Highlights
- Author of creativity classic How Much Joy Can You Stand (2000)
- Top creativity website featured in SELF
- Book a Hot pick in PW
- Main selection for One Spirit Book Club
- Formerly columnist for New Age Magazine
- Featured in more than 100 radio and TV interviews
- New book: Living Your Joy
Author and freelance journalist specializing in self-expression and creativity issues. Creativity expert with a sense of humor.
Suzanne is an expert at helping people:
- find energy after or before work to pursue their dream
- determine how, when and if to leave their job
- set up an office that’s truly conducive to creating
- keep a more creative computer
- find the money to pursue their dream work
- create a truly effective support network
- balance dream work with home, family and relationships
- set up a schedule they can stick to
Teaching & Speaking
June 2001 - present
Howmuchjoy.com
Creates and sells info products and leads teleclasses that move people forward with their dreams. Has licensed 250+ facilitators in 12 countries internationally to lead The How Much Joy Can You Stand? Workshop. Based on the award-winning book read by more than 60,000 people, How Much Joy Can You Stand?
June 2002-2005
The Writer’s Spa, Taos NM
Week-long retreat for writers to renew their creative spirit, recommit to their writing projects, and learn more about how to live the writing life. Co-led with best-selling author Jennifer Louden (The Women’s Book of Comfort)
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June 2001 to Present
How Much Joy Can You Stand? Facilitator’s Workshop
Train people to create their own version of the How Much Joy Can You Stand? workshop; also, how to book, fill and lead them. Nearly 100 licensed in US and more than 14 other countries
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April, 1999 – June 2001
How Much Joy Can You Stand Workshops?
Designed and led this creativity workshop extensively throughout US and in Canada for hundreds of participants. Venues included numerous adult ed forums and new age learning centers, including Learning Annexes on both coasts, Wainwright House, Kripalu and the Rowe Conference Center
January 2000 - present
Keynote Speaker
Have spoken to myriad groups about issues around creativity. Corporate clients include Kindermusik, Inc., Hudson Valley Hospital, and national Clarion Awards presentation of Women in communications. Non-Profit clients include Business & Professional Woman, the International New Age Bookseller’s Association, and the Association for Early Childhood Development of Montreal.
2000-2001
Body Mind Spirit Expo
Gave lectures and mini-seminars on pursuing your dreams and full creativity; Burlington VT, Manchester, NH and other mid-Atlantic locations
1999, 2000
Book Tours for How Much Joy Can You Stand?
15-city and 5-city tours included stops at independent and major bookstores throughout US.. Booksellers included Bodhi Tree (Los Angeles), Bibelot (MD), Stroudwater Books (Portsmouth NH), East-West Books (Mountain View, CA and Seattle, WA).
Journalism
1998 – present
Freelance Journalist
Have written creativity features and essays for numerous women’s publications including More, New Woman, Writer’s Digest, and Fitness. Other credits include The New York Times and Self. Full list below.
1999 – present
The Joy Letter
Free bi-weekly ezine that offers inspiration and practical suggestions for dreamers. Reaches more than 17,000 worldwide.
2000-2001
New Age Journal
Columnist; created and wrote inspirational “Dare to Be Heard” column about pushing past your barriers to creative expression. Column ran for one year. See samples. [LINK TO CLIPS]
Published In
The New York Times, Self, New Age Journal, Prevention, Parents, More, Cosmo Girl, Writer’s Digest, Fitness, Her World (Singapore’s largest women’s magazine), Real Woman, 7 Days
Books
Living Your Joy; A Practical Guide to Happiness (Ballantine Wellspring)
Practical tips and ideas on how to find the time, the money and the energy to finally get on with your dreams. Includes info on how, when, and if to leave your job, setting up a more creative office and computer, and how to work through lunch on your dream, guilt-free. With exercises and work pages.
How Much Joy Can You Stand? A Creative Guide to Facing Your Fears and Making Your Dreams Come True
(First edition: Beyond Words, 1999; Second edition: Ballantine Wellspring, 2000 )
Inspirational thoughts on how to battle the demons in our heads that keep us from creating. Each chapter includes exercises. Dual Main Selection, One Spirit Book Club. Hot Pick, Publisher’s Weekly. 25+ 5-star reviews on Amazon.com. Featured in Self, Fitness, I-village, msn.com, cybergrrl.com and in more than 100 radio and television interviews
Doin’ the Box Step (Random House, 1990; fiction)
A drawing room comedy set in Main Line, Philadelphia. Explores relations between the races, classes and mothers and daughters. Currently under option for a possible feature film by Shirley MacLaine.
e-Books & CDs
How Much Joy Can You Stand? (Glass Books; Random House)
(See above)
Living Your Joy; How to Find the Time, the Money and the Energy to Live Your Dreams (self-published; sold through howmuchjoy.com) A systematic approach to making your dream part of your everyday life.
Discover Your Soul Purpose; CD & mini e-workbook
(self-published; sold through howmuchjoy.com) Two meditations that move you toward discovering your larger purpose in life, and how to begin and develop that work.
Other Writing
May 1995-1998
The New York Times
Freelance promotional writer
Created and wrote numerous ad campaigns, contests, and promotional events highlighting the main paper and Magazine; geared toward both readers and advertisers
September 1986 – 1998
Freelance copywriter
Wrote promotional copy, including advertorials and contests, for numerous magazine publishers including Hearst, Meredith, Conde Nast, Gruner + Jahr, and Time Warner. Publications included The New Yorker, Gourmet, Ladies Home Journal, Martha Stewart Living, GQ, Esquire, Fitness, Self, Glamour
Education
B.A. in Art History, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Also a graduate of:
- Middlebury French School
- Hurricane Island Outward Bound School
- The Actor’s Institute, New York City
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