List Building Lifestyle With Igor Kheifets

Hosted by Igor Kheifets

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Oct 2026

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Are you sick of your unfulfilling 9 to 5 job? Do you yearn for financial freedom? Do you want to improve the quality of your lifestyle? If yes, then listen to this episode and find out how to make 6 figures in 6 months.

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November 3, 20261 hr 2 min

The 80/20 Life with Richard Koch

The world isn't fair, and it was never meant to be. A handful of customers create nearly all the profit. A handful of decisions shape an entire career. A handful of relationships mold a life. In this episode, Igor sits down with Richard Koch, the British entrepreneur, investor and author of The 80/20 Principle, to explore how this law of imbalance shows up in business, investing, friendships and happiness. Richard reveals how he picks ten-baggers, the toxic belief that drove him for over two decades, why he slipped out of the office every day to exercise, and the dozen books he keeps within arm's reach.

October 29, 20269 min

Creation Beats Consumption

There are only two things you can do online: create or consume. Most people spend almost all of their time consuming, and that is exactly why they are not making money. In this episode, Igor explains why everyone who gets paid online is creating something, how much creation pays at different levels, why AI has not changed the creator-to-consumer ratio, and the simple percentage of your time that separates people who scrape by from people who get very, very rich.

October 28, 202613 min

AI Has No Soul

AI can research for you, brainstorm with you, and even draft for you. What it can’t do is make anyone feel anything. In this episode, Igor gets candid about the flood of unedited AI content. He talks about a $37 “book” that turned out to be copy-pasted ChatGPT answers, and a webinar he refused to promote because a cloned AI avatar delivered the whole thing. He explains why he rewrote more than 80% of his own AI-assisted book, why AI slop is getting harder to spot, and the uncomfortable marketing opportunity hiding inside it all.

October 24, 20261 hr 15 min

John Carlton on AI, Copywriting, and Why Humans Are Still Idiots

The very first guest on The List Building Lifestyle is back. John Carlton, the copywriter behind the legendary one-legged golfer ad, has watched direct mail fade, the web take over, and now AI arrive. In this episode, he and Igor dig into what AI is really costing businesses, why most AI-written copy puts readers to sleep, the slow death of critical thinking, and why the best lessons in life only land after you ignore good advice. Nearly 50 years in the trenches, zero vanilla opinions.

October 22, 202612 min

Two Ways to Stand Out When Everyone Is Promoting the Same Offer

When dozens of affiliates are emailing the same offer, why should anyone buy through you? In this episode, Igor explains the only two ways to stand out from the crowd: building an offer that feels like a steal, and using the one advantage no competitor can copy. Along the way, he explains why nobody likes paying even a fair price, what a $300-an-hour marriage therapist teaches us about anchoring, and why a Ferrari with a free Jeep is the mental model for every affiliate promotion you run.

October 20, 202614 min

Thinking in Systems

Every business runs on processes: getting clients, closing deals, delivering the work. And every process you do by hand eventually becomes the ceiling on your business. In this episode, Igor explains the one question he now asks about everything he does, and why it separates a one-person hustle from a business that can scale. From Henry Ford’s black Model T to a 2 AM free report to a lawyer who templated 80% of his practice, this is what systems thinking looks like in practice, and why it’s no longer optional.

October 18, 202611 min

What Financial Freedom Really Buys You

Most people think the reward of a successful online business is the money. But the part nobody talks about is quieter and far more valuable. In this episode, Igor shares what it was like to move his family across the world without his income dipping a single dollar, why so many marriages crack under financial strain, and how having mental bandwidth changes the way you raise your kids. It’s an honest look at the benefits of the List Building Lifestyle that rarely make it into a sales pitch.

October 15, 20265 min

The Bare Bones List Building Setup

Most people overcomplicate getting started. They think they need a funnel, a product, a sales sequence and a dozen tools before they can collect a single email address. In this episode, Igor strips list building down to the bare minimum you need to start today, the extras that turn a list into income, and the one technical step too many people skip. Plus, the story of a man whose entire business is building lists and flipping them for a profit.

October 13, 202611 min

The Seasonality Trap

Every year, the calendar seems to tell you when to push and when to brace for a slump: tax season, summer vacations, the back-to-school scramble, the New Year’s resolution rush. But what if planning around seasonality is costing you more than it’s worth? In this episode, Igor shares what happened when he tried to fight the slow months with extra promotions, why he switched to an 80/20 approach instead, and why the old seasonal patterns may no longer be reliable at all. Plus, a reality check for anyone heading into Black Friday thinking their offer is the only one in the inbox.

October 11, 202653 min

Email, AI and the Coming Bot-to-Bot Economy with Patrick Yepez

Most email marketers use AI to write their emails. Patrick Yepez uses it to read them. In this episode, Igor sits down with Patrick, a real estate investor with over 40 years in the business, founder of Dream Big Marketing Services, and one of the sharpest email marketers he knows. Patrick reveals how he connected his email platform directly to Claude and turned it into a full-time campaign analyst, the hidden problem it uncovered that cost him 15,000 subscribers and sent his domain reputation to the top, and why the shift from Google search to AI search is the biggest discovery race since the early days of the web.