Train for a clear physical finish line, benchmarked to where you are right now.
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Village Mile Lifestyle™Vacaville, California
You Keep Showing Up for Everyone. Who’s Training You?
A coached community program.
One Mile to run. One Build to move forward. One Relationship to protect. A guided 90-day season for the people who carry everyone else—and haven’t had a turn.
October 1 kickoff • 50 founding adult villagers (Season 1) • 14-Day Starting-Line Promise
The Method
You carry responsibility for everyone else’s calendar. This 90 days puts something on it for you.
Village Mile Lifestyle™ is built around one simple rhythm we’ve run ourselves, one rep at a time: one Mile to train for, one meaningful Build to advance, one Relationship to strengthen.
It’s kinda like a training plan — except this one trains your whole life, not just your legs.
Advance one meaningful priority—a business, an idea, an income goal you’ve postponed.
Protect time for someone who matters, on purpose, not by accident.
Vacaville Founding Village
- 2 local coach-led workouts each week, led by Joel and the local team
- 1 weekly group long run
- 1 group training plan, developed by Justus and team
- 1 weekly Monday Mastermind call, hosted by Joel, with Village Contributors joining throughout the season
- Daily accountability, your training plan, and The R.U.N. Map—all on the Private Village Platform
- 1 monthly group Village Social gathering (dutch-treat: we plan it, you enjoy it — individual costs aren’t included)
Not near Vacaville? Follow the group training plan where you live, and join the same online coaching, Monday Mastermind, and Private Village Platform.
Your starting line helps create another. Qualifying founding memberships also support youth-running access through Village Run’s published contribution to GivJoi.
The Mirror
You Keep Showing Up for Everyone. Who’s Training You?
You want stronger health. You have work worth advancing. And there’s someone who deserves your protected time, not your leftovers.
But a full calendar has a way of choosing for you.
The run gets postponed. The idea waits for a quieter week. Someone important gets whatever energy is left at the end of the day.
You keep moving. The priorities that matter still don’t move.
Maybe you’ve tried before. An app. A program. A resolution that made it to February. It wasn’t that you didn’t want it enough. Most of what’s out there asks you to add one more thing to a life that’s already full — another plan to follow, alone, on top of everything else you’re already carrying. That’s not a discipline problem. That’s a design problem.
What would the next 90 days look like if your health had a training plan, your Build had a clear next step, and one Relationship had time you actually protected—not just intended to?
And what if a Village held that rhythm with you, every week, so it didn’t fall apart the first time life got full?
I know what that costs to figure out the hard way. I’ve done it twice—once as a parent, once on a hundred-mile trail—and both times the lesson was the same.
The Barrier
On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister ran a mile in 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. For decades, doctors and scientists had insisted it couldn’t be done — that the human body simply wasn’t built to run a mile in under four minutes. It wasn’t a training problem. It was a belief problem. The moment Bannister crossed that line, the barrier didn’t just fall for him. Within weeks, other runners did what science had called impossible for fifty years — because once belief breaks, everything after it moves faster.
I’ve had my own four-minute mile. Not on a track. In the number of times a person is supposed to be allowed to lose everything and still get to start over.
I’ve built back from losing it all — not once, but twice. Nobody tells you the second time is supposed to be easier. It isn’t. My barrier was never physical. It was belief — the quiet certainty that a person only gets so many chances to rebuild before the story is supposed to be over.
This is the story of how I broke mine.
The Wrong Turn
We Were Moving. But We Were Off Course—Twice.
01 The first time
I wasn’t even the one running.
October 2021, cross country league finals. Our fifteen-year-old son, Justus, gave everything he had. He crossed the line last—depleted, demoralized, under-fueled. The car ride home was silent.
Somewhere in that silence, something in me decided: I will figure out what he actually needs, whatever it takes.
02 The second time
It was me.
A few years later, I was pacing my running partner, John Corpus, at the Rio Del Lago 100. Deep into the race, we missed a course marker. We ran about a mile and a half in the wrong direction before we realized it.
Turning around added nearly three miles. We kept working—but John eventually missed a cutoff and was swept from the course.
Two different races. Two different roles—parent on the sideline, runner on the trail. Same lesson, twice:
We didn’t lack effort. We lacked direction.
My dad had a phrase for it — the one he said more than any other, to all of us, for as long as I can remember: Stay the course. I could have told you I was staying it. Both times, I wasn’t. I was just moving.
That stayed with me. Because if it was true out there, it was probably true everywhere else in my life I’d been “working hard” without checking whether I was even facing the right way.
The Personal Question
Then the Question Became Personal.
On September 20, 2024, my father passed away. That same day, our middle son had his biggest race of the year.
That same week, the business I’d spent seven years rebuilding collapsed too — the one I’d started in 2018 after losing my dad’s retirement money in a venture that ultimately failed. I’d built it from nothing since then, trying to earn back what I’d cost him, hoping to finally retire my parents and give them the freedom they’d spent their whole lives giving us.
I was close. Then, almost simultaneously, the business failed and my dad was gone. I never got to finish what I’d built for him. I only got to start over without him here to see it.
One generation was gone while another was preparing to step toward a starting line.
That week, I kept waiting to hear the three words he’d said to me my whole life.
Stay the course.
He wasn’t going to say them again. If they were going to keep showing up in me, I was the one who had to carry them now.
The loss made me look hard at the life around my running. For the past four decades, running had helped me endure hard seasons—but if I was honest, some of those long runs had also given me a place to disappear from the responsibilities waiting at home.
I didn’t need more miles. I needed my miles to strengthen the life I was coming home to.
I said goodbye to my dad in the morning, drove to Irvine, and stood on the starting line at 9PM with my son, Ty—whether I felt ready or not. Somewhere between that goodbye and that gun, “we lacked direction” stopped being a lesson about a race and became a question about everything.
Joel Hundley
The Epiphany
One Rep. Then the Next Day.
It happened on a run. I was thinking about my dad — missing his voice, all those one-liners he’d repeat until they became how our whole family thought. I wished he’d written them down somewhere.
Then the thought turned on me: What am I carrying that no one else knows about? If I passed away today, what would I leave behind — besides another promise I didn’t get to keep?
That was the moment. I had to finish the book — the one I’d circled for five years since the pandemic, always with a reason to wait one more season.
October 2025, I gave myself the same 90 days I’m asking you to give yourself. No finished plan. Just One Mile, run the way we teach it here: a clear benchmark, a manageable rhythm, and someone to keep me honest.
I hired my son Justus to coach me—the same coaching hundreds of runners were already seeing results from—and we kept it simple. Run three days a week: Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday. Cross-train on the bike to keep my joints healthy.
The same 90 days, I finally wrote it.
I knew I could build back — I’d done it before. But knowing that didn’t make the despair any lighter, or the paralysis any shorter, or the miles between where I was and where I needed to be any easier to run. I’d tried to outrun both collapses the same way before: long miles, wide open, betting everything at once with everyone watching. That’s not where I found my way out this time.
So this time: one Build, not five. Shorter miles that didn’t compete with the other lanes. A small, vetted circle instead of the whole world watching me risk it again. That’s who read the manuscript first. That’s who Maxwell was part of — his endorsement, and others I deeply respect, landed during that same season.
Ninety days later, my 5K time went from 24:58 to 21:10.
The Proof
The Finish Line That Wasn’t.
I’d stayed the course on the Mile. I’d finally written the thing I’d circled for five years.
I thought finishing would feel like crossing a finish line. It didn’t. It felt like looking up from one line and finding another one already waiting — further out, for a race I hadn’t even started training for. Village Run was still just an idea. The season was still ahead of me.
I didn’t feel done. I felt exposed.
Get Up
It Hurts to Get Up.
The overwhelm sent me to my mom’s garage, where I found my dad’s ab roller. I didn’t have a plan. I just got down on the floor and did one rep.
I poured everything that streak gave me into building Village Run — and the book, finished and endorsed, quietly went back in a drawer. Not on purpose. I just forgot it was still waiting.
Months later, training for the actual 5K launch, I got hurt badly enough to go to the ER, certain I’d broken my femur. It was severe bruising, not a break.
That night, back home, I hadn’t missed a day of the streak yet. So I got down on the floor anyway.
Getting back up hurt enough that I said it out loud.
Something answered back, the way his three words always did: You think it hurts to get up? Imagine if you stay down.
I got up.
The Bridge
We Had the Pieces. We Needed to Bring Them Together.
I didn’t come from running. I came from entrepreneurship — building, losing, rebuilding, twice.
For forty years I ran, built businesses, and loved my family — in three separate rooms of the same house. I never once connected them.
Running is the vehicle.Iteration is the mechanism.Becoming a contributor and a giver is the goal.
That correction has a name now:
One Iteration Away
Not just the book I finally wrote — the actual belief underneath everything I’m building. One Mile. One Build. One Relationship. Run together, not separately, for the first time in my life.
By the time I ran my own 90 days, the pieces weren’t new. Through Victory Altitude Camp and private coaching with elite athletes and beginners, our team had already spent years working on different parts of the same problem.
This wasn’t theory even then. The same iterative training took Justus — the same son who crossed that cross country finish line last in October 2021 — from 21:58 for three miles to 14:28 for a 5K. That’s what one rep, repeated on purpose, does over years, not days.
But it was never just my kids. As a RunnerParent, I watched coaches coach the Mile while the rebuilding after it was left to families to figure out alone — and I watched community running that looks local but isn’t: entry fees and sponsorship dollars raised here, then the value leaving with a company headquartered somewhere else, while the community that funded it rarely sees the reinvestment. Village Run exists to fix both: coach the whole person, and build Villages in local cities — starting here, then city by city — where what a community creates stays close enough to compound.
Most running brands care about your fitness, or your feet — the shoe, the shirt, the gear. We care about your future — the Mile, the Build, and the Relationship you actually go home to.
It takes a village. That’s not a saying I picked for a logo. It’s the actual model — the same one already showing up in every local partner on this page, and in every dollar that comes back to GivJoi instead of leaving the community that earned it.
MindsetTrainingStrengthRecoveryFamily
What I hadn’t done yet was put those pieces into one plan the Village could actually follow: expert running guidance, people to train with, and support between workouts.
But I already knew a good training plan could only answer part of the question.
What about the parent balancing work and race weekends?
The professional who keeps putting their own health last?
The entrepreneur trying to build something meaningful while still being present at home?
A training plan alone doesn’t answer any of that.
The plan had to support our health, our capacity to build and contribute, and our relationships—together, on purpose, not as three separate things competing for the same hour.
Running gave us a place to begin and a reason to gather. But if the progress stopped at the workout, it wasn’t the progress I’d just proven to myself was possible. It had to reach into the work, the home, and the way we showed up for the people counting on us.
The Build
Bring What You Want to Build.
An idea you’ve postponed. A professional opportunity. Something you want to improve in your business. It doesn’t need to be big—Village Run started as one rep on a garage floor.
Your Build is one meaningful wealth priority to move forward over the next 90 days:
- Launch a side business
- Grow an existing business
- Increase your income
- Keep more of what you earn
Success isn’t about waiting for the perfect moment—it’s about iterating your way forward.
Choose a priority. Take a step. Learn and adjust. Come back the next day and take the next one.
That’s free enterprise, practiced one rep at a time—the kind you build yourself, not the kind you wait for someone else to hand you.
That’s not a slogan we picked for a sales page. It’s how I ran my own 90 days: one small rep, repeated on purpose, until a side idea became Village Run. We’ve practiced that same approach for 13 years with our four runners and at Victory Altitude Camp—and for years before that, through One Iteration Away Labs, with professionals and builders working on their own Build.
The Monday Mastermind is where your Build gets pressure-tested—and where the learning multiplies across your Mile, your Build, and your Relationship, because they were never really three separate things. The Village holds you to the next step, the same way I needed someone holding me to mine.
You don’t need a business or a finished plan. You need one step worth taking this week. We’ll help you find it.
Your Mile gives your health a goal. Your Build gives your future a next step. Your Relationship gives you someone to make time for.
Community Proof
The Wall Was Blank. Then the Village Filled It.
Everything up to this point is one family’s story. Then we watched it become every family’s.
What are you running for?
At the inaugural Kaiser Permanente Village Run 5K, we built a blank Polaroid wall around one question.
We thought people might need help finding their purpose.
We were wrong. The purpose was already there—waiting for someone to ask.
On August 22, 2026, 555 registered runners and more than 1,000 people gathered. Two hundred youth reached the starting line. More than 200 people made their purpose visible on the wall.
They carried stories of family, faith, grief, recovery, work, unfinished dreams, and new beginnings. They didn’t need a training plan to explain that to them. They needed a place to remember what mattered—and people around them moving in it too.
Registered runners
People gathered
Youth runners
Purposes made visible
Inaugural-event participation. Not membership results.
Standing in the middle of that wall, watching 200 strangers name what they were running for, it hit me: How can I call other people into their purpose while I’m still hiding from mine?
I’d read the word RUN a hundred times by then — it was already part of the race’s name. That day, I finally read it right: R. U. N. Are. You. In?
It wasn’t branding anymore. It was aimed at me.
My dad’s three words came back, except this time there was no one left to say them out loud: Stay the course.
I’d already gotten up once, in a garage, on a night that hurt. This was the same choice, at a bigger scale. I answered it the same way.
One Iteration Away launches alongside this founding season — not despite everything it took to admit I hadn’t finished, but because of it.
I spent five years proving I could finish things privately before I ever proved I could stand behind one publicly. Running was never the destination — it was always just the vehicle, the same one my dad handed me, the same one I’m handing you now. If any part of this sounds like your own drawer, your own unfinished thing — you don’t need five more years to break your own four-minute mile. You need 90 days, and people around you who won’t let you quietly set it back down again. It cost me everything, twice, to learn that the slow way. You don’t have to.
The Capacity Lesson
Generosity Requires Capacity.
The businesses, families, and partners who helped make that day possible taught us something we hadn’t fully named yet.
They wanted to give back. They wanted to expand access for young runners through GivJoi’s youth-access projects. But caring and having the capacity to actually contribute turned out to be two different things.
That’s the piece a training plan alone never solves.
Health gives you the strength to show up.
Wealth gives you the capacity to build and contribute.
Relationships give you the trust to do it together.
That’s why your story matters here—not as a nice sentiment, but as the actual mechanism. Meaningful work belongs beside the miles, because building real capacity is what lets any of us provide, employ, mentor, sponsor, or give—for real, not in theory.
The stronger you get, the further it reaches. Memberships, events, and qualifying Marketplace purchases help support youth-running access through GivJoi, under their published impact commitments.
A stronger you. A stronger Village. More of a starting line for the runners coming behind us.
The Invitation
The Invitation Was Inside Our Name.
We didn’t set out to build an acronym. We set out to build a Village—because none of this, not the miles, not the Build, not showing up for the people who matter, was ever meant to happen alone.
But when we said it out loud—V-I-L-L-A-G-E R-U-N—the last three letters stopped us.
R.U.N.
Are. You. In?
That’s not a slogan we added after the fact. It’s the question this whole page has been asking, one story at a time—the silent car ride, the missed course marker, the ab roller on the garage floor, the 90 days I ran on myself before I ever asked you to run yours.
That question doesn’t stay a phrase. It becomes the map—The R.U.N. Map—that tells you exactly where your Mile, your Build, and your Relationship are headed for the next 90 days.
We needed a simple way to turn that question into something you could actually do. Not someday. Not when the calendar clears. Now, with 90 days on it, and a Village already moving.
Village, Are. You. In?™
50 founding adult places • Season begins October 1
A Personal Note from Joel and Jamie
Come Build the Next 90 Days With Us.
If you’ve been showing up for everyone else while putting your own health, goals, and relationships off until later—we know that seat. Joel sat in it on a silent car ride home. He sat in it three miles off course at Rio Del Lago. He sat in it the morning after burying his father, standing at a starting line he didn’t feel ready for.
We’re not writing this from outside your situation. Joel ran his own 90 days first—the same Mile, the same kind of Build, the same protected time for the people who matter—before we built this for you, together. Two decades of walking alongside people trying to protect the relationships that make their miles and their Builds worth it taught us why this had to hold all three at once, not just one.
That’s why Village Mile Lifestyle is built around three commitments, not one:
One Mile to train for.
One meaningful Build to advance.
One Relationship to strengthen.
Our invitation is simple: bring something you want to move forward. Bring the goal you keep postponing. Bring your willingness to take one rep today, and come back for the next one tomorrow.
Let’s give the next 90 days a clear direction—and build the strength, resources, and relationships to contribute beyond ourselves.
Take your place among the founding 50.
Joel & Jamie HundleyFounders, Village Run™
Village, Are. You. In?™
50 founding adult villagers (Season 1) • Season begins October 1 • Enrollment closes September 30, 2026, or when filled.
The Rhythm
Day to Day
One Mile to Train For
Walk it, walk-run it, return to running, or work toward a faster time. We start with an honest benchmark—wherever you actually are—so you have a real starting point, a personal goal, and a way to see progress. Build from there toward your next race, the same way I built from a 24:58 toward a 21:10, three runs a week.
One Build to Advance
Choose one wealth priority to move forward in 90 days: launch a side business, grow an existing business, increase your income, or keep more of what you earn. You don’t need a company. You need one rep worth taking—the same one rep that turned into Village Run.
One Relationship to Strengthen
Choose someone who matters. Be more present. Show appreciation. Reconnect. Protect a practical rhythm—a conversation, a shared activity, a standing time on the calendar that survives a busy week instead of losing to it.
Move. Build. Connect.
Plan your week around your Mile, your Build, and your Relationship. Each day, ask three questions:
- Move — What will I do for my health and Mile today?
- Build — What step will move my chosen wealth priority forward?
- Connect — How will I show up for the person I chose?
Take one honest rep in each area, then check in on the Private Village Platform. Some days your Mile is training. Other days it’s recovery, or just showing up. That’s still the streak.
You don’t have to give all three equal time, every day. The goal isn’t equal time—it’s making sure none of the three disappears.
Local runs give you somewhere to show up. Weekly coaching helps you choose the next rep. The Private Village Platform keeps you connected between meetings, so the streak survives the weeks life gets full.
That’s the method. Are you in?
This goes beyond finish times and leaderboards.
It’s a 90-day season to move your health, wealth, and relationships forward.
Your race.
Your pace.
Your mission.
Our Village.
The Village is moving.
Are. You. In?™
The Season Ahead
Picture the Life Around Your Next Finish Line.
Imagine arriving at your mile with weeks of training behind you—and people beside you who’ve watched you keep showing up, the way I watched Justus keep showing up, the way I made myself keep showing up after I buried my father.
Your health has received actual attention, not leftover energy.
Your future has received action: the Build you chose, the steps you took, what you learned along the way.
Your relationships have received your presence, not your intentions. Protected time, actually kept.
And through Village Run’s contribution to GivJoi, your membership will have helped support access for young runners too—the same starting line someone once helped build for you.
That’s the season we’re inviting you into.
Meet Your Village
The People—and the Village—Beside You
Your Mile has a coach. Your Build has a guide. Your Relationship has something harder to fake: a room full of people who notice when you go quiet.
That room is RunnerParents, youth athletes, local professionals, and partners — anyone willing to show up for one Mile, one Build, and one Relationship at a time. That’s what makes it a Village, not a roster.
Coach Justus Hundley
Your Mile
Leads your Mile and the weekly group plan through Just Us Running Elite Coaching—mindset, training, strength, and recovery, for elite athletes and beginners alike. The same mindset training took him from a 21:58 three-mile finish to a 14:28 5K—proof the method worked before it ever had a name.
Kristin Jacobson
Your Strength
Leads your core strength through Shoreline Health, bringing structured strength, conditioning, and Pilates work into your Mile — the piece most training plans skip until it’s too late. A 20-year veteran of the LA County Fire Department’s Lifeguard Division and a Masters athlete — Kristin brings the same discipline that keeps ocean rescues successful to how she coaches your training block. Happily married with three children, she coaches alongside Coach Justus.
Joel Hundley
Your Build
Guides your Build and the founding program. Author of EXIT, creator of OIA The Iterate OS™, founder of One Iteration Away Labs and Village Run™. Ran his own 90 days—the Mile, the Build, the Relationship—before building this for you.
The Village
Your Culture
This is the pillar we didn’t want to hand to a curriculum. Presence isn’t something you learn in a classroom—it’s something a community holds you to. Your Relationship priority gets worked in the Monday Mastermind, the weekly Village session, and the Private Village Platform: real people, checking in on the person you said mattered, on a schedule that doesn’t let a busy week quietly erase them.
This is also the part of the Village that isn’t about training or accountability at all—it’s the monthly Village Social, where the only job is to show up and enjoy each other.
John L. Corpus, OD
Village Mastermind Contributor
Joel’s longtime running partner and a co-founding partner of Runner Parent. Chair of Optometry Chiefs at Kaiser, endurance athlete, and GivJoi advisor. In the founding season he joins selected Monday Masterminds with an endurance-and-builder’s lens: how to pursue a hard goal without losing the life around it.
Byron Easterling
Village Mastermind Contributor
Joel’s mentor and Mastermind contributor. Advises C-suite executives and brings executive perspective on priorities, decisions, and next moves across at least four Monday Mastermind sessions in the founding season.
Village Contributors
Certified season experts
As the season calls for them, we bring in Village Contributors to share their expertise inside the Mastermind—professional runners, and voices in mindset, strength, recovery, business, and relationships. Additional local coaches join as they finish our certification program. Your Village grows with the season, not around a fixed roster.
What’s included
Here’s Everything Inside Your 90-Day Village Season
Train Your Mile. Iterate Your Build. Live Your Culture.
The three pillars
Train for your Mile with Joel, Coach Justus, Kristin Jacobson, and the Just Us Running Elite Coaching team.
- Mile benchmark and a personal goal
- Weekly group plan: mindset, training, strength, and recovery
- Two coached workouts each week in Vacaville—or follow the plan where you live
Weekly schedule, coaching details, and individualized plan options are covered in the FAQ below.
Move one wealth priority forward using the One Iteration Away Labs framework, with Joel and Village contributors.
- Launch a side business
- Grow an existing business
- Increase your income
- Keep more of what you earn
Choose a next step, test it, adjust with Village feedback. Includes a full digital copy of Joel’s own book, One Iteration Away — the one he wrote during his own 90 days, didn’t launch until this season, endorsed by John C. Maxwell. Not a bonus about the method. This pillar’s actual proof, unfinished chapter and all. Yours from Day 1.
Your Relationship priority isn’t a curriculum you sit through—it’s a commitment the Village holds you to, and a community that actually makes it fun to keep.
- Choose the person who matters, and a rhythm you’ll protect for them
- Monthly Culture guidance from Village contributors, inside the Mastermind schedule
- Weekly check-ins with people who notice when that rhythm slips—and ask about it
- Monthly Village Social—bring your Relationship person along (dutch-treat: individual costs aren’t included)
Village support
13 live Monday Masterminds at 8 PM Pacific, group coaching, hot seats, Q&A, breakouts, private check-ins, and approved replays between meetings.
Apart from the private Starting-Line Call, coaching is delivered through group sessions and support. Messaging does not include immediate or unlimited private coach access.
Private 20-minute call to choose your Mile, Build, and Culture commitment, plus progress reviews at Days 30, 60, and 90.
December 12 at 7 AM in Vacaville. Timed entry and official bib, Purpose Station, Expo + Impact admission.
One planned social gathering each month—dinner out, dancing, game night, a couples’ night. We handle the planning, the invite, and the group. You just show up. (Dutch-treat: individual costs for dinner, tickets, or activities are not included in membership.)
Your founding bonuses
Your first seven days, mapped: the One Rep Streak™, a starter movement plan, your first Build action, your first Culture action, and daily check-in prompts.
The teaching behind your Founding Villager Box’s 24 principles—parenting, partnership, and presence, taught by the Village contributors your season calls for.
- Founding beta access and member-first looks at selected releases
- 20% off eligible Village Run-owned gear
- Eligible recovery-product and partner savings
One physical object for every pillar you’re training:
- Village Run Tee — your Mile, worn
- Superieur Electrolytes canister — daily fuel, daily ritual
- The Ab Roller — where One Rep Streak™ began, in your hands
- RunnerParent Curriculum — 24 principles for Village Culture, in your hands
Available for local pickup in Vacaville, California, subject to available sizes, inventory, and published pickup terms.
Founding Season
TOTAL VALUE: $3,510
Plus member-only gear and recovery savings that grow every season.
$297 one-time payment
Start My 90 DaysOctober 1, 2026 kickoff • 50 founding adult villagers (Season 1) • 14-Day Starting-Line Promise
Every Villager Earns
Bring a Friend. Earn 20%.
Get your personal invite link on Day 1. Bring a friend into the Village, earn 20% commission ($59.40) on their active membership—no application, no waiting.
It’s kinda like word of mouth — except this time, you actually get paid for it.
- Commission pays 30 days after your referral’s membership is confirmed active
- Requires an active Village Run membership to earn
- Applies to 90-Day Memberships—not the household partner add-on
- Direct referrals only, one link per member
Refer your first Villager, and we’ll ship you a signed physical copy of One Iteration Away while your commission clears.
Multiply the Mission
Bring 2 Friends Into the Village This Season.
Bring 2 friends into the Village this season, and we’ll credit your next season $297 — on top of the 20% commission you already earn on both. Two friends. Your next 90 days, essentially covered.
- Credit applies once both referrals’ memberships are confirmed active, same terms as your standard referral commission
- Direct referrals only, same as Every Villager Earns
- Credit is separate from and stacks on top of your 20% commission — you keep both
Built to Give™
Your Starting Line Helps Create Another.
Someone helped build your first starting line, whether you noticed it or not—a parent who drove you to practice, a coach who saw something before you did, a stranger who paid for a race entry you couldn’t quite afford. Most of us got a rep we didn’t earn on our own.
For qualifying memberships through the 2026 Founding Offer, Village Run contributes 10% of net collected revenue—calculated after direct hard costs such as physical goods, event entries, and fulfillment—to GivJoi, Inc.—our nonprofit impact partner creating access and opportunity for youth runners who are still looking for theirs.
You’re not funding a mission that’s separate from your own 90 days. You’re running yours, and it’s quietly building someone else’s.
Contribution excludes taxes, refunds, and chargebacks. Membership fees are commercial program fees, not charitable donations, and are not tax-deductible.
14 Days · The Starting-Line Promise
Give Yourself a Starting Line You Can Try.
You’ve had ninety days like this before, on paper—a plan you meant to keep, a program you meant to finish. This one asks you to prove it to yourself in two weeks, not ninety days, before you’re committed to either.
Your 14-Day Starting-Line Promise gives you through October 14, 2026, to actually be in the Village before deciding you’re staying:
- Complete the Starting-Line Assessment
- Attend or watch one Monday Mastermind
- Submit three daily check-ins
If it’s not what you believed you were joining, email team@villagerun.co by October 14 at 11:59 PM Pacific and request a refund under the published terms.
Refunding membership ends its included race registration. After the promise period, membership fees are nonrefundable and remaining installments remain due, except where otherwise required by law.
Wall of Belief
Real people. Real guidance. Real reasons to begin.
Village Mile Lifestyle is a new founding season—but the people leading it are not new to the work. Here’s what runners and builders already say about the guidance beside you.
Running — Coach Justus & Just Us Running
Athletes who trained with Justus’s content and coaching—proof of the running lane you’ll train inside, not a promise of the same times.
“I was REALLY cooked with my running before I found this… now 3 months later I am running 9 mile long runs @ 6:39 pace, stacking 50+ miles every week… listen to this advice.”
“When I think of growth in my running, Justus has been a vital support… Discover my definitive purpose.”
These are independent runner experiences with Just Us Running guidance—not Village Mile Lifestyle member outcomes.
Build — Joel Hundley
What founders and leaders say about the strategist guiding your Build lane.
“Whether it’s about vetting your ideas, investor relations, or creating your company culture, Joel’s ability to capture the full scope of the entrepreneurial journey is excellent.”
“Joel Hundley is an archetypal visionary… one of the most committed to doing what it takes to make the world truly better.”
“I’ve known Joel for over 30 years… He has the unique ability to inspire Founders, investors, and teams to achieve even the loftiest goals.”
Endorsements reflect professional experience with Joel—not guaranteed business or income results from membership.
Different lanes. Same Village. Your Mile, your Build, your Relationship—with people who already know how to help you take the next honest step.
Your Decision
Choose the Next 90 Days Before They Choose for You.
Another season will pass either way.
You can give this one a Mile to train for, a Build to move, and a Relationship to protect—with people beside you who are working on their own next steps.
Health deserves a place on the calendar.
Future deserves a next step.
Relationships deserve your presence.
You do not need to arrive fast. You do not need a finished business idea. You do need to be willing to begin and keep participating.
What would early 2027 look like if you used these next 90 days as a Headstart?
The Season 1 founding cohort has 50 adult places. Enrollment closes September 30, 2026, at 11:59 PM Pacific—or earlier when the 50th adult is confirmed. Each enrolled adult uses one place. Enrollment reopens for Season 2 in January 2027.
Train for Your Mile. Move Your Life Forward.
And help create another starting line along the way.
Village, Are. You. In?™
The Real Math
What Is This Actually Worth?
Strip away every bonus. Every Mastermind. Every line item in the stack.
What if all this did was help you break through a mental block you’ve carried for years, cross your own finish line, take one real step on something you’ve postponed, and protect time for someone who matters—surrounded by people actually doing it with you?
That’s not a $297 outcome. That’s not really a dollar outcome at all.
A breakthrough like that doesn’t have a price tag most people would recognize. A Mile PR built with real coaching behind it, a business step taken instead of postponed again, a relationship protected on purpose instead of by accident—any one of those, bought alone, costs more than this membership. Bought together, inside a Village built to make them reinforce each other, they’re not supposed to be affordable.
$297 isn’t the price of the transformation. It’s the price of removing every excuse to start it.
Village, Are. You. In?™
Fit
Is This Your Starting Line?
This is for adults who want to train, move meaningful work forward, strengthen a relationship, and participate in a community. Members must be 18 or older and able to walk continuously for at least 30 minutes.
This Is for You If…
- You carry real responsibility—and you’re tired of succeeding in one area while quietly losing ground elsewhere.
- You want your health, your Build, and someone who matters moving in the same direction.
- You want to complete or improve your mile, and you want running to strengthen—not consume—the life you’re building.
- You have a meaningful Build that needs focused action, and you want to become more present with someone who matters.
- You value ownership, accountability, and community—and you’re willing to make your progress visible and support other Villagers.
- You can join local activities in Vacaville or follow the plan and participate online where you live.
This Is Not for You If…
- You want guaranteed outcomes without personal action.
- You want individualized performance coaching as the core of this membership.
- You want Village staff to build your business, execute your marketing, or take ownership of your decisions.
- You want unlimited private access to coaches or consultants.
- You want pace shaming, income posturing, or performative accountability—or you’re unwilling to respect the privacy and dignity of other Villagers.
The Village will call you forward. It will not pretend to run your race for you.
FAQ
Clear answers before you enroll.
Do I have to be a runner?
No. The Mile meets you where you are — walk it, walk-run it, return to running after time away, or chase a faster time. What matters is an honest starting benchmark, not a finish time. The only physical requirement is being able to walk continuously for at least 30 minutes.
What is a Build, and what does wealth mean here?
Your Build is one meaningful wealth priority you move forward over 90 days — launching a side business, growing an existing one, increasing your income, or keeping more of what you already earn. You don’t need a company or a finished plan. You need one rep worth taking this week, and we’ll help you find it.
What do I do every day and every week?
Each day, you ask three questions: Move (what will I do for my health and Mile today), Build (what step moves my wealth priority forward), and Connect (how will I show up for the person I chose). Each week includes two coached workouts, a weekly Village session, and the Monday Mastermind at 8 PM Pacific. You check in on the Private Village Platform to keep the streak going between meetings.
What are the weekly Vacaville activities?
Two coached workouts each week, a weekly Village session, and the Monday Mastermind. Remote members join the same Monday Mastermind and coaching online, and follow the group training plan wherever they are.
What are Village Socials, and do remote members attend?
Village Socials are one planned gathering each month — dinner out, dancing, a game night, a couples’ night. Village Run handles the planning, the invite, and the group; you just show up. These are dutch-treat: individual costs for the meal, tickets, or activity itself aren’t included in membership.
Socials are hosted in person in Vacaville for the founding season. If you’re local, you’re in the room. If you’re not, our team will work directly with you on how to stay connected as the model grows — this expands city by city as new Villages come online.
Who leads the running program, and how do I contact a coach?
Coach Justus Hundley leads your Mile and the weekly group plan through Just Us Running Elite Coaching. You’ll connect with him through your weekly coached workouts, the Monday Mastermind, and the Private Village Platform.
What if I miss the Monday Mastermind?
Approved replays are available between meetings on the Private Village Platform, so missing a live session doesn’t mean missing the content.
Is this individualized running or business coaching?
No. Coaching is delivered through group sessions and community support, not one-on-one consulting. The one exception is your private 20-minute Starting-Line Call at the start of your season. Outside of that, this is a Village model — group coaching, shared accountability, and peer support, not unlimited private access to a coach or consultant.
Here’s the thing most people don’t expect going in: group isn’t the consolation version of coaching. It’s the actual mechanism. A private coach can tell you what to do. A Village can see whether you actually did it. That’s a different kind of pressure — the kind that works, especially if solo willpower is what’s let you down before.
What is included in Build guidance?
One Iteration Away — the One Iteration Away Labs framework, applied to your specific wealth priority. You choose a next step, test it, and adjust with feedback from Joel and Village contributors inside the Monday Mastermind. Membership includes a full digital copy of Joel’s book, One Iteration Away, endorsed by John C. Maxwell — this pillar’s actual proof, yours from Day 1.
Is Village Culture the same as therapy or couples counseling?
No. Village Culture is community accountability and education — real people checking in on the relationship you said mattered, on a schedule that doesn’t let a busy week erase it. It is not a clinical or therapeutic service. If you’re looking for clinical support, we’d encourage you to work with a licensed professional alongside this.
What is included with The Merriment Mile?
Timed mile entry, an official race bib, a self-guided mile training guide, the Purpose Station experience, and admission to the Village Run With Purpose Expo + Impact Event. It takes place Saturday, December 12, 2026, at 7:00 AM in Vacaville. The official event T-shirt is a separate optional preorder — it’s not included with your membership or registration.
How do event redemption, youth participation, and local-mile options work?
You redeem your Merriment Mile entry — Race the Mile or Move the Mile — during your Starting-Line Call. Children 14 and under of enrolled members can run free alongside their enrolled parent or guardian; this is youth participation alongside you, not a separate membership for your child.
Do I have to live in Vacaville or travel there?
No. Follow the group training plan wherever you live, and join the same online coaching, Monday Mastermind, and Private Village Platform as members training in Vacaville.
The Founding Villager Box is available for local pickup in Vacaville, California, for qualifying paid adult memberships, subject to available sizes, inventory, and published pickup terms.
Can my spouse or partner join?
Yes. Add your household spouse or adult partner for $197, one-time, while founding places remain. They get the full 90-day experience — group coaching, weekly Masterminds, private community access, their own Starting-Line Call, Merriment Mile entry, and a Village Run Tee.
Can my children participate?
Membership itself is for adults 18 and older. Children 14 and under of an enrolled parent or guardian can run free at the Merriment Mile alongside them, and may join designated movement experiences under direct parent or guardian supervision.
How does my membership help youth runners?
Village Run contributes 10% of net collected revenue — after direct hard costs — to GivJoi, Inc., our nonprofit impact partner creating access and opportunity for youth runners. Qualifying Marketplace purchases support the same GivJoi youth-access projects.
What Marketplace benefits are included with membership?
Founding beta access and member-first looks at selected releases, 20% off eligible Village Run-owned gear, and eligible recovery-product and partner savings.
Does Marketplace access include affiliate earnings?
They’re related but separate. Marketplace access covers your member discounts and early looks at new products. Earning happens through the separate Villager referral program — every member gets a personal invite link on Day 1 and earns 20% commission on active, direct referrals, no application required.
How does the 14-Day Starting-Line Promise work?
You have through October 14, 2026, to confirm this is what you believed you were joining. Complete the Starting-Line Assessment, attend or watch one Monday Mastermind, and submit three daily check-ins. If it’s not right for you, email team@villagerun.co by October 14 at 11:59 PM Pacific to request a refund under the published terms. Refunding ends your included race registration. After the promise period, membership fees are nonrefundable and any remaining installments stay due, except where otherwise required by law.
Secure Enrollment
This Is Your Starting Line.
Complete billing below for immediate access. First 7 Reps included • Founding Villager Box (Vacaville pickup) • Merriment Mile entry included • The R.U.N. Map • Village Socials • 14-Day Starting-Line Promise
Season 1 enrollment closes September 30, 2026, at 11:59 PM Pacific—or when all 50 adult places are filled. Season begins October 1, 2026.
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Village Run Marketplace
From storefrontto homefront.
Founding members get beta access, member savings, and first look at selected releases.
We’ll add products and partners here as they earn a place—not because they fit a category, but because they serve the same mission this whole season is built around. Every addition should make a mile, a Build, or a relationship a little easier to protect.
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Partners. Sponsors. Builders.
Village Run™ is built with local leaders, aligned brands, and community partners who create access through running.
