Creative Inspiration
We Fell Asleep
In March 2020, I had a dream that we all fell asleep for three years. When we woke up, we remembered that not all of us woke up. Our friends had slipped away in the long grey night down a hidden staircase and across A deep lake. They are dancing now. A disco on the...
Are you good at too many things?
My bio could easily read: "Sam Bennett is an accomplished teacher, bestselling author, career coach, producer, actor, businesswoman, meeting facilitator, improviser, sock-monkey maker, playwright, decoupage artist, popular LinkedIn Learner course creator, chronic...
Ode to the Busy
I see you Making life easier for everyone else. The way you are patient with the clerk Pick up yet another errant sock Get another mostly homemade meal on the table Plus extra in a tupperware for the ailing neighbor. “Busy” is a word you left behind long ago...
Waking Up Wanting: How Doing Little Things Is the Antidote to Burnout
If you're like me, you wake up pretty much every morning thinking about what you want. And then you spend the rest of the day talking yourself out of it. Or psyching yourself out of it. Or ignoring it because you spend every waking minute doing the things that...
A Prayer For Our Family
A PRAYER FOR OUR FAMILY None of this has turned out how we thought. But we're old enough to know that maybe we thought wrong to begin with. Either way, we are also old enough to be exquisitely grateful for the path we have walked together for the moments when a single...
ahem….I am officially a VERY big deal : )
So my friend Greg pings me the other day with a little audio clip of ME being featured on the Stuff You Should Know podcast.... and you could have knocked me over with a feather. Because I've never been on that show. I mean - SYSK is in the top 15 of ALL podcasts! So...
Inner Glass Ceilings- Part 1
The thing I thought we would talk about today is the inner glass ceilings- The self-limiting behavior that you may not even know that you have. This will be a 2-part blog post because I think this is so important, and I have a lot to say about it. I did a call earlier...
A Revealing Exercise in Doodling
Here's so here's the little experiment I want to do with you guys. I know you’ve got your paper and your pens ready, because you guys are known doodlers. If you don't for some reason, grab a pen and a piece of paper. Take your pen and I want you to draw a flower....
How To Price Art To Sell
Here’s a tricky topic- how to price art to sell. You might think, I'm not selling as much as I would like, and I feel like I need to cut my prices. The issue is not that you need to cut your prices. The issue is you need to market to people who understand the value of...
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