Lynn Paulson grew up in San Francisco and State College, Pennsylvania. Dr. Paulson has spent most of her professional life at the front of a college classroom, teaching interpersonal communication, public speaking, writing and cultural studies, first at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and then at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage, where she moved in 1993. In 2010, she left university teaching and launched her life coaching and motivational speaking business, Flying Heart Industries. Lynn publishes as a free-lance writer and has just completed a self help cartoon book for women, Be Her Now.