Ali Abdaal doctor, YouTuber and podcaster. A lot of his earlier videos focused on his life as a doctor. He later started exploring the strategies and tools that help people live happier, healthier, more productive lives. He has developed a strong brand around Youtube and entrepreneurship.
His current output is organized into four main projects:
- His YouTube channel
- His weekly email newsletter
- A weekly podcast he hosts with his brother
- Articles On His Website
Youtube
Ali makes videos about medicine, tech, productivity and lifestyle. He started uploading to YouTube in July, 2017. His goal was to document his experiences of being a doctor from beginning to end.
It took 6 months and 52 videos to get his first 1,000 subscribers on YouTube. A year later, he had almost 50k subscribers. He did a Q&A to celebrate reaching 50 subscribers.
He has created a couple of videos about his YouTube experience:
AliAbdaal.com
Alis main website is a hub for all of his output, as well as a place for his online writing.
He writes regular articles about productivity, tech, effective study techniques, entrepreneurship, personal finance.
You can read his 2016 post about Getting over the fear of personal blogging.
Email Newsletter
Every Sunday, Ali writes an email newsletter with some thoughts, life lessons and links to articles / books hr enjoyed that week.
Not Overthinking
Not Overthinking is a weekly podcast about happiness, creativity, and the human condition. Ali hosts this with his brother.
Check it out at NotOverthinking.com
6 Med
Ali started 6med while at university. It is a company that provides classroom courses and online question banks for students applying to medical school. He current advises on high-level strategy.
He shared more about the experience at How I Built a Million Dollar Business in Medical School – 10 Tips for Entrepreneurs. You can also read the article on his website.
Useful Videos
Being A Doctor
Managing Two Careers
- How I Manage my Time as a Doctor + YouTuber – 9 Time Management Tips
- How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber
Day In The Life
Productivity
Knowledge Management
Roam
How I Organise My Life with Roam
Notion
My Creative Workflow with Notion
Building a Productivity System in Notion – Live
Products
The Part-Time YouTuber Academy
In October, 2020, Ali launched a 4-week live online course. The goal was to teach you how to grow your channel from 0 to 100,000+ subscribers, and turn it into a sustainable, part-time, income-generating machine.
He made 4 sales within 20 minutes of posting about the course on Twitter. Within 2 days, he’d made 149 sales.
Personal
In July 2020 he announced that he was moving to America.
In August, 2020, he announced that he was taking a one year sabbatical from medicine.
Features
The Double Life of Productivity’s Most Famous Doctor YouTuber Ali Abdaal shares how he makes the productivity videos that have netted him 1M subscribers
How a Doctor-YouTuber Built 5 Streams of Passive Income and Achieved Financial Freedom Analyzing Ali Abdaal’s creative empire
How to get more YouTube subscribers: 7 top tips from a top YouTuber Ali shared insights he’s gleaned from growing his own channel across three main areas: audience, content, and promotion.
Interviews
Ali Abdaal — Growing a 700K YouTube Channel While in Med School at OkDork