AÂ 6-week online retreat for women
— young and young at heart —
who want to share their light
with christlike confidenceÂ
Hosted by
Shalon Ironroad
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CONSULTANT
COACH
AUTHOR
Celebrate the Easter season by laying your fears and hesitations on the altar and emerge as a brighter, braver version of yourself.
Our 6-Week Experience* Runs
Monday, March 9 - Monday, April 20
Weekly group calls will be held every Tuesday evening at 7:30pm EST on Zoom (recordings available if you can't attend live)Â
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RSVPÂ by 3/8/26
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Shine with real power.
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* Following the conclusion of the 6-week experience (after April 20), the retreat materials will be posted for perpetual access on-demand.
Note: Anyone who registers for this event will be granted access to the recorded version.
Bright & Brave is led by Shalon Ironroad — a Harvard-educated consultant with 20+ years’ experience helping smart, capable people get clear, get steady, and move forward.Â
She’s taken the same practical frameworks she’s used with professional clients and built a version specifically for young and young-at-heart women — grounded in faith, built for real life, and focused on helping you use your gifts with confidence and Christlike courage.
If you want something that’s structured, thoughtful, and actually moves you from “I should” to “I did,” this is it. It’s the rare mix of depth and practicality.
I attended an event hosted by Shalon.
She did a masterful job...
She created an atmosphere where attendees felt welcomed, uniquely and individually appreciated, and ready to take on new challenges. She set such a wonderful tone, just with her presence. It almost seems effortless for her, like she was born to bring people together for a greater purpose. I'm still in awe and gratitude.Â
— Camille McConnell, Author and Coach
Shalon has a gift for gathering women!
Her gentle warmth made all of us feel so welcome, right from the get go; her spiritual strength blew us away; her capacity to create meaningful conversations opened up life-changing sharing; her poignant questions prompted personal discoveries for everyone; and her organizational prowess enabled a week of wonders. If Shalon invites you to anything - jump at the chance! You will come home with a clearer view of your power and potential. Thank you, Shalon!
— Bethany Brady Spalding, Author and Social Entrepreneur
The World doesn't Need More Noise.
we need you to show up as you truly are, by:
KNOWing
your divine identity as a daughter of God
OWNing
your unchanging self-worth
GROWing
in struggle instead of shrinking from it
Living
from purpose,
not pressure
ACCESSing
sustainable energy & strength every single day
The Bright & Brave retreat is a 6-week guided online experience designed to help you CREATIVELY build the inner strength to stand, sharing your light in your full stature.
...not for the sake of performance, but because it's who you were born to be.
This is not rah-rah motivational hype.
This is not fluffy surface-level inspiration.
This is real, human, JOYFULÂ inner strength training.Â
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OHHH. THIS IS FOR ME →About our venueÂ

We will host all of our retreat activities inside the Amara Falls luxury online resort, a brand-new sanctuary for the soul.Â
The luxury resort setting of Amara Falls assures your brain that you are safe and cared for -- even pampered --Â with elegant settings, engaging narrations, and thoughtfully-designed journal prompts &Â activities. This allows your thoughts to slow down so your feelings can have room to breathe.Â
This creates the ideal conditions for deep learning and formation, using scientific principles to ease the mind for deeper learningÂ
Join an online gathering of faith-filled women committed to showing up in a bigger, brighter way
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Over six weeks, we'll combine learning with action-based creative micro-challenges to help you move:
From second-guessing → clarity.
From shrinking in resistance → growing through it.
From depletion → sustainable strength.
You don’t need more inspiration or motivation.
You need formation.
Formation builds courage.
It anchors your light.
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The Bright & Brave retreat is where we actively build what many women & girls crave:
Steady identity.
rooted strength.
inner purpose.
This isn’t about becoming louder.... It’s about becoming anchored.
...And anchored women change the atmosphere everywhere they go.
P.S. This is NOT an online course.
this is a CREATIVE, FAITH-FILLED, fun EXPLORATION into COURAGE AND GROWTH.Â
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Featuring:
Weekly Virtual Group MeetingsÂ
(replays available)
Each Tuesday evening (7pm Eastern), we'll get on Zoom together to discuss foundational principles to expand your courage and confidence and improve your inner strength and keep you moving forward (always recorded for anyone who can't make it live)
Exercise New Skills
While Feeling Like Royalty
Every week will be focused on a certain set of principles, presented in story form within a luxury resort setting. Enjoy curated activities, exercises, and journal prompts available to you when you want to explore deeper. And return any time with continued lifetime access after our retreat!
Turn Knowledge Into Experience Through Strength-Building ChallengesÂ
The best learning happens through action. Every week, we'll give you a challenge to complete to push you slightly beyond your comfort zone. These are completely optional, but highly encouraged (plus completing them makes you eligible for a weekly prize drawing!)
Put Inspiration Into Action Through Your Own Creative Capstone Project
Starting Week 2, you will define a creative project that you'd like to work on during our time together. You'll move forward on it one layer at a time, as we go through each week's experiences. Walk away with something you made (and we'll have tools to help you define your project if you're having trouble coming up with an idea).
Supportive, Encouraging,
Uplifting Community
Learn, grow, and practice in community with women and young women of faith who are committed to moving through life with kindness and leaving the places they enter better than they found them. Have people in your corner who are cheering you on from around the world.
Rise in Strength
& Stand with Purpose
The Bright & Brave experience is built around three core pillars:Â
Who You Are
You’ll know your identity without apology.
You’ll stop outsourcing your worth.
You’ll see your gifts with fresh clarity.
what you're capable of
You’ll learn to grow through struggle.
You’ll build courage that doesn’t collapse under pressure.
You’ll develop calm strength.
what you have available
You’ll identify renewable internal power sources.
You’ll create rhythms that support your purpose.
You’ll stop operating from depletion.
This is internal architecture.
Not emotional hype.
+ topics & resort spaces we'll cover +
Week 1: 3/9-3/15
Arrival &Â
Orientation
- Orientation. Intention. Internal clarity.
(Pre-recorded, watch on-demand) - Private group "meet and greet" forum with fun ice breaker questions to get to know one another throughout the week
Week 2: 3/16-3/22
Your Divine
Identity
- Training:
See who you are beneath roles and labels
(recorded Zoom group call) - Resort Space to Explore:
Personal Suite (Bedroom, Bathroom, Living Room, Balcony) - Challenge to put learning into real-life action
Week 3: 3/23-3/29
Your Unchanging
Self-Worth
- Training:
Allow yourself to receive from a place of wisdom and belonging
(recorded Zoom group call) - Resort Space to Explore:
Spa (Massage, Sauna, Mud soak, Float Pool) - Challenge to put learning into real-life action
Week 4: 3/30-4/5
Turning Struggle
Into Strength
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Training:
Growing through resistance
(recorded Zoom group call) - Resort Space to Explore:
Fitness Studio
(Cardio, free weights, weight machines) - Challenge to put learning into real-life action
Week 5: 4/6-4/13
Courage & Love
In Motion
- Training:
How to let go of Fear and dance with Courage and Love
(recorded Zoom group call) - Resort Space to Explore:
Grand BallroomÂ
(Dance with Courage and Love) - Challenge to put learning into real-life action
Week 6: 4/14-4/21
Sustainable Spiritual
Power
- Training:
Accessing strength and light daily
(recorded Zoom group call) - Resort Space to Explore:
Hike to the Falls - Challenge to put learning into real-life action
Are you Ready?
If you’re reading this and feeling added energy, or at least a spark of "what if..."
Let's ramp into this Easter season by showing up in a fresh new way, sharing our creative gifts and brightening the world around us with confidence and charity.Â
- Know who you are
- Grow through resistance
- Build emotional steadiness
- Access sustainable strength
- Shine with grounded purpose
Special Easter pricing - save $250
Custom group packages available for extended families, friend groups, online communities, or corporate teams.
Click here to request a quote.
Hi, I'm Shalon.
(Rhymes with 'salon')
For over 20 years, I’ve helped people build things that matter — across worlds that look very different on the outside: thought leaders, educators, medical teams, tech companies, philanthropists, creatives, and nonprofit organizations.
Early on, I was intimidated. These were impressive people — big titles, big resumes, big rooms, and big expectations. <gulp>
But the more time I spent with them, the more I heard what you don’t see on the surface: private fears, tender places, unanswered prayers, and the quiet question almost everyone carries at some point — “Am I enough?”
And that’s when it clicked:
We’re all children of God having a very human experience.Â
...Not “more than” or “less than.” Just human. And here to grow.
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That realization changed how I moved through the world.
I stopped living like I had to prove myself.
I stopped comparing my weaknesses to other people’s strengths.
I stopped hiding the gifts God had given me out of fear they wouldn’t land well.
And I started showing up differently — in my marriage, my motherhood, my friendships, my work, my church life… and most importantly, in my relationship with God.
Here’s what I learned: when we intentionally build inner strength, we don’t just feel better — we get freer. We get clearer. We get braver. We stop shrinking back from the very things we’re being called to do.
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Shalon in a nutshell:
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When we build from a strong inner foundation, incredible things happen. Creativity flows. We stop hiding. Fears fade and courage takes the lead.Â
Have questions? You are so not alone. Here are some answers to what I hear the most.Â
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IS THERE AN AGE LIMIT?
IS THIS A RELIGIOUS THING?
HOW DOES THE ONLINE RESORT WORK? AND DOES IT ACTUALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
CAN MY DAUGHTERS/SISTERS/GRANDDAUGHTERS DO THIS WITH ME?
I ALREADY HAVE PLANS FOR TUESDAY EVENINGS. IS ATTENDANCE AT THE LIVE CALLS MANDATORY?
HOW MUCH INTERACTION WILL I HAVE WITH OTHERS?
Is this giftable?
CAN I PURCHASE BULK PASSES FOR MY ONLINE COMMUNITY?
WILL you be doing this again?
Starting soon!Â
March 9, 2026
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You do not need to feel perfectly ready.
You definitely don't need to have it all figured out.
What you do need:
- A spark of "what if"
- Courage to explore and learn in a new way
- Commitment to stretching farther than you think you can
- Willingness to try something newÂ
Special Easter Pricing — Save $250
Grow with Strength. Create with Purpose. Share with Courage.
We are grateful and thrilled to share that some of our participants have generously paid for extra seats so that we can offer "pay what you can" pricing for any who wish to participate but are unable to afford it at this time due to other financial priorities.Â
CLICK HERE FORPAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN PRICING
