Oftentimes, listening to Dream it! Dare it! Do it! Live the Life You Want! brings about thoughts, questions, and plenty of reflections. Stephanie Benedetto’s conversation with Jasmyne was one of those episodes that had me thinking deeply—about life, about business, and how the two are more connected than we often realize. It was honest, light-hearted, and enlightening.
Rethinking Business: Presence Over Performance
She set the tone early on with a refreshingly soulful take on how we approach our work. Stephanie shares: “Your business can be a sacred vehicle for what you’d like to see in the world.” I love the way she placed business and sacred in the same sentence. It seemed out of place at first, but when I let it settle, the feeling said it all.
So many of us take the idea of running a business too seriously. We carry the weight of expectations, rules, and pressure to “get it right.” But what if we’re asking the wrong questions? What if, instead, we asked: Could this be the most enjoyable ride of your life? Stephanie invites us to imagine a new possibility. What if we could live and work from the heart—fully, freely, and without compromise?
Hmmm, it sounds a little radical. And yet… why does it? Why does joy seem so unrealistic in business? Why does authenticity feel risky? Stephanie points to the fact that we already have what we need to live and work this way. The deeper question becomes: Are we willing to believe it’s possible? By asking ourselves questions such as: Can we really get paid to be ourselves? Can we trust that our presence, our values, our truth—are enough? we tap into a different way of thinking and that gives us a different feeling too (or is it just me?).
This episode gently disrupts the old belief that success must be earned through constant effort, struggle, or rigid strategy. Instead, Stephanie invites us into something softer and more sustainable: alignment, flow, and ease. She reminds us that when we stop performing and start trusting, our presence becomes more powerful—naturally, and without force—both in business and in life.
There’s something deeply refreshing about the invitation to ask new questions, to take bold steps, and to be unapologetically yourself. What if we didn’t have to wait to do what we love? As I follow these quiet nudges, I find myself in a space of quiet knowing—a place where there’s nothing to prove, nothing to push. Just being. And in that, there’s so much peace, one day at a time.
If you’d like to explore more of Stephanie’s work, you can visit her website: The Awakened Business
This reflection also reminded me of Jasmyne’s thoughts on structure and clarity in business. You can read more about that here: Business Structure Is My Love Language