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The Rise & Thrive Experience
What to Expect
This isn’t a retreat. It’s a return.
Rise & Thrive is a 7-month experience for women who are ready to stop performing their lives and start living them—from the inside out.
Because the truth is… most of us have been taught how to achieve, but not how to feel safe enough to actually enjoy what we’ve built.
So we keep going.
Keep striving.
Keep proving.
And still feel like something is missing.
This experience is where that pattern breaks.
❋ Deep Internal WorkWe go beneath the surface—into the nervous system, beliefs, and patterns that are quietly shaping how you lead, live, and relate. This is where real change begins.
❋ Reflection + Connection = DirectionThrough guided reflection and honest connection with other executive women, you begin to see yourself clearly—and from that clarity, your next steps become obvious.
❋ Real Conversations, Not PerformanceNo posturing. No pretending. Just powerful, human conversations that create insight, release, and momentum.
❋ A Space That Frees YouSafety isn’t a buzzword here—it’s the foundation. When your system feels safe, your thinking sharpens, your creativity expands, and your leadership evolves.
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The 7 Month Experience Starts in September and concludes in MarchOvernight Retreat Kickoff
You arrive as strangers, leave as friends ready to explore the journey together. Hotel Broad Ripple is the perfect place to open your heart and mind to all this journey has to offer. From Thursday Afternoon to Friday afternoon with the perfect overnight accommodations. You’ll have your own room to rest and reflect and take a moment to breathe.
Overnight Retreat late SeptemberThursday afternoon to Friday afternoon
Monthly Group Sessions 3rd Thursday each month - Oct through March1pm to 4pm with dinner optional
Monthly 1:1 Coaching with RebeccaSchedule around your needs
Stand Tall in Your Story capstone eventAn evening event in March
Set Intentions & Reflect
This is where you stop chasing outcomes… and start creating the conditions that make them possible.
Together, we step out of the noise to get clear on what you actually want—your goals, your hopes, your expectations—not the ones you’ve inherited or been performing toward.
Through intentional reflection, you’ll begin to see what’s been driving your decisions beneath the surface—your nervous system state, the beliefs you’ve formed, and the patterns that have followed.
We provide the frameworks, the content, and the space—
so you can understand yourself at a deeper level.
Because when you understand your nervous system, you create safety.
When you examine your beliefs, you create truth.
When you shift your patterns, you create change.
And from that place, clarity isn’t something you chase—
it’s something you generate.
So you can build a life and leadership rhythm that actually supports you… not drains you.
Take Your Stories to the Stage
Take Your Story to the Stage
At the end of the experience, you step onto the stage at Stand Tall in Your Story—not to perform, but to tell the truth of your life.
Each woman delivers a 7-minute, TED-style talk—one that you’ll be guided to write, shape, and confidently deliver. You won’t do this alone. We walk with you through the entire process, helping you uncover the story that’s ready to be told and the message that only you can carry.
Because in a world that’s becoming increasingly artificial—filtered, scripted, optimized—
we believe what people are craving is what’s real.
Real stories.
Real growth.
Real humanity.
This isn’t about having it all figured out or getting it perfect.
It’s about owning what you’ve lived, what you’ve learned, and who you’ve become.
When we Stand Tall in our story, we give others the courage to do the same.
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Alums
The experience doesn’t end when the program does—it expands. You become part of a community of nearly 50 women who continue to support one another in real life and real time. Through ongoing conversations, shared questions, career moves, and life transitions, this group stays connected. We gather annually for a retreat, creating space to reset, reconnect, and grow together. This isn’t just something you go through—it’s something you become part of.
Ready to schedule with Rebecca to dig deeper, ask questions?
Who is Rise & Thrive for?
Rise & Thrive is for the woman who is successful on paper—but knows there’s more.
She’s driven, capable, and carrying a lot… yet feels the tension of constantly performing, proving, or pushing. She’s done with surface-level growth and is ready to understand what’s really driving her—her nervous system, her beliefs, and the patterns shaping her life and leadership.
She’s not looking for more to add.
She’s ready to release what no longer fits—
and build a way of living and leading that actually feels aligned, sustainable, and true.
Meet Rebecca - Your Thrive Guide
Rebecca Fleetwood Hession is a speaker, best-selling author, host of the Business is Human podcast and executive coach. She helps men and women step out of burnout and build a life and leadership style that actually works for them.
With over 25 years of experience spanning business strategy and execution—including 19 years with FranklinCovey and more than $40 million in sales—Rebecca understands both how to drive results and the cost of sustaining success the wrong way.
Her work sits at the intersection of business, neuroscience, and spiritual truth. Through her Business is Human framework, she teaches leaders how nervous system states, beliefs, and patterns quietly drive behavior—and how creating safety internally unlocks clarity, confidence, and sustainable growth.
Rebecca’s work is part of a larger movement—shifting leadership out of the Industrial Age of performance and into the Age of Humanity, where success is built through connection, truth, and the power of understanding what it means to be fully human.