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Build with Leila Hormozi

The Truth About Approval and Identity | Ep 291

Build with Leila Hormozi

Leila Hormozi

Education, Entrepreneurship, Management, How To, Business

5867 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) opens up about the early backlash she faced online, and how she built emotional resilience by anchoring her identity in personal values instead of applause or criticism.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The question that you want to ask yourself is, is this thing that they're approving of me of?

0:07.1

Is this aligned with my values?

0:08.8

If it is, that's amazing because it's like, great, now me acting in accordance my values also is something a lot of people tend to like.

0:14.8

But we don't want to do it just because other people like it if it's not in alignment with our values.

0:21.9

What's up, guys, welcome back to build Build and today I want to talk about applause and criticism.

0:26.6

So the reason I want to talk about this is because I have been sent recently like quite a few

0:31.8

things from people of people just, you know, talking about me on the internet, which, you know,

0:36.6

don't Google your name if you have

0:38.1

following on the internet because I never do that stuff. Like, I'm aware of what people say. I just don't go looking for it.

0:43.2

You know, the person who sent to me was a friend and I think she was trying to like look out for me. this person is like talking about you and look at all the stuff they're saying and to be fair like

0:54.5

I never send people negative things people say about them because I just don't see the point. I'm like

0:58.9

what does somebody's opinion? It is what it is. And I was reading it and I was like I completely

1:02.8

understand why this person sees me this way. Does that mean I liked it? No. I definitely didn't

1:07.3

like it. Like I don't like reading things about me that are negative.

1:11.2

But I'm like not incredibly bothered by it.

1:14.2

And I really want to just like walk you guys through why that is because it was absolutely

1:18.2

criticizing me and just trying to dismantle like things I talk about online, the way I live

1:22.4

my life, etc.

1:23.2

Which again, I don't understand why people do that.

1:25.3

But like, it is very common.

1:26.5

So here we are. And I wanted to give you guys kind of the frame that I've had to take over the last four years

1:31.7

of being more public, of not just like running the company, but also like documenting, running

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