I Am Navid

What is the I Am Navid book about?

One question runs through the book: how do you turn your biggest challenges into success, no matter what life throws at you?

My answer runs through every chapter: you can only fail if you quit.

It follows my life as a digital nomad and global citizen since 2015, from Cabo San Lucas and Cancun to London and Panama City, and the setbacks I had to get through on the way.

It's told through scenes, people and decisions, not business tips. My business is part of the story, but the book is about the person building it, with my family at the center.

Want the short version first? Read Hi, my name is Navid.

The 6 parts of the book

The book opens on November 28, 2014, the day I quit my bank job after my first virtual summit. Then it goes back to what brought me there.

1. Before the leap. Growing up in Sweden with a Swedish mother and an Iranian father, my brothers Martin and Simon, a year as an exchange student in Ohio, and law school in Stockholm.
2. The year everything changed. Losing Simon on April 4, 2013, my first website, my first $65 online and leaving law school. Simon gets a life on the page, not only the day we lost him.
3. Building a way out. My podcast, The Lifestyle Architects, the people I reached out to, The Branding Summit and the day I left my job.
4. Freedom in motion. Leaving Sweden, life as a digital nomad and global citizen, the summits and courses, the people behind the business and what it took to keep it all going.
5. When life gets tested. The money I lost in crypto, how I rebuilt through my business, and the place of love, family, health and belonging in a life spent moving.
6. Becoming Navid. Going all in on AI, building my own AI OS and what freedom means to me now.

The epilogue comes back to my name and my brothers, and to the life I'm choosing now.

How it fits with the other books

I Am Navid tells why these questions matter to me. The Futureproof Creator shows you how to build a creator business that lasts, AI OS teaches you how to build the AI system behind it, and The 7 Freedoms turns lifestyle design into a framework.

This book uses real moments from all of them, with me and the people in my life at the center.

Who should read I Am Navid

• Anyone going through a loss or a setback and looking for a way forward.
• People thinking about leaving the expected path, the way I left law school.
• Anyone who wants to live and work from anywhere, as a digital nomad or global citizen.
• Readers who like honest memoirs about what building a life really takes, including what went wrong.

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Why I'm writing it

After Simon's funeral, I committed myself to create an extraordinary life, no matter how long it took. This book is what that commitment has looked like so far.

I've documented this journey as I lived it, on my blog since 2013 and on my About page. I Am Navid puts it in one place, with the hard-won lessons that came with it, including the parts that didn't go to plan.

Learn more

• Hi, my name is Navid: Who I am, what I do now and what I believe in.
• About Navid: My story year by year, from Sweden in 1986 to building with AI today.
• 52 life lessons that changed my life: The hard-won lessons behind this book.