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Lynne Golodner is the award-winning author of ten books and thousands of articles as well as a marketing entrepreneur, writing coach and host of the Make Meaning Podcast. After working as a journalist in New York and Washington, D.C., Lynne returned to her native Detroit to pursue a freelance writing career and teach writing. In 2007, she created Your People, a marketing and public relations company with a focus on storytelling. Lynne has spent more than 20 years inspiring others to find their voice, identify their purpose, and live according to their passion.
Her writing has appeared in hundreds of magazines and newspapers, including Saveur, the Chicago Tribune, Better Homes and Gardens, Midwest Living, the Detroit Free Press, Porridge Magazine, the Jewish Literary Journal, Hadassah Magazine, Forbes, and many more publications. In addition to teaching her signature Finding Your Voice writers workshop, Lynne launched The Writers Community in 2021 as a way to bring writers together for support and community in an encouraging online forum. She teaches to a global audience, including her courses Creating Your Author Brand, Writing Guest Essays, and Demystifying Show Don’t Tell, and she works one-on-one with writers to build author brands and marketing strategies, and finetune their writing. In 2023, Lynne founded Scotia Road Books, a hybrid press for women over 40 with strong voices that need to be heard.
A former Fulbright Specialist, Lynne graduated from University of Michigan (BA, Communications/English) and Goddard College (MFA, Writing). She also earned a Certificate in Entrepreneurship from the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program through Wayne State University. She is the mother of four and lives in Huntington Woods, Michigan, where she is working on her third novel.
Find Lynne: https://lynnegolodner.com, https://makemeaning.org, https://yourppl.com
Subjects
General
Specialties
Identity, Marketing, Hiking, Orthodox Judaism, Relationships
Skills
- Blog posts
- Books
- Brochures
- Communications strategy
- Content marketing
- Curriculum
- Editing
- Essays
- Feature writing
- Marketing personas
- Media relations
- News releases
- Op-Ed
- Photography
- Podcasts
- Podcasting
- Project management
- Publicity
- Social media
- Web copy
Writing Credits
“Remembering My Grandma and Her Chicken Soup”, Hadassah Magazine
“Staying Connected to my Son”, The Forward
“Swimming: A Meditation,” The Good Life Review
“Waiting for My Father to Die,” Jewish Literary Journal
“Oysters,” Porridge Magazine
“Politics will be judged, whether you stay silent or not,” Crain’s Detroit Business
“Business is increasingly political; here’s how to embrace it,” Detroit News
“Higher ed marketing needs a revolution,” University Business Magazine
“The Meaning of Money: Multiplying Your Impact,” Forbes
“Marketing Waldorf Schools,” Renewal: A Journal for Waldorf Education
“Virus Reminds Me What Life Should Be About,” Detroit News
Book Credits
Cave of Secrets, Scotia Road Books (2024)
Woman of Valor, Scotia Road Books (2023)
The Flavors of Faith: Holy Breads, Read the Spirit Books (2013)
Stand Out from the Crowd: the Your People guide to marketing, public relations and social media, Y:P Books (2012)
The Patient’s Guide to Cutaneous Lymphoma, Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation (2012)
Hide and Seek: Jewish women & hair covering, Urim Publications (2003)
Living Inside: The Poetry of Prayer, Ridgeway Press/YMCA Writers Voice (2003)
Residential Architecture: Living Places, The Ashley Group/Cahners Publications (2002)
In the Shadow of the Tree: a writing workbook for kids with cancer, Promise Publications (2001)
My First Time at a Swim Meet: poems and stories by Kids, Ridgeway Press (1999)
Driving Off the Horizon: poems by Lynne Meredith Cohn, IM Press (1996)
Awards, Honors, Appointments
Honorable Mention, Woman of Valor, Spiritual Fiction category, Eric Hoffer Award, 2023
Board Member, Jewish Historical Society of Michigan, 2022
Board Member & Officer, Congregation Beth Ahm, 2021-ongoing
Shalom Hartman Institute Community Leaders Program fellowship, 2020-2021
Forbes Agency Council Member, 2020-2021
MichBusiness Marketing & PR Prophet, 2019, MBPA.
Crain’s Notable Women in Marketing, 2018, Crain’s Detroit Business.
MarCom Platinum, Gold & Honorable Mention Awards, 2017, Strategic Communications & Crisis Planning, Nonprofit Website Design, Digital Media/Writing for Client Blog
Fulbright Specialist, 2017-2020, U.S. State Department
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business, Cohort 12, Wayne State University
Board Member: IABC Detroit (International Association of Business Communicators), 2016
MichBusiness One Person Wonder, Solo Entrepreneur Recognition, 2015
MarCom Gold Award & Honorable Mentions, 2012, Pro Bono PR campaigns, Marketing Booklet
MarCom Gold Awards, 2011, PR campaign, Marketing Strategy, Trade Show Materials, Brochure Design
MarCom Gold Award, 2010, Marketing Booklet
Special Mention Award, 2008 Signorello Scholarship, Greenbrier Food Writers Symposium
Submission Referee, Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, 2008
Scholarship Recipient to study with Thomas Lux, Cranbrook Writers Retreat, 2000
Rockower Award, “The Scene,” 1998, best special section, American Jewish Press Association
Juror, Oakland Community College Womencenter poetry contest, 1996
Poet-in-residence, The Writers Voice of the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit, at various locations including the Detroit Public Library Wilder Branch, the Farmington YMCA and Camp Detroit, 1998-1999
Selected Work
As author, unless indicated otherwise.
Remembering My Grandma and Her Chicken Soup
Woman of Valor
What would you do if you had a second chance at first love? That’s Sally’s dilemma.
Sally Lieberman chose to become an Orthodox Jew in her twenties because it was comforting, calming and full of community and family. It didn’t hurt that religious observance brought her to the man of her dreams—her patient, sexy husband, Barry.
Ten years in, Sally has everything she ever wanted, a passionate marriage with three children and a best friend she can count on. She loves everything about her chosen life.
Until her son is abused at school, and she’s shocked by her husband’s response. That’s when Sally’s first love finds her online and wants her back—something she dreamed about long before she became a religious wife.
It would be easy to abandon the community that is abandoning her—but she’s not the same person she was when she first fell in love with John. Sally is caught between two worlds. Can she give up the life she’s built with Barry?
Experience the sensory-rich, food-filled Orthodox community of Skokie, Illinois in WOMAN OF VALOR, and step inside Sally Lieberman's loving family along with her often-difficult, yet surprisingly-inspiring way of life—even when everything seems stacked against her. Ask yourself what you would do if you had a second-chance with your first love.
Cave of Secrets
“I have counted the days until you would return to my waiting arms, my insistent kisses.
But now I know you never will…”
On a rainy hike by Loch Lomond, Eve Waldman stumbles upon a perfectly preserved journal in a hidden cave. The time-worn lettering details the illicit affair of two Jewish lovers that sent a shiver of shame through a Scottish family — and echoes down the bloodlines.
Born of Highland aristocracy, Mac Monteith prefers to spend his days behind the bar of the family pub, rather than live the life his parents desired for him. Then Eve walks through the door, stirring more than Mac’s long-dormant heart.
When Eve traces the cave documents to the Monteith line, scandals and secrets spill out from all sides. Eve remains committed to the truth, but when being truthful means hurting the man she loves, she is forced to make a bigger choice: righting the wrongs of the past, or building the future she’s yearned for.
A contemporary romance with hints of magical realism, Cave of Secrets is about family heritage, intergenerational trauma, and finding the courage to be honest with ourselves — and those who love us.
