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Build better retreats. Grow loyal communities. Create a business that lasts.
Retreat Machine gives retreat leaders the tools, templates, training, and real-world support to turn good ideas into sustainable businesses.
What we do
Five ways we power your retreat.
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Time-saving, innovative tools for your retreats and the business behind them.
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The Workshop
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Where you build your retreat. Templates, swipe files, monthly working sessions, and the members-only feed of working operators.
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Full member studio
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The whole studio. Everything in The Workshop plus the full done-for-you library, deeper coaching, and the inner circle of leaders growing the next stage.
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EP 03Marketing
003: Retreats vs. Launches: Is the Future of Online Business Happening in Person?
What if your next retreat could become your most powerful marketing strategy? Colet sits down with Fractional COO and Growth + Operations Strategist Melanie Ireton of Ireton Consulting to explore whether retreats are replacing traditional online launches — or becoming the missing piece.
ListenEP 02Community Building
Why Retreat Leaders Should Stop Building an Audience and Start Building a Community
Audiences buy tickets. Communities come back, bring friends, and build your retreat with you. In this episode, Nick and Colet break down the difference—and how to start shifting from follower count to real connection.
ListenEP 01Behind the Scenes
Welcome to the Retreat Machine
Meet the retreat workshop behind the microphone. In our first episode, Nick and Colet introduce the Retreat Machine, why retreats matter more than ever, and what you can expect from the conversations ahead.
ListenRead
The latest articles.
Marketing
The Magazine Method: How One Retreat Leader Built an Audience That Actually Shows Up
Not a funnel trick. A slow, deliberate build that turned strangers into people who open every single email.
5 min read
Community
Stop Buying Strangers. You Already Have a Room.
Community is the cheapest way to fill a retreat you will ever find — and most leaders walk right past it.
5 min read
Grow
The First 100: How to Get Subscribers When Literally Nobody Knows You Exist
You don't need an audience. You need one person to tell one friend.
6 min read
The Parts Department
Need one specific piece? Find it here.
A searchable library of forms, waivers, emails, sales pages, checklists, AI prompts, and operating tools. Grab the part. Drop it in. Get back to leading.
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The Shop
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Outcome-based categories so you can find the exact thing — fast.
Why Retreat Machine
For people actually doing the work.
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Practical tools
Spreadsheets, scripts, and templates you can use on Monday.
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Real community
Operators who answer when you post — not a ghost-town forum.
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Done-for-you resources
Pages, emails, and forms that would take you weeks to build alone.
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No fluff
We respect your time. Every page earns its place.
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Built by people doing the work
We're running retreats, communities, and podcasts in public — and showing you how.
No gurus. No theory. Just the operating manual.
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