I’ve never seen anything like this.

This one’s coming to you a bit late.

I needed time to sit with what happened.

To process it.
To honour it.

Because truthfully, I’ve never felt something hit me like this before.

A few months ago, I had this wild idea to host an event in the Dominican Republic for 35 entrepreneurs.

I knew - if I could just get the right people in the room, something powerful would happen.

But it’s safe to say, I had absolutely no idea what I was getting into. 

No idea how much it would take.

No idea how much it would give.

So let me pull back the curtain for a second.

This thing nearly didn’t happen.

Behind the scenes it was chaos.

Five weeks ago, I’d sold 3 tickets after arranging logistics for 35 people.

I was getting DMs like, “Bro, are you sure this is gonna happen?” And I didn’t have a clean answer.

One day the villa fell through.

The next, the weather looked like a storm was rolling in.

I was up at 3am, glued to WhatsApp, scrambling for flights, reworking logistics, rewriting the entire agenda on zero sleep.

People pulled out. Plans changed every day.

Everyone around me thought I’d lost it.

And truthfully? I started to believe them.

• What if the group didn’t click?

• What if the cultures clashed?

• What if I flew everyone out just to watch it fall flat?

There was no Plan B.

But still... something deep in my gut refused to quit.

Call it instinct. Call it madness. 

I just believed - if I could just hold the door open long enough…something special would walk through it.

None of my entrepreneurship journey so far - none of it - could have prepared me for what actually went down.

Because once the doors closed, the real sh*t began.

35 people cracked open.

Not surface-level chatter.

Raw.

Burnout. Isolation. Fear of failure. Imposter syndrome.

Stuff that never makes it to LinkedIn poured out like floodgates finally opened.

No one was pretending. No one was performing. Just messy, unfiltered, human truth.

But what hit me the hardest was that this was not a curated group.

Different continents. Different industries. Different belief systems. And somehow… it clicked. 

Like they'd known each other in another life.

Conversations lit up over breakfast. Around the resort. During excursions.

And then there was the Padel tournament.

It wasn’t meant to be a big deal - a bit of competition to break things up.

Suddenly, we had CEOs diving for shots, trash talking like teenagers, hyping each other up between games. 

Roars and chest bumps. The kind of chemistry you can't plan. You can only feel.

Electric.

It bonded us in a different way.

These guys are smart, experienced entrepreneurs.

Sharp, battle-tested operators - people running real businesses, carrying real weight.

Yet in a world choking on filters, automation, and AI-generated everything, there’s one thing we all don’t talk about enough: Perspective. 

When you’re deep in the trenches, grinding every day, your view gets narrow.

What we need is each other.

That’s what this mastermind was about.

Human to Human. Connection.

And it’s only the beginning.

Over the next year, I’m now planning to start building a global community of entrepreneurs who want to go deep. And who know they’re not meant to do this alone.

Make sure you stick around because this isn’t about events.

It’s about belonging.

And if that word hits you the way it hits me -

then I already know you’re part of this.

Yours truly,

-Nigel Thomas

P.S. If you’re interested in getting your hands on an early bird ticket for the next event (end of September) respond to this email with the word “human” and we’ll add you to the waiting list!

And to everyone who attended, thank you - It was genuinely was of the best weekends of my entire life. ❤️