Make Peace with Your Grief and Watch Where It Leads You
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About Susan McCorkindale
Susan McCorkindale is a motivational TEDx Speaker, author of two amazon bestselling memoirs, and host of the online series, “Flaws Are the New Black.”
Her first book, Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl, chronicles her move – with her husband and two sons – from suburban New Jersey to a 500-acre beef cattle farm in the wilds of Virginia. Her follow-up, 500 Acres and No Place to Hide: More Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl, is both heartbreaking and side-splittingly funny as our favorite fake farm girl navigates her husband’s very real cancer diagnosis.
A popular keynote speaker known for her high-energy, humorous, and captivating presentations, Susan speaks frequently on the topics of resilience, grief, and the role of humor in helping people bounce back and stay back.
Flaws Are the New Black
From the Blog
Inflexibility. It’s a flaw.
When you're so busy being flexible, do you ever think, "For Pete's sake, just do it my way already!"? I do. It's a flaw. I find it raises its ugly head when I'm confronted with certain situations that make me recall certain expressions. Like, "When one door closes,...
A career change at 59. A flawed decision?
Are we ever too old to change careers? Start something totally new? I've been thinking about it. A lot. Pondering a professional reinvention. Change is good, right? I've got some excellent skills, transferrable skills that could really work in a new work environment....
On Target
I have a confession to make. Even though it’s nice and quiet and because it’s such I should stay here, at my desk, writing, I really want to go to Target. I haven’t been there, for a leisurely stroll through the makeup department or an unhurried oohing and aahing over...