and find you. I really appreciate this. Thank you for your time and your wisdom. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. Okay, I just finished listening to the final cut of Lynn's interview, and she is an infectious energy. I don't know. I left feeling like, yes, yes, all of the things. I actually don't even know what to say because I mean, she's like the most naturally aligned with my motto of everything counts that I've ever encountered. I feel like she did my job for me. She talks so much about how there is truly no experience that's wasted. Talking about the difference between achievement and alignment is so important because, of course, a lot of us who are perfectionists can accomplish anything. We can, you know, what do you want us to do? We'll do it. But at the end of the day, is that aligned? Is that fulfilling us? Or might we down the road find ourselves in a parking lot crying? Probably yes, that has happened. And actually, I just wanted to. This is such a silly moment to pull out, but it made me laugh when she talks about how early in her career she was like, Well, I worked so hard to get here, so I'm gonna die here. I felt that in my soul, and it reminded me of how as a teenager, I had incredibly bad luck with cars. I was incredibly fortunate to have cars that my parents gave me, but one was stolen, one was wrecked, and by the time I had the car that would be my car for the rest of time, I was 19. And I remember saying that I would literally drive this car until I died. So while I hadn't worked hard per se to have these cars, again, I was such a lucky teenager, but I just felt like I had all of these chances, and this this was my chance. I was gonna keep this car forever because I just really understood what it meant. And and and anyway, and so the reason I bring it up is because I did end up parting with that car down the road only because I moved to New York City. And so it wasn't that I wrecked it and it wasn't that I ran away from it or, you know, wanted to upgrade, but I made this conscious choice to part with it because I knew that my life was gonna change. It needed to change. And anyway, that story is not meant to be that deep. Actually, I shared it because I just thought it's a fun fact about me. And truly, that's sort of what I was imagining as she was talking about her, her sort of being stubborn and being like, nope, gonna continue doing this forever. And I don't know. I just think we all have those moments where we're like, I made it here, so I will be doing this forever. And that's okay. That's a choice. And so is doing something different. So is walking away, even when it's scary, and even when you've like really invested time, energy, effort, your heart into something. You can still say, This isn't aligned. This gave me what it was meant to give me. The experience, in my case, the car gave me what it was meant to give me, which was, you know, transportation, until I didn't need it anymore because it was time for my life to change. So take my silly story, take Lynn's beautiful way of articulating her career and her alignment and her purpose, and think about what feels aligned for you and think about those tiny, tiny things that we can do every day that move us closer to alignment. I've been thinking a lot lately about how important it is to find human connection in my everyday life. That is part of why I'm here doing this podcast. But I'm also looking outside and I'm thinking, where are the places that I plug into? What are the things in person where I can become a regular or find new ways of belonging in a community because that gets me closer to what I think is alignment for me in this moment and in this chapter. So anyway, I hope that you enjoyed Lynn, and I hope that you go find some alignment. Um, as always, thank you so much for listening. And I hope you come find us at everythingcountspod.com or on Instagram or LinkedIn, and we'll see you next time. Bye. Thanks for listening to everything counts, but nothing is real. Remember, even when nothing feels real, everything you do counts. Capitalism may be absurd, but so are we. And on that note, well, it's been real. Don't forget to subscribe. I'm Kristen. I'll see you next time.