How It All Connects

One ecosystem around travel & retreats — under one roof.

🏛️ Early Media Group (EMG)

The parent company — and the home of general marketing services

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📣 General Marketing

The EMG house brand

Full-service marketing for brands that aren't advisor- or venue-specific.

Serves

Any brand

🧭 Route & Retreat

The agency engine

Branding, websites & ongoing marketing for the travel niche.

Serves

Travel advisorsRetreat hosts

🛏️ Laurel & Lamp

The venue studio

Websites + ongoing marketing for the properties themselves.

Serves

Retreat venues

🎓 Marketing Journeys

The education arm

Workshops & classes teaching advisors to market themselves.

↳ if they want to hire hands-on help, R&R is there

Serves

Travel advisors

▲ credibility + real-world know-how feeds everything above ▲

✈️ Early & Away Travel — our own travel & retreat business

Led by a credentialed travel advisor who books trips & hosts retreats. This is the credibility engine.

▼ and the whole operation runs on ▼

🤖 Claude Code — the engine under everything

Every brand, site, and campaign is built and run with AI as the force multiplier — how a scrappy team does the work of a big one.

In motion right now

EMG — General Marketing: Peggy / MobileGroove (ongoing, paid) · RBG Advisor — website rebuild

Route & Retreat: Alisa / Howl — Iceland retreat host (paid) · Vacations by Jillian · Julia Houtchings · Erin Baker (advisors)

Laurel & Lamp: Lakemore — venue, site + ongoing marketing (paid)

Build partner (not a client): Anna / Wandering Roots — co-building the retreat-venue directory together; also feeds leads into L&L

Peggy / MobileGroove — already a paid marketing client. Next year, two expansions: a full media-site rebuild + a Growboat-style retreat — one client, both halves of the business at once

Also: Detach Primitive (retreat client — currently on hold)