The Emerging Leaders Podcast // Fischer Homes

38 You're Not Too Busy To Grow with Lindsay Edelen

Fischer Homes

This is a special episode of the Emerging Leaders Podcast. It’s Part 4 of a series where I chat with the 2020 Fischer Homes award winners. In each episode, I will help you get to know each of them a little bit and learn more about what made them so successful in 2020. 

In today’s episode, I spoke to Lindsay Edelen, Lifestyle Design Coordinator with the Louisville Division and the 2020 Customer Satisfaction Award Winner. In this podcast, we talk about:

  • Lindsay’s career story from business school in college, working in the floral industry, being an entrepreneur, and eventually a Lifestyle Design Coordinator. 
  • How Lindsay is forward thinking and makes time to grow even in a busy season.
  • The value of writing goals and writing your own personal strategic plan

Timestamps:

  • 4:12 - Lindsay’s career story
  • 12:30 - “Overdeliver!”
  • 14:00 - Motivation and innovation
  • 15:25 - Jeff Bezos, “I’m passionate about sleep”
  • 23:00 - Busyness prevents growth
  • 27:30 - Perfectionism prevents completion
  • 30:00 - “Goals show how you’ve grown”
  • 31:05 - Lindsay’s career mentors
  • 33:15 - Bag O’ Questions
  • 37:28 - Key Takeaways