As a coach, consultant, and author of Discovering Your Inner Samurai: The Entrepreneurial Woman's Journey to Business Success, Dr. Susan L. Reid provides clients with intuitive small business solutions, fresh start perspectives, and powerful attraction marketing tools to help them transform their start up woes into start up goes. Following a successful conducting and academic career, Susan left the academia world to honor her entrepreneurial spirit, and founded Alkamae in 2004 to help creative women transform their lives and make a difference in the world. Specializing in branding, niche clarity, and Law of Attraction based marketing, Susan combines her fresh start perspective with creative business acumen, helping entrepreneurial woman turn their passion into profit, take control of their financial future, and launch successful small businesses.
Inspiration Behind Alkamae and Discovering Your Inner Samurai
When Susan left the world of academia in 2004 she found herself deeply resonating with the heroic journey archetype of the Samurai. The word "samurai" in Japanese means service and the name was conferred on highly skilled martial artists who used Zen as their operating philosophy, making their inner journey the foundation of their outer expression. To reach this level, Samurai were enormously disciplined, and focused and intentful in utilizing the wisdom of others who had “been there, done that,” to guide them and show them the way. This was the inspirational seed that germinated, for quite some time, before flowering into the creation of my business. Susan wanted to provide a place where entrepreneurial women could come for solutions, resources, and support while starting up and launching their very own successful small businesses.
Susan blogs about these on her Discovering Your Inner Samurai blog, where it is understood that even Samurai need teddy bears.
Susan Reid's Professional Background
Susan Reid holds a Bachelor of Sacred Music degree from Westminster Choir College, a Master of Science degree in counseling and student personnel from Oklahoma State University, a Master of Music degree in comparative interpretation, instrumental conducting from the University of Surrey, England, and received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting from Arizona State University. Prior to ASU, Dr. Reid studied in England on a Rotary International Foundation Fellowship, and spent nine years in professional church ministry working in the areas of music, education, and youth. Dr. Reid has served on the faculty of James Madison University, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and Arizona State University.
