How I Lost Everything Twice and Kept Going (Rachel Hollis Interview) | Ep 880

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

4.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

In this reshare of his interview on The Rachel Hollis Podcast, Alex (@AlexHormozi) opens up about the painful personal sacrifices, betrayals, and brutal lessons that shaped his journey, from losing everything twice to rebuilding with more clarity, discipline, and drive than ever before.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the game. This is a guest spot on Rachel Hollis's podcast. Main things I talked about
0:04.7	this podcast are the reality of hard work and sacrifice. You can't get around it. Learning from some of our
0:09.5	failures and investing in companies in the early days of acquisition.com. And I also mentioned a little bit,
0:14.8	as is the Hormosey way, talk about death to gain freedom of mind. There is a little bit of my story in this one,
0:24.1	and so if you are somebody who's heard my story, then I would, you know, skip for it a little
0:29.0	bit and then you can get to the meaty stuff. That is not my story that you've probably
0:33.1	already heard. All right, rock and roll. Love you. Enjoy. Okay. So I know this is annoying, but I do feel like
0:40.6	we have to give a tiny bit of your backstory to the audience who has not met you before.
0:45.9	Because a big part, I'll just like lead you down the garden path in advance, a big part of what
0:50.2	I'd love to talk to you about today's mindset. Because what I'm so in love with in your
0:56.9	story is how many times it has all fallen apart and that you've rebuilt yourself. Because I feel
1:03.0	like the world is in a place of really needing that conversation. So will you take the audience on
1:08.4	a backstory of how you got to where you are today.
1:12.0	Yeah. And I will highlight my exceptional proclivity for finding a way to lose everything,
1:17.6	you know, pulling defeat from the jaws of victory.
1:20.0	Yeah. Yeah.
1:21.9	The quick story is that I was a management consulting out of college, got to what I would consider
1:26.5	a rock top experience where I was 22.
1:29.9	I owned my own condo on like a pretty nice high rise, had a balcony, I was looking over the city.
1:34.9	And I was like, is this it?
1:36.2	Like, I just do this until I die and maybe marry somebody.
1:39.2	And I was like, this feels terrible.
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