Explore Your Options. Build Your Community.
Gain Confidence.
For the first time ever, we’re offering two Slow FI Retreats in 2026! Join us in May at Lake Tahoe or October in New Hampshire—or experience both. Twice the opportunities to step back, recharge, and design your next chapter.
Early Bird Pricing is available until Friday, December 5, 2025 at 11:59PM ET.
Slow FI Retreat Lake Tahoe
Dates: Thursday, May 14th to Sunday, May 17th, 2026
Location: Zephyr Point Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, Zephyr Cove, NV
Slow FI Retreat New Hampshire
Dates: Thursday, October 1st to Sunday, October 4th, 2026
Location: Geneva Point Center, Lake Winnipesaukee, NH
Tired of Pushing So Hard Toward FI?
You’re on the path to financial independence—but maybe you’ve realized:
- You don't want to keep grinding.
- You'd rather enjoy life now, not some distant future.
- You have ideas you'd like to explore, but money fears creep in.
What If You Could Slow Down?
That’s what the Slow FI Retreats are all about: creating space to explore new possibilities, without the pressure to follow the “traditional” FI path.
Why Retreats Spark Real Change
Something unique happens when you step out of your daily routine. You gain:
- New Clarity
- Fresh inspiration
- Life-changing insight
This is where breakthroughs happen.
Find Your People
Let’s be honest: most people in your life don’t get your goals. At the retreat, you’ll connect with others who do.
People designing lives they love. People redefining financial freedom. People who will cheer you on—because they’re on the same journey.
The Power of In-Person
Zoom calls are great—but they can’t replace what happens face-to-face. The casual conversations. The late-night laughter. The unexpected “aha” moments.
This is where real connection—and real change—begin.
Join us (the Fioneers) and 40 Slow FI Enthusiasts for this intimate 3-day retreat.
At this retreat, you’ll:
- See real, ordinary people living extraordinary, expectation-defying lives to inspire new possibilities.
- Cultivate relationships with a like-minded community that will encourage you and push you forward.
- Brainstorm new ideas and solutions to challenges.
- Dig into strategies to work through the fears that are holding you back (e.g. scarcity, failure, defying expectations, etc.)
- Create an action plan to move forward.
- Relax and enjoy each others' company on the shores of beautiful Lake Tahoe.
The Slow FI Retreat will have a variety of activities including: workshops, panel discussions, breakout groups, and time for individual reflection. We’ll also host formal and informal group activities, such as a welcome “party,” a campfire, board games, group hikes, disc golf, and plenty of hang-out time.
Thursday:
Check-in begins at 5 PM
Dinner with the welcome “party” to follow
Friday:
Breakfast
Morning Session: Lifestyle Freedom Panel
Lunch
Afternoon Session: Lifestyle Freedom Breakout Groups
Free Time
Dinner, followed by more free, hang-out time
Saturday:
Breakfast
Morning Session: Overcoming Barriers
Lunch
Afternoon Session: Moving from Ideas to Action
Free Time
Dinner, followed by a campfire and free, hang-out time.
Sunday:
Breakfast
Morning Session: Action Planning
Lunch
Retreat Ends
Sunday Optional Add-ons:
Afternoon: Optional Group Hike
Once you arrive at either (or both) of the Slow FI Retreats on Thursday evening, EVERYTHING is included:
- Lodging for 3 nights
- Three meals per day (starting for Thursday's dinner and going through lunch on Sunday), snacks, and drinks (alcoholic* and non-alcoholic)
- All retreat activities, including workshops, panels, breakout groups, group hangouts, and fun activities onsite (such as hiking, campfires, watercraft rentals, etc.)
- Swag Gifts, including a T-shirt and Notebook
- Optional: Group Hike on Sunday Afternoon.
*See Alcohol and Controlled Substances Policy Below for more details
What’s Not Included:
- Airfare and/or transportation to the retreat site
Zephyr Point Conference Center is about 1 hour from the Reno-Tahoe International airport and 2 hours from the Sacremento International Airport. To help participants curb travel costs, you will have access to a carpool spreadsheet, so you can reach out and find others who want to share rental cars. There is also an airport shuttle service from Reno to South Lake Tahoe for those who do not want to rent a car.
Geneva Point Center is 2 hours from Boston-Logan International Airport. To help participants curb travel costs, you will have access to a carpool spreadsheet, so you can reach out and find others who want to share rental cars.
Accommodation Options and Pricing
Early Bird Pricing is available until Friday, December 5, 2025 at 11:59PM ET.
Shared Room - Lodge or Cabin
Shared room and bathroom with 1-2 other retreat attendees.*
$1,650
$1,400 (Early Bird)
Private Room - Double Accommodation for Couples
Private room and bathroom for a couple attending together.
$1,650
$1,400 each (Early Bird)
Private Room - Individual
Private room and bathroom for an individual
$2,050
$1,800 (Early Bird)
*We will make room assignments based on answers to a survey.
If you are unable to attend the event after buying a ticket, please let us know as soon as possible. If you let us know at least three months before the event, and we can fill the spot with someone from the cancellation list, you would be issued full refund minus transaction fees. If the spot goes unfilled, no refund will be issued.
If you cancel within three months of the event, no refund will be issued.
In the unlikely event that the full retreat is cancelled, you will be issued a full refund.
Both event venues (Zephyr Point Conference Center and Geneva Point Center) do not serve alcoholic beverages. However, we plan to stock the fridges in our meeting rooms with beer, cider, and wine, and we may consume them in the privacy of our lodging and meeting spaces.
The use of marijuana and other controlled substances are prohibited.
Previous Slow FI Retreat Speakers
Danielle Desir Corbett
Jordan Grumet
Chris Mamula
Casey Johnson
Liana Merrill
Kamran Ayub
Here’s What You’ll Get When You Sign-Up
Slow FI Retreat
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Lodging for 3 Nights
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All Meals, Snacks, and Drinks from Friday night through Monday afternoon
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3 Days of Workshops, Breakout Groups, Community-Building, and Fun
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Swag Gifts: A T-shirt and Notebook
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Private Online Platform for communication with other retreat participants
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Optional Group Hike on Monday Afternoon
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Pre-enrollment Opportunities for Future Programs
About the Retreat Facilitator, Jessica
Jessica is a lifestyle design expert and co-founder of the award winning Financial Independence platform, The Fioneers. She is skilled in training design, facilitation, and adult learning. Throughout her career in both Human Resources and as a Life Design Coach, she has facilitated countless learning experiences through retreats, workshops, small group processes, and one-on-one coaching.
Jessica has helped dozens of clients (and thousands of readers) discover what they really want and develop skills, strategies, and mindsets to move toward their goals and feel good doing it. As a result, clients and readers have started businesses, reduced their work hours, become digital nomads, found jobs they enjoyed, negotiated sabbaticals, and more.
This is What People are Saying about the Slow FI Retreat
Frequently Asked Questions
To keep the retreat small and intimate, we are only selling 40 tickets for each retreat.
With this number of attendees, you will have the opportunity to get to know other participants and interact with speakers.
If you are unable to attend the event after buying a ticket, please let us know as soon as possible. If you let us know at least three months before the event, and we can fill the spot with someone from the waitlist, you would be issued a full refund minus transaction fees. If the spot goes unfilled, no refund will be issued.
If you cancel within three months of the event, no refund will be issued.
Yes, we have made a limited number of private rooms available at an additional cost.
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer childcare for an event of this size.
The event content and structure is focused on adults (and thus, not suitable for children).
Immediately upon registering, you will be redirected to a survey to share lodging preferences, dietary restrictions, t-shirt size, etc. I will also share this survey within a few days if you do not fill this out immediately.
After all tickets are sold, we will create a spreadsheet to share your contact and flight information. This will allow you to find others to carpool with, if you’d like.
Two months before the event, we will provide you with a detailed agenda for the event and invite you to the online platform we will use to communicate with other retreat participants.
Yes! The retreat content will cater to people at any point in their financial independence journey – from people who are completely new to the idea to people who are ready to make (or have already made) significant lifestyle changes.
The activities and breakout groups will be tailored to support people at different levels in their Slow FI journey.
No! The content of this retreat is not designed for bloggers or other content creators. The retreat will focus on financial independence and using your financial freedom to design your life.
If you are a content creator, you are very welcome to attend. This retreat will help you design your best life as you share your story and create great content.
We’ve decided to not allow 1-day attendance. The content (panels, workshops, and breakout groups) builds up over the course of the weekend, so you need to attend the full event to get the experience.
Here’s What You’ll Get When You Sign-Up
Slow FI Retreat
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Lodging for 3 Nights
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All Meals, Snacks, and Drinks from Friday night through Monday afternoon
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3 Days of Workshops, Breakout Groups, Community-Building, and Fun
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Swag Gifts: A T-shirt and Notebook
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Private Online Platform for communication with other retreat participants
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Optional Group Hike on Monday Afternoon
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Pre-enrollment Opportunities for Future Programs
