Who we are

Made where we grew up.

Two founders from São Miguel, now based in London and Sydney. Years inside global consumer brands showed us what sustained pressure does to judgement. Furnas is where we create the conditions to get it back.

Our story

Built from direct experience.

Founders and executives operate under relentless pressure. Over time, that pressure doesn’t just create stress — it quietly degrades decision-making.

Steam drifting over the geothermal ground at Lagoa das Furnas, where cooking pots are buried in the earth — Lagoa das FurnasWhere the cozido cooks

Not through single bad calls, but through a slow drift of slightly worse ones, repeated daily.

We founded The Neighbours Hub from direct experience of this. After senior roles at Google, Burton and other global consumer brands, we researched what the highest performers of this generation actually do to sustain clarity — and built a programme around it.

The result is a private reset experience in Furnas, our hometown in the Azores. Remote enough to force a genuine break.

We made it for ourselves first. Every facilitator who leads it holds a specialism.

Meet the programme team

2025Founded

FurnasSão Miguel, Azores

EightGuests per cohort

Onecohort per season

Where it began

ii. The rooms “I’ve spent the last decade in rooms where very capable people quietly admit they don’t know what they’re building towards anymore.”

Between those two facts is the whole idea.

Miguel Pestana · Co-founder

The founders

Two cities. One island.

Miguel and Tiago are both from São Miguel — and both kept seeing the same pattern in founders and senior leaders: capable, successful, surrounded by people, and constantly reacting. Rarely with the space to think about what actually comes next.

London51°30′N
Furnas37°46′N
Sydney33°52′S

Success was supposed to provide the answer. It didn’t.

Miguel Pestana · Founder Series, Episode 02

Miguel grew up on São Miguel and built his career a long way from it — more than nine years across management, economics and scaling operations in global consumer brands, including Google.

Along the way he asked leaders five steps ahead of him whether they were fulfilled. The answers were polite. None of them were convincing.

Watch Episode 02

I have been to retreats before. I left inspired, made promises to myself, and then returned home to the same noise.

Tiago Cordeiro · Founder Series, Episode 03

For Tiago, The Neighbours Hub began with two things that are deeply personal: his connection to São Miguel, and a long-held passion for breathwork and cold exposure — the practice at the foundation of the programme. He brings more than seven years across performance marketing and events, including at Burton.

After more than eight years away from the island, returning home made one thing clear: no place makes him feel the way the Azores do. Episode 01 of the Founder Series is his — on building a place people actually change in.

Watch Episode 01

Founder Series · 2026

In their own words.

Five short films on why The Neighbours Hub exists, who it is for, and why it is not a retreat. Best watched with the sound on.

What we believe

Conditions, not advice.

You do not need more advice. You need the right conditions to make your decision. These are ours.

Small by design.

Eight guests. One closed cohort each season. Small enough that nobody performs and everyone is heard.
Privacy is the condition.

No cameras. No audience. No record. The moment a room can be recorded, people perform instead of reset. Privacy is not a courtesy here. It is what makes the work possible.
The body gets there first.

You can’t think your way to clarity in a stressed body. So we start with the body — breath and cold, then movement in raw nature — and only then turn to the decision.
The room is the mechanism.

Your next decision is only as good as the room you make it in, and the more senior you get, the smaller that room becomes. The coach brings the method. The room pressure-tests your thinking. You do the deciding.
Rooted, not borrowed.

Furnas has been doing this for centuries — a volcanic valley remote enough to force a genuine break. It is home, so we know it the way neighbours do, not the way visitors do.
You only need to come once.

It begins 7–14 days before you arrive, with a private calibration session with Rob Paynter, our executive coach. It continues after you leave, with a private session to integrate what you decided.

Furnas · São Miguel 37°46′N 25°18′W

Out of the environment built for execution. *Into one built for clarity.*

In good company

Partners who hold the same standard.

Wim Hof Method

Breathwork and cold exposure — the foundation of the programme — led in Furnas by Samir Javed, a Level 3 Wim Hof Method instructor.
Furnas Lake Forest Living

Private cabins, tucked into the landscape. No hotel corridors, no lobby noise — just the forest and the earth below. Our base in the valley.

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c0founders

The founder community spotlighted our October 2026 experience.

Welcome to the neighbourhood.

A neighbour is not an adviser, an employee or an audience. It is someone beside you with nothing to gain from your answer. That is the room we build — eight people at a time.

October 2026 · Fully bookedLimited places each year

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Or write to us directly — reset@theneighbourshub.com

Made where we grew up.

Built from direct experience.

Between those two facts is the whole idea.

Two cities. One island.

Miguel Pestana

Tiago Cordeiro

In their own words.

Tiago Cordeiro

Miguel Pestana

Not a retreat.

What matters?

Who is this for?

Conditions, not advice.

Small by design.

Privacy is the condition.

The body gets there first.

The room is the mechanism.

Rooted, not borrowed.

You only need to come once.

Partners who hold the same standard.

Wim Hof Method

Furnas Lake Forest Living

Welcome to the neighbourhood.

Reserve your conversation.