The Velvet Collective™ is a three-month identity elevation experience for high-capacity women who who are already leading, already visible, already have traction, who are building, scaling, expanding, and refining.
Those that want sharper earning power, stronger presence, bolder communication, strategic thought leadership, and access to a network that matches their ambition.
From Founders scaling revenue, authority and brand presence to
Senior Executives entering higher visability roles and for
Creatives whose work requires visibility, clarity and a bold voice
Where internal clarity and external authority align, creating the momentum and confidence required for your next era of business, leadership, and creative expansion. Women whose decisions carry weight and who want to move with greater power and ease.
IDENTITY. AUTHORITY. PROXIMITY.
Masterminds are a dime a dozen
This is a leadership portal
What this is & Who it's for...
This is not a beginner container.
This is a strategic recalibration for women who know there is a next level — and want the identity and authority to match it.
The Dual Engine Driving Your Evolution
This isn’t your typical mastermind—and these aren’t your typical facilitators.
Hilary Porta and Kristi Straw co-lead The Velvet Collective™ with a dual-engine methodology that fuses internal recalibration with external authority activation.
Identity evolves on two tracks:
Internal identity — the beliefs, patterns, emotional architecture, and subconscious narratives that determine your capacity.
External identity — the leadership presence, communication, authority, positioning, and visibility that determine your opportunities.
Hilary recalibrates the internal engine.
Kristi activates the external engine.
Together, the two engines create a level of accelerated transformation traditional masterminds cannot touch.
Hilary Porta is a globally renowned expert in Identity Architecture™, subconscious reprogramming, and embodied leadership.
From stages and boardrooms in London to LA, as The Life Architect, she guides founders, elite performers, celebrities, and global brands like Ferrari, Mercedes, and NFL pros— high-capacity individuals through radical internal recalibration so they can lead, earn, and live from their most expressed self.
Her proprietary methodology is a blend of neuroscience, energetic precision, spiritual depth, and strategic clarity—designed to rewire the subconscious and build the internal architecture required for legacy-level leadership.
As the founder of Equip2Elevate™, R3 International, and H. Porta Coaching & Consulting, Hilary has helped thousands through live events, digital courses, and intimate mentorship containers.
Her work has been featured in 35+ publications, including Forbes, Thrive Global, Medium, and Tiny Buddha.
She’s shared stages with luminaries like Dr. Deepak Chopra, but her true genius is found in the catalytic spaces she holds behind closed doors—where identities shift, next levels activate, and the individual you’ve always known yourself to be finally rises.
This isn’t mindset work. This is identity recalibration—where soul, strategy, and self-mastery converge.
Kristi Straw is an executive strategist, leadership authority architect, and the creator of some of the most influential curated leadership rooms in the Southeast.
Leaders seek Kristi when visibility increases, decisions carry weight, and how they show up directly impacts opportunity, influence, and income.
Her work activates a woman’s external authority — how she communicates, positions herself, and moves through high-stakes environments — so internal identity shifts translate into real-world traction.
As Founder & CEO of Lighthouse Leadership Consultants™, Kristi has spent over two decades advising senior executives, founders, and organizations on leadership presence, visibility, and strategic influence.
Her work has been trusted by organizations and platforms including U.S. Bank, SHRM, TEDx, InvestmentNews, Chief, and GlobeSt — where leaders rely on her ability to turn visibility into capital and proximity into momentum.
Kristi is the creator of The Pinnacle Dinner™, a curated leadership experience known for accelerating clarity, relationships, and opportunity through intentional proximity.
In The Velvet Collective™, Kristi leads the external activation engine — ensuring that internal transformation is expressed through authority, visibility, and strategic movement long after the container ends.
Meet your hosts...
Hilary
Kristi
Masterminds are a dime a dozen.
This is a leadership portal.
This is not a course and this is not a mastermind in disguise.
This is a contained, high-trust leadership environment designed to recalibrate how you decide, communicate, and move at your next level.
The Velvet Collective™ is a three-month, high-touch group advisory built for women with traction who want greater authority, clarity, and optionality — without forcing premature visibility or identity shifts.
The work unfolds across three deliberate phases.
Before strategy, visibility, or proximity, we address the internal constraints that quietly cap authority and earning power.
This phase is led by Hilary and focuses on recalibrating the subconscious patterns that influence how you lead, decide, and carry pressure.
This is not mindset work, to be clear. This is root-level identity architecture.
This phase is led by Hilary and focuses on recalibrating the subconscious patterns that influence how you lead, decide, and carry pressure.
This is not mindset work, to be clear. This is root-level identity architecture.
This is where the group format matters.
The Velvet Collective™ is intentionally curated.
Not for volume. For caliber and containment.
The Velvet Collective™ is intentionally curated.
Not for volume. For caliber and containment.
Once your internal architecture is solid, the focus shifts to how authority is expressed & received.
This phase is led by Kristi and centers on executive presence, communication, and positioning — without performance, posturing, or self-promotion.
This phase is led by Kristi and centers on executive presence, communication, and positioning — without performance, posturing, or self-promotion.
- Identify & dismantle internal patterns that drive over-functioning, hesitation, self-silencing
- Release legacy beliefs that equate leadership with sacrifice, vigilance, or self-erasure
- Build internal safety for higher visibility, cleaner decisions, and expanded influence
- The outcome is not emotional catharsis.
- The outcome is stability — the kind that allows everything else to land and stick.
- Clarify how to speak about your work, value, and vision with precision and restraint
- Eliminate over-explaining, code-switching, or credibility padding
- Strengthen how you hold the room — in leadership conversations, negotiations, and high-stakes settings
- Proximity accelerates clarity, confidence, and next steps
- The room itself becomes a strategic mirror and pressure-tester
- Introductions, referrals, and opportunities emerge organically — without performance or networking theater
What you actually get...
This is about becoming unmistakable. FAST.
You are not asked to declare, pitch, or expose yourself prematurely.
You are supported in discernment before declaration.
This is how movement happens without regret.
Phase One:
Identity Architecture™
Phase Two:
Strategic Visibility & Executive Presence
Phase Three:
Proximity, Discernment & Accelerated Movement
Inside this phase, you will:
Inside this phase, you will:
Inside this phase:
3-month virtual experience
Bi-weekly 90-minute live sessions (coaching, strategic guidance, and hot seats)
Intentionally small cohort for depth, discretion, and trust
Between-session Voxer support and integration
This is a contained advisory environment, not an open-ended community.
Format & Flow...
because you care about how this is run
The full three-month identity + authority evolution for high-caliber women ready to move with power and precision.
A woman doesn’t choose the Velvet Collective™ when she’s unsure.
She chooses it when she’s ready to lead from the truth of who she is, not the shadow of who she used to be.
Diamonds are lovely.
Trips are temporary.
This changes how she navigates every room she enters — for years.
This is a luxury, yes.
But it is also a lever — one that accelerates leadership, income, clarity, and self-respect.
Includes the exclusive Velvet Identity Table™ capstone event — where identity becomes embodied and your next level becomes undeniable plus a 1 hour Personalized Strategy Session with both Hilary & Kristi.
Investment
$5555
$7777
Spots are limited—and they are moving FAST.
Claim yours before it’s too late.