NapoRepublic Letter #129July 12, 2025Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up here Hi Reader, This is part 5 of a 7-part series on how to share expertise to attract and create opportunities in life and business. It was Fall 2022. I had just created my first NFT collection – 405 digital tokens to match the number of pages in my award-winning book, Toffy’s Divide. I created the art, wrote the blockchain contract, and added the collection to the blockchain. Simultaneously, I built a...
4 days ago • 7 min read
NapoRepublic Letter #129July 12, 2025Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up here Hi Reader, This is part 3 of a 7-part series on how to share expertise to attract and create opportunities in life and business. When I wrote my first blog, I had one goal – rank high for search terms related to my business in 2016. I hardly got an organic lead that came to my website and converted into business. At the same time, I had started writing a fictional story on the weekends. Eventually, I...
11 days ago • 5 min read
NapoRepublic Letter #129July 12, 2025Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up here Hi Reader, This is part 2 of a 7-letter series about creating more opportunities in life and business. I'm doing this because I learned about building a business online the hard way. It started with my first business. I tinkered around with an app for almost a year. I paid a developer and a designer. We worked late nights. I got on calls at strange times of the day because of time zone differences. I...
18 days ago • 5 min read
NapoRepublic Letter #129July 12, 2025Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up here Hi Reader, Make this your #1 task - Always be attracting opportunities. You deserve to have options and live a more fulfilling life. If you don’t know how to help people, you’ll struggle to find purpose. Purpose is a combination of fueling personal growth and making a contribution to the life of people around you. I’m eternally on the quest for it. In very few moments, I get a glimpse of insight. The...
25 days ago • 6 min read
NapoRepublic Letter #129July 12, 2025Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up here Hi Reader, Trust makes everything in life and business easier. I was on my couch on a Friday evening when I reached out to a friend of mine. We hadn’t spoken in a while. As we caught up, he mentioned: “Oh, aren’t you writing a book or something.” I was a few weeks into my crowdfunding campaign for my book. I had been talking about my book journey on LinkedIn and Twitter. I responded: “Oh yeah, want to...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
NapoRepublic Letter #129July 12, 2025Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up here Hi Reader, Your everyday ordinary life + the unique insights you have = extraordinary story. One of my first “viral posts” on LinkedIn happened about 5 years ago. I wrote about publishing my book. I got hundreds of reactions. It felt good. I posted the next day. It got 2 reactions. That’s when I realized, if I wanted to play the reactions game, at least on LinkedIn, you have to share some “profound...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
NapoRepublic Letter #129July 12, 2025Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up here Hi Reader, Your story is your biggest point of leverage. I had an interesting insight recently where insights happen the most – the shower. As I rinsed off sweat from the gym, my thoughts swerved around how companies struggle to hire, train, and retain good talent. Then my thoughts bent the corner and it clicked…..whoa. Insight: “If you can’t find a job faster than your employer can replace you, you don’t...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
NapoRepublic Letter #129July 12, 2025Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up here Hi Reader, You have a brand whether you like it or not. Did you choose it or was it assigned to you? Ten years ago, I strolled to find a seat in the classroom on the sunny Stanford Business School campus on a Saturday afternoon. This weekend had a few different characters tackling the challenging topic of “business in Africa.” I was skeptical about what I’d learn. In the back of my mind, I thought: “What...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
NapoRepublic Letter #129July 12, 2025Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up here Hi Reader, If you don’t know what finished looks like, you’ll never finish. This is exactly the problem people have with standing out. “I know I want to write but I don’t fully know what to write about?” This question came up quite often when I coached a few people on how to write manuscripts for their books. Another version was: “I feel I know what I want to write, but so many people are already writing...
2 months ago • 5 min read
NapoRepublic Letter #129July 12, 2025Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up here Hi Reader, I loved the smell of fresh magazines. In the 2010s, as an engineer flying out of the Austin airport, I’d have a breakfast burrito in one hand, while I scanned through the bookstore’s magazines. My favorites were the business and entrepreneur ones. On flights over the green heartland of America, I’d read about people starting businesses that blew up after the 2008 recession. It filled my mind...
2 months ago • 6 min read
