Friends of the Fox

You're not alone in this.

Welcome to
Friends_of the_Fox

A community built for creatives and communicators doing mission-driven work, built by people who've spent years in the trenches with organizations like yours.

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Why We Built This

Most of us didn't get into this work to build a personal brand. We got into it because a message, a mission, or a room full of people needed someone who could say it clearly.

Then the work got heavy. Creative directors carrying a church's voice. Communicators inside nonprofits who are the strategy, the copy, and the crisis plan. Leaders who love the mission and still go home wondering if anyone else feels the same tension.

We kept meeting those people in green rooms, on staffs, and on calls that ran long, and we kept hearing the same quiet line: I don't have anyone who gets this.

The internet is full of advice. It is short on peers. Friends of the Fox is the room we wished we had. Not another content dump. A place for real conversation, shared craft, and people who have actually been in the work. We're not launching a finished product at you. We're building it with the people who will use it.

Mikel and Trenton, the leaders behind Friends of the Fox
The Friends of the Fox team at work

Who This Is For

  • You shape the voice of a church, nonprofit, or mission-driven brand.
  • You lead creative work and still care how it feels in the room.
  • You write, design, produce, or podcast stories that have to land.
  • You carry both the message and the people behind it.
  • You freelance or work in-house and want peers, not just clients.
  • You're tired of doing meaningful work alone.

What You're Joining

Real Conversation

Honest rooms. The work, the friction, the questions you don't post. People who will sit with what you're carrying instead of performing past it.

Relational Leadership

How you lead people without turning them into a strategy deck. Presence over performance. The mission stays human because the relationships do.

Spirit-filled Excellence

High craft, held with faith, not hustle dressed up as calling. Excellent work, and people who stay whole while they make it.

Resources That Matter

Frameworks, examples, and tools you can use on a Monday. Not a pile of inspiration that evaporates by Tuesday.

Mikel and Trenton shaking hands
Mikel and Trenton in the podcast studio

What's Coming

  • Podcast. Conversations with people doing this work in the real world. No hot takes built for the algorithm.

  • In-person Events. Meetups and gatherings where the names on the other side of the screen become people you know.

  • Strategic Resources. Practical help for messaging, creative process, and leading teams that carry a mission.

  • Ongoing Conversations. A rhythm of connection so this doesn't become another thing you join and forget.

FAQs

The waitlist is free. If anything we build later has a cost, you'll hear it plainly before you're asked to decide. Early friends help shape the room, and that starts at no charge.

You're welcome. Faith is part of why we build this way. It isn't a password, and we won't ask you to perform it. If you care about mission-driven work and the people doing it, there's a seat.

In stages. Waitlist members hear first as the podcast, resources, and gatherings come online. You're not joining a library that already left you behind.

As much as serves the work you already have. No quota. No streak. No guilt for a quiet month.

Creatives, communicators, and leaders from churches, nonprofits, and other mission-driven organizations. People in the work, not watching it from the sideline. We'll introduce the room as it forms.

Most communities sell access to content. We're building peers. Less performance, more relationship, and resources that come out of real conversations instead of a calendar pretending to be one.

Leave when you want. No maze, no sequence designed to wear you down. If it's not for you, that's useful for you and for us.

Join early. Shape what we're building. Connect with people who get what you're carrying.

Stay foxy.

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