Ali and Izzy's first child (2024)
project history · status: completed · last event: milestone (2025-11-05) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: Ali moves to Hong Kong with his wife Izzy (2024)
About: Izzy Sealey
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-24 | announced | 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. | 19 Books to Transform Your 2026 00:11:19 |
| 2025-02-14 (happened 2025-01) | milestone | 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. | How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week 00:14:19 |
| 2025-02-18 | milestone | 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. | How I Manage My Time - The Triage System 00:15:10 |
| 2025-03-04 | milestone | Ali says he will become a dad in a few months; he and his wife are expecting a daughter. | How to Find Your Purpose (with Tiny Experiments) 00:17:30 |
| 2025-05-31 | milestone | 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. | I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned 00:21:04 |
| 2025-06-18 | milestone | 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. | How to Make Time for Everything (Then Actually Do It) 00:22:38 |
| 2025-07-19 | milestone | What makes Ali smile most is seeing his wife and kid interact. | Answering Rapid Fire Questions 00:00:29 |
| 2025-07-31 | outcome | Ali and his wife Izzy had a baby girl a few weeks before the video. | We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections 00:00:00 |
| 2025-07-31 | milestone | 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. | We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections 00:06:57 |
| 2025-08-05 | looked back | Over these eight years Ali married his wife Izzy, moved with her to Hong Kong and had their first baby. | Thank you for 8 years on YouTube 00:00:30 |
| 2025-09-12 | milestone | 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. | How to Change Your Life 00:08:50 |
| 2025-10-23 | milestone | Ali is very proud of how his wife Izzy handles being a mother and says she is very good at it. | Rapid Fire Questions with Ali Abdaal 00:00:00 |
| 2025-11-05 | milestone | Ali says being a dad is far easier than being a mum: his wife has it much harder with breastfeeding, pumping and mastitis. | 3 Surprising Things I Learned As a New Dad 00:00:00 |
What is said about it
2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 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
- 2025-09-12 · 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