About — Lindsay MacMillan

Hi, I'm Lindsay…a big dreamer, multi-passionate creative, deep feeler, can’t-be-put-into-a-box, wildly ambitious, extroverted introvert kind of girl.

I spent six years on Wall Street, rising to Vice President at Goldman Sachs while secretly building a second career as a novelist.

I enjoyed a lot about my corporate career. The ambition, the opportunities, the brilliant people I worked alongside. But I also knew I had bigger dreams beyond Wall Street.

So I went after them.

Today, I'm a bestselling author, speaker, and founder of Mentorship Mornings, where I'm helping the next generation of ambitious young professionals build big careers + even bigger lives.

As a career mentor, I’m here to help you step into your full potential both personally and professionally.

Because if you're reading this, I have a feeling you're here for big things, too.

You’re in exactly the right place. We're on this wild ride together.

MY MOTTO IS

“What will you do with your one wild and precious life?”

Mary Oliver

Things that light me up:

Living out my calling
Unleashing my fully expressed self
Moving through my fears
Talking to voices in my heads (and turning said conversations into fiction books!)
Channeling the divine creative force that runs through me
Hiking + being in nature
Playing sports
Deep soul convos
Girls’ nights and belly laughs
Spotting daily miracles and poems in everyday life
Freshly baked chocolate chip cookies
Living a life on my terms, out of the rat race
Spontaneous pajama dance parties
Stargazing and feeling my smallness in such a big universe
Exploring new cultures and countries (and the thrill of a solo trip!)
Co-creating magic with the divine

Things I’m allergic to:

The status quo
Grinding it out
Small talk
When someone says, “That’s just how it’s done”
Being told to “be realistic”
When people critique others for their art and creativity, all while being too scared to create anything themselves
Dimming my light to make someone else comfortable (no more!!)
Hot sunny days all the time (gray skies + moody weather, please!!)
Outsourcing our imagination and art to AI…not to be dramatic, but it’s literally atrophying our human creativity and posing an existential threat to what makes us human
The suburbs (give me a tiny countryside village or a bustling walkable city - nothing in between)
Wasting our one precious life staring at screens and/or building someone else’s dream rather than our own
Rooms without windows

More of the BTS…

Before I got my first big break and built a career as an author, speaker, and entrepreneur, I often wondered if I should just give up.

The rejection letters piled high. Agents ghosted. Publishers passed. I felt invisible and stuck, so far from the big, impactful life I dreamed of.

Meanwhile, I was building a successful career on Wall Street, rising to Vice President at Goldman Sachs.

I loved so much about that chapter (including getting to move from NYC to London - a lifelong dream!). But I also knew I had other dreams — like being an author and a founder and having a huge impact as a leader — that I was meant to pursue too.

The gap between where I was and where I longed to be felt impossibly wide.

There were breakdowns, tears, and countless “What if it never happens?” calls to my mom.

Still, I couldn't quit.

After years of persistence (and five beloved manuscripts that never saw daylight), I finally landed my first book deal while living in London.

Two weeks after leaving my Goldman job, I gave my first TEDx talk.

Those moments became the catalyst for the life I live now.

And here's what I've learned along the way: the biggest breakthroughs happen when we stop waiting for permission and start creating opportunities for ourselves.

That's the philosophy I now bring to Mentorship Mornings, where I'm helping the next generation of ambitious young professionals make the most of their careers AND build lives beyond their wildest dreams.

Because you don't have to follow someone else's blueprint for success.

You get to write your own.