After her various ups & downs with
finding the right business she wanted
to pursue and find fulfillment in
doing so, Dr. Lynn decided to
pursue selling jewelry. In 1989 in
Philadelphia, Dr. Lynn launched
Traci Lynn Fashion Jewelry. The
company, and its founder, became
an inspiring local success story.
IN 1994 (exactly 5 years later),
Essence magazine dubbed
Dr.
Lynn as one of the most innovative
entrepreneurs under the age of 30.
She was also featured on Good
Morning America for owning one of
the top-grossing businesses among
young entrepreneurs and received
the Madam CJ Walker Award for
entrepreneur excellence.
Dr.
Traci
Lynn
Article By: Baron Samuel, Interview by Carla R. Cannon
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Carla Cannon had the privilege of
speaking exclusively with Dr. Traci Lynn, an in-demand motivational
speaker, author (Wealth Without Sorrow & The Mind of a Millionaire)
as well as the driving force behind the hugely successful direct sales
company, Traci Lynn Fashion Jewelry.
Dr. Lynn is nicknamed “The Millionaire Motivator” who continues
to impact her consultants with her mission of “Passing the MIC”
(MIC: Motivate. Inspire. Change). Passing the MIC fuels her desire
to motivate others to step out of their comfort zones, inspires them
to greatness as well as provide them with tools to literally transform
their lives.
Dr. Lynn has grown her Fort Lauderdale based business into a
multi-million dollar enterprise with over 15,000 independent sales
consultants in 42 states. Her ultimate goal with her “partners” as she
calls them is to provide them with an opportunity to create a legacy
business.
Dr. Lynn: It is a pleasure! It’s great to speak with you!
Dr. Traci Lynn is not only a motivational speaker, author, and CEO
of her own business, she is also an ordained Evangelist who appears
on The WORD Network empowering others to gain a personal
relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ all while providing
her authentic self as the platform speaker.
Although Dr. Traci Lynn has experienced a great measure of success,
her story did not start out that way. While growing up Dr. Lynn
received her nursing license in which during that time she thought she
would carry on to become a nurse. “My grandmother programmed
me to be a physician”, Dr. Lynn says. She went on to major at the
University of Michigan but ultimately did not have the stomach for it.
“I was fainting every day!”Dr. Lynn saying with a laugh.
Through her journey of finding herself and identifying her true call
and purpose in life Dr. Lynn recalls having several businesses along her
journey. She was a hair stylist by the age of 15 and later after receiving
a degree in finance, she went on to work as an investor information
representative in which she was quickly promoted to supervisor and
then manager. It was no doubt at this time of Dr. Lynn’s ability to lead
and motivate others. Dr. Lynn also sold clothes out of her home, ran
a nail technician agency and had a wedding planning company. “I had
one client who ran me ragged” she says, “and I only made $2 an hour
when all was said and done.”
successfully runs her business while
continuing to travel as a motivational
speaker. She relentlessly shares her
process, how she overcame in an
effort to help others not give up in
their process and to focus on what
God’s word says concerning them
VS the opinions of others.
As you can see, Dr. Lynn is a woman
who is tenacious and refused to
quit and she believes firmly on
God having the last say and that no
experience is a wasted experience.
When asked what her thus far
me because I love them and I give
women truth to help them grow. I
learned how to manage relationships,
how to protect my heart, and there is
something called process and it can
be very painful. Most people will
quite because they don’t want to feel
the pain. That’s why medications
are so big nowadays. We medicate
ourselves to numb or alleviate the
pain. In order to gain a certain level
of success, it will cost you some pain.
The process shows the real you. It
showed me, the gifted, talented
Dr. Lynn is not only a woman of
faith, an entrepreneur, motivational
speaker and author but she is
indeed a woman of wisdom and it
is her heart’s desire to teach others
key principles she learned early
on to prevent them from having
to experience the same failures
and mistakes she made. If you are
currently a woman struggling with
your purpose, here is what Dr. Lynn
is “Purpose is not what you decided
to be, it is what you discover you are.
We must know Jeremiah in terms of
I knew you before you were formed
in your mother’s womb. I anointed
you then, there is a purpose and plan
before you were born. You didn’t get
here by an accident no matter what
you were told. God put you here
for a mission, for a reason, and on
purpose.
Despite all of the fame and public
recognition Dr. Lynn was receiving
from her fast growing business, she
folded the company a few years later.
Her reason for doing so was simply
the financial obligation during that
time but most importantly her
allowing the negative words of others
to discourage her. “Sometimes life
gives you the test first and the lesson
later and at that time it was too
costly for me. But my real failure
was letting other people’s negativity
destroy my confidence. That was the
beginning of the end for me. I could
have overcome the financial situation
but because I did not have my mind
closed tightly against all negative
and discouraging influences I lost
my passion for it, and had nothing
left to give,” says Dr. Lynn when
sharing why she folded the company
which was a shock to many.
It wasn’t until ten years later
(approximately 2005; during her
process) that Dr. Lynn re-launched
Traci Lynn Fashion Jewelry and this
time was able to avoid the pitfalls that
bedeviled her the first time around
and trust her own entrepreneurial
intuition. In her process Dr. Lynn
earned t v