THE VISIONARY BUSINESS BUILDER

Your expertise.
Your vision.
What’s next?

A 12-month, hands-on business-building partnership for accomplished experts. From concept to launch.

Explore the partnership ↗
STRATEGY. CREATIVE. IMPLEMENTATION.
With Josh Wise & Nicolay Kreidler
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You’ve developed your expertise.What would you like to create next?

You’ve spent decades developing your expertise, refining your approach, synthesizing and maybe creating a body of work that is uniquely yours. People come to you for the results, the transformation, and your experience.

But now you’re ready for something greater, different, new, better. Something that inspires you, that gets you excited. You want freedom from current limitations, and the liberty to do what you are called to do. You are ready to become visible on a larger scale. It’s time.

You want to expand your work, explore new possibilities, take it to the next level and evolve professionally and personally, and you want it to be financially sustainable, supporting your life as it evolves.

Does this sound like you? +

Maybe you’ve tried before and become stuck. Maybe you felt you didn’t have the resources. Maybe you thought it was impossible. Maybe someone else dropped the ball. Maybe it was just not the right time.

If you’ve been waiting for a sign, for the right moment, for the right configuration. This is it.

FOR PEOPLE WHOSE WORK CHANGES LIVES

Practitioners. Physicians. Teachers. Authors. Consultants. Thought leaders.

Who we work with +

Psychotherapists / Mental Health Professionals, Physicians / Medical Doctors, Psychiatrists, Clinical Psychologists, Somatic Practitioners / Therapists, Meditation / Mindfulness Teachers, Spiritual Teachers / Facilitators, Coaches / Personal Development Practitioners, Holistic / Integrative Health Practitioners, Educators / Workshop Leaders, Executive / Leadership Coaches, Professional Educators / Teachers, Nonprofit / Social Impact Leaders…

You bring expertise,
experience and vision.
We bring the team.

Imagine having exceptionally experienced business partners and an established team at your side dedicated to turning the work you’ve been developing for decades into a thriving business. To reach more people, make a bigger impact, and create your legacy.

Over the course of 12 months, we work with you to create the business you’ve envisioned. Together, we’ll shape your offerings, define your model, and build the marketing, sales, and operating systems that bring your work to market.

How we bring your vision to life ↗
The commitment behind the partnership +

You bring expertise, experience and vision. We bring knowledge, skills and the team. Together we decide what wants to emerge. We build it, launch it, test it, and stand with you as you take it forward.

This Visionary Business Builder is designed to propel you forward, overcome obstacles and integrate all the different parts needed to create systems that work.

For decades the founders of the Visionary Business Builder have been helping mission-driven people thrive. They know this space inside out. They know what works and what doesn’t.

Our team’s hands-on with the technical and creative build, and you work directly with the principals on the decisions that shape your business. Our commitment is that by the end of our partnership, you’ll have a fully functioning business platform, with all the agreed components built, launched, and tested. Nothing cookie-cutter, your unique look and feel, your programs, your process, the extension of who you are and what you’re about.

See what’s possible.

The best way to understand what we do is to see the people and projects we've worked with.

From physicians and psychotherapists to authors, researchers, teachers, and transformational practitioners, we've helped accomplished professionals bring their knowledge and experience into new forms.

Every project is different, because every person and body of work is different.

How we bring
your vision
to life.

Every project we build begins with you at the source. Your experience, your expertise, your aspirations, and the possibilities you may not yet have considered.

What could we create together? ↗
01

Recognize.

Together we uncover the full potential of your body of work and explore what it could become. We define it, describe it, develop it.

02

Build.

We turn that vision into a business, developing your offerings, your positioning, your marketing, and the systems that bring it all together. It may extend what you currently do into a new dimension. It could be something completely new. It could be both.

03

Launch.

We launch your business, bring your offerings to market, test what works, refine the results, optimize the processes, and fulfill the goals.

All along the way, you’re actively involved in shaping the business, while our team brings it to life with you and for you.

What could we
create together?

Imagine what your work could become with the right experience, resources, and people behind you.

A signature programAn online platformWorkshops & retreatsA consulting practiceProfessional trainingSomething entirely new

A signature program that brings together everything you've learned. An online platform that allows you to teach and work with people around the world. A series of workshops or retreats. A new consulting practice. A professional training program that allows others to learn and apply your methods. Or an entirely new business built around an idea you've been developing for years.

There are possibilities you may already be considering, and others we may discover together.

Whatever direction we choose, we develop the offerings, create the materials, build the website and the systems, and establish the ways people can discover, experience, and purchase your work.

Everything is designed around your particular expertise, your aspirations, and the people you want to serve.

Experience that
makes the difference.

Between us, we've spent decades developing, launching, and supporting businesses, educational programs, and transformational work.

Josh Wise

PROGRAM STRATEGY & DEVELOPMENT

Josh Wise

Josh Wise has spent the last eight years as VP of Education at The Shift Network, where he oversees roughly 180 live courses a year taught by leading teachers in psychology, spirituality, health, and creative practice. His work there is to take a teacher’s expertise and turn it into a program people actually complete and are changed by — the architecture, the pacing, the arc of a transformational experience.

Before that he was a school principal and a counselor in private practice. With his wife, Lindsey, he offers ceremony, sound healing, and retreats from their land in the Sierra foothills of Northern California.

He holds master’s degrees in psychology and education and a B.A. in English. What ties it together is a single question: how do you build something that actually supports lasting transformation for people?

Nicolay Kreidler

BUSINESS STRATEGY & IMPLEMENTATION

Nicolay Kreidler

Nicolay Kreidler has spent the past decade helping accomplished practitioners, authors, and thought leaders recognize the possibilities within their work and bring them to life. He works directly with founders to shape their business strategy, develop programs, clarify their message, and build the websites, teams, and marketing systems that support growth.

An entrepreneur and former health practitioner, he has founded businesses and organizations, held executive director and board roles, and worked across the United States, Europe, and Asia. That experience gives him a practical understanding of the questions that arise when deeply personal work becomes a business: what to offer, where to focus, and how to make it sustainable.

Nicolay brings an independent mind, an interdisciplinary perspective, and a steady presence to complex situations. He sees connections across the whole enterprise and helps founders turn competing ideas and demands into clear decisions and workable next steps.

OUR ADVISOR CIRCLE

A wealth of experience.
A wider circle of possibilities.

Over the years, we've built relationships with accomplished authors, educators, healers, and entrepreneurs whose expertise complements our own.

Our Advisor Circle brings together a select group of these individuals, offering additional perspectives and specialized expertise to support your journey.

Depending on your needs and their availability, opportunities for individual consultations, guest conversations, and other collaborations may be available.

Meet Our Advisors

Lissa Rankin, MD

Lissa Rankin, MD

Author, Physician & Entrepreneur

A bestselling author, physician, and founder of multiple educational initiatives, Lissa brings extensive experience in building a mission-driven business, developing transformational programs, and growing an engaged audience around a distinctive body of work.

Shamini Jain, PhD

Shamini Jain, PhD

Scientist, Author & Founder of the Consciousness and Healing Initiative

Shamini brings expertise in bridging science and healing, developing educational programs, fundraising, and building mission-driven organizations. She also offers valuable guidance in authentic vocal expression and communicating with confidence and presence.

Lindsey Wise

Lindsey Wise

Authentic Voice & Expression

Lindsey helps people discover and express their authentic voice, bringing greater clarity, confidence, and individuality to how they communicate and share their work with the world.

Our advisors participate in different ways, and opportunities for individual consultations or other collaborations are subject to availability and separate arrangements.

And the people
who bring it to life.

Behind us is an established team of creative, marketing, and technology professionals who have worked together on projects like these for years.

This partnership brings that experience together in one place, dedicated to your business.

Why we created this partnership +

We are Josh Wise and Nicolay Kreidler. Together we bring decades of exactly the experience to the table that you need. One day we asked ourselves - why are there so many amazing people out there with transformative work, an amazing story, and decades of practice who don’t reach more than a relatively small group of clients, students, customers, or patients? Why are they not invited to larger platforms where they could find a much larger audience, why can’t they seem to reach the people who really need them? And so we set out to solve that problem.

We believe the market deserves to hear from you. It needs to hear from you.

A year together. A business ready for what’s next.

Throughout our partnership, you work personally with us to make the important decisions. Our team takes those decisions forward, creating the materials, building the systems, and bringing everything together.

As the business takes shape, we begin putting its components into action. We create and publish content, reach prospective clients, run marketing activities, test the systems, and make improvements based on what we learn.

By the end of our year together, your agreed business platform is built, launched, tested, and operating ready for you to take forward.

You can continue independently, with the tools and systems we've established, or engage our team for ongoing technical, marketing, and operational support.

Explore the investment ↗

A partnership.
Built around you.

A 12-month partnership with Josh Wise, Nicolay Kreidler, and our experienced implementation team.

Your investment includes personal strategic guidance, a business roadmap developed around your vision, and the hands-on creative, marketing, and technical work required to build, launch, and test your agreed business platform.

STRATEGY + HANDS-ON IMPLEMENTATION

$2,970 / month

Designed as a 12-month partnership.

  • Personal strategic guidance
  • A roadmap shaped around your vision
  • Creative, marketing & technical build
  • Your platform built, launched & tested
Explore working together ↗

End at any time. Keep completed, paid-for work.
Third-party technology and advertising costs are separate.

Payment & billing

Payments are made monthly in advance through automatic billing. No financing arrangements are offered. A 3% processing charge will be added for credit card payments.

Your monthly investment of $2,970 is paid monthly in advance and automatically charged to your designated payment method. We do not offer financing or installment arrangements for past-due amounts.

Ending the partnership early

Life happens. Circumstances and priorities change.

You may end the partnership at any time. We'll continue working through the end of your current paid month and hand over everything created up to that point.

Payments already made are nonrefundable. There are no cancellation penalties, and you won't owe any remaining monthly payments.

All completed work and assets created for you are yours to keep.

Software & technology expenses

Your business will have its own technology accounts and subscriptions, selected according to what you need.

For example, many clients can operate with a relatively simple technology setup:

GoHighLevel for customer management, email, marketing, scheduling, and other business functions: approximately $97/month.

Website hosting: approximately $10/month.

Domain registration: typically $15–25/year.

Google Workspace for professional email, documents, and collaboration: typically $7–14/month per user, depending on the plan.

That's approximately $116–121 per month, plus domain registration, before usage-based charges.

Other services, such as email delivery, text messaging, payment processing, advertising, or specialized software, may add to the cost.

We'll help you select and set up the technology that suits your business, and you'll own and control your accounts.

Good questions.

The practical details of working together.

Who is this partnership designed for?

Experienced practitioners, teachers, consultants, authors, researchers, and other accomplished professionals who have developed substantial expertise and are ready to create something more from their work. You may already have a successful practice or business, or you may be bringing decades of professional experience into an independent venture.

Do I need to know exactly what business I want to create?

No. You bring your experience, aspirations, and ideas. Together, we'll explore the possibilities and decide what makes the most sense for you, your work, and the people you want to serve.

What if I already have a website, clients, and established programs?

We start with what you've already built. We assess what's working, what can be improved, and what additional pieces are needed. Your new business may build on your existing foundation or take your work in an entirely new direction.

How much of the work do you actually do?

Our team handles the agreed creative, marketing, and technical implementation. That can include developing your website, creating program materials, setting up email and payment systems, producing marketing content, and preparing your business for launch.

You contribute your expertise, make the key decisions with us, and review and approve the work as it develops.

How much time will I need to commit?

You'll participate in regular private sessions and contribute to decisions that require your knowledge, creativity, and judgment. Some periods will require more involvement than others. We organize the work around your existing professional and personal commitments.

Will I work directly with Josh and Nicolay?

Yes. You will have a primary advisor and direct access to our combined expertise throughout the engagement. Our implementation team works alongside us to turn the agreed decisions into finished work.

What kinds of businesses can you help create?

Online educational programs, consulting practices, professional training, workshops, retreats, memberships, specialized services, and other businesses built around your expertise. The particular form depends on your experience, aspirations, audience, and commercial opportunities.

Can you help me develop my own method or certification program?

Yes, when it's appropriate for your work. We can help identify and organize a distinctive methodology, structure it into a teachable program, and explore whether professional training, licensing, or certification makes sense.

When will my business launch?

We begin developing the business as soon as we've made the necessary decisions. Components can be completed and introduced along the way. Our 12-month commitment is to build, launch, and test the agreed business platform.

What exactly am I guaranteed?

By the end of our partnership, the business platform and deliverables we've agreed upon will be built, launched, and tested. The specific components are defined together at the beginning and refined as the project develops.

Will my business be profitable?

We design the business with financial viability in mind, including appropriate pricing, delivery costs, and a realistic business model. Revenue and profitability depend on market demand, customer response, the nature of your offerings, and other factors that become clearer as the business develops.

What happens during the final months?

We put your systems to work. Depending on your business, that may involve publishing content, reaching prospective clients through LinkedIn or other channels, running email campaigns, testing enrollment processes, and improving what we've built.

This gives you an opportunity to see the business functioning and understand how to take it forward.

What happens after the 12 months?

You can operate the business independently using the systems and resources we've established. If you'd like continued assistance, we can arrange ongoing technical maintenance, marketing execution, or other support according to your needs.

Are there additional expenses?

Third-party costs such as website hosting, software, email services, advertising budgets, payment processing, and certain specialized services are separate from the partnership fee. We discuss these costs as part of designing your business. We make recommendations and cost comparisons to fit your business.

How do I get started?

Complete our short application and tell us about your professional experience, the work you've developed, and what you'd like to create. We'll personally review your application and, if there's a potential fit, invite you to a conversation.

IN THEIR WORDS

Client experiences.

Reflections on working with Nicolay.

1 / 6
“Nicolay’s deep knowledge of business building, his genuine interest and desire to know and understand my work, and his belief in me and what I offer have been a game changer.”
Dr. Kelly Myers

Is this
your moment?

We're inviting a small number of accomplished professionals to join us in this 12-month partnership.

If you've developed substantial expertise, have a vision for what your work could become, and are ready to make it happen, we'd love to hear from you.

Tell us a little about yourself, the work you've been doing, and what you'd like to create.

We'll personally review your application and arrange a conversation to explore what's possible.

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Meet Josh & Nicolay.

This is the setting for your introduction: a warm conversation about the work you care about, what you see in your clients, and what you can build together.

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YOUR APPLICATION PREVIEW

A place to begin.

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