An IRL gathering
for the ones who're ready to start living their life — instead
of just existing
inside of it.
THE LINK-UP | MEXICO 2026
let's go
A gathering for the creative souls who've been building meaningful connections behind screens — and are ready to bring them into three dimensions.
You didn't trade your 9-5 life for your business just to spend your days half-crying into your seventh oat flat white, voice-noting your internet besties from another coffee shop with bad lighting.
You didn’t build a business that bends with you just to keep bumping up against the same digital walls — Zoom fatigue, voice message convos that span four time zones, and “we should totally meet IRL one day's" that never quite happen.
The Link Up is what happens when that day finally does.
You chose this life for the texture. The feeling. The motion.
The electric click of real connection. The friendships built over shared client meltdowns.
The kind of community, creativity and freedom that can't be scheduled — but is never forgotten.
That’s what The Link Up is.
Let’s be SO real.
You didn’t choose this life to go it alone.
i'm in
A gathering for the ones who’ve voice-noted through heartbreak, burnouts, pivots, rebirths — and now get to be in the same room for the celebration part.
There’s no personal growth checklist.
No identity breakthrough agenda.
Just a group of humans committed to living the lives they’ve built — in full, messy, vivid colour. Together.
The Link Up is categorically not a business or wellness retreat.
Just the most joyful, grounded, unhinged, sun-soaked celebration of everything you’ve been becoming — held in a place where no one’s asking you to explain how you got here.
You did. And you deserve to enjoy it.
This is a long-overdue linkup for the ones who’ve been cheering each other on from the comment section.
Each day unfolds with intention, without expectation. From our welcome dinner and drinks where you'll instantly feel like you're exactly where you belong, to our guided connection sessions where seeing and being seen happens naturally, to shaking your ass to a live DJ set by the pool — this is a space that supports your nervous system instead of hijacking it.
You’ll wake up slow, sun filtering through gauzy curtains, coffee already brewing somewhere in the kitchen. No alarm. No Slack pings. Just you, your breath, and maybe a body still stretched from yesterday’s swim in the ocean.
Nights arrive soft and then spirals into sparkle. Candles. A bottle of something shared between too many hands to count. The playlist changes and suddenly someone's barefoot on a table. Everyone follows. You dance like it’s the only language you’ve ever spoken.
There’s no strict itinerary, but intentional connection. No pressure to open up. No expectation to be “on.” But somehow… you find yourself opening anyway. Saying the thing you’ve never said aloud. Being witnessed by the people who really see you, not the you from your highlight reel, but the you that's been buried underneath all of it.
let's link up
But I gave it one anyway.
The Link Up.
Because that’s what it is.
Not a retreat.
Not a strategy session.
Just a long-overdue link-up with the friends you were meant to do life beside. A portal you step through, dropping expectations at the door. A space where you don't need to optimize, strategize, or even explain yourself.
No metrics. No optics. No goal-setting sessions. Just real-time, real-body, real-world connection that reminds you why you chose this life in the first place.
It’s the kind of gathering that doesn’t need a name.
BRB, TELLING THE GROUP CHAT
Because life (and business) can be disorienting, even when it’s beautiful.
Because long-distance friendships can only take you so far before you need arms around your shoulders, eyes that see you, and laughter that doesn’t glitch through a screen.
Because when you're in-person you can't backspace a moment, edit the caption after the fact, rerecord the voice note, ghost the group chat or rehearse which part of you shows up.
When you gather IRL, your weird as fuck self gets to show up first.
Who you are is on full display.
Your truths spill out before you even realize they're leaving your mouth.
And thank god.
Because that’s where the real shit lives.
It's where curation isn’t just unnecessary, it becomes quite literally impossible. It's where building friendship is the name of the game and having fun is the entire point.
And where showing up as your full, wild, hot, beautiful self is the only requirement.
.
Why now?
Why this?
No panels. No pitches. No pressure to be "on."
No goal-oriented experiences masquerading as friendship.
Just the kind of space where your nervous system exhales before your suitcase hits the floor. Where there's fairy dust in the air. Where you'll walk away thinking "WTF just happened?!" in the best possible way.
Where you remember what it feels like to arrive — not just log on.
This isn’t a brand activation. It’s a soul re-entry.
- 5 days/4 nights in a stunning villa nestled between the desert and the ocean
- A short distance from the ocean and minutes from a quaint Mexican town
- Curated to support (re) connection, frienship-making and having big fun
- Equal parts "let's go for a swim" and "I didn't know I needed this conversation until now"
- Long table dinners with candles melting down and glasses clinking
- Afternoons by the pool with a DJ setting the perfect vibe
- Nourished with farm-to-table meals prepared by our private chef
- Built around full build body aliveness and presence
- Made for the ones who want to step through a portal and leave their bags at the door
It's the physical meeting place for your online orbit. It's what happens when the friends in your DMs become your dinner party. It's where we blur the line between strangers and soulmates over salty skin and open bottles.
So what is The Link Up?
how could i say no
✓ More grounded in who you are, outside of the algorithm
✓ Inspired without overstimulation
✓ Connected without code-switching
✓ Seen in your evolution, not just your outcomes
✓ Reminded that you’re not too much. You’re just needed to find the right room
You’ll feel
✓ A deeper sense of home in your body, your work, and your people
✓ Clarified connection to the souls walking a path as brave, nuanced, and untraditional as yours
✓ A nervous system that’s rested, reset, and reminded what safety feels like
✓ A rekindled devotion to your life’s real cadence, not the one that performs best
✓ Real conversations that challenge, reflect, and ignite
✓ A renewed desire to L I V E your life, not just exist inside it
You’ll walk away with
Private rooms, cozy corners and sun-drenched views. Tucked away in Mexico's Baja region nestled between the desert and the ocean.
5 Days/4 Nights
at a Private Villa
(001)
Every meal is made with local ingredients by our in-house chef, so you can eat well, feel good, and stay fueled for all the shenanigans we’re about to get into.
Daily Meals By Our Private Chef
(002)
Hosted by the queen herself Chelsea Riffe.
These sessions will be part invitation and part conversation. Invitations to explore what’s alive in you and to speak what hasn’t been spoken.
Hosted by the queen herself, Chelsea Riffe.
These sessions will act as an invitation to explore what’s alive in you and to speak what hasn’t been spoken. The format will be open dialogue and the space will be no judgment. Designed to crack us open so we can see each other fully and be witnessed in return.
Nightly Connection Sessions
(003)
Come get feral pool side, shake your ass and scream-sing 2000s banger, drink in hand, with 12 souls you just met that somehow know more about you in 4 days than your childhood best friend.
Poolside DJ Set
(004)
A gift from me to you that you’ll receive on arrival. Aka goodies to keep you glowing, grounded, and fully in your pleasure all weekend long.
Intentionally Curated
Welcome Gifts
(005)
We'll try some of the region's best selections, learn about the history and the craft - and most importantly just enjoy the fact that we're in Mexico with new friends.
Local Mezcal Tasting
(006)
Lead by the Laura Evans. Come shake shit out, drop what you've been carrying and remember what it feels like to be wildly, unapologetically A L I V E.
Shake The Dust Movement Sessions
(007)
Because between the dancing, swimming, laughing, chit chatting, crying and general carrying on - taking a moment for yourself is a non negotiable.
Therapeutic Massages
(008)
A full day spent out on the ocean with nowhere to be and nothing to do except swim, tan and have stupid amounts of fun.
Catamaran Boat Day
(009)
Time to wander through the local town, take a nap, stroll along the beach, set off for a hike, float in the pool, or fall into the type of chats that leave your brain buzzing. Because some of the best shit happens in the unplanned moments.
Built-In Chill Time
(010)
Monthly Plan
Monthly basis
8 x $562
let's do it
Pay In Full
Save $1000 until August 1st
$5500
count me in
Country: Mexico
Space: TBD
Date: November 2026
Length: 5 days/4 nights
Spots Left: 7 12
The Details
* 1 pay-what-you-can spot reserved for those who require financial assistance. Just DM me!
$4500 USD
You’ve been building a life you love, but miss having people to live it with.
You’re not looking for another retreat with a logo.
You’re looking for a soul family.
People who speak your language, not just your industry.
You want your next business decision to be shaped not by a strategy session — but by a sunrise conversation with someone who just, gets it.
This is for you if,
I CAN'T WAIT TO MEET YOU
Before I was ever leading IRL gatherings or building online communities, I spent over 10 years working in hospitality. Managing restaurants, launching new spaces, designing menus, overseeing full-scale catering programs — all of it.
And in 2023, I launched my very own dinner party series, The Ceremony, born out of a desire to take my online community of entrepreneurs, creatives, and leaders offline. To cultivate belonging. To create space for genuine connection, fresh perspectives, and inspiring conversation. A space to simply be, without expectation.
I even threw a 20 person long table dinner in Lisbon last summer after only having spent a month living there because this is the type of shit I truly live for.
So at this point, hosting is in my blood and it's a practice I know intimately. Creating beautiful spaces for people to gather, connect, and feel held is something I’ve devoted a large portion of my life to because I will forever believe this...in-person gathering without a productivity goal or outcome looming over us is deeply necessary.
Because having fun is productive and friendship is spiritual af.
And as someone who’s obsessed with my friends, is always in relentless pursuit of enjoying life to the max, and has been known to say, “I wish I could live in a perpetual dinner party,” — creating The Link-Up felt inevitable.
I created TLU as a reminder that community and play aren’t frivolous or secondary or backdrops to “doing the work” first — but instead they are to be prioritized and held in the highest regard as they are the cornerstones in which make life worth living.
And even though I’ve met some of my favourite people across borders, time zones, and Wi‑Fi glitches — at a certain point connection needs a body, presence, a moment where we’re not just texting through our breakthroughs, but witnessing them together.
TLDR; The Link-Up is space to remember who the fuck we are.
Why we chose this life and what becomes possible when we gather. Not to self‑optimize more or ascend, but to just be. And to allow for that to be more than enough.
For it to be the entire point.
A note from Edi,
ADD ME RN Please
Spots are limited ( 7 12 to be exact )
No pushy countdowns. No scarcity tactics.
See you in Mexico baybyyyy.