Jake N. Bennett

Jake N. Bennett is the creator of the Power of No series, books that make healthy boundaries simple, kind, and doable across real-life domains. The series helps readers stop over-committing, communicate clearly, and stay steady through pushback.

The series begins with The Power of No: How to Stop People-Pleasing, Reclaim Your Voice, and Say 'No' Without Guilt or Conflict, a practical guide to reclaiming your voice without guilt or conflict. It continues with Stop Saying Yes: The Practical Guide to Protecting Your Time and Sanity, a hands-on companion for guarding your time, energy, and peace.

Jake writes for people who care deeply: managers, caregivers, high achievers, and anyone tired of performing at the expense of their peace. His style is clear and compassionate, with ready-to-say scripts, pushback responses, and five-minute practices that rebuild self-trust one decision at a time.

Follow this Author Central page for new releases, sample pages, and tools to help you say what you mean, mean what you say, and live with integrity, at home, at work, with your money, and with yourself.

"Jake N. Bennett" is a pen name. Behind it is a longtime life coach, mentor, pastor and ministry worker with 20+ years of counseling and discipleship, including the last twelve in pastoral ministry, helping people move from people-pleasing and blurred boundaries to a grounded sense of identity. He also spent years as a manager at a major corporation, Johnson Controls, giving him a firsthand view of boundaries, burnout, and managing up inside the pressures of corporate life. He writes under a pen name to protect his family's privacy, his wife of eighteen years and their four children, and to keep the spotlight on the work: equipping readers to live with clear conviction, emotional strength, and unapologetic purpose without guilt, fear, or approval-seeking.