A peer group for founders in recovery is a small, confidential room of sober entrepreneurs who work each other’s real business problems, with recovery as the shared baseline. It works where a general mastermind does not because nobody has to translate. Phoenix Forum runs that room: ten vetted members, monthly hot seats, $349 a month.

Most founders in recovery already have two rooms. This is about the one that is missing.

What rooms do most founders in recovery already have?

One is your recovery room: the people who know the real you, where identity and honesty live, but where success-level business problems do not belong. The other is your business room: smart people working on real problems, but every event has an open bar and you leave a part of yourself at the door each time you walk in.

Neither room holds the whole picture. In one, you cannot ask how to handle a co-founder breakup. In the other, you cannot explain why a decision feels like more than math. The best context for how you run your company stays hidden in both.

Recovery is identity, not context. Your business is real, not a footnote. The missing room holds both at once.

Why does a shared recovery baseline change everything?

When every person in the room is a founder in recovery, the translation tax disappears. You can say the true thing about why a decision is heavy, and the room understands it immediately. That is not a soft benefit. It compresses the time between a problem and a real solution, because nobody is spending the meeting getting past the surface.

The bottleneck is you, and the work of getting out of your own way is recovery work as much as business work. A room that treats those as the same problem moves faster.

How Phoenix Forum runs the room

Ten vetted members, one confidential room, monthly meetings. Every member takes the hot seat on a real problem and the room digs in. A Founders’ Compass keeps each person accountable between meetings. The room is alcohol-free by design and closed under a mutual NDA, so recovery is the baseline, not a disclosure you manage.

What it costs, and how to start

Phoenix Forum is $349 a month, about $4,200 a year, with a 6 month money-back guarantee. There is no revenue or sobriety-length figure on the application; a 20 minute good-fit call decides fit. It is a fraction of what the general-population peer groups charge, and it is the only room built for exactly your situation.

What is a peer group for founders in recovery?

It is a small, confidential group of entrepreneurs who are in recovery and meet regularly to work each other’s business problems. Sobriety is the shared baseline, so members can speak honestly about how recovery shapes the way they lead, hire, price, and make decisions.

Why does recovery being shared matter?

Because in a general peer group the most important fact about how you operate stays hidden. When everyone in the room is a founder in recovery, you skip the translation and the conversation starts where it actually matters.

Is this group therapy or a business group?

It is a business group. The focus is your company: real numbers, real decisions, the monthly hot seat. Recovery is the shared context that makes the business conversation honest, not the subject of the meeting.

How do I join, and what does it cost?

You book a 20 minute good-fit call. There is no revenue or sobriety-length figure on the application. Phoenix Forum is $349 per month with a 6 month money-back guarantee.

Written by

Andrew Lassise

Founder of Phoenix Forum. Entrepreneur, tech investor, and recovered alcoholic. He started Phoenix Forum because no other peer advisory board held recovery and business in the same room at the same time.