Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

In this episode, I become an interviewee on my podcast as I have a conversation with the general manager of my business, Angus. We chat about how I transitioned from making YouTube videos in my bedroom to having a studio in London and a team of 18 people, how I’m thinking about taking the business forward in different ways and the concepts from the new book I’m writing. Enjoy xx💌 My Book Journey Newsletter 👉 https://aliabdaal.com/book-journey/00:00 Intro02:05 The Early Days 14:28 Where do you see the next 3-5 years going?22:32 Writing My Book26:47 What impact would you want that book to have? 31:55 Systematising The Business & Finances 35:48 Essentiali Stationary Brand 37:41 Courses 40:29 Life updates44:09 Starting the Podcast & Daily Vlogs🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI🎥 YouTube Channel🐦 Twitter📸 Instagram💻 Website👥 Linkedin📚Check out my New York Times Bestselling book Feel-Good Productivity!Amazon Website 📚 RESOURCES MENTIONEDMy Essentiali Merch - https://aliabdaal.com/essentiali/My YouTube For Beginners Course on Skillshare - https://skl.sh/3sgLZlmCreatorpreneur Course Sign Up - https://aliabdaal.com/creatorpreneur-waiting-list/Daily Vlogs Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/AliAbdaaalBehindTheScenesRyan Holiday's Books - https://ryanholiday.net/ryan-holiday-books/🎤 EPISODES MENTIONED S1 E1 Ben Francis - https://youtu.be/Ix5ON9dZ-esS1 E3 Shahzad Younas - https://youtu.be/sJGn-O8k9ZAS2 E1 Dr Julie Smith - https://youtu.be/m8d1yVpCryAE2 E10 James Hoffmann - https://youtu.be/gIxEkX_2kt8Leave a reviewIf you enjoy listening to the podcast, please do leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts - even one line helps! You can also Tweet @AliAbdaal with any feedback, thoughts from the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏Want to start your own podcast? We use Transistor! https://go.aliabdaal.com/transistorCheck out the episode on the Deep Dive YouTube Channel.See privacy policy at https://transistor.fm/privacy

12 Touko 202248min

As Season 2 of the podcast draws to an end, I look back at some of the best moments from the season, including conversations with Dr Julie Smith, James Hoffmann, Logan Ury, Julian Hearn, Kharma Medic and Oliver Burkeman. 📣 End of season survey to hear your thoughts on the podcast, it takes 3 mins :) - https://aliabdaal.typeform.com/to/cmuTQTCG00:00 Intro 02:04 Lessons in meaningful living14.36 Lessons in entrepreneurship27:08 Lessons in dating41:20 Lessons in side hustles56:01 Lessons in time management01:03:37 Lessons in goal settingFULL EPISODES ⬇️S2 E1 Dr Julie SmithS2 E10 James HoffmannS2 E5 Logan UryS2 E7 Julian HearnS2 E11 Kharma MedicS2 E2 Oliver Burkeman 🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI 🎥 YouTube Channel 🐦 Twitter 📸 Instagram 💻 Website 👥 Linkedin 📚 RESOURCES MENTIONEDWhy Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr Julie Smith - https://geni.us/vGXlBThe E-Myth by Michael. E Gerber - https://geni.us/h5766xHow To Not Die Alone by Logan Ury - https://geni.us/QMbAAHuel: Complete Food - https://uk.huel.comFour-Thousand Weeks: Embrace Your Limits, Change Your Life by Oliver Burkeman - https://geni.us/kyc9DjvFind the show notes and the transcript on the website: https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/Sponsored by BrilliantThis episode is kindly supported by Brilliant, the best way to learn maths, science and computer science online. Brilliant focuses on helping you learn through interactive courses that work to develop your intuition and first principles knowledge, rather than just memorising methods and facts. Sign up at https://brilliant.org/deepdive - the first 200 people will receive 20% off the annual premium subscription.Sponsored by Curiosity StreamThis episode is kindly supported by Curiosity Stream, the leading streaming subscription platform that gives you access to thousands of documentaries and non-fiction titles. Curiosity stream also support independent creators on their platform Nebula which is run by me and other creators where you can access exclusive content including the original episodes of Deep Dive which you won't find anywhere else. You also get early, ad free access to mine and a bunch of other creators videos. Sign up at https://curiositystream.com/deepdive and you'll get 42% off annual plans as well as FREE ACCESS to Nebula as part of the bundle.📚Check out my New York Times Bestselling book Feel-Good Productivity!Amazon WebsiteLeave a reviewIf you enjoy listening to the podcast, please do leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts - even one line helps! You can also Tweet @AliAbdaal with any feedback, thoughts from the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏Want to start your own podcast? We use Transistor! https://go.aliabdaal.com/transistorCheck out the episode on the Deep Dive YouTube Channel.See privacy policy at https://transistor.fm/privacy

18 Huhti 20221h 11min

Patricia Bright is a creator, entrepreneur, and one of the most influential YouTuber's of our time with 2.85 million YouTube subscribers on he fashion and beauty channel Patricia Bright and over half a million subscribers on her finance channel The Break. But her life wasn’t always like this. Her journey started on a council estate in South London and, in her own words, she knew what it felt like to be broke. It was from doing girls hair in the school playground for £5 that she evolved into a self-proclaimed hustler and now CEO of her own multi-million dollar empire. In the episode we have an honest conversation about success, finding your career path and money. Enjoy!🔗 CONNECT WITH PATRICIA   🎥 YouTube Channel 💰 The Break  📸 Instagram🐦 Twitter 📕 Book🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI🎥 YouTube Channel🐦 Twitter📸 Instagram💻 Website👥 LinkedinFind the show notes and the transcript on the website: https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/Sponsored by BrilliantThis episode is kindly supported by Brilliant, the best way to learn maths, science and computer science online. Brilliant focuses on helping you learn through interactive courses that work to develop your intuition and first principles knowledge, rather than just memorising methods and facts. Sign up at https://brilliant.org/deepdive - the first 200 people will receive 20% off the annual premium subscription.📚Check out my New York Times Bestselling book Feel-Good Productivity!Amazon Website Leave a reviewIf you enjoy listening to the podcast, please do leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts - even one line helps! You can also Tweet @AliAbdaal with any feedback, thoughts from the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏Want to start your own podcast? We use Transistor! https://go.aliabdaal.com/transistorCheck out the episode on the Deep Dive YouTube Channel.See privacy policy at https://transistor.fm/privacy

11 Huhti 20221h 10min

Hey friends, my guest this week is Rupy Aujla - an NHS medical doctor, entrepreneur and podcaster who’s life changed when he suffered a serious heart condition at the age of 23 while working busy shifts as a hospital doctor. But with the power of nutrition and lifestyle changes Rupy was actually able to reverse his condition. He then started his blog, The Doctor’s Kitchen, which soon evolved into a podcast, best selling books, regular television appears and most recently an app. In the conversation me and Rupy chat about a lot of things: his early days working as a doctor and burnout, how to optimise your lifestyle for longevity and his transition from a doctor to a creator and entrepreneur. Enjoy!Find the show notes and the transcript on the website: https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/🔗 CONNECT WITH RUPY🎙 Ali’s Episode On The Doctor’s Kitchen Podcast 🎥 YouTube Channel 🐦 Twitter 📸 Instagram 💻 Website 📕 Rupy’s books 🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI🎥 YouTube Channel 🐦 Twitter 📸 Instagram 💻 Website 👥 LinkedinSponsored by BrilliantThis episode is kindly supported by Brilliant, the best way to learn maths, science and computer science online. Brilliant focuses on helping you learn through interactive courses that work to develop your intuition and first principles knowledge, rather than just memorising methods and facts. Sign up at https://brilliant.org/deepdive - the first 200 people will receive 20% off the annual premium subscription.Sponsored by Curiosity StreamThis episode is kindly supported by Curiosity Stream, the leading streaming subscription platform that gives you access to thousands of documentaries and non-fiction titles. Curiosity stream also support independent creators on their platform Nebula which is run by me and other creators where you can access exclusive content including the original episodes of Deep Dive which you won't find anywhere else. You also get early, ad free access to mine and a bunch of other creators videos. Sign up at https://curiositystream.com/deepdive and you'll get 42% off annual plans as well as FREE ACCESS to Nebula as part of the bundle.📚Check out my New York Times Bestselling book Feel-Good Productivity!Amazon Website Leave a reviewIf you enjoy listening to the podcast, please do leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts - even one line helps! You can also Tweet @AliAbdaal with any feedback, thoughts from the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏Want to start your own podcast? We use Transistor! https://go.aliabdaal.com/transistorCheck out the episode on the Deep Dive YouTube Channel.See privacy policy at https://transistor.fm/privacy

4 Huhti 20221h 56min

A lot of the time we can find ourselves on this hamster wheel of trying to optimise every waking hour of our days, hyper-focused on time and paranoid about how the decisions we make today will influence our future selves. But ultimately the hamster wheel just keeps on spinning when we don’t take a moment to slow down, reflect and enjoy the moment. Nasir Kharma is a medical student King’s College London, best known for his YouTube Channel, Kharma Medic, where he talks about studying, productivity and what it’s like being a med student. In the conversation we chat about how he started his channel and began to play the YouTube game, how his time in therapy has shifted his thinking around time management and how we’ve been thinking about what it means to live a meaningful life recently. 🔗 CONNECT WITH NASIR  🎥 YouTube Channel🐦 Twitter📸 Instagram💻 Website🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI🎥 YouTube Channel🐦 Twitter📸 Instagram💻 Website👥 LinkedinFind the show notes and the transcript on the website: https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/Sponsored by BrilliantThis episode is kindly supported by Brilliant, the best way to learn maths, science and computer science online. Brilliant focuses on helping you learn through interactive courses that work to develop your intuition and first principles knowledge, rather than just memorising methods and facts. Sign up at https://brilliant.org/deepdive - the first 200 people will receive 20% off the annual premium subscription.📚Check out my New York Times Bestselling book Feel-Good Productivity!Amazon Website Leave a reviewIf you enjoy listening to the podcast, please do leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts - even one line helps! You can also Tweet @AliAbdaal with any feedback, thoughts from the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏Want to start your own podcast? We use Transistor! https://go.aliabdaal.com/transistorCheck out the episode on the Deep Dive YouTube Channel.See privacy policy at https://transistor.fm/privacy

28 Maalis 20221h 37min

Many of us dream about turning our passion or hobby into the thing we do everyday, but very few of us actually do it. In this episode I talk to World Barista Champion and co-founder of Square Mile Coffee Roasters James Hoffmann about how he had the confidence to make a career out of coffee. Expect to hear how he built a bricks and mortar business from scratch, his regrets about hustling and burnout, and how he’s amassed a YouTube following of 1.23M subscribers.🔗 CONNECT WITH JAMES  🎥 YouTube Channel🐦 Twitter📸 Instagram💻 Website🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI🎥 YouTube Channel🐦 Twitter📸 Instagram💻 Website👥 LinkedinFind the show notes and the transcript on the website: https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/Sponsored by BrilliantThis episode is kindly supported by Brilliant, the best way to learn maths, science and computer science online. Brilliant focuses on helping you learn through interactive courses that work to develop your intuition and first principles knowledge, rather than just memorising methods and facts. Sign up at https://brilliant.org/deepdive - the first 200 people will receive 20% off the annual premium subscription.Sponsored by Curiosity StreamThis episode is kindly supported by Curiosity Stream, the leading streaming subscription platform that gives you access to thousands of documentaries and non-fiction titles. Curiosity stream also support independent creators on their platform Nebula which is run by me and other creators where you can access exclusive content including the original episodes of Deep Dive which you won't find anywhere else. You also get early, ad free access to mine and a bunch of other creators videos. Sign up at https://curiositystream.com/deepdive and you'll get 42% off annual plans as well as FREE ACCESS to Nebula as part of the bundle.📚Check out my New York Times Bestselling book Feel-Good Productivity!Amazon WebsiteLeave a reviewIf you enjoy listening to the podcast, please do leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts - even one line helps! You can also Tweet @AliAbdaal with any feedback, thoughts from the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏Want to start your own podcast? We use Transistor! https://go.aliabdaal.com/transistorCheck out the episode on the Deep Dive YouTube Channel.See privacy policy at https://transistor.fm/privacy

21 Maalis 20221h 49min

What’s involved in the equation for success? Some say its talent, innate intelligence, education, privilege, grit, or simply dumb luck. Regardless of how many of these things you think may or may not be on your side, my guest this week will show you how to level up your motivations and aspirations to get the success you want. Bobby Seagull started his life from humble beginnings living on a council estate in East London before rising to fame as captain of Emmanuel College Cambridge on the BBC quiz show University Challenge. He’s now a school maths teacher, author and the go-to maths guy for the BBC on a mission to encourage people that they can achieve anything they set out to achieve.🔗 CONNECT WITH BOBBY 🐦 Twitter📸 Instagram 💻 Website 📱TikTok @Bobby_Seagull🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI🎥 YouTube Channel🐦 Twitter📸 Instagram💻 Website👥 LinkedinFind the show notes and the transcript on the website: https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/Sponsored by BrilliantThis episode is kindly supported by Brilliant, the best way to learn maths, science and computer science online. Brilliant focuses on helping you learn through interactive courses that work to develop your intuition and first principles knowledge, rather than just memorising methods and facts. Sign up at https://brilliant.org/deepdive - the first 200 people will receive 20% off the annual premium subscription.📚Check out my New York Times Bestselling book Feel-Good Productivity!Amazon Website Leave a reviewIf you enjoy listening to the podcast, please do leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts - even one line helps! You can also Tweet @AliAbdaal with any feedback, thoughts from the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏Want to start your own podcast? We use Transistor! https://go.aliabdaal.com/transistorCheck out the episode on the Deep Dive YouTube Channel.See privacy policy at https://transistor.fm/privacy

15 Maalis 20222h 3min

Whether we like it or not, our desire for status is a fundamental human motive. You’re the hero in your own story that you live out each day and ultimately it’s the unconscious status game you play that defines who you are. But is our desire for status such a bad thing? Will Storr, author of The Status Game tells us that status is what drives you to be a better person, more confident and more successful. In this episode, expect to learn why status is a fundamental part of the human condition and what you can do to gain more status in the modern world.🔗 CONNECT WITH WILL 💻 Website 🐦 Twitter 📕 The Status Game by Will Storr 🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI🎥 YouTube Channel🐦 Twitter📸 Instagram💻 Website👥 LinkedinFind the show notes and the transcript on the website: https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/Sponsored by BrilliantThis episode is kindly supported by Brilliant, the best way to learn maths, science and computer science online. Brilliant focuses on helping you learn through interactive courses that work to develop your intuition and first principles knowledge, rather than just memorising methods and facts. Sign up at https://brilliant.org/deepdive - the first 200 people will receive 20% off the annual premium subscription.Sponsored by Curiosity StreamThis episode is kindly supported by Curiosity Stream, the leading streaming subscription platform that gives you access to thousands of documentaries and non-fiction titles. Curiosity stream also support independent creators on their platform Nebula which is run by me and other creators where you can access exclusive content including the original episodes of Deep Dive which you won't find anywhere else. You also get early, ad free access to mine and a bunch of other creators videos. Sign up at https://curiositystream.com/deepdive and you'll get 42% off annual plans as well as FREE ACCESS to Nebula as part of the bundle.📚Check out my New York Times Bestselling book Feel-Good Productivity!Amazon Website Leave a reviewIf you enjoy listening to the podcast, please do leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts - even one line helps! You can also Tweet @AliAbdaal with any feedback, thoughts from the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏Want to start your own podcast? We use Transistor! https://go.aliabdaal.com/transistorCheck out the episode on the Deep Dive YouTube Channel.See privacy policy at https://transistor.fm/privacy

7 Maalis 202259min