Alumnae · Cohorts 2019–2025

84 Graduates11 Marriages4 Divorces1 Investigation

Outcomes report

In their own words · cohorts 2019–2025

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Eighty-four women have completed the program. We have stayed in touch with most of them. The ones we have not stayed in touch with are doing fine, we are sure of it.

Cohort 2022 · Brooklyn → Sintra

Celeste Vandermeer-Lowell.

"I mean, I quit my job at the agency and within sixteen days I was running a linen shop out of an 18th-century convent? So — yes, it works."

Celeste lives in Sintra with her partner Rhys, an illustrator. The linen shop operates on Fridays and Saturdays during the warmer months. Celeste credits DBA with her “complete reinvention.” She credits her father, Richard Vandermeer, a medical-devices CFO who guaranteed the mortgage and sends $6,400 monthly, with nothing.

Sintra, PTNew home

14Countries visited since

€0Income from shop to date

Cohort 2021 · Austin → The World

Tavi Keane.

"People ask how I afford to travel like this. And I'm like — girl, you make it happen. You just make it happen."

Tavi runs a "soft-launched" coaching practice from the road. She has been in 31 countries since graduating. Her grid is, frankly, beautiful. She inherited a small piece of real estate — one four-unit Brooklyn brownstone kicking off $11,000/mo after management fees from her grandmother in 2018 but does not consider this relevant to the story.

31Countries

2Coaching clients

$0Rent paid, ever

Cohort 2023 · Chicago → Tulum → ?

Blakely Hart-Okafor.

"I cried during the Burgundy module and I cried again in Tulum. These were very different cries. That, to me, is growth."

Blakely's current whereabouts are "fluid." She is "writing a book" and "building something." Her husband Declan is a finance person (Managing Director, multi-strat fund, $1.4M/yr + carry) — she finds his work boring and prefers not to discuss it on her podcast.

1Book in progress

8 yrsSince last W-2

0Visible means of support

Cohort 2020 · The OG

Margot Ashby-Lin.

"The Academy taught me that you don't earn a villa. You receive it. Sometimes from the universe. Sometimes from, you know. Whoever."

Margot was one of the twelve original students. She now runs “a very small hotel” outside Florence. The hotel was a gift on her 30th birthday from her mother, acquired outright for €2.8M, held via a Swiss holding company. Guests have described the décor as “confident.”

6 rmsProperty size

4★TripAdvisor

€0Debt, on anything

Cohort 2024 · Denver → Lisbon → home

Hollis R.

"So I did the Academy, I moved to Lisbon, and… listen, I'm back in Denver now. That's the story. It didn't not work, it's just — it's not a straight line, is what I'll say."

Hollis is the only alumna who has publicly spoken about returning to corporate employment. She still speaks warmly of the Academy, of Paige, and of the Tuscany module in particular. Her LinkedIn is updated. She did not have independent assets — the one variable DBA alumnae outcomes are most sensitive to, per our internal data.

DenverCurrent city

$142kCurrent salary

—Has been through a lot

"At the Academy we do not use the word 'privilege.' We say 'alignment.' Aligned women receive things. It is a vibration." Paige, in the welcome keynote

06Outcomes

Where they are now.

From our 2025 alumnae survey (n=84, response rate: 31%).

72%

Living abroad, per IG

Physically located abroad at least 183 days per year. Posting from abroad significantly more often than that.

94%

"Unbothered," self-reported

Agree or strongly agree with the statement: "I no longer allow everyday stressors to dictate my emotional state."

Supporting themselves solely from their labor

The remaining 94% are supported by some combination of inheritances, partner income, trust distributions, or rental real estate. This is not a scholarship. It is the dataset.

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