About

Multi-hyphenate, Susan Ruth began her career as a performing artist and songwriter in Seattle, Washington, where she garnered multiple performance and writing awards for her albums how to say goodbye and Surfacing to Breathe, and served on the NARAS (Recording Academ/ Grammy) Board of Governors as a Songwriter Governor. 

In 2006, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee, penning songs in multiple genres, including: pop, country, rock, AC and Euro dance for artists such as Reba McEntire, Lonestar, Erdem Kinay, O'Shea and The United, among others. In 2014, she released her fourth studio album All I Ever Wanted Was Everything. Susan’s songs have been featured in film and television.

An accomplished, self-taught abstract painter, Susan is the third generation grand-niece of renowned painter Carl Gutherz, a notable member of the American Symbolist movement. Susan's works are vibrant, intuitive color fields that play with form and texture and are collected around the world.

In July of 2016, Susan founded and began hosting the human interest, purpose-driven, Hey Human podcast. It has since gained momentum and world-wide attention for its open-minded conversations ranging in topics from science, technology, religion, art, economics and politics to humanism, philosophy, gender, and race.

Susan has keynoted, moderated, and paneled on topics of creativity, crowd-funding, empowerment, communication, independent music, story, humanism, adversity, and finding one's voice for; Act Like a Girrrl, New Millennium Music Conference, FEMMUSIC, Union College, Seattle Film Summit, the Tennessee Higher Education Initiative, MusiCares, RADD, Pujols Family Foundation, and Sunrise Children Services.

She recently wrote, directed, and produced her multi-award-winning first short film, "The First," and is in pre-production for her first feature, “Pleasure,” as writer and director. 

She’s working on her debut poetry collection, as well as a collection of essays. 

Susan resides in Los Angeles, California.