# Wildspire Be a fly on the wall for intimate conversations with inspiring entrepreneurs who are changing the world. Your host, Stephanie Benedetto is a coach, storyteller and (Un)marketer at The Awakened Business, where she helps coaches, therapists, healers and change-making entrepreneurs unleash their message and share it with joyful (Un)Marketing. This isn't a typical interview-style podcast. Here's what's different: #1 - We'll embark on a curious conversational adventure to see what we can create… Page: Feed: --- ## [LoveDance](https://wildspire.libsyn.com/lovedance) _2026-08-18_ What if love isn't something you have to earn? In this Wildspire Spark, Steph reflects on a middle-of-the-night conversation that leads to a simple but profound realization: love is not a reward for being good, useful, desirable, or pleasing. Love is the baseline. The ocean we're already swimming in. She explores the strange gap between what the soul knows and what the human body seems to believe,… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wildspire/LoveDance.mp3?dest-id=2131631) ## [#104 Unbecoming in Business & Authentic Leadership with Dr. Eboni L. Truss](https://wildspire.libsyn.com/104-unbecoming-in-business-authentic-leadership-with-dr-eboni-l-truss) _2026-06-18_ What happens when you wake up and realize you've built a business that no longer feels like yours? In this conversation, Dr. Eboni Truss shares her journey from following expert advice and industry formulas to rediscovering her authentic voice, purpose, and leadership. Together, we explore what it means to "unbecome" the layers of conditioning, expectations, and performance that can quietly pull… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wildspire/104_Eboni_Truss.mp3?dest-id=2131631) ## [#103 Reflection | Wildspire Sparks](https://wildspire.libsyn.com/reflection-wildspire-sparks) _2026-06-03_ For most of her life, Steph built her world around getting things done. Work harder. Push forward. Be productive. But recently she's noticed something unexpected: a growing desire for more space, more reflection, and more "nothing." Surprisingly, it hasn't made her less effective. It has changed where her actions come from. In this reflective Wildspire Sparks episode, Steph explores the… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wildspire/103_Reflection_Edits.mp3?dest-id=2131631) ## [#102 Trusting the Next Step: Jacqueline Hollows on Business Transitions, Inspired Action, and Building a Spiritual Business](https://wildspire.libsyn.com/102-trusting-the-next-step-jacqueline-hollows-on-business-transitions-inspired-action-and-building-a-spiritual-business) _2026-03-13_ What happens when the work that once felt like your purpose no longer feels alive? In this episode of Wildspire, Stephanie Benedetto sits down with Jacqueline Hollows , known for her transformational work bringing insight and healing into UK prisons. After years of expanding her prison programs and training facilitators, Jacqueline found herself facing an unexpected turning point when COVID… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wildspire/Jacqueline_Hollows.mp3?dest-id=2131631) ## [#101 Fear](https://wildspire.libsyn.com/101-fear) _2026-02-20_ In this episode of the Wildspire podcast, I explore fear vs love and the subtle ways anxiety shapes our lives through thought. Fear doesn't always look dramatic. Sometimes it hides in what we call "being realistic." Sometimes it quietly builds the structure of our world. This is a reflective conversation on anxiety and mindset , how contraction feels in the body, and what shifts when we begin… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wildspire/Fear.mp3?dest-id=2131631) ## [#100 When the Impossible Opens: Trust, Love & Miracles in Business with Sherryl Perry](https://wildspire.libsyn.com/when-the-impossible-opens-trust-love-miracles-in-business-with-sherryl-perry) _2025-11-05_ What happens when life cracks open your heart — and the business you've built is no longer held up by willpower, effort, or your ability to handle everything yourself? In this intimate conversation, yoga teacher and wellness guide Sherryl Perry shares how grief reshaped her relationship with her spiritual business, her community, and her sense of what's possible. Instead of pushing harder, Sherryl… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wildspire/Sherryl_Perry.mp3?dest-id=2131631) ## [#99 Simple](https://wildspire.libsyn.com/99-simple) _2025-10-31_ In this quiet reflection, Steph revisits a passage from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse — a book she carried across the ocean to Portugal. In it, Siddhartha describes the effortless way he moves toward what he desires: not through striving, but by allowing himself to be drawn. This episode is a meditation on simplicity, desire, and the natural way we create. Steph explores how, like Siddhartha, we can… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wildspire/Simple.mp3?dest-id=2131631) ## [#98 Following Grief, Ritual & Beauty with Day Schildkret](https://wildspire.libsyn.com/98-following-grief-ritual-beauty-with-day-schildkret) _2025-09-19_ When grief feels overwhelming, what might happen if you trusted the small, alive nudges in your heart? In this episode, I sit with Day Schildkret — author, artist, teacher behind Morning Altars — as he shares how loss, nature, ritual, and impermanence guided him into creating art, books, and a global movement rooted in meaning. In this episode you'll learn: How Day used morning altars and… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wildspire/98_Day_Schildkret.mp3?dest-id=2131631) ## [#97 Thought](https://wildspire.libsyn.com/97-thought) _2025-09-18_ What if every moment of beauty, pain, love, and wonder in your life comes from one source? In this episode, Steph Benedetto explores the mysterious force of thought —the creative energy of the universe that shapes every experience we have as humans. This intimate reflection traces the shift from being consumed by personal thinking to glimpsing the deeper power beneath it. Thought is both the grand… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wildspire/97_Thought.mp3?dest-id=2131631) ## [International money transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Rxj7kjy4ZPgS) _2025-09-18 · **Sponsored**_ Send money to other countries and manage multi‑currency balances online. ## [#96 Business as an Act of Love: A Conversation with Mark Silver](https://wildspire.libsyn.com/96-business-as-an-act-of-love-a-conversation-with-mark-silver) _2025-08-07_ What if every act in your business could be an act of love? This gentle yet radical conversation with Mark Silver, Sufi teacher, healer, and founder of Heart of Business, invites us to reimagine business as a sacred practice, rather than a grind. We explore what it means to bring love to business, not as a buzzword, but as a living, breathing force of integrity, honesty, and kindness. Here's some… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wildspire/96_Mark_Silver.mp3?dest-id=2131631)