Linda Leier Thomason is best described as a 50+ woman with rich life experiences who wakes up daily seeking both challenge and joy. She is the wife to Ken and the mother to Alex. Linda grew up the 2nd oldest of 9 children on a North Dakota diversified farm where her Citizens Band radio (CB) handle was “Chicken Woman.” Linda put herself through undergraduate and graduate school, worked on Capitol Hill for a senator and as a lobbyist for a Fortune 300. She founded, grew and sold multiple businesses and with her husband raised the world’s greatest son. She’s constantly on the move-traveling or exploring-to satisfy her compulsive curiosity. Linda enjoys the creativity of cooking, compelling characters in books or on stage and swimming in warm waters across the globe.
She considers herself a rock hauler…a remover of barriers in life. From picking rocks off her father’s North Dakota farmland to reduce equipment damage and reap greater crops to succeeding in male dominated careers to living with a progressive deformity….Linda has not only hauled rocks but held on to each one of them understanding the value each added to shaping her life. Linda could so easily have become heavy, hard and jaded like the rocks she removed. Instead she chose to celebrate the diversity and challenge of each rock she’s hauled and to create a rock pile she’s darn proud of.
One of the many rock piles Linda helped create at Hillcrest Diversified Farms in South Central North Dakota. Long, hot summer days were spent walking the fields beside a tractor with a front loader, looking for rocks, picking them up or pushing them onto the loader.
