Heat Up Your Retreats with Amanda Hietter

About Heat Up Your Retreats with Amanda Hietter

Are you a coach, speaker, pastor, or leader who dreams of hosting transformational retreats—but feel overwhelmed by the planning? ✨ On Heat Up Your Retreats, host Amanda Hietter—CEO of Across the Horizon Travel and international retreat strategist—pulls back the curtain on everything you need to create unforgettable retreats. From finding the perfect destination to pricing, marketing, and filling your events, Amanda shares practical strategies, inspiring stories, and insider travel tips to help you bring your vision to life. Each week, you’ll hear real talk on faith, business, and travel, plus interviews with leaders who are growing their impact through retreats. Whether you’re hosting your first retreat or leveling up your next one, this podcast will give you the tools and confidence to design experiences that change lives (including your own). 🔥 Dream it. Plan it. Fill it. Host it. Your retreat starts here.

Publisher

Amanda Hietter

Category

business · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Dec 2025

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Oct 2026

   Stop Waiting for Confidence: Choose Courage First with Kimberly Wright | Heat Up Your Retreats

   Heat Up Your Retreats | Hosted by Amanda Hietter What if confidence isn't something you need before taking action, but something you build by choosing courage first? In this episode of Heat Up Your Retreats, Amanda Hietter welcomes Kimberly Wright, leadership development specialist, speaker, published author, founder of L.E.D. Advisory, and creator of Perception Leadership. With over 20 years of experience helping women discover their identity and step into their purpose, Kimberly brings a powerful perspective on the intersection of faith, leadership, personal growth, and business. Together, Amanda and Kimberly explore how the stories we tell ourselves influence our confidence, why our perceptions shape our leadership, and how understanding our God-given identity can transform the way we show up for others. They also discuss the importance of creating intentional retreat experiences, making space for rest and reflection, and integrating faith authentically into business and leadership. In This Episode Courage Before Confidence: Why waiting until you feel ready can keep you from pursuing your calling. The Power of Perception: How experiences, beliefs, and personal identity shape the way we see ourselves and others. Overcoming Limiting Beliefs: Recognizing the internal narratives that hold us back from growth. Faith and Leadership: What it means to lead from your values and integrate faith authentically into your work. Designing Transformational Retreats: Why meaningful experiences begin with the impact you want attendees to carry home. The Importance of Rest: Creating intentional space to recharge, reflect, and reconnect with your purpose. Stepping Into Your Calling: Learning to move forward even when you don't feel fully qualified or prepared. Key Takeaway You don't have to feel completely confident, prepared, or qualified to begin. Growth often happens when you take that first courageous step, trust your calling, and allow the experience to shape you along the way. Whether you're a retreat host, entrepreneur, coach, or emerging leader, this episode will inspire you to challenge your perceptions, embrace your identity, and create a lasting impact through intentional leadership. Connect with Kimberly Wright LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlyjwright/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlyjwright/) Connect with Amanda Hietter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-hietter/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-hietter/) About Heat Up Your Retreats Heat Up Your Retreats is dedicated to helping coaches, entrepreneurs, and purpose-driven leaders turn their messages into meaningful experiences and create retreats that inspire personal growth and lasting transformation. Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to Heat Up Your Retreats, share this conversation with someone who needs encouragement, and leave a review to help others discover the show.

2. 

   30 Sept 2026

   The Secret to Transformational Retreats: Space, Connection & Clarity | Erin Marie Barry

   In this episode of Heat Up Your Retreats, Amanda Hietter is joined by Erin Marie Barry, founder of Live Your Truth Journey, keynote speaker, life coach, author, and retreat director. Erin helps women reconnect with themselves, clarify what matters most, and create lives that feel more authentic and aligned. Her approach to retreats centers on creating intentional space where women can step away from everyday responsibilities, hear their own voices again, and reconnect with who they truly are. During the conversation, Erin shares how her own journey from people-pleasing and living according to other people’s expectations inspired her work. She also explains how childhood experiences gathering with family in nature helped plant the original seed for Live Your Truth Journey and her vision for transformational retreats. Amanda and Erin explore why retreats can create breakthroughs that are difficult to replicate through a coaching call or traditional workshop. Erin explains that transformation often comes through a combination of connection to self, connection to others, connection to nature, and enough space to process the experience. They also discuss one of the biggest mistakes retreat leaders can make: trying to fill every minute of the schedule. Erin shares a lesson from her first retreat and why downtime can be just as important as workshops, activities, and education. In This Episode You’ll hear Amanda and Erin discuss: How Erin’s personal transformation inspired Live Your Truth Journey Why retreats can create deeper breakthroughs than shorter experiences The importance of connecting with yourself, others, and nature Why retreat leaders should avoid overpacking the itinerary Creating the right balance of education, reflection, activities, and downtime How vulnerability from the retreat leader can help create emotional safety Using social gatherings and icebreakers to build connection Why closing ceremonies can help participants recognize their growth Erin’s biggest lesson from hosting her first retreat How to start planning a retreat when the process feels overwhelming Why every retreat should begin with a clear transformational outcome When Amanda asks Erin what every transformational retreat must include, Erin keeps it simple: Space and connection. Connect with Erin Marie Barry Live Your Truth Journey Website: LiveYourTruthJourney.com (http://LiveYourTruthJourney.com) LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/erin-marie-barry-lytj About Heat Up Your Retreats Heat Up Your Retreats is hosted by Amanda Hietter, retreat strategist and founder of Heat Up Your Retreats. The podcast helps coaches, speakers, entrepreneurs, and community leaders create transformational retreats, strengthen connection, and turn meaningful experiences into opportunities for personal, professional, and community growth. If you are thinking about creating your own retreat but are unsure how to turn your idea into an intentional and transformational experience, follow Heat Up Your Retreats for more conversations, strategies, and insights from experienced retreat leaders. Dream Big. Travel Bigger.

3. 

   6 Sept 2026

   How to Get Back Into Alignment & Live With Purpose with Angela Goodman

   What happens when the life you’ve built no longer feels aligned with who you were created to be? In this episode of Heat Up Your Retreats, Amanda Hietter sits down with Angela Goodman, an award-winning entrepreneur, author, speaker, podcast host, and creator of the Aligned Perception Framework. For more than 25 years, Angela has helped leaders and entrepreneurs uncover the hidden patterns keeping them from reaching their full potential. Today, her work focuses on helping high performers reconnect with themselves, gain clarity, and turn that clarity into aligned action. Angela shares her own journey from managing a $25 million business to entrepreneurship, restaurant ownership, business consulting, and ultimately making the decision to start over and build a life that felt more aligned with her purpose. In this conversation, Amanda and Angela explore: What it really means to live in alignment How childhood conditioning can shape the way we lead and make decisions Why emotional reactivity can reveal deeper triggers How to recognize patterns that may be keeping you stuck The importance of responding intentionally instead of reacting emotionally How to reconnect with the things that genuinely bring you joy Why small, intentional moments of joy can change the way you experience your life and business What makes a retreat truly transformational Why curating the right people in the room matters How to maintain the momentum and growth you experience after a retreat Angela defines alignment as becoming more fully authentic to who you were created to be and doing the work to release the identities and patterns that no longer serve you. She also shares a simple but powerful exercise: create a “Feel Alive Again” list of the things you genuinely loved doing and a second list of what currently drains your energy. Then begin intentionally bringing more of what makes you feel alive into your everyday life. For retreat leaders, Angela explains why transformation begins with curating the room and bringing together people who are ready, willing, and open to doing the work. She also shares practical ways to help attendees carry their transformation home, including follow-up conversations, revisiting retreat notes, and intentionally reconnecting with the commitments they made during the experience. Whether you're a retreat leader, coach, entrepreneur, speaker, or someone navigating a season of transition, this episode is an invitation to look beneath the surface, reconnect with what brings you alive, and take your next step with greater clarity and purpose. Connect with Angela Goodman: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/angela-goodman-96879015 Instagram: @MsAngelaGoodman Connect with Amanda Hietter: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amanda-hietter

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