120 min
per week in nature is the threshold linked to significantly higher health and wellbeing.
Source · White et al., Scientific Reports, 2019
Community for ambitious women
Charged. Awake. Alive.
We take you into the wild for what the thrill leaves in you. We help each other channel it into whatever you're building. Hard things. Together. Again and again.
Ways in
Start with a dinner. Or a trail. Or the whole mountain. Women find their way in all the time — here's yours.
Curated Experiences
Dinners, working sessions, and roundtables. Eight women, one long table, the conversation the offsite never gets to.
1:1 Adventure
One woman, one guide, one hard thing. A day in the wild built around what you're actually working through.
Group Adventure
A small group, a real trail, and the kind of effort that makes everyone honest by the summit.
Flagship Retreats
Twelve women. Colorado high country or a Nicaragua volcano. Days built to move your career, not just your heart rate.
Corporate Experiences
For companies investing in the women they can't afford to lose. Designed and produced by Eterna Concepts.
Let's talk →Membership: The Ember
The fire that stays lit between the gatherings. A close circle of women, year-round, who still know your name in five years.
I want in.
For ambitious women who want friendship, momentum, and adventure. Find your way into the next gathering.
Lead the wayI want to invest in my women.
For companies and leaders who believe retention, development, and renewal happen in the wild.
Let's talkYou're not looking for the exit. You want more of what's already pulling at you - and women to do the hard things beside you. That's what this is.
Wild Ambition is where that gets said out loud.
The wild is the method.
High-country trail in Colorado. Jungle paths and Pacific surf in Nicaragua. Different terrain, same effect - nature strips the performance off a conversation, and thrill unlocks the rest.
Nature
The trail doesn't care about your title. Neither does the ocean. Altitude, surf, jungle heat, and miles do what conference rooms can't - they make the conversation honest.
Adventure
Your legs will burn on the climb. Paddle out anyway. Scramble up anyway. Doing a hard thing with your body unlocks the hard thing you came here to say.
Honest conversation
Twelve women, zero networking. Around the fire, the question isn't what do you do - it's what do you want. Most of us haven't been asked in years.
This is not a yoga retreat.
Trail or surf in the morning. Work in the afternoon. Fire at night. Every day is built to move your career or company forward - the wild just makes the conversation honest.
- 01
Basecamp
The audit.
Where are you, really? A structured working session to name what's compounding, what's costing you, and the decision you've been circling.
- 02
Ascent
The peer board.
Your 60-minute hot seat with eleven operators, founders, and executives working your hardest problem. A board of directors most careers never get.
- 03
Summit
The keynote conversation.
An accomplished woman hikes the summit day with us - then takes your questions by the fire. No stage. No panel. No PR answers.
In Colorado, an alpine summit. In Nicaragua, a volcano.
- 04
Descent
The 90-day plan.
You leave with a decision made, three moves in writing, an accountability partner from the group, and two follow-up calls at 30 and 60 days.
You don't leave with a feeling. You leave with a decision, a 90-day plan, and a board of eleven.
The Manifesto
Community for ambitious women who want friendship, momentum, and adventure. We take you into the wild for what the thrill leaves in you.Charged. Awake. Alive.We help each other channel it into whatever you're building. Hard things. Together. Again and again.
Mission
We take ambitious women into wild places and honest company, and help them channel what it sparks into momentum - together, again and again.
Vision
A world where women measure success by how alive they feel and how boldly they move - never having to choose between the two, and never doing it alone.
Who this is for
Ambitious women running at something — not away from it.
- Senior women with more they want to build, and the drive to go get it.
- Women who love the ambition and want to feel alive inside it — not trade one for the other.
- Women who can't step off the path and don't want to — they want momentum, not an exit.
- Women who want a few people they'd actually call at 11pm, built on a trail instead of a panel.
The three forces
What changes a woman, every time.
01
Nature
Big country, real weather, landscapes that humble you. Out here the noise drops out and your own voice gets loud again.
02
Adventure
Earned miles. Cold mornings. The kind of effort that reminds you what you're actually made of.
03
Connection
A small circle of women you'd call at 11pm. Built on a trail, not a panel stage.
The truth of it
What the body knows. What the soul remembers.
Nature, challenge, and circle have always been the tools of transformation. The research only catches up to what women have known for generations: wild places change you. Hard miles open you. A trusted circle holds you while you become who you're meant to be.
+30%
average lift in self-efficacy and resilience reported across adventure programs for women.
Source · Journal of Experiential Education meta-analyses
We design every retreat around these three forces - time in real wilderness, earned physical challenge, and a small, trusted circle of women - because the mountains and the data say the same thing.
What you leave with
You come back more yourself.
- -Clarity on what's actually yours to carry.
- -Courage to make the next hard call.
- -A handful of women in your corner - for real.
- -A wider, wilder definition of success.
- -A feeling, finally, of being awake in your own life.
Intimate by Design
Twelve at a time.
Every retreat is intentionally small. Twelve women. No noise, no strangers' schedules, no performative networking. You get real access, real conversation, and a peer group that will still know your name in five years.
Member pricing, held for you
Direct access to Debra
Priority access to every retreat
What we're building
Clarity on what's next
Space, distance, and the right questions - so you leave with a direction, not just a good week.
Twelve women who tell the truth
Not contacts. Not a network. Women who heard the real version and stayed.
A definition of success that's yours
Not your industry's. Not your family's. Not LinkedIn's. Yours.
One thing, not three
The trail, the journal, and the career you're building - all one conversation.
Wild Ambition isn't adventure on one side and reflection on the other, with your work life left at the trailhead. It's all woven together. The ridge in the morning is the same conversation as the journal in the afternoon and the leadership session by the fire. Your body, your inner life, and your career walking the same path for once.
Morning · on the trail
Earned miles. Cold air. The questions you've been avoiding finally have somewhere to land.
Afternoon · with a journal
Solo reflection and small-circle conversation. The same questions, slowed down - written, spoken, heard.
Evening · by the fire
Real sessions on what you're building. Career, leadership, the next hard call - with women who've actually sat in those chairs.
This isn't a retreat from your career. It's a retreat for it.
Because the woman on the ridge, the one with the journal, and the one running the team on Monday are the same woman. We design every day so they finally get to talk to each other.
- -Morning movement - trail, summit, or volcano rim
- -Guided reflection and solo time built into every day
- -Small-circle conversation in groups of 4–6
- -Career mapping & next-chapter strategy
- -Leadership roundtables on power, voice, and presence
- -Peer coaching from women in tech, CPG, agencies, and startups
- -The conversation you can't have at the offsite
A day on retreat
Every day is different. This is the shape of one.
5:45am
Morning light
Coffee before the world wakes up. Optional. Almost everyone comes.
6:30am
On the trail
3–6 miles depending on the day. Moderate to challenging. No one gets left behind.
9:30am
Breakfast & debrief
Hot food, long table, slow conversation. What moved on the trail stays at the table.
1:00pm
Solo time
Unstructured. Journal, nap, walk alone. Some of the best thinking happens here.
3:00pm
Small circle sessions
Groups of 4–6. Facilitated conversation on what you're building and what's in the way.
7:00pm
Fire & dinner
The session that never ends on schedule. This is where things get honest.
Next gatherings
Two landscapes. One feeling.
Limited to 12Colorado · High country
Colorado
TBD
Seven days in the high country. Alpenglow, black coffee, and a question you've been avoiding. Come down the mountain with an answer - and eleven women who heard you find it.
You leave with
- A decision made and a written 90-day plan
- A peer board of eleven women who know the real version
- Two group accountability calls after you're home
- Workshops on the move you're actually facing
TBD · payment plans available
Nicaragua · Volcano & coast
Nicaragua
May 12-16, 2027
A private ocean-view villa in the jungle above Playa Maderas. Volcano trails, surf in Pacific swell, howler monkeys at sunrise - far enough from your calendar that you can finally hear yourself. This isn't a retreat from your career. It's a retreat for it.
The house: a six-suite, art-filled villa between Playa Maderas and Playa Marsella - pool, ocean views, and a jungle path that ends at the surf. Twelve women, no strangers' schedules.
You leave with
- A decision made and a written 90-day plan
- A peer board of eleven women who know the real version
- Two group accountability calls after you're home
- Workshops on the move you're actually facing
TBD · payment plans available
How it works
- 01
Reach out
5 minutes, no commitment
- 02
We talk
A real 20-minute conversation. You're choosing us too.
- 03
Reserve your seat
$1000 deposit, balance split over monthly payments
Founder · Wild Ambition
From the founder
I built the thing I went looking for and couldn't find.
I built Wild Ambition around the thing I have done since I was a kid: getting outside, moving my body, and coming alive in places that demand everything and give more back.
I am happiest with salt on my skin, dirt on my boots, or my heart still hammering from a climb. I have always found my joy there - in the silence after a hard hike when my brain finally decompressed, in the thrill of hopping on a surfboard, in the peace of being underwater with only the sound of my own breath. In the fullness of sitting with other women, hearing their stories, and watching us help each other thrive.
That is what I want to share. Not an escape from ambition, but the place where ambition starts to feel honest again.
I walked the polished path too - the title, the salary, the right answers on paper - and still kept hearing the question underneath. The one you don't bring up at the offsite. The one that doesn't fit on a five-year plan. I went looking for the fire where ambitious women told the truth, where success wasn't a job title and rest wasn't a productivity hack. I didn't find it. So I started walking instead - volcanoes in Nicaragua, ridgelines in Colorado, long cold mornings with women I trusted. That's where things finally moved.
Wild Ambition is that fire, made real. Wild places, hard miles, small circles of women who've actually been there too. It's the most useful thing I know how to build.
If any of this lands in your chest — the pull, not the escape — you're already one of us. — Debra
15+ years leading inside Fortune 500 brands · experiences built for Gatorade, Mastercard, Netflix · a lifetime in the mountains
A better way to invest in the women you can't afford to lose.
Panels don't change anything. A working week on the mountain does. Every Wild Ambition retreat runs on a leadership development arc - audit, peer board, executive keynote, and a written 90-day plan - so the women you send come back with decisions made, not just batteries recharged.
RetentionLeadership developmentRenewal
FAQ
Questions worth asking.
The best tables are the most curated.
Small groups. Real conversation. The same women who keep coming back. Come pull up a chair.
Lead the way
A few short questions, then a real conversation. Debra reads every one and confirms every seat herself.