All statements about Izzy Sealey

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2025

2025-01-10 · My Honest Advice to Anyone Starting YouTube in 2026 — Ali wants to learn Mandarin, which his wife speaks, partly to impress her parents, and Japanese because he likes anime and wants to connect with the culture. — 00:06:07
2025-01-10 · My Honest Advice to Anyone Starting YouTube in 2026 — Ali names his wife, a former Part-Time YouTuber Academy student, as an exception: about 50 sporadic videos in three years, yet her channel on learning Mandarin blew up through the value she teaches and the quality of her videos. — 00:25:37
2025-01-21 · You're Not Behind: How to Change Your Life in 90 Days — Ali: The week before this video, Ali's wife Izzy hosted a vision boarding workshop for their productivity annual planning event, and following along Ali made his own vision board for the first time, in about 10 to 15 minutes. — 00:07:11
2025-01-21 · You're Not Behind: How to Change Your Life in 90 Days — announcement: Ali and his team are building productivity software: they have released VoicePal and are working on others, including Superfocus and ProgressPal. — 00:08:09
2025-01-21 · You're Not Behind: How to Change Your Life in 90 Days — Ali says his wife Izzy is super into yoga while he is bad at flexibility, and he would love to be able to do acro yoga with her. — 00:08:36
2025-01-21 · You're Not Behind: How to Change Your Life in 90 Days — Ali: To complete his martial arts quest, Ali will make a Notion page of nearby options, ask his wife Izzy to hold him accountable, check each week in his weekly review that a class is scheduled, and mention it in a YouTube video. — 00:19:54
2025-01-24 · The 5 Key Components for Financial Freedom — Ali's leverage is media and content, his own work, and code, which his team is now building with apps such as VoicePal, ProgressPal and Superfocus. — 00:19:42
2025-01-31 · Why Everyone Needs a Personal Website — Ali calls starting his personal website in 2016 one of the best decisions he has made: it landed him opportunities as a medical student and as a doctor, played a role in his meeting his wife, and led to his YouTube channel eight years ago. — 00:00:00
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali: A couple of weeks before the video, Ali and his wife went to Taiwan for their babymoon, as they have a baby coming in a few months; he used Claude as his personal tour guide there. — 00:14:19
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali: In Taiwan, Ali and his wife spoke any question they had straight into Claude and read the answers to each other: Claude was their own personal tour guide. — 00:15:51
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali asked ChatGPT for sushi he could cook for his wife on Valentine's Day, since she loves sushi but is pregnant and cannot eat raw fish. — 00:17:09
2025-02-18 · How I Manage My Time - The Triage System — Ali: Three of Ali's to-dos for the day: book a Valentine's Day dinner for him and his wife, film this time-management video and apply for his Hong Kong ID. — 00:06:26
2025-02-18 · How I Manage My Time - The Triage System — Ali: In that morning's weekly review Ali moved his baby supplies project above his "Operation don't die" project, as he needs to pick up items at a local department store for the baby due in a few months. — 00:15:10
2025-02-18 · How I Manage My Time - The Triage System — Ali is relocating his business to Hong Kong and is waiting for his accounting firm, TSJ (as heard), to come back with a plan. — 00:16:09
2025-02-18 · How I Manage My Time - The Triage System — Ali says his wife, also a creative entrepreneur, really struggles to stop work at 8 p.m. when there is still stuff on her to-do list. — 00:19:07
2025-02-28 · How to Actually Make Money Online in 2026 - Case Study — Ali's main work now is as co-founder of Sparkle Studios, which is building a suite of productivity apps. — 00:01:27
2025-02-28 · How to Actually Make Money Online in 2026 - Case Study — Ali: Izzy Sealey often feels YouTube is hard and concludes she is a bad YouTuber, Ali says, though she has about 700,000 subscribers from about 50 videos; he had 700 subscribers at 50 videos. — 00:14:22
2025-03-04 · How to Find Your Purpose (with Tiny Experiments) — Ali's main work in early 2025: with his wife and their team he is building a series of productivity apps they wish existed; he has made videos on his channel since 2017. — 00:00:58
2025-03-04 · How to Find Your Purpose (with Tiny Experiments) — Ali: For the last few months Ali has grappled with the epic script: having done YouTube and written a bestselling book, he is content, just married with a child on the way, and wants to spend time with his family. — 00:09:38
2025-03-04 · How to Find Your Purpose (with Tiny Experiments) — Ali: Liminal spaces can be physical (an airport, a lift, a waiting room), physiological (puberty, or becoming a mother, as his wife tells him) or emotional (the gap after university before a first job). — 00:11:39
2025-03-04 · How to Find Your Purpose (with Tiny Experiments) — Ali will become a dad in a few months, and then, he says, maybe what gives his life meaning will be spending time with his wife and daughter. (hedged) — 00:17:30
2025-03-04 · How to Find Your Purpose (with Tiny Experiments) — Ali and his wife have formed a small family business around building their productivity apps, working with friends and their team. — 00:18:58
2025-03-28 · Honest YouTube Advice for 45 Minutes Straight (2026) — recommendation: Ali: When creatively blocked, Ali asks a team member or his wife to get on a Zoom call, or sit behind the camera, and ask him questions. — 00:20:31
2025-03-28 · Honest YouTube Advice for 45 Minutes Straight (2026) — Ali jokes that his face is not that attractive, while his wife's thumbnails with her face get more clicks because she is really attractive. (playful) — 00:23:27
2025-03-28 · Honest YouTube Advice for 45 Minutes Straight (2026) — recommendation: Ali: Once he has a title, Ali asks a question he got from his wife, also a YouTuber: what is the heart of this video, the thing he wants people to take away? — 00:33:56
2025-03-28 · Honest YouTube Advice for 45 Minutes Straight (2026) — Ali's wife has a course on how to learn Mandarin that is doing reasonably well. — 00:42:51
2025-05-03 · 17 Cheap Purchases That Actually Improved My Life — Ali has long liked fake plants in his studio, but his wife's YouTube studio with real plants smells fresh, while his, with an off-gassing rug, smells funky. — 00:04:58
2025-05-03 · 17 Cheap Purchases That Actually Improved My Life — Ali: Around 9 p.m. Ali and his wife put on orange-tinted blue-light-blocking glasses; even if they do nothing else, they act as a placebo signal that it is time to get ready for bed. — 00:11:11
2025-05-09 · How to Get Ahead of 99% of People (Discipline Isn't Enough) — Ali: After taking a couple of Joe Hudson's online courses and his in-person retreat, Ali says the work on emotions transformed his life, his productivity and his relationship with his wife. — 00:12:15
2025-05-09 · How to Get Ahead of 99% of People (Discipline Isn't Enough) — Ali has not yet worked out duty for himself, but with friends, family, his wife and his future kids he would like to want to do things rather than feel obligated. — 00:57:37
2025-05-09 · How to Get Ahead of 99% of People (Discipline Isn't Enough) — Ali and his wife Izzy always feel they should be working, even at the weekend. — 00:58:51
2025-05-09 · How to Get Ahead of 99% of People (Discipline Isn't Enough) — Ali: Since applying Joe Hudson's VIEW framework for navigating conversations to his marriage, Ali says, his relationship has improved drastically, with far fewer arguments. — 01:07:58
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — Ali says reflecting with AI on arguments with his wife, which he can probe without limit, has genuinely improved his marriage: he sees what went on from another perspective and finds his action points. — 00:04:23
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — Ali, married with a child on the way, asks whether following spiritual enlightenment's elimination of attachments would leave him non-attached to his family. — 00:21:04
2025-06-18 · How to Make Time for Everything (Then Actually Do It) — Ali is about to have a child; reading books about it and watching friends who are parents, he is realising how much effort childcare takes. — 00:22:38
2025-07-08 · The Consumption Trap - How to Finally Lock In — Ali: A few years ago, before she became a YouTuber, Ali's wife Izzy started a gardening Instagram account after getting into gardening during the pandemic. — 00:21:27
2025-07-08 · The Consumption Trap - How to Finally Lock In — Ali: Izzy heard that a handful of people at medical school were laughing at her gardening Instagram account behind her back; it made her feel bad, but she continued. — 00:22:14
2025-07-08 · The Consumption Trap - How to Finally Lock In — Ali: The Instagram account gave Izzy the confidence to start a YouTube channel, which Ali says changed her life: about 700,000 subscribers and more money from YouTube than from medicine. — 00:22:14
2025-07-11 · I didn't want to make this video… — Ali: After marrying and recently moving to Hong Kong with his wife, Ali has been holding in-person events in Hong Kong for people in his audience. — 00:02:29
2025-07-11 · I didn't want to make this video… — Ali: Married about a year, Ali has been reading books about what makes for a thriving marriage. — 00:27:23
2025-07-11 · I didn't want to make this video… — recommendation: Ali says that if he were loving to his wife only when he felt it, his marriage would already have fallen apart: the trick, as many relationship books say, is to be loving even when you don't feel like it, such as buying flowers after an argument. — 00:31:27
2025-07-14 · What other questions would you ask me? — Ali's ideal weekend mixes socialising with friends, a little sport, sitting around reading a book and hanging out with his wife. — 00:00:45
2025-07-14 · What other questions would you ask me? — Ali: Balancing work and family is very easy for Ali because he works from home: he can have lunch and dinner with his wife and go on date nights in his remote entrepreneur life. — 00:01:18
2025-07-14 · What other questions would you ask me? — Ali: The one thing Ali says he cannot live without is his wife. — 00:01:34
2025-07-19 · Answering Rapid Fire Questions — Ali: What makes Ali smile most is seeing his wife and kid interact. — 00:00:29
2025-07-19 · Answering Rapid Fire Questions — Ali prefers a window seat, unless he is travelling with his wife, who then takes the window. — 00:00:56
2025-07-22 · What 8 Years on YouTube Taught Me About Life — Ali: About every three months for the last five years Ali has had a mini existential crisis about his channel, worked through with hours of journaling and talks with friends, his wife and ChatGPT. — 00:11:40
2025-07-22 · What 8 Years on YouTube Taught Me About Life — Ali's new business with his wife, Sparkle Studios, makes apps, including VoicePal and Superfocus, with more coming. — 00:27:26
2025-07-22 · What 8 Years on YouTube Taught Me About Life — Ali: YouTube gave Ali freedom, great people and a lot of money, and he would not have met his wife without it: they connected because both were YouTubers. — 00:31:58
2025-07-26 · My ONE Piece of Advice for Someone in Their 20s — Ali: When he and his wife started dating, Ali set out to learn Mandarin to impress her with an audio course, got a reasonable way through it, then abandoned it. — 00:19:31
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali and his wife Izzy had a baby girl a few weeks before the video. — 00:00:00
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: Izzy has made and will keep making videos on her own channel about motherhood, which Ali says is very different from fatherhood. — 00:00:00
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: Asked how to find a confinement nanny, Ali replies in the comments that he and Izzy found theirs through a friend's recommendation. — creator comment
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: Izzy has found motherhood joyful and meaningful but also very hard, Ali says, because of pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding. — 00:01:39
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: The baby had issues at birth and needed antibiotics, so the family spent five days in a private Hong Kong hospital, where the midwives trained Ali and Izzy in baby care. — 00:06:57
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali and Izzy combine breastfeeding with bottle feeding of breast milk only, and bottle-feeding the baby is one of Ali's favourite things to do with her. — 00:09:03
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: Nir Eyal, author of Indistractable, which Ali calls very good, is a friend and a parent and sent Ali and Izzy the book The Happiest Baby on the Block. — 00:13:14
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: The newborn loop of feeding, burping, changing, swaddling and sleep takes three hours, eight times a day, if parents are lucky, as Ali and Izzy were; with unlucky babies who sleep only 20 minutes, it repeats far more often. — 00:15:16
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: Izzy cannot dodge the hardships because breastfeeding and pumping cannot really be outsourced, Ali says, while for him as the dad every baby-care job is optional. — 00:21:40
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali and Izzy hired a live-in confinement nanny for the first six weeks after the birth; Ali wishes it had been longer. — 00:23:18
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali's sleep scores went from a consistent 100% before the baby to about 85%; he still sleeps seven to eight hours a night while Izzy wakes for night feeds. — 00:25:43
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: Neither Ali nor Izzy having to do night shifts chronically has been enormous for their mental and physical health, Ali says. — 00:28:59
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: Izzy's mum has been staying with Ali and Izzy for many months and has been an enormous help with the baby. — 00:31:31
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali and Izzy also have a full-time live-in housekeeper who does all the cooking, cleaning and laundry. — 00:32:01
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: During the baby's playtime Ali talks through video ideas to her while recording into VoicePal, which asks him follow-up questions and helps him script his videos. — 00:33:58
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: Were Ali still a doctor in the UK, he says Izzy would be truly suffering, because they could not have afforded household help. (hypothetical) — 00:35:38
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: Izzy takes the lion's share of the burden, Ali says, including the role they call baby strategist: the cognitive labour of researching how to raise the baby. — 00:40:51
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: According to the book Matrescence, which Izzy read, giving birth brings the largest hormonal change a human being ever experiences, bigger than adolescence. — 00:42:06
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: During five days in one hospital room with Izzy, the baby and his portable work setup, Ali felt they had everything they needed to be happy. — 00:43:47
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: Being the provider for a wife and baby gives Ali's work much more internal purpose: he is no longer doing it just for himself. — 00:54:51
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali hopes they will have more babies in future if Izzy is up for it. (hedged) — 00:54:51
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali and Izzy have had it easier than many friends because they built online lifestyle businesses and need nobody's permission to take parental leave. — 01:00:29
2025-08-05 · Thank you for 8 years on YouTube — Ali: Over these eight years Ali married his wife Izzy, moved with her to Hong Kong and had their first baby. — 00:00:30
2025-08-08 · Financial Freedom is Easy, After You Learn This — Ali and his wife were invited to a junk boat event for owners of businesses making $50 million a year, only because they are friends of the organisers; one brand there made $800 million a year selling jewellery. — 00:49:17
2025-08-10 · Can a Productivity System Help You Find Love? — Ali says his wife Izzy had her own productivity system for dating: a Notion page on which she took notes after every date she went on. — 00:00:40
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — Ali: Asked how women founders can stop talking themselves down, Ali says he has little insight, but living with Izzy, a female entrepreneur, he is amazed how much self-sabotage there is. — 01:04:12
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — Ali: Izzy has been looking for a female business coach and connects with Leila Hormozi's content more than Alex Hormozi's. — 01:04:12
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — recommendation: Ali: When Izzy feels she has no value to add, Ali helps by writing the worry down and questioning it: "no one will watch" becomes perhaps 50,000 views, half a Wembley Stadium. — 01:05:19
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — Ali: A few weeks earlier, at a Hong Kong yacht party for entrepreneurs making over 50 million a year, female founders told Izzy they feel imposter syndrome every day, which inspired her. — 01:07:43
2025-09-09 · We’ve got some HUGEEEE news... @IzzySealey link in description 👀 — announcement: Izzy Sealey: Izzy announces that she and Ali have built an app together, Momentum: Energizing Habits, for habits that move you towards a goal or give you energy but that you sometimes do not do. — 00:00:00
2025-09-09 · We’ve got some HUGEEEE news... @IzzySealey link in description 👀 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy says she knows that starting her day with meditation, wearing her red LED mask, and yoga sets a solid foundation, yet sometimes she does not do it; Momentum was built to solve this. — 00:00:29
2025-09-09 · We’ve got some HUGEEEE news... @IzzySealey link in description 👀 — announcement: Ali: Momentum, which Ali and Izzy have worked on for about six months, is a habit tracker combined with accountability squads: you add habits and join or create a squad with friends. — 00:00:44
2025-09-09 · We’ve got some HUGEEEE news... @IzzySealey link in description 👀 — Ali: Momentum is the second app of Sparkle Studios, the product design studio Ali and Izzy started about 12 months earlier, soon after marrying, as a little family business building the productivity and personal development apps they wish existed and can use themselves. — 00:01:27
2025-09-09 · We’ve got some HUGEEEE news... @IzzySealey link in description 👀 — announcement: Ali and Izzy want to document building Sparkle Studios, sharing behind the scenes how they build their family business on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts, and building the apps in public. — 00:01:56
2025-09-11 · If you struggle with consistency, try this app — announcement: Ali and his wife Izzy have just launched their new app, Momentum: Energising Habits, available in the App Store. — video description
2025-09-11 · If you struggle with consistency, try this app — Ali's Momentum squads include a sports squad with his friends Angus and Pablo, and the Sparkle Fitness Squad and a wellness squad with members of his team such as Becky, Nicole, Melina, Holly, Erin and Alex; Izzy logs yoga and meditation there. — 00:01:37
2025-09-12 · How to Change Your Life — Ali says decisions he made earlier in life let him start his business, become rich and financially free and quit his job, and led him to meet the woman who became his wife; they now have a child. — 00:01:13
2025-09-12 · How to Change Your Life — Ali's Wheel of Life scores: physical health 6, mental 9, spiritual 7; mission 9, money 9.5, growth 8; romantic relationship with his wife 9, family 8, friends 6; joy about 6. — 00:07:43
2025-09-12 · How to Change Your Life — Ali's friendships need work: since having a baby he and his wife have been antisocial, and back in Hong Kong after a month in London they have not organised things with friends. — 00:08:50
2025-09-12 · How to Change Your Life — Ali: Having not seen friends in a while, Ali plans to talk with his wife that night about putting a standing weekly social event, such as a brunch or dinner, in the calendar. — 00:28:18
2025-09-12 · How to Change Your Life — recommendation: Ali says that for him and his wife, action points actually happen once they are turned into calendar events. — 00:28:18
2025-09-17 · My Home Office Setup (2026) — Ali: Sparkle Studios, the family app business Ali started with his wife, has two apps out, VoicePal and Momentum, and is looking for an office. — 00:22:06
2025-09-17 · My Home Office Setup (2026) — recommendation: Ali and his wife plan to block out their year on the 12-month wall calendar, holidays, team offsites, masterminds and visits to Australia and Pakistan, so they can see it all at a glance. (hedged) — 00:31:00
2025-09-24 · The Ultimate Guide to Building a Lifestyle Business — Ali says he has been super consistent with his energising habits for about three months purely because of the accountability in Momentum, the habit tracker with accountability squads that he and his wife built. — 00:55:48
2025-09-26 · Easy, Boring Business Ideas to Start in 2026 - Answering your Questions — recommendation: Ali suggests recording customer conversations with permission, for example on VoicePal, the app he and his wife built, and asking ChatGPT or Claude for business ideas from them. — 00:13:58
2025-10-10 · The Proven, Reliable Path to Earn $1M (Step By Step) — Ali says his apps follow this set-up: he and his wife are the associate key persons of influence lending brand and credibility, and co-founder Pablo is the entrepreneur running the business. — 00:46:34
2025-10-10 · The Proven, Reliable Path to Earn $1M (Step By Step) — Ali: Pablo has a full-time developer for each of Ali's apps; a team member does growth across the apps, and they are now looking for sales roles for each product. — 00:47:03
2025-10-14 · 📢 Free for Creators - Make Money & Grow Your Following 🤩 — Ali says CreatorGrid was built by him, his wife Izzy Sealey and their team. — video description
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali: The second strand is online education: Ali and his wife run two small businesses, the Lifestyle Business Academy for lifestyle businesses that lead to financial freedom, and the YouTuber Academy, running for five years. — 00:07:18
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — announcement: Ali: The third strand is a suite of productivity, personal development and creator apps: VoicePal, made about a year ago, and Momentum, a habit tracker with accountability squads launched a couple of weeks ago. — 00:07:48
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — announcement: Ali's team is planning a challenges feature for Momentum, where users join a challenge to stay consistent with one habit, such as a final 100 days of 2025 challenge. — 00:14:15
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali: Once a Claude mock-up of a feature is roughly right, Ali records a Loom for Pablo, his software co-founder, and Alex, the lead developer of Momentum, who decide how much of it to build and how. — 00:17:05
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali's app team sends users surveys and puts the CSV of results into Claude to parse what people say about the app and decide roadmap priorities. — 00:22:14
2025-10-23 · Rapid Fire Questions with Ali Abdaal — Ali is very proud of how his wife Izzy handles being a mother and says she is very good at it. — 00:00:00
2025-10-27 · The most surprising thing about building apps with your spouse — Ali: One of the most surprising things Ali has learned building apps with his wife is that building an app is not trivial: despite the vibe-coding narratives, it takes months of genuine iteration with an experienced full-stack developer. — 00:00:00
2025-11-05 · 3 Surprising Things I Learned As a New Dad — Ali says being a dad is far easier than being a mum: his wife has it much harder with breastfeeding, pumping and mastitis. — 00:00:00
2025-12-09 · I'm hosting a free 2-day productivity summit — Ali's wife Izzy hosts a vision board workshop at his January 2026 summit; she hosted one last year (2024) too, and thousands of people, Ali included, made vision boards from it. — 00:00:29
2025-12-11 · I visualised my goals and this is what changed — Ali: A picture of a woman with three children on Ali's vision board stands for his wish to have at least three children, maybe four or five, depending on his wife. — 00:00:29
2025-12-11 · I visualised my goals and this is what changed — announcement: Ali's wife Izzy hosts a workshop on setting up a vision board on one of the two days, 3 or 4 January 2026, at Spark 2026, the free online productivity event they run. — 00:00:58
2025-12-11 · I visualised my goals and this is what changed — Ali built his vision board during Izzy's session at Spark 2025. — 00:01:05

2024

2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Ali says Izzy Sealey's channel grew from zero to 500,000 subscribers in around two years with maybe a fifth of the videos he posted to reach the same. (hedged) — 00:00:29
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey says she is a doctor who graduated from Cambridge, from the same medical school as Ali. — 00:01:12
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy says starting her YouTube channel just over two years ago, approached as a bit of an experiment, has completely changed her life in every way. — 00:01:55
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Around October last year (2023), while she worked full time as a junior doctor and uploaded every two weeks or monthly, AdSense from Izzy's channel exceeded her monthly doctor's salary. — 00:02:56
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy was then spending maybe four hours a week on her YouTube channel alongside her day job as a doctor, which made the AdSense income seem absurd to her. (hedged) — 00:03:25
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Before her channel Izzy feared even posting on Instagram to her 500 followers, so she chose YouTube as the scariest challenge she could set herself. — 00:04:31
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — recommendation: Izzy Sealey: To get over the fear of starting a channel, Izzy told herself that if she did not try she would never know, and that the fear is in her head, to be reframed and embraced. — 00:04:55
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — recommendation: Izzy Sealey: Izzy reminded herself that probably no one would watch her first videos, which proved true at 200 to 300 views for months, so the channel felt a safe space to be bad. — 00:05:24
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy also told herself that no one would really care or be negative about her starting a channel, and anyone who did would say more about themselves, since she was the one trying. — 00:05:50
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy, who remembered Ali from medical school, asked to join the Part-Time YouTuber Academy while seeing her channel as a fun little hobby and challenge, not a full-time job. — 00:06:57
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy's first video to take off was about learning Mandarin after about six months of intensive self-study; it stayed flat for ages, then was gradually picked up in search. (hedged) — 00:07:56
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy says her Mandarin video took off because it was very searchable, so even a channel with few subscribers gets found over time, and its topic was not oversaturated. — 00:08:20
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy's Mandarin video answered a specific question people were desperate to solve, and hundreds of hours of learning gave her a competitive advantage, while anybody can make a video about habits. — 00:09:06
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Ali says a video by someone who has put hundreds of hours into a thing, as Izzy did with Mandarin, is way better than a book summary, because people can tell the person did the work. — 00:10:04
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — recommendation: Izzy Sealey: Izzy advises experimenting early with different kinds of content on a few interests and topics, since what people resonate with may differ from what you expect, and treating the start as an experiment. — 00:11:34
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Finding editing slow and unenjoyable, Izzy outsourced it to freelancers from sites such as Upwork or Fiverr a couple of months into her channel. (hedged) — 00:13:14
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Before her channel made money, Izzy paid for editing by tutoring on italki: two or three hours of tutoring paid for editing a video that would take her about eight hours. — 00:13:44
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — recommendation: Izzy Sealey: To run her channel as a business, Izzy asks what her unique offering is, what she does best and enjoys, and what she can delegate to others. — 00:14:06
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Posting only every two weeks or monthly, Izzy treated her channel as an investment she would keep up for at least a year or two to see where it went. — 00:14:06
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy places herself between hobby and business on YouTube: she wants to enjoy making videos she is excited by and will not sacrifice that to fully escape the matrix. — 00:16:21
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: When Izzy forced herself to make a video for the sake of consistency, she always felt worse about her YouTube channel afterwards. — 00:17:14
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — recommendation: Izzy Sealey: What helped Izzy stay consistent was shifting focus from output, how many videos a week, to input: dedicating set time to her YouTube side hustle. — 00:17:14
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy says the biggest existential risk to her YouTube channel is her not enjoying making videos. — 00:17:58
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — recommendation: Izzy Sealey: Izzy cites the spotlight effect: we think everyone scrutinises us as much as we do ourselves, but others are worried about their own lives, which she finds liberating. — 00:20:13
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy's fear came true to an extent: some people said bad things about her starting a channel, which she heard on the grapevine and which hurt. — 00:21:22
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy says no one who has started a successful YouTube channel will talk badly about a beginner; they remember how hard it was and respect them for trying. — 00:21:51
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: One of the people who talked badly about Izzy's channel had tried to start their own YouTube channel a year before and given up. — 00:21:51
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — recommendation: Izzy Sealey: Izzy says most people will be supportive or not care either way, and what negative people say says more about them than about you. — 00:22:34
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Early on Izzy trained herself through meditation to be equanimous about YouTube comments, but came to see this as a crutch that stopped her feeling positive comments deeply; now she lets herself feel the genuine appreciation in them. — 00:23:43
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — recommendation: Izzy Sealey: To feel natural on camera Izzy imagines talking to one person, at first her sister or her mum, and remembers she has full control in the edit. — 00:26:33
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — recommendation: Izzy Sealey: Izzy now imagines talking to a target avatar, Bella, a 22-year-old recent graduate interested in personal development, much like Izzy a few years ago. — 00:27:07
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy felt imposter syndrome about being a YouTuber or a business owner: she thought of herself as just a doctor or medical student. — 00:28:55
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Hitting 100,000 subscribers, with a silver play button coming, made Izzy feel a YouTuber; advertising for a head of content made her channel feel a real business. — 00:29:24
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — recommendation: Izzy Sealey: Alongside her personal journal, Izzy keeps a separate business journal for her feelings about her business, such as limiting beliefs about money and imposter syndrome. — 00:32:17
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy still struggles with her limiting beliefs and expects she always will, though they gradually get soothed over time. — 00:32:56
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: At Tony Robbins's Business Mastery event, getting hyped up into a state before committing to business actions helped Izzy get out of her head. — 00:33:21
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Through the Part-Time YouTuber Academy Izzy met other creators, with whom she started a podcast, Milliseconds Apart, though they have not been very consistent. — 00:35:13
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — recommendation: Izzy Sealey: Against the imposter's question "who am I to make this video?", Izzy says no one else can make her video, and if it helps even one person it is worth making. — 00:35:50
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy says YouTube Studio shows fireworks and sparkles on a video that is the best performer of your previous ten. — 00:39:12
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy says YouTube Studio is designed to make you feel you must make things perform better, and she has found focusing too much on that really unhealthy. — 00:39:12
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — recommendation: Izzy Sealey: After choosing a video's main concept, Izzy writes what she calls "the heart of the video": why she is making it, who it is for and what question it answers. — 00:39:38
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy says an obsession with metrics and numbers dampens the creative spirit and the connection with a video's purpose. — 00:40:43
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — recommendation: Izzy Sealey: Izzy advises not worrying much about YouTube Studio metrics: early click-through rate and A/B tests help decide thumbnails and titles, but otherwise keep the creative spirit and fun alive. — 00:41:40
2024-03-12 · How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Nothing in 2026 — Izzy Sealey: Izzy says the idea of recent years that you just need discipline, or that motivation is a myth, does not work for her or, she thinks, for many people. — 00:43:01
2024-06-11 (said on 2024-04-14, implied) · A Productive Week in My Life — recommendation: Ali: For over a year Ali and his partner have met a couples therapist, Thomas, every few weeks for 90 minutes; even when nothing is going wrong, he finds the regular touch point really helpful. — 00:11:13
2024-06-11 (said on 2024-04-14, implied) · A Productive Week in My Life — recommendation: Bill Perkins (quoted): Bill Perkins, author of Die With Zero, whom Ali met in Austin the year before, advised him to get a relationship therapist as soon as he enters a relationship and meet them regularly. — 00:11:13
2024-06-11 (said on 2024-04-14, implied) · A Productive Week in My Life — recommendation: Bill Perkins (quoted): Bill Perkins's second piece of advice, which Ali has not yet quite taken: celebrate whenever possible and throw a party for each business win, since entrepreneurs seldom celebrate their wins. — 00:11:42
2024-06-11 (said on 2024-04-14, implied) · A Productive Week in My Life — Ali: When his assistant Irem said they should throw a party for his coming 30th birthday, Ali at first could not be bothered, then remembered Bill Perkins's advice and agreed. — 00:12:11
2024-10-29 · 5 Things I Wish I'd Done Sooner On YouTube — Ali: Izzy, a former student of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, is now Ali's wife; he says they got together only after she finished his YouTube course. — 00:22:00
2024-10-29 · 5 Things I Wish I'd Done Sooner On YouTube — Ali: Izzy's channel took off with a video on how she learned Mandarin Chinese in six months, an unfair advantage; after that her general productivity videos started to work too. — 00:22:00
2024-11-05 · 5 Habits for Happier Relationships - The Oxytocin Effect — Ali: A year or a year and a half earlier, in Austin, Chris Williamson of the Modern Wisdom podcast took Ali on a boat with his friend Bill Perkins, author of Die With Zero, whom Ali asked for life advice. — 00:10:33
2024-11-05 · 5 Habits for Happier Relationships - The Oxytocin Effect — Ali: The week after meeting Bill Perkins, Ali decided to book a relationship therapist; he and Izzy, now his wife, have seen the therapist regularly for the last 12 months. — 00:11:31
2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali has married Izzy, a YouTuber he met as a fellow medical student at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who was also a student of his Part-Time YouTuber Academy. — 00:00:23
2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali and Izzy got married in August 2024. — 00:00:55
2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali: After the wedding Ali and Izzy moved to Hong Kong, where he will be for at least the next year, maybe longer if they like it. — 00:00:55
2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali and Izzy were together for about three years before marrying and deliberately kept the relationship private. — 00:00:55
2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali is unsure how much to share online once his life involves another person, such as a wife or, later, children. (unsure) — 00:01:57
2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali and Izzy do not want their relationship to become content: when a relationship becomes someone's content and livelihood, he sees a risk of pressure and scrutiny. — 00:01:57
2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali: The main reason Ali and Izzy left London is that Izzy does not like the London weather. — 00:07:10
2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali and Izzy explored Miami, Los Angeles, Austin and San Francisco, but found the US broadly similar to the UK. — 00:07:38
2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali: After looking at taxes, residency options, weather and people they knew, Ali and Izzy shortlisted three Asian cities: Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. — 00:08:10
2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali: After trying Hong Kong for a few weeks, Ali and Izzy committed to living there for at least a year and rented a place for at least a year. — 00:09:49
2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali and Izzy rent in Hong Kong because houses there are too expensive for them to buy. — 00:26:03
2024-11-19 · How I Built A YouTube Studio in a Tiny Room — Ali has just moved to Hong Kong and has to turn a pretty small room there into a YouTube studio; this Creator Club episode shows the process. — 00:00:00
2024-11-19 · How I Built A YouTube Studio in a Tiny Room — Ali: Furniture such as a Herman Miller chair would take weeks to months to arrive in Hong Kong, so Ali and his wife built the studio from what IKEA Hong Kong had in stock that day. — 00:07:28
2024-11-19 · How I Built A YouTube Studio in a Tiny Room — Ali is renting his place in Hong Kong rather than buying, because buying a place there is insanely expensive. — 00:22:26
2024-11-19 · How I Built A YouTube Studio in a Tiny Room — Ali: Books on Ali's studio bookshelf include Harvard Business Review Press's Emotional Intelligence books, The Happiness of Pursuit, The Power of Now, Oneness with All Life, A New Earth, and Self-Care for Everyone (as heard), which his wife wanted. — 00:29:13
2024-11-19 · How I Built A YouTube Studio in a Tiny Room — Ali: Also on Ali's studio bookshelf: Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks, which he calls fantastic, and Meditations for Mortals, not yet read; the Gottmans' The Love Prescription, which he wants to read; Build the Life You Want, which he calls quite good; The Daily Dad; You Are Here; The Book of Chuang Tzu; and Izzy's Zen, The Simple Art of Living (as heard). — 00:29:38
2024-12-12 · 6 Habits to Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet — Ali and his wife have two date nights every week, with a calendar invite; he thinks they are a big part of why their relationship is very strong. — 00:15:57
2024-12-12 · 6 Habits to Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet — Ali plans his videos on walks, speaking his ideas out loud into VoicePal with his AirPods in. — 00:19:53
2024-12-24 · 19 Books to Transform Your 2026 — Ali turned 30 and got married this year (2024), and his wife is pregnant with their first child; for the first time he is thinking about how to live a long and healthy life. — 00:11:19
2024-12-24 · 19 Books to Transform Your 2026 — Ali's wife absolutely hates Jed McKenna's book and the way he writes; Ali loves its aggressive, contrarian tone. — 00:18:45

2023

2023-12-08 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — recommendation: Ali calls Bill Perkins's book Die With Zero very good; he spent some time with Perkins in Austin about six months earlier. — 00:29:28

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2022

2022-10-17 · 8 Evidence-Based Tips that Helped Me Find Love — Ali read the interview-trap tip around the time of his first several dates with his future wife; on their second date they played Topgolf, and doing an activity helped them bond more than a dinner would have. — 00:04:37