Entrepreneurial Timeline

After 4 years in law school, I started to get frustrated and bored. That’s when I started my self-development journey.

Started to meet more like-minded people in Stockholm where I lived at the time, traveled to London to attend conferences and seminars.

Continued my entrepreneurial journey and got more and more into it.

Read books like Think and Grow Rich and How to Win Friends and Influence People. Went to more meetups and connected with more people who were living amazing lives traveling the world (I still didn’t know how I could do it myself though).

Got the initial bug to start a lifestyle business and become a digital nomad (I got interested in personal development a few years earlier, around 2010).

Took a part-time bank job to pay the bills. Hired my first mentor, marking the first time I ever invest in myself. (We’re still good friends today!)

Jumped from one idea to another with no clear direction or path… procrastinated a lot to say the least.

Still a law school student – on paper, at least (not going to class much… if at all!).

Got the idea to start a fitness website to go along with my huge dedication to living a healthy and fit lifestyle.

On the verge of launching the fitness website and blog when my world turns upside-down…

On April 4th, 2013 I received the worst phone call of my life – my mom told me my younger brother had suddenly passed away, at only 22 years old. It was the absolute worst thing that has ever happened to me – personally or professionally. It was also the big turning point that changed everything.

My brother’s funeral took place on May 10th, 2013. I was devastated and couldn’t hold the tears back – very unlike me. At that moment, I committed myself to create an extraordinary life – no matter how long it took. The “haters” and “doubters” didn’t matter anymore. The only thing I focused on was my big dreams and goals.

Dropped the fitness website idea and instead decided to start documenting my entrepreneurial journey on a blog. I was very determined, but I had no experience or connections in my industry (yet).

Joined Internet Business Mastery Academy – my first online course – and met Jan Koch, and many other entrepreneurs who soon became part of my growing network.

Launched my website and blog at NavidMoazzez.com (now navidm.com) with the goal of sharing my story as well as interviews with online influencers and successful entrepreneurs.

My first interview and blog post went live – an interview with Pat Flynn.

Made my first sale online through an affiliate sale (promoting someone else’s product). I believe I made $65 in affiliate commission!

Published my first epic round-up post listing my favorite podcasts (at the time) and had my first decent traffic spike.

Participated in Natalie Sisson’s 30-day blog challenge and wrote 45K words in less than a month. This helped me find my voice and become much more comfortable writing in a conversational manner as a non-native English speaker.

Learned that if I want to get better at something, I just needed to do more of it. By writing every day as I reworked my interviews with experts into epic blog posts and guides, I became a much better writer.

Met my awesome designer, Gion-Per (Beecoding), and decided it was time to significantly invest in my website – even though I didn’t really have the money at the time. It paid off in a big way over time!

Published another epic expert round-up post on guest blogging tips that raised the bar on my network and outreach (Ramit Sethi, etc.).

Published a very popular Facebook post sharing how I turned my ‘worst year ever’ into a year of personal growth.

New, professionally designed Navid.me (formerly navidmoazzez.com) website went live, and people started to take me more seriously.

Got my first few coaching clients as a result of this (nothing big, but at least a good starting point). Published a personal branding expert round-up post and started thinking about focusing on online branding as my specialty.

Launched The Lifestyle Architects podcast (now retired podcast).

Interview with Robert Greene (author of one of my favorite books Mastery) went live.

Got the idea for my first virtual summit, The Branding Summit, after seeing a bunch of successful health summits. I knew this would help me grow my email list, influence and revenue rapidly!

Navid.me (formerly navidmoazzez.com and navidm.com) turned 1!

Released another epic interview… this time with Cal Newport. I created an amazing guide that Cal said was the best summary of his work he’d seen someone compile.

I read “The One Thing” by Gary Keller & Jay Papasan. I immediately refocused on my “one thing” – to host an epic virtual summit.

Finally launched The Branding Summit! After a moment of self-doubt, the first sale came in… then the second… and the third… until I ended up with over $20K in sales and close to 3,000 attendees.

Pre-sold the pilot version of my first online course, Virtual Summit Mastery (which I’ve now sold to Jan Koch, more on this later), on the backend of the summit and got my first dozen or so students.

Finally quit my part-time job on Nov 28th, 2014. The same day I made over $5,000 by selling The Branding Summit All-Access Pass. All my doubts about this being the path for me were erased!

Traveled to Thailand with my family for Christmas and New Years (well needed and deserved vacation for me). Decided to leave Sweden and move abroad for good.

Lived in Cabo San Lucas for 3 weeks and realized that I could become a “lifestyle entrepreneur” and travel the globe.

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Went skydiving for the first time to push past some fears and expand my comfort zone. Amazing!

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Swam with whale sharks in La Paz, went flyboarding, and worked as a dolphin trainer for a day… just a sample of the life of a lifestyle entrepreneur.

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Became the #1 affiliate for Ramit Sethi’s Zero to Launch course (now called Earnable) and won the grand cash-prize as well. Made around $40K in one month (right after my first summit!).

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Moved to Cancun to live on the beach.

Working from the beach in Cancun

Business Insider featured my story for the first time and it went viral… 180,000+ views! Got almost 2,000 email subscribers overnight and my biggest traffic spike to date!

Working from the beach in Cancun

Moved to San Diego for 1.5 months. My first time on the stage as I make a quick guest appearance at Podcast San Diego.

Attended Social Media Marketing World to finally meet some of the influencers I had interviewed for my podcast and summit in the past.

Chandler Bolt, founder of Self-Publishing School, hired me to help him with The Self-Publishing Success Summit – my first BIG summit consulting gig and partnership.

Had lunch with one of my first virtual mentors, Ramit Sethi, in LA before I boarded my flight to Hong Kong for a business trip.

Moved back to Cancun – this time with no plans to leave any time soon!

My second feature in Business Insider went live: close to 70,000 views!

Navidm.com (formerly navidmoazzez.com) turned 2! Had dinner with Selena Soo, Ramit Sethi & Derek Halpern in NYC. Participated on a panel at a Ramit Sethi Meet-Up in NYC.

The Self-Publishing Success Summit generated 30,000 optins and $370k+ by following my proven Virtual Summit Mastery Method.

HuffPost named me the World’s Leading Virtual Summit Expert.

Featured on Entrepreneur.com as a virtual event strategist and shared a few tips for how to host a 6-figure summit.

My first online course launch ever, and the first official VSM 1.0 Launch, brought in $60,000+ from a small launch list of only 1,500 people.

Partnered with influencers like Chandler Bolt and Regina Anaejionu to run webinars/workshops, which grew my email list by close to 2,000 subscribers in just a few days.

Traveled to NYC to attend a mastermind and speak at Selena Soo’s Get Known, Get Clients Live event.

Reached a big personal goal of mine when I was the featured guest on John Lee Dumas’s EOFire podcast.

Entrepreneur on Fire with John Lee Dumas

How to Host Six-Figure Virtual Summits

Packed my bags (and laptop) and moved to Barcelona.

Entrepreneur on Fire with John Lee Dumas

How to Host Six-Figure Virtual Summits

VSM 2.0 Launch generates almost $200K in revenue (my first 6-figure launch!).

Launched my second premium course, Connect with Your Heroes (now retired). Navidm.com turned 3!

Began planning for my next big virtual summit, List Building School, as well as the next VSM launch.

Moved back to Cancun and rented an epic 5,000 sqf duplex penthouse on the best beach for 6 months!

Cancun penthouse

Traveled to Austin, Texas for SumoCon. Launched a new version of navidm.com and raised the bar on awesome website design again.

Hosted List Building School: over 26,000 new email subscribers and well over $1 million dollars in revenue over time (6-figure profit from just the Premium Pass sales alone)!

Featured in Inc. for the first time after my big success with virtual summits over the years.

Launched VSM 2.0 again: another solid 6-figure launch!

Promoted Todd Herman’s awesome 90 Day Year program to my audience and had a multiple 5-figure promo (one of my biggest to date).

Joined my first Elite Mastermind (by Ryan Levesque) – the biggest investment in my life ($40K up front!).

Hosted my first epic mastermind experience for a group of top performing entrepreneurs in Cancun (I even rented a small Yacht for a day!).

My first time flying first class (La Premiere with Air France) from Mexico City to Paris.

Took a 2-week incredibly relaxing cruise in the Caribbean.

Traveled to Puerto Rico for Ryan Levesque’s Elite Mastermind retreat (my first one) and spoke about virtual summits to many 7 and even some 8-figure entrepreneurs.

Traveled to San Diego for my first ever Traffic & Conversion Summit.

Moved to Malta.

Traveled to San Diego again for Todd Herman’s 90 Day Year live event.

Internal VSM 2.0 launch: Over $200K in sales without any affiliates (my biggest VSM launch to date).

Traveled to Toronto (my first time in Canada) for Stu McLaren’s mastermind day.

Went on a quick trip to Austin for Ryan Levesque’s Elite Mastermind retreat.

Promoted Ryan Levesque’s ASK Method Masterclass to my audience, and had my biggest affiliate promo yet (high 5-figures) and finished #6th on the leaderboard for one of the most competitive launches of the year!

London, UK

Decided to leave Malta behind (Reason: I simply didn’t like it there as a home base at all!).

London, UK

Moved to the capital of the world: London, UK.

London, UK

Traveled to Akron, Ohio to attend one of my best friend’s wedding (I went to high school there for a year back in the day).

London, UK

Set up my professional live streaming studio in my home office. Live streamed my first 4K video on YouTube (quality is just SO GOOD!).

Did a smaller (but still high 5-figure) internal VSM launch and welcomed a group of awesome new VSM students to the last round of VSM 2.0 before 3.0 comes out.

Traveled to Las Vegas for Ryan Levesque’s ASK LIVE and our last ELITE retreat together.

Hosted an exclusive mastermind event and private dinner for a group of top performing entrepreneurs (Stu McLaren, Jesse Krieger, Ron Reich and many other A-players attended the dinner).

Moved to another apartment (or flat as the Brits like to call it) in London… this time to stay for longer than just 5–6 months (moving so often in 2017 was tiring and affected my routine quite a bit).

Went back to my old hometown Stockholm to visit family and get a new passport (very important).

Traveled to Medellin, Colombia for Ron Reich’s A-Player Mastermind. Delivered a talk about virtual summits that got everyone interested in hosting one.

Traveled first class with British Airways (thanks to points!) to San Diego for Traffic & Conversion Summit & Social Media Marketing World.

Traveled to San Francisco for an incredible road trip. Went snowboarding and skiing in Lake Tahoe and drove the beautiful highway 1 by the Pacific coast down to 17 mile drive in Monterey.

Traveled to Puerto Rico for Mark Wade’s Puerto Rico Masterminds to speak about the power of virtual summits.

New Navidm.com website went live and raised the bar once again. Navidm.com turned 5!

Building VSM 3.0

Launched the new VSM 3.0 program which sets a much higher standard for online education moving forward.

Building VSM 3.0

Launched the VSM Coaching Accelerator program.

I was interviewed for Mixergy Premium by someone on Andrew Warner’s team. Based on the interview, they created a mini-course available to their members (it was really well received).

Interviewed Stu McLaren. Promoted Stu McLaren’s TRIBE course as an affiliate and made some great commissions.

VSM 3.0 launch. Navidm.com turned 6!

Shared Ryan Levesque’s ASK Method.

Launched List Building School 2.0 summit and generated multiple 6 figures in a couple of weeks from the premium pass and back-end sales (coaching program and VSM 3.0 sales).

A brand new product, Funnel Wizard, was also introduced during LBS 2.0 (as a one-click upsell, and did very well).

Moved to Panama City, Panama, and got my temporary residency card.

Did the first official Funnel Wizard promotion during Black Friday / Cyber Monday week… solid 5 figures in sales from just a few emails to my list.

Watched Arsenal vs Manchester United at Emirates Stadium. Amazing experience… unfortunately my team (Man Utd) lost and played like crap.

Left London, UK behind for good after almost 3 years living there, and went back to set up my new home base in Panama City, Panama.

I was a featured speaker at Dr. Mark T Wade’s Summit Fest live and had an awesome fire chat session the audience really enjoyed.

The ALL NEW awesome navidm.com website using Thrive Theme Builder and Thrive Architect went live.

New website launch

Released the Virtual Summit Secrets series on my YouTube channel featuring video interviews with successful VSM students and summit hosts.

New website launch

Launched the brand new VSM 3.0 course with 2 tiers (VSM Pro and VSM Platinum), and we welcomed a bunch of new students to the program (another 6-figure launch).

Navid.me turned 7!

Started to learn a lot about crypto, blockchain, and NFTs. My only regret is that I didn’t start earlier. I finally started investing in crypto (and have made some nice gains since then).

Dubai, UAE

Did the final VSM launch ever under my brand before Jan Koch took over. Overall VSM as a single online course generated well over one million dollars over the years.

Dubai, UAE

Decided to set up my business in Dubai, UAE, and get permanent residency there (another option where I can live).

Dubai, UAE

Navid.me turned 8!

Traveled on Emirates A380 from Dubai to NYC in first class (and had a shower on a plane for the first time).

Started the year in Bogota, Colombia living at the beautiful W hotel in their Fantastic suite (I got a pretty great deal).

Working from anywhere

Focused on making sure the new navidm.com website went live using the awesome Kadence theme, hosted on Cloudways.

Working from anywhere

Launched my new Navid Insider’s email newsletter using Kit (formerly ConvertKit).

Working from anywhere

Launched Creator School, a new business focused entirely on AI tools, resources, and education for creators and solopreneurs.

Hosted the AI Creator Summit, which grew to 100,000+ attendees – making it one of the largest virtual AI events for creators.

Launched AI-focused courses and digital products including AI Creator OS, AI Content OS, Creator Agent OS, and the AI Creator Prompt Library.

Creator School became the #1 AI resource for creators, with a growing community, product suite, and continued virtual summit momentum.

Continued growing Creator School and planning new virtual summits including the Claude Code Summit and AI Agents Summit (coming soon).

Rebuilding navid.me from the ground up as a modern, design-forward personal site. Continued focus on AI, health, and longevity.