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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August 19, 2026 • 16 mins
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Guilt controls more decisions than most people realize. In this episode, Leila reveals how guilt can limit ambition, fill calendars with endless obligations, and prevent people from making decisions aligned with their values. She also shares tips on how to separate feelings from facts, tolerate discomfort, and stop taki...
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August 5, 2026 • 13 mins
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The real reason most people feel like they're failing at balance has nothing to do with having too much on their plate. They simply haven’t decided what matters most right now, in this moment. Leila gets candid about what getting pregnant mid-book-launch taught her about priorities, seasons, and the one question m...
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July 30, 2026 • 8 mins
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Women lose power in entrepreneurship because they keep blaming factors they cannot control. In this episode, Leila shares the brutal truths about building a business while balancing competing values like family, relationships, and personal ambitions. She explains why conflict between these values is inevitabl...
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July 28, 2026 • 13 mins
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The biggest threat to a business isn’t hiring the wrong person. It’s refusing to hire the right people to help you grow it. In this episode, Leila Hormozi explains how great leaders create leverage by surrounding themselves with people who challenge their capabilities, raise the standard, and buil...
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July 23, 2026 • 9 mins
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A supportive environment is fundamental to achieving success. In this episode, Leila and Alex explore the role a spouse or partner plays in how far someone can go in life and business. They discuss how supportive relationships foster growth and how mutual trust allows couples to pursue bigger opportunities.
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July 21, 2026 • 9 mins
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Most people don’t fail at their goals because they lack ambition, but because they focus on the wrong things. In this episode, Leila introduces the A4 Method: a four-pillar framework for achieving goals built on self-awareness. She explains why success is not one big breakthrough, but thousands of small actions...
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July 16, 2026 • 8 mins
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Leadership is the only skill that multiplies everything else. Today, Leila breaks down the traits that separate managers from true leaders. She explains why personal choices shape professional reputation and why leaders cannot separate who they are at work from who they are everywhere else. Great leaders d...
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July 14, 2026 • 8 mins
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People who are good at what they do chase money, but when you're the best, money chases you. In this episode, Leila breaks down three rules about money that most people learn too late, including why passive income isn't actually passive, and why money alone never creates fulfillment.
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July 9, 2026 • 23 mins
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Building confidence has nothing to do with affirmations, faking it, or "feeling ready." Confidence is built through deliberate, repeatable behavior. In this episode, Leila breaks down five mindset shifts that move the needle on how someone shows up in rooms, on stages, and in high-stakes conversations. The goal isn...
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July 7, 2026 • 12 mins
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At 19, she'd been arrested six times and was 100 pounds overweight. By 28, she'd crossed $100 million net worth. In today's episode, Leila breaks down the exact mindset shifts that got her there, from ditching toxic relationships to learning sales from scratch, and why investing in your skills, not your looks or your...
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July 2, 2026 • 15 mins
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Success is built in the process, not at the finishing line. In today’s episode, Leila shares three business lessons she learned from bikini competitions and remarkable exits, including why behavior beats visualization and how clarity creates momentum. She explains how structured execution, not ...
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June 30, 2026 • 3 mins
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Many people fail to achieve their goals because they're constantly watching the scoreboard instead of running the play. In this episode, Leila breaks down how shifting attention from outcomes to inputs keeps you in the game long enough to win. Clarity creates confidence. Confidence creates consistenc...
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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, tolerating di...
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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.
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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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