Business Partner Retreat · Hocking Hills, Ohio
Two days on the partnership, not the business.
Shared Horizon is a two-night retreat for business partners, built by two business partners who needed it. Look back, clear the air, and leave with a three-year picture you both signed.
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Why it exists
Two business partners built this to solve their own problem.
Shared Horizon started with us, Timmy McCarthy and Chase Beach. We are business partners, and like most partners we spent every meeting on the business and almost none on the partnership that runs it.
We knew we needed to get together and talk about the high-level stuff: where this is going, what each of us wants, the things we had been meaning to say. We never made the time. Something more urgent always won.
But every time we did get away and talk it through, we walked away saying the same thing:
“Man, we should do this more often.”
So we built the thing that makes us do it. Two days, set in an order that works, with the prompts, the walks, and the fire already planned, and a quarterly tune-up so it does not take another year to happen again. This is the retreat we wanted for ourselves. Now we are opening it to other partners.
What it is
You built something real together. When did you last look at the two of you?
Shared Horizon is two days set aside for the partnership itself. The first day looks back and clears the air. The second day builds what comes next. Every hard conversation starts alone on paper, and the order of the days is deliberate.
It runs on its own. A printed workbook for each of you, with the walk questions and the protocols in it, takes you through every block, in a private cabin with a sauna, a cold plunge, and a fire pit. The big paper, markers, and phone box are waiting. You do not need a facilitator, and you do not need to plan a thing.
For
Two partners
Co-founders, owners, and the people who run a company together.
Length
Two nights
Arrive late morning, leave after a slow send-off on the third day.
Where
A private cabin
With its own sauna, cold plunge, hot tub, and fire pit, on 42 acres of trail.
Format
Self-guided
A printed workbook for each of you runs every block. The kit is set out in the cabin.
Price
From $99
On top of your cabin. $299 adds a coach call after you're home.
You leave with
A signed picture
Of the next three years, plus a refreshed agreement and 12-month commitments.
How it runs
Look back, clear the air, then build.
Day one
Foundation
Warmth, then honesty, then warmth again. By the fire tonight you should feel more chosen by each other than when you arrived, and every elephant should be named.
- 1Phones down, and the agreements you both say yes to
- 2The look back, alone, on paper
- 3The origin walk: why you chose each other
- 4Elephants before boogeymen: the unsaid things, said fairly
- 5Heat and cold: sauna and plunge, no business talk
- 6Dinner, then the fire: what I admire in you
Day two
Creation
It starts ten years out with no constraints and narrows all day, until you hold a three-year picture, a refreshed agreement, and the next twelve months.
- 1My ten years, alone, in the present tense
- 2The horizon walk: two pictures, side by side
- 3The blank page: what would we build from scratch?
- 4Drawing the shared horizon: one three-year picture
- 5The partnership agreement, refreshed
- 6The next twelve months, and a letter to open in a year
- 7The fire close: commitments read aloud, the picture signed
Last morning
The send-off
Slow on purpose. A rhythm to take home, not just a high.
- 1One word each for how you are leaving
- 2What you will tell your team on Monday, and what you will not
- 3Your first quarterly tune-up, on both calendars
- 4Phones back, last
The agreements
Four rules that make honesty safe.
You both say yes to each one out loud on the first afternoon, before any of the work starts.
- 1
Write before you share.
Every big conversation starts on paper, alone.
- 2
Reflect before you respond.
Say back what you heard before you answer it.
- 3
What is said here stays here.
What is decided here goes home.
- 4
Either of you can call a pause.
Pick the word on the first afternoon. When it is said, you stop for ten minutes, no questions asked.
What you leave with
Everything in your own words.
- The sentence that finishes “We started this because…” in your own words
- Your elephants, each one landed: resolved, a next step with a date, or carried into the agreement
- A three-year picture you both signed by the fire
- A one-page partnership agreement in plain language: roles, decision rights, how you disagree
- Three to five shared commitments for the next 12 months, each with an owner and a first step
- A letter to the partnership that we mail back to you in a year
Every quarter
The tune-up
A short ritual you learn on the last morning: the picture, the commitments, one elephant each. The first date goes on both calendars before you leave.
After 30 and 90 days
Two check-ins
We check in at 30 and 90 days to ask how the commitments you wrote are going. With a coach, a coach call comes first, about ten days after you’re home.
In a year
The letters, and the return
We mail back the letters you wrote to the partnership, right around the time to plan your return for the next one.
What it costs
It starts with a cabin.
Book any of our four cabins for two nights and add Shared Horizon at checkout. The price below is on top of your stay.
Self-guided
$99plus your cabin
You run it yourselves. Everything is planned.
- Two printed Shared Horizon workbooks, one each, with both your names
- Two days already planned: the look back, the walks, the elephants, the three-year picture
- Big paper, markers, a phone box, and letter envelopes set out in the cabin
Book at least two weeks ahead so our printer has time to make your journals. After booking you answer a few short questions and see every page before it prints.
Opening soon
Shared Horizon is getting its final proof.
We’re printing the last test copies now. Leave your email and we’ll tell you the day it opens for booking.
Tell me when it opensWho it is for
Partners who are good, and want to stay good.
Shared Horizon is built for partners who want to tune up something that works: founders a few years in, owners planning the next chapter, a visionary and the operator who makes it real.
If the two of you are in an active dispute or working out how to separate, a weekend like this is not the right tool. A mediator or a partnership attorney is the right first call.
Bringing three or four partners? Book the cabin and tell us, and we’ll sort out a workbook for each of you.