About the Live Happily Academy
The Questions That Shape Your Life
Understand yourself, explore what matters, and discover what living well means to you.
The Live Happily Academy is a personal growth academy devoted to the things that shape your life from the inside out: how you see yourself, what you value, the choices you make, and the relationships that matter to you.
Here, honest questions open the way to meaningful conversations, thoughtful learning, and practical guidance you can bring into your everyday life.
You may be moving through a season of change, considering what comes next, or feeling ready to understand yourself more deeply.
Wherever you begin, the Academy offers a welcoming place to learn, grow, and discover what living well means to you.
Why I created the Live Happily Academy
For a long time, I believed happiness would arrive with the next accomplishment, the next opportunity, or a welcome change in my circumstances.
My life gradually revealed a deeper truth.
Happiness grows through the way you understand yourself, care for what matters, and meet the life you are living now.
That realization changed the questions I asked and, eventually, the work I chose to do.
I created the Live Happily Academy because I wanted more people to have access to meaningful guidance and a thoughtful place to explore what it means to live happily.
Here, you can learn with openness, reflect at your own pace, and give your attention to the questions that matter to you.
Life can be challenging and still hold meaning, connection, beauty, and joy.
Wisdom you can bring into everyday life
The Live Happily Academy brings together Greek wisdom, mindfulness, positive psychology, life coaching, and practical learning.
Growing up in Athens introduced me to ideas that have remained with me throughout my life: the importance of knowing yourself, the possibility of human flourishing, and the understanding that a meaningful life takes shape through the way you live.
These ideas become especially valuable in the moments that ask something of you: making an important decision, honoring your needs, understanding a relationship, or finding your footing as life changes.
The Academy helps you bring thoughtful insight into those moments so you can understand what is true for you and choose how you want to move forward.
Learning that feels personal, practical, and human
Personal growth begins with curiosity: noticing what is happening in your life, asking meaningful questions, and giving yourself enough room to hear your own answers.
At the Academy, learning may include guided reflection, mindfulness practices, practical exercises, online lessons, live group coaching calls, and conversations that help you see something familiar in a new way.
Some experiences follow a shared schedule, while others give you the freedom to explore independently and return whenever you want fresh insight or support.
Every experience respects your life, your values, and the understanding that meaningful change takes shape one honest choice at a time.
The work is personal, but it can also be shared. Learning alongside people who are asking thoughtful questions of their own can bring encouragement, connection, and a welcome sense of belonging.
A place for different lives and different seasons
People come to the Academy for many reasons. Some are moving through change or uncertainty. Others feel ready to understand themselves more fully, strengthen an important part of their lives, or continue growing from a place that is already steady.
The Academy may feel right for you if:
- You are adjusting to an unexpected change or entering a new season of life.
- You want to give your needs and values a more meaningful place in your decisions.
- You are living through grief, illness, uncertainty, or changes in an important relationship.
- You want to understand patterns that continue to appear in your life.
- You are ready to strengthen your relationships while remaining connected to yourself.
- You want to feel calmer, clearer, and more present in everyday life.
- You enjoy learning and want personal growth to feel thoughtful, practical, and relevant.
- You are doing well and still feel curious about what else you might understand, experience, or explore.
Your reasons for being here are your own. You can begin with the life you are living and an openness to what it may be showing you.
Meet Stella Frances
I am Stella Frances, a life coach, mindfulness instructor, and lifelong student of what it means to live happily.
I grew up in Athens, where Greek philosophy introduced me to enduring questions about happiness, character, self-awareness, and living well. Later, my experiences with achievement, burnout, heartbreak, motherhood, illness, and change brought those questions fully into my own life.
Today, I bring together practical coaching, mindful awareness, professional training, and what life has taught me to help people understand themselves and live with greater clarity, calm, and authentic happiness.
Meet Stella Frances
I am Stella Frances, a life coach, mindfulness instructor, and lifelong student of what it means to live happily.
I grew up in Athens, where Greek philosophy introduced me to enduring questions about happiness, character, self-awareness, and living well. Later, my experiences with achievement, burnout, heartbreak, motherhood, illness, and change brought those questions fully into my own life.
Today, I bring together practical coaching, mindful awareness, professional training, and what life has taught me to help people understand themselves and live with greater clarity, calm, and authentic happiness.
What participants have experienced
Two ways to learn and grow
The Live Happily Academy offers two ways to make personal growth part of your life.
Courses, Programs & Experiences
Explore personal growth programs centered on the thoughts, relationships, choices, and everyday practices that shape how you live.
Offered at selected times throughout the year, these guided experiences combine online learning with weekly group coaching calls.
The Live Happily Library
The Live Happily Library is a personal growth membership with self-paced courses, practical resources, guided reflections, private community, and opportunities to join live Q&A conversations with me.
Choose what interests you, return whenever it feels useful, and learn in the rhythm of your own life.
Join the interest list to hear when enrollment opens.
Two ways to learn at a glance
Courses, Programs & Experiences
Live Happily Library
- Selected times during the year
- Guided curriculum
- Weekly group coaching calls
- Available on your own schedule
- Choose what you want to explore
- Live Q&A sessions and community
Your life is worth your attention
Every meaningful beginning starts somewhere: with a question, a realization, or a choice that asks for your attention.
You can begin with the life you have, what matters to you, and the possibilities waiting to be explored.
Whether you join a guided program or discover the Live Happily Library when it opens, the Academy is here to help you learn, reflect, and live with greater awareness of what makes your life meaningful.
Through the sunshine and the storms, your life is yours to live.