$0 to Making $3.1 million on YouTube: Ali Abdaal

Erika Taught Me

Erika Kullberg

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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#50: Ali Abdaal turned his career as a doctor into a $3.1 million YouTube success story. He is sharing his three best tips for productivity, how to maintain a strict work-life balance, the best method of planning your ideal week, and a sneak-peak into his climbing YouTube revenue. Special thanks to our partners & sponsors: CoPilot: If you’ve been wanting to kickstart your health, then go to my CoPilot link erika.com/copilot to get a 14-day FREE trial with your own personal trainer! Webull (free stocks) - erikataughtme.com/invest Get a 14-day free trial with my sponsor Aura and see where your personal information is being leaked online - erikataughtme.com/aura Thanks for tuning in and come back every Tuesday for a brand-new episode! Make sure you hit the follow button to get notified. Prefer video or want closed captions? Watch this episode on YouTube⁠⁠. Did you enjoy the episode?⁠⁠ Please leave us a review here⁠⁠: https://erikakullberg.com/review (just scroll to the bottom and tap on “leave a review”) It really helps the podcast especially since we’re just getting started. Even just a sentence is perfect! Follow the podcast @erikataughtme across platforms. ⁠Connect with me on Instagram.⁠ For more information, go to⁠ https://www.erikataughtme.com/⁠. Get on my personal finance & investing course priority waitlist here. https://erikakullberg.com/3DMoney Get my Mastering YouTube course, to learn how to grow a YouTube following and monetize it. https://erikakullberg.com/MasteringYT ⁠Get more of my free resources.⁠

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0:00.0	You know, I think we were up to about 300k annual revenue when it came to Adcent and Brandeels,
0:04.4	but then in one year we jumped from 300k to 1.2 million, and the only difference there
0:07.9	was that we...
0:08.9	Ali Adag.
0:09.9	Formerly a doctor.
0:10.9	He's now a largely successful YouTuber, focused on teaching productivity.
0:15.1	How do you beat procrastination?
0:16.6	It's important to appreciate the difference between procrastination and prioritization.
0:20.1	I think what a lot of people struggle with procrastination is that they know they should be working
0:23.5	on their business and they know they want to work on their business, but instead they're
0:26.0	like on TikTok or something like that.
0:27.3	If you can find a way to make your work feel like they immediately would become more
0:30.8	productive at the thing.
0:31.8	What is something that you know now that if you would have applied it to your business
0:36.2	when you were starting, you would have made more money faster?
0:39.0	One thing that really comes to mind is...
0:41.0	I'm Erica Colberg, and you're listening to the Erica Topme podcast.
0:47.1	You guys know that I love investing because you know that if your money is just sitting
0:51.5	in a bank account, you're losing out to inflation every single year.
0:56.8	That's why you invest it so that it grows for you without you having to put in any extra
1:01.7	work.
1:02.7	I've been using an investing app called Weeble for almost four years, and I had them
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