About the Podcast

What does it actually look like to live a purpose-driven life? How exactly do we make decisions from a meaning-first perspective? The Make Meaning podcast ponders these questions, sharing stories of how people find ways to be extraordinary. Host Lynne Golodner is a former journalist, multi-title author, award-winning marketing strategist and inspirational speaker who knows just how to ask the right questions to yield rich, inspiring responses. Since our first episode on July 9, 2018, we have interviewed nearly 100 visionaries. We are always looking for interesting guests to share their unique approach to making meaning. In particular, we are looking for entrepreneurs who incorporate an out-of-the-box perspective on what work is, writers who tell stories in new ways, and leaders who reinvented themselves after a first career finished. This podcast inspired The Make Meaning movement, which is an invitation to align purpose with action, to catalyze connection, and to amp up attention and participation through value-laden communication. As we re-examine message, method and yes, even the mundane, through the lens of meaning, we uncover a richer scope of experience that extends to the work we do, the success of our businesses, our immediate community and beyond. We work with second-chancers and would-be authors, helping people pause and pivot and turn woe to wow. Our programs and workshops help people make the leap from just getting by to doing work they love. They are starting up, starting over, and realizing dreams they rediscover through our Meaning Matrix. The stories we share are stories of making dreams come true, of learning to dream bigger and reach farther, and of living a life filled with meaning, purpose, and happiness.

About the Host

Lynne Golodner

The Make Meaning Movement officially launched with the Make Meaning Podcast in 2018, but its origins began more than two decades earlier, when Founder Lynne Golodner began writing about how people find meaning in the mundane. An award-winning journalist, Fulbright Specialist, author and poet with 8 books to her credit, Lynne was particularly fascinated by stories of how people bounce back from tragedy and discover life-affirming fascination and joy in unexpected places. She wrote about a mother gardening lavender as a way to recover from her daughter’s tragic death. She wrote about how the smooth strokes of sunrise-drenched rowers can be an invigorating way to begin a new day. She wrote about the rebirth of her beloved Detroit and how bread is a unifying element connecting all communities. In 2007, Lynne brought her focus on meaning to entrepreneurs, nonprofits, educational institutions and small businesses with Your People LLC, a public relations, marketing, and business development firm that focuses on story, relationships, and higher purpose as the keys to building brands. When her father was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in 2017, Lynne decided it was imperative to capture the meaning and legacy of not only her father’s life but as many lives as she could – so she started the Make Meaning podcast. The first episode was an interview with her father, Norman Cohn, airing on his 80th birthday, July 9, 2018. An expert in storytelling for business and personal growth, Lynne focuses the Make Meaning Movement on her expertise, curiosity and passion, offering a podcast, consulting workshops and retreats that invite like-minded individuals and organizations to learn how to best prioritize strategic storytelling and mutually beneficial relationships, driven by higher purpose.

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