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🗓️ 2 July 2025
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What happens when you stop living for someone else's approval and start chasing your own dreams? This is the story of Alex Hormozi, a man who made the bold decision to disappoint his father in order to stay true to himself.
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Chris Williamson
The Diary of a CEO
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Lewis Howes
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Alex Hormzoi
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0:40.4 | I was 22. I had done everything that my dad had wanted me to do at this point. |
0:47.7 | Alex Hormozzi woke up one day, realized he had been living life for his parents, then made the |
0:53.5 | hardest decision of his life. |
0:55.1 | Sometimes you have to let other people's dreams for your life die, for yours to live. |
0:59.1 | And for me, it was like when I, when I continued to every day not want to wake up, that was my |
1:04.4 | wake up call where I was like, either I continue to live this way and not want to be alive, |
1:10.0 | or I just risked the fact that I'll |
1:13.0 | die to everybody else. I was looking out from the condo that I'd been able to buy with this job |
1:16.7 | that I had. And I was like, is this it? And the whole time, I just really didn't enjoy my life. |
1:23.8 | And it was just, you know, not wanting to wake up. |
1:28.3 | And it was the decision to leave Baltimore, which is where I was from, to quit that path, to decide to start the business of my own, was still to this day the hardest thing I've ever know. |
1:42.3 | Because I had no siblings. Because I had no siblings. |
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