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Grow your business
in good soil.

The Garden is a free online community for and by coaches and consultants who believe business can be a force for good. Together, we learn what works in today's online landscape, get things done, and build real relationships that last.

No credit card. Free today and always.

A hand-drawn garden with a fountain, flowering arch, and lush greenery

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Members connected

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Small-group gatherings and counting

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Cultures, industries, and generations represented

A different kind of
business community.

The Garden is a free, global community where practitioners from across cultures, industries, and generations connect and collaborate.

We learn what works in today's online landscape, get things done, and build real relationships that last by showing up with curiosity, consistency, and courage.

We come here to remind each other that business can be a force for good and at the same time profitable, not one at the expense of the other.

What can you find inside?

Cultivation Circles

Roll up your sleeves, together.
Working sessions where members bring real business challenges and grow through each other's questions, feedback, and lived experience. We show rather than tell — and no one works alone.

Q&A Circles

Learn from those a few steps ahead.
Open conversations with guest practitioners and experts in entrepreneurship and leadership — real talk, real questions, and the kind of generous answers you rarely get for free.

Open Circles

Just be among your people.
Unhurried conversations with members across cultures, industries, and generations — where relationships form, ideas cross-pollinate, and strangers become collaborators. This is the heart of The Garden.

Since its first roots in 2023,
The Garden has cultivated...

Read what our members are saying

Intentional
Connections

Strangers who became clients, collaborators, and long-term partners.

New Ways
of Doing

Members who leave sessions with a new way of being, thinking, and working.

Foundational
Clarity

Members who've gotten clear on what they offer and who it's for.

Real
Opportunities

Members matched with people and organizations looking for support.

"Prioritizing connection rather than specific outcomes."

I realized I would choose The Garden above all other online learning communities I have tried. It's because you are prioritizing connection rather than specific outcomes. I feel welcome, no pressure, and not overwhelmed.

Janet Akselrud

Creative Thinking Guide · Uruguay

"11 out of 10. Seriously, 11."

How much value did I receive from today's call? 11. Seriously, 11 — because of the totally unexpected insight that I can roost and rest a bit and settle into the social field of The Garden. And 10 for the communion of shared stories and insights.

Laura Greiner

Regenerative Living Coach · USA

"The world SO needs more communities like this."

Grateful to have found The Garden and to be in your orbit — learning from you and being in the presence of your beautiful, infectious positive energy.

Alexandra Katz

Life Transitions Coach · Denmark

"It is a gift and it feels energizing."

The session helped me feel a deep connection I did not expect. The quality of your presence, your listening with your heart. I had lots of business insights: playing the long game, the power of connection, simplification.

Mark Tucker

Retired Leadership Consultant · South Africa

"Total strangers connected and became ONE."

I was deeply drawn to this new experience, and needed time to contemplate after we said goodbye. Thank you for holding the space so beautifully as total strangers connected and became ONE in the Discussion Circle.

Ildiko Szabo

High Performance Coach · Hungary

"Prioritizing connection rather than specific outcomes."

I realized I would choose The Garden above all other online learning communities I have tried. It's because you are prioritizing connection rather than specific outcomes. I feel welcome, no pressure, and not overwhelmed.

Janet Akselrud

Creative Thinking Guide · Uruguay

"11 out of 10. Seriously, 11."

How much value did I receive from today's call? 11. Seriously, 11 — because of the totally unexpected insight that I can roost and rest a bit and settle into the social field of The Garden. And 10 for the communion of shared stories and insights.

Laura Greiner

Regenerative Living Coach · USA

"The world SO needs more communities like this."

Grateful to have found The Garden and to be in your orbit — learning from you and being in the presence of your beautiful, infectious positive energy.

Alexandra Katz

Life Transitions Coach · Denmark

"It is a gift and it feels energizing."

The session helped me feel a deep connection I did not expect. The quality of your presence, your listening with your heart. I had lots of business insights: playing the long game, the power of connection, simplification.

Mark Tucker

Retired Leadership Consultant · South Africa

"Total strangers connected and became ONE."

I was deeply drawn to this new experience, and needed time to contemplate after we said goodbye. Thank you for holding the space so beautifully as total strangers connected and became ONE in the Discussion Circle.

Ildiko Szabo

High Performance Coach · Hungary

You might be in the
right place if...

  • You're a coach, consultant, mentor, advisor, or facilitator at any stage of your business.
  • You want to learn what actually works in today's online business landscape.
  • You value connection, collaboration, and community over competition.
  • You're globally minded, culturally aware, and purpose-driven.
  • You're done doing business alone and ready to grow alongside values-aligned peers.
  • You believe business can be a force for good — and you want to build yours that way.

Come as you are.
Grow as you will.

There's no pressure here to show up a certain way or be at a certain stage. Engage as much or as little as feels right, and stay as long as it feels nourishing.

What you'll find inside is a global network of practitioners from diverse cultures, industries, and generations — tending to one another and navigating the complexity of their work side by side.

Join The Garden — it's free
Trish Sta. Rosa, founder of The Garden

Trish Sta. Rosa

The Idealist · Magician · Revolutionary

Many have been planting seeds
in the wrong soil.

I kept meeting coaches and consultants who were incredibly good at what they did — but struggled to build their business. Not for lack of trying. They were reading, learning, investing. But the spaces they found felt transactional, noisy, or simply built for a different kind of person.

I knew that feeling too. It was hard to find communities that understood business and held the alignment piece. It was either profit-scale-hustle, or purpose-spirituality-inner-development. Nothing that balanced both.

So I started The Garden as a small experiment in 2023. What grew surprised even me — not just in numbers, but in the quality of what happened between people. Strangers became collaborators. Conversations became opportunities. Slowly and organically, a community took root.

The Garden exists because I believe the right soil changes everything — who you surround yourself with is directly related to how you grow.

Ready to grow?

Growing from
roots to fruits.

Join hundreds of coaches and consultants cultivating their business in good soil. Come as you are. Engage as much or as little as you like.

Join The Garden — it's free

No credit card. Free today and always.