Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

Noah Kagan has gone from being employee #30 at Facebook, #4 at Mint, to now owning the Sumo Group of apps, and is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs start, market and grow their business. In the conversation, we chat about what he learned after being fired from Facebook, how he built a 8 figure business, the things you can do now to get a head start in your career, and some productivity tips too. Enjoy!

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Brandon Sanderson is my favourite author of all time. He writes incredible fantasy books, including Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive, and wrote the final 3 books of The Wheel of Time. Brandon's output is legendary - he writes books almost faster than we can read them, and he teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. I recorded this episode with Brandon as a live stream during the 2020 lockdown, and because it was one of my favourites I wanted to share it with you again as a bonus episode.

In the conversation, we discuss how he kept going when his writing wasn’t being read, the question of originality and how we can make the stuff we need to do (work) more fun. Enjoy!

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Find the show notes and the transcript on the website: https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/

📚Check out my New York Times Bestselling book Feel-Good Productivity!
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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 Intro
02:05 The Early Days
14:28 Where do you see the next 3-5 years going?
22:32 Writing My Book
26:47 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 updates
44:09 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 MENTIONED
My Essentiali Merch - https://aliabdaal.com/essentiali/
My YouTube For Beginners Course on Skillshare - https://skl.sh/3sgLZlm
Creatorpreneur Course Sign Up - https://aliabdaal.com/creatorpreneur-waiting-list/
Daily Vlogs Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/AliAbdaaalBehindTheScenes
Ryan Holiday's Books - https://ryanholiday.net/ryan-holiday-books/

🎤 EPISODES MENTIONED 
S1 E1 Ben Francis - https://youtu.be/Ix5ON9dZ-es
S1 E3 Shahzad Younas - https://youtu.be/sJGn-O8k9ZA
S2 E1 Dr Julie Smith - https://youtu.be/m8d1yVpCryA
E2 E10 James Hoffmann - https://youtu.be/gIxEkX_2kt8

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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/cmuTQTCG

00:00 Intro
02:04 Lessons in meaningful living
14.36 Lessons in entrepreneurship
27:08 Lessons in dating
41:20 Lessons in side hustles
56:01 Lessons in time management
01:03:37 Lessons in goal setting

FULL EPISODES ⬇️

S2 E1 Dr Julie Smith
S2 E10 James Hoffmann
S2 E5 Logan Ury
S2 E7 Julian Hearn
S2 E11 Kharma Medic
S2 E2 Oliver Burkeman

🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI

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👥 Linkedin

📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr Julie Smith - https://geni.us/vGXlB
The E-Myth by Michael. E Gerber - https://geni.us/h5766x
How To Not Die Alone by Logan Ury - https://geni.us/QMbAA
Huel: Complete Food - https://uk.huel.com
Four-Thousand Weeks: Embrace Your Limits, Change Your Life by Oliver Burkeman - https://geni.us/kyc9Djv

Find the show notes and the transcript on the website: https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/

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This 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!
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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

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🐦 Twitter
📸 Instagram
💻 Website
👥 Linkedin

Find the show notes and the transcript on the website: https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/

Sponsored by Brilliant

This 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!
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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 

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Sponsored by Brilliant

This 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 Stream

This 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!
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Website 

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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
 
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🐦 Twitter
📸 Instagram
💻 Website

🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI

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🐦 Twitter
📸 Instagram
💻 Website
👥 Linkedin

Find the show notes and the transcript on the website: https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/

Sponsored by Brilliant

This 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!
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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.

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💻 Website

🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI

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🐦 Twitter
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👥 Linkedin

Find the show notes and the transcript on the website: https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/

Sponsored by Brilliant

This 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 Stream

This 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 review

If 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 🙏

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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
👥 Linkedin

Find the show notes and the transcript on the website: https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/

Sponsored by Brilliant

This 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!
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Website 

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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
👥 Linkedin

Find the show notes and the transcript on the website: https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/

Sponsored by Brilliant

This 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 Stream

This 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 review

If 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/transistor

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