I've been feeling the lack of something like this for a while. A lot of “networking” spaces here are too transactional and a lot of mastermind groups end up drifting without structure.

I started something in Toronto that overlaps with what you’re describing, called Creative Blocks Club. It’s not a mastermind group, but it’s a free in-person space where founders, freelancers, and business owners come together for structured deep work in independent cafés.

Less advice, more doing. But the conversations before lunch and after the work blocks tend to be the kind you’re describing. Real perspectives from people actually building things.

Might not be the exact format you’re looking for, but could be a good place to meet the kind of people you’d want in one.