Influencer outreach courseConnect With Your Heroes
The course on building relationships with influencers
Navid Moazzez's Connect With Your Heroes was a course on building authentic relationships with the influencers in your industry. Navid launched it in 2016 to teach the method that took him from knowing no one online to partnering with Ramit Sethi, Selena Soo and Natalie Sisson.
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What is Navid Moazzez's Connect With Your Heroes?
Navid Moazzez's Connect With Your Heroes (CWYH) was an online course for building authentic relationships with the influencers in your industry, and turning them into partnerships, opportunities and revenue.
Navid built it on his own story. He started online in 2013 without knowing anyone, and after 18 months he still had only about 1,000 people on his email list. Then he learned to approach the big names as a peer, by adding value before asking for anything.
It worked. By 2016 he had connected with hundreds of influencers around the world. He interviewed Pat Flynn, Robert Greene and Cal Newport, spoke at events run by Ramit Sethi and Selena Soo, and became the #1 affiliate for launches by Ramit Sethi, Selena Soo and Natalie Sisson.
Those relationships grew his email list by more than 10,000 subscribers and filled the speaker lineups of his summits, from his first, The Branding Summit, in 2014, to List Building School in 2016 and today's AI Creator Summit. He taught the summit side of it in Virtual Summit Mastery.
In June 2016 Navid turned the relationship side into Connect With Your Heroes: 4 live weekly masterclasses, 9 trainings from guest experts, a vault of outreach templates and a private community. The course is retired now, and past students watch every lesson in Navid Legacy. You can check out where it fits into the rest of Navid's story on his entrepreneurial timeline.
What did Connect With Your Heroes teach?
The course took you from a wishlist of names to real relationships with the leaders in your niche. These are the 6 skills it was built around.
Find the right influencers
You learned the different kinds of influencers, where to find them with zero name recognition, and which ones bring the highest return.
Spot a win-win opportunity
You learned what an influencer is looking for before you ask, and how to check whether they fit your offer.
Add value first
You gave influencers the one thing they all need, so they learned your name for the right reasons.
Stand out from the crowd
The top people in any industry get hundreds of requests every week, and you learned how to get noticed the right way.
Make the ask
You got scripts that work almost every time, and the one thing never to say when you approach an influencer.
Turn a yes into a partnership
You learned what to do when they say yes, why a no isn't really a no, and the follow-up most people never bother to do.
How does Connect With Your Heroes work?
Connect With Your Heroes launched as a live course, with a library of bonus trainings around it. This is what every student got.
4 core modules
The modules cover Identifying Potential Influencers, Finding the Right Opportunity, Connecting and Adding Value, and Making the Ask and Following Up.
Live masterclasses
Navid taught 1 module live each week for 4 weeks in June 2016, with Q&A at the end and a replay in the members area.
9 expert trainings
Guest experts like Selena Soo, Primoz Bozic, James Swanwick and Tor Refsland taught their own methods for outreach, publicity and partnerships.
The Secret Vault
The vault held Navid's outreach templates, sample scripts and emails, so you never started a message from a blank page.
A private community
In the private mastermind community, students networked, kept each other accountable and helped each other through every step.
Real case studies
Navid showed how he landed his interview with Pat Flynn, reached Ramit Sethi's team, got a reply from Gary Vaynerchuk and was featured on Business Insider.
Is Connect With Your Heroes right for me?
Not for you if
You want to buy an influencer outreach course today. Connect With Your Heroes is retired, so check out what to get instead below.
You want someone to build your relationships for you while you stay out of it.
You expect a single email or tweet to win over anyone in your industry.
Right for you if
You're just getting started online and want to become a trusted name in your niche.
You want to get featured on the top websites, podcasts and publications in your industry.
You run a successful course and want influencers to promote it as affiliates.
You bought Connect With Your Heroes before and want your lessons back. They're in Navid Legacy.
Is Connect With Your Heroes still available?
No, it isn't. Connect With Your Heroes is retired. If you were a student, your lessons are in Navid Legacy, the library of Navid's past courses. If you want to connect with the leaders in your industry today, this is what Navid recommends instead.
Navid's virtual events
Navid still builds relationships by adding value first, and featuring the leaders in his field at his summits is one of the ways he does it. Check out every summit he hosts today.
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AboutWho created Connect With Your Heroes?
Navid Moazzez created Connect With Your Heroes in 2016, 3 years after he started online without a single connection. The method behind it took him from unknown to lunch with Ramit Sethi and a panel at Selena Soo's Get Known, Get Clients Live.
The same relationships launched his virtual summits. His first, The Branding Summit, led to Virtual Summit Mastery, the course that taught more than 1,000 entrepreneurs to host their own, and in 2015 HuffPost named him the World's Leading Virtual Summit Expert.
Navid still builds relationships by adding value first, like featuring the leaders in his field on his AI virtual events. To get his help with AI in your business, check out the ways to work with Navid.
Navid Moazzez is a leading AI business strategist, the founder of AI OS Lab, and the host of the AI Creator Summit. He helps creators and founders master AI and build their own AI Operating System (AI OS) to automate their business and life.
He is also a lifestyle entrepreneur, creator, investor, and digital nomad, and his ideas and work have been featured in Entrepreneur, Forbes, Business Insider, Inc., HuffPost, Yahoo Finance, and many more publications.
Originally from Sweden, Navid is now a global citizen who lives around the world, with permanent residency in Panama. He loves exploring the world whenever he can, focusing on health and fitness, and learning new skills.
FAQs about Connect With Your Heroes
Were you a Connect With Your Heroes student, or are you reaching out to the leaders in your industry? Send me a message and tell me what you're working on.
Navid Moazzez's Connect With Your Heroes (CWYH) was an online course for building authentic relationships with influencers. It took students through 4 modules, from finding the right influencers to making the ask and following up, with 9 expert trainings, outreach templates and a private community.
Navid Moazzez created Connect With Your Heroes and launched it in June 2016. It was his second premium course, after Virtual Summit Mastery.
Connect With Your Heroes had 4 core modules taught live, 9 advanced trainings from guest experts, the Secret Vault of outreach templates and sample scripts, real case studies, a private mastermind community and lifetime access to the members area.
The 9 advanced trainings came from Selena Soo, Primoz Bozic, James Swanwick, Roger Deveau, Tor Refsland, Andreea Ayers, Andrew Davis, Susan RoAne and John Corcoran. Each one taught their own method for publicity, partnerships or outreach.
It was for people just getting started online, and for established course creators who wanted influencers to promote them. Students used it in business and marketing, health and fitness, personal development, insurance, adoption, travel, finance and scrapbooking.
Yes, it was. Connect With Your Heroes was a foundational course, and Navid also shared the more advanced strategies he used himself.
At launch in June 2016, Connect With Your Heroes was $297 one time or 3 monthly payments of $117. It came with lifetime access and a 30-day money-back guarantee for students who did the work.
The first round ran for 4 weeks in June 2016, with 1 live training of 45 to 60 minutes each week. Navid suggested about an hour a week for the lessons, plus 2 to 5 hours a week reaching out to influencers.
No, it isn't. Connect With Your Heroes is retired, so you can't buy it anymore. Past students still have their lessons in Navid Legacy.
Claim it on the Navid Legacy access page. Every Connect With Your Heroes lesson lives there now, next to Navid's other past courses.
For the students who did the work, it was. Steph Gaudreau partnered with influencers to spread the word about her summit and doubled her revenue goal, and Andrew Hubbard went on to work with several multiple 6-figure business owners. You can read Navid's reviews and judge for yourself.
Add value before you ask for anything. Connect With Your Heroes taught it in 4 steps: find the right influencers, find a win-win opportunity, connect and add value, then make the ask and follow up.
Yes, you can. Navid started online in 2013 knowing no one, and after 18 months he had about 1,000 subscribers. By adding value first, he went on to connect with hundreds of influencers around the world.
Yes, it does. Navid built his network from his living room in Sweden, as a non-native English speaker who didn't live in a big city like New York or Los Angeles.
Connect With Your Heroes is retired, and there's no direct replacement. Navid still builds relationships by adding value first, like featuring the leaders in his field, so check out his AI virtual events. For hands-on help, check out the ways to work with Navid.
Every summit Navid hosts today, from the AI Creator Summit to the AI Agents Summit and the Claude Code Summit, is on his AI virtual events page.
Yes, you can. Navid offers AI consulting, training and workshops for teams, and keynote speaking. Check out the ways to work with Navid.
Not as a course. Navid still builds relationships by adding value first, and featuring the leaders in his field at his summits is one of the ways he does it. For hands-on help with AI in your business, check out the ways to work with Navid.
Want to meet the leaders in your industry?
Connect With Your Heroes is retired, but Navid still builds relationships the way he taught it: by adding value first, like featuring the leaders in his field.
Check out every summit he hosts today, and learn from the world-class experts he brings together.