My challenge for you today, listener: how many giggles did you hear in the duration of the episode?

In today’s episode of The Found Podcast with Molly Knuth, you’ll hear one of only a handful of in-personal interviews I’ve ever conducted for the podcast. The level of fun and depth and love in the room is palpable as I sit down with an inspirational woman in business, author, coach, speaker, MKM client, and most importantly, my friend, Lindsay Leahy.

Though she’s been on the podcast in the past with her bestie and business partner at The Restoration Project Brooke Fitzgerald in Episode 66 Living, Leading, and Working with Meaning in today’s episode we talk about not just their business, but also the writing of her new book Take It All Apart.

The Restoration Process

At The Restoration Project, their team of leadership coaches walks their clients, whether individuals, teams, or entire organizations through their signature process of:

• Building Connection: to self, others, and something greater.
• Restoring Intention: explore and define identity, vision, intention, and meaning, then build a plan.
• Inspiring Action: establish new practices, systems, rituals, and routines.

Instead of classroom teaching or training, Lindsay and the coaches at The Restoration Project meet each individual, team, and organization exactly where they are. Together, coaches and clients learn and explore through reflection questions and interactive exercises that open hearts and minds, remove fear and limiting beliefs, and build understanding and trust.  

Their signature Restoration Process provides an understanding of: 

• Who you are 
• What you want 
• How to live and work in a more connected and intentional way 

As you’ll hear in the episode, the work Lindsay and her team engage in with clients is very deep work. But it’s important work. Through their professional development strategies and human-centered methods that help individuals and teams find peace and fulfillment at their highest level.

Writing a Book

Lindsay says that writing Take It All Apart is “the most challenging thing I’ve ever done.”

Facing a need that was greater than she and her team had the capacity to serve, the creation of Take It All Apart was intended to allow more people to engage with the restoration process in a more accessible way. 

As someone who has always enjoyed writing, Lindsay says that she faced challenges she wasn’t expecting when writing her first book: 

1. Practically and tactically it was hard to do the writing. She shares that other people’s processes and strategies for constructing a long-form work didn’t always translate for her. Her takeaway? Listen to yourself and your own needs and processes to get the job done.
2. Sharing lived experience was hard. Many of the themes of the book are intertwined with Lindsay’s own stories from her life and work, making it a very vulnerable work as she extracts lessons from moments in time.
3. “What if people think this sucks?” Due to her identity as a writer, Lindsay shares that it feels strange to put her words and writing style on display for the world.
4. Regardless of the struggles it presented, Lindsay shares that writing Take It All Apart has resulted in her feeling more poised in her own practice, more refined in her process of coaching and writing.

Connect with Lindsay

Lindsay Leahy is a proud wife, daughter, auntie, and friend. She is passionate about Jesus, hugs, dreams, adventures, and deep conversation. She is the creator of the blog Grit, Gratitude, and Grace and the founder and Dream Builder at The Restoration Project, a women-owned coaching and consulting practice that provides experiences, programs, and services to improve organizational health, team and leadership effectiveness and individual well-being.

Lindsay is the author of Take it All Apart, debuting October 2024. Join her book Hype Crew for all the upcoming launch events and details or preorder your own copy here.