Weekly Vlog: Emergency Vlog - Setting the Record Straight
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ต.ค. 2023
- This vlog is not our usual weekly update. It's an emergency vlog, coming out on a Friday. It's been years since I felt the need to shoot a midweek vlog about something significant and dramatic. So, thanks for taking the time to absorb this.
I have to confess that I've made a mistake, and I'm here to make amends. This week has been the book launch week for ON THIS BRIGHT DAY: A Year of Reflections for Lasting Food Freedom, and the community has shown great love for the book. However, something has felt off about this book launch right from the beginning, and it seems the community and I have sensed it. Two days ago, a profound realization came to light in a Lunchtime Live forum.
During Lunchtime Lives, I invited people who purchased five or more copies of the book to join me on Zoom, and only those who could attend live were present-roughly 30 to 35 people, including some from the Bright Line Eating team. On book launch day, we had no special guest; it was just me engaging with the community. During the live session, I noticed JoAnn Campbell-Rice, a member of the Bright Line Eating team who had a significant role in the book, was in attendance. I invited her to share her thoughts and contributions to the book, and our conversation started there.
In that face-to-face conversation, a part of me that had been seeking my attention for some time finally surfaced. I'm sure many of you can relate to this-a part of you tries to convey something, but it remains subconscious. During this discussion, I realized that I had not acknowledged why JoAnn wasn't a co-author of this book. The conversation took an unexpected turn, and JoAnn and I ended up discussing this topic in depth.
What I found was that I had been avoiding confronting my feelings about the process of writing and publishing books, as it had been a painful experience. Specifically, I had concealed the fact that I received substantial professional help in writing the Bright Line Eating books. During the recent Lunchtime Live, my special guest was Nicola Kraus, who has been helping me write these books. Nicola is a professional writer and writing coach who co-authored The Nanny Diaries and several other books.
The journey began when I signed on with my agent to write Bright Line Eating, and my agent recommended that I work with Nicola. Initially, I resisted, thinking I could write the book on my own. However, as my life became increasingly hectic with the explosive growth of the Bright Line Eating community, I eventually realized that I couldn't write the first draft of the book myself. Nicola graciously offered to help, and we mapped out the book together.
She transcribed my words from the Boot Camp, from Webinars, and from voice memos I sent her and worked tirelessly for months to write the first draft of the book. Afterward, I went on a writer's retreat to refine and improve the manuscript. This process continued with subsequent books, where Nicola played a significant role in drafting, editing, and co-writing.
In contrast, JoAnn Campbell-Rice contributed to On This Bright Day by initially creating a comprehensive outline for the book. Then, her involvement ended, and I took over the project, shaping and editing the content using voice memos and written notes.
The heart of the issue was that I failed to recognize the substantial difference between JoAnn's and Nicola's contributions. While Nicola is a skilled writer, JoAnn is an experienced subject matter expert with a background in addiction recovery and spiritual counseling. She had poured her soul into creating the initial content for the book.
With this realization, I want to correct my mistake and acknowledge JoAnn as a co-author of this book, On This Bright Day. I've reached out to my publisher, Hay House, to explore the possibility of updating the authorship, but this process may take time, and I can't change the authorship for the already printed books. However, I can modify the acknowledgments for all subsequent printings to reflect the reality of JoAnn's contributions.
JoAnn and I talked at length an hour ago. She expressed that she’s very happy right now and grateful for this turn of events. She has been sitting with the question, “Why didn’t I ask? Why didn’t I raise the topic myself?” She looks back at her life and sees a string of events where she didn’t ask for what she wanted. She notices that, in many cases, she’s even stopped asking herself what she wants, because it’s less painful to not even notice.
I mentioned that it’s very hard to speak up into power. The power differential (boss/employee) between us will create a very powerful silencing force that can be hard to overcome. My role in that situation needs to be to look EXTRA closely for anything I might be missing, knowing that others may not speak up... [ Click here for full summary: ble.life/CVc0ss ]
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As a professional writer (journalist) I really hope JoAnn is appropriately compensated and acknowledged
I listened to the entire vlog but no mention of compensation to your co-author. Good grief. :(
You ask what else can you do? You can split the proceeds with her..that’s part of ammends
Hay House is capable of making extremely rapid changes. When Doreen Virtue converted to Christianity and decided she did not want her name authored on any of the products, Co-author Radleigh Valentine's name started appearing solo on the products. It happened almost overnight.
So my thought is that when you need to print more books, you need to reprint the cover with Joann a co author. You also need to compensate her financially
Yes!!!!
I agree!
Yes!
I'm sure it's a great comfort to JCR that you seemingly only teared up over not being able to breastfeed your babies while making a supposed "amends" to her about "inadvertently" (seems like too much time has passed to still consider this "inadvertent") presenting her work as your own. A proper amends is a sincere apology (leave the “parts” babble out of it) and doing what is necessary to make things right (like acknowledgment and compensation), not making excuses and drawing bizarre and OTT dramatic analogies to paint yourself-again-as a victim (you weren’t able to breastfeed your babies, seriously?!). JCR, as always, is a gracious class act and whatever you are paying her salary-wise is not nearly enough. Listening to her perspective on recovery on the accountability/coaching calls is always time well spent. Other than Dr. Joy, she is the only other true and *professional* coach that BLE has. Unlike the other 2, she doesn't constantly interrupt the callers to interject her personal stories and she doesn't waste time reading and participating with the chat thread (despite announcing that hands are up) or dispensing scientifically disproven nutritional advice. Until the breastfeeding segue, the amends sounded sincere enough, I suppose. Now how about JCR's share of the royalties and a second edition of the book with the appropriate credit given? Yes, I understand that bookwriting is rarely a solo act, but tasking an employee with writing material for your book and not giving any credit or compensation for the above-and-beyond work is just plain demoralizing to that employee. I do hope you will strive to do better moving forward. FWIW, I returned my copy of the book after I saw this latest dramatic episode, but I will consider purchasing another copy when I see JCR given the credit that is due. Or just wait to buy HER book.
I'm glad that you recognized Joanne's contribution, even if after the book was published-- and that you're looking to remedy it. I hope she not only gets credit going forward but also a percentage of the profits. That's deserved as much as being a co-author. I've worked for bosses who didn't appreciate their team's contribution to their success and it's demoralizing. The end result is that the leader usually ends up having to replace good people again and again and again...
YES!!! Joann Campbell Rice needs to be acknowledged! She has been a brillant part of the team for a long time! So grateful you see her contribution in the book and to BLE. From day one when she was introducted she has been a joy and a blessing to this community. Her ability to create, present and support this community is a gift. When she spoke to us in 2019 at Phoenix's Brightest in 2019 I knew she has several books in her. Have you been able to listien to what she shared with us that day? She is a hidden gem , let's let her shine. Thank you!
This was so hard to watch, not from the perspective of Susan not sharing JoAnn’s massive contribution to this book, but from JoAnn not feeling empowered to speak up to her boss. Well done for getting this out into the open Susan. BLE is Susan’s baby as the founder of this movement, but the people that work for her are the ones that keep the wheels spinning and this movement needs to be bigger than one person, it should be all about all of us.
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This is so disappointing and self serving. Susan should have known better. Joanne must be added as a co-author and should share in the royalties. I'm a Bright Lifer and BLE member since 2019. I bought the book and am enjoying it, but this leaves a terrible taste in my mouth.
Knowingly appropriating someone's work then admitting it after it's too late to either compensate them or give them any meaningful credit doesn't show integrity - it shows calculation.
I trust Susan's perspective on this. We know what we know when we know it. She did not even have to bring this up or acknowledge this but she is a truth teller. Trust the process and that Joanne will be compensated. Trust Joanne's story in this as well. She is at peace.
If someone is trained as an academic and they don't know the difference between their own work and publishing someone else's under their own name, they either weren't trained very well and aren't very good at their job or they aren't being completely honest.
I agree 100 percent!!!!!!! There are just so many holes and questions about things SPT has said about stuff In the past.
This isn’t an academic work, it’s an inspirational self help post it. Do you honestly think these books are being written by one person looking out over the bay and sipping coffee in a modest yet stylish one bedroom studio? Please.
^ Not the point and totally changing the subject. The"author" of Bright Line Eating bases her credibility on her academic credentials yet she produces no original work of her own, claims credit for work others produce, and even goes so far as to say that "no one writes their own books" (which is hilarious). Give me a break.
Observations (& Just a Little Commentary):
1. SPT spent about 60 seconds praising & affirming Joanne.
2. SPT also affirmed herself:
"I'm a Great Writer!"
After the professional writer wrote entire first book draft, SPT went on a writer's retreat for 3 weeks & " spent sleepless nights & round- the- clock work" [ on just her story]. " I was surprised how good it was!"
SPT gave the format to JCR for the book: Title, Quote, Blurb & Mantra. That is the format for many/ most daily readers. SPT said " I envisioned that!! I gave JCR ALL OF THAT as structure!
After JCR wrote the entire draft/ book, SPT "I pored over it with a fine tooth comb!"
SPT: "I will be gentle with myself that has been grieving my book. 😢"
This Podcast Host stated at the outset "I'm here to make amends."
~ Amends to JCR approximately 60 seconds.
~Reasons for not giving JCR credit & Expressions of Compassion for Self:
~"I shined a light on the recesses of my mind"
~"I have been hiding from myself...painful for ME"
~"Super painful & emotional for ME"
~" So painful to realize I couldn't write 1st draft"
"I had an Exile part [that didnt know I didnt write the book] & then a Protector part
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~"I have a wounded, tender, little part of me & a fierce, protector part"
~My protector part so FIERCE I didnt see it unti this week! This is all news to me, Folks!!"
God bless my sweet, protective parts!!"
~"I've done a lot of crying"
~Re: the making amends part: "I've been working as hard & as fast as I can!!"
~"And I will be gentle with myself that has been grieving my book 😢"
~[See others' comments on the disappointing & sad breastfeeding experiences, as part of this amends. (?)
Most of this long Comment has been statements of facts & direct quotes. Here, however, is some brief commentary & a few Closing Thoughts:
1. Something trying to break through, something hidden, deep in the recesses, an unknown Part: an Exile, a Wounded One, a Fierce Protector?
A Conscience?
2. I am making no judgment on SPT's honesty or character. Some here have suggested that her failure to give JCR credit ( 4 years later) was intentional & manipulative. I cannot see into anyone's heart & cannot judge anyone, even myself.
However, if everything shared here is honest & true, what an amazing lack of self-awareness. 😮😢
(Ph.D. notwithstanding).
3. I am grateful for SPT, both her personal recovery & the academic information she has shared for the past 8+ years.
4. I do not think that Joanne Campbell Rice is a Co- Author. I think that she is the Primary Author. I'm pretty sure of it! 😊
5. I have asked God (& will continue to ask Him) to keep on blessing SPT personally & professionally & all her Loved Ones. ❤
SPT was the editor. Credit Joanne Campbell rice as the author and you get credit as the editor
The part about wanting to breastfeed a child as justification for getting all the credit for other people's work was genius! The wink at the end of the vlog was hilarious. Nice work!
If you’re being sarcastic I agree wholeheartedly!!!
@@stephanieleboeuf6626 I am indeed!
Yes, the grief over breastfeeding-not screwing over a friend and colleague-is what she cried about in this so-called amends. This vlog is ridiculous, and insulting to JCR.
Justification is not contrition
Oh JoAnn, You are so gracious!!
You know…. I wouldn’t care if you had been up front and honest about this. You have said in vlogs and other things that you were up early in the morning and writing the book and blah blah blah. I really feel like what else have you lied about?!! I think it’s sad. Why lie? What else have you lied about?!
Publicly admitting ones’s mistakes and taking accountability for them is the highest level of humility and piety. Well done Susan and maybe now your broken part can heal. You’ve grown before our eyes in so many ways since 2016. 🙏🏻💕☺️
O Susan…what’s going on…this vlog doesn’t sit well with me…
Yes acknowledging your oversight so vulnerably...but also to financially reward?
Susan, I cannot imagine the enormous amount of stress you are under even considering the tremendous amount of support you have. I was nodding my head when JoAnn said the pressure was taken off since she wasn't on the cover. You will be gentle with yourself during this grieving process. I know that if I were in your shoes, making these amends, being vulnerable to share this deeply personal information with everyone AND being gentle with myself, would be the only way I could truly survive without substances, and I'm so grateful that you role model that for me. And THANK YOU to all the people who are a part of Susan's village. I know it takes a village. Being in recovery is remedial adulthood. We need our village. Thank you to all those who contribute! You all are such gifts!
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Wow there seems to be a LOT of drama around the release of this book for some reason. As an author myself, I have no idea how such a thing could have occurred, despite the explanation, and can only think this is the public view of the iceberg. I love BLE for its solid program and huge support network, but have no desire to engage in such drama when we don't know the whole picture.
I agree and it's very disappointing.
I love Susan and her program. I’ve been around since 2016. Back then, each Boot Camper received a beautiful handwritten card from Susan. But at some point, Susan admitted that it was someone else who wrote them. This kind of feels like that to me.
So… is Joann going on book tour with you and can you do the interviews without “being the boss” and show up as a true and equal co-author?
I would expect that JoAnn will receive half of the proceeds of this book that she co-wrote. I also would like everyone who bought the book to get a sticker/some kind of recognition to add to our books to acknowledge that JoANN Campbell-Rice is a co-author of this book. I believe there is a lot we/the public do not know about the behind the scenes issues leading up to this vlog, however, at the very least your EGO got in the way of acknowledging JoAnn PRIOR to publishing this book. I also suspect that people in the community were talking and you knew you'd eventually have to deal with this issue so you jumped in front and shot this vlog.
I have to say that I agree with this. I wonder what people that were on the live call think.
That is a good question! It is sometimes hard for some people to call out what they believe to be true, especially if they work at the company, or in this case they are all attached to the community, many deeply connected. Being nice is a value many hold regardless of the circumstances. Susan knew how much work JoAnn put into this book. JoAnn is an amazing human and I hope from now on she speaks up for herself! My comment got immediately buried. It's still there but buried.........@@auntsue5718
Awesome, powerful, perceptive & loving! Guessing you probably work a good program! ❤ And have a low tolerance for bullshit, as I do. TY!
I adore you Susan, but I do have to say this vlog IS all about YOU and inappropriate to post in such backstory detail for your BLE audience. That’s what therapy is for. All the best to you.
Susan - I rarely comment, here or in the FB community, but thank you for being so so vulnerable and owning up to your mistakes, and most of all, for giving credit where credit is due. Few people would be brave enough to go out on this ledge of amends, inviting more criticism, dealing with next steps with the publisher, but it was the right thing to do in so many ways. Congrats to you on this lovely book (already have my copy!) and CONGRATS JOANN, co-author and BLE coach-extraordinaire, for this achievement. -Rox
😄😍🥰 Thank you for commenting!
Bravo SPT to recognize this about yourself and to share it here. I have to say I am relieved to know you pretty much edited the book. You are so talented in many areas, but this book topic is not your wheel house. I wasn't really buying you have this depth and calm to share like this in a daily reader. When I saw the content, I was really surprised at the quality. So this makes sense that a mature giving, developed,kind, non self absorbed,caring, vested healing spirit like Joanne is really the author, and you are the co-author. Thanks for telling the truth here, I can imagine how challenging this is. Integrity, as it turns out, is more than splitting blueberries when weighing ones food,eh? Yep, much more. Makes sense why you didn't want to market it and had so many issues. I think it's great you are making this public amends and plan to feature her on the next edition. These are all words. How about some actions now and give her financial compensation of a co-author now. That's something that can happen now. Pay her NOW to make amends. You'll feel better and so will all of your parts, IMHO.
Wow, this is how pubic accountability should be done! Thank you, Susan and Joanne Campbell Rice for setting an example for awareness, integrity, accountability given freely, and an attempt to make things right. The publishing industry may re-examine how they operate because of this conversation and the ripples from it. Much love to both of you! ♥
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I don't usually write comments but so appreciative of how I heard Joannes response.... "yes of course I appreciate acknowledgment but I have a gift of writing and I am just the conduit. I am privileged to be able to be able to do that." If we all offered our gifts without greed, or need for self confirmation our world would be a better place. I appreciate Susans transparency as well
I hope you are also including JoAnn on the financial benefits of being a co-author. I appreciate you coming forward and how you are currently handling this. Although the shift at the end to your losses seemed an odd way of bringing focus to yourself as victim…keep on living and learning and sharing. I’m excited to see where your growth leads as you continue this mission.
I am surprised to watch this, I have been a fan of yours since the very early days & I know from the very beginning the objective was to write the book way before any of the rest of BLE happened...The baby stories sounded like a distraction, not sure what that was all about?
How about having JoAnn do a book tour on her own? You are her boss, there was only so much she could say on camera... Ask her off camera how you can make it up to her? Well done on admitting your mistake, now how about privately making it right 🙏
We’ve been speaking privately every day, sometimes more than once. For sure.
JoAnn you are a beautiful shining Light. ❤
I hope the recognition includes financial compensation as well. Kudos to you for publicly rewarding all the unrecognized work JoAnn did on the book. On page 181, in the last few sentences, starting with; "What qualities do you admire or respect in a person?", seems to stand out as a question that is easy to answer today. I think we all respect SPT today.
Pay her. A bunch.
Bright Line Eating is not for me, but I follow you, Susan, for your transparency. Facing oneself is hard and being public is even harder. What wasn’t said, but was implied, is that you wanted people mislead. You wanted us to think you’d authored these books. That’s obviously out ethics and not just an oversight, but it reveals such a wound in you. You still don’t feel worthy, but you are. As a writer, professor, and mother I wrote my own books and got a rave from the NYT, but I am not a celebrity. I can’t get later books published. Your celebrity status makes your name the most important. The goal is to sell books. I hate that talent takes aback seat to money. Not your fault. It just is. I thought JoAnn was still hiding resentment from herself. I hope she enjoys half the profits. Write your own memoir. Do you really want to join the ranks of the super privileged? If you can’t, enough of your story is already out there. Lastly, thank you for sharing. You’re a beautiful woman inside and out. The narcissism is a killer. You are so fortunate that you can make things right. My husband died suddenly, and I am suddenly aware of so many of my own shortcomings with no remedy. You can change things and are. Brava.😊
Very disappointing. This was no inadvertent overlook.
Respect to you for this. I underdstand the dificulties in changing credits so late in the day. However i feel that a rebased calculation of royalties due would easily achievable with mutual agreement with the co author using direct accounting from your publisher. This could be without changing the public credits on the understanding 3rd print tund would be changed.
I am a brand new member and so far very encouraged by the straightforward science and approach. However, this is far too dramatic for me at this stage. I think please keep this type of thing with your business partners and staff. I'm feeling strong on concept, but skittish on marketing blitz drama.
This.
… and when we are wrong promptly admitting it. Thank you for sharing this amends with the BLE community.
I am enjoying and benefiting from the daily readings in OTBD. I will now be able to visualize both authors each morning as I read.
We love this! 🧡🧡
When I heard this, I IMMEDIATELY opened my book to the very front, and in red ink, I wrote that it is coauthored by Joanne Campbell Rice, and now when I open it, I'm reminded of how AWESONE BOTH ladies are in putting this book together!
I LOVE THIS BOOK AND TREASURE HAVING IT! THANK YOU BOTH for bringing it to us!❣️👌💖
Big virtual hugs to JoAnn. A difficult situation but important lesson. You are remarkable. You are adored by so many for your strength, wisdom, and ability to share your amazingness to help others. Inspiring.
Susan, a very long time ago a friend from AA told me I was just AFHB and remembering that would be very helpful in my sober journey. I have and it has been. I'm just Another Fallible Human Being. As are you. As are we all. Blessings to you and to JoAnn.
My mind and heart are so full of love for you, Susan, and you, JoAnn. The courage that both of you have shared with us in the VLOG, and the process leading up to it, is so......I can't find the words! Inspiring, remarkable, raw, honest, courageous, touching. You have demonstrated the powerful process of discovering an inner truth and then making a profound amends--together. I am just God-smacked. You both have just verified the authenticity of the Bright Line Eating movement. It is so much more than a tool for weight or addiction management; it is truly a powerful process of emotional, mental, and spiritual growth that can actually happen when we are not consumed by our obsession with food and debilitating shame. I am so grateful for both of you. And thank you, both, for this wonderful book!
Thank you 🥰🥰
Curious what inner truth you saw discovered? And what aspect of the amends made it seem profound to you?
Hi Marty, I'm sorry it has taken me a while to repond to your questions. The 'inner truth" I saw was Susan's discovery of the wounded parts of herself and her history that blinded her from being able to see clearly her mistake in not recognizing and crediting JoAnn for her work. The fact that Susan was willing to go on video and apologize to JoAnn and her entire community seems to be to be a profound act of courage. I'm sure Susan knew she would draw more ire and criticism from many people by making this inner struggle for her so public--and reading the responses to this VLOG confirms this. We are so very hard on each other. Living a life of integrity is not easy, and at least I see Susan trying to model a way to take responsibility for one's mistakes and make amends. Like many others, I hope JoAnn is recognized and compensated for her work. That will be the real test of Susan's authenticity. In the meantime, I choose to practice compassion and forgiveness.@@martyduke3139
❤❤Joann is a true shining beacon of grace and humility, and I love her and this book even more now! Susan, I was sad to hear your pain around not writing the BLE books completely on your own, because what you and the team have created is a gift to the world. It was funny you brought up breastfeeding because while you were describing your disappointment around the first drafts not being created how you expected they would, it reminded me so much of women being mad at how they birthed or created their child and sometimes losing site of the beautiful family in front of them. Sending you and Joann so much love! Thank you for this beautiful vlog and Susan thank you for your example of vulnerability and authenticity.
World leaders should have conversations in this manner.
There is so much to take away in this vlog from both of your sides. My deepest respect and thanks for the confessions and showing how tragic but transformative processes between humans can be solved. I love you both so much in this moment. Thank you!
We appreciate you 🧡🧡
TY for your public acknowledgment. So beautiful to get to know this second author to your book !
Susan, I’ve always loved and your authenticity and integrity, and this vlog is a living embodiment of that. You are a shining example of what it how to be a loving, aware, authentic human being. Thank you so much for being you.
Thank you, Susan, for this incredible example of humanity and integrity. So glad JoAnn joined the zoom with her beautiful smile, honesty and wisdom. Thank you both for being powerful people who practice what they preach. I am so grateful to be a part of the BLE community of learners!❤️💪🌟❤️
Thank you Susan for making it right and making amends! You are an amazing role model. I hadn't bought the book yet and this blog has made me want to buy it today. What an incredible example of integrity and accountability. It was so nice to "meet" JoAnn. What a lovely human being.
Wow - so powerful. I wasn't planning on buying this book (have so many things going on), but now I HAVE to. Just purchased a hardcover. Transparency and honesty is how humanity and life can move forward. Respect.
🙏Much love.
Wow. Just Wow. Joanne, you are amazing. You shine Bright !!!! I agree with Susan. You should definitely have been Co-Author!
Absolutely beautiful message! Thank you for allowing us to be a part of this very humbling experience! I appreciate your integrity, your bravery, your authenticity and your humility! This was inspiring in more ways than you probably realize! Thank you! Thank you both! ❤
Thank you! 🤩🤩
When I read the introduction to the book, the thought crossed my mind that it was strange JoAnn wasn’t a co-author. Now I understand what happened. I’m so glad you were able to shoot this vlog and make the amends needed for peace with JoAnn and in yourself. The book is wonderful and you have both done an amazing work!!!!
We're so glad you are enjoying it 🥰🥰
I am the granddaughter of an antiques dealer. I have in my possession, a first edition copy from an author who had printed, a modified full title page pasted on to the existing page. It makes the book more unique, and as a result, more financially valuable.
I would be willing to paste pages into books to make these books even more special!😃
What an interesting idea! Now that’s something I hadn’t considered. Not the cover but the internal title page-pasting an alternate title page before shipping out to distribution?
@@susanpeircethompsonph.d.9125 Yes!
Kudos to both of you. This has been therapeutic for me, a complete outsider. I’m sure it’s secondary but important: will author royalties be shared in some form? Take care.
This point bubbled up for me as well
Susan, what a honorable confession from you! I'm so glad you are open and vulnerable and honest! What integrity! Thank you for quickly taking the "high road" and acknowledging Joanne Campbell Rice for her contributions to your book. It takes a humble, sensitive person to be able to publicly admit that. I just joined Boot Camp last week, so I'm new to all of this - but I love you and your open heart - about everything. I'm proud to be a part of the BLE community. Thanks for making this all available!
Wow, thank you. I recently opted out of my BLE membership after 1.5yrs. After reaching my goal I seemed to struggle and Susan did say in a zoom call that I had not done my homework (maintenance studies). Bad habits had snuck in so I joined the 2nd bootcamp. Still I struggled also with delving into accountability and the psycology of it all. Now I see the importance of parts work which I avoided due to YEARS of therapy for specific reasons. The result is a good life so I felt no need for more deep diving.. It seemed pointless being a member if I could not follow the plan. Perhaps signing on for a course with Everet Consodine would help me stay on track now. I am still no flour, no sugar at home and as best I can when out.
Ps Joanne was on my 1st group as mentor until the system changed and I missed her.
Awww, with this "emergency vlog," what a wonderful acknowledgement of JoAnn Campbell-Rice as the HUGE creative talent behind every single day to read, in ON THIS BRIGHT DAY! I was not able to be on any of the Lunch Lives except for Thursday, when you cried your heart out, with Nicola Kraus also sitting there in the Zoom box next to you, at lunch with all of us; it truly was so special to be on the Zoom that day! Dr. Susan, you have been able to surround yourself with some wonderful helpers, and all of us in the BLE movement are blessed by you and ALL of them! Having the recording, in this vlog, of the Zoom meeting you and JoAnn had, was really precious, as well. Thank you for your honesty, genuineness and tender heart. Much love & many hugs & kisses!💖
Everything is as it should be. Wonderful classroom so we can all learn. Thank you for your vulnerability. All things are lessons God would have me learn. Love it. The past is gone. Let's celebrate the now 🎉🎉🎉
A fiscal gesture is always honoring to the person. But aside from all of that, I hope you don't let this experience still your joy because there is treasure in the darkness!
To witness this first hand this week has done nothing more than love you, JoAnn and this beautiful movement even more ❤ such beautiful amends. You show us daily how to live this human life thing in which we are all involved with Grace, hope and love ❤️
Oh Susan! ❤ I have only seen the first half of this vlog yet, but I know exactly what is to come. I know, because I eas there. This had to come.
I was in awe at that tea party - listening to the conversation, watching the tears. The few days that has passed since I have so much hoped you would say something about it. Before maybe anybody else would. I have struggeled watching all the book advertisements these last few days, because it did not feel right. You know this feeling.
So I was hoping for something like this - not thinking it would actually come. And there you are. Just like that. So brave! I feel honoured to have sat with JoAnn and you in the tea party. And today - just now Susan - I gained so much respect for you and for BLE that I might just be able to come all the way in and sit all the way down. Such a beautiful example of doing mistakes and admitting them to the world. Of being human. Thanks! 💚❤️💚
I will now watch this whole vlog. Love and respect from Tina Avantis, psychologist, Norway
Tina, thank you so much for taking the time to comment. 🧡
I too was there during the first moments this all came to light. I was crying with such beautiful tears of gratitude for the care, vulnerability, willingness to speak hard things and find correction and restoration. Isn’t this how we should all live. My respect for both of you was already off the charts, now it’s even more so. Thank you. Thank you both!
I appreciate your transparency.
Good teachers and leaders are humble and bury their ego for the greater good on every endeavor.
Perhaps you could create a bookplate that we could print and add to our book?
I LOVE THIS IDEA!!!
I have actually been waiting for this to happen ... I am so happy for both of you that it has - and grateful for your sharing.
Really?
Did you know JoAnn four years ago when she was creating the spreadsheet she contributed to the book? Is that why?
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Susan and JoAnn, this is what public accountability, reconciliation, and healing really can look like. I am left breathless from this vlog and full of hope that models of mistakes and reparations such as this are in the world - we need them.
Susan, thank you for your vulnerability and honesty.
JoAnn, thank you for showing us what grace when wronged can look like. I was so touched by the way you chose to look for opportunities for growth and gratitude: never questioning timing; gently examining your pattern of not speaking up for yourself (me too); and even acknowledging some of the ways this was a gift to you. That's such strength of character.
Lastly, thank you Susan, for opening up a public conversation about "just the way books are written these days." I am a writer that turned ghost writer as the publishing industry has become ever-more risk adverse, looking only to publish big names to ensure sales. I understand this tough moment in publishing, but I also see a trail of broken-hearted creatives strewn all over the path to publication. I didn't even realize the extent I was grieving my own creative "ghosting" as I watched book after book that I wrote or co-wrote take off and soar in the world, sometimes going to best-seller status while someone else took all the credit. I closed my business a few months ago after my heart just couldn't take it any more. Yes, I was a "hired gun" and paid for what I did. Yes, I felt grief. I don't know any other industry that takes people's creative work and erases them so completely as in the world of writing. Just because it has become normalized doesn't make it right. Susan, I never saw the broken heart of the person who couldn't write their own book before and that also touched me deeply. Something is healing in me too from this vlog. Thank you, Susan and JoAnn.
Oh, the two of you. This really touched my heart. Thank you for being so vulnerable with each other and all of us. Such courage!
Thank you for sharing. We're imperfect human beings.
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How real! How painful and joyful! Such a gift to watch this series of confessions and reconciliations to yourselves and one another.
Thank you so much. This is one of the best Vlogs ever, even though painful. Yes, some good will come out of this - it already has for me.
This was so healing to watch. Thank you both. The struggle with not speaking up and asking for what I want really hit home for me. And Dr. Susan, seeing your graceful apology brought me to tears. Thank you both for being so vulnerable and sharing this.
So brave and so humble. Thanks ladies for showing how recovery looks.
While I love the BLE food program structure I am not a fan of the perpetual marketing of the program and drama that comes up, this is not the first apology I’ve heard. I’m sure my comment will be deleted but what upsets me most is that the original boot camp was touted as “the solution” yet it’s been a never ending marketing campaign with the original book, 14 day challenge, bootcamp, bright lifers, bootcamp 1 access then lost if not a monthly paying member. Cookbook, Rezoom book, NEW bootcamp launch, now this book and this drama. Cha-Ching $ and disingenuous and only one persons net worth is continuously growing exponentially from it all, SPT, at the expense of people suffering with food addiction.
Well said!!
Powerful stuff❤
100% agree. It's like a life time membership into the material part of the ... I'm not really sure what to call it bc program doesn't really fit bc it never ends.
Your are a special lady for coming forward. It makes me want to read your and Joanne's book even more! Thank you for sharing your honesty to the world. I have the upmost trust and respect for you. Love to you and Joanne!
I received my book and have been loving it. Thank you Susan & JoAnn. Simmering thoughts coming up and exploring. Thank you so much for sharing! 💛. I am adding her to the book as a co-author
I would only assume that there are many fingers in the pie so to speak when it comes to writing a book. You are amazing for acknowledging those who assisted you in writing your fabulous books. I applaud you and your team for all that you have done for your community. Sending loving and healing thoughts to you all.
Thank you SUSAN! I immediately took my book and wrote on the inside front cover that she is a co-author with you on this book.,🥰👌❣️. So, every time I copen it now, I'll be able to see it!💕👌❣️
I am in awe of both of you for your honesty, vulnerability, and willingness to share this. What a beautiful example of grace. Thank you.
Susan, I am so grateful you allowed your book to come out into the world as it did. I may not have found BLE otherwise. Thank you for allowing it to be "not the perfect" situation so that it could find me when it did.
The book is fabulous and I'm not a huge lover of daily readers. I've read my start day, my birthday, this past week, and a bunch of other meaning full days to me and they have all been fantastic. I love, love, love the book! Thank you both so much!!!! Thank you, Susan, for the transparency. JoAnn, I know you have another book in you too and I can't wait to read it when that happens. I love you both so much. It has been fantastic to be part of those Lunchtime lives.
I like the Campbell rice woman.she channel well.and I reconize you Susan as participating in staying present to humility. This is the real collaboration.
This was beautiful, both sides, together. Great modeling. Thank you so much for this example! Love you, Susan!♥ Honored to meet you, JoAnn!♥
Much more interested in the book now I know more people are involved🙂
Yes almost too convenient- how genius to come out with this video right after launch. Very scammy.
Well, this is going in my five year diary for sure!!! A rare jewel of what reconciliation should look like.
Thank you SPT and Joanne Campbell Rice for your courage and honesty! No mention was made (except in the comments) about compensation and the possibility of an insert in the books to recognize Joanne as the co-author. Beautiful and inspiring amends. Much love and many blessings to you both and your team. 💗🤗🕊️💗
As I said to you in your book launch Facebook live this week, you are so very real and so very very relatable. This vlog just put the”!” to that statement. We are all human and make mistakes. One of the hardest things for me to have been told is that you have to delegate things, and we cannot take the weight of the world on our own shoulders. And you have done just that. It is definitely okay to ask for help. You did not do anything with malice or intention, and was simply an oversight but you are making amends and working to make it right which is the most important part. You did what you had to do to get your message to the masses and you have helped thousands and thousands of people which could not have been done on your own. Including me! For that I am forever grateful. I am thankful for everyone who has helped you write your books, including yourself. I can also relate to your childbearing stories as I myself had two Emergency C-sections and not great pregnancies and not how I pictured motherhood to go at all before they were even born. But looking at my now grown young men of 25 and 26, everything went as it should have, and everything is perfect, as it is with yours. Again, Dr. Susan, thank you so very much for all you have done and continue to do and will do. Thank you for all those who have helped you along this journey and will continue to help you. We love you and appreciate you immensely! Just remember to give yourself grace.
I am so impressed by Susan and JoAnn's example of how to deal respectfully, kindly, and truthfully when a mistake has occurred. A week or so ago I wondered why JoAnn didn't have more credit for the book when I heard the role she played in the book's beginning. I hope that people will use this video as an example of how everyone should deal with other people when a mistake has been made. Our world would be a better place if politicians and those in powerful situations responded in a way like Susan and JoAnn have.
Kudos for sharing this information with us. But I'm not horrified by this confession at all. You are describing the process of working with a ghostwriter, which is a longstanding tradition in publishing. Perhaps you could have added "with [name of ghostwriter]" on the cover, but not all authors do this. Ghostwriters don't expect recognition, and so even a mention in the Acknowledgments is a bit of a thrill. (And you did do this.) You feel you should have let the BLE community in on this secret, so you have to deal with that inner turmoil, but if anyone condemns you for it, they simply don't understand what it takes to create a book.
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Right on, Susan! You are a beautiful example of how a tenth step should be done: thoroughly and promptly. I admire your courage to change the things you can. I love JoAnne Campbell Rice, and it's funny, but I could hear her voice as I read some of the entries from On This Bright Day. But you are an awesome leader. And I love you.
With a next printing, I would be happy to purchase another copy. Thank you for this vlog. Kathy
Well done!😊
Thank you, Susan. We have so few public examples of rethinking how credit is due, how credit is acknowledged, and how to banish the ever present archetype in our society of the lone genius, the celebrity, the exceptional individual. I so, so appreciate you tackling an archetype that you also embody, (the exceptional individual/celebrity) so that your leadership comes to embrace and acknowledge the contributions of all. I am reminded of the stories that have come out over the past few years of Nobel prize -winning male scientists, whose wives and female lab partners had significant contributions to the work that won the scientist a Nobel prize, and that very rarely were those women acknowledged in a timely fashion. So again, kudos to you, Susan, and to your own path and sobriety for noticing and speaking up publicly. Well done. My last comment is that , a word you never mentioned, Susan, was shame, and perhaps there isn’t shame, and perhaps you chose not to use that word, but I was surprised-I kept expecting you to mention the word, ashamed, (even in regards to your very young parts) and I was surprised I didn’t hear it. Not a judgment, just a surprise. You know your truth, and you are speaking it. But boy do we live in a culture that punishes people by public shaming them, not the least of which are academics, and, the idea of women in science, in general not coming up to standard. Hence my surprise at not hearing the word. But again, praise to both of you. This is such an important topic for so many people in their sobriety journey, in their work journey, and in our culture of individual achievement.
Yes, there was shame. Good catch. Yes. Shame from the very first book that I didn’t write it all myself. A part of me felt deeply ashamed of that and so I hid it.
You be co-authors on the second edition.
🙏🏼💓🙏🏼 just beautiful, sweet lady!! this emergency vlog is all the reasons i love you - all in God’s time!!
your vulnerability gives me permission to stretch myself, check myself and be brave. i need this gift you’ve given me in so many areas of my life. your heart & soul are so beautiful- blessing so many - i hope you come out the other side feeling great & i know you’re learning lessons all along the way… i have an idea - print up a sticker- maybe 🩷 shaped? and put Joann’s name & co-authorship & send to us or make it printable or a bookmark with that info!
I AM SO SO SORRY TO SEE YOU UPSET & SO glad you’re promising to be gentle - YOU’RE AMAZING!! sending you light and love and the deepest admiration - to you & Joann!
Beautiful Step 9!
I think a lot of books are written by multiple authors these days. Maybe with lead authors and co authors or contributing authors too. That being said, you followed your conscience 💛.
Another thought - a lawyer with expertise in intellectual property could be a good person to have a chat with about what may be fair in this instance? Even get a couple of opinions from a few different lawyers and hopefully whatever decision you come to will sit right with you and JoAnne.
Speaking to a lawyer could be good to take the guess work out of what is fair, so not over compensating or under compensating.
Well done Susan! Beautiful public apology❤ the book is fantastic JoAnn and Susan!
You provide great content and help so many people. Most non fiction books are anonymously co-authored. So none of this is surprising.
Hope you can share this with your kids
This confirms what I’ve always felt about SPT. She is not an authentic person.