A TEDx speaker, author of Finding Fantastic Joy, and a former elected official who walked away from twenty-five years in politics to lead women through the work of remembering themselves. I know what it feels like to build a life that looks right from the outside and still sense that something sacred is missing — and I know what it takes to say yes to yourself anyway. I have been guiding circles to the sacred ground of Teotihuacán for over a decade — twelve trips and counting — leading women through art, ritual, and community in a place where the land itself holds you accountable to your own becoming. Every journey has changed me as much as it has changed the women who walked it with me. And this year, for the first time, I am not holding the fire alone.

A storyteller and guide, a fourth-generation Coloradoan who grew up on the back of a horse — rooted in land, instinct, and the kind of knowing that comes from paying attention to what can’t always be named. I have spent much of my life in motion — a million-miler across continents, moving between boardrooms and sacred spaces, between strategy and story, between worlds that don’t often speak to one another. Living inside that tension has shaped how I hold space. For over two decades, I have walked alongside women at moments of transformation — witnessing what they carry, the visible and the unseen, and carrying it too. This retreat is a more intimate expression of that path: a space to explore the deeper currents of creativity, sacred feminine wisdom, and the stories that shape who we are becoming. I will also be bringing selections from my aunt Lydia Ruyle’s goddess banner collection — images that have traveled the world reminding us of the power, beauty, and spiritual authority of the feminine.