ABOUT DR. SUSAN TRUONG
Executive Coach & Burnout Recovery Specialist
For 25 years, successful professionals sat across from me and confessed what they couldn't tell anyone else: "I have everything I thought I wanted. So why do I feel like this?"
While I was checking their eyes, they were checking out of their lives. High-achieving executives with perfect 20/20 vision but zero clarity on what actually mattered.
I wasn't just correcting eyesight. I was witnessing burnout in real time.
Now I help driven professionals see what they've been missing before crisis forces them to.
From Refugee to Revolutionary
Mid-1970s. Vietnamese refugee family. Florida. Zero money. Zero English.
One unshakeable belief: Obstacles are temporary. Dreams are not.
That refugee girl? Me.
My parents' rule was non-negotiable: education is your ticket to freedom. So I earned my Doctorate in Optometry from Nova Southeastern University after grinding through years of medical research.
But here's what nobody tells you about the American Dream: you can achieve everything and still feel empty.
Nine Days That Shattered Everything
Two decades of crushing it. Thriving optometry practices. Magazine covers. Real estate empire. An artsy bar in downtown St. Petersburg. I had built the life everyone said I should want.
Then my 42-year-old brother got a cancer diagnosis.
Nine days later, he was gone.
Nine. Devastating. Days.
That's when I realized the brutal truth: I'd been helping executives and professionals see clearly while living my own life completely out of focus. Too busy achieving to be present. Too focused on building to notice what I was sacrificing.
Success had a blindspot I never saw coming, and it was costing me everything that mattered.
That wake-up call transformed me from optometrist to executive coach for one reason: so you don't need the same painful reckoning I did.
The Truth About Those 100,000+ Conversations
Looking back, I'd been coaching high-achieving professionals all along - one "eye exam" at a time.
They'd come in for vision correction and end up crying about their careers. The executive drowning in success. The entrepreneur who'd forgotten why they started. The professional checking all the boxes but feeling nothing.
Physical clarity means nothing without life clarity.
I realized I wasn't just fixing vision problems, I was helping successful people overcome burnout and see possibilities they'd convinced themselves didn't exist.
What I Do Now
I've stepped out from behind the equipment to focus on what I've always done: help driven professionals gain career clarity before burnout forces them to.
No fluff. No endless processing. No gentle hand-holding.
Just real talk, proven strategies, and transformation that actually lasts.
"Your vision should be so big it scares you - but not so narrow that you miss what's right in front of you."
What If "Perfect" Professional Success Isn't Perfect?
In eye care, 20/20 is considered "perfect." But here's what 25 years of executive coaching taught me: the eye chart doesn't stop at 20/20. There's 20/15. Even 20/10. Vision so sharp it transforms how you see the world.
But we've been programmed to believe 20/20 is the finish line.
Most high-achieving professionals apply this same "good enough" mentality to their careers and lives. They hit the bare minimum of "successful" and call it enough - even while experiencing burnout.
After 100,000+ conversations with driven professionals, I've seen the pattern: successful people with perfect eyesight who couldn't see what was possible beyond their current reality.
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The executive who feels empty despite the corner office and six-figure salary
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The entrepreneur who built an empire but lost their family and health
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The high achiever who checked every box but can't remember the last time they felt truly alive
That's when I discovered: Physical clarity means nothing without career clarity, life purpose, and freedom from burnout.
What Beyond 20/20 Actually Means for Executives & High Achievers
SIGHT is a function of your EYES. VISION is a function of your HEART.
Your eyes show you what is. Your heart shows you what could be.
Beyond 20/20 executive coaching means:
The standard for fulfillment is YOURS to set. Not your parents'. Not your boss's. Not what everyone thinks
high-achieving professionals "should" want.
Your extraordinary life exists way beyond the "good enough" success everyone else thinks is enough.
Are you ready to see it?
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Seeing career possibilities beyond burnout
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Refusing someone else's definition of professional success
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Making decisions from purpose, not fear
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Living with intention instead of on autopilot
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Integrating work and life so you stop sacrificing what matters
The Birth of Our Logo
The vertical eye represents the moment everything clicks into focus for high-achieving professionals. After 25 years of executive coaching, I discovered there are two kinds of vision: the kind that reads eye charts, and the kind that sees career possibilities beyond burnout.
The deep indigo is the color of profound insight - the clarity successful professionals gain when they stop looking at immediate problems and start seeing their bigger purpose beyond achievement.
The open hands aren't decoration. They're support. Elevation. Transformation. Because clarity in life and career doesn't just happen - it's something you nurture with courage and guidance from an experienced executive coach.
This logo represents what I've witnessed thousands of times with driven professionals: when external sight meets internal vision about success and fulfillment, everything transforms.
It's about integrating all of who you are - professional success and personal fulfillment, ambition and peace, head and heart.
That's Beyond 20/20 Vision for high achievers.
Stop settling for "good enough" professional success and start living Beyond 20/20.
That's it. That's the mission.
For 25 years, I helped people see clearly. Now I help high-achieving professionals and executives see truly - beyond the career burnout they've normalized, beyond the "realistic" goals everyone told them to aim for, beyond the version of professional success that looks perfect on paper but feels hollow in their heart.
This executive coaching work is built on three pillars: Commitment to your authentic truth, Belief in what's possible beyond burnout, and Triumph over the fear that keeps driven professionals playing small.
This isn't a career change. It's an evolution - from healer of sight to executive coach guiding professionals toward clarity and purpose.
Your vision should be so big it scares you, but not so narrow that you miss what's right in front of you.