Virtual Vacations for Smart Business Women - Virtual Vacations for Smart Business Women

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Transform Your Uncertainty into Certainty & Thrive!

In just 15 minutes feel calmer, clearer, and less uncertain about whether you can navigate all the unpredictable changes in business, leadership and life. Without leaving your desk, experience an energizing shift in your mindset and surroundings. Virtual Vacations spontaneously transport you to sacred destinations. There...you learn the timeless wisdom practices of leaders from different cultures, continents and centuries. These guided-audio armchair adventures connect you with a deeper, richer sense of yourself. A-ha breakthroughs ignite your inner knowing—leading you to innovative ideas, wiser decisions, and inspired action. With grace and ease, you experience the satisfying and fulfilling difference your unique gifts contribute to the world.

Yes, it's difficult to give yourself permission to relax when your fast busy pace keeps you off-balance...

Racing to meet multiple and competing business or project deadlines.

Dashing to and from meetings and overscheduled commitments, feeling unprepared and barely present.

Constantly interrupted by 'more-urgent-than-important' emails, phone calls, and text messages or tweets.

If only you could find a productive way to pause the endless daily demands and distractions. Instead of always putting out fires, you would have time to think...to see what works...to know the next steps to take...to do enough of the right stuff.

Give yourself permission to thrive! Hit the pause button! Take 15 minutes to clear your mind, refuel your body and replenish your spirit. Change your environment and come back into sync with yourself on a Virtual Vacation...in Kenya, Peru, or New Zealand. Return feeling energized and fully present—ready to deal with pivotal priorities.

Let the transformational experiences of Virtual Vacations transport you to places where ancient landscapes and wisdom practices feed your soul—deepening your trust and collaboration...so you liberate your inner awesome.

Can you see the Hummingbird — a magical creature of blissful joy — in the Nazca Lines (Peru)?

Access Your Inner Awesome!

When you stand in an grove of giant redwoods, or stare at the jaw-dropping wonder of the Grand Canyon, or walk through a doorway built by a visionary 14th century Inca leader, something shifts deep within your body, mind and spirit.

You feel more alive! Not surprisingly, you bring this vibrancy back into your work and life—often with astonishing increases in time, energy and income.

Meet the Maasai...Tribal Leadership sustained by timeless traditions of freedom and balance.

My armchair adventure to Kenya inspired me to slow down, re-balance, and think about the leadership qualities I possess within. After my virtual vacation, I was able to get back to work and experience greater productivity. With my mind quieter, I focused on the task at hand and got more done. ~Danielle Zanzarov

What's Best for You is Best for Your Business

Guided-audio journeys to Kenya, Peru and New Zealand allow you to slow down, re-discover your inner rhythm, and hear the guidance of your inner voice. Returning from your 15-minute Virtual Vacation, you respond with calm clarity to urgent demands and pressing problems. Pacing yourself, you engage in activities that naturally deliver more meaning, value and money.

Taking vacations is good for not only your sanity, but also for the bottom line. ~Business Week

Experience...

what you can't get from any MBA program, Harvard Business Review, or books on leadership.

Wisdom practices of the Maasai free them to live in the wild with giraffes, cheetahs, lions, and more.

Loved my virtual vacation in East Africa. Photos, story - I felt like I was there! ~Vicky B. White

Ancient traditions keep the Inca connected to themselves, each other, the earth and the world of Spirit.

It's been a challenging week, and the idea of having a Machu Picchu Virtual Vacation was most welcome. Each description brought the journey to life. I could smell, feel and see the sights described. The questions asked at the end gave me something to ponder. Relaxed, I reflected with an open mind on what I need to do my own work in the world. Generally, I don't focus on my environment when I'm working on my plans and tasks. So realizing that my environment can inspire my creativity and productivity was a very useful 'a-ha" for me! ~Holly Mitten

Exotic, Fascinating and Fun Virtual Vacations

Virtual Vacations take you into worlds of inherently fascinating cultures, exotic physical locations, and different leadership practices. On these transformational journeys you shift from being distracted to attentive. Big picture questions (posed near the end of your guided armchair adventure) spark flashes of insight, moments when you 'get it', and natural leaps in learning.

The Precious Women Leaders

Learn how these early women entrepreneurs leveraged the wonder of seeing in new ways. Discover what their natural elegance and innovative decisions teach you today.

18th-Century Maori Woman Entrepreneur

The Precious Women Leaders - $27.00

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The Maasai Leaders

Experience how these strongly independent leaders practice centuries-old traditions and rituals that keep their tribes in harmony with the earth, wildlife, and climate change. Find out how their enduring decisions free them to remain apart from the demands and pressures in modern society.

Peaceful Nomadic Maasai Warrior in Kenya

2-Minute Sample of Audio Journey

The Maasai Leaders - $27.00

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Visionary Leadership - Machu Picchu

Let the legacy of a 14th century leader take you to the summit of his legendary vision. Explore the ruins of a lost Inca city and discover how a mountaintop sanctuary inspired a vision that created the still-awesome Machu Picchu.

Vision-inspired 'Lost City of the Incas'

Machu Picchu - $27.00

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Why I Created Virtual Vacations

Sylvia at Temple of the Sun in Peru

In my 11 years as an Executive Coach, I’ve worked with countless women entrepreneurs, executives, and nonprofit leaders. I know how hard you work. I know how much you care. I see the difference you make in the world.

Without time to decompress, you become less effective as a leader. You are less confident about communicating with your teams, generating new ideas, and making good decisions. Without enough downtime, it is impossible for you to pull away from the daily fires, reflect, gain perspective, and learn from other leaders.

When you burn mega-watts of energy dealing with current challenges and cannot see beyond them, the inner spark that fuels your innovative spirit dies. Your inner brilliance and outer vitality grow dim, and then extinguish.

I created Virtual Vacations to stop that from happening to you.

Let Travel Transform You

Each virtual vacation originates from my transformational travel experiences in that country and culture. After 20+ years of exploring wisdom practices and traditions on six continents, I'm delighted to share these soul-inspired sojourns with you.

Balinese Holy Men & Sylvia at Full Moon Ritual

After each real life travel adventure, I return home enlightened and enriched by unexpected insights and a deeper knowing of what nurtures our spirits and our businesses. Inspired, I translate 'a-has' moments into simple success practices for clients.

“Sometimes the most powerful ideas come from simply combining two existing ideas nobody else ever thought to unite." ~Dan Pink

Virtual Vacations give you effortless ways to practice timeless the wisdom traditions of unsung leaders from different countries, continents and centuries. You learn to see and act in ways that liberate your inner awesome—sharing with greater impact and influence the difference your contribution makes in the world.

"Some of mankind's biggest achievements have come from the rearranging of the old in new ways, or seeing old concepts in new ways." ~Michael McKinney

What You Experience

Virtual vacations refocus your mind, refuel your body, and feed your soul.

Work-free, virtual vacations transport you to New Zealand, Kenya, and Peru — exposing you to fresh in-the-moment outlooks and ideas. You experience...

15-minute transformational journeys where your world view expands and reveals to you 'a-ha' breakthroughs in business, leadership and life.

Fun and exciting armchair adventures where ancient wisdom from different cultures, continents, and centuries leads you to innovate and make better decisions.

Guided virtual trips (via audio with photo transcripts) where you can relax in the role of follower, because your journeys have been carefully planned by me — an executive leadership coach and life-long world traveler who has been there and knows the way.

The Precious (Maori) Women

The 15-minute journeys to Kenya, Peru, and New Zealand exceeded my expectations!!! These 3 virtual trips prompt savvy women leaders (and men) to think more strategically about their natural strengths and how best to leverage them. ~Dolores Cross, Ph.D

Imagine!

In less time than it takes to get your coffee at Starbucks, you experience the...

Awe-inspiring wonders of 'Visionary Leadership at Machu Picchu' in Peru.

Vibrant natural balance sustained by 'The Maasai Leaders' in Kenya.

Wildly successful entrepreneurial charm of 'The Precious Women Leaders' in New Zealand.

Inca Leader Pachacuti - Peru

Wildebeest Crossing - Kenya

Rotorua Museum - New Zealand

Anywhere! Any time!

All you need is a digital listening device or your computer...so you can experience these armchair leadership adventures from the convenience of your office, home, or while commuting.

Once your brain hears the work-free mini-vacation, it signals your body to relax. You journey out of your comfort zone and into a deeper, richer sense of connection...with yourself, the earth, and timeless wisdom practices. On these 15-minute transformational travel adventures you cultivate greater clarity and understanding of how to liberate your inner awesome so you make a significant difference in the world.

What you've created is truly great. Virtual Vacations take us away, while at the same time teaching not just about another place, but bringing it home at the end with lessons to ponder and incorporate into our lives, our business and our leadership! ~Linda Salazar

Places That Inspire You to Thrive!

Travel with virtual ease...from 18th century Maori women entrepreneurs in New Zealand...to peaceful nomadic Maasai warriors in Kenya...to the vision-inspired Lost City of the Incas in Peru.

Return with leadership practices that make a wise difference in the world.