The Growth Intensive

You've built something real.

Revenue is coming in. Clients are showing up. By every outside measure, things are going well.

But well enough isn't the point.

You know this business is capable of more. You can feel the gap between where you are and where you know you could be. And no matter how hard you work, how many strategies you try, or how many podcasts you listen to on your morning run, the gap stays.

Here's what nobody tells you:

The reason your growth plan hasn't worked isn't because you had the wrong strategy.

It's because you've never understood why you keep getting in your own way.

Every stuck founder has two problems running at the same time.

The Outer Problem

Something in your business is broken. Your offer, your marketing, your operations, or your team. One of these is the primary reason your growth has stalled.

The Inner Problem

Something in your psychology is keeping you from fixing it. A fear so familiar you've stopped noticing it. A pattern that looks like procrastination, perfectionism, or playing it safe, but it runs much deeper.

Most events, coaches, and masterminds address one or the other.

This event addresses both. At the same time. In the same room.

Introducing

May 21–22, 2026 | Minneapolis, MN

A two-day experience for founders who are done wondering why they're stuck and ready to do something about it.

Hosted by Darrell Vesterfelt, a growth strategist who scaled ConvertKit from $1M to $7M in 15 months, and Corey Wilks, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and executive coach who has helped hundreds of founders break through the patterns quietly sabotaging their success.

Together, they have built a diagnostic that maps the outer blockers in your business against the inner blockers in your psychology and shows you exactly where they intersect.

That intersection is where your growth plan lives.

How It Works

Two Days. Two Diagnostics. One Plan.

Day One: The Diagnostic

The room opens with a single question: "What has been getting in your way that you've been too close to see?"

You'll say it out loud. Most people have never been asked that directly before, and most are surprised by what comes out when they answer honestly.

From there, Corey guides you through identifying your primary Horseman. This is the fear-based pattern that has been quietly running your decisions for years, disguised as a strategy, discipline, or productivity problem. Darrell guides you through identifying your primary Growth Blocker, the non-obvious constraint that is actually limiting your business, not the surface-level one you've been trying to fix.

By the end of Day One, you'll see the connection between the two for the first time. You'll understand why the thing you keep avoiding in your business is the exact thing your psychology has been protecting you from. Then, to celebrate everything you've uncovered throughout the day, you'll join your fellow founders for a group dinner (on us).

Day Two: The Plan

Day Two starts where Day One ended. Except now the room is different.

You've slept on the diagnostic. You know your Horseman. You know your Growth Blocker. You've connected with your fellow founders through deep conversations over dinner that feel like the foundation for long-lasting relationships.

Today is all about applying what you've uncovered and building with intention.

With Darrell and Corey working the room, you'll identify your One Thing, the single move that, if you actually executed it, would change everything. Not a list of priorities. Not a 90-day plan with seventeen initiatives. One thing, with a clear path and a real deadline.

The day closes the same way it opened: you'll say out loud what you're committing to when you leave the room. Same people. Same room. Forty-eight hours apart.

The difference between those two moments is the point of the whole event.

The Frameworks

Two Diagnostic Tools. One Powerful Insight.

Corey's Four Horsemen of Fear

Every founder is held back by at least one of four limiting beliefs:

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Fear of Failure keeps you from starting
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Fear of Ridicule keeps you small
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Fear of Uncertainty paralyzes you in over-analysis
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Fear of Success tricks you into quitting right before the breakthrough

Darrell's Four Growth Blockers

Every stuck business has a primary constraint in one of four areas:

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Product-Market Fit: wrong offer, unclear positioning
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Go-to-Market: can't acquire customers efficiently
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Operations: broken systems, founder is the bottleneck
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People: wrong team, wrong roles, leadership gaps

These aren't just parallel frameworks. They're causally linked.

Fear of Ridicule almost always shows up as a GTM problem. Fear of Uncertainty almost always shows up as an Operations problem. Fear of Success almost always shows up as a People problem.

When you know your Horseman, you know why your Growth Blocker keeps coming back, no matter how many times you try to fix it.

Who This Is For

This isn't for everyone.

This event is for you if:

✓ You have an established business doing $250K–$3M and you know it's capable of more
✓ You are ambitious, disciplined, and still showing up, but something keeps getting in the way
✓ You've tried the strategies, read the books, maybe even hired the coaches, and the gap is still there
✓ You are not looking for motivation or permission. You are looking for clarity and a real plan tailored to you and your business.

This event is NOT for you if:

× You're just getting started and still figuring out your business
× You're looking for a networking event or a feel-good retreat
× You're not willing to be honest about what's actually been holding you back

The Details

Everything You Need to Know

Location

Basecamp, 1619 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN

Dates

Wednesday, May 21 – Thursday, May 22, 2026

Size

Capped at 25 people

Investment

$2,500 per person

What's included:

• Two full days of facilitated diagnostic and planning work
• Coffee, pastries, and lunch both days
• Group dinner Wednesday evening
• Your completed diagnostic map and growth plan to take home

What's not included:

• Hotel (we recommend booking early because Minneapolis in May fills up fast)

Your Hosts

Led by Two People Who've
Actually Done It

Darrell Vesterfelt

Founder and Growth Strategist

Darrell has spent more than 20 years as an entrepreneur and founder. As the Head of Growth he scaled ConvertKit from $1M to $7M ARR in 15 months, was on the founding team of Donald Miller's StoryBrand, and today runs Mount Haley Holdings, a holding company that builds and acquires growth-stage companies. He has sat across the table from hundreds of founders and knows exactly what a stalled business looks like from the inside.

Corey Wilks, PsyD

Psychologist & Coach

Corey is a clinical psychologist and executive coach who works exclusively with founders, creators, and entrepreneurs. His Four Horsemen of Fear framework has helped hundreds of people identify the psychological patterns keeping them from building what they're capable of. He brings the kind of insight to a room that most founders have only ever gotten after years of therapy, or never at all.

You already know your business is capable of more.

You've known it for a while.

The question is whether you're going to keep trying to figure it out alone or spend two days finally understanding why you're stuck and building the plan to get unstuck.

Twenty-five spots. One event.

Reserve My Spot for $2,500

May 21–22, 2026 | Minneapolis, MN

Have a question before you register? Email Darrell.

Your Business Is Capable of More. So Why Aren't You There Yet?

Every stuck founder has two problems running at the same time.