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Suzette Mullen (she/her) is a memoir and nonfiction book coach, retreat leader, and the author of the memoir The Only Way Through Is Out (https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6202.htm), forthcoming February 13, 2024, from the University of Wisconsin Press. Her publications include a tiny love story in the New York Times and The Subaru Should Have Been a Sign (https://www.today.com/health/essay/coming-out-middle-age-subaru-rcna36765), an essay that went viral on today.com. As a book coach, Suzette builds safe and supportive communities for queer writers where she helps them find their deeper stories and big ideas, choose the structures that serve those stories and ideas, sort through their publication options, find agent representation, and land book deals.
“I had this experience of recognizing my sexuality later in life. And the question for me was, how did I not know this before? How did I get to this place? And then how did I get to a place where it was so difficult for me to make a decision about or take action on what I knew to be true for myself?”
“I had a lovely life and I have no regrets about that lovely life I led. And I have two sons who I have a great relationship with. I have an ex-husband who I'm still friendly with. I had a whole life before. I feel very grateful that I am now stepping into Suzette 2.0, and it is a very different life. It is a life that feels more alive for me. I feel more aligned with everything.”
“We talk about how visibility matters. And I'm sharing a story of somebody who came out later in life, came out in her fifties, is stepping into a vibrant professional career in, in her fifties and now into my sixties. And hopefully it's going to resonate with some people out there.”
“I didn't just make a huge change in my personal life. I did that first and then the professional possibilities and really stepping into the work I was meant to do — just to write stories and to help guide other writers and in their storytelling. I mean I love, love my work.”
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Sign up t (https://www.yourstoryfinder.com/books)o receive the Insider Companion Guide (https://www.yourstoryfinder.com/behindthescenes) to The Only Way Through is Out
Order Suzette’s book The Only Way Through is Out (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-only-way-through-is-out-suzette-mullen/20156608?ean=9780299345501)
Learn more about book coaching with Suzette (https://www.yourstoryfinder.com/workwithsuzette)
Learn more about Suzette’s Mentorship and Community of Queer writers, Write Yourself Out (https://www.yourstoryfinder.com/write-yourself-out)
4 Jan 2024
Sarah McDevitt: Strong Beliefs, Loosely Held in Ireland
Sarah McDevitt and her wife were one of the first queer couples to get married in Ireland. In order to legalize equal marriage, LGBTQ+ Irish citizens were knocking on doors and asking their family and friends to vote for the constitutional change.
What happened next is a piece of our history that we all need to know about.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcdevittsarah/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcdevittsarah/)
Sarah Stone McDevitt is a Radio broadcasting graduate she spent the early part of her career in local radio before moving into agency life. She spent 16 years working across creative, media, content and web development agencies before joining Hubspot. In her personal life, Sarah is married with three kids and lives in Dublin, Ireland. She and her wife were the first couple to marry in the only county in Ireland to vote no in the marriage vote. She proudly served 13 years in the reserve army in Ireland as a corporal in a communications unit. She is the founder and chairperson of a charity called Help Us Give Smiles which has seen her travel to Kenya for almost 20 years working with vulnerable children and communities. And finally, she is an LGBTQ+ activist focused in particular on the rights of LGBTQ+ parents in 2020 post a lenghty campaign Sarah and her wife Geraldine along with countless other couples finally got on thier childrens birth certs.
23 Nov 2023
Travers Johnson: All the Tea on the Queer Economy
Travers Johnson (he/him) is the Founder & CEO of Queerency, the leading source for LGBTQ+ business news. He is also the Creator of LGBTQ+ Business Week, an annual 7-day celebration of queer-owned small businesses. Travers is an award-winning content strategist and editor with 15 years of experience in digital media, digital marketing, and book publishing. A Forbes contributor who covers topics at the intersection of the queer economy and the creator economy, Travers has worked for and with industry leading companies including Mailchimp, Penguin Random House, Edelman, and Scholastic. He was trained at Morehouse College and Georgetown University and is a winner of the Google News Initiative Pitchfest and the Maynard Institute Media Entrepreneurship Award.
https://www.instagram.com/queerency/ (https://www.instagram.com/queerency/)
https://www.instagram.com/lgbtqbusinessweek/ (https://www.instagram.com/lgbtqbusinessweek/)
Martine Rothblatt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martine_Rothblatt), founder of Sirius XM and United Therapeutics
KN Global Group, owned by Anne Jakkaphong Jakrajutatip, bought the Miss Universe Organization (https://www.queerency.com/thai-transgender-owner-of-miss-universe-files-for-bankruptcy/)
Arlan Hamilton (https://www.linkedin.com/in/arlanhamilton/)
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