year listening to the Goldacre podcast episode number 315.

Writing the title for this episode kind of felt like writing a gossip column for a magazine.

I mean, I flew my team first class to a retreat and here's what happened.

And before you think this is a setting of some new MTV reality show,

let me explain why I decided to fly my team first class to Arizona for a trip

that became part dreaming session, part spa retreat,

and part girls trip that absolutely changed how we will all work together moving forward.

Earlier this year, I affiliated for a launch and I set a huge seven figure goal for that launch.

That big goal was a direct reflection of what I knew my team could pull off,

but I also knew the amount of work that each member would need to do in order to get us there.

So I promised if we hit that goal, we would take off on a three day trip

somewhere warm where the drinks were fruity and the room said robes.

Now here's the thing, my entire team is remote, which means some of these women had never even met each other in person.

And I hadn't even met some of the members of my own team.

Like we all work together all year long with our emails pinging and our slack messages knocking.

But other than one quick zoom call each week, we never get to see each other's faces.

And we certainly don't get to float around on giant inflatable champagne bottles sipping peanut colladas while dreaming up our next big thing.

Now I wanted to thank my team for their work on that launch and for so many of the other projects that came to fruition this year.

But I also wanted an opportunity for all of us to really get to know each other and to connect in a way that's only possible in person.

So needless to say, we hit that goal. We crushed it actually. And I stuck to my promise.

A travel agent booked us all on first class flights to Scottsdale, Arizona.

And we all made our separate journeys to be together all in one place for the first time ever.

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