Lessons on leadership, resilience, and finding the silver lining in the middle of a crisis
Every Storm Runs out of Rain gives a week-by-week account of the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of a different front line worker—a marketing leader—at one of the world's leading health care systems.
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Praise for Every Storm Runs Out of Rain
"I've found that looking back at the most trying times has helped provide clarity for the problems that arise in the present. Amy is doing us all a service by sharing her behind-the-scenes experiences of navigating the pandemic."
— Matt Ryan, Former Pro Quarterback & League MVP
“This candid collection of emails from a health industry insider offers a unique glimpse at the daily realities of working during COVID. Despite the understandable urge to leave the pandemic behind, Comeau proves that sometimes looking back can not only be therapeutic. It might offer exactly the perspective we all need to continue to move forward too.”
—— Rohit Bhargava, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of Non-
Obvious Thinking and Non-Obvious Megatrends
“Amy provides a clear view of what was going on inside the healthcare industry. You will be fascinated and understand many aspects of the pandemic that were invisible to the public.”
— Ken Bernhardt, Professor of Marketing Emeritus, Georgia State University
"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou’s words are so true for Amy’s Friday emails and her book Every Storm Runs Out Of Rain. I felt it. I really felt it, and so will those who lived through the pandemic as close as many of us did.”
— Douwe Bergsma, Chief Marketing Officer, Piedmont Healthcare
“What an incredible recounting of a remarkable time in our lives. Every Storm Runs Out of Rain provides authentic leadership lessons of encouragement, resilience, and a team-first focus at every turn. Learning straight from Amy’s direct communications with those she led—all while navigating the global pandemic roller coaster at one of the world’s leading academic health system, makes this book especially uplifting and poignant. As Amy shares in such an entertaining fashion, we must always remember this time in our lives and impact it had on us, our families, and our communities.”
— Dane Peterson, Chief Operating Officer of Children’s Health and Former President and CEO of Emory Healthcare
“Amy’s deep sense of responsibility and humanity were on full display during a once in a century pandemic. I had the privilege of reading her weekly letters in real time due to having a family member on her team. They are very thoughtfully written and incredibly inspiring and should serve as a valuable example of how to lead with heart and grace during difficult times. Amy is an immensely effective leader.”
— Terri Goren, Principal, Goren & Associates LLC, Strategic Marketing and Communications Consulting
“Words of gratitude, resilience, inspiration, and travel tips! Comeau’s warm personality, upbeat writing, and insight take us through the extraordinary health system leader’s journey through the COVID pandemic. Through songs sung on Zoom to shared discovery of the ‘new normal,’ Every Storm Runs Out of Rain allows us to revisit and reflect on a community in the eye of the storm facing the unknown.”
— Carolyn Meltzer, Dean, Keck School of Medicine of USC
"As one of the recipients of Amy’s weekly emails during the most difficult and uncertain times in the health care field, I can attest to the impact of the authentic and intentional weekly messages Amy shared with her team. The emails alone are a great model for any leader, but the content and reflections also provide an inside view into how one of the country’s premier health care systems persevered during the pandemic.”
— Cheryl Iverson, Corporate Director of Community Engagement, Emory Healthcare
“Through her insightful and inspiring weekly group emails and her honest and authentic reflections, Amy weaves a compelling picture of the unfolding pandemic in real time and demonstrates the impact of a successful top-tier health system on improving lives and providing hope for their patients, employees, the community at large, and the nation through its leadership and innovation. A must-read for everyone interested in the inner workings of the health care industry through the largest trial it may have ever confronted, or those curious about the intricacies of a positive marketing team impact worthy of emulation.”
— Jon Lewin, Emeritus Emory University Executive Vice President for Health Affairs and Emeritus Emory Healthcare President, CEO, and Board Chair, Professor of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurosurgery
“Every Storm Runs Out of Rain is an absolute must-read for any leader needing a dose of inspiration. The lived experiences of Amy as she led her team and survived one of the darkest periods in our world history are captured poetically and realistically, uniquely drawing from phenomenal leaders past and present. It is compelling and brilliant in its ability to remind us that even in our most vulnerable times, we can find the strength to overcome life’s biggest challenges.”
— Sandra D. Mackey,Chief Marketing Officer, Bon Secours Mercy Health
“Amy Comeau illustrates the importance of one of the most under-appreciated qualities of great leaders - compassion. Amy’s weekly emails to her team during the global pandemic is a masterclass on how having the discipline to regularly connect with her employees on a personal level, showing vulnerability, emotional awareness and even some humor, can help get the best out of people and teams during the worst of times.”
— Bradley Paskievitch, VP, Legal, DHL Group
About the Author
Amy Moudy Comeau, MBA, is an award-winning and acclaimed marketing executive with depth and breadth in health care, non-profit, higher education, and performing arts. As the Vice President of Marketing for Emory Healthcare, she oversees marketing for the most comprehensive academic health care system in Georgia, with three decades of experience telling stories and connecting patients, their families, and caregivers with physicians, nurses, and health care professionals.
Amy is a graduate of Northwestern University, with an MBA and Beta Gamma Sigma honors from Goizueta Business School at Emory. She lives in a suburb of Atlanta, with her husband Chris and son Josh. Her weekly writing ritual, which began during the pandemic, continues today.
Excerpt from the opening pages of Every Storm Runs Out of Rain
These were times that tested my leadership. Scared and afraid of this virus all around us. The fear of the unknown, but the need to provide calm and strength for my team.
I neglected self-care during this time—adrenaline and a steady drip of wine kept me going. After all, we thought this was an eight-week, work-from-home blip in time. But it wasn’t. Eight weeks became eight months, then 18 months and ultimately, a three-year moment in time.
This book began as a “Friday end-of-week” email to my team at the start of the pandemic. Part encouragement, part writing therapy and part ship’s log.
I naively thought the pandemic would have a defined start and end, and so would my writing. Now, these Friday emails are here to stay.
As the weeks progressed, my team shared they looked forward to them, and I found I did too.
As you read this book, you’ll not only get a nearly weekly recounting of the pandemic (without hindsight); you’ll also see through my words lessons in leadership, self-care, marketing and personal resilience. I hope you’ll also see my commitment to my team and my family come shining through. However you read it, thank you.
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