Selfless Help

About this episode

Susan Titus discusses her journey from corporate America to becoming a full-time entertainer and founding a nonprofit focused on empowering young women.

There's a kind of person you've probably met before. Someone who, no matter what their job title says, is really just taking care of people.  That's what they do. That's what they've always done. That’s who they are. The title just took a while to catch up. Susan Titus is a Lafayette-area entertainer, nonprofit founder, and — by her own description — a woman whose life has had more than a few unexpected turns. She grew up in Franklin, Louisiana, earned a theater degree and at one point had designs on medical school. Instead, she spent fifteen years in retail management and corporate America before walking away in 2015 to become a full-time face painter and balloon artist. Under the name Susie Q, Susan performs at roughly a hundred events a year — from birthday parties to corporate fairs to weddings — across Louisiana and as far east as Florida. But Susan's second act may be her most important one. Growing up in Franklin, she watched too many girls become mothers at too young an age. Her family even took in a pregnant teenager who had been kicked out of her house. That never left her. So in 2022 she founded The Confidence Campaign, a nonprofit…

People in this episode

Guest: Susan Titus

Topics covered

• nonprofit
• entertainment
• education
• women's empowerment

Keywords

• face painting
• balloon artist
• The Confidence Campaign
• hygiene education

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Susie Q face painting

Places: Lafayette, Franklin, Louisiana, America, Florida, Georgia, England

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