Is It Time To Quit Your Job? | Ep. 358
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Leila Hormozi
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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The internet glamorizes quitting the 9-to-5 for entrepreneurship, but most people are nowhere near ready to run a business. In this episode, Leila breaks down six signs that determine whether it’s actually time to leave a job. She explains why proof matters more than passion, why emotional stability is a business skill, and why entrepreneurship punishes people who confuse frustration with readiness. The smartest entrepreneurs don’t just leap. They build leverage before they jump.
In this episode
00:00 Separate your identity from the frustration
03:01 Have proof of monetized skills outside your job
06:10 Build a financial floor based on all monthly expenses
09:13 Develop emotional reps for uncertainty and loss
11:52 Build real assets, not just plans
13:59 Create a reality-tested business plan
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| 0:00.0 | The internet wants you to quit your job, and I actually would ask you to think first. |
| 0:05.1 | I have built companies worth hundreds of millions, and I have watched people with twice the |
| 0:09.6 | talent that I have blow up their lives by quitting at the wrong time. |
| 0:13.6 | So if you want to quit your job the smart way, follow these six signs first. |
| 0:19.0 | Number one, you've separated your identity from your frustration. You're |
| 0:22.1 | not quitting from something. You're quitting towards something. Okay, this would have saved me a lot of |
| 0:28.0 | years of mistakes. When I was 14, I worked at Subway, and my manager bullied me, insulted my |
| 0:34.7 | appearance, shoved me aside, and then like like, one day I got this voicemail. |
| 0:38.8 | It was my off day. And I think the voice mail was like, so-and-so called out, you better get your fucking ass in here. And I was like, I can't do this. Like, who talks to me? It's like my parents could hear it as on our home phone, which your watches were like, home phone, what's Yeah, I'm that old, so we had those back in my day. |
| 0:54.4 | But the thing is, it's like, I quit on the spot after that. |
| 0:57.0 | I just called her back and I left her watches, we're like, Homephone, what's that? Yeah, I'm that old, so we had those back in my day. |
| 0:54.4 | But the thing is, it's like, I quit on the spot after that. |
| 0:57.0 | I just called her back, and I left her voice one and said, yeah, I'm done. |
| 0:59.3 | And I actually think it was justified because I was 14 and she was, like, emotionally abusive. |
| 1:04.1 | But it was still a very emotional decision, right? |
| 1:07.3 | I wasn't quitting towards anything. |
| 1:08.6 | I was quitting away from something. What I needed |
| 1:11.5 | was not no job. It was a different job, right? I think that is the one thing I want to clarify here. |
| 1:17.9 | It's not like I had that experience and I was like, I'm going to go start a business. Jobs all suck. |
| 1:22.8 | This person and this job specifically sucks. It's not for me. Let me find a different one. But again, |
| 1:27.9 | I knew I didn't need to leave the workplace, right, or the workforce. I just needed to live |
| 1:32.8 | that place. Like, I need to leave that job. If I had confused that feeling with a reason |
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