Ep 22: Should I Care About... Expensive Retreats, Mum Guilt & The Revenue Gap I’m Sitting On?

What this episode is about

This week on Should I Care? we (Sophie Griffiths & Ruthie Walmsley) get into retreats and masterminds, & whether the money, the flights & the guilt buy you anything you couldn’t have got at home. Ruthie is back after a week off, & she has questions.

The maths never quite adds up on paper, which is half the problem. A few thousand pounds & nearly two weeks away from your family, weighed against something you can’t put in a spreadsheet, & everybody telling you it was worth it has already spent the money.

So we go through all of it. The 7 days Sophie had on her own before the retreat even started, the version of herself that turned up when nobody needed anything from her, & the afternoon on day one she absolutely did not see coming. Plus the unicorn launches doing the rounds at the minute, & what gets lost when you hold a room full of real businesses up against a highlight reel.

Key topics covered in this episode

In this episode:

• The 7 days on her own before the retreat even started, & why that week competes with the retreat itself
• 80% yellow: the profiling test Sophie did at 19 that explains the version of herself she only meets when nobody needs her
• What her 6-year-old said to her on the morning she left, & the 4 friends out of 6 whose husbands are away constantly without anyone asking them the question
• The afternoon she couldn’t stop crying, what Charlotte said about a clenched jaw, & the thing Sophie had been holding all year
• The revenue gap for the last 2 months of the year, what she’s doing instead of a launch, & the unicorn launches that make all of it harder to look at

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