Community for ambitious women
We take you into the wild for what the thrill leaves in you. We help each other channel it into what's next for you. Hard things. Together. Again and again.
Ambition is a team sport. Something happens when ambitious women do something hard together: the performance drops, the brain rewires, and we help each other channel it into what's next.
Start with a dinner. Or a trail. Or the whole mountain. Women find their way in all the time — here's yours.
Twelve to seventeen women. Colorado high country or a Nicaragua volcano. Days built to move your career, not just your heart rate.
Save your spot →The fire that stays lit between the gatherings. Dinners, trail days, and a close circle of women who still know your name in five years.
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Let's talk →Dinners, roundtables, group trail days and 1:1 guided days run through membership. Ask about any of them when you reach out.
Ambitious women have no shortage of networks and no shortage of wellness. What they can't buy is a small group of peers who know the real version and will tell them the truth about their next move. Panels, mentorship programs and offsites all fail at the same point: nobody drops the performance. Shared challenge in the wild does in a day what a network can't do in a decade. Effort drives neuroplasticity. Big country shrinks the ego. Hard challenges done together produce the deepest bond social science can measure. We engineer that bond, then point it at the work.
And because the wild does so much for us, we treat it with care: Leave No Trace on every trail, local guides and businesses wherever we go, and something given back to every place that hosts us.
The trail doesn't care about your title. Neither does the ocean. Altitude, surf, jungle heat, and miles do what conference halls can't - they make the conversation honest.
Your legs will burn on the climb. Paddle out anyway. Scramble up anyway. Doing something hard with your body unlocks what you came here to say.
Twelve to seventeen 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.
The wild is the method. The career is the point.
Leave it wilder
The places that change us are worth protecting. We travel light, treat the land and the people on it with respect, and want every place we visit to be better for our having been there.
We follow Leave No Trace on every trail, beach and river. What we carry in, we carry out.
We work with local guides, cooks and businesses wherever we go, so the money a retreat brings stays with the people who live there.
Each retreat gives something back to the place that hosts us. We share the details with each group before the trip.
We go deep into the fabric of every place we visit - learning about the women who built it or had a big part in shaping it. Their stories are part of the trip.
Every gathering runs one arc: the audit, the peer board, the summit conversation, the 90-day plan. Trail or surf in the morning, work in the afternoon, fire at night. You leave with a decision in writing, an accountability partner, and a board made of the women you came with.
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.
The peer board.
Your 60-minute hot seat with the operators, founders and executives in your group, working your hardest problem. A board of directors most careers never get.
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.
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 made of the women you came with.
Next gatherings
Limited to 17Colorado · High country
December 3-6, 2026
Thu–Sun · one flight to Denver
Spots remaining: 9 of 17
Four days in the high country. Alpenglow, black coffee, and a question you've been avoiding. Come down the mountain with an answer - and sixteen women who heard you find it.
The house: Aspen Falls, a private 30-acre estate in Estes Park. See the venue at wildambition.org/colorado-aspen-falls.
You leave with
$3,000 · $500 deposit, balance due when you book
Nicaragua · Volcano & coast
May 12-16, 2027
Wed–Sun · fly to Managua
Spots remaining: 12 of 12
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
$4,500 · $500 deposit, balance over monthly payments
5 minutes, no commitment
A real 20-minute conversation. You're choosing us too.
$500 deposit, then the balance per your retreat's terms
The Wild Collective
Start free with Trailhead, or choose Trail Circle or Trail Guide. All prices are in USD. Join without approval; pay for your selected membership by card.
| What's included | TrailheadFree · USD $0 | Trail CircleUSD $39/month | Trail GuideUSD $349/month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Event visibility | Included | Included | Included |
| The Wild Ambition Letter | Included | Included | Included |
| Member directory | Not included | Included | Included |
| Member-led service exchange | Not included | Included | Included |
| Member pricing on dinners and trail days | Not included | Included | Included |
| Retreat priority window | Not included | Included | Included |
| Quarterly members' call | Not included | Included | Included |
| One 30-minute 1:1 session with Debra each month | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Choose your membership | Join free | Join Trail Circle | Join Trail Guide |
Retreat costs are separate. Priority gives access to the member booking window; capacity and the ordered waitlist still apply. No joining call is required.
Full terms and the 1:1 session details are on the membership page.
Founder and group guide
From the founder
I built Wild Ambition around what 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.
What I didn't expect was what it does to a group. On a volcano trail I watched women stop performing and start saying the truth to each other. That's the rewiring I wanted to build around: not the thrill alone, but the thrill, together, pointed at something.
I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie. When you're in the middle of something that scares you a little, your brain rewires and you stop performing. I watched it happen to a group of women on a volcano trail and understood what I wanted to build: that rewiring, but together.
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 life 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 work 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
Panels inform. Shared challenge bonds. We're the only program that engineers the second and attaches a leadership arc to it: audit, peer board, executive keynote, written 90-day plan. The women you send come back with decisions made, not just batteries recharged.
FAQ
You can reach out on your own; you don't need to bring a friend or a group. Choose a group adventure or flagship retreat to meet other women, or ask about a 1:1 guided adventure. Tell us you're coming solo and discuss the group, accommodation and arrival arrangements before booking.
Wild Ambition brings outdoor adventure and structured professional work together. Trail days and surf sit alongside sessions about your career, business or next move. You can also join dinners and working sessions, explore a 1:1 adventure, or request membership in The Wild Collective between gatherings.
Yes. Tell us which country you'd be travelling from and what you're looking for. The current retreat destinations are Colorado and Nicaragua, not trips in every country. Confirm dates, entry requirements, travel arrangements and booking terms before buying flights.
Ambitious women - founders, executives, builders and women at a turning point - who want adventure, real connection and space to think about what's next in their work and life.
In the Colorado high country and on Nicaragua's volcano coast. The Nicaragua retreat runs May 12-16, 2027 and Colorado runs December 3-6, 2026. Groups stay small so every woman is known.
Both, woven together. Trail days, surf and time by the fire sit alongside structured sessions on your career, business or next move. You leave with clarity and a plan.
Both. A 1:1 session is virtual by video or phone, or in person doing an adventure activity together. In person is local to Denver and the Colorado high country, or we travel to you anywhere in the world. Individual time with Debra is for what you're navigating in your work or life, and is paid and separate from membership and the conversation before joining. A 60-minute virtual session is $350. An in-person adventure day near Denver starts at $750.
Fill in the short form at the bottom of this page. It takes about two minutes, there's no payment and no commitment. We read every one and reach out personally.
Tell us where you would be travelling from in your inquiry. Ask us to confirm arrival arrangements, activity suitability, what's included and the full booking terms before making travel plans. Nicaragua runs May 12-16, 2027; Colorado runs December 3-6, 2026.
Yes. Professional sessions sit alongside adventure and conversation. Bring the decisions you're facing in your career, consultancy, company or next move. Share your goals in the inquiry so we can talk about the fit.
If you can walk uphill for a couple of hours with breaks, you're ready. Trail days are matched to the group - effort, not punishment. This is not a fitness test.
Moderate. We hike 3–6 miles on trail days with elevation. Every route has an easier option, and nobody gets left behind.
All lodging, all meals, all guided experiences, all facilitation, and ground transport during the retreat. Flights to Managua (Nicaragua) or Denver (Colorado) are not included.
When a retreat opens for sign-ups, members of The Wild Collective get a priority window before anyone else. Confirm your spot inside the window and it is held before sign-ups open to everyone. After the window closes, remaining spots go to all inquiries in the order they arrive.
A waitlist opens and fills in order if a spot frees up. If you are a member and the retreat fills before you claim, the guarantee stays with you: you get the pick of the next retreat before sign-ups open to anyone else.
Retreat participation requires a call and approval. If you are not approved, your deposit is refunded in full. Once approved, the deposit is non-refundable and credits another retreat. The balance is refundable up to 60 days before the retreat. Inside 60 days, your spot is transferable to another woman.
Yes. Every gathering runs under the Chatham House Rule: you can use what you hear, you never attribute who said it. That's what makes the peer board honest.
Yes - many companies sponsor spots as an investment in the women on their team, at every level. We provide an invoice and a one-page brief for your manager or HR team. Email hello@wildambition.org.
Yes. A $500 deposit counts toward your retreat. A call and approval are required before a spot is confirmed; if approval is declined, the full deposit payment is refunded. For Nicaragua, the balance splits over monthly payments, finishing 30 days before the retreat. For Colorado, the full balance is due when you book.
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