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, quietly numbing with work, wine, food, church, busyness, or the weight of being the strong one, Story to Stage was written for you.

Part Memoir. Part Methodology. Zero Fluff.

Ginine weaves her wild story of growing up with addiction and depression in every room, losing her father at fifteen, unknowingly befriending the East Side serial killer George Russell, 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 to survive
• Integrate your pain and your power into one unified story
• Storytell in a way that leads the room instead of bleeding on it
• Empower yourself to stop chasing approval and start building impact
• Regulate your nervous system so your body stops sabotaging your message
• Own your voice, presence, and brand on any stage you step onto

For the Woman Who Knows She Was Made for More

You do not need another decade of sitting with your feelings. You do not need to be fully healed to begin. You need a roadmap and a witness who has walked the fire.

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. She has led in Celebrate Recovery for fifteen years and teaches from lived experience, not theory.

Inside You Will Discover

• Why high achieving is just another form of numbing, and how to stop
• The three keynote secrets that turn invisible women into unforgettable speakers
• How to rewrite your story before your story rewrites you
• The embodiment and voice techniques that make audiences lean in
• Why healing and action happen together, not one after the other
• How to build a platform that keeps working when you are not in the room

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.

Order your copy today and begin your rise.