Ali Abdaal - Part-Time Creatorpreneur

I started making YouTube videos in my final year of medical school at Cambridge University. It was Summer 2017 and I started off with 0 views, 0 subscribers and $0 in revenue.

18 months later, my YouTube channel was at 100,000 subscribers and was making as much money as my full-time job working as a doctor in the UK. And now, as of May 2022, my channel has over 3 million subscribers and I make over £100,000 ($130k) each month from it (and over $350,000 per month from the business as a whole), with 5-10 hours of effort each week. I know — it’s bloody ridiculous.

The crazy thing is, I could've done all of this twice as fast.

In fact, I've made a bunch of mistakes and I almost quit after a few short months into my creative journey. I was tired from working full-time as a junior doctor, my YouTube revenue was trickling in, and I thought outsourcing the boring, time-consuming, stuff was totally unachievable.

But, this all changed when I discovered something really important about being a creator:

‍It's not all that different from running a business.

And the strategies, tools, and principles that work in the business can also be used to help us find success with our own creative side hustle. That's it. That's the secret.