Susan Stewart

Woman Who Chooses Joy. There are people who are naturally positive. And then there are people who have lived enough life to understand exactly what joy costs and choose it anyway. Holly Christenson is the latter. She loves hard. She works hard. She plays hard. She wears her heart on her sleeve, believes feelings are meant to be felt, and has very little interest in taking life or the people she loves for granted. Her reason is deeply personal. Holly has experienced tremendous loss...

Woman Who Questions the Blueprint. Autumn Fleck has a habit of asking a question that can make people a little uncomfortable: Why are we doing it this way? Not to be difficult. Not simply to disrupt something that works. She genuinely wants to know. Is there a better way? That curiosity has taken Autumn from a career in wine sales and marketing to completing 1,200 loan signings in ten months, founding Precision Signing Agency, building a nationwide closing operations company, moving her...

Woman Who Makes It Matter. Some people build careers by following a perfectly mapped out plan. Kelly McCarel believes there’s a little more to it than that. “I don’t think anything we do in life is random. I think there is a path, and one thing leads us to the next thing.” Looking at Kelly’s career, that philosophy fits perfectly. Journalism led to legal writing. Legal writing led to communications. Communications eventually led to title insurance. And somewhere along that path, Kelly...