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Every week, free: one proven strategy you can put to work in your business that day, the upside in the news that touches it, and a straight word on protecting your family and staying strong.

    Evelio Silvera
    Why I do this

    One small policy was all we had left.

    My father fought chronic lymphocytic leukemia for seven years. He died at 58. I was 21.

    Over those years my parents sold what they had built. The commercial properties, the retirement accounts, the investments. When he passed, one thing was left: a $150,000 term life policy he had bought years before he got sick. My mother paid that premium faithfully, every month, through all of it.

    That little policy changed what my mother and I were able to do next.

    I'm 47 now. My kids are 6, 4, and 2. When they are starting careers and families of their own, I will be in my 60s, and I intend to arrive there strong and sharp. So I hired a health coach. I hired a business coach. I let go of businesses so I could focus on the ones that matter. And I am building an insurance platform, because I know exactly what a policy like that does for a family.

    This site is where I share what is working. I'm a dad in business over 40, doing the work and showing it.

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    All Upside lands once a week. You get the encouraging read on the news that touches your family, your health, and your business, one strategy I have actually applied, and an honest note from inside my week. For men with a business to run and a family to get home to.

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    Meet Evelio

    The builder's son.

    My father was a builder. He could look at an empty lot and see a finished street where everyone else saw dirt. My parents came here from Cuba with nothing and bet the rest of their lives on what they could build here. I inherited that vision, and I inherited that ethic.

    In twenty years I have helped raise more than $100 million, run communications and strategy for a $600 million organization with 720 employees, worked in the state legislature, and built and sold two media companies. Today I run my companies with a team that is part people and part AI, and I write about how.

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    All Upside

    One encouraging read, and something you can use this week.

    My free newsletter and show. Written by a dad in business who is doing it, for men in the same seat.

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      01 · The Upside

      Something in the news about your family's security, your health, your business, or AI, and the usable read on it. There usually is one.

      02 · The Playbook

      One strategy from a book I have applied in my own companies: what it says, how I used it, and where it failed me.

      03 · Building it

      What happened this week building the companies and training for the long run, including what went wrong.

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