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A year for ambitious women who want to keep building, but not at the expense of themselves.
The Residency is a year-long program and community for women who have already built meaningful careers and lives and are rethinking how they want to live, work, and lead.
Thirty women gather twice a month. The year includes group coaching sessions, a seasonal curriculum, guest experts and practitioners, and a strong community of women who become resources for one another personally and professionally.
This is not a retreat from ambition. It is a place to examine how you have learned to achieve, keep what is actually yours, and stop paying unnecessary costs for your success.
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Why a year?
Because understanding something and actually living it are different.
Most of us already know a lot about ourselves. We know we people-please. We know we over-function. We have probably discussed being exhausted with a therapist, a coach, three close friends, and maybe a stranger at the supermarket.
Knowing is not the problem!
A year gives you time to practice a very different way of being in real life. You then come back, talk about what happened, try again, and you’re witnessed by the same women through the process.
That repetition is essential. That repetition is how transformation happens.
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Our Four Practices
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A Woman of Integrity
We considered calling this "the honest woman," because honesty is central to the practice. But what we mean is larger than truth-telling.
A woman of integrity is willing to inhabit what she knows and say what she means. She notices when she is agreeing to something she does not want, softening an opinion until it disappears, or managing someone else's reaction before she has even registered her own.
She practices making her inner and outer life match.
This does not mean saying every thought out loud or using "honesty" as an excuse for cruelty. It means telling the truth with care and letting your own experience count.
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A Woman of Friction
Friction is part of every meaningful relationship, team, family, and creative life.
Many high-achieving women have become exceptionally good at preventing it. We anticipate, smooth, accommodate, fix, explain, and take responsibility before conflict can fully arrive.
In The Residency, we practice something different.
We look at what happens in your body when someone disagrees with you. We examine the conflict you are avoiding. We practice saying the thing you would normally swallow and hearing another person's truth without immediately defending yourself.
The goal is not more conflict. It is more capacity for it.
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A Generous Woman
Generosity is how we want women to build power together.
We practice networking without keeping score. We make introductions, share information, open doors, recommend one another, ask directly for what we need, and allow ourselves to receive.
This is not self-sacrifice dressed up as generosity. Reciprocity matters. A generous network works because resources, opportunities, attention, and support move in more than one direction.
Over a year, the circle becomes useful in the most literal sense. These are women you can call, hire, introduce, ask, recommend, and build with.
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A Well-Resourced Woman
Being capable is not the same as being resourced.
A capable woman can keep functioning while exhausted, lonely, overloaded, under-supported, and responsible for far too much. She can also make you a color-coded spreadsheet explaining how she's going to continue doing so.
A well-resourced woman asks a different question: What do I need in order to meet this life with capacity?
Resources can be practical: money, childcare, technology, expertise, time, systems, help. They can also be relational and physical: friendship, sleep, movement, pleasure, solitude, community, care.
The goal is not a frictionless life. It is having enough support and capacity that difficulty does not require you to abandon yourself.
Sovereignty
These four practices cultivate sovereignty.
Sovereignty is not independence from other people. It is not needing no one.
It is the ability to trust your own judgment, make choices from your values and desires, and remain connected to other people without handing them authority over your life.
A sovereign woman can be influenced without being easily overridden. She can change her mind without betraying herself. She can receive advice without outsourcing the decision. She can belong without disappearing.
That is the woman we practice becoming.
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Aubrey Hubbell Says
“The Residency has created real shifts in how I perceive myself, my contributions, and recognizing what I need to generate momentum. Expansion of relationships both inside and outside of The Residency. It's an amazing place to push against fear and vulnerability."
Women in Collaboration
The Residency is facilitated by four women who have spent thousands of hours working with high-achieving women.
Our expertise is different and complementary, together we have over 50 years of collective experience: Allie brings expertise in entrepreneurship, experience design, and personal and professional development; Lela brings education, executive coaching, narrative, and identity work; Shawn brings integrative health, operations, and organizational leadership; and Kajal brings strategy, company-building, leadership, and coaching.
We designed The Residency from that combined experience. The community matters enormously, but this is not a group of women gathering and hoping something meaningful happens. We bring the utmost care and excellence to the experience. Our highest priority is that you feel deeply seen, challenged, and held.
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What we actually do
The Residency meets twice a month across four seasons.
Sessions combine facilitated conversation, practical exercises, reflection, small-group work, guest teaching, and real-time practice. The curriculum changes with the seasons and includes subjects such as conflict, visibility, self-trust, professional relationships, receiving support, ambition, AI and discernment, pleasure, personal narrative, and leadership.
The work does not stay in the room. Between sessions, you take it into an actual conversation, decision, relationship, pitch, boundary, meeting, or change you are navigating, then return to the group with what happened.
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Cindy Trice Says
"The Residency served as such a powerful unlock for navigating challenges. I came to elevate my business leadership but found that the sessions and activities actually also supported me through personal obstacles. Learning and growth came not only from the outstanding guidance of Allie, Shawn, Lela, and their guest presenters, but also from the incredible cohort of women I got to know over the course of the year. If you are someone looking to dig deeper into intentional, graceful living in both business and life, then The Residency is for you.”
The Expansion Session
Curious about The Residency? Start here.
Our monthly 90-minute Expansion Session gives you a direct experience of the way we work. We get honest, look at friction, envision a different future, and connect with powerful women.
Come experience it for yourself.
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