Learn The Systems We Used To Buy Land And Build A 160 Acre Off-Grid Homestead... Starting With No Money.
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We see a society that lacks real community which leads to poor mental health; food that's actually synthetic; and weather events like wildfires and floods happening more and more often.
We won't even get started about politics or what you see on the news... it's a crazy time to be alive.
That’s why it’s our mission to help everyone become self-sufficient.
We offer a course, online community, step-by-step guides, personal help, and in-person workshops for anyone that wants to buy land, start a homestead, have cabin rentals, a retreat centre, regenerative farm, or create a community and live in alignment with nature.
Even if you’re starting with no money, bad credit, and need to raise the funds like we did.
We started with no money, raised funds, and bought 160 acres in 3 months, and 7 months later, we were producing $30k/month from our land.
Plus basic infrastructure, multiple spas, growing food, and a community of like-minded people.
We systemized our income to make it nearly-passive so we can live a life of freedom.
That is the off-grid dream!
Jay is buying land only 2 weeks after joining.
"So far since I joined the course a couple of weeks ago I have found a 36 acre property and created a rough pitch which was enough to raise a deposit. I'm under contract now and should be moved in by the end of June." - Jay, United States
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"Honestly the course, the two of them, what they have created and the experience they gave us went above and beyond my greatest hopes and expectations. Jaymie & Shelby, I think you literally changed my life. You gave me a blueprint for my dreams, and even better than the hope that I will achieve them, you gave me the certainty that we ALL will achieve it. One day I hope you look back and see how far and wide your blood, sweat, and tears have impacted the world. With each person you work with the ripple effect of all the good that you are doing grows bigger and bigger. " - Melissa Quesnelle, Canada
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"This was above and beyond anything I had hoped for or expected, I feel confident moving forward pursuing my vision knowing that I have the tools and support from these guys. They cover everything. Not just the physical aspect but the financial, the back end, the parts you wouldn't normally know how to approach. Everything they taught has massive value but the most valuable part was their immense business experience and the education around land acquisition, investment options, and marketing." - Jason Mccready, Costa Rica
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Here’s What You’ll Learn In This Course
Learn the step-by-step strategies to hone your vision, plan, buy land, create cash-flow, and build it into your dream successfully, in the easiest and fastest timeframe possible.
1. Finding Funding And Creating A Funding Plan
Learn 11 different funding options including partners, investors, donations, crowdfunding, financing, banks, loans, credit, family & friends, joint ventures, and more (*remember, we started this with almost no money and relatively poor credit*).
Our business model and funding system (that's worked for us every time, 6x in a row, and have over 715 clients who are now using it)
Our system to create value, decrease risk, keep majority ownership, and keep buy-back rights
Our communication system for using your vision to attract people to your project (In our first year we were donated ~$60,000 worth of items including a sauna, teepee, Airbnb stays, golf cart, tools, and more, without even asking!)
2. Clarify Your Vision & Have A Solid Plan
Learn our 4-step vision system to hone in on what you want and how you'll get there
Discover new opportunities and massive realizations of what's possible
Customize our systems to suit your needs
Have a 1-on-1 call to bring it all together
Guides to create your plan and make it solid and credible (or optionally use ours, pre-filled out, exactly they way we used it to create our project and get funded. Just customize it to your needs)
3. How To Find & Buy Land & Making Sure It's Right For Your Needs
Key elements to look for in land and what to watch out for to make sure you get land that works for your needs (see some of our crazy stories about why this is so important on step 2!)
What your land assessment process needs to include
Land zoning, pros and cons, governing bodies
Purchasing options, what to expect, and different ways of setting it up legally and financially
Options to utilize the land to help cover it's purchasing costs
4. Plan Your Economic Engine & Passive Income On Your Land
Our system for deciding what you want and creating a plan that requires the lowest input (low effort, low cost) for the highest gain (high return, easy to automate)
Creating a good relationship with money & using it as a tool to create your vision (money is just a common denominator for creating value, we show you how to create high value for the world and communicate it effectively)
The fastest ways to get cash flow
The "Wow-Factor" System that attracts guests, clients, caretakers, renters, partners and/or investors
The most affordable "wow-factors" to get started fast
How to systemize and automate it so you can focus on growing your vision, or turn it into passive income
What to focus on first, what to build (or who to partner with)
Real time financial numbers & data that's working right now
Personalized business & marketing strategies for your vision
5. Plan Infrastructure Options
Water: Wells, earthworks, water catchment, water management
Power: Solar, wind, micro-hydro
Human "waste": Compost toilets, septic, incineration toilets, humanure, etc
Efficient and/or necessary initial structures
6. Plan & Budget Your Building Types
Permitting, costs and fast-track options that get around them to start
The realities, costs, work, and pros and cons of traditional building, container homes, tiny homes, wall tents, yurts, geodomes, teepees, earthships, treehouses, hobbit homes, etc and what we recommend
Finding good deals on materials (we had $80,000 worth of building materials donated/discounted in the first year on top of the $60,000 worth of items like the sauna.)
Using your own raw resources: milling timber (bandsaw and chainsaw ), clay, straw, etc
Growth hacks to save a LOT of money, like how to process and use your own materials from your land
7. Land Design & Layout
Permaculture and regenerative land design methods
What priorities come first so you do it right the first time and don't create more issues in the future
Learning your land design "zones" so you can begin layout (planning), building, and operating your land efficiently (this method saves 10's of thousands of hours and 10's of thousands of $$ in labour, fuel, and equipment maintenance)
Water security planning: ponds, reservoirs and swales
Land design examples, where to put what, and why
The 7 elements of your wildfire defence plan (we’re currently building one of the worlds largest natural fire suppression systems to protect our land)
This includes a copy of our 160 acre permaculture plan that we will be reviewing with you
8. System For Finding Caretakers Or Planning An Intentional Living Community
Caretaker onboarding process, where to find them and ensuring they're the right fit
Automating the workloads on your land to create passive income
The best arrangements that work (90% of eco villages and similar style of relationships fail)
Recommendations for leadership and management structures
Legal agreements to use and why
9. Food Growth & Raising Animals
The main pillars for food growth and food security
Discover new growth opportunities to meet your goals like geothermal and passive solar greenhouses (grow all winter even in -50 degrees celsius)
The best composting methods
Aquatic and land animal options, grazing, micro-climates, etc
Food and animal protection
Rebuilding soil health
Structures of management that are most energy and cost effective
Copies and education on our full property permaculture plan (designed by a highly respected permaculture consultant, Ryan Hill. We are on track of creating one of the worlds top regenerative agriculture demonstration sites)
10. Tools, Equipment & Machinery
What you’ll need most and what you don’t (we overspent a LOT on things we thought we would need but never used and then had to spend more on things we didn't have but needed)
How to receive free or discounted tools
Machinery costs, financing, brands, and pros and cons
Storage, theft, and organization
11. Community, Connections & Resources
Private Facebook and Telegram group with a community of like-minded people, group support, and group resource sharing
Private email list with new knowledge and resources
Network and partner with people doing the exact same thing
Copies of our plans, drawings, agreements/contracts, and more
Where we found the best solar kits, wood fire hot-tubs, winter greenhouses, most affordable stays (buildings and tents), stoves, etc etc (there's a large list)
Where and how we've found good deals and raw materials
Where to find tiny house financing
That’s Just What’s In The Course.
Here’s The Extra Resources You Can Get To Make It As Easy As Possible…
We want to make this as enjoyable and fast as possible for you. That’s why we offer these Done-For-You solutions as add-on packages with sliding scale pricing. Once you sign up for the course, you’ll be able to sign up for these add-on packages too.
VIP Group For Personal Support
1-2 live video calls per month with Jaymie for personal consulting in a small group setting where you get to learn from other peoples questions and to connect more deeply.
Jaymie will answer all your questions, review your plans, help assess land before you buy, negotiate with investors, and help get around any blockages you're having – whatever you need.
Pricing: As low as $47/month
The course is a pre-requisite. You’ll get options to sign up for this after you sign up for the course.
Business Plan Package To Take The Work Out Of It
Our business plan, pitch deck, and financial projections all pre-filled out exactly the way we've used them to create our project and get funded, with instructions and videos on how to tweak them to make them your own and how to use them with investors.
If you were to pay an 'expert' it would cost $6000 and it would only be subpar because they don't have direct experience in a project like this. Trust me, we’ve tried.
Pricing: $397 upfront OR only $37/month on a 12 month payment plan for lifetime access
The course is a pre-requisite. You’ll get options to sign up for this after you sign up for the course.
Investors Network To Get You Funded
Link up with aligned investors who want to fund projects like these. Browse investors profiles and they can browse yours.
Jaymie will personally review your plans and help you optimize it before personally sending it to every potential investor.
These are aligned folks that care about the people and planet and are not just in it for the money. They have all been personally vetted.
We teach you the methods for attracting investors yourself. This saves you time and money.
Pricing: $497 upfront OR only $47/month on a 12 month payment plan
The course is a pre-requisite. You’ll get options to sign up for this after you sign up for the course.
Live The Off-Grid Dream Programs & Pricing
We offer payment plans to make this accessible for all.
Get instant full-access for as low as $37 + free bonuses.
Talk To A Real Human
Book a call with us! Talk with a consultant to explore how our programs can help.
5 STAR REVIEWS IN EVERY CATEGORY
Here’s What People Say After They Come Here…
Some of these are the rarest and highest value skills in the world.
Raising money, creating passive income, creating value, and legal and real estate strategy are all skills that are extremely rare.
You get to take these skills with you for the rest of your life.
Apply them anywhere to all areas of life and business. If you learn what we teach in this workshop, you can do anything.
We’ve travelled around the world and spent 100’s of thousands of dollars and multiple careers to gain these.
Now you can have them, neatly bundled up, and you get to choose your price.
Because the people we work with have good intentions for the world.
And the world needs more of that, so we want to make this accessible to everyone.
It’s a lot of info, but we make it simple with Playbooks.
We give you all the options, but we also give you exactly what we would do.
That’s what a Playbook is – a step-by-step guide of what we would recommend as the best path.
Less thinking, more action. You can take it and get to creating your vision.
Choose from a variety of Playbooks in the course.
And have ongoing support and live video calls with us in the VIP group.
Go To Step #2 To…
Get Pricing: We offer sliding-scale pricing, which means you choose your price based on your financial needs, plus payment plan options to make this as accessible and as easeful for everyone.
Register For A Program: Spots are limited since we provide personal help with all our programs. They fill up fast. You can register on the next page.
Book A Call With Us: If you're still unsure if this is for you, book a call with us. We want to make sure it's the right fit for you.
More Details
Schedule
This online-course is entirely self-paced, you get instant access, including access to all new additions.
It is continuously updated, like a Netflix for bringing your dream to life.
Post and ask questions in the groups anytime you want.
Live zoom consulting calls are usually held bi-weekly. Day’s and times change to accommodate everyones schedules. All video calls are recorded so you can review them whenever you want (Done-For-You and In-Person VIP program.
You may also submit questions to any Live zoom call and we’ll answer it for you.
In-person workshop dates are released Spring through Fall, you will be able to choose from several dates.
Real Support In The VIP Group
There’s people in our group that have even come together for holiday meals! That’s how tight our community is. Get active support and ongoing consulting. Here’s some examples from people we’re working with…
Who’s Hosting Your Course
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Shelby Friesen
Growing up in the trades, Shelby was a welder, fabricator and boiler maker. He spent a career erecting $10-$35m luxury homes in Whistler, BC.
He then started RYD Motorsports, a national award-winning company that designed and built high-end suspension systems and chassis, among many other things, for trucks and race cars. This is where he honed his mechanical, design and engineering skills.
A battle with mental health opened Shelby’s perspective, which ultimately brought him to search for better ways of living. He started Mental Millennials, a podcast focussed on mental health, and trained in health and nutrition.
Azhen is a collection and continuum of his learnings for a better way of living.
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Jaymie Friesen
Raised in the same family of trades, Jaymie grew up building custom homes – from foundation to roof and everything in between. He is a 3rd year electrical apprentice and studied physics.
Jaymie and Shelby started their first business at age 13, and Jaymie went on to found 4 more.
His most notable experience is the founding of Habitat Botanicals, a toxin-free biodegradable bath & beauty business acquired by Pela. And operating a $60m telecommunications software business with teams across several countries.
Jaymie has dreamed of creating Azhen since he was 13 years old. Through many roundabout adventures in other areas of life, spirit continues to bring him back to this.
Location
Azhen is located in Rock Creek, BC, Canada.
Just 40 minutes East of Osoyoos, and 2 hours South of Kelowna.
Since this is sacred land, out of respect for our space we do not accept walk-ins.
So you will receive specific directions after booking a retreat or stay.
The road in is government maintained year-round and is accessible with all vehicle types.