Elevate Academy · By application

A PRIVATE
MENTORING
ACADEMY.

For the work of becoming the person you actually want to be.

52 weeks of personal mentoring rooted in business mastery, ancestral wisdom, and the practical art of living well.

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MENTORING · APPRENTICESHIP · RETREATS · WORKSHOPS · THE PRACTICAL ART OF BECOMING ·
MENTORING · APPRENTICESHIP · RETREATS · WORKSHOPS · THE PRACTICAL ART OF BECOMING ·
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The mission

REAL
CHANGE
HAPPENS
SLOWLY.

The people who transform fastest are not the ones with the best books or programmes. They are the ones with the right relationships — a mentor who has walked the road, who can see what you have stopped seeing, and who is patient with the speed your year requires.

MOST PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO CHANGE INSIDE A LIFE DESIGNED TO KEEP THEM THE SAME.

Elevate Academy is a private mentoring academy — for the work of becoming the person you actually want to be. Built around three threads: decades of business mastery, decades of study with indigenous wisdom traditions, and twenty-five years of mentoring people through the work of building a life worth living.

This is not a course. Not a coaching programme. It is an ongoing relationship — with a mentor who has walked this path, and with the practical work of becoming.

III · Founder & mentor profile

A LIFE LIVED
between worlds.

I · BUSINESS & STRATEGY
A career generating revenues in the billions.
Operations, real estate, hospitality, ventures and partnerships across continents. The practical art of building things that last, in markets that do not forgive sloppy thinking. The world we actually live in — taken with the same seriousness as the inner work.
II · ANCESTRAL WISDOM
Years lived in deserts and jungles.
A parallel life of study with indigenous peoples whose traditions long predate the modern world. Time as a student of elders. Not as a visitor. Not as a content-collector. As someone slowly received by lineages older than any one life — by invitation, with reverence, with care.
III · PURPOSE & MEANING
The work of finding what you are for.
Most people achieve their goals and discover that the goals were the wrong size. The deeper work is locating the thread that runs through your life — the thing you are actually here to do — and arranging the rest of it in service of that. Not what you should do. What is true for you.
IV · JOY & FULFILMENT
A life that is actually worth living.
All the success in the world is hollow without the capacity to enjoy it. Joy is not a reward at the end of the work — it is a discipline cultivated alongside it. The Academy treats fulfilment as a serious subject: relationships that nourish, a body that works, mornings worth waking up to, the simple pleasures lived deeply.
V · A LIFE ACROSS CONTINENTS
Time lived in many places.
Years across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia — long enough in each place to be marked by it. The work of becoming yourself looks different in different places. The deepest version of it is the same everywhere.

The work is not to find a teacher who will save you. The work is to become a person whose own life is worth listening to.

IV · The lineage

WHAT WE
draw from.

No tradition stands alone. The Academy is woven from threads of practice that have been kept alive by communities and teachers across continents. We name them in respect — not as credentials we own, but as rivers we have been received by. Members who are invited into deeper experiences learn the names, and the work, directly.

BUSINESS & STRATEGY
The practical river
The river that distinguishes the Academy from purely spiritual programmes. Real-world business mastery: leadership, decision-making, hospitality, the practical art of building things that last. The wisdom traditions are useless without an honest relationship with the world we live in.
INDIGENOUS WISDOM
The ancestral rivers
A consolidation of three lineages received over decades. The desert way — vision, ceremony and sacred fire kept alive for centuries. The jungle way — plant medicine knowledge of the Amazon, preserved by taitas and elders. The dreaming way — the teachings of conscious dreaming and the relationship between the dream of the night and the dream of the day, drawn from Toltec and broader shamanic traditions across the Americas.
V · The work

WHAT IT IS.
Who it's for.

WHAT IT ACTUALLY IS
An apprenticeship in living. Not a programme.

An ongoing relationship — with a mentor, and with the practical work of becoming. Personal mentoring at the depth your year requires. Annual retreats. Workshops. Slow on purpose. Quiet on the surface. Designed to outlast the version of you that wanted a quick fix.

WHO IT'S FOR
People at a particular point.

Founders, executives, healers, professionals — but more importantly, people who have already built something. Achieved things. People asking deeper questions. Willing to be honest about what isn't working. People who can commit to a process. Right for those ready to do the slow work of becoming.

VI · The rhythm

A PRACTICE YOU CAN
actually live with.

SESSIONS
Personal mentoring

90-minute one-to-one sessions with the lead mentor. The cadence is set by your tier — weekly, twice-monthly, or as your year requires. Recorded for you to revisit.

DAILY
Practical assignments

Each session generates concrete work to take into your week. Decisions to make. Conversations to have. Habits to install or remove. Reading. Writing. Time with people who matter. Specific, time-bound, accountable. You leave each session knowing what to do.

ANNUAL
Retreats & workshops

In-person immersions and workshops throughout the year. The work that only happens face to face — long tables, fire circle, the deeper integration. Locations and dates shared privately with active members.

DIRECT
Access between sessions

For the things that cannot wait until the next call. A note. A voice memo. The mentor's standing offer: if something is off, write — we will figure it out together.

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IF SOMETHING IN YOU ALREADY KNOWS.

We work with a small number of people each year. No open enrollment. There is a conversation first — to understand where you are, what you're moving toward, and whether the Academy is the right fit right now.

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No forms. No pressure. No expectation.