The BEST LIFE™ Mastermind is a 9-month personal leadership experience for accomplished midlife women who are done waiting for the "right" time…and ready to figure out what’s next.
You've built an impressive life
The career. The family. The house. The handbag collection.
From the outside, everything looks exactly right. But at 2.00am, it's just you and the questions you haven't said out loud to anyone:
I've done everything right. So why do I still feel unfulfilled?
I'm not ready to retire. But I don't know what I want instead.
I have a great life. So why does it feel like something's missing?
Am I running out of time to do the things I've always wanted to do?
Will I ever feel like myself again?
Things you might also be feeling...
You've spent your career solving hard problems. You've outworked every obstacle, outperformed every expectation. And still, you can't work your way out of this one. Because this isn't a performance problem. It's a clarity problem.
You're not lacking drive, discipline, or intelligence. You're lacking one thing: permission to focus on yourself. To ask yourself what you actually want. To stop outsourcing decisions about your own life to everyone else.
Midlife isn't something you get through. There is no "other side." This is your life – for the next 20 to 30 years. And the women who make it extraordinary aren't the ones who wait. They're the ones who decide to lead it.
this isn't executive coaching
this isn't life coaching.
the best life mastermind is personal leadership
High-achieving women will invest in leadership development without hesitation: management coaching, executive coaching, skills training. They understand the ROI. They'll expense it, prioritize it, and show up prepared.
Ask those same women to invest in a "life coach" and something shifts. It feels soft. Self-indulgent. Like admitting they can't handle it.
So they keep compartmentalizing their lives: there’s work life and “life” life. And they show up differently for each. They lead brilliantly at work…while wondering why they feel so burned out, so stuck, so unfulfilled in life.
you cannot separate the leader from the life she's living
This is what the coaching industry has gotten wrong for decades.
If she's burned out at home, she's burning out at work. If she doesn't know what she wants from her life, she doesn't fully know what she wants from her career either.
It's the thing that makes both of them work...
because it starts with the person leading, not the role she's playing. And it levels up everything: your clarity at work, your presence at home, your decisions everywhere.
Personal leadership isn't the middle ground between those two things
What's Included
Retreat One
9 months
September '26 — May '27
Opening intensive — Sun Valley, Idaho
Four days of identity and vision work. Who are you in this season of life? What do you actually want? This is where we do the foundational work that makes everything else possible.
*September 1–4, 2026 · All accommodations, meals + drinks, spa appointments included
Retreat Two
Mid-year intensive — Carefree, Arizona
Four days at Civana Wellness Resort + Spa. Limiting beliefs, boundaries, and the harder edges of transformation. This is where the real breakthroughs happen.
*February 23–26, 2027 · All accommodations, meals + drinks, spa appointments included
Monthly (Virtual)
Personal leadership coaching calls
Two hours of midlife leadership coaching, Q&A, and hot seat coaching every month. Recorded for your reference — but attendance is expected. Camera on. This is not a spectator sport.
*Monthly, September through May · Participation required
Ongoing
Community — off social media
A private space with the other women in your cohort. Away from the noise, the highlight reels, and the performance of social media. Real conversations. Real support. Real accountability. Your own personal board of directors.
*Active throughout the 9-month Mastermind
All retreat costs — accommodations, meals and drinks, and spa appointments — are included in your investment. The only thing not included is travel to and from the retreat venues.
Sept 1-4, 2026
Retreat One
Sun Valley, Idaho
oct '26 - jan '27
monthly coaching
Calls + Community
feb 23-26, 2027
Retreat two
Civana Wellness Resort + Spa, Arizona
mar - may 2027
monthly coaching
Calls + Community
may 2027
completion
of The Best Life Mastermind
why retreats?
We need to pull you OUT of your life so you can actually FOCUS on your life.
You cannot do this work from your kitchen table, between meetings, during the 45 minutes you carve out on a Sunday morning. Your regular environment is full of the same triggers, the same responsibilities, the same voices telling you what to do and who to be.
The retreats exist to remove all of that.
When you are in Sun Valley or at Civana with nine other women who are asking the same questions you are, something shifts that cannot shift any other way.
This is not a vacation. It is not a spa weekend. It is the most focused, most purposeful work you will do all year. It just happens to take place in extraordinary locations.
why a community?
You cannot do this work alone, and you shouldn't have to.
Most of the women I work with have spent years trying to solve this in isolation. A therapist here. An executive coach there. A weekend workshop. A book. A podcast. Helpful, but not enough.
Here's what happens when you're in a room or on a call with other high-achieving women who are navigating the same questions you are: you stop feeling like something is wrong with you. You feel seen, understood, and validated in a way that one-on-one coaching simply cannot replicate.
Something else happens, too: you start holding each other accountable in a way that no coach can. Because these women know your story. They'll remember it when you're tempted to walk it back. That's not a side benefit of the Mastermind. It's one of the most powerful things about it.
Recovering Attorney
Founder of the School of Midlife®
Host of the School of Midlife Podcast
Speaker
some facts about me
I'm one of approximately 1,100 Certified High Performance Coaches in the world. For years I've been helping high-achieving women get crystal-clear on what they actually want in this season of life...and building the courage to go after it starting now.
Not because I failed, but because I finally stopped pretending it was the life I still wanted. That decision led me here: to the School of Midlife®, to this work, and to working with women across the globe who are ready to stop waiting and figure out what's next for them.
After a 20-year award-winning legal career, I walked away from a partnership invitation I'd spent two decades working toward...
LAURIE reynoldson
What becomes possible
You finally make the decisions you've been avoiding for years
You stop feeling selfish for wanting more from your life
You make decisions clearly without ruminating about them for days
You stop waiting for the right time and the right version of yourself
You stop living the same week on repeat, and start making choices that actually reflect who you are now
“I will never forget my time in Sun Valley or the amazing women that I met there.”
There is nothing like a complete change of environment away from all responsibilities to provide a fresh outlook on your life as it is and what it can look like going forward. Laurie went above and beyond to provide the most relaxing experience, encouraging openness and deep introspection
Monica S
“I'm focusing now on making sure I'm living the way I want to live.”
Not waiting until retirement or someday.
amy
“ I made a decision to leave my current position and take another job offer.”
This is something I've wanted to do for over 15 years. It's all because of Laurie's coaching.
monica W
This is for you if...
You are a high-performing woman who has been wildly successful and is wondering what's next
You want real community with accomplished women navigating the same questions
Your life looks perfect on paper, but something feels like it's missing
You can commit to both in-person retreat dates: September 1–4, Sun Valley and February 23–26, Civana
You are ready to figure out who you are in this season of life…not who you were 20 years ago
You are ready to show up fully – camera on, work done, prepared to participate
investment
What this costs (and what it costs you not to)
Most of the women I work with have already spent thousands addressing this in pieces: therapists, executive coaches, life coaches, personal trainers. All helpful, but none of them work on the whole problem.
The Mastermind addresses your whole life. In one container. With a community of women who get it. Led by someone who has walked this exact path.
Everything is included – two retreats, all accommodations, meals and drinks, spa appointments, nine months of coaching, and ongoing community support. The only thing not included is your travel to the retreat venues.
select the plan that works for you
pay in full
$15,000
Due when application is accepted.
3 payments
$5,350
First payment due at acceptance. Then December 1 and March 1.
9 payments
$1,850
First payment due at acceptance. Then monthly on the 1st, beginning October 1.
*Many organizations consider this type of investment part of an executive leadership development budget. If that's a conversation worth having with your employer, we're happy to support it.
The Application Process
Submit Your Application
A short form with a few honest questions. No polish required. In fact, the women who will be accepted are the ones who answer honestly, not impressively.
A 15-Minute Conversation with Laurie
If your application is a strong fit, you’ll be invited for a brief call to make sure this is right for both of us. Chemistry matters in a group this small.
Acceptance + Enrollment
If it’s a fit, you’ll receive an acceptance and next steps for enrollment. Your spot is held when your first payment is received.
This cohort is intentionally small – 10 women – and every spot matters to the group dynamic. The application process exists to make sure this is the right fit for you, and vice versa.
You've already lived more years than you have ahead of you. Now what?
THIS IS THE NEW MIDLIFE
The number one regret at the end of a life: "I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself." You still have time. But not enough to keep telling yourself now's not the time. It’s time to figure out what’s next for you.
