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The Global Élanoura Collective
24 countries, 72 cities - Élanoura brings together women founders from around the globe to make a difference with what we do, leading the way and changing the world through business. Our Collective spans countries and generations, from new GenZ founders or founders-to-be looking for guidance on how to build a business to be a positive force, to Millennial ex-girlbosses unfulfilled after years of hustling and grinding, to longtime GenX founders reflecting back upon how big their legacy can be, we are all striving for purpose, connection, and impact. We have also just launched two scholarship opportunities for college women and recent graduates, and global women founders.
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The Circle Cohorts
12-WEEK VIRTUAL MASTERMIND - Set 12 once-a-week appointments to work on your business with an exclusive peer advisory group of visionary women founders through strategic and implementation sessions to get the instrumental feedback and support that will radically transform your business and life in ways you are missing on your own.
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Global Founder’s Retreats
The Élanoura Global Founder's Retreats are business volunteering retreats for women founders around the world. Being invite-only, the connections made within the curated groups create lifelong friends, collaborators, and supporters. With this group we explore together, learn together through founder workshops, and volunteer together in-person at a local nonprofit at our retreat destinations. Additionally, 10% of retreat fees are donated to the nonprofit partner. Join us!
SEPTEMBER 22-28, 2024
Next Retreat: Greece
The dates and destination are set for our next Global Founder's Retreat! Join us September 22-28, 2024 as we explore together sites of feminine power. We will start and end in Athens, where we'll enjoy a private guided tour of the Acropolis, built in the 5th century BC as a home to the goddess Athena. We will also be volunteering in-person with a nonprofit empowering women refugees, and 10% will be donated to support their efforts.
from the collective
WOMEN FOUNDERS SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES
"Traveling with the Élanoura Founder Retreat was truly a life changing experience. The trip from start to finish was curated so beautifully, from the moment we got there. Wow! This trip has opened up my eyes to world travel, to the importance of connection with other woman in a way I never knew was possible. Seeing life beyond the walls of the small town I live in and the experiences I’ve had in my life so far… I want more! Morocco was literally a DREAM come true. Thank you Erika for curating this magical experience, I am flooded with gratitude."
Emily Mughannam, Fletcher Rhodes Interior Design
"This retreat was truly life changing. I felt my travel to be very purposeful since I was able to contribute to something much bigger than myself. I am so grateful to Erika for putting all of this together, with every detail intricately woven into the beauty of the retreat. It doesn’t matter what stage of business you are in, every woman leader needs a space like this. To feel empowered, comfortable, and unapologetic around other women that are free to do the same. The lifelong friendships I have made here will be taken with me forever. My mind is blown as I try to absorb every piece of valuable experience I got in such a short time. My body, mind, and soul are happy. Thank you Erika 💕"
Brianna Diaz, BriGainz
"Thanks to the retreat, I found my group of trusted people and a space I can rely on. Although it was daunting at first to spend an entire week with strangers I only had one Zoom call with, throughout the week we got closer and closer to one another, started forming real relationships, which led to amazing discussions about work, life, and everything in between. I got to witness people breaking out of their comfort zones, realizing their worth, and finding clarity with the help of everyone in the group, and that's something I wish I can experience over and over again! And now, I'm grateful to have a group of people I can go to for help and know that we care for and love one another as friends."
Haeun Park, Made at Dawn
"Élanoura Global Founder's Retreat is an experience you don't want to miss. You are surrounded by the beautiful Moroccan desert, colorful fabrics and gold rimmed dishes everywhere but most importantly you are surrounded by savvy women business owners. Supporting each other by elevating our skills and making a difference in each others lives. Not only did I come back refreshed and renewed I came back with a full heart of gratitude. I made friends for life and am ready to elevate my business to the next level! Thank you Erika for creating such a beautiful foundation."
Elizabeth Hall, Eeze Natural Health
"Right people, right place, right time. What (I didn't know) I needed was the space to step back from the frenetic pace of life and have a chance to redefine my goals and reconnect with my authentic self. The Global Founder's Retreat was just that. I left the trip feeling energized, inspired, and so grateful to have been with this group, on this trip."
Heather Kosiek, Launch Studio
"I enjoyed the whole trip! Every day had a lot to offer and was well balanced with workshops and activities. I loved not knowing all the details of the places we visited. To me it added more magic to the experience. Coming in not knowing any of the ladies made me a bit nervous at first. I believe Erika did an amazing job selecting the candidates. Everyone was amazing, kind, supportive and had a lot to offer in terms of business and personal experiences. The place we stayed at was perfect. It felt like home and the food was delicious. There was a great level of attention to detail that elevated the experience. I am so grateful to have been part of this and to all the amazing connections I made. I was looking forward to being part of the Project Soar volunteering opportunity and I think that was an important part of the retreat. Thank you!!"
Oula Siblini, OU LA
"I went on this trip thinking it was a business trip with the hope of maybe making at least one friend, but what actually ended up happening was I met 9 lifelong friends that I happened to discuss business with. I will be forever grateful to Erika as she curated a group that included such diverse women whom all I could relate to in one way or another and I look forward to watching them all grow and succeed not only in business but their personal life. Anyone would be crazy NOT to attend something Erika puts together."
Sheena Keo, SMK & CO.
GLOBAL FOUNDER’S RETREAT
Marrakech, Morocco
Our 2022 and 2023 cohorts traveled to Marrakech, Morocco for a week of guided sightseeing and cultural highlights, founder workshops, hamam spa treatments, camel rides in the desert, and shared meals and relaxation at the boutique hotel Peacock Pavilions. We volunteered with teen girls of Project Soar and collectively donated over $5500 USD to help fund their programs to reduce period poverty and child marriage.
GLOBAL FOUNDER’S RETREAT
Mallorca, Spain
SEPTEMBER 9-14, 2023 - Our next Global Founder's Retreat will take us to Mallorca, Spain for a week of rejuvenation including daily yoga, walking meditations, founder workshops, massage appointments, a Spanish cooking class, and a group Flamenco dance lesson at Mallorca's five-star Fontsanta Thermal Spa & Wellness Hotel. We will be volunteering with women survivors of violence in an art therapy activity with nonprofit Fundació IRES, and giving a collective donation to help fund their programs supporting vulnerable families in need.
GLOBAL FOUNDER’S RETREAT
Egypt
MARCH 7-14, 2024 [POSTPONED] - Our first multi-city retreat will take us to Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan with founder workshops, cultural highlights, a hot air balloon ride over the temples of Luxor, a Felucca boat ride on the Nile, and of course, a visit to the pyramids of Giza. Our 10% impact will be donated as prizes to winners of our first Local Women Founders Pitch Day, as well as to local teen orphans and refugees who will be organizing and working the day.
GLOBAL FOUNDER’S RETREAT
Greece
SEPTEMBER 22-28, 2024 - We will take a different approach to this popular destination by exploring the power that women innately hold and how we can embrace and embody it to lead the way in creating big change through business. Healing treatments, meditations, visits to Athena's Acropolis and the Oracle of Delphi as well as sights off the beaten path and in-person volunteering for a totally unique experience of this ancient land.
GLOBAL FOUNDER’S RETREAT
Japan
In the works - A retreat to a new part of the world is in the works. Our week will include founder workshops, cultural highlights, Onsen hot springs bathing, tea ceremony ritual, an Ikebana flower arranging class, and volunteering in-person with a local nonprofit who will also receive our 10% collective donation to help support programs benefitting women and girls.