Seasonal
Mastermind
Align to Nature’s Rhythms 🌿
A CURATED COHORT OF 40 | IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL
3 MONTHS | FALL COHORT SEPT 25 - DEC 18
A seasonal mastermind for 40 high-impact leaders, entrepreneurs, and spiritual innovators who want to align their strategy with nature's rhythms and build community around their purpose.
Join us for a 3-month season of strategy, accountability, and aligned community. Refresh your goals, celebrate your wins, and share your offerings and needs with peers who get it.
EARLY BIRD 10% OFF UNTIL 9/7
You are someone who is…
Is up to something big — following your path, living your purpose — and wants to be nourished by a community of powerful, high-impact peers who see you, support you, and help you uplevel your business, creativity, and leadership
Sometimes feels isolated in your work and longs for consistent accountability, support, and peers who truly understand the power and potential of your vision
Is craving an injection of aligned community — a space where values, purpose, and collaboration come before performance or hustle
May find it hard to relate to family or friends about your business or leadership journey, and wants to be in conversation with people who "get it" and celebrate you
Is seeking meaningful collaboration — relationships rooted in trust and mutual aid rather than surface-level exchanges. We're here for transformation, not transaction.
Fall Equinox Schedule
(Sept 25-Dec 18th)
Fall Equinox Theme: Align | Expand | Amplify
Sept 25 (Friday) — Session 1: Kickoff · 10:30 am–1:00 pm PST (Virtual)
Oct 16 (Friday) — Session 2: Business Models & Budgeting with Jordon Jo · 10:30 am–1:00 pm PST (Virtual)
Nov 13 (Friday) — Session 3: Community Dinner · 6:30–10:00 pm PST (In-person/Oakland)
Dec 4 (Friday) — Session 4: Deep Dive Coaching with Dr. Cornell · 10:30 am–1:00 pm PST (Virtual)
Dec 18 (Thursday) — Session 5: Closing Community Dinner · 6:30–10:00 pm PST (In-person/Oakland)
COWORKING DAYS (optional):
Oct 7 (Wednesday) Hybrid · 11:00 am–4:00 pm — Coworking 1
Nov 4 (Wednesday) Hybrid · 11:00 am–4:00 pm — Coworking 2
Nov 18 (Wednesday )Hybrid · 11:00 am–4:00 pm — Coworking 3
More Than a Mastermind. A Community Behind Your Vision.
Build Your Inner Circle — Connect deeply with a small, curated pod of peers who see your work, hold you accountable, and celebrate your wins.
Through a seasonal rhythm of virtual sessions, curated pods, and in-person gatherings, this mastermind is designed to help you:
Get Unstuck on Real Challenges — Bring your actual questions into peer coaching and hot-seat sessions built for practical, honest feedback.
Refresh Your Strategy Each Season — Step back from the day-to-day to reflect, reset your goals, and commit to what matters most this quarter.
Find Real Collaborators — Share what you need and what you offer within a trusted, values-aligned network — not a transactional one.
Space to Celebrate & Be Supported
Your wins deserve to be witnessed, too. Come to a community where you can celebrate progress, ask for help, dream bigger, and be supported as both a leader and a whole person.
Optional Coorking Days
Keep the momentum going between Mastermind sessions with dedicated time to work alongside the community, connect, and turn your intentions into action.
This seasonal mastermind runs in three-month cohorts, built around three kinds of gathering:
How It Works
Begin With Intention
We kick off the season together virtually, creating space to reflect, clarify your goals, and set an aligned strategy for the months ahead.
Gather Throughout the Season
Over the following months, we come together through a mix of virtual Mastermind sessions and in-person gatherings. Each session gives you space to reconnect with your goals, receive peer coaching, share wins and challenges, and explore opportunities for collaboration.
Stay Connected Between Sessions
Optional hybrid coworking days give you additional space to work alongside the community, deepen relationships, and keep moving on the commitments you've made.
Continue Into the Next Season—as desired
At the end of the season, you decide whether you'd like to continue into the next cohort. Each new season offers an opportunity to refresh your strategy, recommit to your goals, and keep growing alongside an aligned community.
Grow With the Cohort
Each season is designed as an intentional container. You'll build trust with the same community over the experience rather than dropping into a traditional networking group.
“This mastermind is perfect for creative entrepreneurs, knowledge experts, healers, leaders, and spiritual innovators who are birthing & sharing work focused on social impact and sustainability. This cohort experience has allowed me to dream bigger for myself, my business, and how I want to be of service to others on their path. The virtual facilitation and peer group sessions were in-depth and very insightful! I felt seen, supported, and celebrated on each call as we shared our challenges and successes as entrepreneurs. Thank you to the Embrace team for the wonderful facilitation and energy brought into each call.
Victoria Litardo, Faith Matters. Network
“The Embrace Spring Mastermind was a powerful convergence of healing justice leaders and visionary entrepreneurs. In the sessions, we got to hear about each person's unique offerings, share our wins and ask for support, and learn and grow together. Our time together sparked organic collaborations, bold ideas, and deep connection. I left feeling creatively fueled, spiritually grounded, and more equipped expand my impact in the world. This is the kind of space our movements need more of.
~ Sonya Mehta, CEO, Expand Your Capacity
“This mastermind is definitely for you if you're a solopreneur or on a small team and working on a big vision. This cohort is filled with incredible humans who can offer guidance on practical things like tools and systems as well as support on challenges from the personal, interpersonal, metaphysical and everything in between. The best part is these people are genuine in their care and desire to help lift each other up.”
Gabi Jubran, HAPPI Network (Helping Awesome People Prosper Intentionally)
“The Embrace Mastermind is for visionaries, healers and community leaders who want to grow in their purpose work with others. Embrace offered a such nurturing, enlivening space that co-inspired one another through thoughtful connections and relevant content.”
~ Sarwan Parikh, Co-Founder, Dharma Homies
SEPT - DEC
Mastermind Sessions
Strategic Realignment: Reflect, stay accountable, and recommit to your business goals and metrics each season.
Mutual Support: Peer coaching and workshops to meet your most pressing challenges as a business and leader.
Connection and Community: celebrate wins, receive support, network with other values-aligned leaders, and grow amongst purpose-led peers.
Sept 25th (Friday) - Session 1: Kickoff
10:30 am - 1:00 pm PST (Virtual)
Nov 13 (Friday) - Community Dinner
6:30 pm - 10:00 pm PST (In-person/Oakland)
Oct 16 (Friday) - Session 2: Business Models & Budgeting with Jordon Jo
10:30 am - 1:00 pm PST (Virtual)
Dec 4 (Friday) - Session 4: Deep Dive Coaching with Dr. Cornell
10:30 am-1:00pm PST (Virtual)
Dec 18 (Thursday) - Session 5 · Closing Community Dinner
6:30 pm - 10:00 pm PST (In-person/Oakland)
The Dream Team
Co-Director, Embrace
ADVISOR, FALL MASTERMIND COHORT
Mazin Jamal
Mazin Jamal is the Founder and Executive Director of Holistic Underground, a fiscal sponsorship, consulting and capacity building agency for visionary organizations and leaders. He has served as an executive coach, advisor and organizer with Fortune 500 companies, startups and grass-roots movements across the US, Africa, Asia, South and Central America.
Dr. Cornell Verdeja-Woodson
Leadership Coach & Organizational Strategist
LEAD FACILITATOR, FALL MASTERMIND
Dr. Cornell Verdeja-Woodson is a Leadership Coach and Organizational Strategist with two decades of experience moving leaders and teams from survival mode to purposeful performance. Through his BRAVE Framework, he coaches high-achieving men through questions of identity, values, and transition, and designs leadership development and change strategy for organizations including Pixar, Google, Headspace, and Zillow. He is the author of Giving Space (2027).
Jordon Jo
Business & Financial Advisor
CO-FACILITATOR, FALL MASTERMIND
Jordon Jo is a business and financial advisor helping founders build aligned, humane, and financially sound companies. After co-founding a bootstrapped events business that grew to $4M in revenue, he now supports entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders with clarity-driven strategy and systems. Through JJo Advising, he blends emotional intelligence with practical financial architecture so peace and profit can coexist.
Jazimin Garrett
Fractional Chief of Staff, Keynote Speaker & Author
COMMUNITY & EVENTS PRODUCER, FALL MASTERMIND
Jazimin is a published author, keynote speaker, and experience producer who blends creativity, spirituality, and strategy. She has served as Chief of Staff, Executive Assistant, and Experience Producer for Sound Agriculture, iCIMS, and SOSV's IndieBio SF, pairing operational precision with genuine care. Through The Love Model, her philosophy and framework, she designs experiences that foster connection and renewal.
Lotus Malana Wong
Co-Director, Embrace | Brand Strategist ADVISOR, FALL MASTERMIND
Lotus Malana Wong is an Executive Facilitator, Brand Designer, and CEO of Creative Muse Studios. With 15 years of global experience across 35+ countries, Lotus elevates leaders and transforms teams to bring bold visions to life. Her clients range from Fortune 500 companies like Adobe, Nike and Starbucks to non-profits including Race Forward, Women Donors Network, and the Oakland Museum of Contemporary Art.
Testimonials
As a person of color entrepreneur, the Embrace Mastermind provides me with community of support, play, and business acumen and wisdom that helps me stay connected to my mission. People are authentic, develop care, and truly lift each other up because we get to know each other. Plus, there is a rich depth and variety of experiences represented in the cohort and team.
— Wilder Grace, CEO,
Embrace is for anyone who has spent years pouring their gifts into the world while quietly abandoning themselves in the process. As a yoga therapist and hip hop artist, I came in carrying the weight of two identities that the world rarely holds in the same room. What I received was permission, not just to integrate them, but to lead from that integration unapologetically.
— Osiris Booque,
Embrace Mastermind has been a power-full container of gentle, yet firm accountability and support for me to continue manifesting my vision for a heart-centered, soul-led life; to live my dharma. The generous offers of expertise, resources, and sharing of gifts has been exceptional, meeting me where I am and ready to assist and uplift in sacred reciprocity. So grateful to be in the energy of such a gracious, diverse, powerfully-talented and divinely-rooted group of allies, spirit lifters and genius creators - it has been valuable beyond measure.
— Cherese LeBlanc, Entrepreneur
investing in your growth
(Sept 25th to Dec 18th)
The value of this 3 month Mastermind is $750 per person.
Thanks to funding from The WK Kellogg Foundation we have subsidized the program for accessibility. Worktrade scholarships available on a case-by-case basis. Contact hello@embracecommunity.co.
One Spot
$597 total — or 3 monthly payments of $199
FAQs
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A mastermind group is a hand-picked collection of values and goals-aligned individuals who meet regularly to share knowledge, offer advice, and support each other in achieving their personal or professional goals.
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This seasonal mastermind is for up to 40 high-impact leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators with a spiritual foundation who want to build community around their purpose and collaborate with visionary movers and shakers.
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The value of this mastermind group is $750 per person.
We've created a number of options to maximize accessibility.
Additionally, thanks to funding from The WK Kellogg Foundation, we are offering a limited number of work trade scholarships. -
FALL COHORT (Sept 25–Dec 18)
Sept 25 · Friday · Virtual · 10:30 am–1:00 pm — Session 1 · Kick-off during Fall Equinox week
Oct 7 · Wednesday · Hybrid · 11:00 am–4:00 pm — Coworking 1 (optional)
Oct 16 · Friday · Virtual · 10:30 am–1:00 pm — Session 2
Nov 4 · Wednesday · Hybrid · 11:00 am–4:00 pm — Coworking 2 (optional)
Nov 13 · Friday · In-Person Dinner · 6:30–10:00 pm — Session 3
Nov 18 · Wednesday · Hybrid · 11:00 am–4:00 pm — Coworking 3 (optional)
Dec 4 · Friday · Virtual · 10:30 am–1:00 pm — Session 4
Dec 18 · Thursday · In-Person Dinner · 6:30–10:00 pm — Session 5
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Our Mastermind runs in three-month seasonal cohorts throughout the year. Each cohort is a closed container — once it ends, you can choose whether to continue into the next season.
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The Mastermind will kickoff on Sept 25th from 10:30am–1:00pm PST, virtually by Zoom.
You must attend the kickoff to participate in the Fall Season.
You can come to all 5 sessions but must come to 3 (in person or virtual) in order to stay in the cohort. -
Contact our Community & Event Producer, Jazimin at hello@embracecommunity.co.