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Life built
on purpose.

An entrepreneur group for business owners who want a real plan for the business, and the same care put into the life it's for. Built on Vancouver Island, run on video, with four live events a year worth the trip. A network of owners who've read your plan properly, and the three of us in your corner all year.

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The idea

Build the business. And the life that goes with it.

Most owners plan the business properly, or want to. A forecast, the real numbers, the next ninety days. The rest of life rarely gets the same treatment. Not because it matters less. Nobody ever showed us how to plan it.

FOUND puts both on the same page. A real strategic plan for the business, with the numbers behind it. And the Life Built on Purpose plan beside it: your health, your relationships, your headspace, and the life you're actually building toward. Same seriousness. Same follow-up.

Then a room of other owners who have read your plan, every other week, all year. That's the part that makes it stick.

A notebook and coffee on a wooden table overlooking a misty lakeSaturday, 6:40 a.m.
What it is

A room that takes the business seriously, and the whole life too.

  • A small room of people who have built something real and want it run on a plan, not a gut feel.
  • Serious business strategy: the numbers, the assumptions, the next ninety days. And the Life Built on Purpose plan beside it, worked with the same care.
  • People who will support you and, more importantly, challenge you. When you bring a problem, the room shares what it looked like from where they sat. Not advice. Then you decide, and the room follows up.
  • Commitments made out loud, tracked in one place, and a room that holds you to them. Every other week, all year.
What it isn't

You've seen the other versions. This isn't one of them.

  • Not a networking group. Nobody's here for your referrals.
  • Not a mastermind that stops at revenue. The numbers get the full treatment. So does the rest of your life.
  • Not a motivational weekend. You'll go home with a plan, not a feeling.
  • Not a place to talk about change without doing anything about it.

Am I actually living the life I'm working so hard to build?

The question underneath all of it
What you get

A plan for the year, and a room that checks in on it.

Plans don't fail in November. They fail quietly in February, when nobody's asking. So the year has a rhythm, and every part of it comes back to the same two questions: did you do what you said, and what's next.

Every other weekTwo hours, on video

The call

Did you do what you said, with one number against the plan. Then hot seats: one owner brings a real issue, the room shares what it looked like from where they sat, and the owner decides. You leave with your next commitments, for the business and for the life.

Four times a yearIn person

The live events

Three full planning days and a three-day retreat. Business planning in the morning, the Life Built on Purpose plan in the afternoon, worked with the same honesty. 2027: April 2 at Brentwood Bay Resort, June 18, September 10, and the retreat November 26 to 28. Locations for the rest to come.

All yearThe network

The room

A working group of owners who have read your plan and give structured feedback on it. One-on-one time with Matt, Mike and Shane. Your plan, your commitments and your numbers in the members' Ledger, in one place.

The full shape of the year →

What is FOUND

Five words. The standard the room holds itself to, in business and in life.

01
F

Focus

Get clear on what actually matters this year, in the numbers and in the life behind them.

02
O

Ownership

Where you are is your call, and so is where you go next. Circumstances are real. Excuses are optional.

03
U

Uncomfortable

Growth costs something. If it's comfortable, it probably isn't working.

04
N

Navigate

Build the actual path. Measure it. Course-correct when reality disagrees with the plan.

05
D

Discipline

Keep the promises you made, after the motivation wears off. That's when it counts.

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How it started

It starts with a weekend at the lake.

November 2026, North Shore Haven on Lake Cowichan. Early mornings in the dark, the sauna, long conversations at one table, and real work on both plans. The founding room comes out of that weekend. The year is what comes next.

The dock on Lake CowichanLake Cowichan, November 2026
A fire pit on a lakeside deck at nightFriday night, the fire
The next intake

Think you belong
in the room?

Membership starts with an application, then a conversation. Not a pitch. Tell us who you are and one of us will reach out.

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