“A lot of people continuously chase the fancy stuff because they haven't been in business long enough to realize that it truly is the basics.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) dives deep into the art of effective business scaling, sharing lessons from her experience with acquisition.com and advocating for simple, executable strategies for significant growth. Highlighting the importance of a pragmatic approach to problem-solving, strategic decision-making, and assembling the right team, she offers va...
Mar 27, 2024•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast “If somebody was really sorry, they would change their behavior.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) emphasizes the importance of actionable apologies over verbal ones in personal and professional settings, highlighting how this approach promotes personal growth and business success. She provides insightful commentary on the negative impact of repetitive apology cycles without real change, advocating for proactive behavior modification and commitment to action plans to genuinely rectify mistakes and i...
Mar 25, 2024•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Most of people in society have a really poor relationship with work (…) They don't get a lot of positive reinforcement at work. Therefore, they want to work less.” Today, join Leila (@LeilaHormozi) as she guests on an interview with The Karat Podcast to share her journey of overcoming challenges and leveraging fear to transition from a secure job, establishing Gym Launch, to where she is today. She provides insights on the role of fear as a catalyst for change, the importance of continuous self...
Mar 20, 2024•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Words don't mean anything. Action is everything.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) shares insights on enhancing self-respect and personal growth in relationships, highlighting that individual perspectives often determine contentment. She introduces key concepts such as the 'cycle of doom', emphasizing the importance of actions over words, and how aligning relationships with personal values leads to fulfillment. Welcome to Build where we talk about the lessons I have learned in scaling big businesse...
Mar 18, 2024•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast “I really just wanted to feel like whatever I need to become, to be who I want to be, to do what I want to do, I will.” Today, join Leila (@LeilaHormozi) as she guests on an interview with The Karat Podcast to share her inspiring journey from overcoming personal struggles to achieving multimillionaire status at 28. She discusses how her fitness transformation led to growth in other areas of her life, including emotional management and business success. Leila emphasizes the power of embracing fea...
Mar 13, 2024•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Learning means that you have a change in behavior.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) discusses how achieving product-market fit can drive business growth and success. She emphasizes the importance of customer interaction, continuous product development, and team collaboration, offering practical strategies such as regular customer engagement, product backlog formation, and commitment to testing and learning. Welcome to Build where we talk about the lessons I have learned in scaling big businesses, ...
Mar 11, 2024•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast “When you blame other people, you steal yourself, you rob yourself of the opportunity to do anything about the situation.” Today, join Leila (@LeilaHormozi) as she guests on an interview with The Mulligan Brothers to discuss her experiences in business, including the success of Gym Launch, acquisition.com and her personal philosophy on owning one's problems. She shares valuable insights into the importance of big vision, developing skills and character, dealing with online hate and the power of ...
Mar 06, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Look at every day as a chance for you to create evidence for yourself to make it more possible tomorrow.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) shares her transformative journey from personal struggles to business success, underscoring the crucial role of persistence, emotional resilience, and effective communication. This episode provides valuable insights on overcoming challenges, emphasizing skills development, problem ownership, and the importance of seeking support, making it a must-listen for aspi...
Mar 04, 2024•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast “I felt like that environment is not one that is conducive to the future that I want.” Today, join Leila (@LeilaHormozi) as she guests on an interview with The Mulligan Brothers and reflects on her tough upbringing marked by parental discord, her mother's descent into alcoholism, and her subsequent transformation through sheer resilience. She navigates her journey through adolescence, her battles with weight issues, drug addiction, and her multiple arrests, drawing on key lessons she internalize...
Feb 28, 2024•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast “The things that we do that we say aren't scalable… it's just a cop-out.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) shares the importance of building courage, the art of pursuing dreams despite fear and pivotal early career experiences like their first sales encounter. She emphasizes that the key to business success is not just about making money but also about making an impact by considering the efficacy of products/services, employee satisfaction, and strong client results. Leila encourages aspiring entrep...
Feb 26, 2024•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast "Putting everything out there from the get go because being as honest as possible, even in a world where other people are not, is the best way you can go about it.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) discusses the importance of normalizing conversations around finances in relationships, highlighting the impact of money on relationship dynamics and offering advice on topics such as dating, moving in together, and marriage. She provides insights on how to approach financial discussions with transparency...
Feb 21, 2024•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast “But most people never even take the first step to give themselves a chance to know that they're capable of doing it.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) shares her personal journey that transformed their life from a troubled past of arrests to achieving success and financial stability. By changing her environment and overcoming destructive habits, Leila achieved a net worth of a hundred million dollars by the age of 28. The episode emphasizes the significance of one's environment in shaping behavior ...
Feb 19, 2024•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast "I want to do it in a way that is so opposite of how most do." Today, join Leila (@LeilaHormozi) as she guests on The Futur Podcast with Chris Do to discuss the secrets behind scaling big businesses and helping portfolio companies grow. Leila delves into her personal brand and also talks about the importance of establishing robust support systems and having one specialized skill as a founder. She reflects on the ups and downs of investing in businesses and the attributes of successful founders, ...
Feb 14, 2024•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast “You reward behaviors that you want rather than punishing behaviors that you don't want.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) expands on the significance of leading with love, maintaining customer expectations, optimizing team performance, and creating an efficient hiring funnel. She also emphasizes building a positive work environment, the importance of timely feedback, and the shift from selling to customers to selling to your team. Welcome to Build where we talk about the lessons I have learned in s...
Feb 12, 2024•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast “I don't let my emotions dictate my actions enough for me not to do what I know is ultimately right by a person.” Today, join Leila (@LeilaHormozi) as she guests on The Futur Podcast with Chris Do, sharing her journey in this emotionally charged interview. She also delves into deeply personal topics while discussing her professional journey, including her role as CEO of Acquisition.com . Leila discusses her difficult childhood, her mother's struggles with substance addiction, her own battles wit...
Feb 07, 2024•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Getting them to act cohesively as a team of its own is probably a more challenging task.” Today, join Leila (@LeilaHormozi) as she fields questions from numerous business owners about the complexities of leadership, building effective teams, and scaling businesses. She also shares valuable insights on balancing innovation with stability, transferring authority effectively, utilizing core values, and preventing employee burnout. Moreover, Leila discusses her experiences shifting between differen...
Feb 05, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast “The reality is that every time you make a decision, and you cut off the alternatives, you lose what you could have had.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) explores strategies for overcoming analysis paralysis, drawing on the speaker's personal experiences and insights. From achieving financial success at a young age to navigating business decisions, Leila emphasizes the importance of making quick and effective choices, bypassing biases, and embracing failure to overcome the fear of judgment and regr...
Jan 31, 2024•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast “You cannot control every feeling that gets provoked, but you can control how you behave.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) shares valuable insights on overcoming procrastination by addressing the three major reasons behind it: anxiety, rebelliousness, and boredom. Through personal anecdotes and practical solutions, she emphasizes the importance of taking action and making decisions for business growth. Welcome to Build where we talk about the lessons I have learned in scaling big businesses, gainin...
Jan 29, 2024•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast “You have to define what the values mean and what they mean in terms of behavior.” Today, join Leila (@LeilaHormozi) as she guests on Leveling Up with Eric Siu to share her unique approach towards accountability, talent nurturing, people management, and growth strategies. She emphasizes the importance of values in cultivating a winning culture within an organization and making everyone in the business feel like they're aligned with the company's mission. She takes us through her 'first principle...
Jan 25, 2024•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast “I will be that person. And I don't care how uncomfortable it feels.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) shares personal experiences and practical tools for overcoming negative thinking and moving towards personal and business success. Through stories of weight loss, building a successful business, handling anxiety, and more, she elaborates on how reframing thought patterns and taking action can lead to growth and achievement. Welcome to Build where we talk about the lessons I have learned in scaling ...
Jan 23, 2024•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast “I’m going to be stressed, and that’s okay.” Today, join Leila (@LeilaHormozi) as she guests on Leveling Up with Eric Siu to discuss her approach to business leadership, team management, recruitment, and content creation. Reflecting on her journey to growing Acquisition.com into a billion-dollar portfolio, she emphasizes the importance of honest and transparent leadership, maintaining a strong company culture, and aligning individual and company visions for success. This is part 1 of the intervi...
Jan 18, 2024•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast “I think zero to a million is the hardest because it's the area in which you incur the most cost of change.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) shares her experience in scaling big businesses and briefly explains the four primary stages of growing a business from zero to $100 million. She discusses the importance of finding a product-market fit, understanding your customer deeply, developing the right skill set, building a great team, learning to hire well, and considering key aspects while planning t...
Jan 16, 2024•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast “I really just believe that nothing has more meaning than what you give to it.” Today, join Leila (@LeilaHormozi) as she guests on the Think Media Podcast (with host Heather Torres) to talk about transitioning into content creation and her strategies for running her business alongside creating content. She highlights the significance of being true to yourself and your values, regardless of people's opinions or negative comments. Leila also discusses the relevance of documenting and sharing lesso...
Jan 11, 2024•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast “One brain cannot grow a hundred million dollar business.” Today, join Leila (@LeilaHormozi) as she guest speaks at the Traffic and Conversions Summit 2022 and shares valuable insights on judging character in the hiring process, building an unshakeable business, and the importance of delegation. With her own experiences scaling businesses to over 100 million in sales, she provides actionable advice on how to scale, nurture employees, and optimize the talent acquisition funnel for business succes...
Jan 09, 2024•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Watch the YouTube video of this episode HERE “If you don't know how to take initiative, it's probably because you haven't been in this situation before or one similar.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) shares insights about key character traits and how they can impact leadership and success. Focusing on traits like self-control, gratitude, empathy, bravery, and more, the speaker shares personal stories, examples, and evaluations of each trait. The importance of certain characteristics over others in...
Jan 02, 2024•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Watch the YouTube version of this episode HERE "Recognizing that I can have thoughts and behave differently and that thoughts don't determine my fate." Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) takes us on a walk while reflecting on her personal journey of overcoming fear and anxiety, emphasizing the importance of accepting negative emotions and focusing on actions rather than thoughts. She also discusses the idea of engineering one's environment to create higher stakes and consequences for taking positive a...
Dec 30, 2023•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast “A lot of people actually just don't have the skill of managing how they think.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) shares with us strategies for navigating through the stressful situations of overthinking, anxiety, and fear of imperfection are discussed. She delves into the idea of 'unproductive thinking' and provides tools to overcome this. She also explores the concept of productive distraction as a helpful tool to break out from the cycle of overthinking. Welcome to Build where we talk about the l...
Dec 27, 2023•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast "A lot of people are too emotional about how they run their businesses, and they think that being emotional is actually for the better of their business.” Today, join Leila (@LeilaHormozi) as she guests on The Mike Andes Podcast to talk about the intricacies of maintaining a balanced partnership in business and how she and her spouse, Alex, manage their different roles within the company. Leila shares how she views jealousy within their dynamic and emphasizes the importance of self-autonomy, the...
Dec 21, 2023•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Why is it that we think that we can't have everything we have and be happy at the same time?” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) talks about her initial sacrifice-all approach to growing a business which led to stress and unhappiness. She shares how creating a work-life balance can actually enhance productivity while preserving mental well-being and implores us to reflect on our own goal-setting and consider adopting a similar perspective to achieve balanced success. Welcome to Build where we talk ab...
Dec 19, 2023•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast “I don't want to play a game where I think I'm going to fail.” Today, join Leila (@LeilaHormozi) as she guests on Behind the Brand with Bryan Elliot to share various aspects of business, from concepts of prioritizing and caring for people, examination of different business strategies to the importance of well-suited partnerships. She also shares her insights on business acquisitions and investing in businesses and emphasizes the importance of character, dedication, and efficiency in business ope...
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