We Don’t Need To Figure It Out with Stephanie Benedetto

As we discuss so often on Unbroken, there is an intelligence and wisdom that, if we allow it to, can guide our lives to interesting and fulfilling places. As with most of us, it took Stephanie Benedetto some time to really listen to this wisdom and to trust that it would support her. When she did, she unlocked a life and a business that flow with ease, even in the challenging moments.Stephanie Benedetto is a transformational business coach, storyteller and (Un)Marketer at The Awakened Business, where she helps transformative coaches, healers and entrepreneurs unleash their heart’s message to create soulmate clients with playful (Un)Marketing — no hustle, or hype of endless social media required.You can find Stephanie Benedetto at TheAwakenedBusiness.com.You can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, links, resources and a full transcript are below.Show Notes* Business as a vehicle of creation * Giving ourselves permission to create the lives we want * Noticing what is alive within us that wants to guide us * Following the nudge to make a big life change * How we create our worlds based on Thought * How the pressures we feel have nothing to do with what’s going on in our lives and everything to do with what’s going on in our heads * How discomfort is created when our thoughts look real * Paying attention to what we’re listening to * How you being you is enoughResources Mentioned in this Episode* The Surrender Experiment by Michael SingerTranscript of Interview with Stephanie BenedettoAlexandra: Stephanie Benedetto, welcome to Unbroken.Stephanie: Thank you for having me, Alexandra, this is a great pleasure.Alexandra: I’m so pleased to have you here. Tell us a little bit about your background and how you got interested in the Three Principles.Stephanie: I have been a pretty much a lifelong entrepreneur. Definitely in my adult life. But as I reflected on my childhood, I used to play games like Office and sell at Mr. Dobbs candy shop. And I used to sell cards and things. I was actually interested in entrepreneurship, even when I was quite young. So I’ve had multiple businesses. The most notable and successful were we’re a business as a wedding DJ, with my now ex husband for 15 years. And then we transitioned into a digital marketing business, basically, internet marketing. So I used to create courses and a membership online, for other wedding professionals to teach them about business. I’ve been in love with business for a long time. But my first love is really people. And I love business as a vehicle of creation. It’s a way that people can create the change they’d love to see in the world, they can be of service. That’s what I see business as. And so over the years, I wanted to have deeper impact with people. And that drew me more and more into coaching. In my prior career, it looked more like consulting, marketing strategy. And I realized that there was something missing from that, for me, that we talked about these great ideas and people that didn’t do them, because they were scared, or they felt insecure. And I saw this also in myself, because in parallel, I was on my own personal development and spiritual journey. I wanted to go deeper for me. So I hired my first business coach. And then I wanted to do what they were doing. And it took me on this whole journey until I realized, Oh, my goodness. The business I currently have, which is called The Awakened Business is really meant to support entrepreneurs, who want to share the truth they’ve seen,