The home page made the case. This one shows you the mechanics. How the Room runs, who's in it, how you get in, what it costs, where it isn't yet.
If you've read this far, you're probably one of the people we built this for.
We skip December and July. December for family. July for holidays. The same people every time, so by meeting three you've stopped performing and started telling the truth.
This is the whole thing. Everything else is around the edges.
Every room runs on a format we built and refined ourselves. It's designed to get you deeper and more honest fast, past the surface in the first forty minutes, every time. The structure does the work, so the conversation goes where it needs to go without anyone having to force it.
There's no paid facilitator at the front. The inaugural Room is always run by a founder, then each month a different member runs the room using that format. You learn to open a hard conversation, draw out the quiet one, hold eight-ish high-performers in the same place for three hours and actually get somewhere.
That's the part you'll thank us for. Once you can run the room, you can run anything: the board meeting, the leadership offsite, the conversation with your kid you've been putting off. Holding space is a skill almost nobody at your level was ever taught. You learn it here, and you use it everywhere.
Three hours each. Block them out before anything else hits the calendar. The Room is the appointment everything else moves around, not the other way around.
Once a year, two days. The whole membership in one room. Marquee guest. Awards night. The cultural high point of the calendar.
Eight to twelve people, topic-focused, at cost. A change of pace from the monthly Room, and a way to meet members from outside your own.
A ski trip to Niseko. Surfing in Indonesia. Snorkelling Lady Elliot Island with people who won't check their phones once. Long dinners, the odd adventure, the occasional thing you'll never quite be able to explain to anyone who wasn't there. Organised by our travel partner. Run at cost.
Between meetings, a private digital community. The members you haven't met yet, the question you need answered tonight, the introduction that only makes sense at this altitude.
Two doors get you considered. Only one kind of person walks through them. The owner-operator clearing seven figures. The founder who's raised serious capital or completed a real exit.
Different shapes, same weight at the table. When you sit down, everyone else is carrying roughly what you're carrying. The payroll that has to clear. The decisions nobody else can make for you. The weeks where it all rides on you and you tell everyone it's fine.
Clearing the bar gets you considered, not in. Every member is interviewed. Existing members can say no.
That's the point. The room stays the room because of who we keep out of it. The day we let in someone who hasn't done what you've done is the day the room stops being worth your time, and ours.
We vet everyone, by hand. It's the only reason the room is worth anything.
Tell us what you've built and what you're carrying. Takes about ten minutes. We're opening Rooms cycle by cycle, and the waitlist is how we know who's ready.
When we open in your city, if you fit on paper, we talk. Not a sales call. A conversation about how you think and what you're actually after. One of the three of us is on every interview.
Existing members can weigh in, and can say no. This is what keeps the room high-trust and the wrong people out.
A founder makes the final call on every single member. That's Melissa, Nick or James. Every time. No exceptions.
Before your first room, you talk to a founder. We finalise who you'll sit with, and make sure the room we've built around you is the right one. This activates your 60-day money-back guarantee, which runs from your first Room session.
Immediate access to the wider community. Your room is matched carefully, which takes a little time and can't be rushed.
There's no curriculum, no syllabus, no expert at the front teaching you their system. The expertise is in the room.
You're past that. Nobody in here is going to ask you about your "blocks" or hand you a journaling exercise.
We're smaller, more curated, and we don't run on volunteer leadership boards or annual conferences. Hastings is a room, not an organisation.
You'll meet people you do business with. You won't be pitched, prospected, or added to a CRM. The no-selling rule is structural.
No leather chairs, no scotch in a dim room, no portrait of a founder above a fireplace. It's a private room on a Tuesday with eight people who've stopped pretending.
Membership is an annual investment, and most members treat it as a business expense. We'll talk numbers once you're through the interview, because the figure only makes sense next to what you get for it.
A note on timing. We're in our founding round right now, which means the first members in get founding pricing, locked in for as long as they stay. The price goes up when the founding round closes. The discount isn't a sale, it's a thank-you for being early, while we get every detail of the Room right.
Some events and retreats cost extra. We run those at cost, just to make the membership so good you never want to leave.
Sixty days from your first Room session. Activated by your Commitment Call with a founder. If we didn't deliver what we said we would, you don't pay for it.
We're putting our money behind the room because we know what it's worth. If you sit in it for sixty days and feel differently, that's our problem, not yours.
Not in your city yet? Join the waitlist anyway. The room is in-person only, so we'll let you know the moment we open near you. We go where the demand flows.
Aussie living overseas? Join the waitlist anyway. The wait might be longer, but a room in Bali or Ibiza doesn't sound like the worst outcome.
We're in our founding round now, so the first members in are paying founding rates, locked in for life.
Join the waitlistA private members club for Australia's most successful entrepreneurs and operators. The heart of it is your room: eight-ish peers in your city who meet ten times a year to talk, in real confidence, about the things success makes harder to say. Each room is single-gender, so the conversation goes where it needs to go without anyone holding back.
The inaugural Room is always hosted by a founder. Members then take turns. With eight of you and ten meetings a year, your turn comes around once, maybe twice. Sometimes a founder runs it again instead. No paid facilitator at the front, by design. Rotating the role means every member learns to lead a room full of high-performers, which is a skill in itself, and it keeps the room ours rather than someone else's product.
The first Room of every cycle is on us. A founder hosts, the venue is sorted, the format is run exactly the way it's meant to be run. That first session sets the tone for every session that follows. After that, the Room is yours.
Each month, one member hosts. They pick the venue, the spread, the feel of the night. It might be their kitchen table on a Sunday afternoon. The restaurant they've been going to for ten years where the staff know their order. A vineyard a friend owns. The back room of a bar they love. A beach house someone has access to in summer. Each member gets a budget to spend on their month and gets to put their fingerprint on a Room.
By the end of your first year, you've sat at eight different tables, eaten in eight different homes, been inside the places eight different people actually choose when they want to feel good. You've met the partner at the door. You've patted the dog. You've watched them in their element. The Room stops being a meeting and starts being something closer to family.
This is the difference between a community and a service. A service shows up at a fixed venue every month and asks you to attend. A community moves through each other's lives and finds itself somewhere new each time.
Yes. Members sign real confidentiality, and the no-selling rule is enforced. But the deeper answer is that the vetting is what protects the room. We don't let anyone in who we don't trust to hold what's said. What goes in the room stays in the room. That's the whole point.
Membership is an annual investment, and most members treat it as a business expense. We'll talk numbers once you're through the interview, because the figure only makes sense next to what you get for it.
We're in our founding round right now, which means the first members in get founding pricing, locked in for as long as they stay. The price goes up when the founding round closes. Some events and retreats cost extra. We run those at cost, just to make the membership so good you never want to leave.
Sixty-day money-back guarantee from your first Room session. Activated by your Commitment Call with a founder. If we didn't deliver, you don't pay for it.
You apply, we research, we interview, members weigh in, a founder signs off. Fewer than one in seven applicants makes it. It's a lot of process for a reason: the room is only as good as the people in it, and we're obsessive about that.
No. Nobody sells, nobody pitches, nobody recruits. Break it once and we'll have a quiet word. Break it again and you're out. The no-selling rule is structural, not a suggestion. It's part of why people say the real thing in here.
The room is built around eight. Sometimes someone's travelling, sometimes life intervenes, sometimes a new member is being matched in. Eight-ish is the honest answer. The intimacy holds at seven or nine. The Room doesn't break because someone's kid got sick.
Ten meetings a year. Three hours each. Block them out before anything else hits the calendar. The Room is the appointment everything else moves around, not the other way around.
Everything else, the retreat, the events, the digital community, is there if you want it.
Years, ideally. The whole value is the same people getting to know you over a long time. This isn't a one-year course. It's a room you grow inside.
No. There's no expert at the front, no curriculum, no system being taught. The expertise is in the people next to you. We're not coaching you. You're past that.