The Hosting Guild

The guild you stay in.

One of us gets you discovered. One of us gets you booked. One of us delivers the week.

A course teaches you once. This keeps going — other hosts who are mid-launch right now, office hours every week with Anna, Stacy or Robert, and a library that’s open the day you join.

We teach you to run a business, not just a retreat. You were taught to run the week. Nobody taught you to run the company — the books, the P&L, the risk, and where your unpaid hours go.

A women’s reset in Costa Rica, a writing week in Michigan, twelve people going to the Indy 500, a lakehouse with dates to fill — underneath, it’s one job. Fixed seats, a fixed date, and a deadline that doesn’t move, whether the room is one you booked or one you own.

Two tiers. That’s the whole menu.

No enterprise tier, no mastermind upsell waiting behind these two.

The Community

Where the trade talks.

$19 / month

or $190 a year — two months free

Founding member price — $9 a month, locked forever. Monthly plan only. Open until 31 October 2026. The rate never goes up once you have it — but the door closes on that date.

For when you’re circling the idea and want to be around people who’ve done it.

  • Start Here — the orientation path through everything
  • Introductions — who else is in here and what they run
  • Open Floor — ask anything, including the money questions
  • Office hours recordings — every session, posted after
  • The first two shelves of the Library — getting started, and your ideal guest and offer

Cancel any time, yourself, in the Hall — no notice period, no minimum term, nobody to talk you out of it. Monthly payments aren’t refundable. The full answer.

The founding member price — open until 31 October 2026

Join now and you pay the founding rate for as long as you stay a member. Not for a year. Not until we put prices up. For as long as you’re in.

The rate stays; the door doesn’t. The founding rate is open until 31 October 2026 — after that, new members pay $19 and $99. Everyone who got in before then keeps paying the founding rate, indefinitely.

The Community at $9 a month. The School at $49 a month. The founding rate is on the monthly plan; the quarterly and annual plans stay at their normal price, which already includes two months free.

This isn’t a sale and we won’t call it one. A sale means the price comes back. Yours doesn’t — not next year, not when we put the price up, not ever, for as long as you stay.

It’s a founding rate. The only way to get it is to be early — and early means before 31 October 2026.

Everyone who comes to the Residency gets a year of The School included.

On day one

Nothing is drip-fed.

Most memberships release a module a week so you stay subscribed long enough to finish. At $99 we hand you the whole library the day you walk in. If you binge it in a fortnight and leave, that’s a fair trade — you got what you paid for.

What keeps people is not the locked content. It’s the Thursday you post a half-finished sales page at 11pm and three people who’ve sold the same thing tell you what’s wrong with it.

A course teaches you once. This keeps going.

The bit worth reading twice

Publish what you’re hosting. Keep almost all of it.

Marketplaces take a percentage of a booking you often sourced yourself, and they take it on every seat. We take 5% — and nothing at all, permanently, from founding members. Our business is teaching, not brokering, so the subscription is what pays for us and the cut can stay small enough that it never changes what you charge.

A large group of women standing together on the shore of a lake in autumn, posed for a group photograph.
Nobody graduates from a guild. You belong to one, and you get better inside it.

The Guild’s five days in person.

The Residency at Lakemore is five days that do what the Guild does over a year, with cameras, a photographer, and all three of us in the room. You do not need to be a member to come — and everyone who does gets a year of The School included in the price.

New

The Hosting Guild Podcast.

Empty seats to waitlists.

Weekly, on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. Six episodes are recorded; the first goes out 9 September 2026. It’s the same conversation the Guild has in private — what actually filled a room, what didn’t, and what it cost — held in public.

Members of The School are eligible to be considered as guests. We won’t pretend everyone gets on: there are fifty-two episodes a year. But the people we look to first are the ones doing the work where we can see it.

Before you join

Questions people ask before they join.

What’s the actual difference between $19 and $99?

The Community is the conversation. The School is the conversation plus everything we know.

At $19 you get in, you meet who else is here, and you can ask anything on the Open Floor — including the money questions most people won’t ask in public. At $99 you also get the entire library on day one, weekly office hours with Anna, Stacy or Robert, the Practice Floor to bring your half-built thing to, and a listing on our public page at 5% — nothing at all if you joined at the founding rate.

If you’re circling the idea, start at $19. If you have a date on the calendar and seats to sell, $99 is the one.

I run group trips, or I own a venue — not retreats. Is this for me?

Yes, and we should say why plainly, because most of this market only talks to retreat hosts.

A women’s reset in Costa Rica, a writing week in Michigan, twelve people going to the Indy 500 — underneath, it’s one job. A fixed number of seats, a fixed date, and a deadline that doesn’t move. The teaching is about filling that, not about what happens once everyone arrives.

Robert runs motorsport trips. Anna runs retreats. The problem is the same problem — a retreat business and a group travel business are the same business underneath, and we teach the underneath.

And it holds for venue owners too. If you have a room with dates in it that somebody has to fill — whether you own that room or booked it — you are in the right place. Venue owners in here also hear directly from the hosts who need a venue.

What if I’ve never sold one before?

Then you’re in the hardest version of it, and you should know that going in.

A first launch has no past guests, no list to speak of, and no proof — which is exactly the situation the Start Here path in The Community was built for. You won’t be the only person in here doing it for the first time.

What we won’t tell you is how long it takes. That depends on your list and your audience, and anyone who gives you a number without asking about those two things is guessing.

Is the content drip-fed?

No. You get all of it the day you join, including every video course in The School — the first of them Anna’s full Profitable Retreat Method, with new ones added continuously.

Most memberships release a module a week so you stay subscribed long enough to finish. We hand you the library on day one. If you binge it in a fortnight and leave, that’s a fair trade — you got what you paid for.

What keeps people isn’t locked content. It’s the Thursday you post a half-finished sales page at eleven at night and three people who’ve sold the same thing tell you what’s wrong with it.

Do you take a cut when someone books my workshop?

A small one — and none at all if you join at the founding rate.

School members pay 5% on a booking made through our listings. Founding members pay nothing, permanently. Non-members pay 10%.

Marketplaces take a far larger cut of a booking you often sourced yourself, on every seat. Ours stays small because the subscription is the business — we’re teaching, not brokering — so the cut never has to be big enough to change what you charge. Guests book with you directly either way.

What is the founding rate, and is it really forever?

The Community at $9 a month, the School at $49 a month, for as long as you stay a member. Not for a year. Not until we put prices up.

The founding rate is on the monthly plan; the quarterly and annual plans stay at their normal price, which already includes two months free.

This isn’t a sale and we won’t call it one — a sale means the price comes back, and yours doesn’t. It’s a founding rate, and the only way to get it is to be early. What does end is the door, and it closes on 31 October 2026: after that, new members pay $19 and $99.

Can I get on the podcast?

You can be considered. We won’t pretend everyone gets on.

The Hosting Guild Podcast runs weekly on YouTube, Spotify and Apple — fifty-two episodes a year against a lot more members than that. School members are eligible to be considered, and the people we look at first are the ones doing the work where we can see it.

Six episodes are recorded, and the first goes out on 9 September 2026.

Do I need the Guild if I’m coming to the Residency?

No. Membership is not required and never has been — a year of The School is already included in your seat.

The Residency at Lakemore is five days in January that do in person what the Guild does over a year, with all three of us in the room.

Can I get a refund if I leave?

Mostly no — but if an annual renewal catches you out, tell us within 30 days and we’ll refund it.

Month to month, payments aren’t refundable. You can cancel any time and you won’t be charged again: no notice period, no minimum term, and nobody to talk you out of it. You do it yourself in the Hall.

The annual exception exists because a year is long enough to forget you’re subscribed, and charging someone for a year they didn’t mean to buy isn’t a business we want to run. Write to us and say so — you don’t have to explain yourself.

The reason we can be firm the rest of the time is the same reason there’s no drip: the entire library is open to you on day one. There’s no version of this where you paid for something we hadn’t handed over yet. The full terms are here.

$19 or $99 a monthFounding rate $9 or $49, locked forever.The community, or the community and everything we teach.

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