Morgana - New Pictures from the 2017 Money Goddess Retreat in Bali

I’m back from my 2017 Money Goddess Retreat in Bali. Every year people want to see the photo, and I love to share them. Photos bring back sense memory of the original event.

That’s why I moved heaven and earth to make sure we had a photographer this year. These photos reminds my participants who they are, months and years after the retreat.

First the Melodrama:

3 weeks before this year’s retreat I received a startling message from a photographer I had hired (and loved) twice before: she was demanding more than double our agreed (and substantial) fee. I thought about it for a day, told her that I had a set photography budget for my retreat, and to honor, that I’d be willing to hire her for one third of the retreat (instead of the whole thing), for our agreed fee. Then she became abusive, and I made the decision that she was no longer a safe presence for my women flying in for my retreat.

I had promised a photo shoot as my version of a “breakthrough exercise.” Tony Robbins does fire walks. For women, posing for a camera is scarier. I needed to find someone really good, really safe, fast!

We’re all normal looking women. Half of us over 50, half under, with all the usual weirdness around our appearance, our weight, our skin, what to do with our bodies in front of the camera lense…

I found a new photographer, and she worked out so well–we all LOVE her–that I am GRATEFUL to my former photographer for making space. I did everyone’s make-up. (Bet you didn’t know I could do that.) Ulrike worked the big magic with her camera, light, and coaxing women to feel beautiful in front of the lense.