Hala Taha

Taha predicts AI will take over many entry-level jobs, leaving experienced workers to manage AI agents and hurting young people's ability to acquire skills.

“Because AI, I think, is going to take over a lot of entry-level jobs, I feel like the people who are going to stay in corporate are going to be like the 30-year-olds now”

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Taha predicts that traditional jobs will not persist as they have, requiring people to design careers around an audience.

“I don't think that regular jobs are really going to exist the way that they have in the past”

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Taha recounts winning a $30,000-per-month retainer from a podcast host before she had a website, logo or company name.

“I ended up pitching him and it was a $30,000 a month retainer”

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Taha says her podcast network, built on her guest outreach methods, is the top self-improvement network and earns about $6 million a year in sponsorships.

“I have the number one self-improvement podcast network and we do like $6 million a year in sponsorships”

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Taha recommends targeting authors with upcoming releases because people in promotion mode are more willing to do interviews.

“People are more likely to go on a podcast if they're promoting a book”

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Taha describes booking big guests as a volume game in which persistent outreach yields yeses.

“If you're willing to do a thousand reach outs, you can get 20 people to say yes, even if they're big names”

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Taha says creators on a budget can hire part-time overseas help cheaply.

“So you can get somebody part time for like 400 bucks a month overseas”

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Taha advises creators to outsource tasks like video editing but keep original thought content for themselves.

“the last thing you actually want to outsource is your original thought content”

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Taha argues unpaid work is fair only while the intern keeps learning, after which they must be paid.

“As soon as you're not teaching them anymore and just getting work from them, then you've got to pay them”

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Taha says the skills she learned as an unpaid intern under Angie Martinez now earn her millions.

“I'm literally making millions off the skills that I learned from Angie Martinez now”

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Taha says high New York taxes in 2024 were one reason she left the state.

“One of the reasons why I left New York is because I lost literally 50% of my money in 2024”

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Taha recounts being denied a Manhattan apartment despite high income because she had no personal credit.

“I was already making like $400,000 a year, $500,000 a year”

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Taha predicts that AI will eliminate traditional jobs, so people should learn to sell their skills independently.

“with AI, to be honest, the traditional job is going to go away anyway”

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Taha predicts AI-generated content will make audiences value authentic human stories more.

“People are going to crave real people, real stories, things that AI cannot replicate”

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Taha argues entrepreneurship content has limited reach on Instagram compared with hot topics like politics or health.

“Entrepreneurship is only going to get so far on Instagram. It's just not a hot topic that people want to share”

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Taha says she is focusing on Skool because becoming a top creator there is easier than on Instagram.

“I'm super bullish on school because I feel like, okay, I could probably become the number one creator on school”

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Taha says she earned $1.5 million in podcast sponsorships last year despite once believing the show would never make money.

“Meanwhile, like last year, I made $1.5 million in sponsorships on my podcast, right?”

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Taha maintains that engagement pods are permitted by LinkedIn, though she opposes fake AI-bot pods.

“It's totally within LinkedIn's terms of service. It's totally fine”

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Taha recounts offering LinkedIn promotion to podcast apps and tools in exchange for features on their platforms.

“I will post about your app, your email newsletter, your website in exchange for you promoting me on your website, promoting me in your app, featuring me here”

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Taha argues webinars are the most effective way to sell offers across price points.

“webinars to me are like the hottest way to sell something low to”

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