On what becomes possible when ambitious women finally put it all down, and why the four or five days in the right place can shift more than a year at your desk.

The magic of space and place

Think about the last time you genuinely put it all down. Not for an hour or an evening, but properly down. No inbox, no calendar, no quiet running list of who you haven’t replied to and what’s still on the kitchen counter at home. Most senior women cannot remember the last time.

The habits, the worries, the small anxieties, they have been accompanying you around for so long that they have stopped feeling like things you are carrying. They just feel like you. And every month they get a little heavier without you noticing.

Retreat is the place when you finally put them down and let go of them forever.

The real magic of the retreats I host is not the strategy sessions, though those are good!

It is the space, and the place, and the time out of the manic day-to-day running of your life and your wor...