IN(TeL)²

PERSONAL GROWTH · ADVENTURE · CREATING

IN(TeL)²

It's Never Too Late

"It's never too late to live" — and this is the journey.

85+

apocalyst goals

completed

in action

WHO IS DANIELA

The Story Behind IN(TeL)²

"IN(TeL)² stands for It's Never Too Late To Live — and resembles the word 'intel,' which means useful information concerning subjects of interest."

— DANIELA

For a long time, my motto was “It’s never too late to learn” — something my guitar teacher told me at 16 when I confessed I thought it was too late to learn how to read music and play the piano. He didn’t just say the words; he bought me a music theory workbook, which I finished, and I went on to learn piano. After that, something shifted.

What else had I always wanted to do?

That question eventually became my apocalyst — a list of everything I want to accomplish while there’s still time.

Along the way, my motto evolved into “It’s never too late to live.” To me, living is: awareness and action — knowing yourself, discovering what makes you feel alive, and actually doing those things. Because as long as we’re still alive, it’s never too late.

IntelSquared is where I document all of it, and where I hope to help you do the same.

🌍 Adventurer

🎥 Vlogger

🐕 Dog Mom

💪 Athlete

✈️ Traveler

🎵 Musician

My List

The Apocalyst

A list of everything I want to do, have, and become — while there’s still time.

TO DO 🎯
TO HAVE ✨
TO BE 🌟

Go to a rave
See the Northern Lights
Write and publish an original song
Go skydiving
Take my dog for sheep-herding lessons
Go surfing
Crash a wedding
Meet Charlie Houpert in-person
Hike in Hawaii
Go hang-gliding
Write a children’s book
See Slipknot in concert
Go an entire year without eating sugar
Do a triathlon
Do the “Dirty Dancing” signature move with someone
Go legit rock climbing
Foster dogs
See Zhu in concert
Crash a college party in my 30s
Go to an EDM festival
Participate in an MTB race
Live in NYC (“Friends” style)
Conduct a piece with a professional orchestra
Go parasailing
Work on a farm for a season with my dog
Go to Oktoberfest in Germany
Narrate a book
Go snow-kayaking
Sing with Ed Sheeran
Take a year-long coastal boat trip
Do a poetry reading
Go scuba diving
Guest star on the Tim Ferriss Show
Live within the Amish community for a month and write about it
Build and run an online t-shirt/product business with my own designs
See Enrique Iglesias in concert with family again
Go snowmobiling
French braid my own hair
Co-write a musical
Go on a 3-day thru-hike with my dog
Throw an authentic Schubertiade
Open and own a coffee shop
Visit New Zealand
Ride a mechanical bull
See an Italian artist concert in Italy
Go skiing
Voice act for a cartoon character
Buy and eat the most expensive box of cereal in the world
Perform in a Broadway play
Take a year-long trip hiking/camping across all 48 US continental states
See a live magic show
Go to a country concert with line dancing
Do a handstand
Host on Airbnb
Go on an African safari
Play electric guitar in a rock band live
Watch One Piece in a movie theater
Live on the beach
Model on a professional shoot
Go on a “no time” binge — live somewhere without any clocks for a week
Create a set of my own mashups/cover songs
Take a road trip through Canada to Alaska
Run a full marathon
Compete in an amateur dance competition
Do the front and middle splits
Start and run a podcast
Live in a tiny house

Beauceron
Tattoo
Motorcycle
Custom-built tiny house
Manual car
Industrial ear piercing
Airstream trailer
Pickup truck
Italian citizenship

Black belt in martial arts
Music teacher with my own private music lesson studio
Excellent pianist sight-reader
Excellent guitarist
Fluent in Italian
Expert manual driver
Great campfire cook
Knowledgeable survivalist
Successful blogger/vlogger

Dreams in Action

LIVE

🇮🇹 Fluent in Italian

STATUS: Solid A2, working toward B1

SPECIFY: To speak and converse confidently with Italian speakers. To hear and understand what they’re saying. To read, write, and pronounce words accurately. To fully express anything I want or need to say.

WHY: To talk with all of my family in Italy. To connect on a deeper level to my Italian culture and finally feel like I’m truly a part of it. To stop being unable to communicate with family members I want to know. To experience what it feels like to be truly bilingual.

TIMELINE: Targeting fluency in 2 years

THE PLAN:

Daily study, passive listening, Anki for vocabulary retention and journaling in Italian
Two live lessons weekly with cousin Alessia

🏛️ Italian citizenship

STATUS: Acquired some Italian documents: grandfather’s birth and death certificates, father’s birth and history record certificates. Started an account on Prenotami for scheduling a consulate appointment.

SPECIFY: To acquire Italian Citizenship through jure sanguinis (citizenship by descent) to be an Italian citizen. Keep my American citizenship and have dual citizenship with Italy.

WHY: To be OFFICIALLY Italian. (Not just “sort of” Italian). To be able to live in Italy, work there, and buy property. To make travel between the USA and Italy a lot easier. To have the option of living in other EU countries and traveling to EU countries easier.

TIMELINE: About 2 years

THE PLAN:

Acquire grandfather’s marriage certificate and history record
Make an audit of last name spelling across all documents and what I might need to do for the name discrepancy: Di Benedetto versus DiBenedetto
Get certified copies of my American documents
Get American documents apostilled and officially translated into Italian

🎬 Successful blogger/vlogger

STATUS: 3 reels live on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube Shorts. Website built and revamped. Filming post 4 and daily stories.

SPECIFY: Create a vibrant community around personal growth by consistently sharing content that helps people identify and work toward their own apocalysts.

WHY: I believe life is best lived seeking continued awareness of ourselves and taking action on the things that excite us and make us feel alive. I’ve been told many times that I can’t do something in my life; that I’m “too old,” it’s “too late,” or I’m “not good enough”, and I know I’m not the only one who’s heard that. I want to help disprove it by documenting my own journey and inspiring others to embark on their own. Documenting this journey also holds me accountable to my own dreams and goals.

TIMELINE: Ongoing

THE PLAN:

Post consistently and ramp from 2x to 3x reels per week
Build out Dreams in Action section of website
Engage with anyone who reaches out

🚐 Take a year-long trip hiking/camping across all 48 US continental states

STATUS: Paused in PA to be with family for a bit

SPECIFY: Live mobile in an Airstream and take a year-long trip hiking/camping across all 48 US continental states. ~ That was the original goal when I first wrote it down, but once I actually started living it, I realized a year was never going to be enough time to do it right. Not if I wanted to really experience each place instead of just passing through it. So the timeline changed. The dream didn’t.

This is honestly one of the best examples of what IntelSquared is all about: sometimes what you end up doing isn’t EXACTLY what you wrote down, and that’s ok. It’s not about hitting the original dream with perfect precision. It’s about taking real action on something that brings you joy and fulfillment. The feeling you were chasing is still the point, even if the shape of it changes along the way.

WHY: To I love traveling and adventure. I love being outside: hiking, being in nature, seeing new places, meeting new people. I’ve lived in the US my whole life and haven’t seen nearly enough of it. It’s such a vast country with so much to see, and I want to see more of it.

TIMELINE: No end date yet. This one is ongoing by design now.

THE PLAN:

Continue living full-time in my Airstream
Head west in the coming weeks
Build my stops around other apocalyst items

IN(TeL)²

“It’s never too late to live”