About Us
Our Story
We [Annie and Kristen] first met each other in 2009 while working as summer camp counselors at Alford Lake Camp in Hope, Maine. During our summer together at Alford Lake Camp, we connected based on our shared sense of humor and love for nature, people, and living a life that is uniquely authentic to you and your sense of adventure. Since then, we have been fortunate to keep a friendship over the last 13 years that has outlasted cross-country moves, weddings, and many of life's other significant milestones. Over the last few years, we talked about retreats and even looked at properties to own a permanent retreat center. In 2022, we decided life is short and we need to just dive in to this dream goal! Here we are planning our first retreat - and we can guarantee that it will be special, meaningful, and exciting. We both have professional experience in coaching, positive psychology and mental management techniques, retreats, and skill development. We chose Purpose & Pine for our name because our goal is to help you reconnect with our purpose and passions - and the pine because it symbolizes strength and is a special part of our favorite place - Alford Lake Camp! We'd love for you to join us.
about annie
Annie is a Certified Human Potential Life Coach and has spent over 10 years working in consulting and for tech startups in Washington, DC and San Francisco, CA before settling down in the greater Seattle area. She is passionate about helping clients find their happiness and purpose "now" (and not "later"). Annie is forever grateful for the outdoors experiences that she's had from leading backpacking trips with Alford Lake Camp to riding her motorcycle on 1000+ mile adventures and she can't wait to see and meet all of the retreat women who will come together in the outdoors. Read more about Annie's life coaching work here.
about kristen
Kristen is a sales enablement leader at Amazon and has spent 11 years in the technology sector. Kristen is from Cleveland, Ohio, and was fortunate to spend time in the beautiful outdoors in Maine and Wyoming with both grandparents. From these experiences grew her love of nature, and need to recharge and reconnect in the outdoors. Kristen is passionate about connecting with women about navigating work/life balance, bringing authenticity to the workplace, and seeking to align one's passion with purpose. Kristen offers career coaching, public speaking coaching, and is a public speaker. Feel free to connect with Kristen on LinkedIn.