Ali attends Joe Hudson's invite-only in-person intensive retreat (2024)
story · status: told 4× · last event: mentioned (2025-10-20) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: Ali says executive coach Joe Hudson is featuring on his podcast shortly (2024)
About: Joe Hudson
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-26 | told | Joe Hudson, an executive coach to some of Silicon Valley's biggest CEOs whom Ali met at a retreat in San Francisco a couple of weeks earlier, is featuring on Ali's podcast shortly. | Stop Waiting: Productivity Advice I Wish I Knew Sooner 00:13:32 |
| 2024-11-15 | retold | Ali went on a seven-day intensive retreat in California hosted by Joe Hudson and his wife Tara, who run The Art of Accomplishment. | I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) 00:18:52 |
| 2025-05-09 | retold | Ali discovered executive coach Joe Hudson's work about a year earlier, binged everything Joe has put online, and then attended his invite-only in-person intensive retreat. | How to Get Ahead of 99% of People (Discipline Isn't Enough) 00:00:29 |
| 2025-07-11 | retold | Ali used to think he had no voice in his head until an in-person course with Joe Hudson, where an exercise of writing down what the voice says showed him he had one all along. | I didn't want to make this video… 00:09:31 |
| 2025-10-20 | mentioned | Joe Hudson recalls sitting with his wife in a hot tub at the end of one of his week-long retreats, which Ali has attended, after seven days of work from 7.30 in the morning to 10 at night. | How to Find Your Life’s Purpose 00:01:20 |
What is said about it
9 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali's takeaway from the Art of Accomplishment retreat: shoulds are not a good way to live, because behind every should there is some kind of shame and some kind of whip. — 00:18:52
- 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: At the retreat Ali challenged Joe Hudson on shoulds, asking whether he felt no duty to feed his kids; Joe said he does not feed them out of obligation but because he loves them. — 00:56:42
- 2025-07-11 · I didn't want to make this video… — Ali used to think he didn't feel feelings; books, Joe Hudson's work, the Art of Accomplishment podcast and an ayahuasca retreat showed him he had felt them all his life and let them dictate his behaviour. — 00:12:49
- 2025-10-20 · How to Find Your Life’s Purpose — Joe Hudson tells his wife he is glad they did not make a deal that would have brought them about $70 million, since with that money they might not have started their business. — 00:02:22
- 2025-10-20 · How to Find Your Life’s Purpose — Joe Hudson's test of purpose: if you have an idea you want to pursue and cannot be bought off, even for a billion dollars, you are living your purpose. — 00:02:50
- 2025-10-20 · How to Find Your Life’s Purpose — Ali does not take Joe Hudson's billion-dollar test literally: he reads it as asking whether you do the work for the money, since work done mainly for money is unlikely to be your purpose. — 00:03:30
- 2025-10-20 · How to Find Your Life’s Purpose — Joe Hudson says life is like a piece of music to enjoy, not a race to its crescendo, and one of the clearest signs you are not living your purpose is living for a reward in the future. — 00:05:27
- 2025-10-20 · How to Find Your Life’s Purpose — Joe Hudson says that telling yourself you should or have to do things is a strong sign you are not living your purpose. — 00:05:55