Story to Stage: The Badass Guide to Rising from Pain to Power

She survived a serial killer. Then her own body tried to finish the job.One ordinary Tuesday, Ginine Emily Smith walked up a flight of stairs and collapsed. She flatlined in the ambulance. Every number on her blood work hit zero. And in the space between life and death, she felt something no paycheck, no applause, and no polished performance had ever given her: peace.Then she woke up, and everything had to change.If you are a woman who looks successful on the outside and feels lost on the inside, who has been quietly numbing with work, wine, food, church, busyness, or the exhausting weight of being the strong one, Story to Stage was written for you.Part Memoir. Part Methodology. Zero Fluff.Ginine weaves her own wild story of growing up in a home where addiction and depression lived in every room, losing her father at fifteen, unknowingly befriending the East Side serial killer George Russell at twenty-one, and reinventing her life after fifty, with the proven framework she now teaches to women across the globe.The RISE and ROAR framework shows you how to:Reclaim the parts of yourself you buried just to surviveIntegrate your pain and your power into one unified storyStorytell in a way that leads the room instead of bleeding on itEmpower yourself to stop chasing approval and start building real impactRegulate your nervous system so your body stops sabotaging your messageOwn your voice, your presence, and your brand on any stage you step onto This Book Is for the Woman Who Knows She Was Made for MoreYou do not need another decade of sitting with your feelings. You do not need to be fully healed to begin. You need a roadmap, a witness who has walked the fire, and someone who loves you enough to tell you the truth.Ginine is a keynote speaker, singer-songwriter, three-time internationally bestselling author, and co-host of Rockstar Diaries: Healing Out Loud, featured on over 200 TV shows and podcasts worldwide. She has led in Celebrate Recovery for fifteen years and teaches from lived experience, not theory.Inside You Will DiscoverWhy high achieving is just another form of numbing, and how to stopThe three keynote secrets that turn invisible women into unforgettable speakersHow to rewrite your story before your story rewrites youThe embodiment and voice techniques that make audiences lean inWhy healing and action happen together, not one after the otherHow to build a platform that keeps working when you are not in the roomWhy your next chapter will be the most powerful one yet Pick Up the Pen. Rewrite the Narrative.If you do not own your story, your story will own you. Your past will own you. Other people's opinions will own you. But the moment you decide to rise, everything shifts.You are not too old. You are not too broken. You are not too late.Perfect for readers of Rachel Hollis, Glennon Doyle, Lisa Bevere, and Jen Hatmaker, and for every woman ready to trade invisibility for influence.Scroll up, click Buy Now, and begin your rise today. Read more