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The team

Meet the builders.

The people building alongside you, across community, strategy, product, and the executive layer. Hover or tap a card to meet each one.

Everyone on this team appreciates autonomy. We're helping business owners build the way they want, through systems that sustain their path.

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Chelsee Pettit

Chelsee Pettit

Founder · Builder of Businesses

Founder

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Chelsee Pettit

Founder · Builder of Businesses

Chels builds businesses: the systems and solutions that integrate people, process, and technology. Blunt, direct, and fully in your corner: she's here to see your path and push you down it, no excuses. She won't sympathize you into staying stuck; she'll turn your pain points into fuel. Her motto: shut the f**k up and do it. If you want it, go do it.

Based in · Toronto · Chicago · Arizona

Superpower · Systems & solutions for people, integration, and technology

Fun fact · I am ambidextrous.

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Haley Garcia

Haley Garcia

Builder of Program Success

Program Pod

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Haley Garcia

Builder of Program Success

Haley builds program success. Founder of WrkWth, she creates community through entrepreneurial programs, keeping the people side running so members actually build. Driven by autonomy, she makes sure the experience, the onboarding, and the progress all hold together. Based in Chicago (and, honestly, everywhere).

Based in · Chicago, IL

Superpower · Building community through entrepreneurial programs, powered by autonomy

Fun fact · Knows how to train ferrets to be your partner in crime.

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Michele Young-Crook

Michele Young-Crook

Builder of Risk Management

Executive Layer

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Michele Young-Crook

Builder of Risk Management

Michele builds risk management, and she's the one who'll tell you the reality of what you shouldn't do, because 90% of the time the risk isn't worth it. Founder of SQRL2, her role is to keep you anchored to reality while you're building products, solutions, events, and partnerships. Her superpower is dream crushing: she kills the bad bets early so the good ones survive.

Based in · Ontario, Canada

Superpower · Dream crushing: telling you the reality you need to hear

Fun fact · Can touch her nose with her tongue

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Sofia Wolf

Sofia Wolf

Builder of Operational Success

Product Pod

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Sofia Wolf

Builder of Operational Success

Sofia builds efficiency. Across RTFT, aaniin.shop, and Waabi Marketing's Small Business Transformation work, she's the one making sure things actually ship and ship right. At 19, she runs operations and quality sign-off through pure hands-on grit, adaptability, and trust.

Based in · Toronto, ON

Superpower · Experience, trust, hands-on learning, adaptability, autonomy

Fun fact · Nearly didn't finish high school and took no math/business after 16; now does it daily at 19

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Mohamad Al Lakkis

Mohamad Al Lakkis

Builder of Community Success

Community Pod (POC)

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Mohamad Al Lakkis

Builder of Community Success

Mohamad runs Aaniin's community as “Ragnar the Creator.” A chef, author, and operator turned community builder, he's driven by stability, peace, and building a better future for his son. He's the one turning members, affiliates, and ambassadors into a movement, and writing a novel on the side.

Based in · Baalbek, Lebanon

Superpower · Stability, peace, family

Fun fact · Chef, author, writer, operator & creator

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Rabieh Allam

Rabieh Allam

Builder of Financial Success

Strategy Pod

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Rabieh Allam

Builder of Financial Success

Rabieh is the numbers guy. He builds the case studies, cashflow and profitability modules, forecasts, and the financial structures that hold a business together. Powered by logic and a deep trust in positive people, he turns messy numbers into a clear path to profit.

Based in · Baalbeck, Lebanon

Superpower · The power of logic, innovation, and trust in positive people

Fun fact · Fully understands French but can't speak a word of it

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Christopher Yammine

Christopher Yammine

Builder of Scalability Success

Product Pod (POC)

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Christopher Yammine

Builder of Scalability Success

Chris builds the tech kingdom. He's behind RTFT and the automations that let everything scale without breaking. He leans on reliability, autonomy, and a diverse team to ship product that holds up under real volume.

Based in · Beirut, Lebanon

Superpower · Reliability, autonomy, and a diverse team

Fun fact · Plays a dozen sports, watches none

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Duncan C. Hepburn

Duncan C. Hepburn

Builder of Capital Success

Strategy Pod (POC)

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Duncan C. Hepburn

Builder of Capital Success

Duncan builds capital. He designs the raising packages and runs the investor conversations that fund the mission. An Olympian (2016) who's been to 64 countries, he brings grit and hard-won experience to every room where the money gets made.

Based in · Scottsdale, AZ

Superpower · Past experiences and grit

Fun fact · Made the 2016 Olympics and has visited 64 countries

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Ricky

Ricky

Builder of Project Success

Operations Pod

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Ricky

Builder of Project Success

Ricky keeps the build moving: project sequencing and the cross-team handoffs that keep every team on track. More on Ricky soon.

Based in ·

Superpower · Coming soon

Fun fact · Coming soon

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Kathleen

Kathleen

Builder of Viability

Intake & Qualifying

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Kathleen

Builder of Viability

Kathleen builds viability. Before a business goes deep, she makes sure it's actually ready for the program, and if it's not yet, she points it to the right tools to get there first. She keeps a solid, qualified flow into our community of builders, so everyone who's in is set up for real success and real follow-through.

Based in ·

Superpower · Knowing if a business is ready, and which tools fit if it's not yet

Fun fact · Coming soon

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Francois

Francois

Builder of Journey Flow

Intake & Qualifying

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Francois

Builder of Journey Flow

Francois builds journey flow. He makes sure the lead and customer journey is synced end-to-end, so every builder has a streamlined path across the platform before they officially get started. He works alongside Kathleen, powering the qualification data that decides who's ready.

Based in ·

Superpower · Streamlining the path from lead to ready-to-build

Fun fact · Coming soon

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The why

Why are any of us doing this?

Because we're done watching gatekeepers hoard the systems that only benefit them. The playbooks, the numbers, the real relationships, kept behind a curtain so the people who need them most never get a look.

That's not how we work. We build together. We share resources, we open doors, we trade networks and opportunities instead of guarding them.

Because here's what nobody tells you when you're starting out: you're not just selling to customers. You're selling to everyone, and mostly to your suppliers, your partners, your network. They're the ones who get you in the rooms. Who advocate for you when you're not there. Whose stamp of approval carries weight no amount of going viral could ever sustain.

So the real skill isn't a viral moment. It's being a business worth vouching for. A client suppliers want to keep. A partner people want to build with. That's what compounds. That's what lasts.

That's why we're doing this: building founders who win the long game by being the kind of business the whole ecosystem wants to carry forward.