Lynette Young is a small business strategist with 25+ years of experience, co-founder of a multi-million dollar SaaS company, host of The Entrepreneur’s Voyage podcast, and author of five books. She developed the 7Seas Framework – a cyclical model for business phases that’s been refined since 1999 through hands-on work with entrepreneurs across multiple industries.
She calls it like she sees it, with warmth. Hosts book her when they want practical business insights without the hype.
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Lynette is available for remote podcast interviews and can accommodate most time zones. She comes prepared, respects your format, and delivers value your audience can use.
Contact: Email: Lynette@LynetteYoung.com
Lynette Young is a small business strategist who has spent 25+ years developing the 7Seas Framework – a cyclical model for navigating business phases that challenges the linear “hockey stick growth” narrative. She’s the host of The Entrepreneur’s Voyage podcast and author of the upcoming book by the same name. Her contrarian take: entrepreneurs don’t get stuck in business phases, they get stuck in the transitions between them.
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Lynette Young runs RevOps for ClaimWizard, a bootstrapped SaaS serving clients across five countries. She’s a Clockwork Certified Partner and Trainual Certified Partner who made the transition from owner/operator to owner – hiring herself out of daily operations while maintaining company growth. Her 7Seas Framework, featured in her podcast and upcoming book The Entrepreneur’s Voyage, addresses why systematizing your business connects directly to your capacity for growth.
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Lynette Young started as a network engineer in the late 1980s and has since co-founded a multi-million dollar SaaS, coached small businesses for 25+ years, and authored four books with a fifth in progress. She now hosts The Entrepreneur’s Voyage podcast featuring entrepreneurs sharing stories from their current business phase – not polished hindsight. She speaks to navigating male-dominated spaces, building businesses that scale, and the realities of spouse business partnerships.
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Lynette Young is building a content ecosystem around her 7Seas Framework – podcast, book, courses, and community. After learning expensive lessons about platform dependency early in her career, she’s now doing it the right way: email list first, social as amplification, owned assets at the center. She hosts The Entrepreneur’s Voyage podcast and is developing online courses to extend her 25+ years of small business coaching methodology.
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Lynette Young has been refining her business coaching methodology since 1999, working across multiple industries and business structures. Her 7Seas Framework – the foundation of her podcast and book The Entrepreneur’s Voyage – gives coaches a diagnostic tool for identifying where clients are stuck. Usually it’s in transitions between phases rather than the phases themselves. She’s direct about what doesn’t work: not every client idea has potential, and saying so honestly serves them better than cheerleading.
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Lynette Young co-founded ClaimWizard, a bootstrapped SaaS serving public adjusters and law firms across five countries. She handles RevOps while her husband Dave runs DevOps. They knew the business had legs when they landed their first client outside their existing network. Her 7Seas Framework, which she teaches through The Entrepreneur’s Voyage podcast and upcoming book, emerged partly from navigating ClaimWizard through multiple business phases without outside funding.
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Lynette Young launched one of the first podcasts in 2005, timed to Apple’s iTunes podcast directory launch. That show attracted $106,000 in sponsorship on its first night by targeting an underserved demographic. Now she’s launching The Entrepreneur’s Voyage podcast with a different model – guests share stories from their current business phase rather than polished success narratives. She brings two decades of perspective on how podcasting has evolved and what still works.
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Lynette and Dave Young have built multiple businesses together over two decades, including ClaimWizard, a SaaS now serving five countries. Their division works because it follows professional skillsets – she runs RevOps, he runs DevOps. Dave even named the 7Seas Framework (she had called the final phase “Staying” until he pointed out the nautical theme). She speaks to what makes spouse partnerships succeed and how to protect the marriage when business gets hard.
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Lynette Young’s upcoming book “The Entrepreneur’s Voyage” introduces the 7Seas Framework – a cyclical model for business phases developed over 25+ years of small business coaching. The companion podcast features entrepreneurs sharing stories from their current phase rather than retrospective success stories. This is her fifth book, following four previous titles including “Google+ for Small Businesses” (Que Biz-Tech) and specialized guides for public insurance adjusters.
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