If you caught my email this weekend you know two of my artworks were recently selected for group shows which is just fucking crazy to me.
Last year I didn't know that I knew how to draw, but I kept thinking: "I want to learn how to see."
For years I'd been struggling with "Is this my thing?" thinking:
- Am I a capital B Business coach? Sure, but is that my thing?
- Am I a life coach? Yes, but I know it's not my only thing.
- Am I a healer? I've been told I'm a healer, is it my thing thing?
- Am I a wine bar owner? I was about to be.
- Am I a strategist? Well yes, but is it my main thing?
- Am I a ... ?
- Am I a .... ?
All the questions led me to learning how to see.
What I know for damn sure is my thing is rooted in creating experiences — my event production and retreat hosting background didn't come first, my inherent calling to bring people together for deep, rich and memorable experiences did. I've done it for more than 20 years.
When I gather people, I come alive and so do their ideas, inspirations and connections.
What I also know for damn sure is that I'm an artist. And I bet you are too.
Again, I did not know I was an artist last year. I said yes to a yearning and now a whole new pathway is opening up for me.
If you're yearning to create something and keep back-burnering it or telling yourself "but I'm not a ...." take a look at the a one-of-a-kind retreat I'm hosting this summer.
I was calling it Create, got clarity and now calling it what it actually is.
The Emerging Artist Retreat in New Mexico
- A divine escape from August 8-10, 2025
- Focus on a creative project nagging for your attention.
- Be held through a heart-centered yet structured, highly personalized experience.
- Suited for the highly sensitive, introverted and spiritual.
- Open to all identities and limited to 6 people.
Guest artists will be announced soon — each a working artist in a different discipline who will share wisdom, support and meals with us. Think music producer and songwriter, published author, product designer, visual artist...
The Emerging Artist Retreat is for you if:
- you're ready to answer that inner creative calling
- you have a creative idea you want to focus on — this can be the beginnings of a project or simply an idea you keep thinking about
You will create.
You will make progress on a creative project or idea you’ve been sitting on.
You will spend time in nature.
You will build connections with people who just might change your life in unexpected ways.
If you have questions, schedule a call with me.
All the details are here. There are 6 spots, they will fill up.
Have a lovely Monday,
Annie
p.s. I'm about to continue on an art project I've been working on with my go-to playlist which I change the songs on regularly. It's 26 minutes, perfect for any kind of short work session.
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—
Annie Sanchez (she/her)
Executive Coach & Strategist
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