You're clear that something has to shift but you don't quite know (or want to admit?) what that is... let alone how the hell to actually do it. That's where I come in.
— WendyYou're just taking a quick break to pee — but your phone buzzes with an urgent client message. You don't think twice about answering it. And somewhere along the way, you've almost forgotten that there is no moment too small, too private, or too personal to be interrupted by work.
You're living the life you used to dream about. But you almost don't want it anymore. Not the way it is right now.
You check email one more time before bed and then can't turn your brain off. You've prioritized a client message over dinner with your partner or kids more times than you want to count. You take a Saturday off and spend most of it feeling vaguely guilty — like you're stealing time that doesn't belong to you.
The hard truth is that the relationships you care about most are getting the version of you that's left over after everything else.
You have moments of being present with the people you love, but work problems feel easier to solve than personal ones. You can't remember the last time you actually relaxed.
Just because you're still delivering, still showing up, still keeping the plates spinning doesn't mean you're thriving. Fine is a long way from happy, alive, and free.
The version of yourself you've been quietly outgrowing is creating friction everywhere — in your relationships, your work, maybe your sex life — because the life you built doesn't fit who you are anymore.
"That's more than a strategy problem. It's an alignment problem. And it needs a whole-life solution."
I had the two gorgeous kids and the dedicated husband. The six-figure business, the team of eight, the personal assistant, the dream working vacations. I had checked enough boxes to realize that kind of happiness is fleeting — if you feel it at all.
I thought the answer was better systems, more help, smarter delegation. But eventually I realized there was no limit to the amount of work I could come up with, and I finally had to ask: what's the point?
"I was in our Hawaii dream bedroom watching dolphins swim by — and I couldn't get out of bed for four days. My nervous system was destroyed. My marriage ended. I walked away from a $160,000 a year business to start over."
I've never once regretted taking those steps in the direction of what felt true and right to me. In the years since, I've fundamentally re-oriented my life and my business to better honor my body's signals. That re-orientation is exactly what I help you do on this retreat — without having to hit the kind of wall I did first.
I work from one simple belief: there are no right answers in general — but there IS a right answer for YOU in any given moment. I'm here to help you find it.
A Private Retreat With Wendy Garrido — Friday Dinner to Sunday Brunch. Just the two of us. You come to me in Northern California or Florida, or I come to you.
Our time together is one third nervous-system immersion, one third business implementation VIP day, and one third life coaching intensive — not separated into segments, but ebbing and flowing based on what's coming up for you.
Northern California or Florida
You travel to a quiet Airbnb Wendy hand-picks near the San Francisco Bay Area — somewhere with nice light, a peaceful view, access to nature, and enough stillness that your nervous system finally gets to exhale.
Wendy travels to your location
Wendy meets you near your home or along your travels. She finds the perfect Airbnb so you don't have to go anywhere — your transformation arrives at your door.
No added stress. No rigid schedule. A Working Immersion Where You Get a Lived Experience of What it's Like to Get a Ton of Shit Figured Out Quickly While Honoring Your Nervous System More than Ever Before.
Friday dinner through Sunday brunch — ~16 hours of nervous-system-aware work. Part business VIP day, part life coaching intensive, part somatic reset.
Nice light. Peaceful view. Access to nature. Selected to actually settle your nervous system.
Simple, delicious, dietary-preference-aware. Some of the best work happens in the kitchen.
So you hit the ground running. You arrive already knowing what's been draining you and what you secretly want.
Because it's all about your relationship to power, pleasure and pain. We go where the real friction is so your business and personal life can stop pulling against each other.
Big ideas are only as useful as your ability to execute them well. You get strategic, experienced input across the practical pieces that help your business actually move.
Your personalized 90-day plan. The decisions made. The next steps. The work to do — and the work to stop doing.
Direct line to Wendy as you implement. Clarity is one thing. The courage to act on it is another.
If you don't feel, by Saturday night, that this weekend has already been worth every dollar you invested, I will write you a check for $5,000.
You'll no longer be the only one looking at the big picure and the smallest details of making it all work while being true to yourself and caring for your loved ones.
Backed by the $5,000 Saturday Night Guarantee
The work we got done on the first day alone was worth the cost of the entire program.
I didn't know it was possible to do this much in this time frame. I thought there was no way we were going to make it through my list — it seemed so insurmountable, but it wasn't.

Not a luxury spa. Not a 48-hour grind. Both of us, doing life, focused on you, fully in it together — busting through massive shifts when we're feeling it, and resting when we're not.
Dinner together. Decompress, get the urgent stuff off your chest, and start building a loose agenda based on what's most alive for you. You sleep on it — overnight integration is part of the work.
One third nervous-system immersion, one third business implementation, one third life coaching intensive — flowing and pivoting based on what's emerging. By Saturday night you'll feel like a week has passed.
We crystallize everything into your custom 90-day roadmap. Specific actions, specific boundaries, specific yeses and noes. You leave with practical next steps AND a felt sense of why they matter.
Wendy is in your pocket via audio memo, Marco Polo and/or text as you implement and integrate your work together. The clarity you'll get during the weekend is huge. But you won't be alone as you navigate (and celebrate!) having the courage to follow through and move forward afterwards. She's in it with you.
You're a pro at what you do. You've built something real. But somewhere between the growth and the grind, you lost the thread of why you started — and you're ready to find it again, along with a clearer vision for where you're going next.
You are fiercely devoted to your own evolution. You have emotional intelligence in spades. Only your business and relationships are still a match for who you were five years ago — not who you are today.
You can be a powerhouse in the boardroom and completely lost by the time you get home. Whether single or partnered, monogamous or exploring — we'll find the crossovers between your business and personal life to strengthen both.
Because the fact is, there are many times what seems best for your business is not best for your life, and vice versa. So which do you prioritize? When? How do you know?
How many business coaches also coach you on your sex life? I do. Because it's all related. I won't go there if it isn't coming up for us — but as I ask questions and tune into your energy, that might be exactly where we start. Because we can talk about the most exciting new business ideas, but if you're stuck in a relationship with someone who was a match for who you were fifteen years ago, you're not living a life that's going to inspire you.
Your confidence, your power, your aliveness, your ability to surrender and receive — they weave through every area of your life. We can't make your business better until we see how it fits into the whole picture of your life.
That's the kind of work we do on this retreat. And there is no one out there doing anything like this.
Six months later — my finances, my clients, my confidence, and my relationships are all in a dramatically better place.
After our weekend retreat, I felt like I wasn't alone in my business anymore — I had a true partner in my mission to change the world. Her ability to help me prioritize tasks and fill in gaps in my strategy is invaluable. The quarterly retreats give me space to work ON my business, not just in it.

Every time we've invested in working with Wendy, it's paid off in dividends.
Wendy's ability to work with you as a person — to uncover what's under the layers, get deeper into your motivation, desires, and fears — is what makes her unique and invaluable. We've been in business nine years and every time we've invested in working with Wendy, it's paid off in dividends.

She's committed to my success in a way I haven't felt from anyone else.
By the time I found Wendy, I'd been through many programs — content thrown at me without any real connection. With Wendy, I found someone with the resilience to be present in the difficult conversations. I've never felt more hopeful and supported.

Every idea I bring her — when she's done with it, it's just more amazing.
What sets Wendy apart is how attuned she is to finding ways to grow your business without sacrificing your self-care. For over a decade, I have come back to Wendy because of her brain and intuition.

I've made more progress in the short time I've worked with her than in the prior ten years.
Wendy reads people exceptionally well. She just sees things other people don't. The progress I've made in working with her in a short time — it's more than I made in the prior ten years on my own.

No negotiation, no hard feelings, no questions asked. I'm not making that offer because I think you'll need it. I'm making it because I want you to walk into Friday dinner without a single reservation — so we can get straight to the work that's going to change your life.
I've been doing this work for over a decade, and I've never once had someone walk away feeling like it wasn't worth it. That's how confident I am in what happens when we're in that room together.
Why didn't I make more time with the people I love and pursue what I really wanted deep down?
You're passionate about what you do. You were enough of a dreamer to start your business, enough of a pragmatist to make it profitable, and enough of a self-improvement junkie to be close to outgrowing it. So you find yourself racing through your days trying to keep up with it all.
It's the old adage of not having time to sharpen the axe. You're so frantically chopping away that you can't see that if you'd just stop and sharpen the axe, you'd get twice as much done in half the time.
And even though you tell yourself you don't have time to stop, we both know that if someone you love got in an accident tomorrow, your priorities would drastically shift.
I sincerely hope it doesn't take a tragedy or a close call to get you to take time for what matters.
Friday dinner to Sunday brunch. Just the two of us. A quiet Airbnb with good light, a peaceful view, and enough stillness that your nervous system finally gets to exhale. You come to me in Northern California or Florida, or I come to you.
The investment is $25k for Wendy to come to you, or $20k if you come to her. Backed by the $5,000 Saturday Night Guarantee.
After you pay your deposit, we'll schedule your retreat weekend at your convenience. And if Saturday isn't ideal, we can build it around any days of the week that work best for you.