Brand Strong Mastermind 2024–2025
You grew in ways you wanted, and in ways you didn’t plan for, in the last twelve months. You were challenged and you worked through. You learned about yourself, you learned more about the world. You learned how to keep yourself and your business moving forward (toward what matters to you). All of that with unexpected and unfolding circumstances throughout the year.
You made thoughtful pivots and creative decisions to stay present to stay successful. You supported yourself and your team, and you proved to yourself again and again that you can do hard things.
And, as a committed leader in your industry and company, you are serious about continuing to evolve and become more and more… you. The you that’s inside. You know you are the driver of your life and business, and you want to do that with more heart and strategy uncovered each year.
As we advance in our career and business, our new teachers present themselves. You want to build on all of the lessons you learned over the last year, and the foundational skills you’ve been developing over time. You want to continue to gently, authentically continuously develop yourself and your strategy and follow-through, to produce sustainable results and significant personal and business evolution. Not with judgement or pressure. Naturally and with an epic support system.
You want continued coaching, that caring mirror held up for you to gain deeper awareness, a community of thoughtful business owners by your side, and accountability, all in order to focus and work on your dreams. You want to level up with joy and care.
You use the proven business growth system of the Brand Strong Model because you believe in efficiency and the power of staying on your course, aligned with your heart.
And, as you know, you are not alone. Though sometimes you feel like it. That’s where the Brand Strong Mastermind meets you. You get to bring your dreams, questions, struggles, goals, celebrations, and desire to work with a coach and in community, all as part of this year-long program.
The way you respond in an experience with others, as well as the natural, no-pressure accountability that occurs within our group, are both part of how you will continue to create the motivation and determination to get far beyond where you might get on your own, no matter what changes you are seeking.
Starting in April 2024, for 12 months, I will work with a small group of Brand Strong graduate businesses to offer the deep coaching, personal care, safe community space, and supportive accountability needed to take each owner’s leadership and business to the next level.
Throughout the year, within the group environment, you will:
- Have space, and be supported, to work with the Brand Strong and Work Strong methodologies.
- Discover the next level of how you may be getting in your own way, learn to create your next habit shifts and the emotions that will propel you forward, and have a place to bring all of your questions.
- Reflect and share your progress with your community, including your awesome wins and failures, and be seen and celebrated.
- Get business, leadership, and personal coaching from Nina, and learn just as much from watching others get coached.
- Have small, steady doses of relevant training, delivered right when you need it, based on what’s coming up in real-time for you and your group.
Program Prerequisites
This Brand Strong Mastermind is designed to support relevant individual and business growth. We use the benefits of the entire Brand Strong approach, including heart-centered leadership and practical strategy, to create meaningful personal, professional, and business wins, all year long.
Because every person’s participation in the program will affect the rest, program prerequisites have been designed to make sure that each business owner is prepared, understands their role in their own success, is truly committed to their own growth, and is supportive of the success of every other member of the group.
1. Brand Strong Prerequisites:
- Have successfully worked through the Brand Strong coursework.
- Believe in the Brand Strong approach, and want to use the principles and model with ever-evolving skill and expertise.
2. Have a well-established business – Minimum $300K annual business revenue, no maximum revenue limit.
Program Participation Requirements
To respect and honor all participants (yourself included!), commitment to the following is required:
1. Attendance at all group sessions. You will receive calendar invites to all group meetings.
- We understand that last-minute life emergencies come up. To honor you and the group, if more than one session must be missed, you may be withdrawn from the Brand Strong Mastermind. If a session must be missed, you’ll listen to a session recording and stay caught up on group agreements.
- Attendance at the Brand Strong Retreat, January 11–16, 2025. (Note: The retreat is open to all Brand Strong program graduates.) Food and Lodging included. Air and ground transportation not included.
2. Arriving on time to group sessions, motivated to learn and engage.
- Commitment to your own professional growth by putting in the time and focus needed to work on yourself and ON your business not just IN your business, in order to create massive growth and wins.
- Commitment to understanding what is holding you back personally and professionally in your business, to not judging yourself, and to supporting your own and each other’s ambitious growth. And if you’re struggling to not judge yourself, you are willing to be coached about it in the group environment (Self-judgement is common. Your willingness and openness to being coached, and to learning, is what’s important in this program.)
- Taking massive action in between, working to evolve those parts of yourself and your business.
- Respect for, and no judgement of others in the group.
3. Openness to and value of: direct, individual and business coaching, both 1:1 and in the group setting.
Five Program Elements and Registration Details
There are (2) package options containing different program elements for the 2024-2025 Brand Strong Mastermind.
Details for each package below in “Program Option” section.
Learn about the program elements here to help you decide which package is right for you.
Program Elements:
1. Full Support Individual Coaching
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- 1:1 coaching–(2) one-hour sessions (only 1 hour of individual coaching in January 2025, the Retreat month)
- > Each month, you will have (2) one-hour individual business coaching sessions with Nina. You can request to change your sessions at least 48 hours in advance, and Nina will let you know the next available time in her schedule. Your individual monthly coaching can be used for any business matter, e.g. for Nina to conduct an interview, coach key staff, or for other creative applications.
- > Unused coaching time may not be rolled over into future months. 1:1 meetings will be scheduled once you register for the Mastermind.
2. Monthly Group Coaching
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- 2-hour calls on Zoom, 4-hour Summer call (combined July and August – we may meet in person) and 8-hour Winter Zoom call (combined November and December) to begin Brand Strong Retreat work together.
- > Note: There is no Group Coaching call in the months with an in-person, mini retreat or the Brand Strong Retreat: June and Sept 2024, and Jan and March 2025.
3. Quarterly Planning Mini Retreats
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- (3) in-person mini retreats (2 days each) in the Bay Area to work on the next quarter while you work on your relationship and skills with yourself: June 2024, September 2024, and March 2025. Program, Materials, and Lunch included. Note: Transportation and Lodging not included.
- > If there are current pandemic risks, etc., we will meet on Zoom.
4. A seat at the Brand Strong Retreat
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- A seat at the annual Brand Strong Retreat, location TBD, January 11 – 16, 2025. Program, Materials, Lodging, and Meals included. Note: Transportation not included.
5. A seat in Work Strong including all workshops, materials, and an employee discount.
Registration and Payment Details:
Once registered, you’ll make 12 monthly automatic payments.
Program Options
Brand Strong Mastermind
Group Coaching Only
Double Room at Brand Strong Retreat
Included:
1. (3) Quarterly Planning Mini Retreats.
2. A seat at the Brand Strong Retreat in a Double Room, shared with another participant.
3. A seat in Work Strong.
2024-2025 GROUP ONLY PROGRAM Schedule here
Cost:
$795 per month for 12 months for a single-owner businesses (one participant)
Add on: $100/month for BSMM Monthly Group Coaching Calls
Add on: $450/hour for Individual Coaching sessions, scheduled upon request, based on availability.
Brand Strong Mastermind
Group Coaching Only
Single Room at Brand Strong Retreat
Included:
1. (3) Quarterly Planning Mini Retreats.
2. A seat at the Brand Strong Retreat in a Single Room.
3. A seat in Work Strong.
2024-2025 GROUP ONLY PROGRAM Schedule here
Cost:
$895 per month for 12 months for a single-owner businesses (one participant)
Add on: $100/month for BSMM Monthly Group Coaching Calls
Add on: $450/hour for Individual Coaching sessions, scheduled upon request, based on availability.
Brand Strong Mastermind
Full Support Individual and Group Coaching Program
Included:
1. Full Support Individual Coaching.
2. Monthly Group Coaching.
3. Quarterly Planning Mini Retreats.
4. A seat at the Brand Strong Retreat in a Single Room.
5. A seat in Work Strong.
2024-2025 COMPLETE COACHING AND GROUP PROGRAM Schedule here
Cost:
$1500 per month for 12 months for a single-owner businesses (one participant)
Getting excited?
Start by checking dates of all group sessions to be sure they work for you, and email Nina to confirm if you AGREE to the participant requirements and you are IN.
Or, reach out if you would like to chat with Nina about anything, to help you decide if this program is right for you.
I can’t wait to work with you over the next year!