I am Abbi, and I was distracted for 10 years of my life. I chased every shiny object out there, the frameworks, platforms, and content that drained me.
In 2025, I flipped this distraction into meaningful work. I turned my 8-hour screen time into a personal brand, intellectual education, and this podcast you are listening to :)
no distraction. is a place where I interview creative entrepreneurs from various ranges, ranging from coaching to community leaders, all the way to multi-award-winning actresses.
My mission with no distraction. is to give people the insights from experts that helped me navigate through this period of my life.
The topics revolve around:
self-awareness
being
entrepreneurship
business
energy
Excited to learn more about me?
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The Brand Strategist: You Don't Need 1,000 Followers... You Have A Trust Problem!
You’re posting every day. You’re tweaking your strategy. People like your posts and even praise you in the DMs, but nobody buys. According to Tanya, that isn’t a content problem. It’s a trust problem, and no follower count will fix it.
Tanya spent seven months posting long-form content almost daily on X with nothing to show for it, then launched a product that flopped. That failure forced her to rethink everything. What came out of it is “memorable branding”: a way of writing that doesn’t just share value but changes how your ideal client sees themselves, so they believe in what you’re selling before you ever pitch it. Today she helps creators do the same, and in this episode she builds a brand belief live, from scratch, for my past brand.
In this conversation:
Why the creator who wants “1,000 followers to monetize” is chasing a false goal, and what to aim for instead
What a “trust spike” is, and why your Stripe screenshot might be quietly losing you clients
How to find your brand philosophy by writing down 20 beliefs in your niche and flipping the false ones
The storytelling trick that turns a missed Deutsche Bahn train into a post your audience can’t stop reading
Why being scared to give away value means there’s no substance behind your brand
The mistake that kept her from selling to a warm audience for months, and the simpler offer she should have made
What X changed about her discipline, her friendships, and where she wants to live
If you’re a creator who’s doing all the “right” things and still hearing crickets, this one is for you.
Disclaimer: This is a legacy episode, and was filmed 1.5 years ago. So keep in mind that not everything that was said is 100% accurate in the present.
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https://fr.linkedin.com/in/nobsghostwriter
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6 Oct 2026
Julian Saad: Checking Your Phone In The Morning Is Like Letting 100 Strangers Into Your Bedroom
Every action you’ve ever taken started as a thought. And according to Julian, the thoughts and words you choose aren’t just descriptions of your life. They’re instructions. Change the language, and you change what you’re able to see, do and create.
Julian is a coach who calls language his superpower, and he’s a big reason this podcast exists. Twenty days before this recording, we had our first call. At the end, I admitted I had a whole list of questions I never got to ask. He told me it was time to stop admiring Steven Bartlett and become my own version of him. Two weeks later, my Podcast was born. This was Episode 1.
In this conversation, we cover:
Why your brain keeps showing you “the red car,” and how to point that filter at the life you actually want
The four layers behind every outcome, and the one most people skip entirely
What a live coaching exercise reveals about who you need to be before you can do anything
Why waking up to your phone sends your brain the wrong message from the very first second
What a power outage in Spain, a flock of birds and a Rick Rubin habit teach us about unwanted thoughts
The one book Julian says you must read “about you,” and the strange rule for how to read it
What happens when someone tells you “I don’t have time,” and why that might be exactly the problem
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Disclaimer: This is a legacy episode, and was filmed 1.5 years ago. So keep in mind that not everything that was said is 100% accurate in the present.
18 Sept 2026
Ben Chan: I Failed For 4 Years! Then One Story Took Me From 300 Followers To $10K/Month
You don’t need 10,000 hours to get good at something. According to Ben, you need 100. That’s enough to be better than 90% of people, and enough to start selling.
Ben spent four years failing at side hustles. He pushed Brawl Stars trophies for pocket money, washed neighbours cars at 4am, and spent two hours pitching Google Pay QR codes in a Singapore mall and earned nothing. He also poured three years into a Minecraft channel that never paid him a cent. Then one Valentine’s Day love story on X changed everything. Today he’s one of the go-to brand strategists on X, teaching creators how to turn stories into clients, and he started from 300 followers.
In this episode, Ben gets into:
* What is the 100-hour rule, and how do you split those hours to go from zero to dangerous?
* Why did rereading his own 2023 diary expose the real reason he kept failing?
* Why is “content over comments” the opinion that gets him the most hate?
* What can a vending machine teach you about how much to give away for free?
* Is the era of spectacle over, and why are audiences choosing story instead?
* How would he take a 300-follower account to $10K a month, step by step?
* Why should you start with low prices when everyone tells you to charge high?
This conversation is for anyone building something online while juggling a job, a noisy feed, and too many ideas at once. But please keep in mind that this is a legacy episode, and was filmed 1 year ago.
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X: https://x.com/ItsMeBenChan
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