500 long-form conversations · one room
Become impossible to ignore.
Most firms polish. We dig.
We sat with 500 founders, authors, governors, and operators and asked one question: what's the gap between the work you do and the way the world sees it? They told us. We built what was missing — the studio, the shows, the rooms, the systems.
"Aaron Bare will 100x your company."
The internet is doing fine. Quiet is the new luxury.
The room is loud. Every founder has a feed, every executive has a thread, every coach has a course. The people you actually pay attention to do something different — they say less, and what they say is theirs. That's the work.
Founded by Aaron Bare, Forbes Shannon & Christine Butler
Three people. One room.
Christine asks the questions that reveal what you didn't know you knew. Forbes turns the answers into conversations people actually want to listen to. Aaron builds the systems, networks, and movements that make the work compound. The voices below are a few of the people we've been in the room with — a Shark, a former Governor, and a few founders you've quoted without realizing it.
Where this came from
We sat with 500 people. Then we built what they kept asking for.
Before any of this had a name, we had a question: what would actually make the next decade of your work easier? We asked it five hundred times — to founders, authors, executives, operators.
The same things kept coming back. A story they could stand behind without flinching. Better rooms, not bigger feeds. A show that sounded like them. A few peers who could keep up. And, quietly, a friend who'd built something they could call on a Tuesday.
We didn't build a product. We built a company of people, a studio, a network, and the systems that hold them together. Two minutes here will tell us where you should start.
01 · Find your way in
Pick the door that fits the year you're in.
Nobody arrives at the same door. A first-time founder, a five-time exec, an author with three books and no podcast — different rooms, same hallway. Pick where you are. Or let the quiz pick for you.
Turn your company story into category authority — without becoming a full-time creator.
Fill your practice with right-fit clients who arrive already sold.
Launch a book that builds a decade of authority, not a 30-day Amazon ranking.
Get booked on the rooms that move your career, not the ones that fill your calendar.
Become the obvious hire in your category — before the RFP goes out.
Make your thesis legible enough that founders, co-investors, and LPs come to you.
Convert reach into relationships, products, and a business that survives the algorithm.
02 · Make it yours
The work has to belong to you.
A story, a site, and a backbone that sound like a real person — because they came from one. The Studio finds the language. The Agency builds the platform that runs on it.
03 · Borrow the rooms
The shortcut isn't bigger reach. It's better rooms.
Owned audiences are slow. Borrowed ones compound — if the borrow is good. The Speakers Bureau gets you in front of the people who book the people you want to be in front of. The Podcast Bureau gets you in the feeds where they listen.
04 · Belong
The ceiling on your career is the room you're standing in.
Peers who get the joke. A coach who's actually built something. Dinners where someone, three weeks later, sends the introduction that changes the year. Networks compound. Audiences don't.
Receipts
$4B shipped. None of it in slides.
Rooms we've been in
Built by
Three people who genuinely like the work.
Christine asks the question. Forbes turns the answer into a conversation. Aaron builds the thing that makes the conversation matter next year.
The Network
It's a room, not a platform.
Everyone you'll meet inside got here by being nominated or interviewed first. Many have told their story on Extraordinary Stories. The membership page is one click away — but we'd rather you meet the people first.