$40,000 on the side: Lifestyle Business Academy's case study keeps drawing viewers
Fifteen uploads went out in seven days, most of them short lessons on pricing, equity and testing an idea before quitting a job.
Ali Abdaal – Lifestyle Business Academy
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She Made $40,000 Without Quitting Her Job
On an ordinary day, the business school channel Ali Abdaal and his team run draws around 20,000 views across its catalog. Lately it has been doing a little better than that, and the video responsible is not the newest one.
"She Made $40,000 Without Quitting Her Job" went up on Saturday and is still gathering views at several times the pace of anything else from that weekend. Going by its title, it is a case study in the channel's central promise: building a side business while the paycheck keeps arriving. Two other uploads from the same days, "Say Yes First. Learn How After." and "Why You Need Equity, Not a Salary", opened faster on their first day and then settled down.
It was a busy stretch, with fifteen uploads, many of them reading like chapters from a single syllabus. "The Only Way to Know If Your Idea Works" and "Why Cheap Customers Cost You More" opened the week, and "What It Actually Costs to Quit Your 9-5" followed on Monday. The two newest, "Four Questions That Find Your Business Idea" and "How to Find Out What Your Customers Actually Want", are only a day old and are already among the channel's quickest movers. The one small comment section is mostly a thank-you for keeping the lessons short.
The subscriber count held steady at 563,000. Among nearby money and business channels, Neil McCoy-Ward and Rachel Cruze are having big weeks, while Roberto Blake and Pat Flynn are running at a similarly modest scale.
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The videos drawing views on Ali Abdaal – Lifestyle Business Academy right now
Say Yes First. Learn How After.14,786 views · 2026-10-03
Why You Need Equity, Not a Salary12,568 views · 2026-10-04
The Only Way to Know If Your Idea Works9,592 views · 2026-10-01
Why Cheap Customers Cost You More6,404 views · 2026-10-02
What It Actually Costs to Quit Your 9-55,604 views · 2026-10-05
How to Find Out What Your Customers Actually Want2,730 views
Four Questions That Find Your Business Idea1,929 views
- Subscribers
- 563,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 178,048
- Videos published this week
- 15
- Video published
- October 3, 2026
- Video views so far
- 13,692
- Views on its first day
- 6,165
The numbers
Here is how Lifestyle Business Academy's week looks in figures.
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What is the title of Ali Abdaal's 2023 book about productivity?
Ali Abdaal published Feel-Good Productivity in 2023. The other three titles are by James Clear, Cal Newport and Tim Ferriss.
