Hi! I’m Linda
Shamanic Life Guide • Speaker • Author • Founder of ZEST Your Life | ZEST Your Business • Creator of numerous courses and programs
Guiding transformations for life and business success.
Every major spiritual tradition, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Indigenous practices, teaches that a deeper intelligence is available to us beyond our rational minds. There’s more to life than what you can see, think, or plan your way into, waiting for you.
Shamanism is one of the oldest ways humans have learned to access that intelligence. It doesn’t compete with your faith. It deepens it.
After several years of formal shamanic training, I shaped these teachings into a model for life that I live by. At the heart of everything I offer are three relationships I believe you need for a complete life. Your relationship to yourself, your relationship to others, and your relationship to nature.
My own journey into this work began over two decades ago. That path led me here.
With a rich background in the public, private, and non-profit sectors, I embarked on a transformative journey into Shamanism, the world’s oldest spiritual path, two decades ago.
Today, I share my experience by synthesizing the Z.E.S.T. Formula, Shamanic Wisdom teachings, and Divine Intelligence into everyday Sacred Practices. My expertise guides individuals towards profound self-discovery, to shed limiting beliefs and embrace a life filled with ease, grace and flow.
The clients I work with have discovered the value of my alchemical approach. It involves a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, and combination. My corporate, personal, and life experiences create an ideal environment for growth and expansion across all aspects.
It’s my mission to be of service in love and beauty. That’s why I enjoy teaching women, like you, to crystallize what you want in business and life so that you are in power, control, and leading your best life.
What you WANT to know about me…
My inner fire was always sparked by the mystical and magical. As a child, I was fascinated watching Aunt Josephine reading tea leaves (rumour has it that Aunty was fined for practicing witchcraft without a licence). I’m not a witch, so keep reading.
Many years were spent studying ancient wisdom teachings from a variety of gurus and teachers. A vision quest in 2003 led me to formal shamanic studies gathered from around the world including Egypt, Africa, Anglo, Christianity, Judaism, North America, Tibet, and more.
My #1 Int’l Best Seller ZEST Your Life–A Taste of Inner Wisdom is encoded with Ancient Wisdom Teachings.
For many years I hosted Wisdom Circles for Women. For example: “Womb Wisdom—Creating Resilience” takes women out of their head, into their heart and into their womb.
My deep desire is to share my Wisdom Teachings. And that brings me to gently integrate these Wisdom Teachings to bring ZEST to today’s Executive Woman. Nudging them to courageously tap into their innate feminine strengths. They find their dreams, live a better life and they get my personal attention.
Credentials & Experience
Canadian of French descent—arriving from France in 1680
Shamanic Executive Life Coach • Speaker • Int’l Best-Selling Author
Founder of ZEST Your Life | ZEST Your Business, a division of Leadership Centre Canada
Over 25 years of experience in the public, private and non-profit sectors. I’ve worked with people from all walks of life — from The Right Honourable Kim Campbell, first female Prime Minister of Canada, entry level managers in the auto parts industry to federal prison inmates serving life sentences.
Former host of momondays Ottawa.
Seen on Rogers TV Ottawa: Nat en Parle, Daytime and numerous global podcasts.
Book: ZEST Your Life–A Taste of Inner Wisdom #1 Intl best seller
Education and Certification:
- Bachelor of Arts, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario
- Certified Dream Coach®
- Certified Trainer True Colors®
- Certified Trainer Personality Dimensions®
- Questions That Work Workshop
- Leadership: Power and Spirit
- Group Facilitation; Facilitated Planning
- Designing Instruction
- Stephen R. Covey 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Course
- Personal Factors in Management; Problem Solving
- Life Skills Coach & Leadership Training Part 1
- Certified Law of Attraction coach
Recipient of:
- Named one of the top 25 people in the capital 2015 by Ottawa Life Magazine
- The Honourable Hilary M. Weston, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario recognition of volunteer contribution
- Rotary Club Volunteer Appreciation Award Recipient
- Warden’s recognition – Fenbrook Medium Correctional Institution
- Listed in the Best Dream Coaches
What you NEED to know about me…
Losing my mom at 17 changed the course of my life. By 19, I had left home and started working. During those early years, I found myself in a deeply controlling relationship while trying to figure out who I was and how to trust myself in a world that suddenly felt uncertain.
There was no roadmap, no one to call when life became difficult, and no clear template for the woman I was becoming. Learning to trust myself became the foundation of everything I now teach.
Years spent in the corporate world designing programs on communication, relationships, leadership, and human behaviour brought meaningful experience and insight. The work was rewarding, yet one pattern kept appearing. Women who were intelligent, accomplished, and capable often felt disconnected from themselves. They were making decisions from the outside in instead of from their own inner knowing.
That feeling was deeply familiar.
The search for deeper understanding eventually led to formal shamanic training, giving context to all the books I had read and the workshops I had attended. It brought discernment, expansion, and a quiet authority I hadn’t found anywhere else.
Several years of study shaped what I call my Model for Life, built on three relationships I believe every woman needs for a complete life: her relationship with herself, her relationship with others, and her relationship with nature.
Today, these teachings are shared in a grounded, practical, and deeply personal way so that women can reconnect with themselves, trust their inner compass, and move through life standing strong in their power.
“I didn’t expect my life to be like this. I expected….”
Watch the video. Is this you?
I help women crystallize what they want in business and in life so they have power and control. And then, I work with them to build a strategy to align, amplify and attract their ZESTY dreams.
Unlike many, we bring this to life through open heart connection, defining values, and the wisdom of ancient women’s teachings.
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