Day In The Life of Leila Hormozi

Summary

• Sometimes we keep quiet about our struggles, which can make us think we're alone in our challenges.
• Preparation is key, even for seemingly small things like having your seatbelt on or bringing your own gum because you never know what situation you might encounter.
• It's important to recognize and manage stress, categorizing whether it's circumstantial or more persistent.
• Daily physical activity, like walking, is beneficial for health and can burn more calories over time.
• Delegating tasks is necessary, but there's a learning curve for the team to become efficient without direct oversight.
• It's important to continue to be involved in key business negotiations to ensure that agreements reflect genuine intentions, rather than pressured consent.
• Emphasizing the need to cultivate a community within your business where there's positive peer reinforcement.
• Transparency and authenticity in leadership attract high-caliber, like-minded individuals to your team.
• Establishing strong core values within an organization helps shape behavior without needing exhaustive rules.
• Before offloading tasks you dislike, consider their impact—if business can't sustain a dip in effectiveness, train someone thoroughly first.
• Fear of not wanting to become a lesser version of yourself can be a strong motivator for personal growth and change.
• Effective management involves creating self-monitoring opportunities for employees, which allows for self-correction before intervention is needed.
• Celebrate the strengths in your relationship, especially when those skills complement each other in business.
• In work relationships, especially with a partner, it's important to maintain unity in front of the team and to separate professional disagreements from personal life.
• Flexibility and adaptation are key when your schedule changes, like during travel or when unexpected issues arise.

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How To Take Action

I would suggest starting to tackle challenges by not keeping them to yourself. Share your struggles with trusted friends, colleagues, or a mentor. This helps you realize you're not alone and can lead to solutions and support.

Preparation is also really important. Like having gum with you if it helps you manage stress. Do small things to be ready for any situation like keeping your phone charged, setting reminders for meetings, and having a plan for your day.

Stress can be tough, so it's a good idea to figure out if it's just a one-time thing or always around. Find ways to relax, such as walking, which is not only good for your mood but also for health and burning calories.

When things get really busy, delegating tasks to others can help a lot. Just make sure you give clear instructions and allow your team some time to learn. Keep an eye on the important stuff yourself to make sure it's done right.

It's also cool to try to make a community at work where everyone helps each other stay positive. Being real and honest as a leader can help bring in great people who want to work hard and do well.

Set up some big goals for your work that everyone knows. This way, you don't have to make lots of rules; people will just know what to do to be successful.

If there's something you don't like to do, see if it's okay to have someone else do it. But be ready for things maybe not being perfect right away. If you can't have things go wrong, you'll need to teach someone really well how to take over for you.

And don't forget to see what makes you and the people you work with really good. When you know what you're good at and what others are good at, you can help each other out more.

Lastly, it's good to stay flexible and adapt when plans change, like if you're traveling or something unexpected comes up. Just roll with it and keep going!

Quotes by Leila Hormozi

"You have to create an environment in which not just the boss reinforces you to stay there but your peers are reinforcing you to stay there because they're also doing the same thing"

– Leila Hormozi

"If you lead with values, you can get people to adhere to 99% of what you need them to"

– Leila Hormozi

"Until you are at a point where you are an anomaly, you will not attract people who are anomalies"

– Leila Hormozi

"You need to be able to build a vision so big that they can fit their vision for themselves inside of it"

– Leila Hormozi

"Finding the things that you hate and suck at, I start there with people because usually if you hate doing it, you're not doing a good job of it"

– Leila Hormozi

Full Transcript

nobody [ __ ] talks about it and so you do think something's wrong with you and I thought it wasn't normal that was when it really felt bad [Music] [Applause] gotta be ready for it it's three weeks a bunch of wife beaters am I ready no my eyelash is falling off [Music] you're looking fresh GQ [Music] had my favorite soda it was like Diet Sunkist we get on I was like amazing my favorite soda I was like where's the bathroom and they were like there is no bathroom the whole thing was filled with fluids just like you really need it we have a bucket and I was like bro like this doesn't feel private [Music] I wish I had my seat belt on [Music] she's a pack a day chewer see how many ounces this is that's because I get nervous I think 20 pieces a day or 16 a day is a super conserved investment it's one million okay listen there's it's circumstantial stress and you're only circumstantially stressed all right so we're gonna say 1.68 per day times 365 days is 613 times 7 would be 4 300 ounces divided by 16 is pounds you would be 260 pounds of gum if it lasted seven years we just debunked it [Music] she's like walk fast I was like you just walk around me just keep doing your little laps and then it works I just go okay we just keep talking and I'm just walking like this they've done studies on this if you can just move more walking moving fidgeting Etc you actually burn more calories than everybody I've gone on a walk every day for the last 3 and 650 days just walked after a walk just watch for Gators elevator [Music] I don't know where's this dude it's right there I mean it could be a turtle oh that would be lame [Music] like real calf not decaf whoa whoa I usually get up like two hours before Alex and then he wakes up sometimes I don't know he's up and I just hear his phone and he watches cartoons or like comedy in there and then other times he texts me and he's like hi I'm like hi do you want coffee and then he's like yeah and he doesn't come out for like an hour it feels a little different because we're traveling like normally my computer's just sitting out there and I have coffee and I open my computer immediately but I had to kind of like tell the team that I wanted to not worry about stuff when I was traveling which was more for me nothing I mean there's just kind of like the shittiness of like I just fired somebody who's like a key person I knew that was gonna suck but I had to do it anyways and then like three days later somebody else on the team told me they're retiring it was the second key person I think it's more like impending doom part of me doesn't like me and Alex being involved in most of the portfolio negotiations because I feel like it's unfair us from social media and him specifically they come into the conversations like they'll just agree to anything in that conversation and then afterwards and they're like actually this is how I really feel normally I'd be like doing emails and stuff right now but I don't feel like it today I think some of the only time that I'm like good at unplugging is when we travel I used to feel guilty for that trying to do everything it's almost like a watered-down version of yourself for all the things you're trying to do probably walk normally I would do it on the treadmill but I would so nice out Jim two calls have a dinner later I'm gonna go grab my laptop because he's awake do you want coffee Alex likes double shot of espresso Express what are you gonna do today here's you my brain's starting to work I don't know if any hotel gym is going to beat the gyms that I go to I like seeing people and people saying hi and stuff but on a consistent basis it's a little inconvenient when people like kind of take a picture and you're like [Music] yeah true coach semi guy Mike programs my workouts and I like log them in here so I can like go in and see what I did there's resistance on the concept again the Eastern Turkey equally so it's like really hard I usually hate this equipment [Music] they're so hard I like it though I've got staggered stance RDL and band poulters which I bring bands so that's fine put your feet like at a 15 degree angle and it actually gets more actual glute then feel like this which is like abductors [Music] coming back from the gym [Applause] foreign cookie I gotta figure out the mood for dinner tonight I just took myself off a [ __ ] ton of meetings so my schedule is a lot lighter than it was would it be beneficial to be on them sure but is the team Gonna Learn no I think I'm just stifling them they're absolutely capable I think the only hard thing for me about delegation like I absolutely do it there's like always a weird gap before you take on the next load of work and it's like that Gap is tough for me because I like being really busy I just like doing stuff and talking to people I think my job is like constantly solving whatever the problem is whatever the constraint of the business is where I should be focused and right now I think the constraint is efficiency of sorting through our deal flow like the situation we have at acquisition.com is unique because so many private Equity firms they can't get deal flow worth [ __ ] and then they have to pay other firms to get deal flows our deal flow is all like we would like to work with acquisition.com to take on the same practices that other firms do makes no [ __ ] sense for us because we have an obscene amount of deal flow [Music] oh [ __ ] it's a Michelin star restaurant so after the calls that you guys saw went on a walk and then now we're at dinner it's kind of a weird day because we're traveling I got locked out of Google for like seven hours that was interesting my Google's just like Frozen it's literally just not letting me in so we'll just have dinner now and then if you think about it there's results and experience and that's what builds Community we had a community in gym launch and now we're able to start creating a community with content I think that the same things exist there it's like there's a charismatic leader there's a reason that you're doing the thing and then there's an opposing Force right that you stand against I think where most people mess up is that they have a business that they produce results with but they forget why they even do it they don't talk about the reason that the business even exists and then you just blur with the rest of the people in the marketplace people won't stay in a community if they're not positively reinforced to do so by other members of the community people don't stay in a business that they're not positively reinforced by all their peers in the business you have to create an environment in which not just the boss reinforces you to stay there but your peers are reinforcing you to stay there because they're also doing the same thing positive reinforcement it works even when you know it's happening [Music] hey supermodel yeah Layla is the boss that you want and the boss you want to be she's the one who's always personally growing and forcing you to grow even if it's uncomfortable challenging your ideas and beliefs and helping you actually fulfill your potential because she gives a [ __ ] so please welcome the host of my favorite podcast filled with Layla hormozy [Applause] if you can make a gym work you can [ __ ] make any business work like the same stuff that we teach you guys at gym launch is the same stuff that I use to build gym launch to build Allen to build Prestige labs to build acquisition.com if you actually live and die by the values that you set with the organization it's where everything else stems from they are the root beliefs that the organization operates from if you lead with values you can get people to adhere to 99 of what you need them to so say speed is King is your value do I need to have a set of rules that says clock in every day by 8 AM sharp respond every teammate within 120 seconds instead of saying all those rules you set the one thing which is the value foreign [Music] all right [Applause] we're trying to find these Superstars to work for us but they're never going to believe in the company as much as we do because they're owners so how do we create that culture go make Kimberly do we happen though or do we thought of them and if they love it so much it's what's happening pretty much we're just weeding hey here's a couple of ways you can look at this when it's like how do I create Superstars I think that you become that Superstar and then you attract them if I look at our ability to attract Talent it just continues to get easier because we get better until you are at a point where you are an anomaly you will not attract people who are anomalies it doesn't matter what you compensate them it doesn't matter what you say because people who are different can feel when the person leading the entire organization is different I mean me and Alex have always believed from day one if we wanted to get people who are the most talented the most loyal who actually believed what we believed that we needed to be the strongest like most potent source of that on the team because it only gets weaker from there and to assume that people are going to believe more than you is this is not going to happen can they believe as much as you like does anyone believe in achieving like landing on Mars more than Elon Musk you know what I mean you're only going to get like right below you need to be able to build a vision so big that they can fit their vision for themselves inside of it and if you're not able to build that Vision it's hard to attract those people how do I know who to hire what to hire you know offloading certain tasks at a day-to-day basis to make sure I get a higher return of line there's things you hate things that you love things that you suck at and things that you're good at finding the things that you hate and suck at I start there with people because usually if you hate doing it you're not doing a good job of it when someone asks us like what do we do with our time I think a lot of times we glaze over certain things that are actually sucking up a ton of time just because of the cost of change between tasks some of you are doing things like maybe still writing workouts for the gym and doing and you're like listen I only do it on Sundays for like two hours and then [ __ ] teach somebody else to do it where I've seen people go wrong is that they offload something that they are good at but don't like too soon so they're like really sick of doing sales and so then they offload sales and then conversion drops dramatically if you're going to offload something the one thing that I just like to say you need to be prepared for whatever you're doing expect it to be 30 or 40 percent less as effective when you offload it and if the business can't sustain that maybe you need to keep doing it until you have somebody who's trained up where when they step in they can maintain that doesn't make sense [Applause] why don't we just do like I don't know yeah that's fine let's do that we'll do an hour right you guys are amazing and I love your videos what was your you know the biggest Journey for you when you went because you just had a trajectory what was the one thing that really kept you focused on that I'm just I don't think it was focused on the top as much as it was here of the bottom everyone's like you gotta feel good and like everyone's always been like you've got to see the future and like really see the vision of it I'm like oh [ __ ] that I saw the shitty version of myself that I didn't want to be right and I was so terrified of continuing down that hole yeah that was what motivated me a good point it's really like what would your life look like if you continue doing what you're doing and I was like look pretty [ __ ] shitty shitty yeah I don't want to be there right and so honestly there's more fear for a long time it's just motivating me in a weird way like it's totally fine and normal I don't want to be there it's really hard to Fathom a place that you haven't been I wanted to ask because you felt about the reward what about the punishments what about punishment I think most people think of punishment they think of when you tell someone why they did something wrong there's a consequence right most of the time some people don't do is create a situation in which they are having to self-monitor with a system so they are talking about how much they're progressing if that person's self-monitoring and not identifying that they're not doing well then you intercept that but you don't come to them and say you're doing a shitty job you come to them and you state the facts stating facts that are contrary to what they committed to over the last 30 days you have only closed at 40 percent and when you came on we said the expectation was to close at 65 percent what do you think of that deal bad does not equate to change in Behavior if someone feels bad they may change behavior in the moment and for a short period of time but if someone feels good they can change behavior for the long term I just want to say for how inspiring you've been for me so right now I'm managing three restaurants right now and I'm the only female so wow that's badass him and I so this is my fiance and we're kind of going into business together I'm going to transition into fitness yeah I feel like I'm overly qualified and underappreciated where I'm at you can manage 100 reasons for free restaurants you can [ __ ] man at a gym that's for sure thinking that I will do kind of more the operation Side sales in the marketing it's like I got that old day when it comes to Future planning and organizing events like I'm getting stressed out she's like I [ __ ] love this honestly the first thing is most people get wrong is they don't have complimentary skill sets you guys do that makes sense and if that's something that you can both do and both be excited about then honestly why not the difficulty that's always going to come across is how do you give each other feedback in the workplace and not let it affect how you are outside of the workplace in the beginning it was like hard for us to communicate we're working together one we didn't show it in front of the team if we went on the same page it was like we're not going to let the team know that they deserve for us to be United every time we come in front of anybody the friction is good and when you guys kind of argue and get at each other in the workplace that's good that's what's needed to make a great company but at home you got to forget about it we don't need to be that version we put white hat and husband hat on when we go home yeah and that's on the announcer we don't act the same at home at all and as we do when we're working together I appreciate that thank you keep it up hey guys congratulations thank you it was kind of a weird day because we're trying probably going to do another day where we're like at home and you guys can see more of like what it's like in our spot as the most efficient version of myself and yeah