Nice to meet you.
One client commented that it is as though Sue hypnotizes you and connects with you personally when she speaks either with small intimate audiences or large groups alike. Her eye contact and message is clear and it touches you in a way that motivates you to take action.
With so many challenges in her life that she has experienced and overcame, her personality is engaging, uplifting and her sense of humor is always at the surface. Very entertaining but powerful in the simple messages conveyed.
Sue is captivating when she speaks from the heart on what she believes, and it leaves her audiences feeling inspired and ready to make positive changes in their personal and/or work lives and their relationships.
Sue is a true Entrepreneur having setup several successful businesses in very different industries re-creating herself each time. She is an experienced and knowledgeable leader who shares so much of herself, she motivates you to give you back hope again and she has survived so many of life’s big events and traumas. She is an author with 6 books published and more on the way, a publisher, an educator, a Lifestyle and Wellness Coach, a healer and a keynote speaker.
Being raised in a violent and abusive household in the 60s, caste aside by her family and told never to come back again, leaving home at 18 years of age and re-creating herself on her terms, becoming a workaholic, suffering from addiction, being in the wrong place at the wrong time eg political uprising, tsunami & hurricane, people dying in her arms, contracting simultaneous auto-immune and psychological conditions that left her in total pain and unable to walk for months, Sue is still standing and what’s more, she is very confident in herself and standing tall.
Background
In my early 20s, I decided that I was in charge of my life and I would not allow any interference from anyone regarding my own choices in life. I became a workaholic and an excessive learner. Excessiveness and addiction to things is never the answer. I would get a ‘hit’ from attaining yet another certificate. This was compensating for the lack of education when I was taken from school at a young age to work in the family TAB (gambling business). I wanted to go to university as I was good at school however my father believed that females didn’t need an education as they were going to be mothers and work at home.
Breakthrough
I became very successful in my work life reaching lofty heights at a young age however not so good with relationships. I naively thought that being good at something would be fulfilling enough. A turning point came when I witnessed how senior managers thirst for more bonus money, came at the expense of other people’s jobs and health. It seemed like a corrupt world in the west to me at the time and so I went on a pilgrimage to live and work with other cultures on other continents.
This opened my eyes to other approaches for a variety of life’s challenges. Life happens FOR you to learn and grow, NOT TO you. With time and space, not rushing around in the workplace and taking time to ‘smell the roses’, I was able to see clearly that there were more fulfilling ways to live. This had a profound affect on me, taking me from being a victim to really taking responsibility of my life. I thought to myself, “challenges are going to continue to happen, but if I want a good life, I can’t keep waiting for life to give me a break. I need to do it myself!” I switched my mentality from being a victim to taking responsibility.
I came back to Australia and on a mission. My new thirst for learning kicked into high gear, this time with a specific focus on sharing my knowledge and helping people to heal and grow within themselves. By looking at things differently, your whole life can change. So more courses especially on healing modalities, training and coaching. Job roles were different as I was altered and didn’t know where I fit in, back in this world. I spent the next decade in construction as a field supervisor, compliance officer and a learning and development advisor. There were so many opportunities in this industry. I was flown to the UK to show an established training team, my innovative methods and training materials that I had developed here. As a female I could connect easier with the men in the harsh work environments and could assist them to learn and grow within themselves. There is a high rate of divorce within the sector as well as dysfunction in communication, relationships, friendships, intimacy and responsibility. My coaching experiences were evolving during this time.
I was able to help these men to understand their limiting beliefs in their own abilities and identity, that was having a major negative impact on their lives particularly relationships and they were truly missing out on a more fulfilled life. After a lot of reflection and soul searching whilst overseas, I could easily see how I could help people to get back on track. It is a real passion of mine to help people to live their best life.
Then came the Day Spa era simultaneously with my desire to educate and coach people on how to look within – so a Therapist and Educator. This work has been so satisfying until I burnt the candle at both ends ending up with an Autoimmune condition and mental health issues in 2020 that lasted for approximately 18 months.
I am always a positive upbeat enthusiastic person, and that went ‘out the window’ as I battled with pain, physical limitations to even walk and do normal things that we all take for granted. The pain and mental health anguish combined, pushed me back to victim mode again. My health had not been affected before and now the real test as I couldn’t sit or stand or walk without extreme pain. Feeling very sorry for myself and ‘life happening TO me’ mentality, kept me on a merry-go-round making things worse. One day I had had enough.
I sat down and took pen to paper to do an exercise, on the 100 benefits I had gained from my latest challenge. It was impossible at the beginning, I couldn’t think of any, but I persisted as any action was going to be better than where I had been for the past several months. I wasn’t inspired at home, so I took myself off to the park and thought I am not leaving until I have 100 benefits. Then they started coming to me. This one exercise was pivotal in turning my life around, again.
It doesn’t matter how many times you fall down, what matters, is how you respond when getting back up.
Now I understood about depression, mental health, anxiety, confusion, lacking confidence. These had been words to me before until I actually felt them myself. Because of this period in my life, I have become very empathetic and knowledgeable about diet, gut health, the value of exercise, managing pain, being in the sun, adapting lots of tools and techniques to enrich your life in whatever direction you may want to head.
I have always wanted to help people and have done so for most of my life. These days I really want to help those who are willing to take the first step to getting their life back again.