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You never know who you'll meet

- or where a single conversation may take you.

Confab is a curated gathering for women who value clarity, connection, and grace in life and business. This rich half-day experience of connections and conversations is a co-created experience shaped by the women in the room rather than scripted advance agendas.

Through thoughtful, small-group conversations, ideas, perspectives, wisdom and experience naturally cross pollinate as we explore the real complexity of entrepreneurship — the dynamic interplay between strategy, authority, timing, and inner alignment.

Here you'll find more than clarity. You'll feel renewed confidence with practical insights and fuel fresh momentum to improve your business's efficiency and effectiveness. All while strengthening the uniqueness of who you are and the work only you can do.

Confab is a space where personal growth and business evolution meet.  A place where valuable conversations restore coherence, and create sustainable momentum without pressure, performance, or pretending.

 You’ll return to your next phase of business feeling grounded, oriented, and  energized about what’s next. You'll carry with you new ideas along with a deeper sense of support, possibility and belonging.

Back in 2017, my friend Angela Dawn invited me to a Cottage Confab hosted by Sandra Kahale. As intrigued as I was, the timing never quite aligned. Fast forward to spring 2025, Angela suggested I host Confabs in “Judy O style.” And so I am.  
 CONFAB -  Half a Day Away to Refresh, Connect, and Ignite Your Next Chapter
Confab is a confidential, welcoming space where entrepreneurs, leaders, and changemakers come together to speak honestly, find clarity while sharing authentic perspectives and experience.  It’s a space of authenticity — listening deeply, exchanging insight, and opening doors for meaningful cross-pollination that strengthens your own and others’ positioning, authority, decisions, and business growth.

Confab is a unique blend of retreat, networking, mastermind, and learning — all infused with my personal style and intention.
Give yourself half a day away from home or the office to refuel through fascinating, enriching conversations that lighten your spirit, open your path, and create aligned, fulfilling momentum.

Each seasonal gathering invites freelancers, solo professionals, creatives, and leaders into a relaxed, welcoming setting designed to foster connection, fresh perspective, and meaningful growth. Confab is a transformational experience that supports both personal and business evolution. You’ll leave feeling uplifted, nourished, grounded, and revitalized for the next phase of your work.

Ready for clarity and momentum that’s hard to achieve alone?

Join us at the next Confab — a welcoming space to share, learn, and grow alongside fellow women leaders and changemakers.

Ready for fast clarity that's hard to achieve alone?
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The outline for the day
10:45am Arrivals
Drop off your Pot Luck Lunch contribution into the kitchen and Enjoy light refreshments. Drop your business card or marketing piece on the table. Take a moment to take in the views and breathe the fresh air. Get oriented and settled for a day of great conversations and connection with other remarkable women.

11:15 Official Start - Welcome and information. Relaxed brief Introductions sharing your primary focus for the fall will spark connections to enjoy over lunch and ideas for deeper afternoon conversations.

12:00 Noon - Enjoy the Nutritious & Delicious POT LUCK spread - An hour of nourishing food and conversations 

1pm  - Collective Co-Creation of Breakout Topics
We’ll start by co-creating the afternoon agenda — choosing the most relevant and inspiring topics together. Then we’ll spread out into spaces like the Gazebo, Sunroom, or Hayloft for small-group conversations. Topics will emerge from our shared opportunities, challenges, and desires we face.  The topics form a foundation for learning and growth. A way for others to experience and become aware of your knowledge and expertise through your shared wisdom and ideas. Subjects might include practical and spiritual aspects of business growth and personal development. 

We have so much to talk about  - what will be most pertinent on the day that we meet?  Here's the tip of the iceberg of options to get the juices flowing.

  • Marketing, Branding and  Building Visibility , Brand and Credibility 

  • Writing / Publishing a book,  Podcast hosting and guesting,  Speaking leads and practice.

  • Launch Plans and Financial strategies, Product development and distribution.

  • Efficiency and Effectiveness -Workspace design,  Productivity, Planning and Systems.

  • Aligning Mindset & Emotions - Dealing with challenges - Solving problems, clearing limitations and blocks

  • Emerging Trends, Evolving Industry Practices, Leaders in the field

The co-creative process itself will be interesting - and potentially enlightening - in itself.

You have the freedom to respectfully move between topics and groups throughout the afternoon.

3:15pm  Group Share of highlights and breakthroughs.

4:00pm Official Program ends. Gather your Potluck containers, your biz cards, promotional piece and belongings to take home.  Finish up conversations and share contact information.

I'M DEFINITELY IN FOR THIS!    Introductory Price $120


Confab is a natural evolution — growing out of Align & Clear, The Wellness Community Network, and Remarkable Women Coffee & Connection. Decades of hosting and participating in gatherings for networking, business growth, and development converged into our maiden voyage on October 30th, 2025.  

I’ve always loved conversations, good food, and connecting for both pleasure and purpose. Some of the most incredible ah-ha moments, opportunities and soul-filling work have come through honest conversations and resonant exchange with new and long-held connections. Conversational enjoyment and impact flows both ways: I love sharing wisdom, resources and introductions that shift perspective and spark growth in life and business in unexpected, enriching and far-reaching ways. 
Have a quick conversation to see if this is for you

Confab is where soulful connection meets practical growth and visions meet reality.

Each event offers a synthesis of opportunity, insight and authentic connection. 

Confab is not traditional networking.
It’s a curated environment for meaningful exchange, practical insight, and real connection

This one-day gathering brings together quiet women with fire in their belly — aspirational women who are committed to their craft and the positive impact it makes, while valuing autonomy, wellbeing and harmony. Soulpreneurs, creators, solo-professionals and leaders  embracing certainty while navigating the unknown - riding the waves of self-employment.  They are bridging the spiritual and the practical, energetics with the tangible, high hopes and aspirations with the reality of life and business.

Confab is for you if you're beyond transactional, surface-level networking and believe genuine connections moves the needle in your business. You know from experience that your life gets better, when what you share, helps others.  Confab is not a place for B.S, pretense, victim stories and constant demands for attention you may have experienced at other events. Here conversations are meaningful, ideas are actionable, and connections are real. 

Friendly and informal, yet deeply impactful and professional, Confab offers:

  • Actionable strategies & valuable resources to support sustainable growth.

  • Conversations that deepen understanding and open eyes to little-known concepts and practices.

  • Breakthroughs and Relief from tension, stress and frustration - You're in good company with others who share the highs and the lows, the feast and the famine - the pressure of high standards, disappointment and delays. 

  • Opportunities to learn from others and discover different ways to save time, streamline processes, and move from scattered to strategic.

  • Insight and confirmation that clarify your niche, vision, and business plan — sometimes even the missing piece you’ve been searching for.

  • Connections that matter — the right collaborator, skilled support, or trusted referral that can relieve long standing challenges or open doors to opportunities beyond your current reach.

  • Research and Alignment - A chance to explore new approaches, test ideas, and get honest feedback to affirm or refine what you're working on.

  • Leadership Think-tank - In these pivotal times new ways are needed - together we illuminate, forge and find effective ways to move forwards.

You’ll experience:

  • Valuable conversations that bring relief, clarity, and fresh perspective

  • Insight that helps you refine direction, decisions, and timing

  • Thoughtful exchange that strengthens confidence and authority

  • Connections that feel natural, mutual, and genuinely useful

  • Space to explore ideas, test direction, and receive intelligent feedback

No grandstanding. No hustle. No noise.
Simply women thinking well — together.

Set against the peaceful charm of Sherwood Farm, this experience is grounding and rejuvenating, lively and inspiring. You’ll walk away with clarity, confidence, and momentum — ready to reshape your business, strengthen your voice and authority, and align with what’s next.

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Q&A

Q: Do I need to have a business to attend?
A: Not necessarily. Confab attracts women in business, but also those in creative, healing, or leadership roles. If growth, alignment, and connection call to you — you’ll feel at home.

Q: Is this like a conference?
A: Not at all. The max is 21 participants.  It’s more personal, conversational, and rejuvenating — a blend of retreat, mastermind, learning and networking in Judy O style.

Q: Will I find customers and clients here? Perhaps, but it's not a place to spray your business cards and soapbox pitch your services. Know, Like and Trust gets developed here -the foundation of huge opportunities, profitable sales to right clients, contracts, leads and far-reaching projects. Perhaps an idea that revolutionizes your life, your work, even industry.

Q: How often do you hold it?
A: Twice a year.

Q: What will I walk away with?
A: Clarity, inspiration, and aligned momentum — plus strategies, resources, and connections that make a real difference. You'll have business cards and promotional pieces you choose to pick up from the table for yourself or to share with others who you know will appreciate the referral.

Q: Can I come alone?
A: Absolutely. This event is for independent women who value meaningful connection. Many women arrive not knowing anyone, and leave with lasting connections.

Q: Can I have a conversation to really get a sense it's a fit?
A: I'd love that, especially if we've never met. Send me an email to set up a time or give me a call. Be sure to leave a message so I know it's not one of those unsolicited calls.

Q: what's your cancellation policy?
A: All registration payments made are non-refundable. They are transferable to others with advanced written notification and my confirmation.

Your registration fees are refundable or transferable to other services (no admin fee) if WE cancel the retreat for any reason.

If you submit a written request up 5 days prior to the event, Your registration fees are transferable to other services less a 20% administrative fee. Special circumstances are open to discussion prior to registration. 

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