Do It Scared!

What if it fails miserable?

What if I don’t provide enough?

What if no one comes?

What if they hate it?

~~ All the little ‘what if's’ floating through my brain for months, weeks, days before hosting my first Women’s Retreat. and truthfully…. they were all a LIE!!

I’ve been attending retreats since my early 20’s. Attending, Participating, and eventually Speaking & Teaching & Facilitating at retreats, at workshops, at business conferences, and at spiritually based gatherings. Platforms are not new to me, although nowadays they’ve changed shapes and sizes. Not necessarily in a good or bad way, just different. And to be honest, I like the view of this season.

Hosting my very own Retreat felt like an exciting little dream that I just put in my pocket and carried around with me … for a long long time. I mean long time. Each event that I attended or spoke at continued to solidify my ‘vision’ for what my own would look like or feel like. All those other seasons of change continued to influence what I would or could produce to offer to this world. I just never thought it would be now and it would look like this. I never really believed that those ‘what if’s’ would be so powerful, so intense, so able to hold me back. But they did.

So I had to… Do It Scared!

I had to book the venue before anyone said YES (or paid for their spot)!

I had to create a framework and trust that God was going to bring me the right tools to create the workshops.

I had to believe that what I was providing was an opportunity for an amazing experience, full knowing each women would arrive and leave as two different women, each of them gleaning something unique from the weekend.

I had to trust that lives would be transformed and ‘hate’ wouldn’t be anywhere near what we were doing.

I had to Do It Scared… and I did.

The IGNITE Sisterhood was created as a space for women like me to come together and do life together. To figure out what mid-life actually means (how in the world can I be 49 years old already). To create some clarity from the chaos that life had created as I was floating by dealing with a career, and getting through a season of single-parenting two amazing kids, through lots of bills to pay & sacrifices, and trying to find that i’m-exhausted-and-need-girlfriend-time. I woke up one day and the kids were adults. and I was dating a really amazing man, named Aaron, who went on to become my husband. BUT… I was craving clarity. I was craving real connection with other women who were more interested in praying for me and challenging me to be better than gossiping and drinking the weekend away.

The IGNITE Sisterhood was born from that craving for authentic connection, or reconnection I guess, to myself and to other women who had lost themselves somewhere along the way but were ready to do the work and reconnect. And there they were…. the other women, sitting all around me, secretly craving the same authenticity and clarity I had been craving. And now we do life together. We focus on Faith, Family, Finances, Fitness (both mental & physical), Fulfillment (what brings me joy), and Focus (wherever you put your heart & hand to work).

From this work… the RESET Retreat came alive. Knowing that women need time away. Knowing that we’ve not been taught to REST well. Knowing that we’ve got to do the deep work if the ACTION is going to mean anything! From this place, the RESET Retreat came alive and OH, WHAT AN ADVENTURE IT WAS.

RESET Retreat #1 just finished March2nd 2025 - we had 8 women say YES the themselves and 2 of us co-facilitate. My best friend, Kellie, came from Indiana in all her creative genius to build this beautiful sisterhood. Eight women took a chance on a RESET Weekend and each of us left CHANGED, TRANSFORMED, REFRESHED. We worked through the Becoming HER Blueprint and processed with an Art Integration piece that was life-changing for all involved.

This photo is me after the 3 nights were done, the deep-dives were traversed, the tears were mopped up, the food was eaten with laughter and stories, the action-plans were created and curated for each one… and it was all packed up in cars to find home…. this photo is me standing in the space, arms open wide, praising God for the idea to begin with and for never giving up on me, even when I didn’t believe in myself. This is me in complete surrender to the one and only God of the Universe… saying use me how you will King Jesus.

This is me after I Did It Scared.

... and oh, what a success it was.

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