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The Forge is the monthly mentorship for families who refuse to raise consumers, cowards, or perpetual adolescents. A private community, a live workshop with Daniel & Allison Hartman every month, and a growing library of courses, all in one place.
Front Porch free · Premium $37 · VIP $297 · Cancel anytime“As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.” · Proverbs 27:17
The problem under your roof
The culture is not waiting for your permission. It has a plan for your sons and your daughters, and it runs through their phones, their friends, and a thousand voices that do not love them. It is patient. It is consistent. It works while you sleep.
In 2023 the U.S. Surgeon General put it in writing. Teenagers now average about three and a half hours a day on social media, and more than three hours a day is tied to double the risk of depression and anxiety.
You never agreed to that. But a home with no plan of its own still ends up somewhere. It just ends up somewhere you did not choose. Most Christian families have good intentions and no plan.
Good intentions raise drifters.
A plan raises adults.
Your guides
We are not theorists. We have been married 28 years and raised 11 children on 100 acres, homeschooling for 23 of those years. Four are married now, and five grandchildren have followed.
Everything in The Forge is what we have actually run in our own home, not a theory we are trying on you.
The plan
Not someday. On purpose, for decades and not days, across five things a young man or young woman has to carry out your front door.
Conviction
Competence
Character
Courage
Calling
That is the whole mechanism.
It is also why the usual answers have not moved anything in your home.
A podcast makes you feel something on Tuesday and changes nothing by Friday. A resource library sits in a tab you never open again. Another parenting book gives you language for the problem and no hand on your shoulder while you fix it. The Forge is built the other way around. A live room with Daniel and Allison every month, and the tools to run what you learned in your own house that same week.
What you get
Everything in The Forge is digital and lives in one place. Nothing is mailed. Nothing is shipped. You log in and it is all there, on your phone in the truck or on the laptop at the kitchen table after the house goes quiet.
Every month Daniel and Allison go live, teach, and answer the real questions about your home, from Scripture and from conviction, not from the latest expert. This is the kind of mentorship most families never get and cannot buy anywhere near this price. The replay is posted inside, so a missed night is never a missed month.
The full course library on raising young entrepreneurs and building a family business, included free with membership. The library is already loaded and still growing. More courses are on the way, and every one we add lands in your account at no extra cost.
Fathers and mothers who hold the same convictions you do, in one room, every day of the month. The family at church that does not watch the same shows, does not send their children to the same places, does not want the same things. That family stops being alone. You stop being the strange ones. You start being surrounded.
Included free with membership
Most parents reading this already know the argument for raising young entrepreneurs. What they do not have is someone who has actually done it, sitting down to show them how.
Not the theory. The actual business. What to do when your son sells nothing at his first market. What to do when a first idea does not pencil out. How to let them fail without letting them give up.
Asher ran our honey booth at the farmers market. The first night he sold nothing. I told Daniel I felt terrible for him. Daniel said, “I do not. Do you know how much better he is going to handle objections next time?” He was right. By the next market Asher was making eye contact, offering samples, and closing. You cannot teach that from a book.
Makenna started with a gumball machine before she was old enough to drive. Then she moved into flipping furniture, buying bunk beds for fifty dollars and selling them for two hundred. By her mid-teens she had made twelve thousand dollars at it, and she used that same grit to pay her own way through a twelve-thousand-dollar certification program without borrowing a dime. Every dollar came from her own hands.
Ethan sketched out a pool cleaning business. When he ran the numbers, forty-five minutes of drive time for fifty dollars, it did not pencil out. So he pivoted to fencing. Today he can knock out a four-thousand-dollar fence in a day. That is not a failure story. That is a business education no classroom ever provided.
Our twelve-year-old ran the coffee Airstream by herself on a Thursday market night. Her sixteen-year-old brother towed the Airstream there and left. She made the syrups, served the customers, and came home having sold three hundred dollars of coffee on her own. The pride on her face when she told me is worth more than the money. And she knew we had not done it for her.
That is what the Hartman Business Academy is built from. Not a framework someone read about. Seventeen businesses our family has actually started over more than thirty years. And the understanding that the goal was never the money.
The goal was the adult standing on the other side of it.
Sold on its own, a library like this would run $1,997. The sales scripts our own children use at the market, how we structured real businesses, how we hired for character, and how we walked a child through selling nothing the first night and closing by the next. Inside The Forge it is included free with membership, and it keeps growing. New courses are being added, and members get every one of them at no extra cost.
Three courses, what is inside, and what it builds into your child
Now inside
The sales script our children actually used at the door, the list of businesses a child can start for fifty dollars or less, the first-business startup checklist, how to structure the work, family business roles, and how we hire for character inside our own family.
This is the one that turns a shy child into one who can look a stranger in the eye, make the sale, and count the money that night.
Now inside
We take moringa, one real product from our own land, and walk it start to finish. A growing calendar, our soil mix recipe, the harvest and processing steps, a product label checklist, and an online listing template so people actually buy.
Your child learns to turn something they grow or make into real income, not just a hobby.
Now inside
How to apply to a market, the booth layout that sells, a pricing and fee sheet, a market-day manager checklist, a weather and cancellation plan, and the venue outreach script we used to land ours.
This is the one that puts your child face to face with real customers and teaches them to run the day themselves.
Look inside
Not a promise of content someday. The classroom is live now, with the Hartman Business Academy loaded and more courses on the way. This is the actual view the 49 families inside see the day they join.
Every single month
Ninety minutes, live with Daniel & Allison, every single month — real teaching, real questions, and the conversations most families never sit down to have. Miss one and the full replay is waiting inside. Here are the last three.
1:27:47September workshop
1:28:53August workshop
1:33:22July workshop
A brand-new live workshop every month · every replay yours to keep for as long as you are inside.
How it works
Skool is the platform The Forge is built on, and it was chosen on purpose. There is no algorithm deciding what you see. No ads, no reels pulled in from somewhere else, and no strangers dropping into the conversation. It is one room, one feed, and one group of families who are all there for the same reason. It was chosen because the families inside did not need another social media feed. They needed a room.
When you join, you are taken to Skool, you set up your login, and you are inside. The workshops, the replays, the Hartman Business Academy courses, and the tribe are all behind that one door. It works on your phone and in any browser.
Billing is monthly or annual, handled inside Skool, and you can cancel from your own account in about thirty seconds. Nobody has to talk you out of it and nobody will try.
Is this you?
Why we can teach this
Seventeen family businesses started over more than thirty years. Two farmers markets, a photography operation, land clearing, Airbnbs, and a house church that meets in our living room. This is not a program we bought and repackaged. It is the life we actually run, and everything inside The Forge is drawn straight from it.
I did not read about raising entrepreneurs. I watched Asher come home from his first market with nothing and learn more that night than he would have in a semester. I watched Makenna earn twelve thousand dollars from a furniture resale business before she turned seventeen. I watched a sixteen-year-old get up at five in the morning on a Saturday to load the coffee Airstream while every other teenager he knew was still asleep.
You are not getting advice from someone who figured this out on paper. You are getting it from someone who is still in the middle of it, with children ranging from grandbabies to married adults, and who has made every mistake worth learning from.
Inside The Forge, Daniel and I answer the real questions. About your home. About your marriage. About your children. From Scripture and from twenty-eight years of building this together.
Come build with us. 🌿🏹
What it is worth
Priced the way the world sells these things one at a time. Inside The Forge they come together for about the cost of one family meal out.
Forge Premium today is $37 / month — or $347 for the whole year.
The offer
Start free on the Front Porch. Premium opens every workshop, every replay, the full and growing Hartman Business Academy, and the tribe. VIP adds private time with Daniel and me. Cancel anytime from your own account.
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Pull up a chair. Read our welcome, introduce your family, and see who is building alongside you.
The full Forge
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The whole Forge. Every live workshop, the full course library, and the tribe.
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For the family that wants Daniel and me in their corner, privately, every single month.
Just want one course? Buy it on its own from the Front Porch, lifetime access, no membership.
Our first forty-nine families locked in $27 a month, and every one of them now sits in Premium at that same rate. That door is closed. The Forge will keep growing, more courses are on the way, and today’s prices will not be here forever.
Come to your first live workshop. If it’s not worth it, cancel in 30 seconds and you’ve lost nothing.
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Straight answers
Then do not treat it like one more thing. It is one night a month, and the replay is there if you miss it. The work you already do at home is the work. The Forge just keeps you from doing it blind and alone.
The families who say that are usually the ones who move fastest once they start. You cannot get back the years behind you. You can decide what the next five look like, and there are parents inside doing exactly that.
One membership covers your household. Fathers and mothers are both inside, and the strongest results come when the two of you are working the same plan instead of one of you carrying it.
No. The Forge is fully digital. Everything lives inside Skool and is available the moment you join.
Then you have two problems: the drift in your children and the distance between you and your husband. The Forge will not fix a marriage, but Daniel and Allison have been building this together for twenty-eight years, and one of the most common things we hear from members is that joining gave them a shared plan for the first time. One membership covers your whole household. Start there.
Forty-nine families joined at $27 a month and locked it in for as long as they stay. Every one of them sits in Premium at that same $27, as a thank you for building this with us from day one. That door is closed now. New families start at $37.
Our welcome, a place to introduce your family, and announcements. The workshops, replays, courses, and full community are for Premium members. If you only want one course, you can buy it on its own from the Front Porch and keep it for life.
One course on its own is $297 to $397, once. A full year of Premium is $347 and includes all three courses, every new one we add, every live workshop, and the tribe. If you want more than one thing, Premium is the smarter buy.
Cancel from your own account and you are done. No call, no form, no talking to anyone.
Saturday morning. One of our teenage sons is loading a truck before sunrise, while every other boy he knows is still asleep. He comes home tired, and he comes home knowing that hard work is not something that only happens to other families. That is what we are building here.
You came because something in you already knows the drift is real and the clock is running. That conviction is worth something, but only if it gets built into a house. Iron does not sharpen itself. Come stand with families doing the same hard, better work you are.
Come to your first live workshop. If it’s not worth it, cancel in 30 seconds and you’ve lost nothing.
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