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.
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.
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?
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.
Animal School
The power of finding your thing, obsessing over it, and accepting the tradeoffs
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.
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.
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.
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.
There is no competition
There are only axes by which you can no longer win.
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.
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[DAY 4] Where are you stuck? challenge post
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[DAY 3] Have you been building your business on the wrong operating system?
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[DAY 2] Where are you on your journey? challenge post
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[DAY 1] You don’t need to "fix" yourself to succeed challenge post
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Constructing your value ladder
Learn how to find your perfect customers, develop a process to help them fall in love with your work, and keep them happy for the long haul.
The path of least friction
Everything I’ve learned about building a successful career, condensed into one digestible system.
Build the way you’re built
14 Growth Strategies That Actually Fit How You Work
Creating lifelong customers by embedding psychological buying triggers deep into your brand
How the most memorable brands create connection with their customers so deep that they become unforgettable and irreplaceable
The art of harnessing chaos magic
The true gift of success isn’t eliminating chaos—it’s having enough chaos working in your favor that good things start happening more often than not.
How to amplify your message
Amplification strategies evolve as your career progresses. as you grow your owned, earned, and borrowed media channels.