I’m Off the Grid in Avalon, and My Business Is Running Better Without Me

Right now, as you’re reading this, I’m in Glastonbury, England. Known in legend as the Isle of Avalon.

I’m here with a group of incredible women for a leadership and personal growth retreat, and we’re spending the week exploring some of the most historic and spiritually significant sites in the UK. Meanwhile, we’re diving into conversations about purpose, leadership, feminine wisdom, and what it actually means to consciously create the next chapter of our lives.

What I’m not doing is checking my email. I’m not stressing about clients. And I’m certainly not wondering what my team is doing or not doing back home.

Instead, I’m just here. Present. Ten days, mostly off the grid.

If you’d told me a few years ago that I could disappear to a mythical island for nearly two weeks and come home to a business that had grown in my absence, I would have laughed at you. Back then, stepping away for even a long weekend meant coming home to a mountain of fires I had to personally put out. Vacation wasn’t rest. It was just delayed work with a tan.

And here’s the part I really want you to hear: not only will my business be fine when I get back, it will be better than when I left it. Yes, better.

Why Stepping Away Makes My Business Stronger, Not Weaker

While I’m gone, my team is still moving projects forward. As a matter of fact, they’re scoping out locations for my upcoming podcast launch as I write this. They’re making decisions and carrying things across the finish line without me hovering over every step.

Obviously this is good for me. But honestly, it’s just as good for them, because it gives them autonomy and calls them to a higher level. People rise to the level of ownership you actually hand them. As long as I was hovering, my team never got the chance to fully step into what they were capable of. The moment I got out of the way, they did.

Here’s the part most people miss, though. If there’s a leak somewhere in the pipes, my being away means it actually gets to show up instead of being artificially plugged by my presence. As a result, we can finally see it and fix it. A business that only looks healthy because you’re standing inside it holding the cracks together isn’t healthy. It’s dependent.

For years, I genuinely believed that if I wasn’t available, responsive, and on top of every detail, the whole thing would come apart. I wore that belief like a badge. Being indispensable felt like proof that I mattered. In reality, it was proof that I had built something fragile — a company that couldn’t breathe without me in the room.

the moment you stop confusing being needed with being valuable, everything changes. Consequently, the goal stopped being “how do I get more done” and became “what does my business need in order to function without me.”

None of This Happens Without One Skill: Focus

Truthfully, none of this would be possible if I weren’t exceptionally good at one specific thing. Focus.

And focus is not something that comes naturally to most people, myself included. We live in a world that is literally engineered to distract you, to fracture your attention into a hundred pieces, and to keep you from ever doing the work that matters.

So focus doesn’t happen by accident in an environment like that. Rather, it happens because you build the space for it to exist. You create the conditions for flow. That’s exactly how I built the systems and developed the team that now let me leave for ten days without a single ounce of stress.

And it all starts with the one thing that either locks you in a cage or hands you the keys to your freedom… your calendar.

Here’s a hard truth I had to learn the slow way. Texts and emails are other people’s to-do lists for you. They are not your intention. Every time you let a notification pull you off course, you’re trading your priorities for someone else’s. Meanwhile, the needs of everyone around you will always feel urgent, while your own deep work waits quietly and never fights for your attention the same way. So you have to fight for it.

What Would You Do With 15 Hours Every Week?

Because of all of this, I want to gift you something really special from inside my program. It’s a tool designed to help you reclaim 15 hours of every week.

Yes, I said 15 hours every week. I know that sounds like an exaggeration. Nevertheless, it’s not. You’ll see every minute accounted for.

So let me ask you something. What would you do if you had 15 hours every single week for the work that actually grows your business? What would your business look like if you gave it that much dedicated focus? And how would your life be different if your business were thriving at that level? What would that mean for your family?

Sit with those for a second. Because that is what this is actually about.

The women I coach often arrive convinced they need to add something — another platform, another funnel, another certification. Yet almost every time, the real answer is the opposite. They don’t need more on the calendar. They need protected space on it. They need fewer things done with far more consistency. Once that space exists, the strategy they’ve been chasing finally has room to actually work.

Ultimately, this is one of the most transformative things my clients learn inside Rise Higher Society, a 12-week live group coaching program for ambitious women building sustainable, profitable businesses that support them as much as they support everyone else.

It’s the foundation everything else is built on. Before the strategy, before the scaling, before any of it, there is this.

It’s Not a Pipe Dream. You Can Have It Too.

So if you’ve been ending every week busy and exhausted, if you’ve been letting your inbox run your day, and if having a business that lets you take a trip like mine still feels like a pipe dream you’ll get to “someday,” then I want you to know something.

It’s not a pipe dream. You can have it, too.

Furthermore, you don’t have to fly to a mythical island to start. You just have to be willing to build the space, to treat your focus as the asset it actually is, and to design a business that supports the life you want instead of swallowing it whole.