Build with Leila Hormozi
How can you create an unshakeable business? My name is Leila Hormozi and I crossed $100M by the age of 28. Now I’m growing acquisition.com into a billion-dollar portfolio. In this podcast, I share the lessons I’ve learned in scaling big businesses and helping our portfolio companies do the same. Buckle up, Let's BUILD.
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June 25, 2026 • 11 mins
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Nobody gets respect by asking for it. They get it by becoming the person who wouldn't tolerate the lack of it. In this episode, Leila defines self-respect and explains why the world respecting someone is always an indicator of them respecting themselves first. The cycle of chasing validation, tolerat...
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June 23, 2026 • 6 mins
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Real discipline is not trying to quit a bad habit cold turkey. That almost always fails. In today’s episode, Leila shares the unglamorous, boring systems and routines behind real discipline. She uses real-life examples to explain how to break bad habits and do all the hard thinking ahead of tim...
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June 18, 2026 • 13 mins
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Doing the right things at the right stage is everything when building a business. The right move at the wrong time will break the business. In this episode, Leila maps out different business levels—from surviving chaos to scaling past 50 employees, and the constraints holding most founders back at three stages ...
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June 16, 2026 • 6 mins
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Respect is taught through actions and consequences, not conversations. In this episode, Leila shares the tactics that confident, high-performing individuals use to command respect without yelling, begging, or explaining themselves. Self-respect is a system of consistent actions and behavior that refuses to...
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June 11, 2026 • 11 mins
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Being busy all day and achieving nothing isn't a productivity problem but a priority problem. In this episode, Leila breaks down the principles she used to go from working 16-hour days and feeling empty to running a multi-million-dollar business with more focus and less friction. The shift wasn't about doing more. It was...
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June 9, 2026 • 14 mins
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Most employees never figure out why they keep getting passed over during promotions. In this episode, Leila breaks down the six signs that a team member is ready for leadership. None of them is a technical skill. They are all behaviors that most ambitious people are either ignoring or getting completely wrong while seek...
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June 4, 2026 • 11 mins
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I've built companies worth hundreds of millions, and I've watched people with twice my talent blow up their lives by quitting at the wrong time. In this episode, I'm getting honest about what actually needs to be true before you walk out the door.
In this episode
00:00 Why most people aren't ready to quit
01:00 Get a p...
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June 2, 2026 • 9 mins
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Don't judge your boss by what you see, because their most important responsibilities are not necessarily visible. In this episode, Leila breaks down the iceberg illusion of leadership and why an employee might be oblivious to 90% of the work that's done by their leader. And entrepreneurs must train their team members...
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May 28, 2026 • 13 mins
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AI isn't the problem. Using it to avoid thinking is. In this episode, Leila shares the memo she was forced to write after watching her own team misuse AI to the point it became a problem. She shares the three mistakes that make people using AI look worse, not better, and the one thing she'd beg anyone to start doing ins...
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May 26, 2026 • 8 mins
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The habits that ruin ambitious people rarely feel like self-sabotage. They feel like common sense. In this excerpt, Leila exposes four of the most dangerous ones, the kind that disguise themselves as intuition, humility, productivity, and freedom. The hardest part isn't fixing them. It’s admitting they're there.
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May 21, 2026 • 11 mins
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Hiring more people doesn't fix a broken business. It just scales the chaos. In this episode excerpt, Leila breaks down three of the five systems every company needs. She explains how founders become the bottleneck when these systems are missing and shares practical frameworks to train employees, create accountability, a...
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May 19, 2026 • 9 mins
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Hitting $50 million on paper doesn’t mean a business is safe. Weak systems and tolerating bad behavior can destroy everything overnight. Today, Leila shares how rapid growth nearly broke her company and why success exposes broken systems. She explains why culture is a system, not words on a wall, and how tolera...
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May 14, 2026 • 9 mins
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Most ambitious people don't have an ambition problem. They have a habit problem. In this episode, Leila breaks down the four subtle habits that keep high-achievers stuck, including making every choice a forever decision and collecting identities that anchor them to a version of themselves they've already outgrown. If ...
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May 12, 2026 • 5 mins
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Acceptance is power. Growth starts when people stop resisting discomfort and start moving with reality instead of against it. In this episode, Leila explains why anxiety, fear, and negative thoughts only control people who treat them like they were facts. She also shares the mental frameworks that helped her stop spiral...
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May 7, 2026 • 17 mins
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The internet glamorizes quitting the 9-to-5 for entrepreneurship, but most people are nowhere near ready to run a business. In this episode, Leila breaks down six signs that determine whether it’s actually time to leave a job. She explains why proof matters more than passion, why emotional stability is a business ...
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May 5, 2026 • 4 mins
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Too often, people stay stuck in toxic cycles when trying to prove their worth and get others to respect them. In this episode, Leila explains how self-respect is built from within and not earned. She shares the power of setting clear boundaries, communicating with intention, and confronting criticism head-on. Self-re...
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April 30, 2026 • 11 mins
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Most people quit their jobs, trash the culture, and end up just as miserable somewhere new, because the company was never the problem. In this episode, Leila breaks down the five mindset shifts employees need to stop surviving their work environment and start excelling in it. From dropping the "toxic" label to radical a...
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April 28, 2026 • 5 mins
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The path to wealth isn’t just about grinding harder but also understanding the psychology behind it. In this episode, Leila shares the key mental shifts needed to make more money and scale a business. She reveals how most people fail not because of a lack of effort, but because they’re controlled by limiting...
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April 23, 2026 • 20 mins
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The difference between leaders who grow and those who plateau is learning how to step back and trust their teams. In this episode, Leila breaks down how leaders can shift from being the star player to being the coach. She emphasizes the power of delegating decisions (not just tasks) and creating psychological safety so ...
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April 21, 2026 • 13 mins
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Entrepreneurs who struggle take every failure personally; those who win treat each decision as an experiment. In this episode, Leila shares a tough truth about entrepreneurship: effort doesn’t guarantee success. The key to growth is learning to embrace failure as feedback and not defeat. She also shares five minds...
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