High-impact business training meets wild mountain adventure for two days on a private, 2,000-acre Colorado ranch.
Elevate your vision, master your strategy, and blaze a bold trail to business success.
September 17 & 18, 2025 • Rye, Colorado
RANCH CAMP 2025
SEPTEMBER 17 & 18, 2025
RYE, COLORADO
Join our advanced group of purpose- and profit-driven entrepreneurs for a life-changing, Yellowstone-inspired business training in the beautiful mountains of southern Colorado! Top level business partners, owners, and spouses gather on our beautiful, 2,000-acre private ranch for two days of adventure, renewal, business training, and connection.
Location: 90 minutes south of Colorado Springs in Rye, Colorado
Dates: September 17 & 18, 2025
Tickets: Early Bird Tickets Now ON SALE! — Click button below
Ranch Camp serves high-achieving business owners through our two-day event that pours into resetting their connecting through fun and inspirational ranch events and deep dive business trainings. Give us two days and you won’t forget Ranch Camp. Our desired outcome for each attendee is to truly change your life and your business given the opportunity.
Is This for you?
Who Should Attend
Ranch Camp is designed to serve purpose-driven, profit-minded, adventurous business owners. Come on your own, with your spouse, with your business partner, or even with your partner-in-crime, and be ready to reconnect and leave with memories for days, business clarity and a plan for inspired action for growth! Any industry welcome with event frequent flyers in:
Professional services & small businesses
Construction & outdoor industries
Wellness & health providers
Speakers, authors & consultants
Organizations & non-profits
Announcing our Keynote Speaker
Pete Vargas
Pete Vargas is a master at teaching people how to grow their businesses both on and off stages. Since 2003, he and his team have booked over 25,000 stages worldwide–and generated tens of millions of dollars of revenue through those stages. In 2016, he founded Advance Your Reach – and walking his talk, has used stages to grow to over $10 million in 3 years, hitting the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America for the first time in 2019. Pete’s latest business creation is The Wellspring, an advanced Christian business networking and training group with national and local followings, with one located right in Colorado Springs. Pete has worked closely with local businesses in the area and continues to bring in advanced trainings from people such as Grant Cardone, John Maxwell, and Tim Tebow. Pete will also share his own story of overcoming with us at Ranch Camp – a must hear!
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Tickets Are Now Released!
SINGLE TICKET:
Standard Single Ticket Price $1,597
Early Bird Single (1) Ticket Price:
$1,097
PAIR OF TICKETS:
Standard Pair Ticket Price $2,797
Early Bird Pair (2) Ticket Price:
$1,997
Your ticket includes all activities, materials, meals and tent camping! Other local lodging options available. See below.
What you'll learn
Business Training
Ranch Camp is designed to take growth-minded entrepreneurs through a series of trainings that allow them to break into a new level of attraction and connection for their marketing.
Craft your story and see your business grow from the authentic connection and relatability
Become memorable in your marketing by creating a relatable journey to tie others to your mission
Learn tactical marketing strategies for both online and off with Pete Vargas
Create a simple and clear action plan to step your business into the next level of consistent and fluid lead generation
How your website needs to share your story to be doing it’s JOB at attracting leads
Why SEO is key in making sure your website is found, along with SEO basics to get started
How You'll Play
Adventures on the Ranch
Come ready to dive into ranch adventures! You’re going to be delighted and challenged as we work through once-in-a-lifetime ranch experiences. Ranch Camp is filled to the brim with activities that will help you refuel and reconnect with yourself, your spouse, your business partner and other campers!
Horse activities & riding
Lumberjack games
Mountain creek cold plunge
Horse-drawn carriage
Ranch hikes
Bonfires
Yard games
Special 2025 bonus: Live music!
Event Speakers & Trainers
JoDee Turner & Cara Christenson
JoDee Turner is the CEO and co-founder of Elevate5 Digital Marketing. JoDee grew her professional roots in corporate, academia, and then entered entrepreneurship with her sister, full of the hope and delusion that one must embrace to take that journey willingly. JoDee’s background in digital and traditional marketing spans the course of more decades than she’d care to share, including serving as a digital marketing instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, a creative director at a private, small-batch apparel company, and as a designer, copy writer, coffee fetcher, and screen printer.
Cara Christenson is the CCO and co-founder of Elevate5 Digital Marketing, her second successful branding and design company. After college and a half dozen years in various corporate design roles, she deemed herself unemployable and set out to create a business she loved that worked with the life she’d dreamt of building. She and her husband and family live on Brush Canyon Ranch and focus on raising kids, cattle, chickens, and too many businesses to count. This family, ranch, and beautiful venue is the proud host for Ranch Camp.
Elevate5 Digital Marketing is born.
In 2014, JoDee and Cara came together to create Elevate5 Digital Marketing and have been growing it rapidly ever since. Today it looks like a team of talented designers, copy creators, and web developers from around the nation. Since 2018, the ladies have poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into advanced trainings, coaching, growing their business and those of their clients year-over-year with trusted and tried growth strategies. These efforts helped to create the life freedom and business growth that sustains their team, their families, and their purpose. Now they’d like to share these experiences, trainings, and strategies with you through this beautiful, deep-dive, ranch event.
Grab your boots and let's go
Get Your Ranch Camp Ticket Today!
SINGLE TICKETS:
Standard Single Ticket Price $1,597
Early Bird Single (1) Ticket Price:
$1,097
PAIR OF TICKETS:
Standard Pair Ticket Price $2,797
Early Bird Pair (2) Ticket Price:
$1,997
Your ticket includes all activities, materials, meals and tent camping! Other local lodging options available. See below.
Your Ranch Camp Hosts
The Sisters
JoDee and Cara transitioned to entrepreneurship and mountain living separately over the last two decades. These ladies have the breadth and width of experience of life-, faith-, and freedom- seekers. And they have the eclectic ranch-related resumes to prove it.
Horseshoeing? Cara’s done it.
Roping? Also, Cara. Well, JoDee too, but poorly.
Barrel racing? One of JoDee’s past loves.
ProRodeo Hall of Fame designer and marketer: Cara, all the way.
Black bear and elk hunting: JoDee, with a scar to prove it.
Miss Rodeo Wisconsin 2005: Totally Cara, and Aqua Net.
Working on dude ranches in Colorado and Wyoming: JoDee and Cara
Solo cross-country moves: Also both, but separately.
WHAT PAST RANCH CAMPERS HAVE TO SAY
Testimonials
Here's The schedule
Your Agenda
DAY 1
STORY & TRANSFORMATION DAY
Understand and overcome your story while learning how to frame it within your business is the key to unlocking both your personal AND business growth. Ranch adventures included!
Registration opens: 9am
Training begins: 10am
Day closes: 9pm
Lunch and dinner provided
DAY 2
BUSINESS LEAP & Launch DAY
Deep-dive business trainings from digital marketing expert and speaker trainer, PETE VARGAS, and Elevate5 CEO, JODEE TURNER. Learn how to position your story and purpose as in your business so you can see explosive business AND personal growth. Ranch adventures included!
Opens: 9am
Training begins: 10am
Day closes: 9pm
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided
Meet Our Fabulous
Event Sponsors
Sponsorship Opportunities Available
We are looking for aligned sponsors interesting in supporting our mission while sharing their great services or products with our attendees. Varied levels available and great, high-end, local business-owner exposure! Reach out to [email protected] to inquire.
Meet Our Event
Give Back Partner
Elevating ourselves means we get to support our family's dreams sooner. Our own dreams sooner. And give back sooner. Isn't that the reason we decided to become entrepreneurs in the first place?
At Ranch Camp, our 2024 and 2025 Give Back Partner is Sarah’s Home, a local home for teenage girls who are survivors of sex trafficking. Sarah’s home is committed to rehabilitating, educating, and loving these girls each day as they reclaim the life God created them to live.
Come & Join Us!
You and your business won't be the same
SINGLE TICKETS:
Standard Single Ticket Price $1,597
Early Bird Single (1) Ticket Price:
$1,097
PAIR OF TICKETS:
Standard Pair Ticket Price $2,797
Early Bird Pair (2) Ticket Price:
$1,997
Your ticket includes all activities, materials, meals and tent camping! Other local lodging options available. See below.
Here's the details
Where to Stay:
You are welcome to bring your tent, sleeping hammock, RV, or try one of our local VRBOs!
Tenting it at The Ranch:
No additional charge • Bath house available with restroom and showers
RV Parking at The Ranch (dry dock):
$150 per RV for your full stay • No electric, water, or sewer hook-ups available
Bath house available with restroom and showers
Local hotel:
• Days Inn by Wyndham, Colorado City
(Not exactly a 5-star stay, but close by and inexpensive!)
Arrival at The Ranch:
You are welcome to arrive after 5pm the evening prior to the event or the morning of day one!
Our Venue:
Brush Canyon Ranch has been in the Christenson family for six generations. The land tells the story of this connection through old homesteads and family stories tied to different locations on the ranch – all of which ties us and now, you, to this property. It’s served as a sawmill, produced hay, grown potatoes, served as a guest ranch, and still today raises beef cattle and horses, as well as serving as a highly popular mountain wedding venue. It’s a beautiful property operated by a big, quirky, beautiful family, steeped in the tradition of making guests feel like family.
Travel:
We are 1.5 hours south of Colorado Springs and 2.5 hours south of Denver.
Physical Ability Concerns:
The ranch, pavilion, and bath house are all very accessible. Certain Ranch Camp activities and challenges may be difficult for individuals with physical limitations, especially at our elevation of 7,500 feet. We suggest opting out of any activities that feel overly strenuous and instead enjoy a quiet moment in the willows by the creek. If you have concerns, please reach out directly to [email protected].
Faith:
Bring it. You’ll want it for this deep-dive, transformative event, and most especially the mountain creek cold plunge! While we whole-heartedly believe in Jesus Christ, we also whole-heartedly welcome and respect you and your beliefs. Please also extend that courtesy to all guests!
Meals:
We will provide hearty ranch meals, drinks, and light snacks during the event. You are welcome to bring whatever additional food or drinks you would like. The nearest stores and cafes are 15 minutes away, so it is wise to come with these items packed in advance!
Dress:
Casual with western attitude! Feel free to come with your western gear. Be comfortable, bring a jacket, and wear layers as temperatures can swing widely including heat AND snow! Come with attire for hiking, cold plunging, campfires, dancing, and horse activities!
Kids:
This transformative event and business training is designed for adults. Leave the kids at home for this one!
Pets:
Please leave your pets at home. The ranch is teaming with its own band of misfit animals including cattle, horses, dogs, and lots of barn cats. Additional visitors can cause things to go awry and generate unnecessary distraction and stress for you, your pet, and our ranch.
but 2 days isn't enough
Looking to keep your retreat mountain-top experience going?
Try some local scenery and attractions…
Fall Color Drives with Great Destinations:
Bishop’s Castle, San Isabel
Lake Isabel, San Isabel
Antiquing, Florence
Royal Gorge, Canon City
Hot Springs, Pagosa Springs or Salida
Local Attractions & Activities:
Holly Dot Golf Course, Colorado City
Quaint little shops with local wares, Rye
Hiking Trails, Rye
Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, Alamosa
Walsenburg Mining Museum, Walsenburg
Restaurant Recommendations:
Rye Café, Rye
Three Sisters, Colorado City
Bolt Burger, Colorado City
