Transformational Coach, Advisor & Mentor
Inner Chaos to Cohesive Impact in 90 Days – an Evolutionary Leap for You
AI coaches are great for inquiry, yet they cannot look into your eyes and reflect; only a real human coach can do that. Don’t waste your time with self-help that isn’t truly helpful. Aren’t you worth more than using an extension of yourself that hasn’t been helpful yet?
Be The Dream - Since 1988
Zen Benefiel is the Real Deal – Deep Thinker – Great Listener – Brilliant Communicator – Encourager
~ Bob Tiede, Author – Leading with Questions
His innate insights have given me both knowledge and an inner understanding of myself.
~ Kevin Fox, DC
Breakthrough
I help you shift from uncertainty to alignment—unlocking the insight and energy to create lasting change with an action plan.
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90-Day Roadmap
I help purpose-driven leaders and professionals turn vision into executable roadmaps with action plans in 90 days.
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Team Coherence
I help teams build trust, align objectives, and communicate effectively so projects flow smoothly from start to finish.
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While AI can offer clarity, structure, and reflective prompts, it simply cannot replace the depth of an in-person transformational coaching experience. A skilled human coach reads body language, hears tone, sees micro-expressions, senses energy shifts, and emotional nuance in ways no algorithm can truly replicate.
Real-time presence allows a coach to gently challenge avoidance, interrupt unhelpful patterns, and hold clients accountable with compassion, empathy and insight. AI can assist the journey — yet human coaching transcends and transforms it.
Zen brings deep experience in business development, including business-plan creation, LLC launches, nonprofit formation, licensing, strategic planning, and project management. His background spans aerospace manufacturing, education, small-business development, construction partnering, and nonprofit leadership, allowing him to blend practical organizational strategy with conscious-leadership principles.
Questions You May Be Considering
🧭 Purpose & Meaning
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What truly lights me up, regardless of external reward?
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If my life had a mission statement, what would it say right now?
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What do I do that feels timeless when I’m doing it?
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Where do my deepest joy and the world’s needs intersect?
🌀 Identity & Beliefs
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What stories do I tell myself that no longer serve me?
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Who am I when no one is watching, needing, or expecting?
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What do I believe about myself that I’ve never questioned?
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What aspects of myself am I ready to reclaim or integrate?
🔥 Emotional Intelligence & Healing
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What emotion have I been avoiding, and why might it be showing up now?
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What am I still holding onto that’s asking to be released?
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How can I love the parts of myself I usually reject?
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Where in my body do I feel [anger, sadness, joy], and what might it be trying to tell me?
🌱 Growth & Potential
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What area of my life feels ripe for transformation?
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What am I resisting that might actually be the gateway to growth?
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If I could whisper one truth to my future self, what would it be?
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Where do I play small—and what would boldness look like there?
🌍 Connection & Contribution
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Who do I become in the presence of others—and why?
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What kind of presence do I bring to a room, consciously or unconsciously?
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What legacy am I crafting, whether intentionally or not?
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How do I naturally contribute to harmony or dissonance in groups?
🧘♂️ Mystical & Existential Inquiry
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What part of me is aware of my thoughts, my feelings, my breath?
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What would it feel like to fully trust the flow of life?
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If I’m not my body, not my mind, not my roles—then who or what am I?
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What does “home” feel like on a soul level?
Simply put, you're the best life and business coach I've ever experienced.
Always stimulating my process and my path in life and business, you make things clear as you explain a multidimensional picture of life. You really helped and supported me in creating change in my life, nurturing and universally accepting of me. I've known a lot of people in my life, 25 years in the Insurance business, who claim to be coaches. They don't hold a candle to you, Zen.
Zen is extremely intelligent and sees things on levels that most people do not.
Zen helped me sift through my thoughts and goals so I could better achieve them. He helped me to expand my awareness for things within me and around me and use them as guides in daily living. With Zen's guidance I was able to move closer to my "dreams" with my career and see positive changes in many areas of my life that I had always hoped for.
His innate insights have given me both knowledge and an inner understanding of myself
As a chiropractor and business owner, I’ve hired several business coaches that had a lot of information and little actual help in accomplishing goals and objectives. In just 3 months Zen has helped me with focus, stress reduction, how to be more productive and communicating with others, just to mention a few results.
I greatly admire him for his capacity to live and embody the very things he believes in.
In all my years of work around the world, I have encountered many people who teach and preach about global unity and creating a healthy, peaceful world, but don't seem to really walk their talk. Not Zen! I greatly admire him for his capacity to live and embody the very things he believes in.
This is a rare trait, and should be greatly respected and admired. His humbleness, his joy, his genuine passion, his curiosity is contagious, and is a direct result of his decades of pursuit for truth and healing.
...to hear what is being said and not being said is REMARKABLE.
It was so refreshing to discuss all that we did about REAL LIFE...all the things that are behind the highlight reels of Social Media.
If you want to be a part of a show that is impacting others with the hard truths with actionable ways to continue to grow and stretch beyond your comfort zone then I recommend you connect with Zen.
a kind spiritual George Carlin!
Zen Benefiel is profoundly insightful and seriously funny— a kind spiritual George Carlin! His unique ability to blend profound kindness with a no-nonsense attitude is truly a rare and refreshing combination. His perspective is shaped by a one-of-a-kind life journey that has infused his perspective with a sense of wisdom, joy and authenticity.
Zen is very wise and experienced
“I had a great, open-ended conversation with Zen which pushed me in a direction that I needed to be pushed which was a great gift. Zen is very wise and experienced and will help you align with where you want to be, and what you need to do to get there. He is also a very generous, intuitive and honest coach which is clear in his practice. This gives clients a great space to be themselves and to reorient in.”
A man who lives up to his name and all his many titles.
Zen Benefiel… where to begin? A man who lives up to his name and all his many titles. Author, coach, broadcaster, transcendental human and possibilitarian. A planetary citizen building a global network and an enlightened world. Brilliant and imaginative, prolific, creative mind engaging in deep conversations, and cannot resist a good pun!
Icons of Change - Mentors for the Mind
“The only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition.”
— Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline
“Big Truth, once understood and assimilated, always modifies your intent, and invariably leads to personal change.”
― My Big TOE: Awakening
“What we need is a comprehensive map of human nature and the human territory — a map that includes body, mind, soul, and spirit in self, culture, and nature.”
— Ken Wilber, A Theory of Everything
