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Build with Leila Hormozi

Mastering the Art of Talent Acquisition and Building Culture (on Leveling Up with Eric Siu) Pt.1 | Ep 107

Build with Leila Hormozi

Leila Hormozi

Education, Entrepreneurship, Management, How To, Business

5867 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

“I’m going to be stressed, and that’s okay.” Today, join Leila (@LeilaHormozi) as she guests on Leveling Up with Eric Siu to discuss her approach to business leadership, team management, recruitment, and content creation. Reflecting on her journey to growing Acquisition.com into a billion-dollar portfolio, she emphasizes the importance of honest and transparent leadership, maintaining a strong company culture, and aligning individual and company visions for success. This is part 1 of the interview.

Welcome to Build where we talk about the lessons I have learned in scaling big businesses, gaining millions in sales, and helping our portfolio companies do the same. Buckle up, because we’re creating an unshakeable business.

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Timestamps:

(0:46) - The challenges of scaling a business

(4:20) - The art of hiring and firing

(6:11) - The role of a CEO in talent acquisition

(12:39) - Handling difficult situations in business

(21:11) - The transition from traditional content to AMA format

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Whenever somebody's joining me, it's like, I'm not going to bring somebody into my vision if their vision cannot fit within it.

0:05.0

But if I'm keeping them in the company because I'm afraid to tell them, I made a mistake and your vision does not fit within this one here, that's on me as well.

0:13.3

And I'm doing them a disservice, keeping them in the company because I'm preventing them from going to a company that will be able to do that for them.

0:30.1

How do you create an unshakable business? I cross $100 million in net worth by the age of 28.

0:35.1

Now I'm growing acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio. In this podcast, I share the lessons I've learned in scaling big businesses and helping our portfolio companies do the same.

0:39.4

Buckle up and let's build.

0:45.8

Your quote here is that you sent me a text.

0:48.1

It's we have not worked this hard in five years.

0:52.0

And so can you walk me through what's going on right now with all the stuff?

0:57.0

And then we're going to jump into all the business.

0:59.1

Yeah.

0:59.3

When I say worked hard too, I think it's like relative.

1:02.1

I think that the time that I'm dedicating to work right now in terms of hours is not like

1:07.1

the same time I've put in in a very long time because I've had usually a team that's

1:12.1

adequate and like I've built a team up for the challenge. So like in the beginning of gym launch,

1:16.8

it was basically like wake up work until you have to do something, right? Like eat or whatever

1:23.0

would work out. I would literally take calls while I was working out the whole time and then have

1:28.8

dinner work until I can't keep my eyes open. And I think this schedule recently has been more

1:34.9

reflective of that in terms of like, you know, I actually haven't lifted in like four months.

1:40.9

That's what Alex just told me. Four months. He said four weeks. He was four months.

1:44.2

I'm four months. Yeah. I've just told me. Four months. He said four weeks. He was four months. I'm four months. Yeah.

1:45.8

I've only been walking because I can take calls while I walk.

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