CALLING ALL WOMEN LEADERS TO
No pitch decks. No Slack. Just cold water, wild trout, and women who build things.
July 26 – 31, 2025
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Ennis, Montana
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10 Leaders
Why this retreat exists
You can’t be in your inbox and read water at the same time. That’s the whole point.
High-achieving women are exceptionally good at performing competence. What most of us haven’t experienced is the opposite: a space to be a beginner, to move slowly, to let the body lead, to sit in silence that actually says something.
Touch Grass is not a wellness retreat or coaching with a view. It’s an embodied leadership experience built around fly fishing, where presence, patience, and a willingness to look silly before you look skilled.
Limited to just 10 leaders, conversations carry, connections deepen, and everything moves at the rhythm of the river.
The river doesn’t care about your title. That’s what makes it powerful.
4
DAYS ON THE WATER
Expert guided instruction and wade trips with Reel Women Fly Fishing Adventures.
10
LEADERS MAX
An intimate cohort of leaders to ensure high-trust and support. No strangers by day two.
0
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
First cast to seasoned angler, all skill levels guided with intention.
What you’ll walk away with
A nervous system that feels genuinely reset, not from a massage, but from five days of learning something hard in a place that doesn’t care how you perform.
A beginners mind, reactivated, where humility and curiosity return to remind you how you built anything meaningful in the first place.
A small, high-trust community of women who build things and have stood in cold water together, which becomes its own kind of vetting.
A practice you can return to, where fly fishing is a skill you can take home, and the level of presence it demands starts to shape how you move through life.
Clarity that comes from silence, the kind you can’t force or think your way into, only create space for and allow to arrive.
What You’ll Do
ON THE WATER
Guided fly fishing & wade trips
Expert instruction from Reel Women guides: casting fundamentals, reading water, dry fly technique on the same river you watched on Paramount+.
NERVOUS SYSTEM
Regulation & reset sessions
Guided reiki and regulation practices woven into the daily rhythm. The river does most of the work. We just help you notice.
EVENINGS
Fireside leadership dinners
Facilitated conversations, no agenda. The kind that happen between people who’ve been humbled by the same river on the same day.
COMMUNITY
Pre & post-retreat cohort sessions
Virtual prep sessions before departure and a reflection session after, because the best insights often surface two weeks later.
Who its for
This cohort is built for women, femme-identifying, and non-binary founders, executives, and entrepreneurs who build things for a living, and need five days where the only metric that matters is that you are in a beautiful place, and someone made you lunch. The trout eating the fly is the bonus.
YOU’RE THE RIGHT FIT IF YOU ARE:
A founder or co-founder
C-suite or VP level
Tech / SaaS / AI / startups
Curious, not competitive
Overdue for a real reset
Never held a fly rod
YOUR GUIDES
Reel Women Fly Fishing Adventures
With decades of experience on Montana’s premier waters, their guides offer more than instruction. They create the conditions for meaningful shift. Their approach is shaped by expertise, patience, and a deep respect for what the river can do to even the most hardened founder.
Rachel Finn
Rachel Finn is a fearless, free spirit that everyone loves. After attending Yale University in graduate school, she followed her heart and began guiding up in the Adirondacks some 30 years ago. Rachel is also a wonderful artist, friend, and inspiration to never grow up and never stop chasing your passions.
Finn is a well-known presence in the Adirondack guide scene throughout the fishing season. Serving as the head guide at the Hungry Trout Fly Shop in Wilmington, New York, she accompanies clients on expeditions across the numerous rivers, streams, and ponds nestled within the breathtaking mountains. Additionally, for many years during July and August, Rachel lead summer float trips in Alaska. She holds positions as a pro staff member for Scott Fly Rods, Airflow, and Nautilus Reels, while also being enlisted by Patagonia as one of their fly fishing ambassadors. Finn also is an ambassador and hosts a couple trips a year for SET Fly Fishing in Argentina. Her expertise has been showcased on ESPN's Great Outdoor Games and the Outdoor Life Network's Fly Fishing Masters.
Lori-Ann Murphy
Reel Women Fly Fishing Adventures was co-founded in 1992 by Lori-Ann Murphy alongside a group of extraordinary women who were becoming guides and forging their own paths in a male-dominated industry. Surrounded by an exceptional women-led team, what began as a shared love of fly fishing and adventure quickly grew into something more, a community built on mentorship, skill-building, and the belief that women deserved world-class experiences on the water.
That same year, Lori-Ann founded the Orvis Women’s Fly Fishing School, helping create one of the first formal learning environments designed specifically for women. These early programs laid the foundation for what RWFFA would become: a place where women could ask questions freely, build confidence, and step fully into their potential.
The vision was simple but powerful: to create exceptional fly fishing adventures for women, while offering a safe, supportive space to learn, grow, and connect with others who shared the same passion.
Where you’ll stay
El Western Fishing Lodge sits on the banks of a private spring creek in Ennis, Montana, with unobstructed views of the Madison Range.
WHAT THE DAYS FEEL LIKE:
6:30 AM: Optional morning reiki | Coffee | Breakfast
8:30 AM: Depart for the river | Expert guided instruction
1:00 PM: Streamside lunch | Afternoon guided instruction
6:00 PM: Dinner at the lodge | Reflection circles | Evening streamside casting | Rest
WHAT’S INCLUDED
4 days of expert-guided instruction & fly fishing
Private rooms at El Western Fishing Lodge
Private chef prepared meals
Transportation to & from the airport
Gear & equipment rentals
Montana fishing license
Pre-retreat cohort sessions
Post-retreat reflection session
Your own fly fishing kit to carry this practice forward
INVESTMENT
$12,500 per person
Limited to 10 Leaders
MEET YOUR HOST
Lindsey Simmons
I’m a Recruiting Consultant and Coach passionate about helping start-ups build their dream teams and empowering shes, gays, and theys to own their worth, communicate with confidence, and land the careers they deserve.
Beyond work, I’m on the board of Juliana’s Anglers & Sporting Club, I volunteer with Gay Men’s Health Crisis, practice Reiki, write and perform stand-up comedy, and spend as much time outdoors as possible, whether that’s paddle boarding, fly fishing, or hunting with my german shorthaired pointer, Wendell.
READY TO GO?
The Madison has been waiting for you.
APPLY
A short application so we can make sure this is a strong mutual fit
BOOK A CALL
You’ll be taken to Lindsey’s calendar to schedule a 20-minute conversation
CONFIRM YOUR SPOT
If it’s a fit, we’ll hold your place and send everything you need to prepare