Lynda Cheldelin Fell

After losing her 15-year-old daughter in a car accident in 2009, Lynda Cheldelin Fell was caught in a fog of shock and grief. Just when she started to reclaim her life, Lynda's beloved 46-year-old husband suffered a massive stroke, leaving him permanently disabled. Determined to restore hope to her devastated family, Lynda journeyed to the extremes of human resiliency and fought hard to find a way back. In doing so, she discovered that helping others was a powerful balm for her own wounds. She founded AlyBlue Media in 2013, created Grief Diaries Radio and Grief Diaries Live in 2014, created the International Grief & Hope Convention 2015, earned four national literary awards in 2016, wrote the curriculum Managing Grief in the Workplace in 2017, was nominated for five national advocacy awards in 2017, and co-founded the International Grief Institute in 2017. Now considered a pioneer in the field of inspirational hope, Lynda creates groundbreaking projects dedicated to raising awareness and compassion, and inspire healing and hope that life can be restored at any time.