The Obstacles to My Success (on Behind the Brand with Bryan Elliot) Pt. 1 - March '22 | Ep 492

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

4.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

“This is not the life I want to lead. I am not happy doing this every day. I would prefer to not be alive if this is what my life will be continuously.” Today, join Alex (@AlexHormozi) as he guests on Behind the Brand with Bryan Elliot and takes us back to when it all started, the trials and tribulations he had to endure, and the day his journey as an entrepreneur would change forever. This is part 1 of the interview.

Welcome to The Game Podcast where we talk about how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, and keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons we have learned along the way to $100M in sales. We've got roll-up-your-sleeves kind of hustle with a little bit of cleverness and a lot of heart.

Check out the episode on Behind the Brand’s YouTube Channel!

Timestamps:

(0:40) Alex’s early beginnings in business & trying to live up to expectations

(10:07) - Fear as a driver to hustle and the use inversion thinking

(17:30) - Finding interests in business and fitness (together)

(21:11) - The hardships Alex had to face and learning them the hard way

(36:19) - Early blueprints of Gym Launch and finally cracking the code to their success

(43:01) - “I had to learn how to do business on my own in order to learn how to partner later”

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0:00.0	It's a much harder question to answer what are the things that bring me joy than answering the question what are the things I hate?
0:06.4	They're like well, I hate my job and I hate my relationship and I hate to sit. Okay, those are all very changeable.
0:13.6	Welcome to the game where we talk about how to get more customers, how to make more
0:16.4	Procurestorien, how to keep them longer and the many failures and lessons we have learned along the way. I hope you enjoy and subscribe.
0:23.1	Everyone on Bryan Elliott welcome to another episode of the show Alex thanks for having us to your home grown
0:28.8	Mission control. It's great to be here in Las Vegas. Thank you for having me. I'm very excited. I guess having me and we're having each other. I guess
0:37.6	having me on your workshop. Well, I usually ask my guess how did you get this job? This job. Yeah
0:45.5	So um I was a management consultant right out of college. I did space cyber intelligence for the military which was
0:55.0	sounds much cooler than it really was but I had a top secret clearance. It sounded really good at
0:58.7	dinner parties and just about only that. And you know one day I looked out for my balcony
1:04.4	because I had a really nice place because I could afford it at the time and I was like, is this it?
1:08.6	And I was you know in my young 20s and you know at that point I had done everything that I think I was
1:14.8	supposed to do so I was you know I did well in school. I you know was president of all the clubs.
1:19.6	You know graduated in three years got the good job and I realized that it was I was living you know
1:24.8	life for me that my father wanted me to live and so that was kind of you know I when I I
1:30.0	faltered back and forth for probably a period of six months of really not wanting this to be my life
1:35.4	but not wanting to let my dad down and so at some point the the thing that kind of pushed me over
1:41.6	the edge was I can either you know die to myself or I can die to my father and the end of the day you
1:46.2	know I have to survive so I will if I if I make this decision and he no longer wants to be my dad
1:52.0	then I can accept that. Wow is that extreme then? Yes. Wow. Same more about that. Are you an only
1:59.6	child? Yeah. So only child raised by a single father, Middle Eastern, he was born in Iran and
2:08.4	you know everything in my life up until that point was really just a make him proud. So it was very
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