Alex Hormozi on Skills That Actually Build Wealth SB1784
The Stacking Benjamins Show
Joe Saul-Sehy and Josh ‘OG’ Bannerman, CFP
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
What if the biggest driver of your financial future isn't the stock market but your skill set?
In this episode of The Stacking Benjamins Show, Joe Saul-Sehy and the crew sit down with entrepreneur and business strategist Alex Hormozi to unpack one of the most overlooked wealth-building tools Stackers have access to: skill acquisition.
Alex doesn't pitch get-rich-quick nonsense or risky moonshots. Instead, he walks through how ordinary people (employees, side hustlers, and business owners alike) can increase their income by focusing on high-leverage skills, smarter negotiations, and taking calculated risks that actually make sense.
You'll hear how Alex went through early business struggles and hard-earned lessons before building real wealth. Not by chasing trends, but by deliberately stacking skills, learning faster than the competition, and betting on himself without blowing up his life. The lessons apply whether you're asking for a raise, switching careers, growing a side hustle, or simply trying to earn more without working yourself into the ground.
This is an episode about earning more on purpose, not grinding harder.
WHAT TO LISTEN FOR:
- Why skill-building often beats investing early in your career
- How to identify high-leverage skills that pay off repeatedly
- The difference between smart risk and reckless risk
- Why small optimizations won't change your life but big skills might
- How to design your own curriculum without going back to school
- When betting on yourself actually makes financial sense
ALSO IN THIS EPISODE: Reflecting on standout episodes from 2025 and what's coming next, a quick check-in on managing your money with intention not noise, why confidence is built through reps not motivation, and how compensation and risk are more connected than you think.
A QUESTION FOR THE BASEMENT: What's one skill you've learned that's paid off way more than you expected, or one you wish you'd started earlier? Share it in Spotify comments or bring it to the Basement Facebook group. Your answer might help another Stacker spot their next big opportunity.
Because money grows in accounts, but wealth starts with what you can do.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Stackers. Happy holiday week. And, well, today for a lot of people, you're headed back to work. |
| 0:06.8 | Maybe you had to work the entire week. And isn't this the week where everybody is eating like rice cakes and and like cutting out bread and like no booze? |
| 0:18.8 | The one week that they use their gym membership. Yeah. The gym's completely full. Enjoy it. Enjoy it this week, everybody. I don't know. For me, it's the end of celebrating. Just one more. I love it. I love it when New Year's is right in the middle of the week because you just feel like you can extend it into this following weekend. My problem is then my kids are going to school. |
| 0:40.3 | They don't go to school until Tuesday. |
| 0:42.0 | And then Alex does go back to school until Monday the following week. |
| 0:45.4 | So he's still kind of around, you know. |
| 0:48.0 | And then we leave to go on vacation for a week. |
| 0:52.1 | So it's still party on. |
| 0:53.8 | It's kind of, I mean, the bar still open at OG's house. I mean, |
| 0:58.7 | we never shut this thing down. We might shut it down in the middle of January. That's why I'm |
| 1:03.9 | headed to your house this afternoon. Hey, one thing that is wide open right now is, sadly, your credit, people checking out your credit all the time, people checking out your ID online when you don't want that to happen. |
| 1:20.8 | You also have all these different subscriptions draining your budget. |
| 1:24.8 | How do you get those under control? |
| 1:26.6 | We, with the help of the team from |
| 1:28.2 | Array, created the Benjamin Vault app where you put a lock on your Benjamin's by managing your |
| 1:36.1 | credit, ensuring that you have the privacy and ID protection that you deserve and taking stock |
| 1:42.3 | of all those subscriptions and putting together a better, tighter budget in |
| 1:45.9 | 2026. It's stackybenjamins.com slash vault to get you there or just go to benjaminvalt.com for |
| 1:53.0 | more. It's great to see people signing up for this, the team from Array, who helps millions of |
| 1:59.5 | people take control of their money, help us develop this tool that |
| 2:04.6 | we created for you. And it's great to see people saying, you know what, I'm going to do 2026 different. |
| 2:10.4 | All right. Coming up today, guys, this was our biggest pair of episodes. In fact, the one you're about to hear, the first episode, was downloaded double the number |
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