07/31/2025
👯♀️ Your Leadership Legacy Has a Co-author 👯♀️
Behind every leadership legacy stands a best friend.
❤️ Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance
💅 RuPaul and Michelle Visage
💐 My co-author? Linda Laake
Linda is the owner of Linda Laake Designs, and she has been one of my best friends since high school. We started our business ownership journey together nearly 10 years ago, an unplanned coincidence that has proven to be a gift.
We’ve supported each other in moments of doubt. We’ve celebrated all the wins, big, medium, and small. We give each other feedback. We help each other set up and tear down at workshops and expos. And we serve as each other’s hype squad. 📣
Linda has designed floral arrangements for every major event of my adult life, including birthday extravaganzas, my dad’s funeral, and expo booths for Lumin Living, LLC. Her designs transform any space into another world. (For real, I’ve seen her transform a generic Knights of Columbus bingo hall into a sophisticated reception venue.) See the photos for some of her magnificent creations.
We both specialize in transformative experiences, Linda with flowers and spaces and me with discernment leadership. Sharing this journey with her is one of the highlights of business ownership. We help each other write our leadership legacies.
✨ Today is International Friendship Day, so let’s celebrate our friends who help us write our leadership legacies. Who is helping you write your leadership legacy? For whom are you that person?
https://www.lindalaake.com/