I'm Renee Linnell, a memoir author, essayist, and speaker exploring freedom, resilience, healing, and the lifelong journey of returning to ourselves.
My own journey has taken me from a childhood spent exploring the islands of the Bahamas to years inside a spiritual cult, across continents as a solo traveler, through profound love and devastating loss, and ultimately back to the person I was searching for all along. Every experience has become part of the story I now share through my writing.
Hi, I'm Renee
I believe every one of us enters this world whole, wild, curious, and deeply connected to who we are. Then life happens.
We experience heartbreak. Loss. Conditioning. Expectations. Relationships that ask us to become someone smaller. Sometimes we lose ourselves all at once. More often, we lose ourselves one quiet compromise at a time.
For years, I thought my story was about surviving a spiritual cult.
Then I thought it was about extraordinary adventures around the world. More recently, I believed it was about love.
Now I understand that every chapter of my life has been exploring the same question:
The Question That Changed Everything
How do we return to ourselves?
And now for the “Expert Bio” written in the third person (because, why not?)
Renee Linnell is an inspirational speaker and author of three books. She has been featured on The Today Show, BBC, NBC, NPR and countless others. She is a serial entrepreneur who has founded or cofounded six companies and has an MBA from New York University; before that she traveled the world as a surf model and professional tango dancer. Her mission is to remind people Who They Truly Are, challenge mass-consciousness paradigms, and to guide people into lives they genuinely LOVE.
Expertise and Mission
your difference is your destiny.
—not because I have all the answers, but because I've spent my life following that same pull.
If my stories have taught me anything, it's this:
The greatest adventure isn't traveling the world.
It isn't surviving impossible things.
It isn't finding "the one."
It's having the courage to become the most authentic expression of who you already are.
My job is to remind you that
I’m so glad you’re here.
Today I write memoirs and essays for people who feel that quiet pull toward a bigger, truer life
