Lindsay Smith

I'm a licensed therapist, CEO coach, keynote speaker, and the founder of Zestia, a personal growth app. For 15 years I built two Silicon Valley mental health counseling centers, growing from a solo practice to a team of 35, and I sold both in 2025.

After twenty years sitting with people on their hardest days, and building two businesses while privately running the story "I'm not lovable as I am" underneath, I learned what most of us are never taught: how to feel good while we're succeeding, not just after.

That's the conversation I love having with an audience. How joy is a choice we can make now. How self-worth can hold steady whether or not the quarter does. Why growth so often fails to stick, and what makes it last. And what happens to a founder's identity after the exit.

I bring Jack Canfield's E + R = O framework, stories from the therapy room and the founder's seat, and tools your listeners can use the same day. I post daily video content, so I'm comfortable and warm on mic, and I come prepared to make your job easy.