Your Questions, Answered
Everything you want to know before you decide to join the band.
If your question isn’t here, the Golden Ticket is the fastest way to find out if BOM is your kind of band.
Membership
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It's the operating system for independent experts. The tools, the live coaching, and the peer network that help consultants, fractional leaders, and professional coaches build a profitable business designed around their life.
Not a course you binge and forget. Not a mastermind that meets to chat. A working environment where strategy meets execution, surrounded by people doing the exact work you're doing.
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Because a coach is one person's playbook, on the clock, and it ends when the engagement ends. BOM gives you Stephen's thinking every month, a room of peers in your same season of business, and a whole crew of specialists behind you. One head is a point of view. A band is a force.
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Small on purpose. Small enough that you're known by name, your wins get celebrated, and the room actually knows what you're working on. This isn't a platform play chasing member count. The value is in the depth, not the volume.
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Membership is by application. But the smartest first step is a Golden Ticket—come sit in on a live session as our guest, see the system run, feel the room. If it's a fit, we'll walk you through the application from there.
The Experience
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We coach in the round. Members bring a real business problem, and they get live strategy from Stephen and the room. Every month there's a new tool or a deep dive on an existing one—always hands-on, always something you can use the next morning.
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Three live coaching sessions a month, plus guest experts and a steady stream of resources inside the BOM Slack channel.
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Every session is recorded and posted shortly after. Come live if you can—that's where you feel the BOM Buzz—but you'll never fall behind. It all lives in Slack, organized and searchable.
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Home base between sessions. Every tool, framework, and recording in one place. It's also where members swap wins, ask the question they're stuck on, and get a real answer fast. High signal, no noise feed.
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No. BOM runs on relationship-led growth. Most members win through sharper positioning and the right conversations, not viral posts or a follower count. If you sell real expertise into organizations, your pipeline is built one conversation at a time. We'll show you how.
Your Crew
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You get the crew. Stephen considers himself the “producer.” You are the talent and the crew takes care of you, ensuring you have what you need, providing the expertise so you are a star. Check out your crew members here.
Cost & Commitment
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$374 a month. Month-to-month. Cancel anytime.
Put it next to the math: one engagement priced right, one rate increase, one deal you didn't underprice—any one of those usually covers the year. The membership pays for itself and then some.
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None. You can leave whenever you want. But the members who get the big results are the ones who commit and let it compound. The first 90 days are where it starts to click, and it builds from there.
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One to two hours—sessions, peers, and putting the tools to work. And here's the thing: BOM doesn't add to your week. It replaces the scattered, spinning-your-wheels effort already eating that time with something focused.
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High-ticket masterminds run $10,000 to $50,000 a year, built for venture founders with budgets to match. Private coaching with a seasoned strategist runs $2,000 to $5,000 a month. BOM was built to give independent experts the serious coaching, the proven system, and a full crew of specialists—at a price that makes sense for where you actually are.
Is This You?
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Consultants, fractional leaders, and professional coaches who sell expertise to organizations. Usually years one through four, building toward $150K to $400K and up, and carrying real weight in their household's income.
Who it's not for: freelancers chasing side income, and founders building a team for an exit. If that's you, we'll be the first to say so. BOM is for the independent expert building a high-performing business around the life they want.
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Both, in different ways. Earlier on, you get structure and frameworks that skip years of expensive trial and error. Further along, you use BOM to break the ceiling you've hit and scale without torching your nights and weekends.
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Yes—and some of our best success stories started exactly there. They built positioning and pipeline inside BOM while still drawing a paycheck, so when they jumped, they landed with momentum instead of from zero. If you're in the final stretch of deciding, this is a great place to be.
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Most fall short one of three ways. Coaching hands you a formula that ignores your personality and model. Communities give you connection but no execution. Masterminds give you perspective, then leave you alone Monday morning.
BOM is all of it in one: a real operating system, tools built for immediate use, a room of peers who get it, and a crew of specialists on call. And Stephen's in every session—not a junior coach you didn't sign up for.
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That's what the Golden Ticket is for. Grab a free pass, sit in on a live session, meet the room, watch the system work. See it for yourself before you decide a thing.
Results
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Most members replace their employed income inside a year—plenty of them a lot faster. Rates raised and contracts renegotiated upward. A steady pipeline after years of living on referrals. High six figures in year one. And the one that's harder to measure but changes everything—walking into a prospect conversation with real confidence.
Results vary with where you start and how fast you put the work in. The system works. The speed is on you.
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Most members feel clarity and momentum inside 30 days. The first 90 are where the big shifts land: sharper positioning, better sales conversations, smarter pricing. We've seen members land a client or raise a rate in week one. We've seen others take a full quarter before it accelerates. Both are normal. Showing up is the variable.
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No. And we won't pretend otherwise. We hand you a proven system, live coaching, real tools, a crew of specialists, and a trusted room. What we can't do is show up and do the work for you. The members who win treat this like the real investment it is. Attend. Use the tools. Engage. That's the whole formula.
Working With Stephen
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Every session, every week. He leads the room, he's in the Slack, he's in the discussions. You're not handed off to a curriculum or a junior coach. Stephen's in the room.
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He keeps a very small number of private clients alongside BOM. If you want to explore it, use the Let's Talk form to ask about availability. Spots are limited and not always open.
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Thirty years as a copywriter, brand strategist, and growth leader, with Fortune 500 and billion-dollar brands across healthcare, technology, and professional services. He built and ran agencies, led growth, then launched his own practice and grew it past his old salary in year one. He built BOM because the operating system he needed didn't exist. Read the full story on the Meet Stephen page.
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Request one on the Golden Ticket page and we'll send details for an upcoming session. Guest spots are limited each month. Come ready to engage and see the system in action.