How to Create Your Retreat with Catherine Kontos

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Do you want your nonprofit to be more unified, have a strong relationship, and understand each other? Retreats are a great way to bond with your team. A retreat is a means to advertise your organization in a way that makes money while also making a difference in the lives of those you deal with.

Remarkable Quotes

Catherine: Retreats are an incredible way to create a bond among your people

Travis: After a retreat, you will have a board that is now more cohesive; they will understand each other better.

Catherine: Retreats will scale your business. They are marketing gold.

Catherine: Assume you are now earning $100,000 on a retreat for your nonprofit, how much good can you do with that money? How much more can you expand your nonprofit and touch many more people with that money? It's a win-win situation.

Highlights

{01:40} Catherine’s journey

{11:10} How Catherine came to start retreats

{15:51} Why people love retreats and the marketing value of retreats

{22:20} When your retreat is a train wreck

{26:00} What you to know before putting a retreat together

{36:52} Team building exercises

Catherine Kontos bio

Catherine built her retreat business from a blank canvas. Since then, she has explored every aspect of the retreat world and has helped plan for retreats with thousands of guests around the world, providing memorable retreat experiences. After years of coaching retreat leaders, she has decided to pivot her teachings to the digital world with her Retreat Boss brand and podcast. she is also a Speaker and Author of the book Soul Shaker: A Whirlwind Awakening.

Connect with Catherine

welcome@retreatboss.com

https://retreatboss.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/retreatboss

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMndLWr7fxfB-FHdCd098qQ

https://www.instagram.com/retreat_boss/

https://www.facebook.com/retreatboss/

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