When it gets EASY is when you need to go HARD...a turning point in my life & Gym Launch | Ep 101
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Alex Hormozi
4.9 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
"You need to have momentum in order to succeed as an entrepreneur." Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) encourages business owners to take their business to the next level and shares stories of entrepreneurs who have achieved success through self-induced pressure and momentum.
Welcome to The Game w/Alex Hormozi, hosted by entrepreneur, founder, investor, author, public speaker, and content creator Alex Hormozi. On this podcast you’ll hear how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons Alex has learned on his path from $100M to $1B in net worth.
Timestamps:
(1:07) - Overcoming explosive growth challenges with Gym Launch
(2:42) - The moment that changed Leila and my life
(6:11) - The power of self-induced pressure & ten-folding your success
(10:34) - The benefits of going hard and always evolving
(12:25) - Going all in during times of prosperity
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| 0:00.0 | Most of the nation real quick, if you are a business owner that has a big old business and wants to get to a much bigger business, |
| 0:06.1 | going to $50, $100,000 plus we would love to talk to you. |
| 0:09.5 | And if you like that or would like to hear more about it, go to acquisition.com and you can plan anywhere on the page |
| 0:14.3 | and talk to one of our team and see if we can help you get there. |
| 0:17.6 | I wanted to make this video for you because I saw a post by Nicole Reis. |
| 0:23.4 | And she said, she was saying how she has seen herself, give herself the label of like, I'm good under pressure, |
| 0:31.6 | which basically for her in her business was like, she kind of coasted until she needed to and then she would double down and get, you know, GSD right and get it done. |
| 0:41.1 | And I wanted to tell you the story because like when I tell you the things that I've messed up and like all the things that we've learned in Jamont, |
| 0:48.2 | that we share with the Jamonters, just like, I've literally made every one of these mistakes. |
| 0:52.2 | And so I have the scars, like none of these were like, I read it in a book and I want to share it with like, like, I'm, |
| 1:00.2 | I've messed up so many things inside just don't watch like the only advantage that we've ever had is that like, I'll just try not to make the same mistake twice. |
| 1:06.5 | So let me tell you this story of how I was able to overcome the thing that she was explaining. |
| 1:14.3 | So when later when I started out with Jamont, so we're obviously, you know, we had the gyms and sold them and now we're doing Jamont. |
| 1:20.2 | And this is the very beginning. |
| 1:21.7 | So we're talking three months, four months in a gym lunch, Russell saw what we were doing and saw that we had this explosive growth. |
| 1:28.5 | And at the time it was just Laila. |
| 1:31.1 | It was me, Laila. |
| 1:33.0 | And I think we had one other employee. |
| 1:36.0 | And this may not seem real for you. |
| 1:38.2 | And I say this with no intention of bragging. |
| 1:40.6 | I'm just trying to give you relative scope. |
| 1:42.6 | I think we were doing about 250 to $300,000 a month from our kitchen table. |
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