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Linda Walubengo moved to the US from Kenya about 14 years ago and started the US leg of her life journey in Virginia.  Her undergraduate education is in Clinical Psychology which she further enhanced with a Social Psychology certificate she obtain in Leicester, UK. 

After getting her MPH from George Mason, she's been working with various non-profits and even served on the BOD for the AIDS Walk foundation which she fundraises for with ferocity and verve. 

You don't want to get caught with a low Venmo balance when Linda hits you up for support. She will show up at your workplace and make sure your boss knows you didn't donate to her worthy cause.

I was fortunate to meet Linda at a Jobs to be Done meetup organized by my friend of many years Alex Salinsky about 3 years ago.

If there's is something I can say about Linda is that you will notice her when she enters a room. She has an inferno of dynamism welling inside her that comes across whenever she opens her mouth. Articulate, confident and full of surprises, Linda has a lot to offer the world.

She loves to travel solo and has regaled me with tales of her adventures in Cuba, Costa Rica, Colombia and many other exotic destinations. She's a serious lover of family and has graciously invited me to some of her epic family parties both in the South Bay and Sacramento. Let's just say these parties are not easy to forget because the entire family tree both matches and raises Linda's already astronomical energy levels.

Linda is not your average ambitious, world traveling Kenyan American. She's a transformational leader with a  focus on change management, Operations, Program Development, Public Relations, Marketing, Policy Administration,Fundraising, Advocacy, Project Management and Program Evaluation. 

You can connect with her on LinkedIn and follow her on Instagram at @_lukela to keep up with her adventures. 

If you're interested in getting on the show ping me via LInkedIn or DMe at @EliMotivates

An Englishman with the accent to prove it, Newt Bailey is a communications, mediation and team dynamics coach based in San Francisco. He is extremely well-versed in NVC (Non-Violent Communication) which he prefers to call CC (Connected Communication, or Compassionate Communication.  I've been very fortunate to attend his workshops at his Communication Dojo where I was transformed by practicing NVC experientially with kindred seekers of communications nirvana.

We talk about Newt's entire life story and his journey from an engineer of computer code to a reverse-engineer of other's thoughts and feelings in an attempt to achieve win-win outcomes. A brilliant quote from Henry Ford sums up Newt's ethos: "If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person's place and to see things from his point of view—as well as your own."


Join Newt and myself as we dig deeper than deep to find out what it means to be human and what it's like to see the other through the same lens we see ourselves: vulnerable, insecure beings who are yearn for acceptance, love, compassion and a strong desire to be seen and heard exactly as we are in the here and now.

Please share a link to this episode with anyone you think can learn even a smidgen more about how to listen better. 

It just might change their life as it will yours.

If you'd like to be interviewed on the podcast please shoot a DM to EliMotivates on Instagram.

A brief introduction to EliMotivates and what to expect. We get to hear Eli's smooth baritone voice unadulturated by accompanying music of any sort. It's sounds like its going to be a wild ride!