The bottom line is that I was a good girl – I followed my parent’s rules, went to college and medical school, found a nice Jewish guy to marry but in the end it didn’t work out because I wasn’t being true to myself. I spent all those years educating myself, going in a direction I never wanted to go in. I was frustrated because I felt like I couldn’t do what I wanted to do and I was compromising my dream.

So I finally walked away from my schooling, a very successful practice, and a phenomenal income to find my heart’s desire. I turned my back on what my family wanted for me even though it made my parents proud – because it didn’t really make ME feel proud to be living a lie.

Fortunately, during this time I received a copy of don Miguel Ruiz’s NY Times best-selling book (The Four Agreements®) and decided to go on one of his spiritual journeys to the sacred site of Teotihuacán, Mexico – my first experience with transformational retreats.

The journey was profound.

After leaving behind the world of medicine and financial success, I discovered there wasn’t anything outside of myself that needed changing at all – instead it was what I believed about myself and my world that needed work.

It was the first time I realized my pain stemmed from: my basic lack of self-love, self-trust, creative imagination – and a whole lot of limiting beliefs. As a result of that journey, I became a student of don Miguel’s and later, a teacher of this enlightening work that even Oprah was fond of.

But more importantly, this illustrates how powerful that retreat was – it actually changed the direction and purpose of my life.

I spent nearly 8 years on a transformative spiritual quest with my teacher. I took a year and a half off the beginning of my journey to reflect on my life and explore the landscape of my inner world. It was a rocky, unforgiving place at first (most of us are willing to forgive others before ourselves).

But over time, I gained the skills + tools to shift my own reality (and that of others) — from the inside out. Learning from don Miguel inspired me to write two books on personal growth + consciousness: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Toltec Wisdom and Banish Mind Spam!.

During my time with don Miguel I had the privilege to design and organize his journeys and retreats.

It was a fantastic opportunity to wander around the world and learn the travel and transformational retreat business – at the same time inspiring me to give birth to both my coaching practice and my travel agency, Journeys of the Spirit® in 2003, and later JOTS® Luxury Travel in 2011.

However, after being a Master Toltec teacher for 10 years I finally felt that it was time to move on again.

Which brings us to January 2013 when I did a total re-brand and change of focus in my business.

My heart’s desire is to to wipe out mediocrity and help people create unlimited abundance (in every direction), amazing success, audacious lives and businesses, and true wealth.

Experiential travel is a fabulous way to do that because it’s deeply awe-inspiring, soul-stirring, heart-opening, fun, and above of all, life-changing.

It’s our passion at Journeys of the Spirit® Luxury Travel and Journeys of the Spirit® Tours to design itineraries that allow us to touch the hearts of others, interact, learn, expand our consciousness, and grow from our connections with other cultures and people.

For us, this is the only way we can truly understand and have compassion for others, and in the end, create a peace-filled world.

Transformational retreats and journeys are one of the elements of an audacious life – and I am SO happy to be able to share that passion with you! I can’t wait to help you design the retreat of your dreams!

Here’s to your wanderlust life & biz…

PS: If you want to learn more about Sheri you can visit at our fabulous Wanderlust Entrepreneur site!