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Stop wasting time on Netflix — watch these instead

The ones I named in the reel, plus the 10 more I promised. For each: who it is genuinely for, the videos to start with, and what it is honestly not good for. Every handle, subscriber count and upload date checked against YouTube on 08/09/2026 — two channels got cut because they had quietly stopped making real videos. And a week of evenings that costs you less time than one film.

🍿 14 channels, 10 of them new ✅ All checked 08/09/2026 ⏰ A week for 1h44 total 🚫 What each one is bad at 👦 8 of the 14 are women

What's inside

Six videos across a week. One hour forty-four minutes in total — less than one film, and about the same as three episodes of whatever you would have put on instead. One small thing to do after each, because that is the only part that changes anything. Runtimes are real, checked on 08/09/2026.

1

Monday · Money — 27 min

Alex Hormozi, How I Would Build a $10M Service Business (If I Had to Start Over).

Then do this: write your offer and its price in one sentence. If it takes three sentences, that is the problem he is describing.

2

Tuesday · Communication — 10 min

Kara Ronin, Speak Like a CEO in Meetings.

Then do this: pick one phrase and use it on your next client call. One. It will feel stiff the first time and normal the third.

3

Wednesday · Your week — 19 min

Ali Abdaal, How I Manage My Time — The Trident Calendar System.

Then do this: open next week's calendar and block it his way before anyone else fills it in for you.

4

Thursday · Claude — 18 min

Sabrina Ramonov, The Laziest Way to Make Money with Claude.

Then do this: pick the one job in there closest to work you already do, and run it once tonight. Not tomorrow.

5

Friday · Getting clients — 17 min

Alex Cattoni, The Instagram DM Strategy That Got Me Over 6,300 New Leads.

Then do this: send one DM. An actual one, to an actual person, tonight.

6

Saturday · Just enjoy it — 13 min

Cleo Abram, The Ocean Is Deeper Than You Think.

Then do this: nothing at all. This is the one that is purely good to watch, and a week with no night off is a week you quit on Wednesday.

7

Sunday · Nothing

No video. Go back to Monday's sentence and actually change the price, or the offer, or the way you say it out loud. That is the entire return on the week.

If you want something on in the background while you do it, the two-hour interview channels further down are made for exactly that.

This is not a swap for all your telly

Watch the series. Genuinely. The point is not that rest is wasteful — it is that if you are going to have something on anyway, a couple of those nights could hand you a price change or a client. Six nights out of seven still has the seventh in it.


One per category, the ones I named on camera. Subscriber counts and last-upload dates read straight off YouTube on 08/09/2026; the figures are the rounded ones YouTube publishes, because nobody sees an exact number. The fourth one I named was my own channel, and that is sitting at the bottom where it belongs.

1

Alex Hormozi

Business & money4.47M subs

Who it is actually for: you have customers and the money still does not work. The best free material anywhere on pricing, what goes into an offer, and why putting your prices up is usually the fix. youtube.com/@alexhormozi — 5,588 videos, uploaded 07/09/2026.

Start with:

What it is not good for: browsing. Twenty-nine of his last thirty uploads were Shorts, so the long videos are roughly monthly and you have to go to the Videos tab to find them. With 5,588 videos he repeats the same few frameworks constantly, and everything routes back to his own books and companies. He also talks in American gyms and eight-figure buyouts, so you do the translating.

2

Sabrina Ramonov

Claude Code389K subs

Who it is actually for: you want to see Claude actually doing a job rather than being described. She builds the thing on screen, at a pace a non-developer can follow, and she is one of the few people covering Claude Code without assuming you already code. youtube.com/@sabrina_ramonov — 2,215 videos, uploaded 07/09/2026.

Start with:

What it is not good for: her recent feed. Only two of her last thirty uploads were full videos — the rest are Shorts — and the tutorials worth your evening are mostly from earlier in the year, which is why the three above are April to May. Check the handle too: @sabrina_ramonov with the underscore. There is a near-identical account with 80 subscribers and no videos.

3

Kara Ronin

Communication408K subs

Who it is actually for: you are good at the work and it goes sideways the second you have to say it out loud — on a discovery call, in a room, pitching a price. Short, specific, scripted videos on how to sound like the person in charge without performing. youtube.com/@kararonin — 517 videos, uploaded 07/09/2026, and seven of her last thirty were full videos rather than Shorts.

Start with:

What it is not good for: running your own thing, strictly speaking. Her framing is corporate — promotions, managers, new teams — so you are lifting the technique out of an office context and into a client one. It transfers easily, but she is not talking to founders. Nothing here on written communication either.


Picked for someone running their own service business who is not a developer. All ten checked on 08/09/2026 — real handle, still uploading, and a genuine reason to be here rather than a name you have heard of.

4

Ali Abdaal

6.68M subs

For: when the week keeps running you instead of the other way round. He is unusually good at turning a vague intention into something you can actually see on a calendar.

Start with: The Trident Calendar System (19 min, 4.3M views) and How to Build Your Ultimate Productivity System (18 min, 2.8M).

Not good for: following in 2026. The channel has drifted — long videos are roughly monthly now, the gaps are Shorts and a fair few are sponsor spots, and the topic has moved from systems towards making money online, which is a closed loop given his income comes from teaching people to do what he does. Both videos above are 2022 to 2023 on purpose. Watch the back catalogue, do not subscribe expecting the old channel.

5

Codie Sanchez

2.25M subs

For: money as a system rather than a mood. Buying small businesses, cash flow, and being unsentimental about what actually makes money — the least fluffy of the money channels aimed at women.

Start with: 20 Years Of Money Advice in 22 Minutes (22 min, posted 30/08/2026) and How To Become A Sales Machine (22 min).

Not good for: the business you already have. The centre of gravity is acquiring "boring" businesses — laundromats, car washes — which is a whole different game from a consultancy you run yourself. Very US-centric on tax and finance, and three of her last thirty uploads were full videos, so it is mostly a Shorts feed too. Handle is @codiesanchezct.

6

Alex Cattoni

427K subs

For: writing the words that sell the thing. Copywriting, launches, emails and DMs, taught by someone who does it for a living. Also the most consistent channel on this whole page — nineteen of her last thirty uploads were proper videos, not Shorts.

Start with: The Instagram DM Strategy That Got Me Over 6,300 New Leads (17 min, 1.6M views) and Copywriting 101 For Beginners (17 min).

Not good for: anything except marketing. No operations, no pricing, no hiring. And it is built around the online-course and launch world, so if you sell done-for-you services to a handful of clients, some of it is aimed past you.

7

Amy Porterfield

42.1K subs

For: the unglamorous machinery — email lists, launches, hiring your first person, what to do when the list grows and the sales do not. The smallest channel here by a mile and the one most precisely aimed at a woman running her own business.

Start with: Stop Handing Your Next Hire a To-Do List (25 min, posted 01/09/2026) and The Soft Girl Era Is Keeping Women Broke (59 min, with Leanne Lopez Mosley).

Not good for: production values or reach. Her videos get hundreds of views, not thousands — most of her audience is on the podcast, and YouTube is the leftovers. Everything also points towards launching a course, which may simply not be your model. Included on usefulness, not popularity.

8

Mel Robbins

6.14M subs

For: the evenings when the problem is not strategy, it is that you cannot make yourself start. Hour-long episodes on self-doubt, habits and health, often with a researcher rather than just an opinion.

Start with: Give Me 60 Minutes and I'll Eliminate Your Self-Doubt Forever — 1h, posted 03/09/2026.

Not good for: anything tactical about a business. It is mindset and wellbeing, and the titles promise transformation in a way the episodes cannot really deliver. Treat the health episodes as one expert's view rather than settled science. It is also very easy to watch a lot of this and feel like you have done something.

9

Matt Wolfe

1M subs

For: letting one person watch the AI firehose so you do not have to. His weekly news round-ups are the most efficient way to know what actually shipped.

Start with: The Most Useful AI Tools Right Now in 2026 (24 min), then whichever AI News episode is at the top of the channel.

Not good for: depth or shelf life. A tool gets four minutes, not a workflow, and any ranked list is stale within a quarter. Every title is set to maximum, which makes it hard to tell a real shift from a minor release. His handle is @mreflow — searching his name will not reliably get you there.

10

Cleo Abram

8.67M subs

For: the genuine Netflix replacement on this list. Beautifully made explainers on how the world actually works, curious rather than breathless. This is the one you put on because you want to watch something good.

Start with: The Ocean Is Deeper Than You Think (13 min, 5.0M views) and Quantum Computers, explained with MKBHD (17 min, 11.4M).

Not good for: anything you can use on Monday. No tactics, no tools, no business. Her long videos are down to about two a month with Shorts filling the gap, so the back catalogue is the real value. The show is called Huge If True and the optimism is a stated editorial position, so downsides get less airtime than upsides.

11

Simon Squibb

2.44M subs

For: the bit before the business exists. He stops people in the street and asks what their dream is, then funds some of them — and underneath the format there is decent, practical material on starting with nothing.

Start with: If I Wanted To Start A Business In 2027, I'd Do This (13 min) and I Met 87 Billionaires, Here's 8 Things I Learned (14 min).

Not good for: anyone already trading. It is aimed at the person who has not started, so if you have clients and invoices this will mostly be nice to watch rather than useful. Four of his last thirty uploads were full videos; the rest is a Shorts feed, and the emotional street format is doing a lot of the work.

12

The Diary Of A CEO

19.4M subs

For: long drives and long walks. Ninety minutes to two and a half hours, and Steven Bartlett does get people to say things they say nowhere else.

Start with: The Man Who Calls BS On AI — Ed Zitron (2h28) — a useful antidote if the rest of this page has you too convinced — and Ray Dalio on what comes next (1h30).

Not good for: founders, despite the name — it has drifted a long way into health, longevity and geopolitics. And not for taking on trust: a BBC investigation in December 2024 looked at fifteen of the show's health episodes and found fourteen claims that ran against the scientific evidence, largely unchallenged in the room. The production company's response was that guests are offered freedom of expression and are thoroughly researched. Read it as a good listen and a bad citation.

13

Charisma on Command

7.11M subs

For: the most reliable watch on this page. All thirty of its last thirty uploads were proper videos — no Shorts padding at all — and it is genuinely entertaining, which is the whole brief here.

Start with: Secrets From Psychology That Make People Respect You (12 min, 16.8M views) and If You Run Out Of Things To Say (4 min, 12.3M).

Not good for: browsing unguided. A large slice of the popular back catalogue is dating and status advice written for men, and the titles make that plain once you scroll — which is exactly why I have named the two business-useful ones instead of telling you to go and have a look. Nothing on written communication either.

14

Brooke Wright

Mine, so it goes last9.85K subs

I said it on camera so I will not pretend otherwise, but it goes at the bottom and here is the honest version: it is a small channel and it is narrow on purpose. Claude and ChatGPT, for people running a service business who are not developers. AI without the overwhelm, which is the only thing I am actually trying to do. youtube.com/@wrightmode — uploaded 07/09/2026.

Start with: How to Make Money With Claude (16 min), Claude Cowork: beginner to expert in 18 minutes (18 min), or Use Claude Better than 99% of People (24 min).

What it is not good for: money, strategy or mindset — I do not teach those on YouTube and the thirteen above do it better. It is also tied to two specific tools, so check the upload date before you follow a setup step, because they change constantly.


Here is the bit that undercuts the whole page, which is why I have put it where you will still be reading rather than first, where you would skip it.

Swapping Netflix for fourteen business channels is not automatically an upgrade. Subscribe to all of them and you have signed up for something like six hundred videos a year. Watch a decent slice and you will end the year knowing a great deal and having shipped nothing — which is the most common thing I see in people who are, on paper, doing everything right.

Why it feels like progress

Because it uses the same part of your brain as progress. You are concentrating, you are learning something true, and at the end you know more than you did. The only missing bit is the one that costs anything: doing it badly the first time in front of someone.

Watching has all of the feeling of getting better and none of the risk of being bad at it. That is why it is so easy to do for a year, and it is also why it is closer to Netflix than it looks. An evening of business videos and an evening of a series can produce exactly the same amount of change in your life, which is none.

So here is the rule, and it is the actual reason this page exists:

One channel. One idea. This week.

Pick one channel from the fourteen. Take one idea out of it. Do that one thing this week, before you watch anything else. Then go back for the next one.

It is slower than it sounds and roughly ten times more effective than the alternative, which is fourteen subscriptions and a Watch Later list you are quietly ashamed of.

Fill this in before you close the tab. Three lines, thirty seconds, and it is the difference between a resource and a receipt.

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The channel I am picking is: ______________________
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The one idea I am taking from it is: ______________________
3
The thing I will have changed by Sunday is: ______________________

The test, on Sunday

Can you name the thing you changed? Not the thing you learned — the thing that is now different. A price, a calendar block, a sentence on your website, one DM you actually sent. If you can name it, the week worked. If you cannot, you spent it being entertained by clever people, which is a perfectly nice way to spend a week and is not the same as getting better at anything.

Nobody is coming to check. That is exactly the problem.

Two channels I cut, and why

A shorter honest list beats a longer padded one. Vanessa Van Edwards was going to be the communication pick — 1.26M subscribers and genuinely good on the subject — but across her last 300 uploads there are only two full-length videos, both livestreams from June. Her YouTube is a Shorts account now, which is no use to you on a Tuesday night. Dr Julie came off for the same reason: 1.93M subscribers, still posting, but no real video since May. Marie Forleo went too, with nothing long-form in her last twenty-five uploads. Everyone left on this page was still making things you can actually sit down and watch on 08/09/2026.


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