If You Want More, You Have to Think Differently | Ep 277
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Leila Hormozi
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🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Get the unfiltered memos I send my team as we scale Acquisition.com to $1B+: Leila's Letters
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| 0:00.0 | This is the thing. |
| 0:02.7 | If you don't have a goal for the business, how do you know if you're making progress? |
| 0:06.4 | Just by like arbitrary measures of like, okay, money, views, whatever it might be. |
| 0:10.3 | But if that's not getting you towards a greater goal, it becomes very difficult to keep going at some point. |
| 0:20.7 | What's up? How are you guys doing? Oh man, this is new. Okay. So we had a different stage and they were like, it's going to be different. I was like, yeah, it's different. It's interesting. Let's see how this is going to go with heels. Maybe it's going to poke a hole. You guys, good energy? Feeling good? Okay, great. So we will, yeah, we're going to get right into it, right into it. |
| 0:39.8 | Let's do it. |
| 0:40.2 | Amazing. |
| 0:41.1 | So my name is Peter Livingston, and I work for a faith based on profit, |
| 0:44.4 | and we sell classes and books and education to men 24 to 25 to 54 who need practical help in life. |
| 0:52.0 | And we're about at $6 million in revenue. |
| 0:54.1 | We're trying to get to |
| 0:54.7 | 15. And the thing that's stopping us is that we're scaling faster than our team can handle |
| 0:59.9 | from a pacing perspective. So we're hiring, which will help. But how do we know when we need |
| 1:07.2 | coaching for the team members that are on the bubble and just to give them more time versus |
| 1:10.7 | when have we passed the threshold that we're outpacing or out or not able to |
| 1:16.2 | coach those team members into becoming what we need them to be. It's a tough question because |
| 1:21.8 | I think it comes down to the business model and what you want to do now and in the future. |
| 1:31.0 | So let me explain. When you're hiring people, so you're hiring people for a position, you want to think, okay, what skills does this |
| 1:36.1 | person need to come in already preloaded with? I'm not going to take the time to train them on these |
| 1:40.8 | skills. And that's where we list requirements, requirements right it's like you want to come in |
| 1:44.3 | with these skills like i think degree all that's bullshit we just want skills right we we approximate a degree |
| 1:49.6 | approximates to a skill and that's why we put it on there but really we want someone to have skills and so |
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