Why Phoenix Forum
Your recovery and your business need to live in the same room.
Why Phoenix Forum exists and why no other group fills this gap for founders in recovery.
Your recovery room does not hold your business problems.
Your home group is for recovery. That is its purpose and the right purpose. You cannot bring cash-flow chaos, founder conflicts, or that deal you just closed into that room. Not because people do not care. Because the room is not for that, and everyone knows it. A scaling problem or a revenue question feels like noise in a space built for something else.
Your home group gave you sobriety. It gave you honesty and a community that knew you before the company. You would not trade it. But it holds only half your life.
Business founder groups assume alcohol is part of the deal.
YPO, EO, Vistage, Tiger 21, mastermind weekends: all have bars. All build the social structure around drinking. You learn the moves. You navigate it. But you are always managing sobriety instead of being fully present with the actual business problem.
You can never bring your whole story. Why you lead the way you do. Why certain moves feel like more than math. The real reason you fear hiring or scaling. Your recovery is the context that makes all of it make sense. But in a room built on alcohol, you stay hidden. The other founders are smart, but they do not have the frame to understand the full picture.
You are splitting yourself between two rooms that cannot talk to each other.
In your home group
Recovery. Identity. Honesty.
The people who know the real you before the deal, before the revenue, before you figured out who you were sober.
Can’t ask the room how to handle a co-founder breakup Can’t celebrate closing a deal without sounding ungrateful Success-level problems don’t belong here, and everyone knows itIn your peer group or mastermind
Business. Revenue. Strategy.
Smart people working on real problems. But every event has an open bar. You leave a version of yourself at the door every time you walk in.
Can’t mention recovery without watching the dynamic shift Can’t explain why certain decisions feel like more than math The best context for how you run your business stays hiddenPhoenix Forum is the room that holds both at once.
Your recovery is identity, not context. Your business is real, not a footnote. The ten people in this room get both, and their only job is to help you grow.
Phoenix Forum is the room that holds both at once.
Ten vetted founders in recovery, same people every month. A monthly meeting where your business is real and your recovery is the prerequisite. Confidential. No bar. No performance.
You close a deal, the room celebrates it with you. You are terrified of a hire, the room works through it with you. You talk about how your recovery shapes your leadership and nobody needs the backstory. The context is already built in. Revenue does not fix resentment, and nobody in the room forgets that.
That is what Phoenix Forum is. Not a hybrid. A third option that should have existed years ago.
“For the first time I can talk about closing a deal and pivot immediately to what it means for my recovery. Nobody in this room is confused by that combination. That is the whole thing.”
Founding member, agency owner, 6 years sober
Why Phoenix Forum is different.
YPO, EO, Vistage, Tiger 21 are good rooms for general entrepreneurs. Phoenix Forum is the only room built for founders in recovery. You never have to check any part of yourself at the door. Recovery is the prerequisite. That changes everything.
It changes the honesty. It changes the safety to bring the real problem. It changes how fast trust builds. It changes the advice, because everyone in the room understands the full context. Someone can tell you exactly why your urgency to close a deal feels like it conflicts with your recovery. They have been there.
The room is also small by design: ten people, same circle for months or years. You are not working the room or making a networking move. You are building actual continuity. By month three, you are not starting from scratch anymore.
Price is $349/mo. Month to month, cancel anytime. If you show up and still do not think it is worth it, 100% money back guarantee.
What founding members say.
“I was Googling solutions at midnight. Two weeks in, a member walked me through exactly how he solved it. Twenty minutes. That is the value.”Founding member · Agency founder, 4 years sober
“This room gave me accountability and permission to stop playing small. I went from $15k to over $100k MRR in a year. But it was the recovery context that made it stick. No other room even tries.”Founding member · SaaS founder, 7 years sober
“I almost did not apply because I thought my revenue was too low. Glad I did. The conversation is about recovery and honesty, not the number on the spreadsheet.”Founding member · Creative agency, 3 years sober
“By month three I realized I had been waiting my whole career for this room. The context is already there. I do not restart from zero every month.”Founding member · Professional services, 5 years sober
The fit call is 20 minutes. No pitch.
We figure out together whether Phoenix Forum is the right room for you right now. If it is not, we will tell you straight.
Apply to Phoenix Forum$349/mo · 6-month money-back guarantee