Build Outside The Box

Save money by building your own natural/alternative home!

Are you..
- frustrated by the lack of affordable housing?
- disappointed by the scarcity of healthy & resilient housing options?
- longing to escape the monotony of our current built environment?
- wanting to reconnect with nature in a daily/tangible way?
- concerned about the potential collapse of the systems that support our daily lives?
- inspired to be more self-sufficient?
- itching to create rather than simply consume?

If you answered “yes” to any of the above then our Building on a Budget course is a great place to start your journey!

With instructors teaching on different topics, you’ll gain expert insights to help you avoid common pitfalls, save money, and plan for success!

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Take control of your life and build outside the box.

📣 Registration Open Now! 📣

Join the Build Outside The Box Mastermind and learn how to create a home that provides for all your needs and leaves a lasting legacy for future generations.

The course features 18 expert alternative and natural builders from around the world teaching you the fundamental principles used to build houses that are stronger, healthier, and more thermally-efficient than conventional ones. �

The Mastermind will also:

✅ Inspire you with the benefits of building with natural materials for you and the planet.

✅ Dive into 14 different types of natural/alternative building materials, their benefits and challenges.

✅ Provide a self-assessment that will narrow down your choices and guide your decisions.

✅ Help you craft a plan and give you Action Steps to move forward on your project.

✅ Give you lifetime access to a supportive online community.

So, let’s get you started on your first steps! Don’t miss out on the opportunity to be part of something bigger.

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Natural homes can change you and the world!

Sigi Koko lays out the paradigm shift that starts you on your journey.

Your ideas about what a home can be–what it is made from, how it relates to its environment, how it can function, and how living in it can benefit your mind, body, and spirit–are forever altered.

You understand the value of:
a healthier living environment
a beautiful, inspiring space
a high quality, resilient home
freedom from ever-increasing utility bills
the opportunity to live a life more aligned with nature

Sigi teaches six classes in the Build Outside the Box Mastermind that get you oriented in this world and inspired to build your own beautiful, healthy, resilient home.

The Build Outside the Box Mastermind is a first of its kind resource to learn about: cob, adobe brick, light adobe, earthbag, rammed earth, h**pcrete, strawbale, tire walls, light straw clay, repurposed materials, and aircrete all in one place from the experts who design and build with these materials.

We want to help you determine which method(s) and material(s) are best for you, your climate, your skill level, and your budget!

Check out what’s included in the course:

✏️ Lifetime access to this self-paced course and additional Build Outside the Box future add-ons!

✏️ 30+ hours of video classes

✏️ A 138-page fillable PDF follow-along workbook

✏️ A self-assessment to help you identify your needs, values, and challenges

✏️ Actionable steps to move your project forward

✏️ Course vocabulary

✏️ Bonus content & materials

✏️ Live classes & Q&A sessions

✏️ Access to the private Build Outside the Box community

& more!

Registration for the Mastermind is open now!
Use code SIGI100 for 20% off.

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Build and live mortgage-free!

How do you build a house when you have little to no money at the start?

What decisions do you need to make on a weekly basis to keep your project going?

How do you keep the dream alive when your inspiration and finances are low?

In this special upcoming LIVE CLASS, Goldie Mariola-Gill will share her journey of building her own home and escaping the debt system.
Goldie and her husband Matt built their own self-sufficient home utilizing salvaged materials, their own sweat equity and the help of workshop participants.

Goldie will cover: finding land, understanding permitting as it relates to the expense of building, strategies for managing finances, off-grid systems and the importance of finding a supportive community.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR:
Saturday, April 25th
12pm EST/9am PST

⭐️ Build Outside the Box Spring ‘26 Free Class Series ⭐️
Build and Live Mortgage-Free with Goldie Mariola-Gill

Grab this class and more timely classes from the Masterminds in our new series.

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The average house in North America has a life expectancy of 25-50 years under normal conditions.

Throw in a heavy windstorm and it’s much less.

Quality goes out the window when the bottom line is all that matters. Houses are being built with spindly lumber and layers of cheap and toxic manufactured materials.

And while the cost to build these boxes goes down the price to buy one continues to go up.

These conventional boxes are also solely reliant on external inputs (natural gas for heating, electricity from the grid) to keep them functioning.

This becomes a vicious cycle of building homes that use materials made from and with fossil fuels, that need to burn fossil fuels to be livable, that fall apart when storms exacerbated by the burning of fossil fuels roll through, then bulldozed and dumped into landfills where they emit more greenhouse gasses as they decompose, and then more of the same gets rebuilt and the process starts again.

Something has to change.

The Build Outside the Box Mastermind is a deep dive and personal exploration of natural and alternative building types that are stronger, healthier, energy-efficient, and beautiful. The course is built to help you decide what is best for your climate, budget, lifestyle, and values.

Take control of your life and build outside the box. Create a home that provides for all your needs and leaves a lasting legacy for future generations

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Get 20% off with code: MASTERMIND100
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How can you save 50% or more on building materials? By using salvaged materials! 🍾

Tons of perfectly good building materials end up in landfills every year.

With the environmental costs (materials extraction, processing, transport) of producing new materials so high, any chance we have to use salvaged materials can lower both the cost for your wallet and the planet.

In ten years Goldie Mariola-Gill went from being a student of alternative building to building her own off-grid Earthship. Goldie built her house using 75% salvaged materials.

From wood and glass to stone and cabinets, she committed to saving perfectly good building materials from going into the landfill and used them to build a beautiful, energy-efficient home.

Goldie saved tens of thousands of dollars by using salvaged materials for her project including glass and insulation. She also got creative with how to use different materials.

Goldie’s class on Building with Salvaged Materials is part of the Build Outside the Box Mastermind, which has 18 expert alternative and natural builders from around the world teaching you the fundamental principles used to build houses that are stronger, healthier, and more thermally-efficient than conventional ones.

Cob. Low Density Adobe. Earthbag. Rammed Earth. SIREWALL. Strawbale. H**pcrete. Light Straw Clay. Aircrete. Repurposed & Salvaged Materials. Nature Based Solutions. And more…

The Build Outside the Box Mastermind will:

✅ Teach you the fundamental principles used to build houses that are 90% more thermally efficient than conventional ones.

✅ Inspire you with the benefits for you and the planet of building with natural materials.

✅ Introduce you to 13 different types of construction materials, their benefits and challenges.

✅ Provide a self-assessment that will narrow down your choices and guide your decisions.

✅ Help you craft a plan and give you Action Steps to move forward on your project.

Join the Building Revolution!

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