Our Team

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Gina Murdock, Founder

Gina Murdock is a writer, yoga teacher, and community organizer. She is founder of the Aspen Yoga Society, The Aspen City of Wellbeing, Lead with Love Retreats and the Mind, Body, Spirit Rx content brand. Gina and her husband Jerry created and support the Mind, Body, Spirit Series at The Aspen Institute hosting speakers and events to raise consciousness. Murdock has a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica with an special emphasis on consciousness, health, and healing. Gina is a certified Chopra yoga and meditation teacher as well as a certified Bikram and Vinyasa Flow yoga teacher.

Gina is a founding member of Dr. Deepak Chopra’s Self Directed Biological Transformation Initiative and has willingly submitted her body to science! Gina is an active board member of the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES), The Center for Living Peace and The Chopra Foundation as well as an advisor to CTZNWELL. Gina is an International Editor at Origin Magazine, a contributor to Mantra Yoga and Health Magazine, and an ambassador for the mobile well-being platform Jiyo. Gina lives by these mantras: “Let the beauty you love, be what you do.” (Rumi); “Be the change you wish to see in the world” (Gandhi); and “WOOO-HOOO!” (Gina)

Abby Stern, Associate Director

Abby Stern brings wide-ranging expertise to Lead with Love, in managing the internal and external operations of the ‘for impact’ organization. Trained in systems thinking, she is a natural leader and connector who is passionate about building community. Abby received a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Georgia and her areas of responsibility span marketing, social media, digital offerings, presenter relations, finance, compliance, technology, and human resources. Abby is also responsible for creating the Lead with Love Action Center, and the Scholars program.

Prior to Lead with Love, Abby worked with the American Renewable Energy Institute for 3 years producing the annual AREDAY Summit, and co-created the AREDAY Startup Green Program, a incubator, accelerator platform for clean tech companies.

Abby participated in her first yoga teacher training in 2014, followed by a meditation training in 2016 that changed her work trajectory. She is an environmentalist at heart, but believes we must learn how to first take care of ourselves before we can truly live in harmony with the planet.

Nicole Lindstrom, Program Director

Nicole Lindstrom is the Program Director for Lead with Love Project Wellbeing, which is an initiative within the Corporation that focuses on promoting social, physical, and mental wellbeing for the essential service workers in Pitkin County, both at the worksite and off the clock.

Prior to Lead with Love, Nicole worked with Wanderlust for 5 years, and has practiced with the world's top yoga instructors and has worked with leading musicians, artists and experts in health and wellness.

Nicole Lindstrom is the co-author ofWanderlust, A Modern Yogi’s Guide To Discovering Your Best Self, Founder and Editor of the online travel site GLDMNE, and Program Director at Lead With Love.

Nicole completed her first 200-hour training in Vinyasa /Hot Yoga. She then went onto New York City where she became well versed in Schuyler Grant's alignment-based Vinyasa, Kula Yoga. In January 2014, YogaWorks hired Nicole to complete their 200-hour training in Bali, where she deepened her understanding of body and posture alignment.

Nicole’s focus is to create an informed foundation for her student's, so that they may further their own depth of understanding in their personal practice and transform the way they approach their life.

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