The Podcast
A conversation about what it takes to build a meaningful life when ambition, health, relationships, identity, boundaries, and reality do not follow a perfect plan.
LYNX
&
LADDERS
with Lynn Ford & Jasmine St. John
About the show
Lynx & Ladders is hosted by Lynn Ford, founder of NexaLynx and Lynn Ford Media, and Jasmine St. John, Vice President of Strategy at Monarch Technologies. Together, they explore leadership, operations, ambition, health, workplace realities, entrepreneurship, and what it takes to build a meaningful life and career when the traditional ladder no longer fits.
What we talk about
Meet the hosts
Lynx & Ladders is jointly hosted by Lynn Ford and Jasmine St. John. Different vantage points, one conversation.
Co-host · Founder, NexaLynx & Lynn Ford Media
Lynn brings roughly 25 years of operations, vendor coordination, property services, and media experience into the conversation — alongside the lived reality of building companies through chronic illness, reinvention, and rebuilding in public.
Perspective: the operator and founder — systems, accountability, and what it costs to keep building.
More about LynnCo-host · Vice President of Strategy, Monarch Technologies
Jasmine leads strategy at Monarch Technologies and brings a sharp lens on corporate leadership, workplace realities, and the strategic decisions that shape careers and organizations from the inside.
Perspective: the strategist and executive — leadership, workplace dynamics, and the ladder as it actually exists.
Latest episodes
Operations Is Leadership in Disguise
Lynn Ford & Jasmine St. John · 42 min
Fibromyalgia, Founders & the Cost of Showing Up
Lynn Ford & Jasmine St. John · 38 min
When the Ladder Breaks — Rebuilding in Public
Lynn Ford & Jasmine St. John · 51 min
Boundaries Are Operations for Your Life
Lynn Ford & Jasmine St. John · 46 min
Featured conversations
Featured conversation
What it actually takes to build a company while managing chronic illness — and how to stop treating your health as a problem to solve later.
Featured conversation
Career transitions, relationship shifts, and identity in the in-between — without the tidy redemption arc.
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