Today, we are women empowering women. But before that, we were just three good friends who hit a wall...around the same time. That wall we hit is what brought us together to create Seek & Enjoy retreats. 

Our Team

Miranda Bressman

Miranda is the Entrepreneur Coach. Her own struggle to find happiness in a state of negative self-talk and pessimism makes her the expert on picking you up when you’re down. And if you want to talk side hustles, talk to Miranda because she has multiple businesses and a true entrepreneur spirit. She has also done enough workshops and courses to guide you in jump-starting your own.

Summer Koide

Summer is the Strengths Coach. She is a certified Clifton Strengths coach, who will help you discover how the skills and unique gifts you already have can create the job you actually want. She’s also a graphic recording guru who can take complicated problems and literally draw up a solution. It’s a visual treat to watch. Expect lots of arts and crafts when she’s around...it’s kind of her thing.

Tricia Pifer

Tricia is the Yogi Coach. Leaving a job you’re unhappy with takes major courage, especially when there isn’t another one lined up. But guess what? Tricia can now say she is living her dreams and her best life as a certified yoga instructor and entrepreneur -- did we mention she and Miranda own a fun cocktail delivery service called Rocks Paper Salt, Serving OM by day and cocktails by night, she’ll meet you on the mat.

Our Story

We could each tell you our personal stories like those sappy “About the Author” sections on the back of a self-help book, but we would rather share the one where destiny brought us together in tough times to create a really great thing. It’s an unexpected story about our individual decisions to leave our unfulfilled lives behind in hopes of pursuing what we each dreamed of, but never pursued due to years of negative self-talk, doubt and the 9-5 grind sucking the life and energy out of us.

Let’s start with how similar our stories are. Each of us has one kid. All of us are breadwinners and providers for our families. And we’ve all held leadership roles at big companies in big industries. But, here comes the fun part: none of us were fulfilled by this “success”. 

So here’s what we did...

Tricia got fed up and courageously quit her executive producer job with nothing lined up. Miranda gave 10 years to a company that ended up laying her off a year before the pandemic  so she decided to find herself instead of another corporate job she wouldn’t care about. And Summer stayed at her Fortune 50 job, where in planning offsites for her team, she found her true purpose in something totally different...coaching others.

After getting laid off, Miranda hit her low point and dived into self-discovery through self-help books, workshops and a pretty badass organization called “Powerful Ladies”, based in Orange County. She also paid her dear friend Summer a visit for some much needed “coaching”. But it was at one of the workshops that Miranda attended, where things started to click. She thought of Tricia. Pause here -- we forgot to mention that Miranda is an empath, and is constantly thinking of how she can help others. Back to the story...she thought about Trisha’s real dream of becoming a yoga instructor. Then she thought about Summer’s coaching skills. Finally, she thought about her newly discovered purpose of creating retreats for other women who felt “stuck” like her. And BINGO, the ultimate trio merging skills and dreams to help others through retreats.

When she brought this up to her gal pals one day, they quickly replied “Dude, let’s do it!!” There was no hesitation. It felt right. Things were finally aligning because they were each aligned to their true purpose. They even had the perfect house to host it all! (thanks Miranda)