Diana Stobo is a wellness expert, entrepreneur, author, and founder and CEO of The Retreat Costa Rica. For decades, she has helped people live and feel better — through food, wellness, education, and now hospitality.
But Diana’s perspective comes from more than her professional experience. She’s a mother of three, a grandmother, a partner, a traveler, a female CEO, and someone who has lived through enough chapters to know that wellness is about much more than what you eat or how you exercise.
It’s about how you live.

Diana has spent decades studying wellness, teaching it, writing about it, and building businesses around it. She has written fifteen books, taught thousands of people, and built The Retreat Costa Rica into a successful luxury wellness resort that continues to evolve alongside the way we think about health, longevity, and living well.
She is endlessly curious and always looking at what’s next — in wellness, hospitality, food, travel, business, and life.
And after raising a family, becoming a grandmother, building a company, navigating change, starting over, finding love again, and continuing to reinvent herself, her perspective reaches far beyond wellness alone.
Diana believes feeling well should help you live more fully — not make your life smaller.
That philosophy runs through everything she does.
Founder and CEO of The Retreat Costa Rica, Diana has built an internationally recognized luxury wellness resort and continues to lead its growth and evolution, staying ahead of how wellness, longevity, and hospitality are changing.
Explore The Retreat →Reserve Your Stay →Diana brings decades of expertise and a lifetime of experience to conversations about wellness, longevity, entrepreneurship, female leadership, hospitality, reinvention, and living well through every stage of life.
Book Diana to Speak →Author of fifteen books and a longtime wellness educator, Diana has spent decades helping people rethink how they eat, live, and care for themselves. Her philosophy has evolved as she has: wellness should support a bigger, fuller life.
Explore Diana’s Books →Wellness and longevity. Love and relationships. Building a business. Getting older without becoming less ambitious. Travel and the places that change us. Food. Family. Being a mother and grandmother. Starting over. And learning how to actually enjoy the life you’ve built.
On Substack, Diana shares the ideas, experiences, advice, and stories she’s collected from a life spent learning — and the things she’s still figuring out.