It's been quiet here recently
Here's why
The last time I posted here was at the end of March. All my energy has been going into a couple of new big projects that I’ve committed to, and naturally, my space for writing has taken a hit. I’ve been pushing the morning block in my calendar to the next week…each week! It definitely bugs me, but I do my best to relax around it. I don’t want anything in my life to feel like a trap, especially not writing. I find pleasure and expression in it, and to state the obvious, that’s felt strongest when the muse and the right timing happen to meet. And if you’ve been wondering if I’ve let this whole Substack thing go, I certainly haven’t. But I also haven’t set an expectation for myself to write at a certain cadence. There are topics and ideas sitting in my drafts, but I’ve been listening to life and prioritizing focus where I’m most needed.
Stay tuned. A couple rich topics are about to hit your inbox soon enough.
That said, I want to introduce one of the reasons I haven’t been writing!
And the newest addition to the ways I serve the world of leadership.
Ta-da! The 5-day immersive for execs I’m co-hosting this summer!
This is the first time I’m bringing a group together for a retreat! It wasn’t a part of my plans to create one, nor has it been a goal of mine, although I’ve held it as a distant possibility, a “maybe one day” kind of thing.
I’m delighted how it emerged in the most natural way possible, like most things in my life these days.
It’s also been interesting to notice what unfolds for me in this process since the decision to put it together was made.
Most notably, I feel a deep sense of trust as an underlying emotion every time I tune into the energy of this experience. No pressure, no stress. There’s a very different drive behind offering this work, which makes talking about it come from a truly relaxed place.
It is as if I’m not attached to the outcome because I fully trust that whatever needs to happen is already at play. (anyone resonate?)
As if I’m not pushing or needing people to sign up, rather having the deep knowing that the right people are going to show up…and they somehow do. (We’re almost halfway booked 2 weeks after announcing it)
And before you jump to whatever conclusions you might, let me get clear on this non-attachment thing. The reality is that the work I do pays my bills, and I have no other income. I have independently supported myself (and helped my family) since I was 17.
So, what is this non-attachment to outcomes?
Today, I view my work as a true offering rather than a means to reach a certain goal by the typical measures—revenues, customers, etc…
I feel no pressure to “achieve” anything, rather a deep knowing that I have something to give and whoever needs that thing will come to receive it.
This retreat (and all the rest of my work) is fundamentally grounded in this belief, attitude, and energy.
There are endless people who could benefit from it, and a lot who wouldn’t be a fit or won’t be ready for this work. My job is to show up with the most integrity and presence, speak my truth, be of service, and let the rest somehow sort itself out.
So let me share how the idea of this experience came about.
As some of you know, I had started working with a woman who instrumented and facilitated a huge leap of transformation for me. I met her during a challenging period I was navigating. You know, one of these moments, post-break-up, where your reality dissolves and you go through an actual death and rebirth process. These seemingly hard life circumstances we experience are, in fact, a real portal of transformation. When you know that, you can’t miss the opportunity to use this process intentionally, so you come to the other side with much more than if you’d just push through and let time heal.
Before I started working with her, I sought out and worked with 4 or 5 different coaches and therapists, but didn’t feel any of them had a meaningful impact on my process. Elitsa (Ellie) was a breath of fresh air. I experienced breakthrough after breakthrough with her and landed in a meaningfully different place.
When you work with someone at her level, you suddenly realize what excellence in the craft actually is—she is masterful. Having been in the coaching/therapy space for almost 10 years now, I recognize how few truly experienced practitioners there are.
So I began immersing myself in her approach, going to her retreats, attending her processes, and soon her teacher training. This is in perfect alignment with my desire to evolve my practice into a therapy-informed coaching approach. I believe the business world needs this now more than ever. So here we are!
To bring her into the community, we organized a 2-day event in Miami, which was incredible. Most of the people from the group continued to work with her, and we thought about doing a longer format with a slightly bigger group.
We both felt a lot of ease working together, and we had great feedback from the group in Miami. A month ago, we opened the doors to the 5-day immersive in Europe—a transformational experience designed for founders, leaders, and executives to rediscover their power, purpose, and identity.
This is not just another leadership retreat. We won't offer tactical tips, leadership frameworks, goal setting, or personality assessments. These might be important, but this isn’t our goal. We’re going deep.
We aim to create space for serious self-inquiry.
To meet yourself fully.
To look at what’s been shaping you, and who you’re becoming.
To see what's in the way of your energized, most alive self…to reconnect with inspiration, joy, and ease.
Why do we believe this work is needed?
And why should you care?
We live in a world that rewards intellect, drive, efficiency, and output. We’ve optimized everything—time, health, performance—until there’s very little space left for reflection, meaning-making, or genuine, vulnerable connection to self and others. We’ve learned to compartmentalize well, so that we can keep going. And we start to see the results of that everywhere: burnout, disconnection, poor decisions, poor health— in all realms— physical, mental and spiritual. We can’t stop running, but most of us no longer know where we’re going.
We’re running from some big, scary questions. Why am I really doing this? What am I sacrificing? Who am I without this? Am I happy? - in this job, relationship, community…
And of course, we run from big emotions. We mask their existence with more busyness and all the other distractions we create so that we don’t face our own truth.
What’s needed isn’t more productivity tools or leadership frameworks, but a way back to ourselves- to a deeper contact with our inner knowing of what’s good, life-giving, honest, and meaningful- toward what truly matters.
We have a process to facilitate that- a process that will transform your experience not just as a leader but as a human being.
I believe you’d agree with my observation that most people have spent years building up their intellect and pushing through adversity, but have never learned to listen to their body, access their inner guidance, or actually feel what’s under the surface. Most people operate from urgency, pressure and survival, even though there are resources, education and opportunities. And there’s cost to that.
Now more than ever, I believe we need to take a step toward exploring all the forms of intelligence available to us and learning to be with the entirety of our experience.
Now more than ever, we need leaders who know how to use both- their left and right hemispheres, logic and instinct, to take action and know how to pause.
Who’ve done the work to face their shadow so they’re not unconsciously leading from it.
Who can hold complexity, sit with contradiction, and access more than just their rational mind when making decisions?
That kind of leadership is rare, but it can be cultivated. And it’s necessary.
Why should you do deep work as a leader?
You can build a company, raise funding, hire great people, and even have a good outcome…and still feel deeply unsettled if you haven’t made true self-contact. If you haven’t gotten to know your essence, inner resources, deeper why, what life truly wants from you, and what made you who you are today.
You’ll lack real conviction, leak energy, push yourself beyond your bandwidth, react instead of respond, and repeat the same internal loops—just with a bigger platform and higher stakes.
Guided self-inquiry interrupts that cycle. It helps you surface what’s actually driving you—your patterns, coping mechanisms, fears, adaptations—so you can choose differently.
It’s not about becoming someone new. It’s about becoming more honest, clear, and ultimately sovereign. There’s wisdom and inner stability. You become grounded in who you are beneath the roles, the pressure, and the game.
When you do that, your leadership will change, but most importantly, your life will change.
That sustains you through transitions, success, and the inevitable complexity of being someone people look to for direction, answers, and support.
The truth is that the more power you have, the more responsibility you have for how you affect others and the world around you.
As Jung says, the work is to make the unconscious conscious. Otherwise, you risk passing those patterns on through your company, culture, team, and family.
That’s the real cost of not doing this work.
So when we say integration, we mean it in every sense:
Turning your mind and body online, the rational and intuitive, action and presence, and your full capacity to experience life moving through you!
It’s the integration of past experiences, of the parts of yourself you’ve suppressed or sidelined to “fit in” and “make it” in this world.
The integration of all that you deem unworthy or not good enough.
Now more than ever, we need to develop dimensionality within ourselves. A lot of the left-brained ‘intellectual’ power in arranging existing information into patterns becomes dominated by AI. No human can compete with that. We need to develop our senses fully and tap into a larger field of information. The doorway to that is within; it’s by developing a larger capacity to sense, intuit, and be connected to the larger system and life itself.
This work is much needed now because it’s becoming obvious that the old ways aren’t working.
We need leaders brave enough to lead differently and shape what comes next.
And to make it clear: this isn’t a break from the real work. This is the real work.
You’re invited to join the experience. Please find more information HERE.
We’re holding a small, highly curated, application-based group to preserve the depth and privacy of the container. We currently have only 8 spots left.
I will co-lead the experience with Elitsa, a world-class psychologist and facilitator whom I deeply respect and trust. In a gorgeous, nature-immersed location in Europe in August!