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The Wanderlust Entrepreneur Blog offers practical insights, guidance, and education for retreat leaders, coaches, and facilitators building retreats and retreat-based businesses.
Articles cover topics such as retreat planning, pricing, marketing, logistics, leadership, and the practical realities of creating retreats that are both meaningful and professionally run.
What do you do when WAR cancels your Retreat?
A retreat canceled by war just 48 hours before departure reveals the critical business, legal, and financial protections every retreat leader must have in place before leading a group abroad.
Is Retreat Pricing a Spiritual Practice?
Pricing your retreat properly isn’t just business math – it’s a leadership (and spiritual) decision that asks you to value your work, serve boldly through visibility, and stop undercharging in ways that harm you, your clients, and the entire industry.
How to Fill a Retreat the Old-School Way (Without Feeling Awkward or Salesy)
You can fill a meaningful, profitable retreat without social media by marketing the way retreats work best — through relationships, presence, and personal invitation.
You Don’t Need Social Media to Fill a Retreat (Really.)
You can fill a meaningful, profitable retreat without social media by marketing the way retreats work best — through relationships, presence, and personal invitation.
Do You Have a Confident Retreat Leader Mindset?
Running retreats isn’t just a business model – it’s a sacred expression of leadership. It requires a mindset powerful enough to hold the vision of what you’re creating.
Retreats as the New Revolution: Changing Lives, One Journey at a Time
Ever feel like the magic of leading retreats has quietly slipped away? You still love the work – but you’re exhausted from trying to fill them, frustrated by cancellations, and wondering where the joy went. Here’s how to reignite your passion.
When Retreats Stop Feeling Magical: How to Reclaim Your Spark
Ever feel like the magic of leading retreats has quietly slipped away? You still love the work – but you’re exhausted from trying to fill them, frustrated by cancellations, and wondering where the joy went. Here’s how to reignite your passion.
Your Retreat Is a Mirror: What It’s Trying to Teach You About Your Own Evolution
If there’s one thing I’ve learned after decades of designing, leading, and mentoring 1000's of transformational retreats - it’s this: your retreat will always reflect back to you exactly where you are on your own growth journey. Every. Single. Time. We like to think...
The Courage to Cancel: When Calling Off a Retreat Is the Smartest Business Move You Can Make
If you’ve ever found yourself staring at retreat numbers that just aren’t adding up… ...or feeling that gnawing intuition whispering, “Something’s not right" - you’re not alone. In the world of transformational retreats, we talk a lot about courage - the courage to...
Magical Thinking Will NOT Protect Your Retreat: Why Legal Forms Are Non-Negotiable
Let me be blunt for a minute (because this is too important to sugar-coat). I can’t tell you how many times I hear retreat leaders say something like: “Oh, my folks don't need to sign waivers or forms. My clients adore me. Nothing bad will happen on my retreat.”...
