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About Lester

Lester Lin is a relationship thinker, personal growth advisor, and community builder focused on how people form meaningful, resilient friendships in adulthood. His work explores emotional health, attachment patterns, conflict repair, and the conditions that allow relationships to move from surface connection to deep mutual commitment.

Lester is the co-founder and executive vice president of Liberty Land Abstract, a national real estate title company, and the founder of several community-based organizations in New York City, including City Mission NYC, Elm Church, and Queens Connexus. Across business, nonprofit leadership, and neighborhood initiatives, his work centers on building trust, fostering collaboration, and creating environments where people grow together rather than in isolation.

He holds multiple certifications in relationship education, psychological research literacy, and assessment-based relational coaching, and has completed advanced training through APA-affiliated and university-backed programs. His approach integrates research from psychology, sociology, and attachment theory with lived experience in leadership, conflict mediation, and long-term community formation.

Lester is currently writing Covenant Friendships, a book that challenges the modern flattening of the word friend and offers a practical framework for understanding relational tiers, emotional responsibility, and why clarity, not intensity, is the foundation of healthy, lasting friendship.

He lives in New York City and continues to work at the intersection of relationships, leadership, and community life.