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Get Out of the Center Peer Circle

What You’re Getting: A Weekly Founder Decision Room

Solve problems, make decisions, and get your questions answered weekly with three other business owners actively working to get out of the center of everything.

Each Peer Circle gives you a structured place to bring the real problems, decisions, and questions that are keeping you stuck in daily operations. You'll transfer roles, decisions, knowledge, and relationships from you to your business, getting energy, encouragement, and inspiration from peers doing the same.

The format is simple by design:

  1. Three other owners.
  2. Ninety minutes a week.
  3. Real decisions, real accountability, real owner-level peer support.

Why This Works: Decision Discipline Requires Repetition

Most owners don't stay stuck because they lack insight.

They stay stuck because the same problems keep returning, the same decisions keep routing back through them, and the same pressure causes them to take back control. And then wind up stuck in the center of everything, again.

Peer Circles work because they create a weekly rhythm of decision discipline.

  • Instead of talking generally about the business, we work on live owner-level decisions.
  • Instead of drifting between meetings, you leave with clear action steps.
  • Instead of solving everything alone, you get coached structure and peer perspective.

Forward movement out of the center. Every week.

Your Transformation: From Isolated Owner to Supported Builder

Through the Peer Circle, you will move from:

  • Carrying every problem alone
  • Replaying the same decisions in your head
  • Getting pulled back into operational dependency
  • Making progress in bursts, then losing momentum

To:

  • Bringing your biggest stuck points into a structured weekly process with fellow owners who have been there and done that
  • Making clearer decisions faster
  • Strengthening your ability to transfer ownership
  • Learning from other owners facing similar challenges

This isn't about being rescued by the group.

It's about staying in a disciplined room that helps you keep building freedom.

How We’ll Build Your Success: The Weekly PDQ Process

Each week, we focus on solving problems Pretty Darn Quick with my PDQ process:

  1. Problem: What problem are you solving?
  2. Decision: What decision must you make to solve that problem?
  3. Question: What question do you need answered before you can confidently make that decision?

In the Peer Circle, you will receive:

  • Live coaching from me
  • Perspective from other business owners
  • Practical tools when they fit the problem
  • Accountability to the action you choose
  • A consistent rhythm that keeps you from drifting back into old patterns

This is where decision discipline becomes a habit, not just an idea.

Your Proven Foundation for Success

"Freedom loves discipline."

Freedom requires structure, and structure requires repetition.

The Peer Circle gives you a weekly place to continue strengthening the core moves that reduce owner dependence:

  • Clarifying what is and isn't yours to carry
  • Transferring decisions to the right people
  • Letting others own outcomes and results
  • Protecting your leadership rhythm
  • Staying out of unnecessary operational gravity

This is especially useful after the Get Out of the Center Intensive or Jump Start, when the first transfers have begun and the real work is keeping them alive under pressure.

The Peer Circle helps you keep going.

Why You Can Trust This Process

This is a coached, structured, small-group environment.

You will not sit through generic business advice.

You will not be lost in a large room.

You will not be expected to turn your business into someone else’s model.

You will receive:

  • A simple weekly PDQ structure
  • Owner-level coaching
  • Peer perspective from people doing the same kind of work, toward the same goal
  • Practical tools matched to your situation
  • Accountability that respects the reality of owner-led businesses

The circle is small because personal attention matters.

The rhythm is weekly because momentum matters.

The work is practical because owners don't need more theory. They need movement.

Your Long-Term Outcome: Continued Freedom Momentum

Over time, the Peer Circle helps you continue moving from owner dependence toward owner independence.

You will have:

  • A regular place to solve owner-level problems
  • More discipline around decisions
  • More confidence transferring responsibility
  • More perspective from other owners
  • More momentum toward freedom, value, and options

You won't be alone in the work.

You will have a weekly structure that keeps helping you leave the center, one real decision at a time.

Because getting out of the center is not a one-time event.

It is a leadership discipline.

Get Out of the Center Peer Circles

How Long: Weekly, month to month

How Much: $1,500/month

$1,500
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Kerry Oliver
Working with John felt like magic.

This is magic. You’re a magician, John.

Zoë Scharf
The chaos finally lifted.

I have a clearer head right now than I have had in years. For the first time in years, I don't feel like I’m drowning in a million tasks.

Tyler Samuelson
I don’t have to run the company anymore—and it’s liberating.

When we hired John, we hired him to create a self-managing company for myself.

This not having to deal with the day to day of our company, and finding significant time to work on visionary opportunities, oh, it’s liberating. It feels like I’m never rushed.

None of this would have been possible without solid business coaching from John, and me deciding that I don’t have to run the company.

Ben Wenner
John spots what really needs to be tackled—and helps you tackle it.

Your ability to spot what it is that really needs to be tackled, and tackle it, is pretty phenomenal. I appreciate you reading between the lines. It’s huge for me.

evonne
Founder, Puget Sound Psychotherapy
Not alone in my head

Having someone by my side to get into the minutiae... I go from deficit to abundance, right? Like alone in my head to the joy of collaborating. I tell people you're my coach, but it's kind of like having a boss because I have someone I'm accountable to. It's like I'm managing myself by having you.

Dr. Brian Brightman
The investment looked tiny compared to the growth we achieved.

We had a lot of challenges at EyeCare Specialties. John Fulwider guided us to the right decisions to solve each challenge—the dollar investment we made looks tiny next to the growth we’ve achieved.

John has a real gift for coaching strong leaders who are decisive and want to grow. Hiring him is a no-brainer.