Russell Nohelty

Being so you that no one can replicate it with One Brilliant Arc

I was a guest on One Brilliant Arc's livestream recently and we went deep on creative freedom, authentic marketing, and the frameworks I use to help writers stop solving the wrong problems. v

· Mar 6 · Russell Nohelty , One Brilliant Arc (OBA)

2025 income report

It's time for another full year income report. Thanks, I hate it.

· Mar 4 · Russell Nohelty

Everything you need to know to build an audience from scratch

Learn the fundamentals about why people would want to join your audience and all of the elements necessary to supercharge your audience growth.

· Feb 25 · Russell Nohelty

Recalibrating your HAPI Compass

Find your real bottleneck, so you can build the way you’re built, fix the right friction first, and grow without burning everything down.

· Feb 23 · Russell Nohelty

What Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu can teach you about happiness

When you look for somebody who really exemplifies the “Hapitalist” way, look no further than her vibe.

Feb 22 · Russell Nohelty

Building a business tarot deck and what it taught me about clarity, systems, and letting go

What happens when you stop trying to memorize a system and start rebuilding it in a language you understand?

· Feb 20 · Russell Nohelty

Are your expectations even realistic given your current reality, tho?

Writers don’t fail from bad books. They fail from failing to grasp the reality of the situation. Luckily, this is fixable.

· Feb 18 · Russell Nohelty

Six steps to building a sustainable author business

You don’t need more tactics. You need the right order. This webinar breaks down the six-step sequence that turns subscriptions, retailers, and Kickstarter into a sustainable author ecosystem.

· Feb 13 · Russell Nohelty

You're not really building an author career, you're scaling a startup

Think like a founder, not just a writer. A roadmap for authors to stop winging it, treat their books like a business, and start building a creative career that scales.

· Feb 11 · Russell Nohelty

What’s a 🦄Hapitalist🦄?

Welcome :) At Hapitalist, we help you optimize for joy and make money doing it. Seriously, what if all this business stuff was fun, though?

Feb 4 · Russell Nohelty

Wannabe Press Income Report - Q4 - 2025

Wait...wasn't it just September?

· Feb 4 · Russell Nohelty

Evolve Without Burning Out Masterclass

How to realign your Substack, business, and creative work for long-term growth—without chasing dopamine, copying formulas, or losing the joy that made you start in the first place.

· Jan 30 · Russell Nohelty

Animal School

The power of finding your thing, obsessing over it, and accepting the tradeoffs

Jan 28 · Russell Nohelty , Jonathan Goodman

You're asking the wrong question

I didn't choose to self publish, and neither will you. I made a different choice, one most writers fail to understand, and it changed everything for me.

· Jan 21 · Russell Nohelty

A framework for engineering winning days

Learn how to build a strong foundation for success by mastering the unglamorous but essential 'boring work' that leads to breakthrough moments.

· Jan 16 · Russell Nohelty

How to know what to prioritize next (or first)

Everything stops working. Here’s what to do next, and how to prepare yourself for the inevitable.

· Jan 14 · Russell Nohelty

Work that feels like cheating

A philosophical and practical conversation with Michael Simmons on learning in a complex world, distributed expertise, and building a life around what actually energizes you.

· Jan 13 · Russell Nohelty

There is no competition

There are only axes by which you can no longer win.

Jan 12 · Russell Nohelty

Fun work changed everything

A candid conversation with Elin Petronella about following your gut, making irreversible decisions, and why alignment, not optimization, is the key to long-term creative sustainability.

· Jan 11 · Russell Nohelty , Elin Petronella