We thought the solution was refunds and we thought closure looked like credits and contracts and finally drawing a line under it all.

Boy, were we wrong!

In this episode, They Didn’t Want a Refund, we share what really happened behind the scenes after we paid in full for our first overseas retreat… two weeks before the world shut down.

What followed was two years of legal emails, lawyer invoices, uncomfortable conversations, and a kind of stress we had never experienced before. Adventure Week, meant for May 2020, became a drawn-out battle between contracts, intermediaries, and doing what we believed was right for our clients.

And then came the message we never expected:

“We don’t want the credit vouchers… we want the event.”

What happened next changed everything.

Adventure Week in 2023 wasn’t just a retreat, it was the turning point and the most incredible reward after the hardest season. The reminder of who we are and why we started.

Sometimes the thing that nearly breaks you becomes the very thing that brings you back.

Pop the bottle, pour yourself a glass and press play. 🌴🥂

We were four hours into what was meant to be our final four-day retreat.

Forty women. Four states. A sold-out event. A beautiful venue on home turf.

And then… Victoria announced another lockdown.

In this episode, we take you inside the moment everything unravelled, the frantic scrambling for solutions, the desperate attempt to move 40 women across a state border, the phone call we didn’t want to make, and the crushing realisation that this wasn’t how we wanted SheKan to end.

We talk about leadership under pressure, the weight of responsibility, the magic of having a team who will ride the rollercoaster with you, and the grief that comes when something you love doesn’t get the goodbye it deserves.

And yes… we also talk about the 18 bottles of Prosecco that followed.

This is the story of the event that shut down mid-sentence, the party that felt like every stage of grief in one night, and why we refused to let that be the final chapter.

Sometimes closure doesn’t come the way you planned.

Press play. 🥂

In the final episode of Season 1, we shared the livestream where we announced we were closing SheKan. We wrapped it up, tied a bow on it, and said goodbye to the business that had shaped our lives for five years.

But what actually happened after that?

This episode is the real beginning of Season 2, the part of the story no one saw from the outside.

We take you back to February 2021, when we had already made the decision to stop… yet still had sold-out events to deliver in the middle of constant lockdowns, changing rules, cancelled venues and a live events industry that felt like it was hanging by a thread. It was exhausting, emotional, and at times deeply confusing - holding space for rooms full of women while privately questioning whether we even had the energy to keep going.

We talk about duty of care, leadership under pressure, adapting events without changing the heart of what we do, and what it feels like to carry hope while bracing for disappointment. We unpack the personal side too, the great awakening, the identity shifts, the guilt, the triggers, and the lessons we didn’t even realise we were learning at the time.

Season 2 is about what came next.

It’s about reinvention, reflection, resilience… and the reminder that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is close the door before you fall out of love with what you built.

We’re so glad you’re here.

Pop the bottle and pour yourself a glass 🥂

Season 1 ends where everything changed.

In this final episode, we take you back to the moment that shifted the course of SheKan forever. After years of growth, sold-out events, national expansion and a business model that was working beautifully, the world shut down… and so did the event industry.

What followed was one of the hardest seasons of our lives, personally and professionally.

In this episode, we unpack the lead-up to the decision to stop SheKan as we knew it. The pressure of cancelled events, the weight of responsibility, the internal struggle of knowing when to hold on… and when to let go. And why we chose to end it while we still loved it.

You’ll then hear the original 2021 livestream recording where we announced to our community that we were closing the chapter - raw, unedited and deeply personal.

This isn’t just the end of Season 1.

It’s the interruption that led to everything that came next.

We’re taking a short four-week break before Season 2 drops… and trust us, the story is far from over.

Pour a glass. Press play. And thank you for being part of this journey. 🥂

In this episode of Spill the Prosecco, we dive into something that shaped SheKan more than we realised at the time - our ongoing investment into our own growth, the mentors we chose, the rooms we sat in, and the uncomfortable truth that sometimes the biggest breakthroughs don’t come from the “right” rooms… they come from the wrong ones.

From travelling to Bali, Thailand and Canada in the pursuit of becoming better leaders, better facilitators and better humans, to sitting in front rows as the best students in the room (yes, even when we were being spat on), we unpack what it really means to never arrive and to refuse to plateau just because things are working.

We talk about the moment we realised we had placed our team in the wrong seats, the lessons we learned about ego and expectation, and why you should always outgrow your mentor - not from arrogance, but from evolution.

This conversation is about leadership, business growth, investing in yourself even when it feels uncomfortable, and understanding that sometimes the most expensive lessons are the ones that save your business from future collapse.

If you’ve ever paid for a course that didn’t quite land, invested in a mentor that wasn’t your vibe, or walked into a room that made you question everything, this episode will remind you that there is always value if you’re willing to look for it.

Growth isn’t polished.It’s not always aligned in the moment.And it definitely doesn’t always feel good.

But if you stay humble, stay curious and stay committed to evolving - you’ll never stop expanding.

Pour a glass and press play. 🥂

What happens when you build something that works… and then start saying yes to everything?

In this episode of Spill the Prosecco, we unpack the season where SheKan expanded beyond our core retreats and events and into what we lovingly now call “the satellite era.”

SheKan Transform. NextGen. Next Level Entrepreneur. HeKan.

Multiple brands, multiple launches, multiple logos - all born from good intentions, big vision and a genuine desire to serve.

Here’s the truth though… when you’re in the business of service, it’s very easy to become addicted to service. Someone says, “You should create this,” and instead of pausing, assessing and checking alignment, we’d go back to the room, open the laptop and start building.

Because we could. But that doesn’t always mean we should.

This conversation is about scaling a business too quickly, trying to be everything for everyone and what happens when expansion pulls you away from the very thing that made your brand powerful in the first place. We talk about leadership, shiny object syndrome, building a team, managing multiple offers and the hard lesson that bigger isn’t always better.

If you’re a woman in business, building a personal brand, running events or dreaming about scaling your impact, this episode will land - especially if you’ve ever found yourself spinning too many plates and wondering why the joy started to fade.

There’s laughter.There’s reflection.There’s one nightclub story we probably didn’t need to share… but did anyway.

Because growth isn’t always neat. And sometimes the lesson is simply this: stay in your lane and do what you do best.

Episode 6 is about expansion, ego, excitement, f*ck ups and the clarity that only comes from doing it the long way.

Pop the bottle and press play. 🥂

For four solid years, our model didn’t change.

Free three-hour workshop.Two-Day Escape.Four-Day Retreat.Repeat.

It worked. It filled rooms. It built momentum.It created something bigger than we expected.

But here’s the part we’ve never really unpacked…

Scaling sounds sexy - until you realise you can’t clone yourself.

In this episode, we talk about:

– The business model that built SheKan– Why we refused to change the funnel– The dangerous phase of “say yes and figure it out later”– How our team came from the women in our rooms– The pressure of trying to grow something that feels personal– And the moments we nearly stretched it too far

This one is less about Prosecco and more about responsibility.

Because scaling isn’t just growth…
It’s systems, people, communication, ego, exhaustion and learning when to stay in your lane.

If you’re building something, growing something, or dreaming about something bigger… this episode will hit.

Pop the bottle. Let’s talk scale. 🥂

Our first four-day retreat was a sell out.
It was at the stunning Dreamers Resort in Mount Beauty.
There was concrete floors, fold-out chairs, forty-degree heat and a quiet belief that maybe… we weren’t enough on our own.

In this episode we spill:
🥂 Why you couldn’t attend the four-day without surviving the two-day

🥂 The room that felt “off” and what we did about it

🥂 The team moment that humbled us

🥂 The lesson about leadership hats (friend vs business owner)

🥂 What happens when guest speakers don’t honour your stage

🥂 And the realisation that we didn’t need more people in the room… we needed more belief in ourselves

This was the retreat where we grew up... not just as facilitators but as leaders.

It wasn’t perfect.It was hot.It was intense.It was full of lessons we’ve never shared publicly until now.

And it shaped how we run events to this day.

Pop the bottle. This one goes behind the glass. 🥂

21 women.

A luxury King Valley venue.

A money-back guarantee we probably shouldn’t have offered.

And a phone call five minutes before VIP dinner that no facilitator is ever prepared for.

This was our first ever two-day retreat and the weekend everything shifted.

In this episode we spill:
🥂 What really happens behind the scenes of a sold-out event

🥂 The emotional responsibility we didn’t see coming

🥂 The client who wanted her money back (and what happened next)

🥂 How we built a $4,000 four-day event in a tea break

🥂 And why 17 out of 21 women saying yes changed everything

This wasn’t just a “wow, we sold out” moment.It was the weekend we realised this work was bigger than us.

Messy. Overwhelming. Powerful.And yes… there was a dead cat.

Pop the bottle. This one’s a ride. 🥂

We had over 100 registrations.We moved venues on the day of the event because the room was too small.We rang every single woman personally to confirm she was coming.

And then…

We spoke at 90 women for three hours straight.With pages and pages of scripted notes and zero facilitation.

One person signed up.

This is the real story of our first ever SheKan event - the free workshop that nearly broke us and very easily could have ended everything before it even began.

In this episode we spill:🥂 The competition that had us chasing 150 leads🥂 Why “free” still costs people something valuable🥂 The soul-crushing moment no one prepares you for🥂 The mistake that changed how we run events forever🥂 The lesson that saved SheKan from dying in Week One

If you’ve ever:Felt like you blew your big momentOver prepared because you didn’t trust yourselfWanted to quit after one painful result

This one's for you.

Because sometimes the only reason you succeed…Is because you already committed to the next date in the calendar.

Pop the bottle. This one gets real. 🥂