Linda Sivertsen

Activist, Blogger, Connector, Educator/Teacher, Environmentalist, Idea generator, Writer/Editor

Linda Sivertsen is an award-winning author, co-author, and ghostwriter of 10 books (two New York Times bestsellers), who helps midwife books & publishing deals at her popular writing retreats in Carmel-by-the-Sea. She’s also developed a unique way to maximize the effectiveness of time--the subject of her 2016 TEDWomen talk--TIME DEBT. (See link above.) Linda watched her parent’s die before retirement, their lifelong goals dying with them, and believed she'd been given an invaluable lesson to never waste time. But it wasn’t until her husband of 19 years left her for another woman that she saw how many years she’d lost devoted to unhealthy relationships. Terrified she couldn't trust herself to safeguard her time once she started dating, Linda designed a color-coded digital log with the hope it could free her from co-dependent patterns. Colors, it turns out, do not lie. She'd been powerless, but now had the power in her own hands. Encouraged by the radical and immediate transformation she experienced, Linda saved her money to create an iPhone app to help women protect their time, and in some cases, their lives. This self-described "self-help author who couldn’t help herself" had stumbled over the answer to taking back her life. Linda and her work have been featured in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the International Business Times, Forbes.com, Teen Vogue, Glamour.com, MarieClaire.com, The Huffington Post, and on E, Extra, CNN, etc... Her blog at BookMama.com received a “best of the web” nod from The Daily Muse, and she hosts up-close conversations with many of today’s leading authors on her top-rated Beautiful Writers Podcast on iTunes. In the ultimate time suck, she’s completing her memoir: My Midlife Mess: A Magical, Modern-Day, Mop-Up Tale.

This may surprise you, but time has been around a really long time. Almost forever:). But tracking it is still complicated because time is nebulous. There is a horizon, but we can’t see it. And it could be closer than we think.

App development, Podcasting, Publishing, Writing

Cooking and mostly not falling off my horse.