An Interview with Chandra Lynn
Chandra Lynn, MBA, is a certified transformation coach, author of Root-to-Rise: How to Love Life, and founder of Glow Living – a platform dedicated to helping people love life. After a twenty-five-year career as a marketing expert for brands like Apple, Avid, and Universal Audio, she answered a deeper calling: to guide others through healing, growth, and awakening.
Certified by Robbins-Madanes Training, she blends human needs psychology with soulful insight to support lasting transformation. As the creator of the Root-to-Rise® Framework, she empowers people – especially women navigating life transitions – to reconnect with authenticity, strengthen emotional resilience, and rise into purpose.
Who/what made you want to write? Was there a particular person, or particular writers/works/art forms that influenced you?
I didn’t start out wanting to be a writer. I started wanting to understand. My grandparents were therapists, and growing up around conversations about behavior, patterns, and emotional responsibility shaped how I see people. Later, my own experiences with burnout, single motherhood, and reinvention made it clear that insight alone isn’t enough – we need practical ways to live what we know. Writers like Brené Brown and Elizabeth Gilbert influenced my courage to be honest, but the real influence was coaching people and watching how often the same emotional needs show up beneath very different lives.
What other professions have you worked in? What’s something about you that your readers wouldn’t know?
I spent over two decades in marketing, working with musicians, creatives, and global brands – helping build careers, launches, and stories. What readers might not know is how much that work shaped Root-to-Rise. Marketing teaches you how behavior actually works, not how we wish it did. It also taught me how easily people burn out while looking successful.
Tell us the story of your book’s title. Was it easy to find, or did it take forever?
The title came from the metaphor that anchored the entire framework: you can’t rise sustainably if your roots aren’t healthy. That idea showed up long before the book did. In yoga, tree pose looks simple, but anyone who’s practiced it knows how revealing it is. When your roots are steady, you can sway, wobble, and still stay upright. When they’re not, you fall, no matter how strong you are.
That stayed with me. Life isn’t about pretending everything is peaceful or positive. I’m not a Pollyanna type of person. I wanted to write about how to love life as it actually is, messy, hard, and uncertain, without bypassing reality or pain.
Once that clicked, Root-to-Rise became inevitable. The title didn’t come quickly, but when it arrived, it felt earned. It named both the truth of the struggle and the possibility of rising anyway.
What part of publishing your book made it feel real for the first time?
Receiving a video from Dr. Deepak Chopra recommending my book to his followers made it very real! Additionally, seeing strangers engage with the book – highlighting passages, sharing personal reflections, telling me it named something they couldn’t articulate before, and reviewing it with heart. That’s when it stopped being my work and became a shared experience.
If your book had a soundtrack, what are some songs that would be on it?
A mix of grounding and expansion. Think reflective piano, soulful vocals, and music that feels steady rather than urgent. Songs that create space to breathe, not rush.
What’s one thing you hope sticks with readers after they finish your book?
That fulfillment isn’t something you chase – it’s something you build, gently and honestly, especially when life is messy, hard, or uncertain.
What was the most rewarding/meaningful part of publishing your book?
Hearing people say they feel less alone and more capable. That combination matters.
What creative projects are you currently working on?
I’m developing a companion workbook, an audiobook, and expanding the Root-to-Rise framework into workshops and corporate wellness spaces. I’m also working on projects that make this work more accessible. My dream is to get more book benefactors so that I can make it available for free to people in need.
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