Susan C. Young
Speaker • Author • Founder of ReNew You Now • Saltwater Soul
Susan C. Young has spent more than 25 years helping people navigate change, strengthen resilience, deepen human connection, and create meaningful transformation in their work, relationships, and lives.
As founder of ReNew You Now, Susan brings her experience together around one powerful idea: We may not always get to choose what changes around us, but we can choose how we show up for what comes next.
Through engaging keynotes, workshops, retreats, and books, Susan helps audiences move beyond simply coping with change to intentionally renew, reconnect, and rise. Her work explores resilience, mindset, communication, belonging, personal presence, and the clarity and courage required to move forward.
Warm, practical, thought-provoking, and refreshingly human, Susan combines compelling storytelling with strategies people can actually use. Her goal isn’t simply to motivate an audience for an hour, but to help people see themselves, their circumstances, and their possibilities differently—and leave ready to take meaningful action.
Susan brings an unusually diverse professional background to the stage. She has served as a Fortune 300 business consultant, leadership development trainer for the United States Air Force Research Laboratory, top-producing REALTOR®, statewide radio talk-show host, newspaper columnist, entrepreneur, coach, and professional speaker.
She holds a Master’s degree in Human Performance Technology, graduating summa cum laude, and a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing. She is a longtime member of the National Speakers Association, where she served as President of the Wisconsin Chapter, and is also a member of Mensa International.
A prolific author, Susan’s growing body of work explores resilience, renewal, relationships, communication, simplicity, and personal transformation. Her current and forthcoming books include The Sacred Simplicity Devotional, Crash, Splash & Roll, Rebuild, Renew & Rise, Shift, Shed & Shine, and How You Show Up Changes Everything.
Susan is endlessly creative. Whether she is painting a canvas—or an entire room—designing a welcoming home, building a website, planting a garden, writing a book, or preparing a memorable dinner for friends, she finds deep joy in creating beauty, comfort, and connection.
An avid scuba diver and enthusiastic traveler, Susan has explored waters around the world alongside sea turtles, sharks, and manta rays. She is also willing to take adventure to greater heights: to celebrate the birth of her first grandchild, she jumped out of a perfectly good airplane over Oahu’s breathtaking North Shore.
At 51, Susan sold her four-bedroom Florida home, released nearly everything she owned, packed what remained into her Honda Accord, and moved to Wisconsin for love—proof that she doesn’t merely speak about courage, resilience, and transformation. She has lived them.
Today, Susan and her husband, Dan, make their home near the beautiful turquoise waters of Northwest Florida. She is the outrageously proud mother of adult twins and a thoroughly delighted grandmother. Family, friendship, faith, and meaningful connection remain at the heart of her life—and she lives each day with a deep sense of grace and gratitude.
