Hi, I'm SusieQ

I work with capable, self-aware people who look like they have it all together and still keep repeating the same pattern with the people they love most.

They've done the work. They know better.

They want to understand why they still do it, and how to finally stop.

The thing you most want is often on the other side of asking for it.

Years ago, I asked my grandmother why we never said the words "I love you" in our family. Her answer stayed with me, because what I realized in that moment was simple and life-changing: the thing you most want is often waiting on the other side of asking for it. Most of us never ask. We perform, we achieve, we make ourselves useful, and we quietly hope someone will notice and give us what we were afraid to request.

I know that pattern intimately, because I lived it.

I looked successful. I felt disconnected.

On paper, I had it handled. Two decades in marketing and communications. Awards. National television. The title, the reputation, the résumé. And underneath all of it, a quiet, persistent feeling that I was performing a life instead of living one. Successful everywhere, and strangely disconnected from myself.

Five career layoffs taught me resilience I didn't know I had. But the deeper work, the work I now do with my clients, taught me something harder and more important: that so much of what looked like a confidence problem or a relationship problem was really a self-worth problem in disguise. I had learned, somewhere along the way, that I had to earn my place. Once I could finally see that pattern, I could change it. That's when I came home to myself.

Credentials

I've spent more than twenty years studying how people communicate, connect, and get in their own way, first as a communications strategist, then as a coach. I pair that with real training in the science of emotional intelligence, and with the lived experience of having done this work on myself.

Emotional intelligence coach with more than 10 years of EQ study and practice, including four emotional intelligence trainings
More than 20 years in marketing and communications, studying how people show up and what they hide
Nine PRSA Prism Awards
Former national media spokesperson, including three Good Morning America appearances
University instructor in marketing and communications

I say all of this not to impress you, but so you know that when I help you see the pattern you've been too close to notice, it's grounded in both expertise and experience.

What I do now

Today I coach and speak on emotional intelligence, self-worth, and the practice of becoming fully yourself.

My private coaching program, The Authentic Self Experience, is a twelve-week one-to-one journey for successful women who have done the work and are still stuck in the one area that matters most.

Together we uncover what's really driving the pattern, rebuild your self-trust, and turn insight into a life that finally feels like yours.

I'm the big sister who will love you enough to tell you the truth, and walk with you while you change it.