Navigating Leadership: Overcoming Stress, Doubt, and Challenges Pt. 1 (Leila Answers Live) | Ep 128

Build with Leila Hormozi

Leila Hormozi

Education, Entrepreneurship, Management, How To, Business

5 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

“Acquiring skills doesn't feel good. Because you have to suck before you're good.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) answers questions from her audience about enduring discomfort for growth, leading without experience, motivating oneself and others, handling personal stress while managing a business, and practical steps to scaling a business and nurturing leadership skills. She shares personal experiences and insights on overcoming challenges, leading with honesty and transparency, ensuring cultural fit in hiring, and the importance of aligning personal values with company values. This is part 1 of the session.

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.

Timestamps:

(1:02) - Embracing inexperience when starting a business

(4:58) - Recharging your leadership energy

(10:34) - Core values that drive success

(12:43) - Handling misfits in your team

(17:21) - Assessing cultural fit beyond interviews

(20:21) - Navigating personal stress while leading

(24:52) - The journey of enduring discomfort as a leader

(27:00) - Scaling a high-ticket fitness business

(32:04) - Crafting a vision deck for effective leadership

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0:00.0	I think that the ability to endure long periods of discomfort,
0:05.3	which I would consider is suffering,
0:06.9	is a skill of a lot of really great leaders.
0:09.4	And so maybe you are in the season right now of becoming that person.
0:13.8	You might not be happy right now,
0:16.0	but you can still find joy in the fact that you are becoming a better person.
0:25.9	Music you can still find joy in the fact that you are becoming a better person. How do you create an unshakable business? I cross $100 million in net worth by the age of
0:30.8	28. Now I'm growing acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio. In this podcast, I share the
0:36.0	lessons I've learned in scaling big businesses and helping our portfolio companies do the same. Buckle up and let's build.
0:44.1	So today, what we want to do is I wanted you a live basically talking about how to lead.
0:49.4	I said when you're not motivated. This could be how to lead when you're feeling stressed,
0:53.2	how to lead when you don't feel like it, how to lead when you're not motivated, how to lead when you feel awful.
0:58.3	We can go ahead and pull up the first test and we're just going to hammer it out.
1:02.9	Hello. Hello. How are you? Good. How are you? Yeah, great. Thank you. So my question's
1:10.4	kind of related is how do I lead when I haven't lead before when starting your business, but when
1:14.6	you also have a tendency to overthink others' opinions of you.
1:17.6	Oh, so tell me, how long have you out of business now?
1:20.6	Only just started like a month.
1:22.6	Well, congratulations.
1:24.6	What made you start?
1:25.6	Something I wanted to do for a long time. and so I just thought I would just start.
1:31.7	Yeah, really cool. How old are you?
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