Welcome to The Soul-Driven Author Summit Archives

Sherry Sidoti has twenty-plus years’ experience as a yoga teacher, mentor, and healing arts facilitator. She is an award-winning author and steward of memoir writing experiences internationally. She believes that writing is a spiritual, sacred, and brave practice of self-awakening with great potential for healing. Her debut memoir, A Smoke and a Song (She Writes Press/Simon & Schuster, 2023) received the 2024 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal for Non-Fiction/Inspirational, 2023 Living Now Book Awards Gold Medal for Inspirational Memoir, 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Grand Prize Honorable Mention and Finalist for the da Vinci Eye Prize, and 2024 Finalist for National Indie Excellence and Story Circle Network’s Women’s Sarton’s Awards. She lives on the island of Martha’s Vineyard with her husband, cats, chickens, and adult children (when they decide to pop home for a visit).

Sue Muller Hacking is an award-winning journalist, freelance writer, and photographer whose work has appeared in multiple publications, including Newsweek, Spa, Writer’s Digest, and Cruising World. Born and raised near Philadelphia, Sue migrated west at nineteen and never looked back. She holds a degree in psychology from Stanford University, and has studied humanistic and transpersonal psychology in graduate school at Sonoma State College. She currently resides in Redmond, Washington, but can more often be found aboard the family sailboat in Southeast Asia. Avid adventurers, Sue and her husband have hiked the trails and driven the back roads of Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas, and they’ve sailed three oceans while homeschooling their two kids. Her 8th book, Heels to Hiking Boots: Exploring the World to Find the Way Home was released in January 2025. She is a certified book coach serving the needs of memoir writers with skill, compassion, humor, and way too many nautical metaphors.

Sue Muller Hacking is an award-winning journalist, freelance writer, and author of 8 books, including the Amazon best selling memoir, Heels to Hiking Boots: Exploring the World to Find the Way Home. Having lived more than 30 years in Asia, South America and Africa, Sue brings to her writing and book coaching a deep respect for diversity and human connectedness. She works with memoir and non-fiction writers encouraging them to go deep, and find meaningful ways to illustrate our common humanity. She coaches with humor. Kindness, and patience. Having sailed most of the way around the world, she is also prone to too many nautical metaphors. (Welcome aboard!)

Susan L. Herrmann has spent thirty years as a therapist and educator guiding people through trauma toward authentic sovereignty. Her holistic approach draws from indigenous wisdom traditions and her cross-cultural work directing service learning programs in Vietnam, where she witnesses daily how communities heal from collective trauma through connection rather than isolation.

Author and teacher, Suzanne Stabile has led 500+ workshops over 35 years, taught at major universities, churches, and hospitals, and co-taught with her mentor, Father Richard Rohr. She is the co-author of The Road Back to You, and the author of The Path Between Us, and The Journey Toward Wholeness. Suzanne hosts a popular podcast, The Enneagram Journey, where she interviews guests and teaches using the lens of the enneagram to help listeners better understand themselves, those they love, and grow compassion in the world.

Zach Beach is a therapist and love coach who has helped thousands of couples and individuals deepen their love and connection. He is the bestselling author of The Seven Lessons of Love and three poetry collections, founder of The Heart Center love school, and host of The Learn to Love Podcast. His newest book, Love and Suffering: A Spiritual Guide for Helpers, Healers, and Humans, guides readers on a spiritual journey to awaken the heart of compassion.