Want to Know About Linda?

Everyone needs HOPE. Whether it is hope for a career, a happily family, overcoming a life challenge or addiction or surviving a pandemic, we all need something to hang on to until things get better. Linda considers herself a Faucet of HOPE because she is committed to offering Help Opportunity Praise and Encouragement to everyone she meets.

You are on this page today because you need Help. Whatever you are challenged with, Linda will give you the Opportunity to explore the options, consider the choices and find the resources to make an informed decision. She will offer you Praise for having the courage to make the phone call and show up ready to make your life better and she will give you the Encouragement to keep working, keep trying, keep changing and to never give up. She is the living example of what can happen to a life changed by HOPE. These are just a few of the awards she has earned and media places she has been featured.

Linda began her counseling career as a School Counselor where she worked with children K-12 teaching developmental guidance and school to work education. Linda realized she had a passion working with children who had mental and educational challenges and eventually went into private practice to help children and their families overcome personal and family challenges.

Linda worked for 15 years for the Department of Workforce Development at the Job Centers in nine counties in Northcentral Wisconsin as an employment and training counselor and a disability navigator. She helped individuals to discover their purpose and determine what was needed to help them get paid to do what they love. Linda became an expert on finding resources and overcoming obstacles to finding and maintaining gainful employment and living a happy, productive and fruitful life.

In 2001 Linda co-founded a non-profit organization to help homeless veterans and others with mental health and substance abuse disorders. Many had been in jail or prison and had lost hope in overcoming their past. Linda helped them to develop the skills to stay clean and sober and to recreate themselves and regain their confidence and credibility. As a result of the enormous success Linda has had with her clients she became the recipient of the Red Cross Hometown Hero of the Year and the Prestigious Athena Award. She received letters of commendations from several community and state leaders and a plaque from the Governor of Wisconsin for having such a positive impact on the residents of Wisconsin and being “an example for Wisconsin residents to follow.” Linda recently was elected by her peers as Wausau’s 2021 Local Business Person Of The Year, based on her incredible contributions to her business community & network through out the COVID Era.

Linda is also a singer, song writer, counselor, professional speaker, coach and author. Everything she does is a reflection of her own personal experience having overcome the debilitating effects of mental health and substance abuse addictions that she surrendered to the God of her understanding in 1976. Linda subsequently has been using her skills, talents, abilities and experiences to give people HOPE in finding their God given purpose.

She is the author of Ditzy Blonde Faucet-It’s a God Thing which is a humorous look at the things that go on in the life and mind of someone with ADHD. She also wrote Speak to Me God I’m Listening-365 Daily Meditation for Those Who Want to Hear God Answer Life’s Toughest Questions which offers a 12 Step recovery approach with added Bible verses and Linda’s journaling as she implemented Step 11 “Praying for the knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out” She also co-authored the international best selling book “Fiercely Unstoppable Entrepreneur,

Linda continues to offer services counseling, coaching and consulting services worldwide. She provides employee assistance services for Empathia, provides services to employers through Balancing Life’s Issues and is a Counselor for TeleDoc online services.

Linda has been featured on many media networks and on a growing number of podcasts and video talk shows. and