Launching in Spring 2025

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mastermind group [noun]:

a bright group of kindreds who meet regularly to inspire each other and share creative ideas for bringing each member’s visions into reality with peer-to-peer brainstorming, goal-setting, and accountability.

This group is for you if:

  • You’re a seasoned solopreneur with a successful existing business—ready to evolve further as you birth your next Big Thing

  • You’re a light spirit who values a wise, sustainable, and attuned approach to navigating business—and life

  • You'd like warm, structured support to organically bring your vision(s) into reality—buoyed by nourishing connections with oh-so-lovely peers on the same path

“We evolve at the rate of the sisterhood we’re plugged into.”

— CAROLYN MYSS

Enjoy structured, stellar, peer-to-peer support of the most magical variety!

  • Get inspired and in the flow

  • Brainstorm together

  • Get input/feedback

  • Benefit from shared accountability

  • Generate clarity

  • Set reachable goals

  • Make intuitively-informed decisions

  • Create doable plans

  • Get into sustainably paced action

  • Dissolve internal and external stumbling blocks along the way

  • Create comfortable momentum

  • Celebrate successes

And, have fun doing it!

“My Mastermind group helped focus and energize me. My book was just an unattainable seed of an idea two years ago. Now, it’s out in the world — with a cover blurb by Liz Gilbert, no less!”

JANET CARGILL, IMAGE CONSULTANT | MILFORD, NEW JERSEY

Is this you?

“I want to…

  • Run my business at my own natural pace & rhythm

  • Be inspired to evolve in delightfully surprising ways

  • Be more attuned to my inner wisdom

  • Be more grounded in my decision-making and assured in my prioritizing

  • Manage my energies in ways that are sustainable, nourishing, and renewing

  • Craft and refine my offering(s) more in alignment with my Zone of Genius 

  • Shine my light even brighter, becoming more visible in ways that are friendly to my nervous system and in line with my values

So many reasons to join!

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Community & Connection

  • Connect with like-minded, value-aligned women

  • Share mutual encouragement

  • Develop friendships that extend beyond our meetings

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Warm Accountability

  • Commit to a well-thought-out course of action

  • Be warmly held accountable for taking action

  • Bring your vision for your business into reality

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Insight & Inspiration

  • Broaden your horizons with fresh perspectives

  • Shorten your learning curves

  • Feel excited about new possibilities

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Clarity & Focus

  • Feel more confident & strategic in your decision-making

  • Get help in seeing your blind spots

  • Be more clear-sighted & focused in moving forward

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Networking & Collaboration

  • Share skills with one another

  • Dream up shared endeavors

  • Valuable introductions

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Authentic Messaging & Visibility

  • Get more aligned in your offers and messaging

  • Attract more perfect clients

  • Put yourself out there — on your terms

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Sustainable Growth

  • Move your business from surviving to thriving

  • Generate a steadier, more reliable income flow

  • Feel more confident and grounded in your pricing

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Smart Systems

  • Reduce overwhelm & decision fatigue

  • Streamline & simplify

  • Focus your time, energy, money, and talents better

Sweet Words | from the Sweet Spot Community

  • “My Mastermind group is great at getting me to see ‘what can be’ if self-imposed limitations are eliminated. With my group’s support, I was able to elevate my business — and my life — to another level. What’s more, the bonds formed with members of my group are still strong today, over a decade later.

    — MARIA SEMPLE —
    Nonprofit Consultant & Trainer
    The Prospect Finder
    Greenville, North Carolina

  • “This powerful women’s Mastermind format is inspiring so many of us to bring our fullest expression into the world. Standing ovation for creating the container!!

    — GAYE ABBOTT —
    Yoga Therapist
    Natural Passages Consulting
    Grass Valley, California

  • “There’s true genius in a Mastermind group filled with fabulous women. I was in the first Sweet Spot ‘Enchanted Life’ group — and signed up for every one after that. Claire’s a gifted facilitator with a huge heart who walks her talk.

    — ELLEN INGRAHAM —
    Networking Consultant
    Ellen Ingraham & Associates
    Buena Vista, Colorado

Menu of Helps

Here are the kinds of juicy, propellant support available to you in your Mastermind group:

  • Generate alternatives, bright ideas for your next action steps, input for how to take what didn’t work and tweak it so it does.

  • A group ‘whoo-hoo’ for when you’ve reached a goal and/or overcome an obstacle.

  • Contacts, connections, links. Ex: who to call, what to read, where to find something.

  • An advanced skill, indeed!

  • Share the benefit of your professional or amateur skill with a fellow member — for trade, for pay, whatever works.

  • Meet virtually to get your homework done; hold space and provide soft accountability for each other.

  • Meet 1:1 to connect and learn more about one another personally and professionally.

  • Pair up with another member to share goal steps, check-ins, and follow-ups; this can be the same pairing each time, or you can rotate buddies.

  • Periodic check-ins to give focused encouragement.

  • Sometimes, we need a little targeted validation and ‘yes, you can’ to go for what we want.

  • Practice what you’ll say or do in a challenging conversation or situation.

  • Timed 1-minute ‘power-gripe’ to clear the decks so you can shift out of stuck.

  • Call schedule (à la Meal Train) for a member faced with a crisis; check-ins before/after a difficult appointment; virtual tea date (or wine date) after a ‘big reach’ action step.

  • Get help with:

    • Writing an affirmation

    • Setting a goal

    • Breaking down a goal into smaller tasks

    • Clarifying an intention

    • Website or sales page review/feedback

    • Et cetera, ad infinitum.

“Over the past year, I’d felt overwhelmed by the details of running my business. Now, I feel more joyfully connected to my own rhythms and inspirations which has helped me navigate everything from a calmer, clearer place.

THERESA MORRISEY | PORTLAND, OREGON

VIRTUAL COMMUNITY

Co-Working Sessions

Your gateway into deep work.

ENJOY THESE RESULTS:

  • Get important work done faster and more pleasurably

  • Dissolve procrastination and overload as you lean into soft structure

  • Feel more focused & effective as you fully immerse yourself in a task

  • Enjoy the silent camaraderie as it sweetly anchors your attention

You’ll have the option to participate in weekly open community Co-Working Sessions via Zoom

Claire O’Connor

Claire is a down-to-earth, warmly engaging, and intuitive facilitator, teacher, and consultant whose mission is to support highly sensitive women in sharing their Essence gifts with the world—at their own pace and rhythm.

— Based in Tucson, Arizona

Hi, I'm Claire.

As a highly-sensitive serial solopreneur, I’m a permanent surfer of the Renaissance Woman’s learning curve. My fuel for the adventure? The soul food of sisterhood. There’s a feast of yum that happens when we relax into the warm embrace of kindreds who show up to witness, support, and celebrate us in the ultimate creative act — inventing ourselves anew in each moment as we open, blossom, and flow in ‘the sweet spot’ of our unique genius.

Learn more about Claire here.

Sandra Bertalanffy

Sandra is a seasoned business coach who combines no-nonsense practicality with the power of play to help professionals develop an engaging presence in any public speaking setting. Infused with humor, her incisive approach helps her clients cultivate authentic connection and grounded confidence.

— Based in Munich, Germany

Hi, I'm Sandra.

I bridge the worlds of business and art, taking bold steps—like pivoting from consulting to acting conservatory—to deeply explore the innovative potential of creative expression. I believe that self-knowledge and a clarified vision open doors to aligned decision-making. As a coach, I bring informed structure, fresh perspectives, and a sensitive approach to help clients break free from their cocoons and fully embody their voice.

Learn more about Sandra here.

The Logistics

Taster Meeting

  • The Taster Meeting is offered as a no-obligation Preview of the Spring/Summer 2025 Mastermind cohort

    We’ll share an overview of how the group will work and give you a real-time taste of the power of a Mastermind.

    Our intention is for you to leave the Taster Meeting knowing if the Mastermind is a good fit for you.

  • The Info Meeting for the Spring/Summer 2025 Mastermind cohort will be held in the Spring, with the date to be announced.

    Email Claire here to get on the Notification List.

  • Bring your sweet self, plus come prepared to:

    1. Introduce yourself and say where you're from

    2. Describe your business and who you serve in one or two sentences

  • After the Info Meeting, please email Claire to let us know if you’d like to apply to join the Spring/Summer 2025 Mastermind cohort.

Mastermind Group & Co-Working Sessions

  • Spring/Summer 2025 MASTERMIND MEETINGS
    dates TBA

    Optional CO-WORK SESSIONS
    Offered weekly on Mondays beginning March 31, 2025.

    • 8:30–10:00 am Pacific Time (GMT-8)

    • 5:30–7:00 pm Central European Time (GMT +1)

  • The live virtual Mastermind Group meets every other week for a 90-minute Zoom.

    The optional live virtual Co-Working Sessions meet weekly on Mondays for a 90-minute Zoom.

  • The Mastermind Group will be capped at 8 participants.

    The Co-Work Sessions will be open to the larger community and will not have a cap on the group size. If the group becomes larger, we may utilize breakout rooms.

  • Absolutely. The Sweet Spot Community is a place where we celebrate our differences. Everyone who leads from the heart is welcome.

Hop on the Wait List!

Be the first in line to apply for the next group starting in Spring/Summer 2025.