For over four decades, Stephanie Smith has studied what makes people tick--and applied the knowledge in multiple roles. Mom to five sons, including twenty-five years as a home educator. Founding board member and instructor of a private school. Director of scores of teens in a theater program. Start-up leader of a PreK–12th grade homeschool cooperative. Stephanie energizes women, parents, and youth hungry for lives of earthly excellence and eternal significance. 

Live Only True Stories encapsulates Stephanie's focus to help people become spiritually strong, emotionally healthy, and relationally wise. She  is a speaker, author, and certified Primal Question coach. Stephanie's family includes her husband, five grown sons, four daughters-in-law, and a growing flock of grandchildren who provide ongoing, fascinating, and satisfying field research.