When Success Isn’t Enough
For the ones who’ve done it all—and still feel the whisper that something’s missing.
here’s a voice inside some of us that doesn’t shut up when the goals are met.
It doesn’t care how many zeroes are on your contracts, how many people report to you, or how polished your life looks from the outside.
It just keeps whispering:
“There’s more than this.”
I didn’t always know how to hear it.
Until I found myself in the Dolomites—exhausted, successful, and quietly lost.
A Note from Gianluca
Why I Created This Odyssey
There’s a moment no one prepares you for.
It doesn’t happen when you win the contract, hit the revenue goal, or get the recognition you once dreamed of. It happens after—in the quiet, when the noise fades and you finally ask yourself:
“Why don’t I feel what I thought I would?”
I’ve lived most of my life in construction—on-site, in the boardroom, building something that mattered. I led crews, owned a firm, made a name. But behind the success was another truth:
I was tired. Unfulfilled. Pulled in every direction except the one that led back to myself.
It wasn’t burnout. It was disconnection.
From nature. From presence. From my own breath.
From the part of me that still believed in adventure, meaning, and something deeper than output.
And then came the mountains.
The Dolomites didn’t fix me—but they found me.
They stripped away the noise.
They reminded me what awe feels like.
And they gave me space to remember who I was before I became who I had to be.
That’s why I created the Guild’s Odyssey.
Not as a travel package.
But as a rite of passage.
For people like us—accomplished, respected, responsible—who still feel incomplete.
Because if you’ve ever felt the pull toward something more…
If you’ve ever wondered where your wonder went…
If you’ve ever looked around at everything you’ve built and quietly thought, “Now what?”
—then this is your call to summit.
Come walk beside me.
Let the trail undo you in all the right ways.
And return with something success could never give you:
Yourself.
—Gianluca Pascale
Founder, The Constructors Guild™
🏔️ P.S.
This September, I’m leading a small group of 6–8 high-integrity leaders into those same mountains.
It’s not a retreat.
It’s not a business trip.
It’s a threshold.
If this stirred something in you—or reminded you of someone who might need this—I’d love for you to read more:
👉 https://odyssey.constructorsguild.com