Meet Susaye Greene

We recently connected with Susaye Greene and have shared our conversation below.

Susaye, so great to have you on the platform and excited to have you share your wisdom with our community today. Communication skills often play a powerful role in our ability to be effective and so we’d love to hear about how you developed your communication skills.

As a child, I was given the opportunity to read everything. I was fascinated by words and language. I read stories from around the world, as well as dictionaries and thesauruses. I asked questions about words and where they came from.
I realized if I could communicate effectively, I could achieve anything I wanted. My mother had tremendous communication skills and taught me to ask for what I wanted. We would talk for hours about everything under the sun. My goals were to broaden my knowledge and to find the joy the world held. Being a singer gave me a different dimension of communicating to the world. I could dig into a song, make it mine in feeling and direction. That gave me a sense of the power we each hold with words, through music and human feelings. Those powerful lessons have carried me around the world and opened doors that I might never have been able to walk through. I realize I can communicate with anyone, from any country, because we all have similar experiences in humanity.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

I have been a singer/songwriter/entertainer all of my life. Creativity has given me the gift of presenting myself to the world through my music, my art, and my writing (both songs and books). I have been blessed to have worked with some of the most talented people on the globe. I have a deep interest as well in technology and science, which I believe will carry humanity forward to the future.
I traveled the world with Ray Charles, with Stevie Wonder (who intoduced me to the world of successful songwriting) and with the Supremes, as the last member to sign to Motown Records. Now, I am on a different path. As a two time #1 international best selling author, I have found my love for communication and inspiration to others. I am a co-founder at Capital Code, a tech company, building ways to serve underserved communities around the world,
Most recently, I joined a group of entrepreneurs at the Radical Company, to build my own company, Your Supreme Confidence LLC, to inspire people around the world to find their voice and confidence. I wrote a small book. “The Hater Blockers Handbook” available for download at play.susaye.com to help others navigate the difficulties of success, protect themselves from the outpouring of hate on the web, and find joy in their success.
Creativity is the great joy and motivator in my life and I am now able to create more art, books, music and projects, as well as public speaking, to uplift and inspire as many people as I can.
On the 23rd of this month, my latest collaborative book, the 4th in the Creative Lifebook Series, is coming out! “Radical Courage”, and is surely a book for our times. It has shot to number 1, in 14 categories. The varying perspectives are mind blowing, and it’s such a thrillride to create in this way.
I’m enjoying a collaboration as well with James Bacchi, gallerist and art curator, that we are going to present to the world very soon. All in all, I am excited about the creative projects I’m involved in and looking forward to the future!

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?

I have always believed in quality over quantity. I studied many great musicians, artists, painters and writers and developed my skills over time. I believe it’s important to have discernment about whom you work with, in order to develop as an artist in any genre or niche..
One must be able to edit themselves. There is a moment in creativity, when you must be sure you are finished with a painting, a song, a story.
I beleive in trusting my instincts that something is good or fine. Artistic efforts are subjective, but in order to succeed, one must follow their own path and way.
I would ask any young creative person to study, to learn and to dig into the past to see which masters of any effort they might learn from. Experience is indeed a great teacher.

Alright, so before we go we want to ask you to take a moment to reflect and share what you think you would do if you somehow knew you only had a decade of life left?

If I knew I had only a decade of life left, I would dig in as deeply as I could to find the seed of my happiness in the creative fields. I would paint what I had never dared to paint, I would record songs I loved and longed to sing, I would fill reams of paper with words of love, peace, kindness and joy to uplift the world. I would dance and swim, travel the world with my most beloved people, I would stand in fields of flowers and smile in the sun. I would cook and eat to my heart’s content. I would dream of better worlds and talk to all of my many friends around the world, making them laugh. I would surround myself with animals and color and I would pray; talking to God about all the blessings he has put in my life. I am grateful for the blessings of my life. I would not change it for anything.

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Randi Childs Photography, Sydney Colston, Philippe Lee, Eric Iversen,

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