A sober entrepreneur mastermind is a peer group of founders in recovery who meet to work each other’s real business problems in an alcohol-free, confidential room. Phoenix Forum is that mastermind: ten vetted members, monthly hot seats, $349 a month. The difference from a regular mastermind is simple. Here, your sobriety is the shared baseline, not a thing you manage.

If you have ever sat in a great business mastermind and still felt like you were translating, this is why, and what to do about it.

Why does a sober entrepreneur need a different room?

General masterminds are good. The format works. But the social fabric runs on alcohol, and the room does not know what it means to be in recovery. So the most important fact about how you operate stays invisible. You read risk differently, you protect your time differently, you make decisions differently because of your recovery, and none of it is on the table.

Self-will run riot scales with the company. The pattern that nearly took you out shows up in your company too. A room that understands recovery can name it. A room that does not will talk around it forever.

Your business grows to the level of your honesty. Honesty needs a room that already knows what you are being honest about.

How does the mastermind work?

Phoenix Forum runs ten vetted members in one confidential room. Every member takes the hot seat: you bring the real numbers, the actual fear, the decision you have been avoiding, and nine founders who have lived their own version dig in. A Founders’ Compass keeps each member working on what actually moves their business and their life, not the comfortable topic. The room is alcohol-free by design and closed under a mutual NDA.

What makes it work

The vetting and the shared baseline. When everyone in the room is a founder in recovery, the conversation starts where it matters instead of spending an hour getting past the surface. Emotional sobriety is the edge, and a room of people who are building it alongside you sharpens it faster than any framework.

What it costs, and the guarantee

Phoenix Forum is $349 a month, about $4,200 a year, billed monthly. There is no revenue or sobriety-length figure on the application; a 20 minute good-fit call decides fit. If you show up and still do not think it is worth it, there is a 6 month money-back guarantee. The peer groups built for the general founder, YPO, Vistage, Tiger 21, run many times the price and none of them are built for sobriety.

What is a sober entrepreneur mastermind?

It is a peer group of entrepreneurs in recovery who meet regularly to work each other’s real business problems in an alcohol-free, confidential room. Unlike a general mastermind, sobriety is the shared baseline, so members can be honest about how recovery shapes the way they run their companies.

How is it different from a regular mastermind?

In a regular mastermind you check your recovery at the door, and the events usually run on alcohol. In a sober entrepreneur mastermind, recovery is the prerequisite, the room is alcohol-free, and the people in it understand both the business pressure and the sobriety underneath it.

What does Phoenix Forum cost?

Phoenix Forum is $349 per month, about $4,200 a year, billed monthly, 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.

Do I have to be in recovery to join?

Phoenix Forum is built for founders in recovery, and that shared baseline is what makes the room work. The good-fit call is where we make sure the room is right for you and you are right for the room.

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.