Susie deVille - Buoyant: The Entrepreneurs Guide to Becoming Wildly Successful, Creative, and Free

Buoyant is a map for entrepreneurs and creators who crave success and freedom. In this transformational book, Susie deVille helps you get out of stuck and self-doubt and find flow, ease, and joy by reclaiming inspired creativity and aligning with your true self.

Jonathan Fields, founder, Good Life Project and Spark Endeavors; author of Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work That Makes You Come Alive

Free-flowing creativity and authenticity are a powerful duo. Susie deVille shows you how to become the most powerful version of yourself by unlocking both in her generous book, Buoyant. A wonderful read for entrepreneurs ready to welcome their next level.

Susie Moore, bestselling author of Let It Be Easy

Buoyant is exactly what a creative thinker needs to help them gain control of their journey and get back on track.

Sylvia Wehrle, creative director experience, Publicis Sapient

When entrepreneurs want to grow, they often think they have to work harder and faster which leads to burnout and depletion. Susie deVille, in her brilliant and inspiring book Buoyant, shows another way: by understanding our unique voice and vision and tapping the natural patterns of our creativity, we generate sustained energy, strategic clarity, and ease while we grow.

Pamela Slim, author of The Widest Net and Body of Work

A supportive and reflective guide for entrepreneurs to help release the creativity that has been hiding inside of us.

Susan M. Barber, executive coach; author of The Visibility Factor

Amidst a sea of business books that promise to help us correct some aspect of ourselves, Buoyant is a magical must-read that helps us embrace our whole selves and reconnect with the creative spark that inspired us to become entrepreneurs. Each chapter offers a delicious experience that helps us tap into desires long dormant and open doors long shut.

AJ Harper, author of Write a Must-Read

Buoyant demonstrates how to break through stuckness using creativity as the overarching tool. But dont be intimidated by the limiting belief that you may not be creative. There are doable exercises to walk you through the process.

Lori Petersen, CEO and founder, AccountSolve, LLC

Buoyant guides us into a consciousness of appreciationgreater appreciation results in greater creativity, no matter the applicationand takes us into a new understanding of ourselves.

Knight Martorell, founder and CEO , Martorell Studios

This book is part inspiration, part road map to help you reconnect with your true self so you can live more authentically.

Cyndi Thomason, author and speaker; founder and president, bookskeep

Buoyant takes us on an adventure of personal and professional growth through Susie deVilles unique methodology of using creativity as a magical tool.

Gabi Dalnekoff, CEO and founder, AweVida

Part autobiography of a successful entrepreneur, part how-to on finding and reconnecting with your soul, Buoyant is a book that youll have a hard time putting down.

Rachel Gogos, founder and CEO , brandiD

I f you are on the floor right now, I know just how frightened you are.

My moment on the floor began in 2008, when the financial markets crashed. The dominoes that had been teetering for yearsmy business, my marriage, my finances, my health, my joy in living, my sense of selfdidnt just fall, they came crashing down on my head as if they had been carelessly stored in a forgotten shoebox on the edge of a closet shelf.

Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in debt. A house in foreclosure. A body I had neglected for years, carrying an extra seventy pounds. A business in a nosedive. A heart so shattered, I swept up the shards and dust as best I could and put the bits on ice, like you do with a severed finger. Fear that had me by the anklesa dead weight I dragged around all day and night.

My immediate concern was addressing the challenges in my business. I needed a solid and stable place to put my feet financially so that I could make a living and dig myself out of debt. I knew that if I could connect powerfully with the clients I most wanted to serve, sales would follow. Once I had established some breathing room in my business, I reasoned, I could turn my attention to resolving the various messes in my personal life.

So I began chasing clients. I maintained a frenetic pace, working late each evening and rising before dawn the next day to start all over again. I searched for business success magic bullets and implemented the tactics I read about in books and learned in webinars and coaching sessions.

I threw business strategy spaghetti against the wall. Nothing stuck. I began to panic even more. What I didnt realize then was that all my scurrying around, push marketing efforts, lack of rest, toxic thinking and habits, and relentless anxiety werent helpingthey were actually keeping me from success. I was miserable.

Perhaps you are in a season of gripping fear over your business right now and are confused about and stuck on how to make things better. Maybe you, like most of my entrepreneur coaching clients, feel overwhelmed, exhausted, as if you are drowning, unsure of how to extricate yourself from the chaotic spiral of pursuing success. Maybe you believe that its not just your business thats brokenyou are, too.

Let me cut to the chase and give you the first of many blasts of sweet, restorative oxygen contained in this book: You can find the way back to yourself and out of being stuck in your business. You are not broken. The prevalent advice to entrepreneurs, however, is broken.

The reason the things youve tried havent worked is that the common advice given to us entrepreneurs is based on the notion that we are missing some right formula or key to productivity. That we need to commit, go all in. Burn the boats. Build better funnels. Dial up our efforts. We can sleep when were dead!

Of course, dedication, strategic focus, and discipline are all important and contribute to the health of our business. The problem is that this advice is woefully incomplete. At its best, its not enough. At its worst, it just depletes us further by cementing us more deeply into the belief that more doing holds the answers. When we expend our energy and reorient our focus to be further outside of ourselves, we neglect to feed and water our personal reserves of creativity, the power plants of ideas, imagination, and essential intuition.

The place for conventional business advice is after we have done the work to ensure our inspiration buckets are filled to the brim, and we have mindfully turned over the soil of us to support sustainable creativity over the long term. Skipping the essential inspiration steps is like trying fill balloons when there is no air in our lungs.

I have a different approach, and it works.

I promise that if you take the advice in this book to heart and do the exercises, you will discover an easier path to success and freedom. I realize you may find it hard to believe at first that my methodology works. You may resist doing the exercises. I understand. I remember my own path to transformation. I would have been supremely skeptical as well.

Lets start with the basics to get our feet wet in the shallow end of the pool. Here is the foundational truth of how to change everything in your business and life: By reclaiming and reconnecting with inspiration and your innate creativity, you can bring resounding happiness back into your life and enjoy business success you thought was out of reach.

Im going to stay here for a minute and let that sink in. I know this is hard to believe. I also know how loaded the word creativity is. You most likely dont consider yourself creative. I can sense you backing up, feeling around for the door handle. Your business is in dire straits, and here I am, offering you the equivalent of a glue stick and some paints as the panacea. And inspiration? What?