From Love Island Star to Podcast Philosopher - Chris Williamson

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

November 22, 2021

Duration

1h 44m

Channel

Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

👉 [Free live masterclass, Sat 21 Nov] Launch your online business by Christmas and land your first high-paying client by January → https://go.lifestylebusiness.com/bf26desc Plus: [Free 3-hour course] Turn your expertise into a $100k/year income stream → https://go.lifestylebusiness.com/lbafound Subscribe to LifeNotes 👉 https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifenotes_deepdive Chris Williamson is a club promoter, TEDx Speaker, YouTuber and Podcaster. His podcast 'Modern Wisdom' shares life lessons from the smartest people on the planet including the likes of Jordan Peterson, Ryan Holiday and James Clear and was born out of Chris' curiosity for self-discovery and post his existential crisis after appearing on Love Island. In the episode Chris tells Ali how he shed the party-boy persona in favour of intellect and meaning before discussing topics like masculinity, role models and the dating market. First 200 get 20% off the annual premium subscription for Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/deepdive 📚 Check Out My New York Times Bestselling Book Feel-Good Productivity! 👉 https://go.feelgoodproductivity.com/podcast 📧 Sign up for LifeNotes - my weekly newsletter where I share actionable productivity tips, practical life advice, and high-quality insights from across the web directly to your inbox. 👉https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifenotes/podcast 00:00 Intro 02:14 Party-boy heritage 17:29 Being on reality TV 22:33 Building a business & relinquishing control 30:30 Love Island & Existentialism 41:36 On Self-worth 52:24 Playing a persona 54:50 Masculinity & Role Models 01:07:25 Dating 1:36:24 - Be yourself vs choose yourself 1:41:44 - Rapid-fire questions 🔗 CONNECT WITH CHRIS 📹 YouTube Channel - @ChrisWillx 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx/ 🎙Podcast - https://apple.co/32ihKAC 💻 Website - https://chriswillx.com/ 🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://youtube.com/aliabdaal 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/aliabdaal 💻 Website - https://aliabdaal.com 👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-abdaal/ 📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E Gerber - https://geni.us/t7Xnw The School Of Life by Alain de Botton - https://geni.us/TTH1IC Making Sense Podcast with Sam Harris - https://www.samharris.org/ The Jordan B Peterson Podcast - https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/ The Joe Rogan Experience - https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk Succeeding In Life, Business & Marriage - Aubrey Marcus | Modern Wisdom Podcast 375 -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE_om1Tfxvk 📄SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT Visit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation - https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/ 🎙 ABOUT THE PODCAST Deep Dive is the podcast that delves into the minds of entrepreneurs, creators and other inspiring people to uncover their journey's towards finding joy and fulfilment at work and in life. In each episode our host Ali Abdaal talks to his guests about their philosophies, strategies and tools that have helped them along their personal path to living a life of happiness and meaning. There's no manual for living a happy life, but we hope that from these shared experiences you'll leave each episode with practical advice you can use to help you along the way. Want to start your own podcast? We use Transistor! https://go.aliabdaal.com/transistor 🎬 Subscribe to Deep Dive Clips for bitesized podcast clips https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdmh... 🎧 Listen for free on your favourite Podcast platform - search "Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal" on your podcast app, or click these links: Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7gZkflC... RSS - https://feeds.transistor.fm/deep-dive 🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW If you enjoyed listening to the podcast, we'd love for you to leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts to help others discover the show :) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/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. 👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH You can also Tweet @AliAbdaal with any feedback, ideas or thoughts about the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏 https://twitter.com/DeepDivePodcast PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Chris Williamson

  guest

  Host of the Modern Wisdom podcast and former Love Island contestant who previously worked as a UK club promoter (Voodoo Events).

• Ali Abdaal

  host

  Doctor-turned-creator and host of the Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal podcast.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal, featuring Chris Williamson and Ali Abdaal, From Love Island Star to Podcast Philosopher - Chris Williamson explores Chris Williamson on Party-Boy Personas, Self-Worth, Masculinity and the Dating Market Williamson describes building a large nightlife events business from university flyering, and says its promotion tactics, such as long teaser campaigns, still shape how he launches podcast and course products.

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