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Lifestyle Business Academy

course · in 62 sources (2025–2026)

Sources by year: 2025: 16 · 2026: 46

Also known as: LBA, Lifestyle Business

Threads

Also named in the threads: Ali reads Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek at 17, and it sets him on the path to financial freedom · Ali sets a goal of an extra £3,000 a month so he could work three days a week as a doctor · Ali builds a team for his online business · Part-Time YouTuber Academy (2020) · Sparkle Studios, Ali and Izzy's app company (2025) · Superfocus, the productivity app Ali's team is building (2025) · 1K Challenge, a six-week live bootcamp by Ali and his team to make a first $1,000 online (2025) · Freedom Fridays, Ali's series on financial, time and creative freedom (2025) · CreatorGrid, the free creator platform by Ali, Izzy Sealey and their team (2025)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

lifestyle business (33) · the $2,000 offer rule (7) · LinkedIn (12) · Claude (11) · Alex Hormozi (11) · business on easy mode (5) · Hong Kong (10) · ChatGPT (11) · Superfocus (5) · work optional (10)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

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
  • 2026-01-24 · 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
  • 2026-01-30 · 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
  • 2026-02-06 · 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
  • 2026-03-06 · 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
  • 2026-04-09 · 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
  • 2026-04-18 · 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
  • 2026-06-11 · 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
  • 2026-06-29 · 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
  • 2026-07-23 · 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
  • 2026-09-21 · 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
  • 2026-10-07 · 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
  • …and 104 statements more in 2026 — all statements of 2026

Also named in: Why your straight A's are keeping you broke, The Strategic Imbalance Paradox, The Minimum $2K Pricing Effect, Meet the team member we never talk about

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
    • 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
  • 2025-09-02 · 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
  • 2025-09-12 · 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
    • Ali's business decisions from his think day include getting an office and building the Lifestyle Business Academy. — 00:27:19
  • 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
  • 2025-09-24 · 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
  • 2025-10-10 · 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
    • 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
  • 2025-10-16 · 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
  • 2025-10-20 · 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
  • 2025-11-28 · 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
  • …and 60 statements more in 2025 — all statements of 2025