ABOUT ME
I’m Lindsay. I’m a feminist, human rights activist and advocate; healer and writer; mother and collective-builder. I founded a consulting collective back in 2015 with a group of my smartest friends, and I’ve been working as the business leader in service of international non-profits, UN agencies, and social movements my whole career with a brilliant team of shining stars.
I make art.
I dream about the things that will be there when systems of oppression and empire collapse.
And I wish for ease and freedom for all.
MY STORY
I didn’t know it at the time of starting my business, but I was very well-suited for client-facing, mission-driven, justice-oriented entrepreneurship. I was a helper who was ready to show up and DO THE THINGS necessary to have an impact. I had a clear sense of my expertise, and I knew some amazing people and wanted to figure out how we could work together and take care of each other along the way.
The COVID-19 pandemic, relational trauma, and becoming a parent cracked open all the things that felt like I had them under control, including my sense of self; my projected career trajectory and my relationship to productivity / capitalist norms; and my relationship to my body.
The Chrysocolla honors the 2015 version of myself. And (bless her) she needed a coach. Her business needed different levels of help at different moments. Lindsay of 2015 had the energy for and interest in figuring out what it meant to start and run a business; she wasn’t scared to fail. She was a sparkly, generative mass of fortitude and possibility.
<<Spoiler>> I found her again; she’s not gone. But I had to spend some good time getting back to her.