Lifestyle Business Academy, Ali's curriculum for building a lifestyle business to $100,000 a year in profit (2025)
project history · status: running · last event: milestone (2025-11-24) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: Freedom Fridays, Ali's series on financial, time and creative freedom (2025) · Part-Time YouTuber Academy (2020)
About: Lifestyle Business Academy
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-08 | announced | 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) | Financial Freedom is Easy, After You Learn This 00:34:58 |
| 2025-09-02 | milestone | Ali's London workshop is held for students of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy and of the new Lifestyle Business Academy. | My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom 00:00:29 |
| 2025-09-12 | milestone | Ali's business decisions from his think day include getting an office and building the Lifestyle Business Academy. | How to Change Your Life 00:27:19 |
| 2025-09-17 | milestone | Ali's team has a new offer that helps people build a $100,000-a-year lifestyle business in under 12 months, guaranteed. | My Home Office Setup (2026) 00:20:18 |
| 2025-09-19 | milestone | 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. | How I Would Build A Business in 2026 (If I had to start over) 00:23:53 |
| 2025-09-24 | milestone | Ali's team is building the Lifestyle Business Academy, an online business school for lifestyle entrepreneurs whose first product is a 12-month mentorship package. | The Ultimate Guide to Building a Lifestyle Business 00:17:03 |
| 2025-10-16 | milestone | 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. | How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) 00:32:41 |
| 2025-11-24 | milestone | 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. | We Took Our Whole Team to Bali 00:00:00 |
What is said about it
41 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 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'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 — 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
- 2025-09-02 · 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: 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
- 2025-09-12 · 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: 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
- 2025-09-17 · 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) — 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) — 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 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 — Ali started his own lifestyle business in medical school and made his first million by the age of 26. — 01:08:07
- 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 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) — 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: 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
- 2025-12-05 · 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
- 2025-12-12 · 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
- 2025-12-29 · 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