I’m Sheri Rosenthal, and I’m a certified retreat junkie.

It all started back in 1998, when I finally admitted to myself that I had never been truly happy in my life. So I sold my very successful medical practice, and my beautiful home. I even closed the surgical residency program I had created and been directing (yes, that was a pretty big deal — and yes, the medical community thought I was NUTS).

Fortunately, during that time I received a copy of don Miguel Ruiz’s NY Times bestselling book (The Four Agreements®) and decided to go on one of his retreats to Mexico. That was my first experience with transformational retreats – and also where Meghan and I first met.

That journey literally changed my life. And as a result of that retreat, I became a student of don Miguel as well as working for him where I was privileged to design and organize all his journeys and retreats worldwide. It was an incredible opportunity that inspired me to give birth to both my own coaching practice as well as my travel agency, Journeys of the Spirit® which I created to host my own retreats.

Now of course don Miguel’s retreats always filled, after all he was a New York Times best-selling author. But I had made the assumption that my retreats would sell as easily as his when I first started coaching. Unfortunately that was NOT the case.

Some of my retreats sold, yet others didn’t and I lost thousands of dollars in non-refundable deposits along the way and made a LOT of mistakes. I obviously knew how to run a successful medical practice but NOT how to fill a retreat.

There was SO MUCH to learn in the online digital world. How do you find clients? How do you effectively advertise retreats online? How do you link all the technology together?  How do you figure out where to go and what your pricing should be? What laws apply and what insurance did I need? Gosh, there were so many details.

I finally got to the point where I thought, “Maybe this just isn’t for me? Maybe I’m not techy enough? Maybe I don’t have enough time? Maybe I’m just not enough.”

But I was deeply passionate about retreats and never gave up and so I learned the hard way. I systematically broke down exactly what was worth investing time in and where to focus. I worked out how to put retreats and retreat-ready businesses together step-by-step and task-by-task. I figured out how to run retreats legally and to build them into the fabric of my business model so that I wasn’t always struggling to find more clients. And that’s when things started to change.

As a result, other retreat leaders started coming to me asking if I could help them plan and manage their retreats since they were having the same issues I’d been having! And since 2003, my travel company, Journeys of the Spirit, has probably run and managed more retreats than any travel business out there.

Now I live abroad at least 2 months a year – I can live and work anywhere in the world. Every year I send my parents on a trip someplace in the world. I’ve hired a team who helps me run my business which takes a load off my plate. And I’ve been able to support building a school through Pencils of Promise, which is a special dream of mine, giving back in a big way. The best part is that I get to do what I love every day.

Now we serve and impact a community of 70 thousand incredible entrepreneurs, like yourself. The reason I wanted to share all of this with you is because I want the same for you, I just don’t want you to go through it the way I did with all the trial and error, fatigue, financial stress, and overwhelm.

Now you’re here listening to me as an aspiring retreat leader and you know you’re meant to do retreats and do them successfully right? And you’re probably very clear on where you are and where you want to be, but you just don’t know the best way to get there.

Well, that’s why we created Retreats Made Easy. It makes the process of creating transformational local retreats in your own country so much simpler and easier when you know the proper keys to planning and filling your successful retreat.

What used to take me months when I was first planning my retreats now takes me only a few hours. I’ll be sharing with you step-by-step how to stop dreaming about travel and transformation and instead take action planning and filling your retreats – all while building your retreat-ready business. That way we avoid any overwhelm together.

We’ve had participants add tens of thousands of dollars to their income and take their clients on their first retreat to a place they’ve always dreamed of going. And others have doubled the number of people who have attended their retreats.

In our course, we’ll explain how you can avoid the most common mistakes retreat leaders make – and this applies to both newbie retreat leaders and highly experienced ones – and of course ALL the solutions to fixing these.  I hope you join us!