While preparing the announcement newsletter about my return to Quogue two weeks ago, I went back through my old emails to find where it all started.

Two years had passed and I had completely forgotten my business had begun long before my first workshop at the Quogue Field Club. In January 2024, Paula sent me a birthday email, and her gift was thinking of me for an upcoming wellness day. Reading the thread, I saw she had referred me to Alison, who was planning the event. When the wellness day fell through, Alison introduced me to Courtney, who set up my first workshop at the club.

I had convinced myself those six summer sessions were an overnight done deal, planned before I ever arrived in Quogue. The truth arrived through a chain of handoffs: one workshop became six, scheduled one at a time through August as people kept asking when the next one would be. That door has stayed open every summer since 2024, 2025, and now this one.

In Mid-May 2024, with the Quogue emails still going back and forth, I attended the virtual chapter meeting of the INSEAD Women in Business Club for the first time. As we talked about the upcoming alumni reunion in June, five years for my class, I mentioned I would love to facilitate a session for the women attending around letting their true power shine and stepping into the spotlight. The club committee was fully on board. Jacqueline, the point person for my cohort, put me straight in touch with Stephanie and Ashton, who were setting up the program and coordinating the whole event.

When I arrived on campus, most people only knew me as the ex-consultant, the cybersecurity specialist. A couple of hours later, I was guiding fifty people through a HypnoBreathwork session. By the end, several women came to find me, tears still on their cheeks, to tell me I had reconnected them with a part of themselves they had stopped hearing.

As a new founder and first-time entrepreneur, I told myself I needed to chase and pursue every opportunity I could find. I went on the hunt and became fearless about putting myself out there. In that pursuit, I sometimes lost sight of the support that had already arrived, the people who had already moved on my behalf.

Last Wednesday evening, I guided my last HypnoBreathwork workshop at Higher Ground until I come back to Austin in September. The theme was celebration: two years since my first solo workshop, the close of the series at the studio, and the two months since Higher Ground itself opened (an idea born inside one of our HypnoBreathwork sessions). I decided to close the evening with roses. We took pictures. One of them, with Leigh, the studio's founder and my friend.

I know Leigh because two years ago we connected on Facebook. We both lived in the same apartment complex and were looking to build community with our neighbors. One day by chance, I showed up at one of her rooftop yoga classes in a completely different neighborhood. From then on, whenever Leigh organized an event with a breathwork element, she called me. A rooftop soccer field one week, a wellness community space the next.

Two months ago, we crossed paths again at a friend's birthday. When she shared the upcoming opening of her studio, she asked: "Would you be interested in leading sessions here?" 

By the end of Wednesday's session, I was holding Leigh, each of us with a sunset-colored rose in hand. Hearing her say "we need to talk about what this looks like in the fall" and "maybe we should start a Breathwork membership" reminded me of the journey we have been on together.

PS — Starting July 11th, my letters move from Saturday to Monday.

Victoria Grandury
CEO & Founder, Limitless Rebel
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