The setting
Modern Elder Academy, El Pescadero, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
The 2023 Retreat in Action
The Optimize Group
November 9–14, 2026
Baja
Business & Wellness Mastermind Retreat
El Pescadero, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Connect · Create · Contemplate
Time to reset and come up for air.
Imagine a beautiful, inspiring oasis where entrepreneurs can step away from daily demands and reset how they think about their business.
Spend a week learning and working alongside founders, authors, coaches, athletes, and operators, with space for the conversations that rarely fit into a normal schedule.
Join Nick Sonnenberg in Baja California Sur for a business and wellness retreat designed around three things: connect, create, and contemplate.
From the Pacific edge
Field notes
Work, learn, rest, and spend time together in El Pescadero.
The work
Interactive implementation sessions, workshops, and private one-to-one business optimization sessions.
The table
Fresh daily meals and drinks, with evening activities and time to connect.
In their own words · Mexico 2024
What stays with you.
Ideas to bring home. Space to think. People who share openly. Three guests reflect on their week at the retreat.
Ideas you can put to work · 0:20
“I've already implemented some.”
Stephanie Brackett
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Oh, that was awesome. I mean, you can just bring your biggest problem that you have in your business and you get perspectives from different industries, from different age groups, from different demographics. Everybody just gives you a million different ideas you could take back and implement like immediately, like concrete actual ideas that you could just go implement. I've already implemented some.
Watch the full interviewSpace to think differently · 0:25
“Having that physical and mental space really helped to draw some big conclusions.”
Mattijs Hermans
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But in general, like, the spaciousness that's being created both in the schedule as well in the setting, it, like, brought up some, like, deeper thoughts that I think I have just been suppressing by being in the daily craziness all the time. So having that physical and mental space really helped to draw some big conclusions that I think have been, like, slumbering for years, now that I think about it, but just had not the opportunity to come to the surface.
Watch the full interviewA room that shares openly · 0:24
“Everyone is in a sharing mood.”
Andrey Akselrod
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The people that I met here are really friendly. Everyone is in a sharing mood. No one is here for themselves. People are here to share, share their experiences, share their life experiences, their work experiences, and it creates an incredible environment overall.
Watch the full interviewMake space for your next chapter.
Schedule your callThe company you keep
Past speakers
01
Chip Conley
New York Times bestselling author and hospitality entrepreneur who helped Airbnb develop into a global hospitality brand.
02
Mike Koenigs
Bestselling author, entrepreneur, and advisor to business owners building influential brands.
03
Marissa Andrada
Board director, former Chipotle chief people officer, and leader in strategy, talent, and organizational change.
04
Blake Eastman
Behavioral scientist, founder of The Nonverbal Group, and former adjunct psychology professor at the City University of New York.
November 9–14, 2026
The experience
An intimate gathering of entrepreneurs, executives, and experts to strengthen their businesses, invest in their health, and build meaningful relationships.
- Stay at Modern Elder Academy, a boutique hotel in El Pescadero
- Fresh daily meals and drinks
- Private ground transportation from San José del Cabo airport
- Interactive implementation sessions and workshops
- Private one-to-one business optimization sessions with Nick and the team
- Morning health and wellness activities
- Evening activities and entertainment
- Time to rest, think, and explore
- Pre-retreat and post-retreat virtual mastermind sessions
- Optional lifestyle and headshot photography sessions
Join us in Baja
Step away. Think clearly. Return with momentum.
We are curating a small group of entrepreneurs for the retreat. Start with a conversation.
November 9–14, 2026
Modern Elder Academy