Run the Kind of Mastermind Retreat Your Clients Rebook Every Single Year… Planned, Priced and Packaged With You Live in Just 7 Weeks

Your clients keep asking the same question... "Are you ever going to run something in-person?"

The call ends at 2 minutes to the hour. A screen full of faces you genuinely care about turns into a screen full of nothing, and the house goes quiet. You have built something good: clients who pay properly, work that matters, a program people thank you for. They want more. And they want in-person.

One question keeps circling your mind on the drive to school or the walk with the dog… how long can relationships this important live inside video calls?

When someone asks about an in-person event, you say the same thing you said last year. "Maybe next year." Because between you and that retreat sits a wall of unknowns - which venue, what contract, what price, what happens if only 2 people book, what happens if 8 people book and the week falls flat.

Here is what that procrastination and feeling of overwhelm really costs, and it deserves saying plainly.

Renewals get harder every year the relationship stays on a screen, in an online community or on a WhatsApp chat. Clients drift towards the coach who goes one step further... and gets them in a room.

Somewhere out there is a version of your business where your best people get on a plane and fly to be in a room with you, hug you in a hotel lobby, and rebook before they fly home… a version that gets less likely every time "maybe next year" wins again.

The people running client retreats are no braver than you, and honestly no better organised either.

They simply have a Simple System - a way to design the week, pick the venue, set the price, fill the seats and run the days. Retreats are learnable, the same way funnels and launches were learnable.

That system is what I am handing you. I call it my "Mastermind Retreat Playbook" - a 7-week live program where we plan, price and package your retreat together, week by week, until it is real and ready to offer to your people.

Picture a Tuesday morning
about a year from now

You are standing in a hotel lobby with a coffee you have not touched, watching the doors. The first taxi pulls up and out steps a client you have only ever seen from the shoulders up. The hug lasts a few seconds longer than either of you expected. By lunchtime the room sounds like a reunion, and you made this happen.

Now picture the final dinner, 4 days later. Someone stands up with a glass and thanks you, and their voice catches halfway through. Around that table sit people who arrived as your clients and are leaving as each other's friends. 2 of them have already asked about next year, and dessert has not even arrived.

And picture the quiet bit afterwards, back at your desk. The numbers from the week sit in your spreadsheet: a healthy margin from 4 days of work you loved, enough to fund your own seat at whichever room you want to sit in next.

That is the business you are 7 weeks from starting to build.

I will show you exactly how I run the business mastermind retreats I have hosted since 2016.

My name is Ant Hodges and I have spent more than 20 years in marketing: running my own agency, writing the book Simplify the Funnel®, and coaching founder-led businesses to strip out complexity and scale what works. For years now, the centre of my own business has been a premium mastermind whose members fly in from across Europe and the US for retreats I host myself.

Since 2016 I have run multiple retreat events in Porto, Portugal.

My early retreats taught me lessons the expensive way. I once had an experience "confirmed" by a venue that was never actually booked, and found out standing at an empty taxi rank with a group of clients behind me. One year I picked the wrong hotel and put it right the following year. I have taken honest client feedback that stung at the time, but turned out to be a gift that made the next retreat better.

Every one of these lessons, and more, is built into this Playbook as a rule, a checklist or a story for you to learn from, without it costing you time, money or embarrassment!

This means you get something I never had - the shortcut. You skip all the guesswork and go straight to a version of a retreat for your business that took me years of real rooms, real clients and real money to reach.