Spiritual Spotlight Series
Discover a world of healing, holistic, and spiritual modalities with the Spiritual Spotlight Series podcast. Every week, we introduce you to diverse spiritual practitioners, including psychics, energy healers, life coaches, spiritual thought leaders, and witches. Each episode offers inspiration and enlightenment through the unique journeys, experiences, and divine abilities of our guests. Perfect for those on a path to spiritual awakening, this podcast blends science and mysticism to expand your understanding of spirituality. Our mission is to open your eyes to the world around you, making complex concepts accessible and enlightening for anyone seeking spiritual growth. Whether you're new to spirituality or looking to deepen your knowledge, the Spiritual Spotlight Series is your go-to resource for awakening and transformation.
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Live Life on Fire: Discovering Purpose and Embracing Spiritual Well-Being with Lynita Mitchell-Blackwell
Have you ever wondered how someone could possibly juggle the roles of attorney, CPA, author, and ordained minister, all while embodying spiritual fulfillment? Lynita Mitchell-Blackwell, Esq. a beacon of multi-dimensional success, joins us to unravel the tapestry of her life, revealing the transformative power of empathy and authenticity in a diverse career.
Navigating the worlds of law, finance, and spirituality, Lynita's story offers a blueprint for integrating our true selves into our professional lives, with a dash of divine inspiration from her encounters at a vision board party that altered her life's path.
Then, there's Lynita, whose experiences with prayer and stillness amid life's tempests are nothing short of miraculous. Imagine grappling with the concept of fractions as a child and finding a spiritual revelation within it. From overcoming a life-threatening health crisis to embracing the teachings of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Lynita's narrative is a beacon of hope, highlighting the essential practices of self-care and the courage to prioritize well-being over the relentless push of the daily grind.
Wrapping up, we pivot to the pursuit of a life 'on fire,' where one's ambitions are fueled by a burning desire for self-discovery and spiritual richness. Our ambitious guest sets forth an audacious goal of reaching 100 stages, intertwining their professional aspirations with a journey of personal enlightenment.
Her story exemplifies the art of self-acceptance and the release of external pressures, urging us all to seek out peace, joy, and fulfillment by honoring our spiritual existence within the human experience.
Join us as we share these empowering tales and offer a guiding light toward a life of contentment and bliss.
Lynita Mitchell-Blackwell, Esq.
Intuitive Business Coach
www.LynitaMitchellBlackwell.com
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Hello everyone, welcome to our Spiritual Spotlight series. Today I am joined by Linnida Mitchell Blackwell. She's an accomplished attorney, cpa, best-selling author, christian life coach, emotional intelligence practitioner, and she's also an ordained new thought minister, christian minister and intuitive business coach. She has a lot going on everyone and I am really, really excited that she's here today. Thank you so much for coming to Spiritual Spotlight series. How are you doing today?
Speaker 2:I am wonderfully well. It's so honored to be here, Rachel. Thank you.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much. So, linnida, can you maybe share with us what initially inspired you to pursue such a diverse career path, combining law, finance and spiritual coaching?
Speaker 2:Actually it was following my life path. Now I can say that now on this side of the rainbow, as I was walking my path, I was very frustrated with myself because I was like, why is it? It seems like everybody can just find their groove and just walk and I'm all over the place. But what Spirit has shown me at this point in my life is that I needed different experiences with different people so that I could appeal to a very broad audience and really have not just compassion but empathy for people.
Speaker 2:My mother selected my undergraduate major, which was accounting. I did not like it. I'm a very outgoing person, so just sitting there doing a little beanie thing, that was my thing. So then I went back for law, love law, but still felt like there was something missing, and so I did what I was raised to do. I started serving in the community and found a lot of passion and joy there, and I also found women who were just like me, a few years younger, who were looking for ways to serve and to move up the corporate ladder, but they weren't necessarily getting the opportunities to do so.
Speaker 2:And I wrote my first book, which was leading through living a guy for women seeking growth through leadership. And in that book I shared how I use my community activism and involvement, those skills, gifts and talents, and bought them into the workplace so I could grow, because I was not necessarily given the opportunities on the job to get those skills. And then people read it and it really resonated and even though it said for women, the men were like I don't care that, that was said for women, I'm using it too. So I was invited to come speak and then people asked me to help them to write their own books and so then I started coaching with that. But then I had a life challenge, which I'll go through a little later because I know you're going to ask, because everybody asked. So that's how I wound up doing these various things with the coaching, the speaking, the law, finance.
Speaker 1:Wow. So let me ask you this have you found ways to integrate your spiritual beliefs and practices into your professional life, especially in fields like law and finance, which are often seen as more secular?
Speaker 2:So I especially use my skills, gifts and talents in the secular, because we like to think, rachel, that we are the separate and apart beings, like I'm one person at work and I'm another person at home. That is a lie, and even when we put on, I call it our battle suit, right? Yes, yes, the mask, whatever words you want to use, your light still peaks out in the little cracks and crevices, in the slits. Okay, so who you really are, people see that. And so I got to a place where I was just like, well, let's just go for the full shabring. And I threw all that off and I just show up as me, and particularly when it comes to tense situations at work, that showing up with that intuitive intelligence, really listening to what the soul is saying not necessarily what my clients are saying, or the wonderful counselor and advocate that's sitting across the table for me, sometimes showing their natural crack, allows me to be a loving and empathetic human being toward them, even when they're not acting like one. So, yes, I love that.
Speaker 1:I'm having a moment. Everyone, so I'm having a moment. You have achieved significant success in your career. You mentioned feeling something was missing. Can you maybe describe the moment you realized this and how it impacted your approach to life and work?
Speaker 2:Absolutely. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing. I attended a vision board party that was jointly facilitated facilitated, excuse me, by Jeharry Sword and Benicia Ponder, who are amazing speakers in your own rights business for women and this one was different because I had been to vision board parties before where you get your magazine, cut your pictures, put it on there, right but this one, they started it off with an extended meditation, and so, instead of us just grabbing our magazines and pictures, it was what is spirit telling you? What are you feeling? What is the call, how are you being called for? And so I wrote what was being downloaded into me, and then I got pictures to match up with that, and that was when I was able to hear myself and hear spirit, and I was like there's got to be something more.
Speaker 2:I have had a blessed life Rachel, wonderful family and friends and community, amazing opportunities but I think we all know that those things checkmarts do not define life satisfaction, and so that's when I was able to look in and say I would really like to do something that was meaningful and impactful for many people, and that's where the book came from. My first book came, which set the trajectory for today.
Speaker 1:That is amazing Now. You have mentioned now a couple of times listening to spirit. So was listening to spirit something that you maybe heard or felt when you were young and then kind of tap more into it as you aged, or is it something that you've always known? Within you is something that's a higher power connection to God, if you can elaborate a little bit on that? Absolutely.
Speaker 2:When I was very small, my parents tell me they always knew that I was having a conversation with somebody else.
Speaker 1:Love that, love that.
Speaker 2:And I was introduced to God from the time that I could talk. So it was, and I'm very grateful for that foundation. But my personal connection to God happened when I was in the fourth grade. I was having a time with fractions. I did well on everything else but fractions. I just could not get the concept it was the same, thank you.
Speaker 1:Thank you, and I'm really good at math and I'm a registered nurse.
Speaker 2:Thank you, but that concept it just. And my parents paid for tutors. They sat down with me, so this was right. There were all these, my teachers. Everybody was come on, leneita, you can do it. But I was like it just. But one day I was sitting there and I was nine years old. I was sitting on the bed and I had my book open and I said, god, I'm not moving from this spot until you show me how to do this. Now, in my mind, a small amount of time passed and it just clicked and I got it. But I realized when I looked at the clock two hours had passed. Whoa, yeah, yeah, excuse me, so that was my first encounter with God my personal encounter.
Speaker 2:I love this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow, like a snapshot.
Speaker 2:So that was the first time that I and when I say understood, because when you're nine you don't really get right Okay, that was the first time I understood the power of meditation, like sitting quietly in his presence so he can talk and do the work to make the changes in you that need to be made for what you have asked for, cause we asked for things all the time but we don't sit still enough for God to do what he needs to do within us Because, remember, the problem was not the fraction, the problem was my comprehension of the fraction. So the change had to come within me. But I wish I could say that I've maintained that understanding throughout my whole life. That's alive.
Speaker 1:I love your honesty. I love it.
Speaker 2:And you know we get caught up in the world and what people are saying and showing us about it all begins and ends with you, and so I fed into that. I really, really did and I worked myself to the bone and I almost died a couple of times.
Speaker 1:Yes, so with these near death experiences it sounds like, did you have moments where you crossed the other side and saw spirit, or are you okay to share a little bit about that?
Speaker 2:Oh, we're friends. Rachel, let's go, honey, let's do it, and so you're the best. So I have. Yes, it'll be two years. In June, I was in the hospital for bowel obstruction, which was a complication from a previous surgery that I had had.
Speaker 1:My gosh, that is such a serious thing, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:It sounds it's just bowel obstruction. Two words no, no, it is, that can end your life.
Speaker 1:You could die 100%. Yes, ma'am, I know that for a fact.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so I had this experience. Well, I didn't know it at the time, but I was dying of pneumonia. I didn't know. Yeah, I was in the hospital. And two years ago this is during COVID- it's during COVID right, it's during COVID, right, right. So I'm in the hospital and I'm getting shoddy care. Those people are lucky that my husband is a same man now, because when we met he put a different result.
Speaker 1:You guys, what about an experience? Is what I'm hearing.
Speaker 2:Yes An experience.
Speaker 2:An experience. That's what we're saying, right? And I was just like, how did I end up here? And I was out of my body. I was at the end of the universe. I looked and the whole world was in my hand. I took that to mean from God, you've created all of this If you want to change. You know how. I said stop and everything stopped. I said we're resetting.
Speaker 2:And I came back Y'all, don't do this at home. I started pulling those wires and IVs out of me. I pulled that tube out of my nose and it was the first time I was able to blow my nose in almost a week. And all this flim and I could smell, because I've had pneumonia before. I smelled it and I was like my God, if I had been here another day, my family would have been burying me. I called my sister and I said come get me. She did the only thing that I well okay, I want to be that graphic, but there was only one thing that I didn't pull out for myself because I was scared. But when the oh, I know what you didn't pull out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what? You didn't pull out.
Speaker 2:Yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am, the alarm started going off and they're coming in. She signed on AMA. Yeah, I was like I'm gone, I'm done with this place. I'm a dad, let's stay here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is such a powerful experience. Even as you're just saying it, I can feel the emotion and the transformation and just it's also the power that you had in that moment. Oh, my goodness, now, since that experience, how has that shifted your intuitive coaching business career?
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely. The first way that it has changed is that I tell all of my clients from the job you're going to have a lot of rest time, that we're building into your schedule. If you're not good with doing that, not just saying that we're not going to work well together. Years ago I read this book by his holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who is the founder of the Art of Living Foundation in Bangalore, india. He has a set schedule for managers and directors and up One long weekend a month, so three-day weekend, one week of vacation every six months and then once a year you gather due two weeks. As Americans, we're like what is that?
Speaker 1:Time off, excuse me.
Speaker 2:Now my European class. They were on vacation. In the middle of a sentence.
Speaker 1:I love you so much I got to go. I'm on a vacation.
Speaker 2:I was working with a young lady on my app and, I promise you, I send an email and I got a response back at office. But what if we learn to do that?
Speaker 1:Seriously, yes, we feel shamed to take time for ourselves, and it is such a hustle culture that's not serving us any good.
Speaker 2:Not at all. You're talking about serving the people who gave us this hustle culture. They were not, I believe, ill-intended. I would agree with you Right, they taught us what they knew to do. But if we're looking at it from the perspective of what they knew to do, we all get to a place where we are like to our parents. I love you and I appreciate everything you taught me. All that was one point. I have to do some things differently for myself. That I know. That's one of those things.
Speaker 1:Yes, that is one of those things. The perfect example to your point is smoking. Doctors used to prescribe smoking and then, several years later, after they had to publish scientific articles, oh wait, it causes cancer, Right? So I mean, that's the perfect example, so help. So let me ask you this you have a five-step formula to the ultimate successful life. Can you maybe elaborate on this process and what are the key realizations or experiences that led to its development?
Speaker 2:Absolutely so. The key experiences were my surgeries, because I had achieved everything I ever wanted, but I still didn't have that lasting happiness. I was still on this hamstool. I would achieve, be happy, and then feel like I need to do something else again, and so I was like I'm not looking for happiness, I'm looking for joy, and joy is an external job, right, whereas happiness is external, and so that is what led to the framework or the formula.
Speaker 2:The first is that we focus on people and not on process. What does that mean? It means that what is happening right here, right now, which is this conversation with you and me, rachel, that's the only thing that matters, because we spend so much time planning, strategizing on tomorrow that we forget that if today is not taken care of, tomorrow can't come, not won't. It cannot. There are no foundational building blocks for tomorrow to form if we're too ill to enjoy it. True Facts, true, yeah. The second thing is to unstretch ourselves. Then we have told ourselves that if we're not busy every minute of the day, that we're failures. Yes, y'all, there's a reason that you pay that money for that couch.
Speaker 1:Lay on it. There's a reason why you have Netflix.
Speaker 2:Watch it.
Speaker 1:Right Bravo is there for a reason it really is.
Speaker 2:Watch that fine man take off his shirt.
Speaker 1:Yes, ma'am, yeah, I need an out-of-the-office reply.
Speaker 2:I take once every quarter, a Saturday, and look at everything that I'm involved in, and then I start eliminating things that are no longer in line with my purpose. Now, I didn't say that we're naked Right. Go ahead, Rachel.
Speaker 1:I know that you're a genius. Once a quarter Is it aligned, or is it no longer aligned? It's almost like once a year I go through an unsubscribe from emails.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, do not want a quarter. Yes, it makes life so much easier, and you have the promise that you're not going to replace it with something. I know it was hard, for me too. I have chills.
Speaker 1:No, I am so grateful to be speaking with you today because I there's this thing called a misogy, which is one big event that you plan for the year. One big goal, and for me is to work on my health and my well-being, and includes mental well-being. What you are saying is speaking to my core, like I'm like yes, ma'am, I am implementing this. When we hang up this call.
Speaker 2:Well, good. And then the last god bless you back. No, no, no, no. This is, this is good, this is good. And then the last major thing is Shifting from a I want to live a perfect life to wanting to live an excellent one, and the difference between them is that, if you look at perfection in the dictionary, it is meeting or exceeding standards. But I have to ask you, rachel, who set those standards? Because it probably yeah, no, somebody else gave you that list, oh, yeah it's called my yes, it's societal expectations parents, friends, family, boyfriends, lover.
Speaker 2:That's right, that's right and all these people love you, and so it comes to a place where you have to say I love y'all too, but it's, this is not working for me and so I need to move over to an excellent life, which is the understanding that not only am I setting my own standards, but there's grace built in. So if something doesn't turn out exactly like I had in mind, that's fine. You know why? Because it was in line with my life purpose, my journey, what my soul needed to accomplish this time around. And Once you get there, other people's expectations they really do not impact you the way that they used to. Now I won't say they won't ever matter, because you care what your mama. Things Come on Absolutely. But but it doesn't sting so much when there's not necessarily that 100% approval. 80% is good, it's still a bee, I'm good. I.
Speaker 1:Love that. So you have a book that you have written, and I know you've written a couple books behind you. Can you please show the book to us and tell us about that? This amazing book?
Speaker 2:Absolutely so this is Thank you. This is live life on fire, the ultimate guide to the successful life full of peace, joy and fulfillment, and it is a cheat sheet to answer the question what am I living for? Because it can't be stuff. If it was stuff, you would have been happy the moment you got your car, your money, your house, everything that you ever wanted on your list right. Instead, you keep going like there's something else that you have to have.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm not saying you shouldn't want those things, I want them to. I like having a roof over my head, right. Yeah, what I'm saying is they cannot define your happiness, they cannot define your joy, right. And so I take you through a process that includes being, just being in the present, living a life of flow, so just going with everything and trusting that life is for you, not against you, so that even things that are almost like the boogeyman jumped out, they're trusting that that was for you too, building you up, making you stronger so that you can live a life of all Once you're in. All that allows you to tap into your intuitive intelligence. All of us have the clear skills and gifts All knowing, all seeing, all hearing, all being but we don't necessarily tap into them Once you're living in all you can and that allows you to be better and to serve your clients, your family and yourself, that's beautiful, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1:So you Amazon your websites All the good places Anywherecom.
Speaker 2:That's right. The best place, though, seriously would be my website, and it's also on Audible, so if you want to drive around and listen, please, check it out.
Speaker 1:And, for the listeners, what is your website?
Speaker 2:It is my name Leneeta Spell-L-Y-N-I-T-A MitchellBlackwellcom.
Speaker 1:That's such a beautiful website. She has an amazing website. If you want to see like all of the amazing things she has going on, you need to check out her website. I'm like I need her web designer. It's amazing. So can you please share a personal story of transformation, either from your own life or from one of someone that you've coached, that embodies the principles of your ultimate success life formula.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. I've spent a lot of time talking about myself, so I'll pick a client who I know is good because she shares this story, coach Carol Rodin. When we met she was over the children's ministry at our church and Spirit had me ask her have you ever played in a league? Now, coach is not tall, coach is maybe about 5'7", 5'8". And so she paused and looked at me and she said why did you ask me that? I said God told me to have you ever played in a league. She said yeah, I was cut from a team for the WNBA and I was like what exactly? Now, my hazard was just appointed to this church. I did not know her from Adam, but from that point on we were like peanut butter and jelly, exactly together.
Speaker 2:So we went to lunch that wound up turning also into dinner, and she laid out everything she ever wanted to do and she was like I know that I'm all over the place, but I took the pieces of paper and I just put them in order and I said coach, you're not all over the place. This is the life plan God has given you. This is a 10 year plan. And she was like I feel so much better. She said but like, what do I do? I said well, first you've got to own that you being cut was a blessing and not something to be embarrassed about, because I get the impression that that still stings, even all these years later. I mean, that happened when she was in college.
Speaker 2:Since then she's been an award winning coach for various levels. She has earned her master's degree. She is an educator. She's done amazing things, but that thing was still there, and so we did her bio and that is landed right in the first paragraph saying that she took that experience and learn to see God's hand on her life and how it can help other people, because when she talks to her students now she can tell them I made it to the lead, I got cut because XYZ. This is what we're going to do to fortify you so that if it doesn't go all the way for you, it's OK. Right, you're still a complete, whole, successful, lovely being.
Speaker 2:And we published her first book that talked about her journey, which is called Carol's Dream. We published her devotional for educators last year Exactly. She is speaking all over the nation and she was recently inducted in the collegiate Hall of Fame for the Sports Hall of Fame. So these are all things that we have accomplished. I say we because I'm her coach. I'm chill because she was willing to to embrace that painful part. But without that, if we don't embrace every part of our story, even though the painful ones, we leave things on the table.
Speaker 1:We do 100 percent. You are so correct, 100 percent. It's interesting when you look back at your life, at what you thought it was going to end up at, you see the twists and the turns. You're like there's amazing lessons in all of these. You can either learn to elevate you or take you down. Yes, absolutely yes. So let me ask you this Looking ahead, what new goals or aspirations are you setting for yourself, both in your personal and professional life?
Speaker 2:So, personally, I have been going to the gym every day. As a matter of fact, when we finish up, I'm headed out. She's like bye, rachel. This is big for me because I used to go work out first thing in the morning. I got to the place where I was just like I really like my bed. So Spirit was just like go at night and I was like but I'm going to be too tired. But what has happened is that when I go at night, I'm able to release the day. Then I come home and I give to myself a bubble bath every night. That's beautiful, right, exactly Now. I know some of you are like I have small kids. That's not going to work out for me. They go to bed. After you put them down, get in the tub. That's your time, that is totally your time. That was my big thing and that's something I'm committed to and I'm moving forward. That's personal. Professionally, I want to be on 100 stages this year. Amen, yes, and that's happening.
Speaker 1:I have a feeling.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I'm already on stage too, because I'm here with you, amen.
Speaker 1:Again, hope you don't mind me saying amen, I feel it. I can feel the back of your head. Thank you, I love that. 100 stages international or all in the United States.
Speaker 2:I am open. Half passport will travel. Let's do it.
Speaker 1:All right, then for our final question. For our listeners who are seeking more than just success in their lives, what advice would you offer for finding a deeper sense of peace, joy and fulfillment?
Speaker 2:The best way for you to find that peace, joy and fulfillment is for you to embrace that you are a spiritual being having a human experience and you are living the best way that you can. Once you remove these expectations that other people have of you, that you have of you, and just realize that you are perfect just the way you are, life shifts.
Speaker 1:That is a beautiful piece of advice. Thank you so, so much for coming to the Spiritual Spotlight Series. I am excited to see you on over 100 stages this year and I wish you nothing but success. Thank you again, no further.
