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Anchoring Wellness: Elizabeth Vallejo on Creating Luxury Retreats in Colombia’s Rosario Islands

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Step into the serene world of luxury wellness retreats with our special guest, Elizabeth Vallejo. Elizabeth, a passionate life coach and hospitality guru, reveals the transformative story behind "The Anchor," an opulent retreat oasis she co-founded with her brother on the stunning Rosario Islands, Colombia. From the moment you land, experience seamless logistics and bespoke adventures, including meditation sessions and cultural tours in Cartagena, designed to enrich the mind and nourish the soul.

Discover the profound impact retreats can have on personal growth and self-discovery, especially through the lens of silent retreats. We discuss how these experiences allow participants to disconnect from daily chaos and forge deep connections with themselves and others. Bali, with its spiritual allure, emerges as a sought-after destination for these transformative journeys. Learn about the collaborative spirit involved in organizing retreats and the lasting friendships that form in such intimate settings.

As we wrap up, Elizabeth shares insights into the mindful management of a luxury property on an island without natural water resources. Through creative sustainability practices, The Anchor maintains its opulence while fostering environmental consciousness. We explore the joy of planning upcoming retreats, filled with anticipation and gratitude, and offer tips for choosing mindfulness retreats that align with personal aspirations. Join us on this invigorating journey and feel the excitement building for future retreats.

About My Guest:
Elizabeth Vallejo is a dedicated and knowledgeable life coach and founder of The Anchor Retreat. She is passionate about helping her clients reach their full potential. As a certified life coach, she is committed to promoting holistic health and wellness by addressing spiritual, mental, emotional, relational, and physical health goals.

With a focus on creating a sustainable path to success, Elizabeth takes a holistic approach to coaching, working closely with her clients to help them reach their goals. Drawing from her own personal journey towards wholeness, she places a strong emphasis on accountability and commitment, knowing that these values are key to making lasting progress.

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www.theanchorretreatproperty.com

IG: @wellnesselizabethvallejo @theanchor__

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Speaker 1:

Hey everyone, it is another episode of Beachside Banter with Bea. I'm Bea here with Elizabeth Vajajo and I am so excited to get started. Hopefully I said her name right. I'm really bad with that. Everybody knows we are talking about the anchor property today, which is in the Rosario Islands, and gosh, this is a really cool story. So let's go ahead, let's introduce yourself, elizabeth, tell everybody how the anchor came about and yeah, good start, hi Well, thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 2:

I'm so excited to talk to you. So I am a life coach. I've been a life coach for about six years now and I come from a family that we've always kind of been in hospitality. I used to own a food truck and have a catering company. I did events, and my brother is a chef who was trained in Europe.

Speaker 2:

He lived there for about 22 years, had a restaurant, and we think we always talked about doing something in wellness, but not making the luxury out of it. So you know, we do realize that there is a space for people who life like crisp white sheets and plush you know robes in their bathrooms, but also like to sit around and cacao ceremonies and talk about their feelings. So what we did is that we decided to bring you know people to our country. So he, my brother, was born in Colombia. I'm first generation born in the States, but we were both raised in the exterior. So what our basically our goal was was to bring people to Colombia and show them the beauty of Colombia and also be able to offer them something like wellness. So we started in the Rosario Islands, in Cartagena, colombia, because we found the perfect property. We're also very conscious about, like you know, how the property is being run, for the ecosystem, and our dream is to basically have retreats. That we do in every region of Colombia.

Speaker 2:

Colombia is a really beautiful country where we have the Amazon, we have mountains, we have valleys, we have coffee fields. We just happened to start in Cartagena and we're really excited about it. So he's the chef on the property. I manage the property, but in about three weeks I will be doing my own retreat. I host one international retreat there a year and it is a life coaching retreat. Half of the clients coming are actually my clients and then the other half are people that are interested, and it was really exciting because this is my second one where it's just me doing it internationally and I actually sold out immediately and didn't really have to. Yeah, and we have people coming back. Yeah, we have like repeat offenders coming back that have already been to our retreats and we have one guest who was gifted this by somebody who's already been to one of our retreats.

Speaker 1:

So really excited changing. That's awesome. That's awesome. So what do you really like? What do these retreats look like? So do you? I know it's a lot of yoga, a lot of like talking and that sort of thing, but tell me all about them.

Speaker 2:

So basically we created this space for facilitators like me to host their own retreats. When I used to host retreats in the States, it was very, very expensive and the thought of hosting retreats outside of the country just seemed very intimidating. So the reason we're able to do this at such a high luxury level is because of the difference with the coin right. So the Colombian peso is a lot cheaper than the American peso I mean the American dollar. So all of our retreats are different. We basically provide a space for the facilitator to come. They bring their own clients and they kind of create their schedule. What is the same is that we provide everything. So we pick up their group at the airport. We also handle all of the flights, so we handle all of the logistics, which I always find is really scary. Most of the people in the wellness space they're not into logistics, they don't want to deal with all that, and I like to joke and say that it's my trauma response where I am just super hyper independent. But I also have plan A, b, c and D, so I have a solution for everything. So we pick them up in a beautiful Mercedes, sprinter van and your group is always just with its group. Then we go to a private boat, then we go to the property and we handle all the food and we also help them to make their retreat around our excursions. So, for instance, we do a really beautiful sunset cruise. We've done that cruise with champagne and music. We've also done a silent one and we've also done a meditation one where we release our emotions, we release things we want to let go of and we kind of just ride back with meditation, music. We also offer massage in front of the ocean live music.

Speaker 2:

We have a really beautiful trip where we go to a private beach In Colombia. All of the beaches are public Sorry, public beach, you just got to know how to get to them. So it's basically like a speck of land. We're usually the only ones there and again, that could be a party. Or, in my case, we do meditation, a letting go ceremony and a little bit of movement and grounding exercises when we're in the beach. So you can revolve these retreats around anything you want. We also do trips to Cartagena. Cartagena is one of the most famous ports in South America and they have a really beautiful old city and we do a tour and we do some shopping, see some live stuff, so you can basically make these retreats and cater them to whatever it is that calling is in this world.

Speaker 1:

Wow, that sounds like a little slice of heaven. I'm not even going to lie to you, it's yeah, I mean, I've had so much interest in going down into that region. Anyways, I think there's another island that is off the coast of Colombia, and I'm probably going to say it wrong, but San Andreas. Oh, san Andreas, yeah, this is beautiful. Okay, so a little bit about me.

Speaker 1:

My dad is from Ecuador, so I should have that Hispanic way. I can't roll my R's. I don't have any, I don't know where. It just totally skipped my generation or me in general, I'm not really sure. Anyway, so I've seen amazing things about that island. I've seen there's a couple other little, tinier islands, I think, that are around there, the Rosario Islands. I've looked at a hundred different times, just in general, you know, because I like to pick like the smaller, littler ones and explore them. The more unknown I feel like, the better, just because I feel like I want to bring more people together and and being able to open their eyes to these little islands or beaches, or you know just wherever, and bring in that culture is kind of like my goal. So I love that. So tell me about the food. I know your brother's a chef? What kind of food are you serving on these retreats?

Speaker 2:

So we're really, really proud of the menu that we've come up with, because our goal is to feed everybody. So of course I want to know everybody's dietary restrictions, but the way that my brother just naturally cooks as a chef, he's just naturally gluten and dairy free. So whether you are vegan or you have allergies, there's so much food and there's so much to pick from. We have had people leave and say where they'll be. Like I'm fully vegetarian now and we're not pushing that agenda. We just kind of want to show you what it looks like to eat really, really fresh fruits and vegetables. The fishermen come right up to the dock, so it's kind of like it's not farm to table, I think it's like more ocean to table. So he picks everything that's fresh. We also get a lot of people, even from South Florida. We do have a lot of guests from South Florida where they say this is not what a mango tastes like in Miami and we say nope. So I know that, yeah, so we try and use everything, and the beautiful part about Cartagena is it is summer all year long. So it is summer all year long. We are getting mangoes, we're getting oranges, we're getting lemons, we're getting all the fruits and vegetables. So we try to keep us, you know, pretty much a steady menu, but if the chef sees that this fish looks better today or these veggies, he will, you know, switch it up, but we try and make food for everybody. These veggies, he will, you know, switch it up, but we try and make food for everybody.

Speaker 2:

What I don't think a lot of people really understand is when you're doing this work of, for example, my retreat it's a life coaching retreat, so it's more of going inward and when you're doing that stuff, you get really hungry, you get really dehydrated. And I've been to many retreats in my life. I just went to one in July. It was actually a 20-day retreat and my biggest complaint is always the food. And I actually went to this retreat with my brother and our biggest complaint was the food, because it's usually not enough and you know, somebody could be vegan and they could be vegetarian. It does not mean that they are a shingles and even more that they're like, qualified to cook for so many people. So that is something we get a lot from the facilitators is like, what's the food like? What's this like? That was another thing that I struggled with, too is that when I would host retreats here in the States and I would have to hire a chef. That was like half of my budget.

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 2:

But I was so into doing things right so a lot of the times I would break even or not even. And I do remember the one time that I actually made money in the States on a retreat it was a retreat I hosted in Vail because I live in Colorado. I came home and I was so exhausted and I was so emotionally drained that I was like this was not worth it All the way from, like, the flights to the food we are all about how do we take care of our facilitators and our guests so everybody's happy. We want you to have the best experience ever. You know we don't ever want anybody to maybe have issues with the facilitator, but we definitely don't want them to say anything about our staff or our food Right. So we're very careful about our staff or our food Right. So we're very careful about that.

Speaker 1:

That's awesome. So basically, you're like a concierge as well, like you're taking care of Okay. So what happens if somebody were to come on and they do the retreat and they're like, oh you know, I don't really want to participate in the events today. Can they go off on their own and do their own thing?

Speaker 2:

Or are they required to be in the retreat at all times? So we do require the guests to stay on the retreat. Um, it is 50 minutes from the city on. Okay, that's not bad. So you know, and our way that, oh, that's, that's a little different. Yeah, so there is, you can go. This is a luxury experience.

Speaker 2:

We want to give them the most beautiful experience, so we always want them to come on the boat, but we have so many things going on and where the island is, there isn't much to see. Also, you know, we're very careful and we let our clients know this is a third world country, so we are kind of in a little bubble and all the islands are kind of in a little bubble Once they start to walk off, like that's why we don't really do hikes. We don't really do like, oh, I'm going for a jog in the morning, like well, we can set up a gym for you, oh yeah, oh okay, yeah, stuff like that. But it's not like we're actually in the city where you can kind of walk off on your own, and we've never really had a problem with that because there's so much to do on the property and we have so many things lined up. But, for instance, if you don't want to get a massage, you don't have to get a massage. You know what I mean. If you don't want a part to, you'd be surprised.

Speaker 2:

Some people do not like to be touched. I don't. I like to offer all of the modalities because I think retreats are a really great place for people to start maybe their health journey, their spiritual journey, and to have different kinds of modalities going for them to go. Well are the same. I don't have a course. I've never tried to sell a course because I don't think that that works. It's a very individual kind of, and I take that approach when it comes to retreats. Let's show them everything we got and if they just come home with one thing, I did my job. That sounds very like.

Speaker 1:

I'm relaxed just thinking about going on one of these retreats. I'm not even going to lie. Oh my God, we would love to have you. I mean, that sounds amazing, like dream come true. I'm not even kidding. You can do a live podcast from there. Even better, I had a friend who recently did a silent retreat out in Bali. He said it was absolutely life-changing for her. Is that one of those kind of retreats that you would welcome? Or have you guys hosted one of those before? I feel like that would be, for some reason, to staying silent for so long and taking all of that in and reflecting on everything inward, I feel like would be amazing. So I definitely asked him something like that.

Speaker 2:

I think it's also because it makes you go inward Right and then it kind of makes you have to hear the voice that we hear all day and we've got so used to hearing that voice that we just think it's normal for her to be there. But when it's just you and little like increments of silent, or we will do like you know that we're going to do a boat ride back in silence after we do our meditation or the sunset. But that does sound like something that I feel like we all need because we have so much noise constantly around us. I feel like that would be great, and Bali is an incredible place. Bali is definitely one of those that, um, I can't wait to.

Speaker 2:

I just actually had a client say to me I got invited, she was coming to my retreat, which is in three weeks, and she she booked it a year ago and she said I just got an opportunity to go to bali. I said go, go, I will sign you up for our next retreat. Please do not like. If you have an opportunity, please go to bali I hear that it's absolutely amazing.

Speaker 1:

But she said that so I guess they were more inland, uh, so they weren't really like on the beach or anything like that and they did a lot of like um, jungle and those type of activities and and it was just absolutely she's like I. I learned so much about myself. I became like a whole entire human, different human being. She's like I, just I learned so much about myself. I became like a whole entire human, different human being. She's like I, just I learned so much. I know who I am as a person. I'm able to relate to other things in a better light and it's just she's like to totally just change her perspective on life. So I've I've had that well, retreats in general on my list for things to do, but I feel like a silent retreat would be really challenging, but also like I don't know, I wouldn't recommend it as your first one.

Speaker 2:

Okay, I think that there's, and I feel like for us, the way that we have been moving in this world is we've been really getting a lot of first time retreaters, and I think that's a really great way to like introduce people to spirituality and wellness. You know, depending on what it is, what facilitators doing, what we've had facilitators where it's a really great way to introduce people to spirituality and wellness, depending on what it is, what facilitators doing, what We've had facilitators where it's both it's fitness, it's diet, and then we do some really deep circles. But I guess I think it's a really great way to start, because the one thing that I love about retreats is these are people that you're going to be connected to forever is these are people that you're going to be connected to forever. You know, it takes something like 200 hours of uninterrupted time to actually call somebody a friend, 400 hours to call somebody a best friend or a lover, and this speeds up that process. This gives you like very raw, intimate time with people, people that you would have never really met before, and these people end up becoming like lifelong friends.

Speaker 2:

You know, some of those group chats go on for a long time. They support each other online. So I would recommend, if it's your first retreat maybe not a silent retreat, and I think that's a little bit more advanced. And also and this is just my opinion I feel like a silent retreat is when you've already started the work, you know, so I like to call it self-parenting. When we start to realize all of these things that are going on why are we doing these things Then I would recommend being alone with your thoughts for three days.

Speaker 1:

Okay, that makes a lot of sense. So how would a facilitator, if they were interested, like if I decided I wanted to do like a life, love and travel type retreat, how about planning that with you?

Speaker 2:

So we have a discovery call. All of my prices for facilitators are given on discovery calls because what we try to build on our website is for normal people to come on and there's different retreats, so those prices aren't given on there. So we have a discovery call. We basically do a really beautiful presentation of everything that's included and that includes, like, constant communication with me and the chef. We create reels for you. So we had a really great social media team and marketing team go out because you're selling your retreat that's in a different country that you've never been to. So not only do we create reels for you, we provide all of the pictures, we provide testimonials. We're really proud of our testimonials. Our testimonials are from really influential people right now that are influencers. We had a really beautiful trip with just influencers where we took lifestyle, mom influencers, yoga, comedy. We even had comedians on there and we wanted to see what would happen if we put all of these people. Would they come out of their change? And they did and it was great. So their testimonials mean a lot to us and if you go on their page, you will see them at our retreat and vice versa. So we've kind of come up with this very well-rounded way for you to sell the retreat. We create a page for you on our website, a landing page where we take payment. We do all of the agreements right. So let's say you have somebody that can't come a month before. Well, it's not fair for you as a facilitator to now fill a spot. So we do write all those contracts, so you know people and it's working with the facilitator. How long will you give them? We give 50 back. You know we're also fully insured, so we have insurance, so that not just us as a company but you as a facilitator if, god forbid, somebody thinks that you suggest that they get a divorce and then they get a divorce and then they sue you because they got a divorce, you recover. Okay. Also, we also um offer travel insurance. So it's usually the length of our retreat. It's about 100 to 150 us dollars and it covers 70 000 us dollars if you arm, if you get. You know, and we're also, you know, very careful about our group always being in very secure transportation. We only deal with like really high end transportation in Colombia and yeah, so we've kind of I kind of thought of it this way If I was a single woman, because I have been for many years with a daughter who's 15,.

Speaker 2:

If me and my daughter were traveling, what would we need? Because we travel a lot by ourselves. Well, I'd want to feel safe. I'd want somebody to pick me up immediately. I would want to. You know, I've had a kid. She's gotten sick in every country I've taken her to, and not having that insurance is exhausting. Yeah, I just happen. Like I said, one of my trauma responses is to just kind of think of everything, everything that could go wrong. One of my trauma responses is to just kind of think of everything, everything that could go wrong, everything that you could need and I just kind of found a career.

Speaker 1:

That's awesome. I love that honestly. Like you, you literally described heaven to me and now my brain is racing and all these like how can I get this going? How can I host a retreat? Because this is what's going to happen at this point. So tell me about, like, the natural surroundings and stuff. Like I know, a lot of times these retreats will require you not necessarily require you, but like kind of bring you back to nature, so to speak. So how does that relate to most of the retreats that you host?

Speaker 2:

So the properties on this island, they're really incredible because the actual like islands. They don't have running water, so these properties have had to bring in their own running water. Every single drop that is brought on that property is bought. Why? Because, yeah, so you have to pay for every drop of water.

Speaker 2:

So I like to tell my guests this is your first exercise in mindfulness, you know, because it doesn't matter how many signs you have up on the property, you're bringing Americans and you're telling them turn on the water. We're bad too. We really are. We're terrible. Oh yeah, we're telling Americans hey, can you turn the water, wet your body, turn it off, lather up that? You know what I'm saying and it's a constant thing that we have to be talking about. We also, there could be no toilet paper flush. That's something that they really don't like. So the good news about that is our staff is very highly trained. The bathrooms are clean twice a day. You're never going in your bathroom and yeah, um, but we're also.

Speaker 2:

You know, it's a fine line where you, when you say you have a luxury property and they say, well, why don't you do laundry? We try and send out all of our laundry because the water is so expensive. You know, I think the only thing that we do that's like disposable is when our clients are leaving, we leave them. We let them leave with little lunch boxes so the chef will create a little lunch for them, because the air, I love it, it's incredible. And it's like usually like a very fancy sandwich, because when you tell a chef can you make a sandwich, he looks at you like like I'm not doing peanut butter and jelly, we're making a sandwich.

Speaker 2:

Um, so he usually will pack them a sandwich of fruit, a salad and some sort of dessert. We like to do colombian chocolate or something like that, and those are all like biodegradable, recyclable. Other than that, we don't have water bottles, we don't, you know, just throw. We would never do a paper plate, we would never do any of that. So I like to just be like hey guys, so we're at a retreat, we're learning to be mindful. This is your first exercise being mindful of the water, what we consume, and I've even had guests tell me that when they come back to the States, they're like water and what we consume, and I've even had guests tell me that when they come back to the States, they're like I didn't even realize.

Speaker 1:

I just let the faucet run Right or just wasting water up here, because we, you know, we take advantage of it. It just, it comes natural to us. We have it, we've always had it. There's no reason why we wouldn't waste it. And so many other places in this world that are struggling and they can't get it or they don't have it. It's one of the things that drives me crazy about us Americans. I'm not even going to lie and guess what? That's the reason I started this show too.

Speaker 2:

And I'm very American. The second I land at the airport and they say you can't flush toilet paper. I'm like, oh, here we go. But it's a really great way to learn discipline and kind of be like wait a minute. So I just go to the bathroom and I don't think about it. It's just another thing that I do.

Speaker 1:

So having to be conscious, doing that, yeah, it brings a whole new perspective to what you have and a new appreciation as well for things that you have that you take for granted every single day. So I don't know, that's one of the things that I love most about traveling is that I have that ability to open my eyes a little bit. It brings me back down to earth, it grounds me, I guess, so to speak. Yeah, yeah, people are traveling, they're there, they're doing these retreats, they're seeking this mindfulness and all of that. What kind of advice would you have for them to kind of start out? What, what? How do you get them to kind of come together towards the beginning?

Speaker 2:

As much as I love, luxury and I love nice things. I'm a little bit of a hippie and at heart, so I always think that these groups it was in alignment for them to be together and every group I have, even groups that I go to. I've been to retreats just personally that are terrible, and that's when I make the best connections because we're like, oh my God, we're in this together, we paid for it, what did we pay? And then, and there, there, there's some of the friendships that it's like weekly basis, still speaking and knowing about everybody's life. So what I would suggest if you are looking for a retreat, is to look for the right one. So, for instance, don't go to a nutrition retreat on nutrition if you eat McDonald's every day and like, yeah, you want to make a change in your life. But that's a little bit too radical, right? Because as a life coach, I like to set people up for success, not for failure, and I suggest people do that too. So, right, when we collect our you know, gather everybody and we're in the car, we tend to play some games. We have a really great question game, so I'd like to get to know everybody. There's a really great game I like to play after dinner on the first night where you have to introduce yourself but you can't tell us what you do for a living, like it's just not allowed.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, and people tend to get very emotional. My brother has this joke where he's like yep, elizabeth makes them cry on the first night. Oh no, yes, my daughter thinks so too. Me and my daughter could be traveling in like Brazil, and I don't speak the language, and she's like Mommy, you make the Uber driver cry and you don't even speak proper. I think it's also something to do with being a healer. People kind of know that and they want to unload on you.

Speaker 2:

Well, you know, what's funny is, a couple of years ago I was on a cruise. Yeah, it is. I was on a cruise with my boyfriend and I'm very big on protecting my energy because as a life coach, I see 20 clients a week and then I go to these retreats and it's another 10. And sometimes I'll still have to see clients in between, depending on what we're doing. So I'm very big on protecting my energy. And a couple of years ago I went to a cruise with my partner and he said you have not spoken to anybody or talked like, looked at anyone. I go, it's your birthday and it's all about you. And the moment I make eye contact with somebody or speak to them, it's going to open it up for them to tell us their life story. That's just how it goes. And, of course, on the last day I spoke to this woman at breakfast and she told us when her husband died why she was there. But at that point I was ready. I was like, okay, we're getting off this boat. I can now open that protective bubble that I made. But, yes, I'm very protective of my energy. But when I'm there, I am 100% dedicated to my clients and the guests. So I will get people that maybe pull me aside and start crying, and I'm very well equipped to handle that.

Speaker 2:

Even if sometimes the facilitator isn't, I like to be there for the facilitator as much as possible, and sometimes it's really hard to ask a facilitator to hold so much space all the time. What I do do and I made sure is that the facilitators stay in the staff's quarters so we separate them from their guests. And that's because we are a small property and we want you to sell every bed, but we don't want you to be sharing a room with your guests, because they will not let you sleep, they will trauma dump on you. Even my room it says employees, only the kitchen. Same thing. We're very protective of the chef. He does not. You know it's a very American thing to go in the kitchen. Can I help you wash your dish? That first of all, you're at a retreat, we don't want you to wash dishes. But now you're in the way of the staff and they don't know how to nicely tell you to get out. That makes sense. So I want to protect my staff's energy, my chef's energy, mine our space and still be able to give everybody.

Speaker 2:

At the end of the day, this is an investment that people are making and it's an expensive investment we're actually also. What we're doing is we're collecting money now so that we can gift this to one person per retreat that normally wouldn't do it. What we're working with right now is by proxy women, so women of color, latinas or indigenous. For some reason, the universe has always kind of kept me in the feminine space, but what I found is that women in our community, even if they had the money, they would not give this to themselves. So what we're doing is having them nominated so you can nominate, let's say, your mom, your tia, your cousin. Oh, I love that.

Speaker 2:

Yes, it has to be a woman that definitely has worked or is working, that is trying to further herself, her education, and we gift them everything from the flight, the entire retreat. We also give them gift cards before, because I'm sure you, as a traveler, know, we get our nails done, we get our hair done, we want a new outfit, um. Another beautiful thing that we have is that we have a partnership with fabletics, um, which is a beautiful uh, uh, you know activewear company, and they sponsor all of our retreats. So when you, when you host a retreat with us, we also cover your goodie bags. So each guest gets a gift bag with a full outfit, and it's been really beautiful to see the whole group kind of dressed in the same, like to bring that to life for a facilitator like oh, this is my retreat, everybody looks the same and it's been really great.

Speaker 1:

That sounds amazing. You all have really thought of every single type child. Yeah, it's amazing. Um, wow, I'm super excited. I definitely want to pick your brain a little bit more about maybe hosting something for life, live and travel, because I think I've always kind of thought about that and I've had this like women's wellness type of um festival, so to speak, in my head, um, since I first started it, and I think that it would be really cool if we could figure out a way to make that happen. So definitely, and you would be perfect.

Speaker 2:

You would be perfect because we would do live music, we could do a bonfire. We usually do like a white night that night, or you do a red night and have everyone dress the same. Yeah, I think you would be great for this that sounds amazing.

Speaker 1:

All right, everybody, keep that in your heads when you're listening to this episode. You're gonna make this happen. On manifesting it, yes, yes, I'm all about manifesting all the good things. I love this. So, uh, elizabeth, go ahead, plug uh where you're at, let everybody know how they can find the anchor and how they can get started on these journeys.

Speaker 2:

Awesome. So I think we'll link everything, but the website is theanchorretreatpropertycom. Awesome. On Instagram I am wellnesselizabethvajejo and I believe the anchor is theanchor with three underscores. I think Got it. It gets a little tricky. It's a little bit for sure. We Anchor with three underscores.

Speaker 1:

I think, Got it. It gets a little tricky. It'll bite it for sure. We will link it all for Adam. It'll make it all for Adam. I know exactly.

Speaker 2:

And, if you're interested, we constantly have retreats going on so you can go on our website and see what retreats work for you Awesome.

Speaker 1:

And if you, you know, maybe we could do something like that. When they book, they'll know yeah, fantastic, yeah. So my old, my final question for every episode what does paradise mean to?

Speaker 2:

you. I feel like it's so different for everyone and there is, you know, a space in my mind that I go to for my meditation and it just so happens to be. I have, me and my brother, have an older sister who lives in Brazil, who is also in the retreat space and in the spiritual place, and for some reason, my paradise is her balcony, when it rains, laying a hammock, and they're saying about the water and the trees. I am a water sign, I am a cancer, so I love all things. Water, um, so that's a little bit of what paradise is to me. I also think paradise is something we can take wherever we go. I like to say that, you know, happiness and peace is something we take with us. It's not something we go to find, um, so as long as you're, you know you're doing the work, once you do get to paradise, I think you could kind of absorb it a little bit more, as opposed to thinking paradise is going to solve all of our problems. I'm going to clap for that one.

Speaker 1:

That was a fantastic answer. I absolutely love it. I agree, I think that happiness is something that we can control and a lot of times we don't really take the steps that we need to in order to make ourselves happy. So I think that once you get to that point where you know what you need, what you can survive on what you know, all of thing, I feel like, is the ultimate. We'll see how that goes, but anyways, I appreciate you joining me today. This is a great conversation. I had a lot of fun. I am so stoked for one of these retreats and we will definitely talk on the side and see if we can.

Speaker 2:

I'm stoked for your retreat. I'm already seeing it in my head me and you are going to talk and then we're going to come back on to announce it and it's going to be great that sounds great.

Speaker 1:

I'm so excited. Thank you so much and we'll talk soon. Have a good one, bye, bye, hey there, beach lovers. That's it for today's episode of beachside banter with b. I sure hope you had as much fun as I did. Hey, don't forget to subscribe and leave a review if you enjoyed the show. You can catch me on all social media platforms, at Life, love and Travel, and if you've got a question or you just want to stop by and say hi, feel free to slide into my DMs and I'll make sure to get those answered for you. Big thanks to everyone who joined me today and for all of you tuned in, and until next time, enjoy your week.