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The Forward Press >>> · Aug 12, 2026

Most leaders can't sit still for 5 minutes, I'm headed into a dark cave for 5 days.

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Neal Conlon · The Forward Press >>>

I just wrapped a mastermind with a billionaire and 15 executives in Nebraska.

I decided to stay in Nebraska and in four days I go into five days of total darkness.

No phone, no light, no noise, just me and whatever’s actually running my decisions.

Here’s what hit me on the way out of that mastermind: I spent years thinking I had to build alone. Figure it out myself. Carry the whole thing on my back and call it discipline.

And to take it even further when I ran my first half Ironman. I completed alone. And the win was no where as great when I finished other Ironman with support.

I was wrong. And if you’ve been running your business the same way, so are you.

Nobody builds anything worth building alone. Not the founders you admire, not the operators you’re trying to become, not the guy heading into the dark in a few days. Every one of us needed a room full of people who were further along, asking better questions than we knew to ask ourselves.

That room is the leverage. Not another course. Not another framework you’ll skim and forget. A room.

Isolation kills momentum. It doesn’t announce itself it just shows up as a slower decision here, a problem you sit on instead of solve, a plan you keep polishing instead of shipping. You don’t notice you’re isolated. You just notice you’re stuck.

Access is what breaks that. Access to people who’ll tell you the truth about your business. Access to a weekly rhythm that keeps you moving instead of coasting. Access to a room where the stakes are real and so is the support.

That’s what I built. I’m calling it LVRG.

It’s a weekly group coaching program for business owners who are done doing this alone — live every Friday, built around the actual thing capping your growth, not theory.

I wanted this available before I go dark, because the timing means something to me. I’m walking into a room with no one else in it for five days, and it’s made me more certain than ever that the rest of my life doesn’t need to look like that. Neither does yours.

If you’ve felt the weight of building alone, this is the invitation.

Join LVRG: https://nealconlon.com/lvrg

I’ll see you in the room.

Neal

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