Thu Sep 24 2026 · Sunil Jaiswal
From today, the small weekly groups at the heart of the club are called Accountability Circles rather than Accountability Pods. The name is the only thing about them that has changed.
The groups remain the same: meet with the same coach at the same hour each week for the same 60 minutes, with up to 12 members.
You will still report on your goal, take your turn in the hot seat, and leave with one clear commitment to act on before the next call, and the check-ins between meetings continue exactly as they are.
The price stays at $97 a month, cancel anytime. Members need do nothing at all: your leader, your group, and your place in the week are untouched, and you will simply see the word Circle where you used to see Pod 🙂
We changed it because "Accountability Pod" began as our own internal shorthand and quietly found its way onto the website, where it asked people to learn a piece of our vocabulary before they could work out what we actually do.
Anyone arriving cold had to click through to find out what a Pod was, which is a strange thing to ask of someone who has come looking for help with a goal they have been putting off. Most people already have a reasonable sense of what an accountability group is, so a name that explains itself on first read does more for them than one that sounds distinctive.
“Circle” earns its place for reasons beyond clarity.
A circle has no beginning and no end, which is how the club has always worked: there is no intake date, no cohort to wait for and no final session to graduate from, so you join whenever a goal starts to matter enough and you stay for as long as it keeps moving.
It also describes the shape of the hour itself, in which everyone faces everyone, nobody sits at the front and nobody sits in the audience, because every member arrives with a goal of their own and a stake in everyone else's. And each week closes a loop that opens again straight away, as you say what you will do, go and do it, and come back to a room of people who remember what you said.
That loop matters most in the weeks when the news is bad.
Progress almost never runs in a straight line, and anyone who has tried to change something significant knows the shape of it: a fortnight of momentum, then a week where the work gets buried under everything else, then a step that undoes part of the previous one. A programme with a start and a finish treats those weeks as falling behind. A Circle simply comes round again, and you say what actually happened, work out what got in the way, and commit to the next thing. Your group is there again seven days later whatever the week held, so a week that went sideways costs you the week and leaves the goal intact.
Because Circles run continuously, there is nothing to wait for and no cohort forming. Whenever you decide that a goal deserves a regular place in your week, there is a seat with your name on it.
Join an Accountability Circle here: https://accountabilityclub.org/accountability-circles
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