by Stephanie Benedetto | Aug 13, 2025 | Coaching
In 2005, Alex Tew was broke, living at home, and worried that he’d never be able to pay off his business school loans. Frustrated, he asked himself: “How can I make a million dollars?” Then came a crazy idea: selling 10 x 10 pixels on his website for $1 a piece. Sell...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Aug 11, 2025 | Coaching
If you ask which I value more, being liked or being true to myself, I would emphatically say: Being true to myself. Of course. But John Demartini once said that values aren’t found in what you say; they’re revealed by what you do. A recent example comes to mind: The...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Aug 10, 2025 | Business, Coaching
The moment when you stop hiding behind “maybe someday” and actually put your offer into the world is everything. You don’t have to wait until everything is perfect. You don’t have to figure it out alone. And you don’t have to do it in a way that makes you want to hide...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Aug 7, 2025 | Coaching
Last weekend I led the Writers’ Circle for my local community here in Portugal. Seven people came (all of whom speak fluent Portuguese, but spoke English with me) gathered in an art gallery around a crafting table marked with paint and charcoal. The owners had kindly...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Aug 3, 2025 | Coaching
When I was a kid, I was so trusting that my mother called me naive. (“Stupid” was the actual word she used, going on to explain what she meant was not unintelligent-stupid, but naively stupid to the fact that people can’t be trusted.) I believed people meant what they...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Aug 2, 2025 | Coaching
I don’t make a habit of telling people off. In fact, I’m way more likely to be a pushover than a hothead in most situations. But not always. At the end of last year, I started exploring options to refinance and pay off my credit card debt. That’s when I stumbled upon...
