June 5, 2025 • 34 mins
All the details and gossip from the peer mastermind retreat I just went to on the Gold Coast with 11 of my biz besties!
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Hello, hello, welcome back to Leonie.
Dawson refuses. To be categorized the podcast.
And I'm joined today by a very special little bird.
Friend. Who really wants to be heard and
known right now? So if you can hear her just.
A merry little. Wave out the window would not go
straight I. Think she might.
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I just want some. Attention and honestly same
same. So friends, I am just back from
one of the best. Weeks of my life and I want to
share. All about it on today's podcast.
I'm going to be talking about the business Mastermind peer
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retreat that I went on and exactly how we ran it, who was
involved, what we did during those days, and just really give
you. Some of the logistics and behind
the scenes. When I was sharing it on social
media, people were like, Oh my God, how do?
How do we even? Do.
This and can I buy? Tickets to this and all the
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things. So I really wanted to give you
like the the deep dive of exactly what that was like.
So I spent 5 days. On the Gold Coast with 11 of my
most inspiring business. Friends and genuinely I feel.
So changed on a cellular level. It was just.
So much laughter and love and wisdom shared and I just feel.
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So. Blooming pumped up and motivated
and. Inspired and it was just a pure.
Magic 10 out of 10. Experience.
So this is the comprehensive step by step giving you.
All the gossip and all the details.
So in terms of who was at the retreat, there was me, there was
Kerry Rowett, who is my kinesiologist, my intuitive
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business mentor. We've been learning from each
other and coaching each other since 2008.
And we? Are each other's biggest hype
girl and she has her own podcastas well.
Then there's Tash Corbin, who isthe founder of the Heart Centred
Business Conference, which I've spoken at for the last.
Two years. And while I was living on the
Sunshine Coast near her, we formed a local.
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Business Women's group, we had the most incredible.
Times together, she's just so solid and just a good.
Hearted person and I always say like be prepared.
Tash is as pretty as a Disney Princess she really is.
Then there was Jana Kingsford, who I have known since like the
olden days of a 2011, 2012. I met this bunch of rad humans
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in a Facebook group set up for Australians who are going
through Marie. Folio's B School course.
And Jana was in there, and then I've gotten to know her more
deeply in the last. Six months or so because we're
in the same another paid mastermind that we are both.
In as well and we. Have just a huge amount of crazy
synchronicities. We're both Scorpios, we've
travelled in, lived all over. Australia as digital nomads?
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We're both 7 figure entrepreneurs who don't.
Brush their hair and we really build our businesses around our
families. And she is so freaking rad and
I'm so glad that we got to meet in person at last.
Denise Tuffield Thomas was thereand DDT is really.
An icon. A legend in our industry.
I've been lucky to be. Friends with her since. 2012
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when she came to stay in my rainforest home in far North
Queensland for a retreat that I ran.
Then and her. Books and her courses.
Are absolutely. Phenomenal, But most of all?
It's her as a human who is phenomenal, She.
Impresses me with how much. She walks her talk.
And how committed she is to finding her blocks and healing
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them. And sharing what she learns with
the world. Victoria Gibson, I met her as
well back. In the olden days.
Of Aussie B school forum she didmy Facebook ad campaigns for the
goals workbooks for. Years when I ran those.
And let me tell you, like, she'sso smart online, but nothing.
Compares to Victoria in person. She is the juiciest revelation.
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Of a human. She is like an auntie who just
picks you up like. She sees you and she's.
Like darling, I love you. How are you?
Tell me everything. She's fantastic.
Everyone just you meet Victoria,you just.
Swamped with her love and her juiciness.
And I adore her then. There was also Michelle Swan and
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Michelle runs Eyes of Love photography on the Gold Coast.
I met her back in 2019 after shewas recommended as a
photographer by a website designer.
That I was working with. And it's just been.
Mad love ever since then and we've done.
More photo shoots than Since then, she's not only just an
incredible photographer, but she's.
Just the sweetest human as well and I really adore her.
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Husband to Jacko is a legend. He's double like he's come to
support. Her at shoots.
And then we've just developed our own little bromance, so I
love it. Jacko I love.
So many of my friends husbands, like I feel like I'm in a
bromance with them. I just I adore them like I'm.
My friends have such. Incredible partners and I love
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that we just have so many examples of really beautiful,
beautiful men as partners. Rebecca Saunders was there as
well, and I met back at Tasha's Heart Centred business
conference a couple of years ago.
She's just like one of those geniuses who is good at
everything. And then she'll say things like,
oh, that feature film that I produced, it ended up being
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nominated for an award. And things like I decide to take
over publishing a magazine, but that's just a hobby I do on the
side. And I'm just like.
What did you just say, woman? She is awesome.
Then there was Katie Chappell. I met Katie after she did one of
my. Courses five years ago and she
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was so delicious that I promptlyadopted her as my English niece
she is. Ridiculously talented and she's
an illustrator, a live illustrator and she came over
from England. She was only our only
international participant at theretreat.
This year. Then there was Claire.
Wood and I was introduced to Claire through other business
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friends. I read her book and took lots of
notes. Of it and I shared.
Those notes on my website and then I met her in.
Person at Tasha's conference. Last year Claire's an ex
accountant who is a profit coachfor businesses.
She's also hilarious and brilliant and says incredibly
extroverted things like oh you know, oh that's so good.
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I packed a cocktail dress just in case.
Just in case. And it just makes me laugh like
we all tea said that she's got haughty bridesmaid.
Energy. And she totally does.
Like she is just. Up for anything.
And I love her. I love her.
She's brilliant. And in this completely bizarre
twist of faith. We have discovered that we were
born in the same very small town, in the same hospital, just
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a couple of months apart. From each other.
And as I like to. Regularly remind her her
ancestors have definitely dry harmed my ancestors behind the
proxy pub at some point. Like there's no.
Way that in a town. That small.
Her people and my people. Did not have some crossover.
OK, OK. So it basically got to be
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related at this point. Then it's Tina Tower.
I met Tina after she interviewedme on her podcast a few years
ago, and we loved how equally enthusiastic we are about our
businesses and how completely. Differently we like, we
approach. Our businesses, Tina's like
megastructured and she's plannedwith everything, which amazes
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me. Like she'll say things like, oh,
I've got my like content pillarsplanned of everything that's
going to go out for the next 18.Months and I'm like, no I don't.
Even know what's going out? Today the lady I am like loosey
goosey and I just go with the winds of inspiration.
And yet. Both of our approaches work.
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And it's just delightful. And last but not least, Amanda
Jane Daly and I met Amanda via Denise and Victoria, and she's
another alumni. From the ye olden days Aussie B
school Facebook group as well now if you.
Want to go to leonadawson.com forward slash. 209.
Then you'll be able to. Find the pictures the companion
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pictures from the retreat that we went away to as well.
As well as some throwback. Photos from me and Denise.
As babies back in 2012 and me and Denise and Kerry at the
conference I ran here in Canberra back in 2016 and Oh my
gosh. We just look so fresh faced.
We're so delicious. Now in terms of how the
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participants were selected for the for our mastermind, we're
all part of a group, Chad, that I've been running for about 12
years or so. It started because I wrote in my
Goals workbook that I wanted to connect with other business
owners more and I've never waited for.
Anybody to ever pick me? I always pick myself and start
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the team myself, you know, So I invited any business, any
business owners that I did know into it, and then some of them
invited friends. Over the years, as I've met more
people who have felt like would be a good fit, I'd add them.
And because our group is gettinglarger, I'm pretty reticent to
add more people to it. As it probably just become too
unwieldy at a certain point. And it's had so many iterations
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and evolutions over the years as.
Well, I used to be. Super strict.
With my participation rules where people had to post.
An intensive check in at. Least once a month, including.
Like the questions that they hadto answer.
And we've also had periods wherewe had regular phone calls and
accountabilities and then there's been like times where we
like also don't talk for a few. Months and we.
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Just send each other stupid. Memes as well and go.
Completely unstructured. And then there's been times as
well where other people like haven't needed it in their lives
as much and that's totally OK. There's reasons and seasons for
everything. There's also been times where
I've had to remove. People from the group.
For different reasons, usually if they weren't participating
and that were just lurking and watching what everyone was
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saying. Instead of sharing and
connecting because. When you have that, then it's
harder for people to be really vulnerable and share their
numbers. And things like that because.
They're like, Oh, well, there's people here that are listening
to everything I'm saying, but they're not actually.
Sharing anything back and I really laugh about the fact
that. Years ago, there was a American
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entrepreneur who I had to. Remove from the.
From our group chat because. They were lurking.
In to follow participation. Rules and that person's had this
huge mediocre rise to success now and is now very, very famous
in our industry. And they?
Have like a nine figure $100 million plus business and.
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I removed them because they didn't fall.
Into special rules. And I don't have any.
Regrets about it, it's like. That's cool, because I'm really.
Just there for people who were wanting to participate.
People have also elected to leave over the years when their
business and their life priorities change.
There's lots of ebbs of ebbs andflows and the shapes had to
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change over the years. And it's like a garden that that
grows and blooms and sometimes it goes to seed and sometimes it
regenerates into a new cycle. We've been on different group
chats, there's been like a Facebook group and different
ways that we would connect with each other and I'm grateful for.
All of those evolutions. Currently there's about 17 of us
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in that group chat with the majority being Australians, and
at the moment we're pretty flexible without having any.
Structure at all, but we do remove anybody who hasn't
interacted in the last 12 monthsor so as well.
Sometimes we'll ask each other for recommendations on books, on
mentors, on virtual assistants and staff.
Sometimes we'll just say Oh my God, shit, this part is really
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hard. Sometimes we just send each
other memes, sometimes we talk. About how to.
Collaborate with each other. I remember like when.
One of us had a family crisis. Everyone's just immediately.
Steps up with all the ways. That they can offer support for
them both personally and professionally.
And it was so divine to witness.It's been one of the biggest
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blessings in my business over the last decade and so much love
and support and long term. Friendships and advice and
celebrations have gone into it. Also, I want to say like if
you're a business friend who's not in that group chat and
you're like, does Leoni not likeme?
Of course I love you. Firstly, I forget that it
exists. A lot of the time like I forget
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like my AHD brain does not go and puts them together in fact.
One of the people who goes to retreat said to me, hey Leon,
can you actually add me to the group chat because I'm not in.
There and I'm like, yes. I can do that. 100% however at
this. Point as well, like it's.
Probably getting too large for me to.
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Really add any more people into it, but if anyone else starts a
group chat out there with other entrepreneurs especially.
In the seven figure space. Let me know, I'd love to be
invited to more stuff. Please, please, I love.
Chitty Chatty. Now in terms of the actual
business retreat itself and how?It was organized so.
Two members in our group, Carrieand Claire, had an idea together
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to get all the group members to an in person retreat so that
people could actually spend IRL.Time together.
So bizarre. So the first one happened last
year, which I didn't go to because.
I was in the midst. Of moving and then they set the
dates in the calendar for this year and I.
Got to go to it and it was scrumptious.
So we run the retreat as a peer.Mastermind Retreat.
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What that means is nobody owns it.
It is something that we do together as a group.
So in terms of logistics. The dates are usually set like 6
months in. Advance the location.
Was chosen as being the. Gold Coast because four of our
members live there and it's a good holiday destination for.
Everybody else it's easy to get to with lots of.
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Flights. This time we stayed at the Star
Gold Coast in their apartment building and that way everyone
could get their own apartment orshare one.
And so. We also hired A boardroom that
we could use for masterminding during the day.
If we'd had less people, we would have just been able to use
an. Apartment space for that but.
Getting up to 11 people. We knew we'd be pretty cramped
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in one apartment. All together for masterminding.
Everybody who attended organizesand pays for their own flights
and accommodation and food. There's no fees for attendees
outside of that as it's not run by anyone.
It's PLED. So think a gal pal week in a
way, but with just. Lots of talk about business.
And strategy and mindset. We had about five group members
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who couldn't come to the retreatthis year for various reasons,
which was totally groovy. It's optional and I'm pretty
sure they all. Had massive FOMO and desperately
want to be at the next one whichwill be so gorgeous.
And attendees could also choose how long they were at the
retreat most. Did do Monday to Friday.
With the three full days. At being.
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At the retreat and Monday. Friday being the travel days,
but some had to arrive later or leave.
Earlier due to other commitments, which was totally
cool or flexible. So our schedule for the week,
for the week we at the previous retreat that I wasn't at, it was
pretty much run without an agenda and that worked really
well for them and there. Was also much less people.
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At the retreat. So I think with less people you
can be a lot more free. Flowing.
This time around we tried to runit with a more clearly defined
time structure since we had 12 people.
Attending so basic agenda. Look like Monday was fly in and
arrive. At the hotel now if.
You go to leonedawson.com/two. 07.
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You will be. Able to is it 2?
07 No 2:09. Ignore me, you can.
Find the spreadsheet. That I created with the
timetable if that works better for your brain to.
See this visually? So most people flew in or drove
in on Monday and then we all haddinner planned for Tuesday.
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We had a group. Photo shoot planned.
And then dinner that night, Wednesday and Thursday, we had
hot. Seat and.
Masterminding times booked in and so we had two blocks of.
Two hours for both of those days, so 4 hours in total.
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Each day and then we had dinners.
At night time as well and then there.
Was the option where. You could meet up for breakfast
as well, so lots of free time. For people who needed it.
In reality, we didn't stick to those times perfectly, but it
did give us a really good structure.
To base ourselves around. So day one travel day, all the
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dates we. All.
Flew or drove in. We arrived at the hotel.
We met up for dinner at one of the restaurants at the start.
Now I will say that was one of the bonuses of being at the
Star. It's.
Got lots of restaurants on? Site and then after us after
dinner, a few of us. Walked on over a.
Couple of blocks to a. Supermarket to stock on stock
Stock. Up on supplies as well.
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On Day 2 we had the photo shoot,so eight of us took the
opportunity to do a group photo shoot with Michelle from Isabel
Photography and Dan from Head North.
Filming the B roll video all of us.
Tend to use Mish as a photographer as well, so it
made. Sense.
For us to get photos. Taken by her while we're.
In the same area and Mish and Dan took it in turns to shoot us
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individually. And while we're all waiting for
our next. Turn we would get changed into
our next outfits. And then we would shoot.
Stupid wheels with each other. And it worked brilliantly.
I also used MJ vegan makeup artist for my hair and makeup.
She was an absolute darling. I loved her and I also had Leah.
Selfie from productivity queen who lives on the gold.
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Coast as my personal. Assistant for the shoot, not.
Everyone had their own assistantfor the shoot and I did wonder
momentarily if I really needed one, but I'm so, so glad that I
did. I find it hugely.
Helpful for me to have a personal assistant at shoes.
It helps me. Manage my energies so much
better. Plus photo shoots can get really
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hectic and my aims always to do the best job I can in front of
the camera by turning up my StarEnergy instead of managing all
the logistics. That are attached to it so Leah.
Arrived at 6:30 in the morning to my hotel room and she'd
already secured my favorite. Kind of smoothie she knows I
have. Like I have a Google document
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that's called the care and feeding of.
Leone and it details. All of my favorite things.
Including the kind of smoothies that I like to drink.
Like the recipe? That I like and I like chock
peanut butter with non dairy smoothies with banana norm.
And it keeps me going all day. So Leah's been at two of my.
Shoots now. And she's trapped down at
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whatever local cafe. Has.
That equivalent and it works. Bonza and she also like had.
Snacks and drinks for me. That were my favorite brands,
which is amazing, amazing, amazing.
So she ushered. Me up to the hair and makeup
artist with the. Smoothie so I could drink my
smoothie, drink my breakfast while I'm getting.
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That done and she started loading all of my props and my
clothes into her car as well. Then, once hair and makeup was
done, she chauffeured me and Carrie Rowe had opened the shoot
location and she handed me my favorite kombucha drink to drink
on the way there. As well as some chocolates.
And I tell you what, sitting in the back of that car seat being
so taken. Care of in that way.
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I felt like the. Richest person on earth.
Like what magic. What a blessing.
How Richie? Did so good.
Then once we're there, Leah unpacked the car with.
All of our vast quantities of. Suitcases and she got busy
steaming the creases out of all of my.
Outfits, especially since they'dI'd travelled with them in a
suitcase. And then throughout the day she
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would help me style outfits, remind me to eat and drink
because I can. Forget when I get busy.
She. Filmed hilarious.
Video content for us she. Threw props at.
Me during our helter skelter shoot sessions and like I should
know like not everybody requiredprop throwing during their shoot
sessions I. However, had spent the day
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before I flew out. Coming up with this great idea
of hand painting a bunch. Of signs to.
Use in shoots. I didn't want graceful.
Shoots I want graceful photos I wanted like.
Chaotic, ridiculous ones with a.Lot of handmade props that I.
Could use for different things and it was a lot.
Of fun and also. Sweaty.
So she had this big pile of cardboard signs that I'd hand
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painted and like with emoji symbols and pens and like.
Microphones. And it was.
It was. Ridiculous and so.
There was like. 20 of them and so she was just like throwing
the next one at me and I throw the wet next one on the floor.
It was just like we just kept going.
We just kept going. It was really great, really fun.
Then, once our shoot was done, Leah ferried us back to the.
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Hotel I. Immediately showered because I
cannot. Cope with makeup being on my
face for that long, especially with having like a little set of
false lashes on. I'm like I don't even know how
to use my face anymore. Then I ordered an absolute shit
ton. Of Cantonese room service and I
called my husband and my daughter to talk while I ate as
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well. So they got the whole mukbang
experience of me just shoveling mainlining food into my face
because I was starving by that point.
Then I had to lay down to recalibrate my nervous system.
And then later in the afternoon,Kerry texted me and she's like,
did you want to? Go to the beach.
And I was like, no, did you wantto go?
To the enormous like. The Southern Hemisphere's
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largest shopping sandwiches across the road.
And she was like I. Wasn't expecting you to say
that. And I was like, also me was not
expecting to say that. So we had the best time.
Strolling through there and it'sjust this.
Enormous maze of shops. And some of it's indoors, some
of it's outdoors. It's Yeah, it was.
It was. Bizarre.
It's it's specific. Fare for people who are in the
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Gold Coast. It's like, oh, that's.
That's a cookie shopping centre.So I got to introduce Carrie to
her first bubble tea and then we.
Went into some of the luxury stores for a gander.
And let me. Tell you it was pretty hilarious
trying on like $6000 handbags atLouis Vuitton while carrying my
current handbag, which was this $5 handmade Unicorn tote bag
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that I got from. Humanity markets.
I love the duality of it. I could buy a $6000 handbag.
Am I? Going to at this point.
No, I'll stick with. My hair I'll stick.
With my ridiculous tote bag. Like I don't really care that
much. That was super nice in the store
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though. What a fun experience.
What a fun experience. I loved it.
Then we popped over to Zimmermanand played dress UPS.
Like I loved how bohemian and artsy their designs are but I
did not love that they don't cater for plus size mermaids
with. Boobies like me.
So it was still. So much like fun and frivolity.
And I love making Carrie do fashion parade.
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For me, it's like dressing up a little Dolly.
It's so cute. And at one point I was sitting
in the. Waiting room and she.
Walked out of this. Dressing room.
And it's gloriously. Fairly dressed and I audibly
gasped. Because it was so beautiful.
And I was like, yes, that's the one.
It was like an episode of Say Yes to the Dress.
And it was so joyful and so gorgeous and I love that.
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Me and Carrie had to like, add that.
Fun memory. To our friendship bank now
because so much of our friendship is spent online and
now we have like IRL friendship memories as well which.
Is scruptious then, as we were. Wandering back to the Air
Apartments that afternoon, we got a text message in the group
and so we was like, does anyone do trivia night in the sports?
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Bar and. I that did something deeply
internally in a delicious. Way to me.
And of course I wanted to go to.Trivia night.
That night was ridiculous, hilarious mayhem against each
other, and we spent the whole night sledging each other and
egging each other on. It was raucous and ridiculous
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and exactly my jam. So we end up having to.
Split into two groups because there was so many of us and.
So one group. Was called Lucky Bitches.
Of course it was. Denise's team and then the other
group that I was in was called. Lay beer as in lay down and then
beer like the one that you drink.
But the way that you have to sayit is very tricky.
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It's very tricky. It's.
Hard for people to say that without sounding really like
you're saying something inappropriate.
So I love that. Absolutely love that.
Got the giggles, of course I. Did.
Of course I did. Next up we had for day three and
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day four we did hot seats and masterminding.
So we hired the boardroom at theapartments for us to use for two
days. It's.
Crazy cheap. And we had the most gorgeous
space. With views for us to.
Meet in and I volunteered to facilitate in it, so roughly how
they went was I. Started with a 20.
Minute intention setting and guided.
Visualization which just set. The energy beautifully.
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For our time together. Then everyone had a 30 minute
hot seat. Scheduled over the next.
Day and a half and we tried to keep pretty firmly to those
times, otherwise we would not have.
Been able to get through everyone so we did a. 2 hour
block in the morning with four hot seats before taking a two
hour break to go out to lunch and stretch legs and then
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another two hours in the. Afternoon.
And that doesn't. Seem like a lot on paper, but it
definitely felt like we wouldn'thave been able.
To sustain concentration for longer than that.
I also gave everyone options of how they'd like to run their hot
seat so everyone ended up choosing the same.
Structure anyway, so 5. Minutes of them sharing where
their business was at and what problems they were facing.
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Then 20 minutes of us all askingmore questions, sharing feedback
and advice of what we would do in that situation and then for
the final 5 minutes we played that.
Person's favorite song or like their victory.
Song, the thing that they they play when they're like, yes.
In the zone and. We could either during that
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song. Write.
Them letters to take home with them, or we could dance with
them while we envisioned their. Success and most.
People chose to have letters. Written to them and I think that
all worked super beautifully. Plus, I saved everyone's victory
songs into a Spotify playlist that we can all listen to, but
we're going to just top back. Up on that energy again.
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And I asked for. Letters to be written.
To me and getting to read those on the way.
Home on the flight home was so profound and so beautiful, and
I'm so grateful for that experience.
We finished the last block blockof hot seats with another
visualization to ground into everybody's vision.
And then for the final afternoonsession, everyone submitted 2
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questions. That they wanted the whole group
to answer. One of them was.
Something that people could answer in one sentence and then
the other question was somethingthat would.
Take a little bit longer to answer and we.
Ended up timing those conversations as well so we can
make sure. That all of them got answered,
and that was really. Delicious.
And I got so much inside out of that.
Time as well. Last week, lastly, we asked
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everybody what they needed from the group over the next year to
help them reach. Their goals and some of.
Them was so simple like I need friends to text me silly meme so
that I feel connected to more complex like I thrive on
competition so I need you all tolike nag me by saying that you
could do better for me better than.
Me and that's. Hilariously, my request because
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I I am a. Competitive.
Person, If you turn anything into a race, my motivation will.
Be through the roof and. It is working.
So well, and I'm so grateful that people are willing to go.
Yeah, All right, let's do a competition, Leonie.
And it also. Activated other people who.
Really love competition as well and I like I'm on board, I'm on
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board. At night time we also had
optional. Fancy dinners that we could go
to. Not everybody went to them.
It was totally fine for people to opt out and.
Rest or catch up? On any work they needed to.
I went to dinner one night and then on the last night Katie and
I opted not to go out and instead we hung out, drawing,
eating DoorDash food, singing toAlanis.
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Morissette and having just the. Screaming less funniest.
Most cosmic mission time together it was beautiful and
then once everyone. Arrived back from dinner, we all
crowded into an apartment to. Stay up laughing and talking
until 2:00 AM and it was the most.
Perfect. Way to end the retreat but day.
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Five the travel day, we all met up at the.
Breakfast buffet for last minute.
Giggles. And talks before everybody
started floating home. It was miraculous.
Now, in terms of what we do differently next time, we're
still deciding on the location for next year.
If we do go back to the Gold Coast, we probably won't stay at
the Star. A lot of us found it really
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energetically ungrounding to be sleeping in skyscraper
buildings. I was.
On floor 44 and. As an Australian, I don't.
I'm not used to being in a skyscraper.
We'll also likely have more. People at the next retreat again
so. We'll need to think about how we
run hot. Seats.
And otherwise, like, no notes from that because it really was.
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Perfection on a stick. So a big question we got asked
was can I buy a ticket to come to?
This retreat and sorry. No, it's a private peer
mastermind. But you can however create your
own peer mastermind and your ownpeer mastermind retreat and I
really hope that this inspires. You to do just that all in.
All. It was genuinely one of the best
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weeks that I ever had in my life.
I'm not. Even joking it was.
Incredibly meaningful. It was powerful.
It was. Fun.
It was so. Soul healing.
Just to be around other highly motivated women who have the
same kind of kooky online job asI do.
Not many people can effortlesslyflow in conversation from
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creativity to productivity to marketing strategies to
investments to working with yourhusband to dealing with trolls
to big philanthropic dreams to legacy work.
And it's. Euphoric when you're.
Around the people who can, I felt beyond blessed to have been
there and. So fired up with joy and
excitement and enthusiasm. Now I really want to encourage
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you to create your own mastermind and your own
mastermind retreat. So I created a free DIY retreat
workbook. For you that I hand.
Illustrated it is adorable as. Book So if you know the union,
dawson.com. Forward slash 209.
You can find it there. I hope this gives you the
encouragement to create your own.
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I would. Love to hear all about it when
you do. I really.
Deeply believe that when women. Circle.
Together, miracles happen, I feel.
Healed, I feel. Lit up, I feel.
So powerful and so ready. Together, we can create big
miracles. All right.
I love you. I love you.
I. Love you.
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You've got this, You've got this.
Well, one more thing nearly forgot.
If you haven't noticed already, well, if you haven't noticed
already, I. Have got so many incredible new
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things that are coming out at the moment.
I just ran Big Money Big Impact,which was an exceptional 21 day
selling. Experience and people got so
many incredible results and I feel.
Like I am doing. The best work of my.
Career I'm now running backstage.
Pass which? Is a behind the scenes.
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Of. How I'm going for 1/4 of
$1,000,000 in sales in one month?
And those. 2 are now closed. You've missed your opportunity.
For those wow, that's what. Happens when you're on my
mailing list and you don't checkyour emails.
Oh my God, guys, I'm trying to tell you.
About these things but I. Do have a thing that you can
find out about? I am running the Momentum
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Big money, big impact and intensify it.
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And making some really big. Moves in your business and
making some big cash that. Comes out every.
Weekday of those eight weeks. And we also have an incredible.
Forum as well that. You can mastermind with the.
Other beautiful humans in there.So enrollments.
Are only open until next end of next week, so.
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A week or so away. Leonidawson.com/momentum you can
find out. All about it there otherwise.
Make sure that you are on my mailing list at.
Leonidawson.com because there isso much good stuff coming your.
Way. All right, I'll see you in
momentum. I'll see you in all the things.
Let's go make miracles and magichappen together.
Hello, hello, welcome back to Leonie.
Dawson refuses. To be categorized the podcast.
And I'm joined today by a very special little bird.
Friend. Who really wants to be heard and
known right now? So if you can hear her just.
A merry little. Wave out the window would not go
straight I. Think she might.
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I just want some. Attention and honestly same
same. So friends, I am just back from
one of the best. Weeks of my life and I want to
share. All about it on today's podcast.
I'm going to be talking about the business Mastermind peer
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retreat that I went on and exactly how we ran it, who was
involved, what we did during those days, and just really give
you. Some of the logistics and behind
the scenes. When I was sharing it on social
media, people were like, Oh my God, how do?
How do we even? Do.
This and can I buy? Tickets to this and all the
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things. So I really wanted to give you
like the the deep dive of exactly what that was like.
So I spent 5 days. On the Gold Coast with 11 of my
most inspiring business. Friends and genuinely I feel.
So changed on a cellular level. It was just.
So much laughter and love and wisdom shared and I just feel.
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So. Blooming pumped up and motivated
and. Inspired and it was just a pure.
Magic 10 out of 10. Experience.
So this is the comprehensive step by step giving you.
All the gossip and all the details.
So in terms of who was at the retreat, there was me, there was
Kerry Rowett, who is my kinesiologist, my intuitive
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business mentor. We've been learning from each
other and coaching each other since 2008.
And we? Are each other's biggest hype
girl and she has her own podcastas well.
Then there's Tash Corbin, who isthe founder of the Heart Centred
Business Conference, which I've spoken at for the last.
Two years. And while I was living on the
Sunshine Coast near her, we formed a local.
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Business Women's group, we had the most incredible.
Times together, she's just so solid and just a good.
Hearted person and I always say like be prepared.
Tash is as pretty as a Disney Princess she really is.
Then there was Jana Kingsford, who I have known since like the
olden days of a 2011, 2012. I met this bunch of rad humans
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in a Facebook group set up for Australians who are going
through Marie. Folio's B School course.
And Jana was in there, and then I've gotten to know her more
deeply in the last. Six months or so because we're
in the same another paid mastermind that we are both.
In as well and we. Have just a huge amount of crazy
synchronicities. We're both Scorpios, we've
travelled in, lived all over. Australia as digital nomads?
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We're both 7 figure entrepreneurs who don't.
Brush their hair and we really build our businesses around our
families. And she is so freaking rad and
I'm so glad that we got to meet in person at last.
Denise Tuffield Thomas was thereand DDT is really.
An icon. A legend in our industry.
I've been lucky to be. Friends with her since. 2012
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when she came to stay in my rainforest home in far North
Queensland for a retreat that I ran.
Then and her. Books and her courses.
Are absolutely. Phenomenal, But most of all?
It's her as a human who is phenomenal, She.
Impresses me with how much. She walks her talk.
And how committed she is to finding her blocks and healing
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them. And sharing what she learns with
the world. Victoria Gibson, I met her as
well back. In the olden days.
Of Aussie B school forum she didmy Facebook ad campaigns for the
goals workbooks for. Years when I ran those.
And let me tell you, like, she'sso smart online, but nothing.
Compares to Victoria in person. She is the juiciest revelation.
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Of a human. She is like an auntie who just
picks you up like. She sees you and she's.
Like darling, I love you. How are you?
Tell me everything. She's fantastic.
Everyone just you meet Victoria,you just.
Swamped with her love and her juiciness.
And I adore her then. There was also Michelle Swan and
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Michelle runs Eyes of Love photography on the Gold Coast.
I met her back in 2019 after shewas recommended as a
photographer by a website designer.
That I was working with. And it's just been.
Mad love ever since then and we've done.
More photo shoots than Since then, she's not only just an
incredible photographer, but she's.
Just the sweetest human as well and I really adore her.
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Husband to Jacko is a legend. He's double like he's come to
support. Her at shoots.
And then we've just developed our own little bromance, so I
love it. Jacko I love.
So many of my friends husbands, like I feel like I'm in a
bromance with them. I just I adore them like I'm.
My friends have such. Incredible partners and I love
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that we just have so many examples of really beautiful,
beautiful men as partners. Rebecca Saunders was there as
well, and I met back at Tasha's Heart Centred business
conference a couple of years ago.
She's just like one of those geniuses who is good at
everything. And then she'll say things like,
oh, that feature film that I produced, it ended up being
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nominated for an award. And things like I decide to take
over publishing a magazine, but that's just a hobby I do on the
side. And I'm just like.
What did you just say, woman? She is awesome.
Then there was Katie Chappell. I met Katie after she did one of
my. Courses five years ago and she
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was so delicious that I promptlyadopted her as my English niece
she is. Ridiculously talented and she's
an illustrator, a live illustrator and she came over
from England. She was only our only
international participant at theretreat.
This year. Then there was Claire.
Wood and I was introduced to Claire through other business
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friends. I read her book and took lots of
notes. Of it and I shared.
Those notes on my website and then I met her in.
Person at Tasha's conference. Last year Claire's an ex
accountant who is a profit coachfor businesses.
She's also hilarious and brilliant and says incredibly
extroverted things like oh you know, oh that's so good.
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I packed a cocktail dress just in case.
Just in case. And it just makes me laugh like
we all tea said that she's got haughty bridesmaid.
Energy. And she totally does.
Like she is just. Up for anything.
And I love her. I love her.
She's brilliant. And in this completely bizarre
twist of faith. We have discovered that we were
born in the same very small town, in the same hospital, just
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a couple of months apart. From each other.
And as I like to. Regularly remind her her
ancestors have definitely dry harmed my ancestors behind the
proxy pub at some point. Like there's no.
Way that in a town. That small.
Her people and my people. Did not have some crossover.
OK, OK. So it basically got to be
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related at this point. Then it's Tina Tower.
I met Tina after she interviewedme on her podcast a few years
ago, and we loved how equally enthusiastic we are about our
businesses and how completely. Differently we like, we
approach. Our businesses, Tina's like
megastructured and she's plannedwith everything, which amazes
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me. Like she'll say things like, oh,
I've got my like content pillarsplanned of everything that's
going to go out for the next 18.Months and I'm like, no I don't.
Even know what's going out? Today the lady I am like loosey
goosey and I just go with the winds of inspiration.
And yet. Both of our approaches work.
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And it's just delightful. And last but not least, Amanda
Jane Daly and I met Amanda via Denise and Victoria, and she's
another alumni. From the ye olden days Aussie B
school Facebook group as well now if you.
Want to go to leonadawson.com forward slash. 209.
Then you'll be able to. Find the pictures the companion
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pictures from the retreat that we went away to as well.
As well as some throwback. Photos from me and Denise.
As babies back in 2012 and me and Denise and Kerry at the
conference I ran here in Canberra back in 2016 and Oh my
gosh. We just look so fresh faced.
We're so delicious. Now in terms of how the
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participants were selected for the for our mastermind, we're
all part of a group, Chad, that I've been running for about 12
years or so. It started because I wrote in my
Goals workbook that I wanted to connect with other business
owners more and I've never waited for.
Anybody to ever pick me? I always pick myself and start
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the team myself, you know, So I invited any business, any
business owners that I did know into it, and then some of them
invited friends. Over the years, as I've met more
people who have felt like would be a good fit, I'd add them.
And because our group is gettinglarger, I'm pretty reticent to
add more people to it. As it probably just become too
unwieldy at a certain point. And it's had so many iterations
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and evolutions over the years as.
Well, I used to be. Super strict.
With my participation rules where people had to post.
An intensive check in at. Least once a month, including.
Like the questions that they hadto answer.
And we've also had periods wherewe had regular phone calls and
accountabilities and then there's been like times where we
like also don't talk for a few. Months and we.
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Just send each other stupid. Memes as well and go.
Completely unstructured. And then there's been times as
well where other people like haven't needed it in their lives
as much and that's totally OK. There's reasons and seasons for
everything. There's also been times where
I've had to remove. People from the group.
For different reasons, usually if they weren't participating
and that were just lurking and watching what everyone was
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saying. Instead of sharing and
connecting because. When you have that, then it's
harder for people to be really vulnerable and share their
numbers. And things like that because.
They're like, Oh, well, there's people here that are listening
to everything I'm saying, but they're not actually.
Sharing anything back and I really laugh about the fact
that. Years ago, there was a American
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entrepreneur who I had to. Remove from the.
From our group chat because. They were lurking.
In to follow participation. Rules and that person's had this
huge mediocre rise to success now and is now very, very famous
in our industry. And they?
Have like a nine figure $100 million plus business and.
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I removed them because they didn't fall.
Into special rules. And I don't have any.
Regrets about it, it's like. That's cool, because I'm really.
Just there for people who were wanting to participate.
People have also elected to leave over the years when their
business and their life priorities change.
There's lots of ebbs of ebbs andflows and the shapes had to
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change over the years. And it's like a garden that that
grows and blooms and sometimes it goes to seed and sometimes it
regenerates into a new cycle. We've been on different group
chats, there's been like a Facebook group and different
ways that we would connect with each other and I'm grateful for.
All of those evolutions. Currently there's about 17 of us
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in that group chat with the majority being Australians, and
at the moment we're pretty flexible without having any.
Structure at all, but we do remove anybody who hasn't
interacted in the last 12 monthsor so as well.
Sometimes we'll ask each other for recommendations on books, on
mentors, on virtual assistants and staff.
Sometimes we'll just say Oh my God, shit, this part is really
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hard. Sometimes we just send each
other memes, sometimes we talk. About how to.
Collaborate with each other. I remember like when.
One of us had a family crisis. Everyone's just immediately.
Steps up with all the ways. That they can offer support for
them both personally and professionally.
And it was so divine to witness.It's been one of the biggest
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blessings in my business over the last decade and so much love
and support and long term. Friendships and advice and
celebrations have gone into it. Also, I want to say like if
you're a business friend who's not in that group chat and
you're like, does Leoni not likeme?
Of course I love you. Firstly, I forget that it
exists. A lot of the time like I forget
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like my AHD brain does not go and puts them together in fact.
One of the people who goes to retreat said to me, hey Leon,
can you actually add me to the group chat because I'm not in.
There and I'm like, yes. I can do that. 100% however at
this. Point as well, like it's.
Probably getting too large for me to.
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Really add any more people into it, but if anyone else starts a
group chat out there with other entrepreneurs especially.
In the seven figure space. Let me know, I'd love to be
invited to more stuff. Please, please, I love.
Chitty Chatty. Now in terms of the actual
business retreat itself and how?It was organized so.
Two members in our group, Carrieand Claire, had an idea together
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to get all the group members to an in person retreat so that
people could actually spend IRL.Time together.
So bizarre. So the first one happened last
year, which I didn't go to because.
I was in the midst. Of moving and then they set the
dates in the calendar for this year and I.
Got to go to it and it was scrumptious.
So we run the retreat as a peer.Mastermind Retreat.
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What that means is nobody owns it.
It is something that we do together as a group.
So in terms of logistics. The dates are usually set like 6
months in. Advance the location.
Was chosen as being the. Gold Coast because four of our
members live there and it's a good holiday destination for.
Everybody else it's easy to get to with lots of.
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Flights. This time we stayed at the Star
Gold Coast in their apartment building and that way everyone
could get their own apartment orshare one.
And so. We also hired A boardroom that
we could use for masterminding during the day.
If we'd had less people, we would have just been able to use
an. Apartment space for that but.
Getting up to 11 people. We knew we'd be pretty cramped
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in one apartment. All together for masterminding.
Everybody who attended organizesand pays for their own flights
and accommodation and food. There's no fees for attendees
outside of that as it's not run by anyone.
It's PLED. So think a gal pal week in a
way, but with just. Lots of talk about business.
And strategy and mindset. We had about five group members
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who couldn't come to the retreatthis year for various reasons,
which was totally groovy. It's optional and I'm pretty
sure they all. Had massive FOMO and desperately
want to be at the next one whichwill be so gorgeous.
And attendees could also choose how long they were at the
retreat most. Did do Monday to Friday.
With the three full days. At being.
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At the retreat and Monday. Friday being the travel days,
but some had to arrive later or leave.
Earlier due to other commitments, which was totally
cool or flexible. So our schedule for the week,
for the week we at the previous retreat that I wasn't at, it was
pretty much run without an agenda and that worked really
well for them and there. Was also much less people.
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At the retreat. So I think with less people you
can be a lot more free. Flowing.
This time around we tried to runit with a more clearly defined
time structure since we had 12 people.
Attending so basic agenda. Look like Monday was fly in and
arrive. At the hotel now if.
You go to leonedawson.com/two. 07.
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You will be. Able to is it 2?
07 No 2:09. Ignore me, you can.
Find the spreadsheet. That I created with the
timetable if that works better for your brain to.
See this visually? So most people flew in or drove
in on Monday and then we all haddinner planned for Tuesday.
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We had a group. Photo shoot planned.
And then dinner that night, Wednesday and Thursday, we had
hot. Seat and.
Masterminding times booked in and so we had two blocks of.
Two hours for both of those days, so 4 hours in total.
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Each day and then we had dinners.
At night time as well and then there.
Was the option where. You could meet up for breakfast
as well, so lots of free time. For people who needed it.
In reality, we didn't stick to those times perfectly, but it
did give us a really good structure.
To base ourselves around. So day one travel day, all the
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dates we. All.
Flew or drove in. We arrived at the hotel.
We met up for dinner at one of the restaurants at the start.
Now I will say that was one of the bonuses of being at the
Star. It's.
Got lots of restaurants on? Site and then after us after
dinner, a few of us. Walked on over a.
Couple of blocks to a. Supermarket to stock on stock
Stock. Up on supplies as well.
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On Day 2 we had the photo shoot,so eight of us took the
opportunity to do a group photo shoot with Michelle from Isabel
Photography and Dan from Head North.
Filming the B roll video all of us.
Tend to use Mish as a photographer as well, so it
made. Sense.
For us to get photos. Taken by her while we're.
In the same area and Mish and Dan took it in turns to shoot us
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individually. And while we're all waiting for
our next. Turn we would get changed into
our next outfits. And then we would shoot.
Stupid wheels with each other. And it worked brilliantly.
I also used MJ vegan makeup artist for my hair and makeup.
She was an absolute darling. I loved her and I also had Leah.
Selfie from productivity queen who lives on the gold.
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Coast as my personal. Assistant for the shoot, not.
Everyone had their own assistantfor the shoot and I did wonder
momentarily if I really needed one, but I'm so, so glad that I
did. I find it hugely.
Helpful for me to have a personal assistant at shoes.
It helps me. Manage my energies so much
better. Plus photo shoots can get really
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hectic and my aims always to do the best job I can in front of
the camera by turning up my StarEnergy instead of managing all
the logistics. That are attached to it so Leah.
Arrived at 6:30 in the morning to my hotel room and she'd
already secured my favorite. Kind of smoothie she knows I
have. Like I have a Google document
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that's called the care and feeding of.
Leone and it details. All of my favorite things.
Including the kind of smoothies that I like to drink.
Like the recipe? That I like and I like chock
peanut butter with non dairy smoothies with banana norm.
And it keeps me going all day. So Leah's been at two of my.
Shoots now. And she's trapped down at
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whatever local cafe. Has.
That equivalent and it works. Bonza and she also like had.
Snacks and drinks for me. That were my favorite brands,
which is amazing, amazing, amazing.
So she ushered. Me up to the hair and makeup
artist with the. Smoothie so I could drink my
smoothie, drink my breakfast while I'm getting.
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That done and she started loading all of my props and my
clothes into her car as well. Then, once hair and makeup was
done, she chauffeured me and Carrie Rowe had opened the shoot
location and she handed me my favorite kombucha drink to drink
on the way there. As well as some chocolates.
And I tell you what, sitting in the back of that car seat being
so taken. Care of in that way.
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I felt like the. Richest person on earth.
Like what magic. What a blessing.
How Richie? Did so good.
Then once we're there, Leah unpacked the car with.
All of our vast quantities of. Suitcases and she got busy
steaming the creases out of all of my.
Outfits, especially since they'dI'd travelled with them in a
suitcase. And then throughout the day she
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would help me style outfits, remind me to eat and drink
because I can. Forget when I get busy.
She. Filmed hilarious.
Video content for us she. Threw props at.
Me during our helter skelter shoot sessions and like I should
know like not everybody requiredprop throwing during their shoot
sessions I. However, had spent the day
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before I flew out. Coming up with this great idea
of hand painting a bunch. Of signs to.
Use in shoots. I didn't want graceful.
Shoots I want graceful photos I wanted like.
Chaotic, ridiculous ones with a.Lot of handmade props that I.
Could use for different things and it was a lot.
Of fun and also. Sweaty.
So she had this big pile of cardboard signs that I'd hand
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painted and like with emoji symbols and pens and like.
Microphones. And it was.
It was. Ridiculous and so.
There was like. 20 of them and so she was just like throwing
the next one at me and I throw the wet next one on the floor.
It was just like we just kept going.
We just kept going. It was really great, really fun.
Then, once our shoot was done, Leah ferried us back to the.
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Hotel I. Immediately showered because I
cannot. Cope with makeup being on my
face for that long, especially with having like a little set of
false lashes on. I'm like I don't even know how
to use my face anymore. Then I ordered an absolute shit
ton. Of Cantonese room service and I
called my husband and my daughter to talk while I ate as
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well. So they got the whole mukbang
experience of me just shoveling mainlining food into my face
because I was starving by that point.
Then I had to lay down to recalibrate my nervous system.
And then later in the afternoon,Kerry texted me and she's like,
did you want to? Go to the beach.
And I was like, no, did you wantto go?
To the enormous like. The Southern Hemisphere's
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largest shopping sandwiches across the road.
And she was like I. Wasn't expecting you to say
that. And I was like, also me was not
expecting to say that. So we had the best time.
Strolling through there and it'sjust this.
Enormous maze of shops. And some of it's indoors, some
of it's outdoors. It's Yeah, it was.
It was. Bizarre.
It's it's specific. Fare for people who are in the
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Gold Coast. It's like, oh, that's.
That's a cookie shopping centre.So I got to introduce Carrie to
her first bubble tea and then we.
Went into some of the luxury stores for a gander.
And let me. Tell you it was pretty hilarious
trying on like $6000 handbags atLouis Vuitton while carrying my
current handbag, which was this $5 handmade Unicorn tote bag
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that I got from. Humanity markets.
I love the duality of it. I could buy a $6000 handbag.
Am I? Going to at this point.
No, I'll stick with. My hair I'll stick.
With my ridiculous tote bag. Like I don't really care that
much. That was super nice in the store
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though. What a fun experience.
What a fun experience. I loved it.
Then we popped over to Zimmermanand played dress UPS.
Like I loved how bohemian and artsy their designs are but I
did not love that they don't cater for plus size mermaids
with. Boobies like me.
So it was still. So much like fun and frivolity.
And I love making Carrie do fashion parade.
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For me, it's like dressing up a little Dolly.
It's so cute. And at one point I was sitting
in the. Waiting room and she.
Walked out of this. Dressing room.
And it's gloriously. Fairly dressed and I audibly
gasped. Because it was so beautiful.
And I was like, yes, that's the one.
It was like an episode of Say Yes to the Dress.
And it was so joyful and so gorgeous and I love that.
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Me and Carrie had to like, add that.
Fun memory. To our friendship bank now
because so much of our friendship is spent online and
now we have like IRL friendship memories as well which.
Is scruptious then, as we were. Wandering back to the Air
Apartments that afternoon, we got a text message in the group
and so we was like, does anyone do trivia night in the sports?
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Bar and. I that did something deeply
internally in a delicious. Way to me.
And of course I wanted to go to.Trivia night.
That night was ridiculous, hilarious mayhem against each
other, and we spent the whole night sledging each other and
egging each other on. It was raucous and ridiculous
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and exactly my jam. So we end up having to.
Split into two groups because there was so many of us and.
So one group. Was called Lucky Bitches.
Of course it was. Denise's team and then the other
group that I was in was called. Lay beer as in lay down and then
beer like the one that you drink.
But the way that you have to sayit is very tricky.
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It's very tricky. It's.
Hard for people to say that without sounding really like
you're saying something inappropriate.
So I love that. Absolutely love that.
Got the giggles, of course I. Did.
Of course I did. Next up we had for day three and
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day four we did hot seats and masterminding.
So we hired the boardroom at theapartments for us to use for two
days. It's.
Crazy cheap. And we had the most gorgeous
space. With views for us to.
Meet in and I volunteered to facilitate in it, so roughly how
they went was I. Started with a 20.
Minute intention setting and guided.
Visualization which just set. The energy beautifully.
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For our time together. Then everyone had a 30 minute
hot seat. Scheduled over the next.
Day and a half and we tried to keep pretty firmly to those
times, otherwise we would not have.
Been able to get through everyone so we did a. 2 hour
block in the morning with four hot seats before taking a two
hour break to go out to lunch and stretch legs and then
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another two hours in the. Afternoon.
And that doesn't. Seem like a lot on paper, but it
definitely felt like we wouldn'thave been able.
To sustain concentration for longer than that.
I also gave everyone options of how they'd like to run their hot
seat so everyone ended up choosing the same.
Structure anyway, so 5. Minutes of them sharing where
their business was at and what problems they were facing.
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Then 20 minutes of us all askingmore questions, sharing feedback
and advice of what we would do in that situation and then for
the final 5 minutes we played that.
Person's favorite song or like their victory.
Song, the thing that they they play when they're like, yes.
In the zone and. We could either during that
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song. Write.
Them letters to take home with them, or we could dance with
them while we envisioned their. Success and most.
People chose to have letters. Written to them and I think that
all worked super beautifully. Plus, I saved everyone's victory
songs into a Spotify playlist that we can all listen to, but
we're going to just top back. Up on that energy again.
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And I asked for. Letters to be written.
To me and getting to read those on the way.
Home on the flight home was so profound and so beautiful, and
I'm so grateful for that experience.
We finished the last block blockof hot seats with another
visualization to ground into everybody's vision.
And then for the final afternoonsession, everyone submitted 2
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questions. That they wanted the whole group
to answer. One of them was.
Something that people could answer in one sentence and then
the other question was somethingthat would.
Take a little bit longer to answer and we.
Ended up timing those conversations as well so we can
make sure. That all of them got answered,
and that was really. Delicious.
And I got so much inside out of that.
Time as well. Last week, lastly, we asked
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everybody what they needed from the group over the next year to
help them reach. Their goals and some of.
Them was so simple like I need friends to text me silly meme so
that I feel connected to more complex like I thrive on
competition so I need you all tolike nag me by saying that you
could do better for me better than.
Me and that's. Hilariously, my request because
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I I am a. Competitive.
Person, If you turn anything into a race, my motivation will.
Be through the roof and. It is working.
So well, and I'm so grateful that people are willing to go.
Yeah, All right, let's do a competition, Leonie.
And it also. Activated other people who.
Really love competition as well and I like I'm on board, I'm on
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board. At night time we also had
optional. Fancy dinners that we could go
to. Not everybody went to them.
It was totally fine for people to opt out and.
Rest or catch up? On any work they needed to.
I went to dinner one night and then on the last night Katie and
I opted not to go out and instead we hung out, drawing,
eating DoorDash food, singing toAlanis.
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Morissette and having just the. Screaming less funniest.
Most cosmic mission time together it was beautiful and
then once everyone. Arrived back from dinner, we all
crowded into an apartment to. Stay up laughing and talking
until 2:00 AM and it was the most.
Perfect. Way to end the retreat but day.
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Five the travel day, we all met up at the.
Breakfast buffet for last minute.
Giggles. And talks before everybody
started floating home. It was miraculous.
Now, in terms of what we do differently next time, we're
still deciding on the location for next year.
If we do go back to the Gold Coast, we probably won't stay at
the Star. A lot of us found it really
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energetically ungrounding to be sleeping in skyscraper
buildings. I was.
On floor 44 and. As an Australian, I don't.
I'm not used to being in a skyscraper.
We'll also likely have more. People at the next retreat again
so. We'll need to think about how we
run hot. Seats.
And otherwise, like, no notes from that because it really was.
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Perfection on a stick. So a big question we got asked
was can I buy a ticket to come to?
This retreat and sorry. No, it's a private peer
mastermind. But you can however create your
own peer mastermind and your ownpeer mastermind retreat and I
really hope that this inspires. You to do just that all in.
All. It was genuinely one of the best
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weeks that I ever had in my life.
I'm not. Even joking it was.
Incredibly meaningful. It was powerful.
It was. Fun.
It was so. Soul healing.
Just to be around other highly motivated women who have the
same kind of kooky online job asI do.
Not many people can effortlesslyflow in conversation from
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creativity to productivity to marketing strategies to
investments to working with yourhusband to dealing with trolls
to big philanthropic dreams to legacy work.
And it's. Euphoric when you're.
Around the people who can, I felt beyond blessed to have been
there and. So fired up with joy and
excitement and enthusiasm. Now I really want to encourage
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you to create your own mastermind and your own
mastermind retreat. So I created a free DIY retreat
workbook. For you that I hand.
Illustrated it is adorable as. Book So if you know the union,
dawson.com. Forward slash 209.
You can find it there. I hope this gives you the
encouragement to create your own.
(31:45):
I would. Love to hear all about it when
you do. I really.
Deeply believe that when women. Circle.
Together, miracles happen, I feel.
Healed, I feel. Lit up, I feel.
So powerful and so ready. Together, we can create big
miracles. All right.
I love you. I love you.
I. Love you.
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You've got this, You've got this.
Well, one more thing nearly forgot.
If you haven't noticed already, well, if you haven't noticed
already, I. Have got so many incredible new
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things that are coming out at the moment.
I just ran Big Money Big Impact,which was an exceptional 21 day
selling. Experience and people got so
many incredible results and I feel.
Like I am doing. The best work of my.
Career I'm now running backstage.
Pass which? Is a behind the scenes.
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Of. How I'm going for 1/4 of
$1,000,000 in sales in one month?
And those. 2 are now closed. You've missed your opportunity.
For those wow, that's what. Happens when you're on my
mailing list and you don't checkyour emails.
Oh my God, guys, I'm trying to tell you.
About these things but I. Do have a thing that you can
find out about? I am running the Momentum
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Mastermind. Which is going to take.
Big money, big impact and intensify it.
Deepen that experience. Even more, it turns.
Into an 8 week. Small.
Group mastermind with me with weekly.
Group coaching calls You also get daily audio transmissions to
keep you really motivated and ontracked.
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And making some really big. Moves in your business and
making some big cash that. Comes out every.
Weekday of those eight weeks. And we also have an incredible.
Forum as well that. You can mastermind with the.
Other beautiful humans in there.So enrollments.
Are only open until next end of next week, so.
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A week or so away. Leonidawson.com/momentum you can
find out. All about it there otherwise.
Make sure that you are on my mailing list at.
Leonidawson.com because there isso much good stuff coming your.
Way. All right, I'll see you in
momentum. I'll see you in all the things.
Let's go make miracles and magichappen together.
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