by Stephanie Benedetto | Feb 26, 2026 | Community, Creativity
I’ve been asking this community what it wants, and the answer is clear and resonant. “I want a community that feels like home.” “A place where I belong.” “I want to feel seen. Heard. Witnessed.” In 2023, the US Surgeon General declared the “epidemic of loneliness” as...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Feb 25, 2026 | Personal Development
Today I made a list of ten “competitors.” (“Competitors” goes in quotes because while they technically serve a similar market, I don’t really think of them as competition.) Then I wrote down something I admire about each of them. Patterns emerged. Passionate,...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Feb 24, 2026 | Community, Creativity
I hosted my first online DragonPod call today. 30 minutes with a simple invitation: Create something. Give it to someone who isn’t expecting it. And I discovered something fascinating. Both participants were completely willing to create, but stalled at the idea of...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Feb 23, 2026 | Business
A question I saw recently in a community of entrepreneurs caught my attention: “I really want to grow my little small business media company and I’m looking for ideas to expand my audience. Here’s what I’ve tried Facebook ads Google ads Linkedin ads...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Feb 22, 2026 | Podcast
I want to share with you a bit about my old friend Fear. Listen on the Wildspire podcast here: I thought I knew fear and I did. I had such chronic anxiety as a child that I had headaches every day after school from the stress of trying to hold it together,...
