The most beautiful things are born from the soil. When we have fertile ground, we can plant anything and watch it grow. The same is true for leadership, community, and the dreams we dare to name. On the day of our Wild Path to Powergathering, thirty of us came together here in Westchester not just to talk about change but to plant it—literally and symbolically—into the earth.
We came with a shared knowing: that the old ways of extraction and separation don’t work anymore, and that a new way forward must be dreamed, embodied, and built together. What if leadership looked more like collaboration with the land than control over it? What if our businesses, our families, and our communities were guided by the same intelligence that governs the natural world? Those questions shaped our day.
The moment that moved me most was when we each wrote down our dreams—not just for ourselves, but for the collective future we long for. We folded those dreams carefully and placed them in the soil at the base of a peach tree. That tree became our Community Dream Tree—a living reminder that the seeds we plant today, both literal and metaphorical, will bear fruit for years to come. Each note held visions of abundance, creativity, connection, and belonging. By planting them together, we honored the truth that no dream grows in isolation. It takes soil, water, sunlight—and community—to flourish.
This simple act sparked something I hope spreads far beyond us: what if every neighborhood, school, or organization had a community tree where dreams could be planted and revisited each year? Imagine the possibilities if we each had a place to anchor our hopes, and to watch them blossom alongside one another’s.
The day was also full of beauty and play. Around a long wooden table covered in fresh blooms, we made flower crowns. Mothers, daughters, and neighbors wove stems into circles of color, laughing as petals scattered across the table. Crowning one another became its own quiet ceremony—a reminder that leadership doesn’t have to feel heavy. It can be light, joyful, and adorned with beauty. Power doesn’t have to look like hierarchy; it can look like lineage, with wisdom flowing across generations.
This is the essence of JADEVA, the women’s leadership movement I co-founded. JADEVA is a global membership community for women who are reimagining what leadership looks like now. We bring together entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, artists, healers, and changemakers who are ready to lead with both strategy and soul. Our approach is rooted in what we call earth-aligned leadership: building businesses and communities that regenerate rather than deplete, creating impact that sustains both people and planet.
Here in Westchester, we’ve built a vibrant “hive” of women entrepreneurs, conscious corporate leaders, and creatives who are as passionate about community as they are about success. Our gatherings are part mastermind, part ritual, part networking—but with a deeper intention: to create spaces where women feel seen, supported, and inspired to bring their visions to life. The Wild Path to Power was one of those gatherings, and it reminded me how much possibility lives right here, in our own backyard.
The Wild Path to Power is not about reaching a finish line. It is a practice of listening deeply, choosing presence over pressure, and rooting leadership in values that actually sustain us. It is “wild” because it asks us to leave the paved road of conventional success and instead walk barefoot into the unknown, guided by trust in ourselves, in each other, and in the earth beneath our feet. It is a path to power, but not power as control. Power as reciprocity. Power as the ability to create new worlds by how we live, lead, and care for one another.
Looking around that day at the faces in the circle—crowned, grounded, radiant—I knew we weren’t just holding an event. We were practicing a way of being that I believe is essential for these times. Each person left carrying a seed: a new idea, a new friendship, a new sense of what leadership can feel like when it is rooted in authenticity and community.
For me, it was both a mirror and a reminder. A mirror reflecting back my deepest hope—that leadership and business can be forces for beauty, renewal, and meaningful impact. And a reminder that I am not alone in that hope. My prayer is that more communities embrace the idea of planting their own Dream Trees, places where collective imagination can take root.
Because the truth is simple: the most beautiful things are born from the soil. When we tend the ground together, there is nothing we cannot grow. And so, the Wild Path to Power is not just an event we attended. It is a seed planted in each of us—a seed of earth-aligned leadership that will grow into forests of possibility for generations to come.