Taking the Leap Towards Success (on Behind the Brand) Pt.1 - March ‘23 | Ep 96
Build with Leila Hormozi
Leila Hormozi
5 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
”I can take care of myself. So if this doesn't work, that's fine. I'm not going to be crushed.” Today, join Leila (@LeilaHormozi) as she guests on Behind the Brand with Bryan Elliot to share her inspiring journey from a small town in Michigan to becoming a successful entrepreneur. Learn how Leila's background in exercise science, her move to California, and her perseverance through setbacks led her to launch thriving fitness businesses both offline and online. Discover the power of embracing challenges and finding lessons in failures on the path to 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:
(0:40) - Leila's career start in fitness & move to California
(8:52) - Sales tactics, marketing vs. branding
(13:51) - Work vs. relationships
(25:13) - Relationship, job interviewing, and underestimating skills
(34:06) - Leila's career progression
(44:03) - Handling financial debt
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I think stress sometimes blinds you because I'd moved out there. |
| 0:03.1 | I didn't know anybody. |
| 0:04.2 | I was just trying to make enough money to live out there. |
| 0:06.3 | And I didn't want to fail. |
| 0:07.8 | And so I was just so focused on the task at hand. |
| 0:10.0 | I didn't really think about any of that. |
| 0:11.7 | Like in pure execution mode, not much thought to it. |
| 0:19.8 | How do you create an unshakable business? |
| 0:22.3 | I cross $100 million in net worth by the age of 28. |
| 0:25.4 | Now I'm growing Acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio. |
| 0:28.5 | In this podcast, I share the lessons I've learned in scaling big businesses and helping |
| 0:32.1 | our portfolio companies do the same. |
| 0:34.3 | Buckle up and let's build. |
| 0:42.6 | Welcome to another episode of the show, Leila. |
| 0:50.4 | Thanks for having us back to your world headquarters. I appreciate it. Yeah. The Hormozian nation world. |
| 0:55.0 | What are we calling this? The executive boardroom. Yeah, the executive boardroom in a place that is unknown and we will not speak of. It's undisclosed. We're in a secret location. |
| 0:59.5 | I usually ask my guest, how did you get this job? Interesting. Well, not by going to school. |
| 1:07.8 | I started with really no experience. |
| 1:11.5 | So actually got into, I went to school for exercise science, which proved to be pretty |
| 1:17.5 | useless, you know, learned a lot about human physiology, but didn't learn a lot about business. |
| 1:22.6 | And then quickly, I knew that I wanted to leave my hometown. |
| 1:27.2 | So I lived in Porge, Michigan, pretty small town. |
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