All statements about Lifestyle Business Academy

188 statements about Lifestyle Business Academy in 58 sources, by upload date.

2026

2026-01-09 · How to Get Rich on Easy Mode — recommendation: Ali tells his Lifestyle Business Academy students that an easy first business sells something for between $2,000 and $20,000, so it needs relatively few customers. — 00:14:36
2026-01-21 · The Ultimate Guide to Discipline — recommendation: Ali: Asked by Lifestyle Business Academy students how to get over the fear of posting on LinkedIn or of selling, Ali says it fundamentally comes down to posting on LinkedIn until the fear goes away. — 00:03:09
2026-01-21 · The Ultimate Guide to Discipline — Ali: Most Lifestyle Business Academy students, professionals with jobs building businesses, could benefit from ignoring their feelings a little more and following the plan, Ali says, though not everyone does. — 00:19:57
2026-01-24 · If you’re ambitious but lazy, watch this — recommendation: Ali says to make a vague goal such as success specific, with numbers and parameters (managing partner at a law firm, or a lifestyle business making a million in profit), because changing the what drastically changes the actions you take. — 00:02:42
2026-01-24 · If you’re ambitious but lazy, watch this — recommendation: Ali: Not having the right business idea is a blocker under your control, Ali says: these days you can simply ask ChatGPT or Claude to help you come up with ideas for a lifestyle business. — 00:10:58
2026-01-24 · If you’re ambitious but lazy, watch this — Ali: Every week, students of Ali's Lifestyle Business Academy fill in a form saying how many hours they intend to work on their business, then block those hours in their calendar and send a screenshot, as an accountability mechanism. — 00:19:19
2026-01-24 · If you’re ambitious but lazy, watch this — Ali says many Lifestyle Business Academy students call putting the work in their calendar game changing, and some have made thousands of dollars in sales in their first month. — 00:20:07
2026-01-24 · If you’re ambitious but lazy, watch this — Ali: Paying to be part of an online business school, with a coach who holds you accountable by asking for the weekly time block, makes people do the work, Ali says, though the step itself is simple. — 00:20:29
2026-01-27 · 22 ONE-MINUTE Habits That Save Me 25+ Hours a Week — Ali's WhatsApp lists are marked by emoji: family, friends in Hong Kong, friends in the UK, creator and entrepreneur friends, his team at Sparkle Studios, and Lifestyle Business Academy groups. — 00:07:21
2026-01-28 · 5 Productivity Apps I Use Every Day — recommendation: Ali recently started using Cursor, known as a coding app, for writing: he keeps the large Lifestyle Business Academy curriculum in it to see what the curriculum says across its parts and to draft new parts. — 00:00:00
2026-01-30 · The mindset slowly destroying your life — Ali: Some Lifestyle Business Academy students, Ali says, spend about three hours on their first LinkedIn post while having zero followers, afraid former colleagues will judge them. — 00:10:13
2026-01-30 · The mindset slowly destroying your life — recommendation: Ali: In the lifestyle business plan, Ali's Lifestyle Business Academy tells students that once they pick a social media platform they post on it every day for five years, about 1,800 LinkedIn posts. — 00:10:13
2026-01-30 · The mindset slowly destroying your life — Ali's most successful Lifestyle Business Academy students have a lower certainty threshold for acting: someone fine putting something out at 20% confidence does far more than someone who needs 95%. — 00:14:36
2026-01-30 · The mindset slowly destroying your life — Ali: Framing a step as an experiment, such as ten-minute LinkedIn posts every day for a week, almost always gets Lifestyle Business Academy students over the hurdle of overthinking, Ali says. — 00:15:27
2026-02-06 · A friendly reminder… — Ali says 80% of the value of his Lifestyle Business Academy is its accountability system: the team follows up on students, makes sure they do the work and supports them when they feel down, which stops them quitting. — 00:00:29
2026-02-07 · The fastest way to get your first sale — recommendation: Ali: For a first paying client, Ali's Lifestyle Business Academy teaches getting people into free 20-to-30-minute Zoom discovery calls that add value: understand their goals and roadblocks and give them a roadmap to solve their problem. — 00:00:29
2026-02-11 · 5 years from now, today won't matter — Ali: At a recent workshop for students of his online business school, Ali heard several of them say they felt behind others who were making progress and money faster. — 00:00:00
2026-02-12 · You’re Not Behind (Yet): How to Learn AI in 19 Minutes — Ali: In his own example prompt to Claude, Ali gives his goal for 2026: growing his business's revenue from $5 million to $10 million, with the new Lifestyle Business Academy as the biggest lever. — 00:03:24
2026-02-12 · You’re Not Behind (Yet): How to Learn AI in 19 Minutes — recommendation: Ali puts the transcript of a Lifestyle Business Academy coaching session into AI to draw out the students' key themes and struggles for the curriculum, and asks for feedback on his own teaching style and blind spots. — 00:04:22
2026-02-12 · You’re Not Behind (Yet): How to Learn AI in 19 Minutes — Ali's team is trying to build an automation for the Lifestyle Business Academy in which every student coaching call is automatically recorded and transcribed with Grain and processed weekly. — 00:17:45
2026-02-12 · You’re Not Behind (Yet): How to Learn AI in 19 Minutes — Ali: The automation would combine coaching transcripts, the students' one-on-one Slack support and their place in the Notion CRM into a weekly report per student of wins, struggles and support needed, a manual job that now takes hours every Friday. — 00:18:14
2026-02-26 · If I Started A Business in 2026, I'd Do This — Ali defines a niche as a specific type of person with a specific type of problem; in his Lifestyle Business Academy, beginners first work out the niche rather than the product. — 00:03:51
2026-02-26 · If I Started A Business in 2026, I'd Do This — recommendation: Ali's Lifestyle Business Academy gives students feedback on their niche choices; without a mentorship programme, Ali says you could get that feedback from Claude or ChatGPT. — 00:23:52
2026-02-28 · Why selling for $10 is costing you $100K — Ali: In his Lifestyle Business Academy, Ali says, they almost never let students sell anything for less than $2,000, calling $2,000 to $20,000 an amazing price point for beginner entrepreneurs. — 00:00:58
2026-03-02 · Why fear of discomfort keeps you broke — Ali: In Ali's online business school, the students who build businesses and make money still feel the discomfort but act anyway, while those who struggle let the discomfort stop them. — 00:00:29
2026-03-06 · Brutally Honest Truth On How To Get Rich — Ali: For the last few months Ali has been running the Lifestyle Business Academy, an online business school where he, his team and coaches mentor working professionals starting their first business. — 00:08:16
2026-03-06 · Brutally Honest Truth On How To Get Rich — Ali: Every week the Lifestyle Business Academy asks its students to fill in a scorecard: hours intended and actually worked, content posted, followers gained, DMs started, calls booked and taken, and money made; Ali invites viewers to copy it. — 00:08:45
2026-03-06 · Brutally Honest Truth On How To Get Rich — Ali says a Lifestyle Business Academy student he calls Hermione, with a demanding full-time job and two kids, is closing a lot of revenue, which would not happen without the 10 to 15 hours a week she puts into her business. — 00:10:13
2026-03-06 · Brutally Honest Truth On How To Get Rich — Ali says a student he calls Harry, twelve weeks into the Lifestyle Business Academy with a full-time job, has put in 10 to 21 hours a week on cold outreach and content but has made no sales yet. — 00:10:42
2026-03-06 · Brutally Honest Truth On How To Get Rich — Ali predicts that his academy student Harry will in a few years be a very successful business person with a six-figure lifestyle business, because of the sheer hours he puts in each week. (hedged) — 00:11:41
2026-03-06 · Brutally Honest Truth On How To Get Rich — Ali's money funnel, on which the academy's scorecards are built: money comes from outcomes such as sales or followers, outcomes from outputs such as published content, outputs from actions, and actions from the time you put in each week. — 00:14:16
2026-03-16 · The Perfect Pick Myth — Ali names not getting mentorship as the third mistake: it could be a paid programme such as his Lifestyle Business Academy or a coach, but it need not be paid, since books, podcasts and YouTube channels also teach it. — 00:00:58
2026-03-19 · The psychology of making money — Ali: Other ways besides a job to create and capture value, Ali says: freelancing for several clients, your own business with a small team, a lifestyle business designed to facilitate your life, or software sold in your spare time. — 00:05:33
2026-03-19 · The psychology of making money — Ali often sees students in his Lifestyle Business Academy, starting their first businesses, get very scared of selling because they have never tried to sell anything before. — 00:09:06
2026-03-26 · How I'd Create Content in 2026 (If I Had To Start Over) — Ali: Diagnosing Lifestyle Business Academy students' content takes many follow-up questions, Ali says, because advice that suits one person can be the opposite of what works for another. — 00:07:43
2026-03-26 · How I'd Create Content in 2026 (If I Had To Start Over) — recommendation: Ali: A mistake Ali sees beginners in his Lifestyle Business Academy make is having ChatGPT generate their content before they have the skill or taste; at the start, doing it manually builds the skill. — 00:10:46
2026-03-28 · My $2,000 business rule — Ali says his Lifestyle Business Academy does not let people in unless they are willing to sell something for at least $2,000. — 00:00:29
2026-04-02 · Claude's new features are insane #ad — Ali has connected Claude Code to his files in a dedicated folder, so it knows his projects, goals and areas of life; he uses it to generate ideas from his transcripts and to create material for Lifestyle Business Academy. — 00:00:29
2026-04-09 · If I Wanted to Make My First $100K in 12 months, I’d Do This — Ali presents a five-step process for building a $100,000-a-year lifestyle business in under 12 months and, hopefully, a million-dollar business in around three to five years. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2026-04-09 · If I Wanted to Make My First $100K in 12 months, I’d Do This — Ali Abdaal (channel): The channel defines a lifestyle business as one designed to facilitate the lifestyle you want, rather than to keep growing. — creator comment
2026-04-09 · If I Wanted to Make My First $100K in 12 months, I’d Do This — Ali: Once a lifestyle business hits seven figures, Ali says, you want to stay in that range for the long term: the ultimate destination is to become a lifestyle business millionaire. — 00:01:27
2026-04-09 · If I Wanted to Make My First $100K in 12 months, I’d Do This — recommendation: Ali: Lifestyle Business Academy students list 15 to 20 potential niches (person, problem, promise) and test each with three questions from Ali's mentor Taki Moore: do I like them, can I help them, will they pay? — 00:07:22
2026-04-09 · If I Wanted to Make My First $100K in 12 months, I’d Do This — Ali: The Lifestyle Business Academy targets corporate professionals with skills and expertise, probably earning over 100K a year and living in the US or maybe the UK, who feel unfulfilled and lack freedom and flexibility. — 00:12:51
2026-04-09 · If I Wanted to Make My First $100K in 12 months, I’d Do This — Ali: The Lifestyle Business Academy's promise is to help you build a $100,000-a-year lifestyle business in under 12 months; inside, Ali says, the 12 months depends on 10 to 15 hours of work a week. — 00:13:20
2026-04-09 · If I Wanted to Make My First $100K in 12 months, I’d Do This — Ali: The Lifestyle Business Academy gives one-on-one Slack support at any time and daily coaching clinics on niches, offers, content and sales, plus a weekly workshop and a workbook. — 00:15:28
2026-04-09 · If I Wanted to Make My First $100K in 12 months, I’d Do This — Ali: Kelsey, a Lifestyle Business Academy student who helps tech people get promoted, offered 10 free coaching sessions on LinkedIn, and several people then asked to work with her on a paid basis. — 00:21:53
2026-04-09 · If I Wanted to Make My First $100K in 12 months, I’d Do This — Ali took maybe 30 or 40 calls with applicants to the Lifestyle Business Academy, framed as interviews with the pricing given on the call; he does not think anyone felt he was salesy. (hedged) — 00:23:20
2026-04-09 · If I Wanted to Make My First $100K in 12 months, I’d Do This — Ali: The Lifestyle Business Academy students who succeed fastest, Ali says, are those with a network in the space where they start their business. — 00:24:19
2026-04-09 · If I Wanted to Make My First $100K in 12 months, I’d Do This — Ali: Many Lifestyle Business Academy students are more terrified of telling people who know them about their new business than of telling strangers, Ali says. — 00:26:12
2026-04-09 · If I Wanted to Make My First $100K in 12 months, I’d Do This — Ali: Some Lifestyle Business Academy students who started posting daily on LinkedIn had strangers DMing them for conversations within about two or three weeks. — 00:27:10
2026-04-09 · If I Wanted to Make My First $100K in 12 months, I’d Do This — Ali: Ronke, a doctor in the Lifestyle Business Academy, offers to help corporations deal with employee burnout, saving them around 100K a year in staff retention and medical costs. — 00:30:06
2026-04-18 · The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Claude Code — Ali's business does content, runs the Lifestyle Business Academy online business school, and builds software: VoicePal, an AI ghostwriter, Superfocus, a productivity app, and the creator platform CreatorGrid. — 00:03:12
2026-04-18 · The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Claude Code — Ali's OpenClaw agents include Albus, his primary agent; Hermione, curriculum architect for the Lifestyle Business Academy; and Minerva, its vice principal for operations. — 00:15:06
2026-04-18 · The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Claude Code — Ali: With Claude Code Ali built a support-ticket pipeline for the Lifestyle Business Academy: student messages in Slack become tickets on a dashboard, with alerts and a web interface for coaches. — 00:18:01
2026-04-18 · The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Claude Code — Ali: The Lifestyle Business Academy has about 200 students, each with a private Slack support channel shared with Ali, a coach and team members such as Angus. — 00:18:01
2026-04-18 · The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Claude Code — Ali's academy had given students custom GPTs for niches, offers and sales-call feedback, but could not see how students used them, and students complained of too many platforms. — 00:19:38
2026-04-18 · The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Claude Code — Ali: Over about a weekend Ali coded Slack bots with Claude Code to replace the custom GPTs, on Python servers with a SOC 2 compliant database, so coaches can audit the conversations. — 00:20:07
2026-04-18 · The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Claude Code — Ali: Over a hundred academy students have sent thousands of messages to Dumbledore, the DM Slack bot trained on the academy's method for turning cold prospects into sales calls. — 00:20:36
2026-04-18 · The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Claude Code — announcement: Ali: Besides Dumbledore, the academy's Slack bots are Lupin for LinkedIn and Sprout for sales, with Flitwick, a delight agent for customer experience, released by the time the video is out. — 00:21:06
2026-04-23 · The Only Investing Video You’ll Ever Need (Start With $0) — Ali: Some first-time founders in Ali's Lifestyle Business Academy made $10,000 within about three months, he says, and are on track for $100,000 in their first 12 months. — 00:28:28
2026-05-07 · The Simplest Way to Make $10k/month - Case Study — Ali: In applications to the Lifestyle Business Academy, Ali's team looks for evidence of a pre-existing professional or personal skill set that could lead to a high-ticket offer of at least $2,000. — 00:21:58
2026-05-14 · you only need a phone — recommendation: Ali: A mistake Ali sees many Lifestyle Business Academy and Part-Time YouTuber Academy students make is thinking that a shot must have nothing in it to look professional. — 00:08:34
2026-05-21 · If You Want to Make Money From YouTube, Do This. — Ali says some students in his academy have put off their very first LinkedIn post for about three weeks, worried about all their former colleagues on LinkedIn. — 01:08:02
2026-05-21 · If You Want to Make Money From YouTube, Do This. — recommendation: Ali tells his students they will have to post on LinkedIn every day, so the more they overthink the first post, the slower they build their business. — 01:10:34
2026-05-21 · If You Want to Make Money From YouTube, Do This. — recommendation: Ali: To build a lifestyle business to about a million dollars, Ali tells students to use LinkedIn Sales Navigator to send 200 connection requests a week and DM everyone who talks to them, every week for about five years. — 01:10:56
2026-05-21 · If You Want to Make Money From YouTube, Do This. — Jeff Su: Jeff's vision is to build the lifestyle business Daniel Priestley describes in Oversubscribed. — 01:26:09
2026-05-28 · I See 800 Applications. Here's What Gets Hired. — Ali: When Ali's business hires video editors about 500 people apply and one to three are hired; for student success coaches for the Lifestyle Business Academy 800 applied in about two weeks and four were hired. — 00:03:02
2026-05-28 · I See 800 Applications. Here's What Gets Hired. — Ali: A career coach in tech who is a student in Ali's Lifestyle Business Academy told him that 80% of senior, and often junior, tech roles are never advertised. — 00:04:59
2026-06-02 · My Typical Tuesday — Ali: On Tuesday mornings Ali usually works with Owen, one of his team members, creating curriculum content for the online business school they run. — 00:00:29
2026-06-11 · How to Find a Career You Genuinely Love — Ali says probably 90% of Lifestyle Business Academy students are building a business alongside their day job, while about 10% have taken a break of two to four months from work to do it. (hedged) — 00:31:49
2026-06-11 · How to Find a Career You Genuinely Love — Ali's student Kelsey, who had worked fancy tech jobs, made her first $1,000 in the 1K Challenge, joined the Lifestyle Business Academy and has made $40,000 in the last few months without quitting her day job. — 00:40:02
2026-06-11 · How to Find a Career You Genuinely Love — Ali: Last year (2025) Ali told Dan he wanted to start his own online business school, the Lifestyle Business Academy, because teaching YouTube no longer energised him for 40 hours a week, while teaching people to build a business to financial freedom did. — 00:51:31
2026-06-11 · How to Find a Career You Genuinely Love — Ali: The Part-Time YouTuber Academy keeps running: Ali's team runs it and keeps the course and its AI tools updated, while Ali spends all his time on the Lifestyle Business Academy. — 00:53:00
2026-06-11 · How to Find a Career You Genuinely Love — Ali: YouTube is now confined to Tuesday, Ali's filming day, the only day he thinks about YouTube videos; other slots go to the apps his team is building and the Lifestyle Business Academy. — 00:54:21
2026-06-29 · The Dark Side Of Getting Rich On YouTube — Ali's business has just hired four new people for its online business school, the Lifestyle Business Academy, because it is growing. — 00:15:34
2026-06-29 · The Dark Side Of Getting Rich On YouTube — Ali: Talking to his mentor Olly Richards, Ali said he really wanted to build his own business school; Olly said that sounded like the thing, and the Lifestyle Business Academy came about. — 00:58:48
2026-06-29 · The Dark Side Of Getting Rich On YouTube — Ali: Making content feels motivating again for Ali because it has a point: each video drives traffic to his business school and his team's software. — 00:58:48
2026-06-29 · The Dark Side Of Getting Rich On YouTube — Ali focuses on the student experience, playing with Claude Code to build AI tools for his students. — 01:01:45
2026-06-29 · The Dark Side Of Getting Rich On YouTube — Ali: Right now the bottleneck and priority in Ali's business is the Lifestyle Business Academy rather than the YouTube channel. — 01:29:44
2026-07-23 · How to Get Rich Without a Degree — recommendation: Ali's "Teddy Roosevelt method", taught to his students: when starting a business and someone asks if you can help with something, say yes, then immediately get busy learning how to do it. — 00:01:57
2026-07-23 · How to Get Rich Without a Degree — Ali: A Lifestyle Business Academy student, whom Ali calls John, turned down a client who wanted his marketing help, though he knew her field, because he had no marketing skills. — 00:02:31
2026-07-23 · How to Get Rich Without a Degree — Ali: Warm outreach, asking people you know whether they know anyone who needs your offer, is how most Lifestyle Business Academy students get their first customer, in at least 95% of cases, Ali says. — 00:03:19
2026-07-23 · How to Get Rich Without a Degree — Ali: The fundamental mindset shift Ali wants everyone, and especially his Lifestyle Business Academy students, to make: everything is a skill and can be learned, even fields that feel like a black box, such as marketing, sales, finance or AI. — 00:06:47
2026-07-23 · How to Get Rich Without a Degree — Ali: A Lifestyle Business Academy student, whom Ali calls Jane, won her first client, a local coffee shop, and automated its operations with Calendly, Zapier and a Google Sheet, learned from YouTube tutorials and ChatGPT, saving it hours every week. — 00:12:12
2026-07-23 · How to Get Rich Without a Degree — Ali made this video to send to his Lifestyle Business Academy students when they doubt they can learn skills. — 00:13:32
2026-08-04 · How to Make Your Job Optional — Ali: Lifestyle Business Academy, the most recent offer of Ali's team, is an online business school with a course component that also pairs each member with a dedicated one-on-one coach. — 00:21:43
2026-08-17 · Our new AI employee can give you $100 of free work - link in description! — Ali is thinking of curriculum changes for the Lifestyle Business Academy, which has been teaching its students for about the last nine months. — 00:00:58
2026-08-25 · I speak faster than I type - Free Month of Wispr Flow Pro in the description :) — Ali answers questions from students of his online business school, the Lifestyle Business Academy, on Slack; this used to take about an hour of context switching and typing, and takes much less now that he dictates with Wispr Flow. — 00:00:00
2026-08-25 · I speak faster than I type - Free Month of Wispr Flow Pro in the description :) — recommendation: Ali: To a Lifestyle Business Academy student whose Instagram content is not driving sales, Ali says he likes the hook and structure of her video, and suggests she send three to five Instagram accounts she likes the look of so the team can bring her production value closer to their level. — 00:00:00
2026-09-07 · How to make your first $1,000 online — Ali: Kelsey later joined the Lifestyle Business Academy, recently quit her job and now makes tens of thousands of dollars online with a similar coaching offer, Ali says. — 00:18:37
2026-09-10 · If you’re ambitious but inconsistent, please watch this — Ali calls the Lifestyle Business Academy the online business school his team has been running for the last six months. — 00:37:43
2026-09-10 · If you’re ambitious but inconsistent, please watch this — Ali finds that the students of his Lifestyle Business Academy and Part-Time YouTuber Academy who succeed are more willing to tolerate discomfort, while others treat the pain as a sign to quit. — 00:38:13
2026-09-14 · If I Started a Business With No Audience, I'd Do This — Ali: Landing the first client is by far the hardest part of starting a business and what almost all Lifestyle Business Academy students struggle with, Ali says; coming up with the idea is relatively straightforward these days. — 00:00:28
2026-09-14 · If I Started a Business With No Audience, I'd Do This — Ali's team is in Thailand for its offsite with many coaches and facilitators of the Lifestyle Business Academy, its online business school that helps working professionals start their first businesses. — 00:00:28
2026-09-14 · If I Started a Business With No Audience, I'd Do This — recommendation: Ali: The Lifestyle Business Academy's magic question for a first client: "Do you know anyone who happens to need X?", offering something in return such as a free audit, consultation or coaching. — 00:20:43
2026-09-21 · What I Actually Do When I’m Not Making YouTube Videos — Ali runs a Monday masterclass every Monday for students of the Lifestyle Business Academy, his online business school, and on Fridays two casual Q&A sessions, the Friday Fireside, helping them with their businesses. — 00:00:25
2026-09-21 · What I Actually Do When I’m Not Making YouTube Videos — Ali: In Ali's Friday Fireside group, Lifestyle Business Academy student Sherilyn has already made $100,000 in the last few months, while Carlos, who has just joined, is working out his niche. — 00:01:01
2026-09-21 · What I Actually Do When I’m Not Making YouTube Videos — Ali: Anne, a new member of Ali's team, maps processes to improve the Lifestyle Business Academy's operations; she and Ali want a student roadmap, a Figma page showing students where they are and their next step. — 00:02:29
2026-09-21 · What I Actually Do When I’m Not Making YouTube Videos — Ali: Nathan, a Lifestyle Business Academy coach in Australia, is its outreach specialist: he ran his own marketing agency for about 12 years and got clients through warm and cold outreach, DMs and cold emails; as far as Ali knows he has never made content, and he has little personal brand. (hedged) — 00:04:52
2026-09-21 · What I Actually Do When I’m Not Making YouTube Videos — Ali: Two or three times a week Ali holds calls with Lifestyle Business Academy coaches modelled on a medical ward round, where each coach goes through the students they are struggling with. — 00:05:33
2026-09-21 · What I Actually Do When I’m Not Making YouTube Videos — Ali: Working on the DMs module of the Lifestyle Business Academy's new curriculum, Ali asked coach Nathan for his thoughts; the call produced a lot of new material for the curriculum. — 00:06:49
2026-09-21 · What I Actually Do When I’m Not Making YouTube Videos — Ali: There are countless ways to improve the Lifestyle Business Academy for students and coaches, Ali says; the discipline is finding the high-priority, high-impact ones and doing them first, which needs a map of everything. — 00:12:15
2026-09-21 · What I Actually Do When I’m Not Making YouTube Videos — Ali: Almost from the first day of the Lifestyle Business Academy, students struggled far more than Ali expected, above all with mindset, emotional and mental hurdles: they knew what to do but did not do it. — 00:12:54
2026-09-30 · If you're ambitious but feel stuck, please watch this — Ali's business coaches students in one-on-one calls; each coach now has about 30 students, and the aim is closer to 50, which friends in the space make work. — 00:21:22
2026-09-30 · If you're ambitious but feel stuck, please watch this — Ali: Serving 2,000 students at 50 per coach would take 40 coaches; when Ali's business recruited coaches, 1,200 people applied and it has hired seven so far. — 00:21:22
2026-09-30 · If you're ambitious but feel stuck, please watch this — Ali: Angus has campaigned for a $25,000 price point for a while; Ali thought it too much, but if the goal is getting students to a million in revenue, it is nothing at all. — 00:28:34
2026-09-30 · If you're ambitious but feel stuck, please watch this — Ali's mission is to build the world's best online business school; he rarely talks revenue with his team, as few besides marketing and sales are motivated by revenue numbers. — 00:29:18
2026-09-30 · If you're ambitious but feel stuck, please watch this — Ali would spend the freed time building curriculum for his $25,000 product, which is light on curriculum and so has to be very heavy on coaching. — 00:38:05
2026-10-07 · The Business Advice You Won't Find on YouTube — Ali: Where $100M Offers asks how to make an offer people feel stupid refusing, Ali's North Star for the Lifestyle Business Academy is now a product so good that nobody wants to leave: the world's best online business school. — 00:01:16
2026-10-07 · The Business Advice You Won't Find on YouTube — Ali: At the previous mastermind the Lifestyle Business Academy was just getting off the ground, with many problems in its curriculum and product, since fixed; its challenges now are problems of scale. — 00:04:22
2026-10-07 · The Business Advice You Won't Find on YouTube — Ali's questions at the moving mastermind: how to make the Lifestyle Business Academy so valuable that students stay for years rather than months, and how to help its coaches coach better and spend less time on admin and billing. — 00:05:28
2026-10-07 · The Business Advice You Won't Find on YouTube — Ali: The Lifestyle Business Academy takes complete beginners to a first sale, $10,000, $100,000 a year and eventually a million; for now it focuses on the first $100,000, and Ali wants a better model of that journey for students. — 00:13:46
2026-10-14 · Planning feels productive, but it's not — Ali's team has to train students of the Lifestyle Business Academy out of spending ages planning and strategising: of 20 hours a week on a business, 19 go on doing and maybe one on planning. — 00:00:29
2026-10-16 · Brutally Honest Advice About Productivity in 26 Minutes — Ali: For Ali and the beginners in his Lifestyle Business Academy, the point where something gets hard is often when they start looking at alternatives. — 00:19:54
2026-10-19 · How to shift from an employee to an entrepreneur mindset — Ali describes his Lifestyle Business Academy as an online business school that helps people build a $100,000-a-year lifestyle business, and says its students often start out with the employee mindset. — 00:00:00
2026-10-19 · How to shift from an employee to an entrepreneur mindset — Ali: In Ali's programmes, the students who best make the shift from employee to entrepreneur mindset just do stuff, acting with 20% or 30% certainty, while those who flounder overthink and need 80% or 90% certainty before they take action. — 00:00:58

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2025

2025-08-08 · Financial Freedom is Easy, After You Learn This — Ali: A lifestyle business, Ali explains, is focused on helping you have the life you want, unlike the traditional idea of business as growth at all costs and hiring a lot of people. — 00:11:43
2025-08-08 · Financial Freedom is Easy, After You Learn This — Ali thinks "lifestyle business", used as a slur in Silicon Valley, should not be a pejorative but something to strive towards. — 00:14:04
2025-08-08 · Financial Freedom is Easy, After You Learn This — recommendation: Ali: When someone has no easy path to the flexibility they want within their job, Ali suggests building a lifestyle business, where they call the shots and aim to replace their full-time income rather than become a billionaire. — 00:14:04
2025-08-08 · Financial Freedom is Easy, After You Learn This — Ali first came across the term lifestyle business in Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek, and decided he wanted a business making him £3,000 a month, as passively as possible. — 00:14:40
2025-08-08 · Financial Freedom is Easy, After You Learn This — Ali's lifestyle business was meant to let him go part-time in medicine, but it made far more money than medicine, so he went full-time on it. — 00:15:10
2025-08-08 · Financial Freedom is Easy, After You Learn This — announcement: Ali is working on what he tentatively calls the Lifestyle Business Academy, a step-by-step curriculum from zero to $100,000 a year in profit with a lifestyle business, with a waitlist, though he is not sure he will do it. (hedged) — 00:34:58
2025-08-08 · Financial Freedom is Easy, After You Learn This — Ali's work goal is a lifestyle business making £2 million a year in profit, where he makes videos on his own terms, runs in-person events and builds apps. — 00:48:54
2025-08-08 · Financial Freedom is Easy, After You Learn This — Ali: In Daniel Priestley's terms, Ali says, a lifestyle business has fewer than about eight people, roughly up to 12; at around 30 it is no longer one. — 00:54:51
2025-08-08 · Financial Freedom is Easy, After You Learn This — Ali: The philosophy of a lifestyle business, Ali says, is deciding that enough is enough: he is happy with his £2 million a year and does not need three, four or ten, or a yacht. — 00:58:00
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — Ali filmed this video about two weeks earlier at a workshop he hosted in London for students of his Part-Time YouTuber Academy and his new Lifestyle Business Academy; his team holds such events a few times a year. — 00:00:29
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — Ali: A lifestyle business making 100k to 300k a year in profit is mild success, "mid" by entrepreneurial standards, yet for most people it would be the dream, Ali says. — 00:19:06
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — Ali: Financial freedom through a six- or seven-figure lifestyle business needs no luck, only skill, Ali says; luck matters for outlier success such as Jeff Bezos's or businesses of $10 million to $100 million a year. — 00:19:41
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — Ali: It is very hard to scale a lifestyle business beyond about five to ten million a year, Ali says; if you want more than five million a year, build something else. — 00:23:39
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — Ali: Three obstacles hold most people back from a six-figure lifestyle business, Ali says: the idea problem (what to sell), the sales problem (why anyone would buy) and the time problem (time, energy, focus and motivation to keep going). — 00:26:22
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — Ali: Each of the eight or nine skills behind a six-figure lifestyle business takes perhaps a few hours to learn with ChatGPT, the right video and one audiobook, far less than a university degree, Ali says. — 00:58:59
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — Ali teaches because teaching is fun and lights him up, though there are more efficient ways for him to make money; it gives him the fun and fulfilment of a lifestyle business. — 01:11:07
2025-09-12 · How to Change Your Life — Ali: For a couple of months Ali has toyed with building the Lifestyle Business Academy, an online school for entrepreneurs with some in-person elements, with the tagline "the world's best school for lifestyle entrepreneurs". — 00:18:02
2025-09-12 · How to Change Your Life — Ali says an MBA teaches you to run someone else's corporation and an accelerator a venture-funded startup, but he knows no good online school for lifestyle businesses of six to low seven figures giving fun, fulfilment and freedom. — 00:18:31
2025-09-12 · How to Change Your Life — Ali: If he knew he couldn't fail, Ali would go all in on the Lifestyle Business Academy; he is held back by worries that it will not work, that people will call him a get-rich-quick scammer, or that it will be unprofitable. — 00:19:34
2025-09-12 · How to Change Your Life — Ali: Thinking it through, Ali sees the worst case for the Lifestyle Business Academy is shutting it down, and success depends on three variables, enough students, paying enough, getting results, each with fixes such as raising prices. — 00:20:29
2025-09-12 · How to Change Your Life — Ali: The exercise shows Ali that he had let a general fear that the Lifestyle Business Academy might not work hold him back from something he really wants to do. — 00:21:27
2025-09-12 · How to Change Your Life — Ali's business decisions from his think day include getting an office and building the Lifestyle Business Academy. — 00:27:19
2025-09-17 · My Home Office Setup (2026) — recommendation: Ali: For the live online workshops of his Lifestyle Business Academy and YouTuber Academy, Ali finds two monitors very useful: one for the Zoom chat, one for his presentation. — 00:03:22
2025-09-17 · My Home Office Setup (2026) — recommendation: Ali: For workshops with his Lifestyle Business Academy and YouTuber Academy students, Ali much prefers to stand at his standing desk, and finds himself much more energised. — 00:16:03
2025-09-17 · My Home Office Setup (2026) — announcement: Ali's team has a new offer that helps people build a $100,000-a-year lifestyle business in under 12 months, guaranteed. — 00:20:18
2025-09-17 · My Home Office Setup (2026) — Ali's Expecto Patronum notebook is for his courses and products: app designs, flowcharts for the Lifestyle Business Academy, and ways to explain frameworks. — 00:26:49
2025-09-19 · How I Would Build A Business in 2026 (If I had to start over) — announcement: Ali says his team is building an online business school for lifestyle business entrepreneurs and is looking for a small first cohort to get direct mentorship from him and his team, aiming at a $100,000-a-year lifestyle business in under 12 months. — 00:23:53
2025-09-19 · How I Would Build A Business in 2026 (If I had to start over) — Daniel Priestley: A lifestyle business, Daniel Priestley says, is set up so you end up with fun, freedom and flexibility, fitting within the broader context of your life. — 00:24:22
2025-09-19 · How I Would Build A Business in 2026 (If I had to start over) — Daniel Priestley says a lifestyle business would have been a scam in his grandfather's day; it is possible only because of the internet, AI, social media, cloud computing and cheap software. — 00:25:47
2025-09-19 · How I Would Build A Business in 2026 (If I had to start over) — Daniel Priestley's lifestyle business example Stephen Box enjoyed the tabletop game Warhammer and now travels the world speaking at Warhammer conferences. — 00:26:17
2025-09-24 · The Ultimate Guide to Building a Lifestyle Business — Ali: A lifestyle business, Ali says, does not optimise for maximising revenue at all costs but gives you the lifestyle you want through the three Fs of fun, fulfilment and freedom. — 00:00:00
2025-09-24 · The Ultimate Guide to Building a Lifestyle Business — Ali: A lifestyle business will not get you super-yacht money, Ali says; it suits people who care about more than money and are okay with six figures in profit, maybe low seven figures if they really focus. — 00:00:29
2025-09-24 · The Ultimate Guide to Building a Lifestyle Business — Ali condenses his discussion with Chris Ducker into a framework of 14 lessons across five levels, from the fundamentals to building a lifestyle business without burning out. — 00:01:27
2025-09-24 · The Ultimate Guide to Building a Lifestyle Business — Ali has seen many entrepreneurs in his YouTuber Academy and Lifestyle Business Academy struggle because they skip one or more of these steps. — 00:01:56
2025-09-24 · The Ultimate Guide to Building a Lifestyle Business — recommendation: Ali: Nobody says you must work 40 hours a week on a lifestyle business, Ali says: you could scale it down to four hours a week, accepting that it will grow slower than at 80 hours. — 00:43:27
2025-09-24 · The Ultimate Guide to Building a Lifestyle Business — Ali: What Ali likes about a lifestyle business is recognising that it is sometimes okay to leave money on the table for time freedom and creative freedom, such as not working Fridays. — 00:50:13
2025-09-24 · The Ultimate Guide to Building a Lifestyle Business — recommendation: Ali: The advice Ali wishes he had had: make the main thing the main thing, do one thing really well, and expand product lines only once it makes a million a year; focus gets you to financial freedom far quicker. — 00:58:25
2025-09-24 · The Ultimate Guide to Building a Lifestyle Business — Ali started his own lifestyle business in medical school and made his first million by the age of 26. — 01:08:07
2025-10-10 · The Proven, Reliable Path to Earn $1M (Step By Step) — recommendation: Daniel Priestley recommends cloning: look at successful businesses close to the lifestyle business you want; most markets have three to five competitors, and being slightly better puts you far ahead. — 00:19:26
2025-10-10 · The Proven, Reliable Path to Earn $1M (Step By Step) — recommendation: Daniel Priestley: You can compete on experience, Daniel Priestley says: one-to-one time that a famous competitor such as Joe Wicks cannot give, which need not scale in a lifestyle business. — 00:24:38
2025-10-10 · The Proven, Reliable Path to Earn $1M (Step By Step) — Ali: Selling something for $1,000 to $10,000, Ali says, you need few sales for a solid six-figure lifestyle business. — 00:42:05
2025-10-10 · The Proven, Reliable Path to Earn $1M (Step By Step) — Ali says a lifestyle business giving fun, fulfilment, flexibility and financial freedom does not need seven figures in revenue: 500K revenue and 300K profit is a pretty good gig. — 00:59:58
2025-10-10 · The Proven, Reliable Path to Earn $1M (Step By Step) — recommendation: Daniel Priestley: A lifestyle business stops at go-to-market, Daniel Priestley says: eight people, a perfect repeatable week, you as the key person of influence, semi-exited with four or five meetings a month. — 01:03:25
2025-10-10 · The Proven, Reliable Path to Earn $1M (Step By Step) — Daniel Priestley: Scaling from 8 to 30 people is very intense and worth it only if you exit, Daniel Priestley says; if you want just the fun bit, the lifestyle business is the place to stop. — 01:04:40
2025-10-10 · The Proven, Reliable Path to Earn $1M (Step By Step) — Daniel Priestley: At any other time Daniel Priestley would be cautious recommending a lifestyle business, but the tables have turned: a business can reach a global audience and team, while an employee's benefits have dropped through the floor. — 01:09:53
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) — Ali: The six-week challenge Ali's team ran for the Lifestyle Business Academy, the 1K Challenge, went really well, he says. — 00:23:53
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — announcement: Ali wants the Lifestyle Business Academy to be a better MBA for lifestyle business owners, imagining a three-year programme that takes beginners to $1 million a year in revenue with about $500,000 profit. (hedged) — 00:24:54
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali expects Lifestyle Business Academy students to take 12 to 18 months from zero to $100,000 in revenue, depending on their skills; those who hit the ground running can do it in about six months. — 00:26:12
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — recommendation: Ali: Building a lifestyle business properly takes 10 to 15 hours a week, possibly more at the start, Ali says; four hours a week can work but takes longer. — 00:26:58
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — recommendation: Ali: The key habit for building a $100,000-a-year business is devoting time to progress every week: even tiny weekly progress drastically raises the chances, Ali says. — 00:27:42
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — announcement: Ali: Each Lifestyle Business Academy student gets a one-to-one coach and a squad of six meeting weekly with a WhatsApp group, and Ali will run weekly live sessions with breakout rooms. — 00:28:11
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — announcement: Ali: The Lifestyle Business Academy has had 346 applications in a few days, while the team is looking for only 30 people for its founding case-study cohort. — 00:32:41
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali puts the CSV of Lifestyle Business Academy applicants' responses into Claude to see which issues students will likely face at each stage of the roadmap. — 00:33:29
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali: To prepare his team to deliver results in the Lifestyle Business Academy, Ali has used Claude as a thought buddy and paid coaches tens of thousands of dollars. — 00:35:34
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali wants Lifestyle Business Academy students to hit $100,000 in revenue, but realistically many won't; even they should get a massive return on the programme. — 00:36:15
2025-10-20 · How to Find Your Life’s Purpose — recommendation: Ali: Asked in his Lifestyle Business Academy how to pick a niche from your passions, Ali says not to define passion narrowly: a business is people, a problem and a solution, and you can be passionate about any of them. — 00:49:43
2025-11-24 · We Took Our Whole Team to Bali — Ali: At the Bali offsite the whole team, 14 people with Ali, spent the days on business and quarterly planning and on new products being launched: the Lifestyle Business Academy and a revamp of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy. — 00:00:00
2025-11-24 · We Took Our Whole Team to Bali — Ali: In Ali's philosophy of a lifestyle business, the business serves the life you want, so he works with people in person even when it costs more: spending money for the vibes is worth it, and he thinks the offsites also pay back in money. — 00:00:58
2025-11-28 · I've Read 417 books. These 4 will make you financially free — Ali: A major mistake of Lifestyle Business Academy students is basing the business on what they want rather than what the market wants, which Ali calls a hobby. — 00:11:03
2025-11-28 · I've Read 417 books. These 4 will make you financially free — Ali: Lifestyle Business Academy students who planned a public speaking programme for immigrants pivoted, through its offers training, to helping accounting firms speed up onboarding of new clients. — 00:11:51
2025-11-28 · I've Read 417 books. These 4 will make you financially free — recommendation: Ali: If you want to build a lifestyle business, Ali says, understanding how funnels work is incredibly helpful. — 00:14:50
2025-12-05 · The Easiest Business to Start in 2026 for Beginners — Ali: Students of Ali's Lifestyle Business Academy often feel they have no skills worth $2,000; Ali and his team coach them to find something they can sell for at least $2,000. — 00:05:00
2025-12-05 · The Easiest Business to Start in 2026 for Beginners — Ali: A Lifestyle Business Academy student's idea of a $20-a-month self-improvement membership is hard mode, Ali says, because anything sold for $20 a month needs a ton of volume to be viable. — 00:09:14
2025-12-05 · The Easiest Business to Start in 2026 for Beginners — Ali: Elias and Haya (as heard), a married couple in Ali's academy, sell accountancy practices in London a service that speeds up onboarding new clients: boring, Ali says, but easy mode, as they know accountants' problems and accountants pay well to save money. — 00:10:12
2025-12-05 · The Easiest Business to Start in 2026 for Beginners — Ali: Elias and Haya (as heard) can charge accounting practices $8,000 to speed up their onboarding, Ali says, because they do the work for them. — 00:15:02
2025-12-05 · The Easiest Business to Start in 2026 for Beginners — Ali: Life coaching, mindset coaching or helping professionals overcome imposter syndrome are harder businesses to start, Ali says, because imposter syndrome is not a tangible problem. — 00:18:24
2025-12-12 · How to change your life by journaling in 2026 — Ali: A thought Ali often hears from Lifestyle Business Academy students, successful professionals who want a business for financial freedom, is the worry that colleagues will laugh at them if they post on LinkedIn. — 00:04:07
2025-12-13 · School taught me the wrong rules for business — Ali notices that students in his Lifestyle Business Academy, his online business school, are all good students with a massive tendency to overthink and to struggle to take imperfect action. — 00:00:29
2025-12-19 · Make 2026 the Best Year of Your Life (Evidence-Based) — recommendation: Ali: The third part of the goal is anti-goals, what you want to avoid on the way: for a $100,000-a-year lifestyle business built for time freedom, Ali suggests anti-goals such as no weekend work and no more than 40 hours a week. — 00:05:30
2025-12-19 · Make 2026 the Best Year of Your Life (Evidence-Based) — Ali: Accountability is a key part of Ali's Lifestyle Business Academy: the team checks in every week, students fill in a weekly Google Sheet scorecard of hours worked, content posted and discovery calls, and those falling behind get a message. — 00:20:13
2025-12-29 · How to stay consistent with your goals — Ali: Students of Ali's Lifestyle Business Academy, building businesses for financial freedom, track in a Google Sheet every week their hours worked on the business, social media posts, sales conversations and sales, and submit it weekly. — 00:00:29