Susan G Schroeder

11/11/2025

This was the theme of my Monday Morning Pep Talk last week. (If you’re not getting those and want them, comment below and I’ll DM you the details.)

We all have permission to reset:
to start fresh,
to begin again and again,
no matter what.

I didn’t come up with that theme on a whim!
Like most of my pep talks, I send them to you, but I write them for me.
Short weekly reminders to myself.

So here I am, doing my own reset.
After three years in a full-time leadership role, I’m happily shifting gears:
spending more time in my workshop again,
collaborating with founders and creatives,
building brands from the ground up,
and writing in the spaces between!

And I’m really excited!

But I’ll be honest.
It doesn’t exactly feel good
to be posting on IG again.
Not sure why.
But it does feel right (today).
Maybe necessary?
I’m hoping the best parts
of this space show up:
old friends, new ones,
people building and rebuilding,
curious about their own reset,
bravely starting over and over and over.

What about you?
What are you working on,
or coming back to, right now?

10/03/2025

Body. Country. Both in pain. It’s easier to write after the diagnosis and healing. Harder to write while the pain and unknown are still unfolding. This is me trying anyway.

Tales of a Glitchy Body is a weekly essay I’ve been writing for over a year now. Maybe the glitchy body I’m writing about isn’t just mine after all. Learn more at the link in my bio.

Photograph created by at the 2019 Women’s March. Thank you Jackie for letting me share your talent that perfectly captures my mood.

09/03/2025

27 married 34 together! We crashed a rehearsal dinner at our wedding / rehearsal venue to celebrate and mark our territory. “Why Yes! We DID recommend this spot to tomorrow’s bride and groom.” Love you EG. Love us. ❤️

02/14/2025

I love you EG.
I love us.
❤️

12/20/2024

Just in time for holiday travels. Part 1 of why I struggled with travel anxiety. This has nothing to do with a fear of flying. I usually sleep pretty well on planes. ✈️

Safe holiday travels to you! Get Part 1 of this story for free on Substack at the link in my bio. Part 2 due out Dec 27.

10/18/2024

It’s been a month since I launched my new offering. I don’t really like calling it a newsletter because I’m definitely not sharing news. It’s more like a thoughtsletter or a soulletter or heartletter. Whatever you want to call it, it comes out on Friday mornings as a bookend for my Monday Morning Pep Talk.

Today’s essay taught me something I thought I already knew. I was a little unsure of putting it out. It wasn’t one of my fully polished pieces. As an essay, I felt like it could use more work. But Friday came and it was time to send, so I did. I love a deadline. Interestingly, this slightly less polished, maybe a little more raw and messy essay has prompted a lot of personal notes back to me—texts and emails. It seems to have resonated.

I responded to an artist friend who reached out with a lovely note and said, “It’s especially meaningful to hear responses to this particular essay because it was one that felt a little more rocky in its development, ie...I put it out there a little messy and maybe not so polished. Such a beautiful lesson that art is sometimes most accessible when not perfectly polished.”

When we show up as just ourselves, that builds the deepest connection. I love having this thread of closeness with readers. I love learning from them or being reminded of what I already know. Thank you for reading and sharing. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, but feel curious, head to the link in my bio and subscribe to Tales of a Glitchy Body to see what all the fuss is about. Happy Friday. 🍋

09/15/2024

I’m so lucky to be with someone who also sees art everywhere and cherishes even the quiet moments. There is beauty all around us. I think it’s one of the things that has kept us bonded these last 26 (ok really 33) years. We both see beauty in the every day stuff. We can usually find something to laugh about even when things get hard.

Is this something you do too?

Like in my first story for Tales of a Glitchy Body (link in bio), first I laughed then I cried. Another thought on that first post: If I’m a lemon, I’m so grateful to squeeze all the juice out of life with you 🍋

09/03/2024

There goes my sweet girl.
Off to see the wide wild world.
My heart is smiling.

❤️🇪🇸💛

09/02/2024

Sunday’s run fueled today’s Monday Morning Pep Talk. Mixed emotions about all the changes going on + little ritual to do to honor and look forward!

Who doesn’t need a little pep talk now and then? Grab yours at the link in bio. 🎉🧡

09/02/2024

09/02/2024

A windy run this morning. Thinking about standing here…between summer and fall. Where have we been these last few months? Where are we going?

08/30/2024

These are the cards we gave each other today. Happy 26 EG…you and I…we are the ones.

(Yes I bought both cards and had them
in my card library that the whole family has access too. Guess which message we each picked.)

I love dreaming about our next chapter and sailing away together. ❤️