✦ EMBODY DIVINE PURPOSE ✦

You know you are meant
to lead something bigger.

Build experiences that change lives.

I help purpose-driven leaders confidently create, price, fill, and lead immersive experiences people trust, remember, and return to.

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VISION✦STRATEGY✦COMMUNITY✦IMPACT
People gathered in an intentional circle designed and held by Ashleigh Hakes

WHY AH EMPOWERS EXISTS

The future changes when people can step inside what is possible.

I believe meaningful transformation deserves more than a beautiful idea. It deserves a trustworthy experience—one with enough vision to move people, enough structure to hold them, and enough humanity to help them belong.

MISSION

Raise the standard of transformational experiences.

Help purpose-driven people bring their wisdom into form with clarity, confidence, care, and real-world strategy.

VISION

A world built through experiences people trust.

A global movement of Experience-Led Businesses™ creating meaningful impact people remember, return to, and carry home.

01

Integrity

The experience must honor the people inside it—not just the promise used to sell it.

02

Belonging

People transform more honestly when they do not have to perform for their place in the room.

03

Embodiment

Insight matters. What changes how we live, choose, lead, and relate matters more.

04

Stewardship

Vision, money, energy, logistics, culture, and care all belong in the same conversation.

05

Possibility

We create what people can step inside now—not someday when every condition is perfect.

Ashleigh Hakes grounded in nature
Ashleigh Hakes facilitating a community circle
Ashleigh Hakes holding a sound and meditation experience

I DID NOT LEARN THIS FROM THE EDGE OF THE ROOM

I have held the sacred vision and the spreadsheet.

The opening circle and the emergency plan. The participant care and the production schedule. The moment that changes someone—and every detail that helped them feel safe enough to enter it.

That is what makes this work sacred and strategic.

THE FOUNDATION

Transformation is not something people are told.

It is something they experience.

The room. The invitation. The pacing. The welcome. The boundaries. The way people are cared for before, during, and after. Every detail is teaching them what to trust.

START WITH THE PATH THAT SOUNDS LIKE YOU

Two free doorways. Two different kinds of readiness.

Personal transformation and retreat leadership can meet, but they are not the same path. Begin with the result you actually need.

WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER

Every path begins somewhere.

Choose the level of structure, strategy, community, or proximity the season requires.

PROOF OF PRODUCTION · LUMINOUS FIREFLOW

The vision became a living experience in six weeks.

Ashleigh and Tiffany co-produced a ceremonial gathering for more than 100 guests with 30+ volunteers and collaborators—bringing musicians, wellness practitioners, vendors, family care, land stewardship, sound, movement, and hospitality into one coherent arc.

100+GUESTS
30+COLLABORATORS
6WEEKS TO PRODUCE
A luminous gathering held beneath the trees at sunsetWATCH LUMINOUS FIREFLOWTHE EXPERIENCE IN MOTION · OPENS ON FACEBOOK ↗

PROOF OF CONCEPT · MIGUEL’S STORY

From a beloved product to an experience people return to.

Miguel already had the recipes, the gifts, and a deeply rooted vision for nourishment. Together, we clarified the experience around the product—how people would enter it, participate in it, remember it, and come back.

That strategy helped The Enchanted Waffle grow beyond one-off vending into recurring nutritional experiences, catering relationships, and an experience-led business people actively return to.

$10K–$15Kconsistent months now
Recurring nutritional experiencesClearer offer architectureA business people can step inside

CLIENT CASE STUDY · MIGUEL + THE ENCHANTED WAFFLE

Miguel, founder of The Enchanted Waffle, welcoming guests at his experience bar
THE FOUNDERMiguel “The Gnome” Winsor
Miguel welcoming guests to The Enchanted Waffle rooftop experience
THE EXPERIENCEFood, story, participation, and community.
A close view of The Enchanted Waffle’s nourishing waffles
THE PRODUCTStill delicious. Now held inside a clearer experience.

WORDS FROM INSIDE THE WORK

The experience speaks through the people who have lived it.

Not polished case-study language. Real messages, real recommendations, and the words people chose after being inside the work.

PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION✦COMMUNITY EXPERIENCES✦BUSINESS STRATEGY
Original client message thanking Ashleigh for changing their life
PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION
Original public recommendation from Tiffany Fede describing Ashleigh's facilitation as 111 out of 10
PUBLIC FACILITATION RECOMMENDATION
Original participant message thanking Ashleigh for her presence, medicine, and good energy
PRESENCE + CONNECTION
Original message describing Ashleigh's voice as soothing
VOICE + PRESENCE
Original participant message thanking Ashleigh for creating a beautiful space
THE SPACE AS PART OF THE WORK
Original partnership feedback from Mimi Daraa thanking Ashleigh for her strategic support
PARTNERSHIP IN ACTION · MIMI DARAA
Ashleigh Hakes beside a flowing river

MEET ASHLEIGH

Wise elder sister.
Sacred strategist.

I have spent 17 years inside transformational work—learning what makes an experience beautiful, what makes it safe, what makes it sustainable, and what makes people carry it with them long after they leave.

My background in Human Development and years producing, facilitating, and supporting immersive gatherings taught me this: the cosmic and the logistical are not separate. The vision needs the spreadsheet. The ceremony needs the run-of-show. The leader needs support, too.

17YEARS IN TRANSFORMATIONAL WORK
BAHUMAN DEVELOPMENT
∞SACRED + STRATEGIC
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THIS IS FOR THE ONES BUILDING SOMETHING THAT MATTERS

The truth seekers.
The community builders.
The leaders who can feel what is possible.

You are here for a reason. And you do not have to build the next version of your work alone.

THREE HONEST WAYS TO ENTER

Begin with the doorway that meets you now.