LynnJulian

Speaker, actress, writer and patient advocate from Back Bay. Also a Level 9 Local Guide on Google Maps and a Yelp Elite fifteen years running, with a verdict for everywhere she goes.

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views on her Google Maps contributionsviews on Maps: 108M
Google Maps contributionscontributions: 14,999
Yelp reviews, 213 of them firstYelp reviews: 866
photos and videos posted to Google Mapsphotos and videos: 11,423

As of November 5, 2026, from her profiles on Google Maps and Yelp.

More hats than a Hydra has heads

Her words, and she means it. Lynn has played a pop superhero and an evil nun, finished the Boston Marathon, and reviewed her way across most of Back Bay.

Critic at large
866 Yelp reviews and 207 on Google Maps, from Back Bay to Rome.
Speaker
Talks on resilience, including her signature talk, The Secret to Resilience.
Actress
About two dozen screen credits, evil nun included.
Pop superhero
Cookie Cutter Girl. Rolling Stone said she sounds like Nashville's version of Fiona Apple. Visit her 2005 site
Marathoner
Finished the 2014 Boston Marathon. Before training for it, she had never run.
Patient advocate
Massachusetts ambassador for the U.S. Pain Foundation, speaking up for the injuries nobody sees.

Ask Lynn where to go

Pick a place. Her real reviews from 10 countries and territories and 16 states plus DC, word for word. 702 of her 866 Yelp reviews sign off with THE DEAL.

Boston, Massachusetts: at least 712 reviews and ratings.

Dorchester Harbor Walk
5 of 5
Boston · Aug 2026 · Yelp
We live in Boston, and made a day trip to Carson Beach. My guest wanted to go for a walk... We ended up on Dorchester Harborwalk... A beautiful, sidewalk path following the ocean.
THE DEAL: if you visit Carson Beach, and you like to keep active, and LOVE that fresh ocean air, take a stroll along the Dorchester Harborwalk!
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North End Historical Museum
5 of 5
Boston · Jul 2026 · Yelp
Boston's North End finally has its own Historical Museum... FINALLY. Our North End is a rich and priceless part of Boston's Italian history. Being Italian, I was excited to visit Boston's newest museum, and it did not disappoint.
THE DEAL: Boston's North End is a MUST visit for everyone, and the new North End Historical Museum is a welcome addition!
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Cactus Club Cafe
5 of 5
Boston · Dec 2025 · Yelp
I was very excited to try the cactus club Café, as it had been under construction in my neighborhood all year... and it did not disappoint!
THE DEAL: if you want a fresh food twist on old fab faves, check out the cactus club café!
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Shear Madness - A Comedy Whodunit
5 of 5
Boston · Nov 2015 · Yelp
Shear Madness is the everchanging (and I mean nightly) comedy show where you decide whodunnit. This is Boston's longest running show, and there are so many reasons why: The actors, the improv, the new show every night!
THE DEAL: Even if you've already seen it, These improv comedians create a bit of a new show every night. See it again... It feels SO good to laugh...Just do it!
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Levain Bakery - Back Bay, Boston
5 of 5
Boston · Feb 2022 · Yelp
I visited Levain Bakery, while visiting friends in New York. They highly recommended their cookies and said that people wait an hour in line every Sunday just to get them. I had to taste it for myself... I simply couldn't imagine.
THE DEAL: this bakery makes the best cookies I have ever had. They are SO FULL of flavor (and fat...and calories)!
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The Paramount
3 of 5
Boston · Sep 2025 · Yelp
We had been to the Paramount, for breakfast, and I fell in love with a French toast. So, we assumed the dinner food would be just as memorable... WRONG. I've never met a Bolognese I didn't like... Until now.
THE DEAL: the Paramount is the place to be for brunch... but I would skip it for dinner!
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The receipts

Since 2010: showing up, writing it down and posting the photos. Here is what it adds up to, as of November 5, 2026.

108 millionviews on her Google Maps contributions

14,999Google Maps contributions

11,423photos and videos posted

3,051questions answered for strangers

866Yelp reviews

213places she reviewed first

4,227photos on Yelp

From her public profiles on Google Maps and Yelp, November 5, 2026. The 108 million figure is the views total on her own Google Maps contributions screen; her public Photos tab shows 59,742,102 photo views.

Badges she has earned on Google Maps

Master Reviewer
Master Photographer
Master Fact Finder
Expert Director

Our own patch artwork. Badge names as shown on her Google Maps profile, November 5, 2026.

Level 9 of 10

69,662 of the 100,000 points Level 10 needs, as of November 5, 2026.

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Elite fifteen years in a row

Every year from 2012 through 2026.

Elite 2012
Elite 2013
Elite 2014
Elite 2015
Elite 2016
Elite 2017
Elite 2018
Elite 2019
Elite 2020
Elite 2021
Elite 2022
Elite 2023
Elite 2024
Elite 2025
Elite 2026

Firm, but fair

Her 866 Yelp reviews by stars. About 24% land at three or below.

5 of 5434

4 of 5224

3 of 5143

2 of 536

1 of 529

THE DEAL: since 2010, two platforms, one rule. She writes what actually happened, good or bad.

Wish you were here

A few frames from her 10,526 photos and 897 videos on Google Maps. Yes, she took them all. Tap a postcard to turn it over and read what she wrote there.

Her story, so far

Lynn at the 2014 Boston Marathon finish line — Finishing the 2014 Boston Marathon. Photo: Carolyn Bick, via the U.S. Pain Foundation’s INvisible Project.

“I fought my way out of that wheelchair, and I fought my way across that finish line.”

2005
Becomes Cookie Cutter Girl, a self styled 21st century pop superhero with girl power pop and a pink guitar. Step into her 2005 website.
2006
Rolling Stone says she “sounds like Nashville’s version of Fiona Apple.” That October, a fall on stage leaves her in and out of a wheelchair for years.
2010
Writes her first Yelp review in January. 865 more follow.
2012
Starts acting, and earns her first Yelp Elite badge. She hasn’t missed a year since.
2013
On April 15, near the Boston Marathon finish line in her own Back Bay neighborhood, she is hurt in the bombing.
2014
On April 21, she crosses that same finish line herself, in the mobility impaired division. Before she started training for it, she had never run in her life.
2015
SELF counts her among the most inspirational women who have run Boston, and she takes second place for adults in the Oticon Focus on People Awards.
2016
Lands the cover of Imagine magazine and plays an evil nun in Witch Hunters.
2019
Her story appears in Outrunning the Demons, published by Bloomsbury.
2022
Named Complimenter of the Year at the Yelpies, a Boston Yelp community award.
2026
Local Guide Level 9, 14,999 contributions and a fifteenth straight year as Elite.

In print and on air

Rolling Stone in 2006, SELF and MORE in 2015, and plenty in between. Here is where her story has run.

Rolling Stone April 2006

Imagine June 2016

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Lynn’s reviews are her own.

Everything Lynn posts on Google Maps and Yelp is her own experience, in her own words. No one has ever paid her for a Google or Yelp review, and a review is never part of an invitation to her.

A hosted stay can earn a video, never a review.

Anything sponsored or gifted on her social channels is labeled at the top of the post.

LynnJulian

More hats than a Hydra has heads

Ask Lynn where to go

Dorchester Harbor Walk

North End Historical Museum

Cactus Club Cafe

Shear Madness - A Comedy Whodunit

Levain Bakery - Back Bay, Boston

The Paramount