Thrive at the Edge Retreat
A Dare to Thrive Retreat for Women Leaders
October 9 – 11, 2026 | Huntersville, NC (Charlotte Area)
Step Away. Step In.
Step Up.
Step into your next level of purpose, power, and peace at the Thrive at the Edge Retreat. This transformational 2.5-day experience is designed to help you reflect, release, redefine, and rise.
About the Venue
Nestled within the elegant Lion Manor and just minutes from the charming Birkdale Village, this immersive retreat blends growth, grace, and grounded luxury. Whether you’re seeking clarity, deeper confidence, or your next aligned step, this retreat is your invitation to pause, breathe, and reconnect with your boldest self alongside a circle of women leaders and visionaries who are rising too.
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Set along the tranquil shores of Lake Norman, Lion Manor offers the perfect setting for reflection and renewal. With sunlit rooms, lake views, and expansive terraces, this luxury estate creates space to breathe, connect, and grow.
A limited number of on-site suites are available for guests seeking a fully immersive experience.
Lion Manor
The Women Who Gather
Thrive at the Edge brings together a cross-sector, multicultural, multigenerational community of women with wisdom, courage, and lived experience. We do not just network here. We pour into one another’s visions, businesses, leadership, healing, and becoming. Around every table and in every circle, we ask hard questions, share honest stories, laugh deeply, make room for meaningful tears, and remember that we do not rise alone.
What’s Included
Your Retreat Experience
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Immersive 2.5-Day Experience
Step away from the noise and into a thoughtfully curated retreat experience. Through guided conversations, story-sharing, coaching moments, journaling, wellness practices, and intentional rest, you will create space to hear yourself again and imagine what’s next.
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Edgework Journal & Retreat Materials
Your Thrive at the Edge Journal will guide you throughout the retreat and beyond. With reflection prompts, exercises, and curated resources rooted in the Edgework Framework™, you’ll capture insights, name what is shifting, and continue your growth long after the retreat ends.
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Chef-Prepared Meals & Meaningful Connection
Enjoy nourishing chef-prepared meals in an intimate setting where conversation flows naturally, stories are honored, and connection feels easy. This is a space to be fed in every sense of the word.
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Welcome Gift & Signature Shiggs Touches
From the moment you arrive, you’ll experience the thoughtful details that make Thrive at the Edge feel personal, elevated, and deeply welcoming. Expect meaningful gifts, beautiful touches, and a few surprises designed to help you feel seen, cared for, and celebrated.
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Reflection, Wellness & Restoration
This retreat includes space for reflection, coaching circles, movement, rhythms and resets, rest, breathing, and rejuvenating services such as stretch sessions, massages, and facials. You will not be asked to perform strength here. You will be invited to exhale.
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6-Month Edgework Collective Membership
Your retreat experience does not end when the weekend does. Participants receive six months of access to the Edgework Collective, a private community designed to help you stay connected, supported, and accountable as you continue to reflect, release, redefine, and rise.
The Edge Is Waiting.
Are You Ready?
Who It’s For
This Retreat Is for You If…
You are preparing for your next move, navigating a major transition, or already leading from a seat that requires more of you than people realize.
You are ready to stop performing strength and start leading from clarity, courage, and alignment.
You want a safe, supportive community of women who “get it”
You know it is time to reconnect with who you are, where you come from, and what is calling you next.
You are craving rest, reflection, honest conversation, meaningful connection, and a renewed sense of possibility.
You are ready to claim your seat—and lead from it with more freedom, truth, and intention.
The Promise
Why Thrive at the Edge?
This retreat isn’t just time away.
It’s a transformational reset.
You’ll leave with:
It is sacred space, brave space, soft space, strategic space, and sisterhood space for women who are ready to pause, tell the truth, lay some things down, and rise into what is next.
You will leave with:
Greater clarity about who you are and what is next for you
Permission to release what no longer fits the woman and leader you are becoming
Renewed connection to your body, breath, story, and vision
Language for your transition so you can name what is shifting and move with greater intention
Courage and support to rise into your next season with more freedom, truth, and alignment