About
About Marly Grace
I’ve never been interested in building just one career.
I’ve always been interested in understanding what makes a life feel deeply worth living.
That curiosity has taken me into entrepreneurship, beauty, hospitality, travel, storytelling, education, wellness and immersive experiences. At first they looked like separate paths. Looking back, I realized they have all been exploring the same question.
How do we create lives that feel more alive, more intentional and more free?
An evolving body of work
Today my work is an evolving body of work built around that exploration.
Sometimes that means helping remarkable places create unforgettable experiences.
Sometimes it means designing retreats where people reconnect with themselves, each other and the natural world.
Sometimes it means creating content, telling stories, building businesses or exploring alternative ways of living and earning beyond the traditional path.
Sometimes it means sitting across from someone in a SÖMARA Orientation Reading and helping them understand themselves more clearly before taking their next step.
And often it simply means documenting what I am learning as I continue walking the path myself.
What I believe.
I do not believe there is one right way to live.
I believe there are far more possibilities than most of us realize.
My work exists to explore those possibilities and help people see them for themselves.
Hospitality & Partnerships
Helping remarkable hotels, retreats and destinations create unforgettable guest experiences through consulting, storytelling and strategic partnerships.
SÖMARA
A growing space of intentional practices, retreats, gatherings and Orientation Readings for people ready to move from living by default to living by design.
Field Notes & Writing
Documenting what I discover — from wellness retreats in Costa Rica to alternative ways of building a life that genuinely fits.
The intention behind all of it.
Whether I am creating remarkable guest experiences, building purpose-driven businesses, gathering around a retreat table or sharing field notes from the road, the intention is always the same.
To help people move from living by default to living by design.
If my work leaves people with one thing, I hope it is this.
Not the desire to live my life.
The courage to imagine their own.