October 31, 2010

• Hell On Heels

  Profile article on Lynne Russell, bonus points to whomever knows who that is without doing a search!

   

  Hell on Heels

  “It was hell,” Lynne Russell says, telling it like it is but with her own personal flair. "I discovered that I was pregnant and I discovered that I should have bailed out on my husband long before that." Lynne found herself a single mom trying to make it in the male-dominated world of radio and TV broadcasting.

  “My parents were a big help,” Lynne states but eventually she moved from Colorado to work at a Miami radio station. The hours of her job required that Lynne take her son with her to work, so Lynne had to perfect a skill she readily admits she had trouble with: organization.

  “I had to get everything ready the night before,” Lynne says. She would wake up at 5am each day with just enough time to collect her things and lug her sleepy child down three flights of stairs because the apartment’s elevator was always broken. After driving to work she would set an alarm for 7am so she could get her son ready for school and on the bus when it came to pick him up an hour later. “My son grew up in the radio station,” she admits.

  But Lynne is not just any ordinary working mom for it is hard to name a pastime that she has not mastered. Lynne likes going sailing, SCUBA diving, and playing hockey. She has a black belt in Choi Kwang Do and volunteers as a deputy sheriff, bodyguard, and private investigator. Lynne is also the author of a few magazine articles and the self-help book “How to Win Friends, Kick Ass, and Influence People.”

  Anyone would say that Lynne is hell on heels, a term she loves but not for the reasons you would expect. At one point in time, Lynne wanted to start her own private investigation company of four stiletto-clad women called just that. Instead she is in the process of publishing a novel called “Hell on Heels” that follows a TV reporter/PI in Buffalo, New York.  This work of fiction is currently in rewrite because Lynne’s publisher said the heroine was not “vulnerable enough.” But who needs vulnerable when you could have someone like Lynne?

  With all that she does, you have to wonder how she makes time for it all, balancing work, motherhood, and hobbies. “You don’t stress out,” Lynne says, “You make a list of all the things you want to do… then shred the list afterwards and do what feels right.”

   

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