Amy Smart
WRITER | CONSULTANT | STORYTELLER
Essayist. Memoirist. Storyteller.
Amy Smart
Writer. Consultant.Storyteller.
Amy Smart is a Canadian author who writes emotionally honest, story-driven nonfiction about rebuilding after life's hardest chapters.
Blending dry humour with heartfelt reflection, her work explores cancer, betrayal, corporate burnout, and the beautiful absurdity of being human.
She also brings that same curiosity about people and systems to her consulting practice, helping businesses tell their stories by building stronger, more effective ways of working.
Unfortunately, Yes
WHAT I'M WORKING ON
After cancer, betrayal, and enough plot twists to make a soap opera seem subtle, one woman discovers that life is rarely graceful—and often completely absurd.
A creative memoir about finding humour in the chaos, with occasional commentary from a caffeine addicted talking bear.
Status: First Draft in Progress
Featured Essays
Who Do I Think I Am?
Every once in a while, I catch myself asking, “Who do I think I am?”
Who am I to call myself an “expert” on betrayal or cancer? Who am I to write about rebuilding my life after it falls apart? Who am I to tackle the idea of corporate burnout, or hormones that refuse to cut you a single shred of slack? Who am I to dissect the strange, disorienting experience of waking up one day and realizing that the life you’re living doesn’t belong to you anymore?
Then I remember.
I Thought I Was Building the Safe Part
I was a good kid.
Less gifted prodigy destined for greatness, good; more unlikely to cause anyone any additional problems, good.
I was quiet. Painfully shy. Always responsible. I learned to read a room long before I understood what I was doing. I learned that keeping people happy made life easier. I learned to make myself smaller than everyone else, useful whenever possible, and that being agreeable made me easier to love.
I learned how to survive by being good.
And somewhere along the way, like a lot of kids who grow up learning those things, I developed a very specific idea about adulthood.
Living in the Grey
Personally, I love a good spreadsheet. Give me colour-coded tabs, formulas, conditional formatting, and a progress bar, and I’m downright giddy. There is something deeply satisfying about taking absolute chaos and organizing it into neat, predictable little boxes.
On the flip side, I also own a stuffed teddy bear who wears a red bowtie and regularly questions my life choices. No, I’m not crazy. I just have an active imagination, and honestly, his advice is usually better than most LinkedIn think-pieces.
My point is that I’m not exactly committed to staying in one lane.