Sue Deagle

Sue Deagle is a writer, speaker, traveler and noticer.

She’s the proud product of Pennsylvania steel country, and a three-decade veteran of corporate America. The best job she ever had was working around the globe with veterans and active-duty military who taught her life-changing lessons about resilience and community.

Sue’s book Do Loss is part memoir, part companion: an invitation to examine our beliefs and approach for navigating our unique journeys through all types of loss. She shares wisdom from researchers, rock stars, and her own journey, offering a different way to move through change. Widowed in midlife, Sue’s journey has been defined but not diminished by loss. She’s a firm believer that while life won’t ever be the same, it can be a different kind of great.

Sue writes a weekly substack column called The Luminist, essays about noticing reality rather than the stories our minds and culture like to spin. She tells stories about the everyday, ordinary, exotic, or confusing, looking below the surface to see what’s really going on. No answers, no fixing. Just expanding our way of looking at the world.

Sue approaches the wonder and absurdity of life with an irreverent sense of humor, a keen eye for everyday wonder, and a hard-won appreciation for human connection. When she’s not on the move, you can find Sue at home in Virginia, in her modern-day treehouse planning her next adventure, hiking along the Potomac River, lost in a good book, or face-timing her two grown kids.