Books With Your Besties

2025 Retreat Rundown


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Our 2025 Retreat is over and we are here with the rundown!  If you came to retreat hopefully this will make you smile! If you couldn't make it this year hopefully you will listen in, see what it is like day to day and join us in 2026! 

Show notes:

0:00-2:00 Getting to AZ

2:00- 7:30 Wednesday: Books, Scary Nail Salon, Perimenopause brain and forgetting items

8:00-11:00 Thursday: Author arrival, Poisoned Pen, Heather's sisters

11:45-14:00 Friday - Reception

14:00 Thank you to our sponsors (see links below)

18:00 Our dinner with the authors Friday evening and What types of conventions we do NOT WANT to go to. Jeneva had us rolling 

20:00 Saturday - Panel and Podcast overview 

25:30 Behind the scenes stuff shared at the live podcast 

28:00 How we MADE a number of podcast episodes we never ever used

28:30 Ashley and Emily and email (lol)

31:00 Wine and Art Walk 

32:00 Why our "Down day" was actually spent working and the wink from my dad

34:00 Emily's trip from hell

38:00 2026 plans

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