Meet Your Guide

Sue Kerver is a passionate advocate for service, storytelling, and empowering women to find their voices and live with confidence and purpose. A Montana fly-fishing guide, trauma-informed coach (with International Coaching Federation accreditation in process), Coast Guard-licensed Captain, and outdoor enthusiast, she draws on her professional experience and personal journey to help women feel more confident in the outdoors and beyond.

Sue is the author of The Starfish Chronicles, a memoir rooted in reclaiming voice, reconnecting with purpose, and finding a way forward through life's transitions. She is also the founder of The Sondering Starfish, a coaching and consulting business that helps people explore, excavate, and tell their stories. In addition, she founded Two Gals and a Boat, a fly-fishing education platform centered on conservation, community, and empowering women to explore the outdoors with confidence.

With an MBA in Leadership from The Citadel and a master's degree in Mass Communications from the University of Georgia, Sue brings a rich background in strategic communications, public relations, and leadership. Her career includes nearly two decades of federal service, including more than a decade in the U.S. Coast Guard. During her military service, she served on the West Coast, East Coast, Gulf Coast, and overseas, participated in large-scale events such as President Obama's second inauguration, and responded to natural disasters, including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Following her Coast Guard service, she worked in agriculture, wildlife conservation, and Veterans Services.

Before her military service took her around the world, Sue served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia, teaching English and sustainable development. She also spent time crewing aboard a 40-foot catamaran, where she developed her sea legs and began working toward her maritime captain's license.

Sue is currently pursuing a PhD in Organizational Development and Change, where her emerging research explores how ecosystem reciprocity, somatic awareness, and narrative can work together to help people and organizations navigate transitions, address burnout, and cultivate more meaningful, sustainable ways of living and leading. Her work brings together the wisdom of the natural world, the stories people carry, and the mind-body connection to explore new possibilities for personal and organizational change.

When she's not writing, fly fishing, skiing, hiking, camping, or spending time in nature, Sue can usually be found with her husband, Josh, and their chocolate Lab, Meatball.