Most business events promise clarity, big goals, and bold plans.

This one did too.

But something unexpected happened.

Instead of talking about five-year visions or aggressive growth targets, people kept coming back to small things. Walking the dog more. Finishing work earlier. Feeling less permanently behind.

Hi, I'm Mike Fox, host of this podcast, "Lone Wolf Unleashed."

In this episode, I’m unpacking what actually happened at my first Freedom Forward workshop. The wins, the nerves, the moments I didn’t expect, and the realisation that stopped me mid-session.

Everyone left with a roadmap.

Almost no one knew how to take the first step.

We talk about why “big goals” often stall real progress, why implementation is the hardest part of running a business, and what busy business owners actually need when time, energy, and focus are already stretched thin.

This isn’t a highlight reel.

It’s a reflection on what people really want from their business and what gets in the way of making change stick.

If you’ve ever felt like you’ve done the planning but still can’t move forward, this one will land close to home.

And yes, I’ll also explain what I’m building next, why I’m doing it this way, and why I’d rather you get results than over-commit to something you don’t need.

Take a breath.

This one’s about slowing down to move forward.

Timestamped summary

00:00 Implementing Ideas: Overcoming Inaction

04:48 Business Growth Roadmap Launch

07:28 "Podcast Farewell, YouTube Ahead"

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G'. Day. My name is Mike. You're listening to Lone Wolf Unleashed, where I help

you switch off sooner and live larger.

This week is the last week of the year that I'm going to be releasing

episodes, but I'm going to talk a little bit more about that later

today. We're going to do a debrief on how my event

went on the 5th of December. It was my first event. It

was Freedom Forward. It was a full

day workshop that walked through my 5Ps. We had a great

turnout of around 10 people. And it

was a wonderful time to be able to walk people

through how I help people, but also for

them to be able to have the time and space to be able to really

think through what the processes of their business look like. The

day started, I was super nervous presenting in front of people.

You know, once I got in the groove, it was much better. We started out

just with an opening where I walked people through what

it was like and why. We set up systems to really get them to

think about why they started their business in the first place,

to think about what they want their lives to look like and how

they want their business to serve their lives. That was really

rewarding. And I think, you know, as we walked through the day, the thing that

really stuck out to me was that people didn't engage

with the goals that much. They didn't deal with the big

stuff that much. What they did was they really focused in on, shared on

the really tiny things, the really small

moments. Now I have done an episode on Moments. You can go

back and listen to that one. It was really interesting to

hear people just share what moments they

wanted more of. And that was almost entirely

unprompted. I was like, oh, no, we want to. We want to see what our

Next, you know, 12, 24 months looks like, right? And they're like,

I just want to walk my dog more. It was really interesting

just hearing how they engaged with that.

And, you know, then we moved through and the way that we

structured the day was that we had a presentation space and we had a

workspace. It was all in the same room as a big day and

in a big room. And I will be putting up

some photos on my website from the day so you can see what

it's like. But basically what we did is we had a time

for me to present to people and then a time for us to work through

the workbook and doing the different activities that were in there, to really

think through the structure of their business, to think through their

processes. And how to make things better. The key takeaway for me

was at the end, they started to form up a

roadmap of the different types of things that they can implement to improve how

their business works. What became abundantly

clear throughout the day is that the participants who were there

didn't know how to move forward with implementing.

They're like, okay, this is a great idea, or now I've got this on paper.

I don't actually know, like, what the first step is to

implement this thing is. And it was really nice to be

able to hear that because I've been running this since

July and to be able to have that sort of

validation there for me to go, okay, this is something that I

can really help you with. You know, you have your roadmap here, but you're really

busy, right? How do you move forward with

that? How do you have accountability and taking

massive action towards doing this if you already

have not much time? It was really, really nice to be

able to engage with people and move through

how they can actually implement this in

2026. Now, there's a whole range of different processes here that

people work through. We had a very broad range of

different types of business owners in the room. Most of them were solo or,

or very, very small business. But we had anything from

cleaners to electricians to

claims management help to authors

or publishing. It was really, really

interesting to hear different people's experiences.

And I'm just so thankful that I had

the opportunity to engage with such a broad range of people. I think one of

the things that working in this type of line of work is the

number of different industries that you get to engage with. I've worked in everything

from agriculture to insurance in a really large enterprise space.

But to be able to engage people, you know, I want to be able to

see the whites on their eyes. I want to be able to see and work

with them. Do you know what I mean? And I want to hear

what they have planned. I want to hear

how they themselves are struggling with this

thing called business. Right? Because we all do, we

all do that in some way. You know, to be able to

see those little light bulb moments about how they can

make things better is really rewarding. I did wrap the day

on giving a launch offer to the participants.

I'm launching the community in January. I'm

finalizing the content for that now. But basically the premise

of it is going to be that we have this roadmap. You

have things that you want to work on next year that

are going to move the needle in terms of how your operations in

your business works, you don't know how to get there, you don't

know how to implement, you don't know where to get started.

That's what the pack is for. It is going to help you

move forward through making those plans and those

strategies come to life.

So I want to put this to you. There is going to be a launch

offer as well. For my podcast listeners, the normal

price is 2,500 US per quarter.

What we can do is the launch offer is going to be, you can get

into the community. It's up to 10 seats. The

first 10 seats of the community is going to

be a thousand dollars US for each quarter. That is for as

long as you like to be in there. That is for a lifetime.

One thing I will say is on the day I said, look, there is going

to be annual pricing, but I can't recommend that because, you know, if you get

the results in the first 90 days, then there's no point in continuing.

One of the participants said, oh, that's awfully integral of you. Why would you

not try to upsell? And I said, look, my interest is

your best interest. I sacrifice all the

time on trying to maintain transparency. Yes, I

would love for you to be able to sign up and get the discount for

annual pricing. It would normally be around eight grand US

a year. But honestly, if you're finding results in the first quarter, I'm

not going to encourage you to sign up for the annual plan straight away. Get

in there, see what it's like, see what results you get. I

promise you it's going to be something that if you commit to it,

it's going to start freeing you up hours. You're going to be starting to implement

these things that will basically change your business and change

your life. I just want to say thank you so much. This is my

last episode of the year. I'm not sure where content is going next year yet.

I'm sort of making up a plan. If podcasting does not

continue, you can head over to my YouTube channel, Mike

Fox Lone Wolf Unleashed. You can head over there. The link to that will

be in the description of the episode. And I want to

thank you for taking this journey with me. It's been a labor of love

doing the podcast and I just want to thank you so much

for you and your time. I know there's so many things you can be doing

right now other than listen to me, but I just want to thank. I'm so.

I'm just filled with gratitude, so I just want to put that out there. I

just. I thank you so much for listening this year with me,

and I wish you and your family a merry Christmas. I hope you

have some time off. Make sure you take some time off. Don't spend your

Christmas at the laptop, okay? Make sure you take some time to yourself.

Make some plans for next year. Don't go too hard,

and I'll see you in 2026.