Daily Inspiration: Meet Lynnda Pollio

Today we’d like to introduce you to Lynnda Pollio.

Hi Lynnda, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
Hi. I am a Consciousness Doula and founder of WisdomKeeping. A Consciousness Doula is not something I decided to become. It’s a calling I grew into. From childhood, I was intuitively sensitive, having many experiences with the unseen. A highly creative and imaginative kid, I became a late bloomer. The first real job I had was in my early 30s. I stumbled into advertising because it gave me freedom and allowed me to explore my creative and empathic gifts. It turned out I was good at it. I quickly became a senior executive of New Business for a handful of New York City advertising agencies and then ran a successful business development consultancy for several years. That all ended when I got the call my father was dying from a massive heart attack. By then, I had begun to immerse myself in healing modalities and spiritual disciplines. I was learning Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, herbalism, and crystals. Through this energy work, I nursed my father back to health for a while. He got the extra year of life he hoped for.

Three days after he died with me by his side, I heard a voice say, Go to Sedona. I had never been there, but three weeks later, I arrived with no plans about where I was staying or for how long. While there, my spirituality and intuitive gifts, lying dormant since childhood, re-awakened with a fury. The following five months are a blur of mystical moments, nature hikes, and startling synchronicities within Sedona’s beautiful canyons. When I returned to New York, I was someone else, yet more me than ever. I could not go back to my advertising career. Buzzing with new ideas and perspectives, I entered the emerging world of conscious business practices, supporting small, meaningful companies committed to making a difference. I participated in LOHAS and Conscious Capitalism, eventually becoming the world’s first Chief Consciousness Officer for a global futurist marketing consultancy. There, I coaxed the CEOs and CMOs of Fortune 100 companies toward the Human Technologies of wisdom, intuition, compassion, empathy, forgiveness, and gratitude.

One day, while working on a consulting project, I began hearing the voice of a Southern African-American woman in my head. She asked me to share her story. From the channeling of Addie Mae’s compelling life to relentless editing during long years of caring for my mother that followed, this odyssey became a book that took 10 years to write. That unexpected inspirational novel, Trusting the Currents, has won 13 literary awards, is an Amazon Bestseller, and garners the most beautiful reviews.

Once my mother passed in late 2018, I was ready for a big change. After living in New York City for 30 years, I moved to Sedona in March 2020, just as the pandemic swallowed the planet. I felt a strong call to navigate others through their transformation and awakening process. So here I am as a Consciousness Doula, finally out of the COVID cave.

Can you talk to us about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned? Looking back, has it been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Being my mother’s caregiver for nine years was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Just as I had decided to leave my full-time position as Chief Consciousness Officer to start a new consultancy, my mother fell and shattered her femur. From that moment on, I was swallowed by the responsibility of her 24/7 care. I struggled to maintain a business (and identity), but both eroded. I sunk into a dark night of the soul, the only light being writing Trusting the Currents, which I felt on a mission to complete. I call my vocation WisdomKeeping because the time with my mother ripened my wisdom, and I want to share everything I learned. My heart goes out to every caregiver doing this unheralded act of love. I’ve never followed a traditional path in life, so struggle was inherent. There are challenges to being the freak in the room, which is how I felt for years. I know I’m not alone in that. I saw the world differently, through the lens of the soul. I encourage others who don’t feel like they fit into the world they inhabit to begin to explore their inner universe. It’s normal to struggle when you are different than those around you. All struggle leads to regeneration and self-awareness.

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar, what can you tell them about what you do?
Consciousness Doula, WisdomKeeping: I am all about consciousness, cultivating self-awareness, and living from your heart. My unique ability to connect with energetic frequencies and my gift for communicating these abstract frequencies distinguish me. I call myself a Consciousness Doula because I help people birth consciousness and discover their Inner Resonance Signature, that one frequency that is theirs alone. Once you can find and feel this singular frequency, you begin to create life from that rare place and become your own Wisdomkeeper. I am just beginning to offer this work, building my new WisdomKeeping website (myself!), where I will offer online workshops, Wisdom Guidance Sessions, and connections to others walking an unconventional path. Hopefully, it will be launched this summer. It’s been a long time coming to this place in my life. I want to offer my knowledge, experience, and guidance to those grappling with change and beginning to awaken; to make their life journey a little easier, way more meaningful, and maybe even sprinkled with joy. I recently created my first wisdom guidance product, The Wishing Bowl, which I love. Each of the five bowls I create monthly contains the frequencies of the sun, full moon, Light Language, essential oils, and flower essences and is energetically customized to one person. It’s meant to be gifted to someone as an act of caring and love. The Wishing Bowl profoundly connects the giver and the recipient at heart and becomes a powerful energetic intention practice in one’s life.

Who else deserves credit for your story?
No one gets through life without the love and support of others. Many people had mattered to my life over the years, from the risk-taker who gave me my first advertising job when I had no experience to a dear friend who bought me a weekend at the beach to entice the final edits of Trusting the Currents to a stranger who offered her casita when we first arrived in pandemic Sedona and there was nowhere to live. I have always found small kindnesses that enabled incredible sparks of growth.

The strangest thing is the biggest influence in my life besides my mother and husband has been Addie Mae Aubrey, the African American narrator of Trusting the Currents. Her words and our magical relationship sent my life in a surprising and rewarding new direction. I am the culmination of everyone who cared about me, offered support, trusted my words, believed in me when I didn’t believe in myself, forgave my many quirks, and allowed me to be me. We are all on this short, crazy voyage through life, and I’ve been lucky to have met some mighty graceful hearts along the way.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.thewishingbowl.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lynndapollio/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LynndaPollioAuthor/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnda-pollio-0924b95/
• Other: www.lynndapollio.com