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The Life Locked In Blueprint™ · Private 1:1 · 13 Weeks

You've built the business. Now build the life it was supposed to buy you.

For high-performing men whose business is winning and whose home, health and headspace keep getting the leftovers. In 13 weeks we build the life your business was supposed to create. Not another productivity system that helps you cram more work into your life. A week that work can't take.

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Five men per quarter. Currently coaching founders, operators and senior leaders across Australia and internationally.
Lachlan Stuart, men's performance coach
Your coachLachlan Stuart · Brisbane
1,200+
Men coached
58
Marathons in 58 days
$200K+
Raised for men's mental health
9 yrs
Coaching high performers
If this is you

The business is winning. So why does everything else feel like it's running on whatever's left over?

You didn't build all this to be the most trapped person you know.

Somewhere in the last few years the week stopped belonging to you. Work expanded to fill every gap. Home got what was left. And the man who walks through the door at 6pm is not the man you want your wife and kids to get.

✕You finish work and bring it home with you. Physically present, mentally still in the inbox.
✕Your wife has stopped asking. That's worse than when she was asking.
✕Training is on and off. Sleep is average. You know exactly what to do and you're not doing it.
✕The phone owns your evenings and you've made peace with it in a way you're not proud of.
✕You hit the number and the feeling lasted about two days.
✕Under pressure you get short, or you go quiet. Then you apologise for it later.
✕You've got a five-year plan for the business and no plan at all for your marriage.

None of that makes you a bad bloke. It makes you a man running a life with no structure protecting the parts that matter most.

“I have looked a different life in the eye and decided the man I want to be. I have maintained the standards I set. I am leading instead of kicking the can around and not being present.”
Builder & business owner · Identity kept private · Record $100K profit month during the engagement

The man this was built for

This works for a specific man. You'll know within two lines whether it's you.

He's between 35 and 55. He runs a business, leads a team, or carries real responsibility for outcomes other people depend on.

He's married or in a serious relationship. Some have young kids, some have teenagers, some are still deciding. What they share is that there's someone at home who notices when he's not really there.

He's not broken. He's not in crisis. He's competent, driven and used to being the one who has it handled. That's exactly why he's stuck. The thing that made him successful at work is the thing making him absent everywhere else.

He's already tried the obvious. New calendar system. Better morning routine. Told himself he'd finish earlier. It held for about three weeks.

If you read that and felt something tighten, keep reading.

What another year actually costs

Another year of this doesn't stay still. It gets worse.

In business, when your standards drop, results drop. You see it in the numbers inside a month and you correct.

In a marriage, when your standards drop, nobody tells you. Your wife stops expecting the version of you that's actually present. She just adjusts. And one day she asks you a question you can't answer, and you realise she stopped asking a long time ago.

✕Another year where your kids' clearest memory of you is a man on his phone at the dinner table.
✕Another year where your wife stops expecting the man she married, and starts building her life around the one who comes home.
✕Another year of your body getting a bit worse every quarter in a way that's invisible until it isn't.
✕Another year of experiences you keep saying you'll book next year.
✕Another year of being the man who's always at work and never actually finished.

Doing nothing isn't staying where you are. Where you are isn't a stable position.

Thirteen weeks from now

What it actually looks like when your life is locked in.

This is not a different life. It's the same life, structured properly.

✓Work has a finish line. You close the day instead of leaking out of it.
✓You walk in the door and your wife and kids get the same version of you your best clients get.
✓Your phone stops running your evenings, and you didn't need an app to fix it.
✓Training happens because it's protected, not because you found motivation.
✓Date night is in the calendar and it survives a bad week at work.
✓When pressure hits, you respond instead of react. Not perfectly. Reliably.
✓The trip, the challenge, the thing you keep talking about — it's booked and paid for.

And when a week goes sideways, because it will, you know how to get back to it without a three-month spiral.

Your first proof point

We don't wait 13 weeks to find out if this is working. You get one result in 30 days.

On our first call we choose one thing. Clear, specific, measurable. That's your 30-Day Lock-In.

It's not a goal you write down and forget. It's the first visible change your family will notice, and the first evidence you'll have that this is different from everything you've tried before.

Examples of what men choose

  • ·Closing work on time three nights a week and actually being home for dinner
  • ·A weekly date night that holds, even in a bad week
  • ·Training three times a week without negotiating with yourself about it
  • ·The phone away for the first two hours of every evening
  • ·Handling one recurring argument without going short or going silent
  • ·Following through on a promise he's broken more than once
  • ·Booking and paying for a family experience that's been “next year” for three years

Different man, different Lock-In. What matters is that in 30 days there's a result on the table, not a feeling.

The method

The Life Locked In Blueprint™

Most coaching goes deep on the mindset and never touches the calendar. Or it fixes the calendar and never touches why you keep breaking your own rules by Wednesday.

The Blueprint does both, in the right order for you. Three pillars. You get assessed on all three before we begin. Where we start depends on what's actually in your way.

01 · MASTER YOURSELF

How you lead yourself when the pressure comes on.

Own your story. Control your state. Choose your response.

Most men don't have a discipline problem. They have a pattern problem. The same trigger produces the same reaction, and they've been apologising for it for a decade. This pillar is where you understand your patterns, take ownership of them, and learn to respond on purpose instead of reacting on autopilot.

02 · BUILD TRUST

How you show up with the people who matter most.

Listen better. Keep promises. Protect the relationship.

This isn't communication theory. It's becoming a man whose behaviour builds trust at home instead of eroding it. The small promises kept. The conversation you've been avoiding, had properly. The kind of trust that means your wife stops bracing for the version of you that walks in the door.

03 · OWN YOUR WEEK

Where the intention becomes visible.

Close the workday. Come home properly. Lock life in.

This is where it stops being a conversation and starts being a calendar. Work gets a finish line. You get a transition out of work mode. And your marriage, your health, your mates and your goals go into the week before work takes the space.

The operating system

The Protected Week.

The Protected Week isn't time management. It's your week protecting itself.

We build it in three stages.

STAGE 1

Workday Closed

Work gets a real finish line. Tomorrow is planned before today ends. The open loops get closed so they stop following you home.

STAGE 2

Properly Home

The transition out of work mode. You don't walk in the door still running the day in your head. You arrive calm, present, and able to lead at home rather than recover at home.

STAGE 3

Life Locked In

Marriage, family, training, mates and personal goals are already in the calendar. What matters most is protected before Monday's inbox has a chance to eat it.

By the end of the 13 weeks you don't have notes about a better week. You have a week that runs, that you've tested under pressure, and that you can rebuild yourself when life knocks it over.

Same method, different starting point

The method doesn't change. Where we start does.

Every man is assessed across all three pillars before we begin. Then we start where the blockage actually is.

A man with no structure starts in Own Your Week. Get the week protected first, everything else has room to work.

A man with plenty of structure who goes reactive under pressure starts in Master Yourself. There's no point building a better week if you blow it up every time something goes wrong.

A man who keeps breaking promises or feels the distance at home starts in Build Trust. Fix the relationship damage before it hardens.

By week 13 we've been through all three. What changes is the order, and how much time each one needs.

What actually happens

Thirteen weeks, four phases.

PHASE 1 · WEEKS 1–2

Map and commit

Full assessment across the three pillars. We get honest about where your week is actually going and what it's costing. You choose your 30-Day Lock-In. Your partner receives a welcome letter explaining what you've committed to and what she can expect. WHOOP goes on.

PHASE 2 · WEEKS 3–5

The 30-Day Lock-In

We attack your first result. This is the sprint. Master Yourself work threads through here — the patterns that keep blowing up your best intentions get named and interrupted. By the end of week 5 there's a visible change that someone at home has noticed and commented on.

PHASE 3 · WEEKS 6–10

Build the Protected Week

Workday Closed. Properly Home. Life Locked In. This is where the structure gets built, tested and adjusted around your real life, not an ideal one.

PHASE 4 · WEEKS 11–13

Pressure test and lock it

360-degree feedback comes back from 8 to 10 people in your life. Build Trust work anchors here — the hard conversation you've been avoiding gets had, and the feedback you get (including the parts you don't enjoy hearing) gets worked with, not ignored. In the final session your partner's graduation letter is delivered, along with your transformation dashboard and your bound workbook.

You leave with a structure you built, evidence it works, and the ability to rebuild it yourself when life tests it.

What you get

Thirteen weeks of private, structured, personal work.

01

Weekly private coaching

One 60 to 75 minute session every week. Direct one-to-one with me. No group calls, no associate coaches, no recordings to catch up on.

02

Direct SMS access between sessions

The decision doesn't wait until next Tuesday. Text me. I reply within 24 hours on business days. If I'm off-grid you'll know in advance.

03

The Life Locked In assessment

Full baseline across all three pillars, and a repeat at the end so the change is measured, not remembered.

04

360-degree feedback

Eight to ten people in your life, at work and at home, give structured anonymous feedback near the end of the program. Most men have never had this. It's the single most confronting and most useful hour of the 13 weeks.

05

Partner integration

Your partner receives a welcome letter at the start explaining what you've committed to and how she can support it. At week 13 she writes to you. That letter is the proof nothing else gives you.

06

WHOOP membership (included)

The band and the 13-week membership are included. Sleep, recovery and strain, tracked. Not because I'm writing your training. Because data holds you accountable in the weeks your word alone won't.

07

The Life Locked In workbook

A bound physical workbook. Every framework, every session, every commitment, in one place. Posted to you in Australia, couriered internationally.

08

Your transformation dashboard

At week 13 you get your before and after, printed. Assessment scores, WHOOP trends, what changed and what it took. Something you keep.

This program does not include a training program. I no longer write them. If your goal is a marathon, a Hyrox or getting back in shape, we build the structure that makes it possible and hold you to it. The programming itself isn't what you're paying me for.

Investment
$8,000 + GST

Thirteen weeks of private one-to-one coaching. Onboarded within a week of acceptance.

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Paid in full
$8,000 + GST

Everything included, best value.

Payment plan
2 × $4,500 + GST

First payment at start, second at week 6.

Paying in full saves you $1,100 all in. Both options include everything on this page.

✓
The standard I hold

If you don't see results during the program, I keep working with you until you do.

No extra cost. One condition: you do everything we agree on. I show up, do the work, and hold the standard. You do the same. That's the deal, and it's the same deal I've held with every man on this page.

Real men · Real results

Different men. Same shift.

Mark D.
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Mark D. · Real Estate

From 6/10 across the board to running the Melbourne Marathon mid-program.

High-performing real estate agent, team leader. 13-week 1:1 engagement.

Before

Hit financial freedom in 2017. Paid off the house, built a bigger one, then felt nothing. Waking at 3:30am. Six-day weeks. Working hard with no target.

After

He didn't need a training program to run a marathon. He needed a week with room in it and someone holding him to the standard he'd set.

  • Goals hit inside the first two weeks
  • Ran the Melbourne Marathon during the engagement
  • Built three-month and five-year architecture across business and life
  • Reclaimed time and energy for his wife and kids

“Within two weeks of engaging you we already started to hit goals. I didn't feel like I needed to control everything, you can outsource it, delegate it. The highest performers are the people that need the most coaching.”

Confidential · Building & Construction

From shutdown and victim mode to a $100K profit month, and a different man entirely.

Builder and business owner. Identity kept private at his request.

Before

Emotionally shut down. Lost the passion for the business. Stuck in black and white thinking and feeling like a failure despite the outside picture.

After

Out of the tools and into leadership and sales. Approaching the twelve-month mark stronger than when he started.

  • $100K profit month, the biggest in the business's history
  • Out of the tools and into leadership and sales
  • Alcohol boundary set and held for the first time
  • Approaching the twelve-month mark stronger than when he started

“I have looked a different life in the eye and decided the man I want to be. I have maintained the standards I set. I am leading instead of kicking the can around and not being present.”

Case 02
Confidential
Builder · Business Owner
$100K
Record profit month
Some clients run high-profile businesses and prefer the work stays private. The results don't.
Tim J.
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Tim J. · Real Estate

From reactive grind to a million-dollar pipeline, plus a 7:14 2km row.

Career change. Twins at home. Turning 40.

Before

Operating reactively and always playing catch-up. Measuring himself by what was still undone.

After

Calmer under pressure, clearer decisions. Systems, not stress, driving the performance now.

  • Weight stabilised, training consistent for the first time in years
  • CRM and pipeline rebuilt to a million-dollar annual standard
  • Advanced a $40M pitch with full confidence
  • Calmer under pressure, clearer decisions

“It wasn't a crash diet or going super hard. It's something I can actually carry forward. I honestly can't see anyone doing this for 13 weeks and coming out worse.”

Luke D. · Building & Construction

From overcommitted and burnt out to building a business on his terms.

Fifty-plus hour weeks. Yes to everything. Still felt like he was letting people down.

Before

50+ hour weeks. Saying yes to everything. His partner asked whether he was even happy, and he couldn't answer.

After

Stopped the overcommitment cycle. Launching a new venture with strategic clarity, not chaos.

  • Stopped the overcommitment cycle
  • Reclaimed time, energy and headspace
  • Launching a new venture with strategic clarity, not chaos

“My partner asked me if I was even happy. I couldn't answer. Five months later that's not the question on the table anymore.”

Luke D.
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More from inside the work

The pattern repeats. Different men. Same shift.

“I just wanted to thank you for the recharge and change your advice gave me. I have doubled my work turnover while committing 100% to my family and have received multiple comments from my wife and her parents about the change they have seen in me.”

Michael H.
Doubled turnover, marriage rebuilt

“Mate, I know how busy you are and how selective you can be with who you take on. I feel like I've won the jackpot. It's unreal shifting and noticing things I've never even thought about.”

Adam L.
Founder, global engineering firm

“Lachie helped me break down the large, scary goals into manageable areas of focus. My relationships, career, health and mental health have never been in a more focused place. What you see is what you get with Lachie, authenticity and a no-bullshit approach.”

Bailey M.
2+ year client
Lachlan Stuart, men's performance coach
Your coach

I've been the man who looked good on paper.
I've also been the one falling apart underneath.

I'm Lachlan Stuart. Founder of The Man That Can Project, author of States of Mind, husband to Amy, and a new dad.

I've lost mates to suicide. That's what made this work non-negotiable for me — and it's why the men I work with aren't just building better calendars. They're building lives that can hold weight when weight comes.

Last year I ran 58 marathons in 58 days across the United States and raised $162,000 for men's mental health. Over the last decade the total is past $200,000. The Man That Can Project podcast has been downloaded more than 1 million times.

Since 2017 I've worked with over 1,200 men through coaching, workshops and keynotes. The pattern is almost always the same. It's rarely a motivation problem. It's a structure problem, dressed up as a discipline problem, sitting on top of a pattern he's never been shown how to interrupt.

I don't do woo. I don't do motivation. I do clarity, structure, standards and ownership. Which is what most men actually needed the whole time.

1,200+Men coached since 2017
1M+Podcast downloads
9 yrsIn the work
Honest fit check

This is not for everyone. Genuinely.

I take five men per quarter. The work is direct and the standard is high, and I'd rather tell you now than waste your time.

✓ This is for you if

  • You run a business, lead a team, or carry real responsibility
  • You've achieved on paper and something underneath has gone flat
  • You're married or in a serious relationship and you know home is getting your worst
  • You're done with hacks, apps and weekend resets that hold for a fortnight
  • You'll show up, do the work, and let yourself be coached
  • You'll invest premium money to compress years into months

✕ This is not for you if

  • You want motivation, hype or someone to pump your tyres up
  • You want agreement, not challenge
  • You're not actually willing to change anything you currently do
  • You want to talk about the problem rather than solve it
  • You can't commit two to three hours a week for 13 weeks
  • You're in acute crisis and need clinical support. That's a different kind of help and I'll tell you so honestly.

Five men per quarter.

That's not a marketing line, it's the reality of the work. Weekly sessions, direct SMS access and this level of personal work doesn't scale past five at a time without the quality dropping. When the quarter is full, it's full.

Common questions

Before you apply.

What does it cost?

$8,000 + GST paid in full, or 2 × $4,500 + GST with the second payment at week 6. The men on this page treated that as the smallest part of the decision. What they actually weighed was the cost of another year of the same. If price is your first filter, this probably isn't the right room.

Do you still write training programs?

No. I've stopped. For years I built training programs alongside the coaching, and what I learned is that most high-performing men don't need a better program. They need a week that has room in it and someone who holds them to their word. If you want to run a marathon during the 13 weeks, several men have. We build the structure that makes it possible. The programming itself isn't what you're paying me for.

What's the WHOOP for, then?

Accountability and data. Sleep, recovery and strain are the fastest early indicators that your week has gone sideways, usually before you'd notice it yourself. It's a mirror, not a training plan.

How much time do I need each week?

Two to three hours. One 60 to 75 minute session, plus the implementation between sessions. If you can't protect that, you've just proven the point of the program and you're not ready for it yet.

Do I have to be married?

No, but this is built for men with someone at home. A lot of the work, especially Build Trust and the partner integration, is far more powerful when there's a relationship in the picture. If you're single and the rest of this resonates strongly, apply and we'll talk about it honestly on the call.

What if my real issue is my marriage, not my business?

Then you're exactly who this is for. Read the confidential builder story again. Leadership at home, the way you handle pressure, and how your week is structured aren't three separate problems. They're the same problem showing up in three places.

Do you work with men outside Brisbane?

Yes. Most clients are remote — Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and international. Sessions run on Zoom. The work is identical.

Is this therapy?

No. It's coaching, and it's practical. If you need clinical support I'll tell you on the call and point you in the right direction. That's not a fob-off, it's the right call.

What happens after I apply?

You book a 30-minute call directly with me. We go through where you're actually at, what your 30-Day Lock-In would be, and whether I'm the right person to help. If it's a fit, we onboard within a week. If it's not, I'll tell you straight and you'll leave with something useful either way.

Is there a guarantee?

Yes. If you don't see results during the 13 weeks I'll keep working with you at no extra cost until you do. The only condition is that you do everything we agree on.

Coaching by city

Same work. Same standards. Wherever you are.

Most 1:1 clients are outside Brisbane. Zoom sessions work the same anywhere. If you want the local context:

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The man you keep promising your family you'll be is one decision away from having a structure that makes it possible.

If you're still reading, you already know. Apply and we'll have a real conversation about what's actually going on, what your first 30 days would look like, and whether this is right for you. No pressure, no pitch deck. If it's not a fit I'll say so.

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Five men per quarter. Applications reviewed personally.