Unleash Your Capacity
A four-day intimate retreat for women ready to create a different relationship with themselves, their money, their bodies and the lives they're building.
July 15–18, 2027
San Clemente, California
Limited to 12 women
Financial work. Somatic work. Real conversation. Space to think, feel and decide differently.
Unleash Your Capacity is intentionally small.
Twelve women. Four days.
A space designed to remove you from the pace and expectations of everyday life long enough to hear yourself again.
You'll work with your relationship with money, your nervous system, identity, desire, leadership and the decisions shaping your next chapter.
You know how to handle responsibility.
You make decisions. You solve problems. You take care of things.
You may even have built a life other people consider successful.
But capacity isn't simply about how much you can accomplish.
It is also about how much success, money, uncertainty, visibility, intimacy, rest and possibility you can hold without contracting back into old patterns.
Sometimes the next level doesn't require working harder.
It requires understanding what happens inside you when more becomes available.
That is the work we do here.
Participant at Unleash Your Capacity, April 2025
Financial decisions aren't made in isolation.
Money intersects with identity, safety, relationships, ambition, self-worth, comparison, freedom and the way we respond under pressure.
That is why Unleash Your Capacity approaches transformation from more than one direction.
We use guided trauma-informed breathwork sessions to connect mind and body throughout the experience.
You can understand something intellectually and still struggle to live it.
You can know what you "should" do financially and still avoid the decision.
You can want more and simultaneously feel uncomfortable receiving it.
You can be extraordinarily capable and still find yourself repeating patterns you thought you had outgrown.
Unleash Your Capacity gives you the time, guidance and environment to explore those patterns from both directions:
Understand the beliefs, emotions and learned behaviors influencing the way you earn, spend, save, receive and make financial decisions.
Develop greater awareness of your stress responses and learn practices that support regulation, presence and choice.
Examine the roles, expectations and stories that may have defined who you were allowed to become.
Practice making decisions from greater clarity instead of fear, urgency, comparison or automatic patterns.
Get out of your head.
Look inward for important answers.
Let yourself be supported.
Some things make more sense when you experience them than when someone explains them to you.
The Experience
Day One
Slow down.
Leave the logistics of everyday life outside.
Meet the women you'll share this experience with and begin noticing what becomes visible when there is finally space to pay attention.
Opening ceremony on the beach, Thursday night.
Day Two
Explore the patterns beneath your financial and emotional decision-making.
Through conversation, financial work and somatic experiences, begin connecting what you know intellectually with what you experience internally.
Day Three
This is where insight becomes experimentation.
Movement. Conversation. Financial work. Somatic practices. Reflection.
You begin testing a different way of responding to the things that normally trigger pressure, control, avoidance or contraction.
Day Four
Transformation matters only if it can come home with you.
The final day focuses on integration, decisions and what you want the next chapter of your life to look like.
You need room to hear the one that's already there.
The People Behind the Work
Your facilitators and trainers, Lisa and Melissa, will lead you through this guided experience from start to finish.
Money. Decisions. Identity.
Lisa Chastain is a money coach, author, speaker, podcast host, and Certified NLP Trainer whose work focuses on Financial Emotional Intelligence.
Her professional career spans more than 25 years of coaching, mentoring, teaching, and advising. Earlier in her career, she worked as a financial advisor serving high-net-worth clients. In 2016, she transitioned out of licensed financial advising and built her financial coaching practice.
Her work combines practical financial education with Financial Emotional Intelligence—helping people understand not only what they do with money, but what drives those choices.
Lisa is the author of Stop Budgeting, Start Living and host of the Real Money with Lisa Chastain podcast. Her work and perspective have been featured in CNBC, NBC News, Fortune, Entrepreneur, O – The Oprah Magazine, FOX Business, ABC News, Cosmopolitan, Bloomberg, and NewsNation.
The body. Safety. Embodiment.
Melissa Blynn is the visionary founder of EpicLuv on a mission to revolutionize the path to personal transformation and healing for women. With her expertise as a certified Psychedelic Facilitator, Melissa is among the pioneers of the facilitation and integration of plant medicine, leading women through profound journeys of self-discovery, trauma release, and emotional reconciliation.
Melissa's approach is deeply rooted in the power of Somatic Experiencing, which is a body-centered approach to treating PTSD. She nurtures a mind/body connection, guiding clients through transformative experiences that unlock profound physical and emotional healing.
Instantly dissolve the heavy guilt and anxiety around money, shifting into a new relationship of absolute freedom and joy.
Move permanently from a mindset of scarcity and 'not enough' into a state of sufficiency, power, and deep wealth.
Learn powerful, body-centered somatic tools to shift out of stress responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) in seconds.
Stop creating your life from chaos and exhaustion. Learn how to design your business, career, and life from pure desire and ease.
Reconnect with your deep feminine intuition to make powerful, high-ticket decisions with absolute clarity.
You're accomplished, responsible and capable—and you're beginning to question whether pushing harder is actually the answer.
You're ready to understand your relationship with money beyond budgets, spreadsheets and investment accounts.
You notice yourself making decisions from urgency, control, fear, obligation or comparison and want another option.
You want success without needing your nervous system to live in a permanent state of pressure.
You're navigating a transition, expansion or next chapter and want space to hear what you actually want.
You value intelligent conversation, personal responsibility and doing real work.
And you're willing to be present.
You're looking primarily for financial investment advice.
You want someone else to tell you what decisions to make.
You're looking for a passive luxury vacation.
You're unwilling to participate in experiential work.
You're searching for a quick fix.
You're not willing to give yourself four days away from normal distractions.
No judgment. This is simply a specific kind of experience—and the room works because the women in it choose to participate fully.
$2,997
Flexible payment options available.
July 15–18, 2027
San Clemente, California
Limited to 12 women
Travel and lodging are not included. After registration, participants receive recommendations to make planning their stay simple.
Where It Happens
There is a reason we're taking you away.
Removing yourself from your normal environment creates space.
Space to think. Space to notice.
Space to make decisions without the constant pull of work, family, notifications and responsibility.
Unleash Your Capacity takes place in San Clemente, California, minutes from the Pacific Ocean.
Hands to Wellness Collective
215 Avenida Del Mar
San Clemente, CA 92672
Travel and lodging are not included. After registration, participants receive recommendations and additional information to make planning their stay simple. Assistance coordinating shared accommodations may be available for those interested.