We were lucky to catch up with Susan Gold recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Susan, really happy you were able to join us today and we’re looking forward to sharing your story and insights with our readers. Let’s start with the heart of it all – purpose. How did you find your purpose?
This is such a great question.
Though I was highly successful matching celebrities to brands and as a producer in television and film, my true purpose has evolved over decades. My purpose and contribution to humanity has been revealed as I’ve moved through my life living from the heart.
I now know I speak a different language and listen between the words people speak since I’ve been a very young child. As an empath, I’m capable of feeling the energy of the room immediately, tuning in with the mood, emotions and even thoughts of those around me. It’s been a tool of survival and safety as well as one that has guided me into living ‘outside of the box.”
After years of encouragement, I began to write a memoir covering my personal and professional trajectory. The title of the book is Toxic Family: Transforming Childhood Trauma into Adult Freedom. The experience of first writing the book and then having it be published led me to realize my soul’s purpose. I’ve experienced many challenges and challengers in my life. Bravely, I’ve been able to face and walk through it all from a place of love. I’ve realized my own toxic ancestry and much of what I’ve carried is not my own. My purpose is to create conversation around the taboo topic of toxic family lines, how they impact our lives and how we may clear the remnants while coming from a place of love for healing and to thrive. I’m an alchemist of inspiration for transformation.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
Moving from the glittery career of working with celebrities in television and film into creating a safe space for us to walk through trauma together may seem diametrically opposed to an outdated patriarchal measurement of success.
I feel I’ve finally landed in a place of meaning. Helping others transform to thrive has given me a greater understanding of how I am unique.
Even before doing this work, I’d receive feedback from friends, colleagues and even strangers that they “felt better just being around me.” This may be my number one asset, I talk a different language; I listen in a different language than most people.
I’ve done work to get to where I am and stay open in my heart. I’ve had experiences, some of them quite difficult, which have been my training to get to this point. Through it all I’ve found a way to see my experiences as gifts of soul evolution. The flavor of coming from my heart, listening between words, and learning about you, your challenges, engaging and connecting sets me apart and quite frankly, fascinates most who engage with me.
My experience of living life has put me into a place of a heart centered listener and questioning a person with care about their emotional state from my heart, rather than my head. Whenever I do anything with anybody, my natural state of listening and questioning from the heart and thereby energizing people has significant value and is not underestimated.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
A) Be open to opportunity – the answer is always yes, until it is no; B) Know there are no rules, really most of us are just making it up as we go;
C) It’s never too late for reinvention
One of my favorite things is to work with those early into their journey. My instinct is we’ve been ‘programmed’ into a faulty belief system. Perhaps the younger generations coming up now have received the most brutal end of that stick from my view. I speak with college interns making a transition from school to professional fields. Many are locked into a way of thinking that is rigid and structured. It’s hard for them to see opportunities that may be outside of their given track, but once they do a whole new world opens up and the joy is viscera!
Tell us what your ideal client would be like?
My ideal clients are those willing to seek out new ways of living when their way isn’t working.
They are interested and open to self-realization and growth wanting to be acknowledged and heard.
They are finding themself stuck in co-dependent behaviors, relationships past the expiration date, and professional positions with a desire to break free.
They may have issues with their own addiction, depression, toxic relationships, or dysfunctional family systems. They may be frustrated creatives or burgeoning authors.
They are willing to invest in their recovery, and are open to change, grow and heal.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.susangold.us/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/susangoldismagical/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@susangoldismagical
Image Credits
Mark Savage
