I arrived in New York City at 19 with $17 and didn't know a soul.

What followed was thirty years of building businesses, responding to disasters across the globe, raising a daughter on my own, and learning — sometimes the hard way — what it actually means to not just survive the hardest moments, but design a life worth coming back to.
GRIT + GRACE | PASSION + ZEN

Two books. One honest, ongoing conversation about resilience, loss, and what it means to design a life in alignment with what matters most.
Grit + Grace is where the journey begins — through grief, trauma, and the hard work of starting over. Passion + Zen is what comes after: the quieter, equally courageous work of deciding what to build, and daring to begin.

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Introduction

SHARING STRATEGIES FOR RESILIENCE IN WORK AND LIFE

BUILDING BUSINESSES. SERVING LEADERS.

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Angela Devlen is a speaker, author, and CEO who has spent three decades responding to some of humanity's most difficult moments. She turns hard-won lessons from crisis, loss, and recovery into practical frameworks that help people and organizations build lasting resilience. Whether she's on stage, writing her latest book, or hosting intimate retreats, Angela offers a roadmap back to what matters most.

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About ANGELA

ENTREPRENEUR, AUTHOR & SPEAKER

Angela has been building things from scratch her entire career — and rarely in a straight line. For fifteen years she served as CEO of Wakefield Brunswick, advising healthcare organizations on risk and resilience. Today she advises founders, executives, and boards, hosts education and wellness retreats, and speaks to audiences around the world — drawing on thirty years of disaster response, global field work, and the hard lessons of starting over more than once.

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From hospital systems to disaster zones, Angela has led and supported teams through some of the highest-stakes moments imaginable. 30+ years of disaster response, healthcare leadership, and building mission-driven enterprises — distilled into talks that move people to act. She brings that experience to your stage — with honesty, humor, and frameworks your audience can use the next day.

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