The Patient Investor Mastermind — Crypto without the casino.

In a nutshell

What it is: Six months of weekly one-on-one coaching with the same coach, building and managing your own crypto and liquidity pool positions. In your own wallet, with nobody holding your money but you.
What comes with it: Personal coaching, live group calls several times a month led by our lead coaches, the full recorded curriculum, and a private community of members and coaches. Yours with no end date and no renewal fee, long after the one-on-one coaching ends.
What it costs: $9,800 by card or six-month payment plan. $9,500 paid up front by ACH, wire or crypto. Nothing further after that.
What happens next: One call, with no obligation on either side. If it isn't a fit, it's completely okay.

Or keep reading. Everything is explained in detail below.

What you walk away with

Six months from now, here is what you'll have.

Secure wallets that only you control. Set up by your own hands, protected properly, and recoverable if your laptop died tonight. You'll have practiced that recovery, not just read about it.
Positions you chose on purpose. Sized deliberately, for reasons you can explain to a family member or friend in two sentences, because you'll understand exactly what they are and how they work.
A filter that works in about a minute. Someone sends you the next big thing. You'll know how to look at it, what to check, and how to tell whether it's real. Quickly, and without asking anyone.
15–30 minutes a week, not a second job. The learning is the work. Once it's built, the upkeep is small and it stays small.
Nobody standing between you and your money. No exchange, no platform, no advisor, no company, including us. Your wallets, your keys, your control, permanently.
A room full of people doing the same thing. Members who are months or years ahead of you, and others just starting out. Live group calls several times per month, led by our Lead Coaches. You keep coming to those calls long after your own coaching finishes. There is no cutoff.

That feeling of watching from the outside goes away. Not because someone reassured you, but because you understand how it works now. Getting you to that point is what we care about most, and it's what the entire program is built around.

Why this one is different

Almost every program at this price hands you a stack of videos and a group chat.

You sign up full of intention. Then life happens. Eleven months later you've watched four lessons, you've asked a question in the group that three people answered three different ways, and you still wouldn't move your own money without somebody sitting beside you.

The usual arrangement

Recorded videos you watch alone, whenever you get to them.

An online message board where you type a question and wait, hoping whoever replies actually knows.

They call it "direct access." In practice, nobody is expecting you, and nothing happens if you disappear.

What you get here

A private appointment with your own personal coach, on the calendar, every single week, until you've been through the entire curriculum.

Same coach each time, so you never re-explain yourself. Your questions get answered while you're on the call, by someone who knows what you did last week and what you're working on next.

Someone is expecting you. That turns out to be the whole difference.

Nobody ever learned to handle their own money by watching a video. You learn it the way you learned anything that mattered. Doing it, maybe poorly at first, with someone experienced watching and correcting you in real time. That is what you're actually getting here, and it's why this takes six months instead of a weekend. We've seen what it does for people, and we wouldn't run it any other way.

The skills

Six things you'll be able to do that you can't do today.

These important aspects are the whole program. They don't expire, they don't depend on the market cooperating, and once you have them nobody can take them back.

01
Hold your own crypto. Self-custody wallets, set up and running, so that no exchange, platform or company sits between you and your money, including us.
02
Tell a real asset from a marketed one. Most of what gets loudly promoted in this space isn't worth owning. Telling them apart is a skill, and it's the one that protects you.
03
Understand how liquidity providing and yield farming actually pay. When someone trades one asset for another, somebody has to supply the pair on the other side. Every trade pays a fee to the holders who did. That's a different mechanism from hoping a coin goes up, and the curriculum covers how each behaves, including the conditions where fees collected still finish behind price movement.
04
Recognize exactly how people lose it. Lost keys, phishing, signing something you didn't read, exchanges that quietly stop letting people withdraw. Mt. Gox. Celsius. FTX. You'll drill the failure modes until you can recognize them on sight.
05
Size a position properly. A slice, chosen deliberately, so that being wrong about it doesn't change your life, and so you can sleep at night.
06
Run it in about 15–30 minutes a week. The learning is the work. Once you know what you're doing, the upkeep is small, and it stays that way.

Everything is taught in plain English, with no crypto-bro slang, and nobody will make you feel slow for asking what a word means. You can ask the same question three weeks running and nobody keeps score.

What the six months look like

You'll know exactly where you are the whole way through.

Roughly this, at your pace. Some members move faster and nobody is pushed. We would much rather you take the time you need and finish knowing what you're doing. How well you come out of this is the only thing we're judged on.

Month 1
Your secure wallets, and the drills. You set up wallets that only you control, properly, with a personal coach watching. Then you practice the things that actually go wrong. Recovery from scratch, spotting a fake message, reading a transaction before you approve it. You finish this stage able to lose your laptop without losing anything else.
Month 2
Build and track test positions. You're in far sooner than you'd expect. Small test positions of your own, built with your coach on the call, then tracked week by week so you can see exactly how they behave. You also learn to tell an asset that does something from a token being marketed at you, and what to check before you touch either.
Months 3–5
Building real positions. Liquidity providing and yield farming, hands on your own keyboard: choosing a pool, setting a range, sizing it against your own tolerance, and knowing in advance what you'll do if it moves against you. Real money now, still deliberately sized.
Months 5–6
Deeper strategy, with us alongside. We're beside you as you build out your positions and shape a portfolio, going into more advanced strategies as you get more comfortable. By this point you're driving and your coach is there to check your thinking rather than walk you through it.
After month 6
Running it yourself. Managing, adjusting and compounding on about 15–30 minutes a week. Your personal coaching finishes when the curriculum does, and you jump on the group mastermind calls whenever you can. Those stay open to you with no cutoff.

Someone we work with kept about $100,000 on an exchange called Voyager, because that is what the platform told him to do and there was no obvious reason not to. Voyager went bankrupt in 2022. Investors recovered roughly thirty cents on the dollar.

He did nothing reckless. He didn't chase a meme coin or fall for a stranger in his messages. He simply left his money where a company was holding it, which is what almost everybody does, and which is the single most common way serious people lose serious money in this space.

Month 1 exists because of stories like that one. It's the least glamorous part of the program and the part that matters most.

Your personal coach

The same coach, every week. Someone who really knows you, your goals, and exactly where you left off.

You're matched with your own personal coach and you keep them for the whole program, which is why the weekly call compounds the way it does. They remember what you did last week. Shane Jacobson and Greg Esman lead the coaching team. Every coach follows the same curriculum and the same standards, and the two of them personally run the live group calls that every member is invited to, several times per month, indefinitely. Every coach here wants you to succeed and will stay with a topic for as long as it takes you to feel sure of it.

Shane Jacobson

Partner & lead coach

Greg Esman

Lead coach

The Partners of The Patient Investor met on a call exactly like the one you'd be having.

The Patient Investor was originally founded by Brandon Hofer. Jeff DeBoer came to The Patient Investor as a client, after retiring in 2024 from a successful career as a financial planner and more than twenty years running his own independent firm. Shane Jacobson was Jeff's coach on the other end of his weekly call. The two of them worked through the program together, at the proper pace each part of the curriculum needed, until Jeff had successfully built his own crypto portfolio and his own liquidity pool positions.

Their strong working relationship is the reason they ended up as partners together. In early 2026, they acquired The Patient Investor as business partners, and they run it together now. Shane leads the coaching alongside Greg and spends his time continually improving the curriculum, the training and the tools our clients use. Jeff runs the business and client experience side of The Patient Investor.

For twenty years Jeff told clients the same thing: how you perform in a down market matters more than how you perform in an up market. That is the whole idea here too. What we show you about the downside matters more than anything we could promise about the upside. It is why the first month is spent on security rather than positions, and it is why you will not find a return figure anywhere on this page.

What they are building is the same thing they both wanted as clients. A program run with integrity and transparency, where the objective is teaching you to fish with confidence and to be successful, not just handing you the fish.

What you can count on

Five commitments. Each one is something people normally find out later, the hard way.

Your money stays in your hands. We never hold member funds. We don't have your keys, your seed phrase or your passwords, we will never ask for them, and the program is built so that you'd never need to give them to anyone.
Every decision is yours, and you'll know why you made it. We don't manage money and we don't trade for you. You'll finish able to reason it out on your own. That is worth more than being handed an answer, and it's the only version that still works after we're out of the picture.
You get the mechanism instead of a number. What a position earns depends on the pool, the volume through it, your range, and what prices do. Two people in the same pool in the same month land in different places. We'll teach you those four levers rather than quote you a figure. Anyone quoting a figure is telling you something they can't know.
You'll see the downside before a dollar is at risk. Prices move while your assets sit in a pool. Contracts can be exploited. Advertised rates are estimates, and they fall. A position can collect fees all year and still finish behind. You'll learn all of that in month one, not after.
No end date, and no renewal fee. Your personal coaching runs until the curriculum is complete. After that the community stays open with nothing further to pay, including the live group calls, which every member is welcome at no matter how long they've been in. No renewal date, no expiry, and nothing that quietly lapses.

You'll notice we give you the price, the terms and the risks up front instead of saving them for a call. We are confident in what we have built. Putting it all in front of you is how we show it.

Who this is for

This works for a specific person. It's worth knowing whether that's you.

This is built for people thinking in years, not months. That's why we teach sizing and risk before we teach anything else, and why nobody here is in a hurry.

This is for you if

You have capital you can leave alone for years.

You want part of your money outside the banking system, held by you, under your own control.

You'd rather understand something than be told what to do about it.

You'll show up every week. That's the program, and it's the part that works.

This isn't for you if

You want someone to trade for you.

You need this to solve a cash problem this year.

The fee would hurt to pay. If $9,800 is a stretch, this may not be the right time. We do have a six-month payment plan if that would help.

The fee, and what it includes

$9,800

By credit card, debit card, or six-month payment plan. Or $9,500 by ACH, wire transfer or crypto, paid up front, a $300 discount.

Most programs at this price make you sit through a call before they'll tell you the number. Here it is, and here's exactly what it provides you.

Weekly 1:1A standing one-on-one personal coaching call, every week, until you've completed the curriculum.
Group callsLive mastermind calls several times per month, led by our Lead Coaches, open to every member regardless of how long you've been in. All recorded.
The curriculumThe full training, recorded, yours to return to as many times as it takes.
The communityA private group and platform with members and personal coaches, plus new resources as they're added.
After the six monthsCommunity access continues. No end date, no renewal fee, nothing further to pay.

If you want to go further later, you can. Two advanced programs, Advanced Strategies and the Inner Circle, are available down the road for clients who may wish to take things to the next level. Both are completely optional. You'll finish The Patient Investor program ready to go, whether you ever take advantage of another program or not.

The full enrollment agreement, with terms, scheduling and everything else, goes to you to read before you're ever asked for payment.

Questions people actually ask

Can I really learn this? I'm not technical.

No coding, and no math beyond percentages. What there is, is unfamiliar vocabulary and an interface that punishes carelessness. That's exactly what a weekly one-on-one call is for.

What return should I expect?

We don't publish one, and you should be careful with anyone who does. What a position earns depends on the pool, the trading through it, your range, and what prices do. Two people in the same pool in the same month end up in different places.

Is my crypto safe?

Safe from us. We never hold it. Beyond that, you are the last line of defense: key storage, phishing, signing something you didn't read. Drilling those is the first thing you do here, before anything else.

How much time does this take?

The weekly call, plus roughly 15–30 minutes a week managing positions once you're set up.

What happens when the six months are up?

The personal coaching calls run until you've completed the curriculum. After that you keep the community, including the group, the platform, the meetings and the recordings, for as long as your account is in good standing. There's no renewal fee.

What members say

We're proud of these. We're prouder of the people who wrote them.

Members tell us the same thing more than anything else. They wish they'd started sooner.

4.8

Rated 4.8 out of 5 from 56 reviews on Trustpilot. Read all of them, including the critical ones →

“I went into the Investor Mastermind a bit nervous about the potential steep learning curve. But my coach, Greg, has been very patient, taking extra time if needed to cover important topics, which I really appreciate.”

Robert KoszegiTrustpilot review

“From the beginning a very kind, patient and knowledgeable experience. Shane has been my coach from the beginning and he has been nothing short of amazing. His expertise and clear knowledge about crypto, hands on teaching, support and access is unmatched.”

Stephan K. ThieringerTrustpilot review

“First, foremost and repeatedly instructions are to protect your crypto. Check, double check, how to id scams and stick to proven methods to diminish risk.”

JohnTrustpilot review

“Greg has been my coach and he has been fantastic — he gives a great balance of teaching me new stuff without overwhelming me and it's very hands on.”

Sema RobbinsTrustpilot review

“Shane is an incredible crypto instructor. He breaks down complicated topics in a way that's easy to understand and keeps every session engaging.”

KalanTrustpilot review

The next step

One short call, with no obligation on either side.

There's no deadline and no pressure. Nothing here expires. The only thing worth knowing is that the program runs about six months, so the sooner you begin, the sooner you're running everything yourself with confidence. Most people who reach out tell us they've been meaning to do this for a year or two already.

You book the call. A short form asking what you have and what you're trying to do, then pick a time that suits you. Nothing is owed and nothing is committed by booking it.
You ask us anything. We'll walk you through the program in detail and answer every question you have, and together we'll work out whether it's the right fit. We'll ask about your goals and your timeframe, purely to understand what you're hoping to achieve, not to assess your portfolio or suggest an allocation. You'll get the agreement to read and you'll be told exactly who you'd be working with. Then you decide.

Schedule a No-Obligation Call

$9,800 if paid by credit card, debit card or six-month payment plan. $9,500 if paid by ACH, wire transfer or crypto up front. We'll send the agreement before you're asked for anything.
Educational program only — not financial advice. No investment outcome is guaranteed, and digital assets can lose their entire value.

We care enormously about how our clients do, and we're proud of what this program does for them. Give us six months and your full attention, and we'll give you everything we have to help you be a successful and patient investor.