Lead with Spark · 2026-07-01 · 29 min
We are halfway through the year. How did that even happen? In this solo episode of Lead with Spark, Lynsey Mulder gets honest about where her own year stands, the book she is writing, the retreat she is planning, the course she has not started, and what she has learned about protecting summer before it disappears one unplanned Friday night at a time. And she brings all of it back to a question every professional woman needs to sit with before the second half of the year runs away without her. The time went somewhere. It always goes somewhere. The question is whether you chose where it went. This is not an episode about doing more or hustling harder or fixing your life by Friday. This is about the mid-year reset: pausing long enough to ask what you actually want to carry into the second half, what deserves your best energy, and how to make your calendar tell the truth about what matters most. Lynsey covers what the SparkLife framework means in real life, why your rest is not a reward for finishing everything, how to do a team reset without a seventy-page slide deck, and the simple but powerful act of building a summer bucket list with intention.
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