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Summary

• I prioritize honesty even if it attracts criticism. It's more important to me than worrying about negativity from others.
• Having a busy schedule is manageable with the right support; my two assistants are crucial to handling my day-to-day activities.
• Learn from observing others, especially how they deal with different situations such as receiving bad news.
• Being hands-on and helpful to the team even with small tasks can be important, even if it's not something I particularly enjoy.
• Maintaining health and wellness is not just about looking good but also being more effective for my team.
• Making lifestyle changes like moving into a condo can be aligned with personal preferences and needs.
• Transparency in personal choices, like having plastic surgery, is key. It's not about promoting it but being open and honest about my decisions.
• Meetings should serve their purpose effectively. As a team grows, the communication structure should adapt to avoid redundancy and disengagement.
• Provide opportunities to delegate, allowing the team to grow and take on new challenges, especially when personal circumstances—like surgery recovery—arise.
• Embracing appearance and admitting vanity is okay. It's important to be comfortable with how you look, regardless of others' opinions.
• Negative feedback is an opportunity to become more resilient—I appreciate the support but also grow from criticism.
• Authenticity is important in creating content. Being myself rather than putting on a show resonates more genuinely and contributes to a positive culture.
• Feedback is valued, and I want to know what the audience wants to see to improve the content they receive.

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How To Take Action

I would suggest starting with honesty as the foundation for your actions. This means being true to yourself and to others, even if it brings criticism. It shows integrity and builds trust with your audience and team.

A good way to manage a busy schedule is by getting support, like I do with my assistants. If you can't afford that, try software or apps to help with organization. Focus on what tasks are most important and prioritize those.

Learn by observing others. Watch how successful people handle tough situations. You can gain real insight into character and how to deal with challenges by their reactions.

Even if you don't enjoy it, be willing to help your team with small tasks. It shows you're part of the team, not above them. It also encourages a culture of helping each other.

To maintain health and wellness, find what motivates you. For me, it's about looking good, but it also makes me more effective at work.

Make personal and lifestyle changes that suit you, like I did with moving into a condo. Align your environment with your personal needs and preferences for a happier life.

Be transparent with your choices. If you're making a change, like I did with plastic surgery, be open about it. It's not about promoting the choice but being honest about your decisions.

Adapt the structure of meetings as your team grows. Make sure they're not redundant and that each serves a clear, necessary purpose.

Delegate to empower your team. When I went through surgery recovery, it provided an opportunity for my team to grow by taking on new responsibilities.

Embrace your appearance and be comfortable with how you look. Vanity is okay if it makes you feel confident.

Finally, use negative feedback as an opportunity to become more resilient and to improve. Value feedback, be authentic in your content, and engage with your audience to give them what they want.

Quotes by Leila Hormozi

"I value being honest more than I care about the people that are going to say [ __ ] about it after"

– Leila Hormozi

"What got me started was wanting to look good; what kept me going during the times that I was running the business up really chaotic were that I felt like I was way better for the team when I worked out"

– Leila Hormozi

"If you just like have a team, it makes your life a lot easier"

– Leila Hormozi

"I think it's understanding the purpose of the meeting"

– Leila Hormozi

"I'm not saying that what I do is like setting the best example for people; I'm not saying I'm Gandhi out here"

– Leila Hormozi

Full Transcript

they don't talk about it right I'm going to talk about it I value being honest more than I care about the people that are going to say [ __ ] about it after [Music] so what's the day looking like today dude today's busy [Music] before anything bring our laundry down then I need to go check the old unit because people delivered [ __ ] there still while I walk I have like three things I need to review we need to film a video portfolio company check-in interview with a CFO portfolio Ops huddle then we have the full team meeting have the weekly leadership meeting or a pipeline meeting one of our portfolio company check-ins and another portfolio company check in take a walk rate go to see an office building how do you handle all that have two assistants and so honestly they saved my [ __ ] life so if you just like have a team it makes your life a lot easier that's decaf there's also a capital thanks this looks like a Little Rock I learned a lot of like character traits and skills and dealing with people by observing people who are older than me or further ahead than me just like go out to a restaurant or like how they talk to their dormant thank you so much oh hair new I like it or how they receive their mail or how they deal with bad news it's like you can't ask that question like Hey how do you receive bad news someone can like describe it to you but if you see them get bad news and then you immediately watch their reaction you'll learn a hundred times more from that than anything they could tell you that's where I get pumped about the Vlog we did like the Spanish version of offers for some reason I opened one the other day and I was like they look like [ __ ] they said can you send like barcodes to all the books that look like [ __ ] and I was like well it's all of them but so I have to send the barcodes to my dad because my dad does all the book stuff hi Dad when you said a picture of the last inside page do you mean like print like the paragraph or of the barcode I'm actually not a fan of inconveniences at all in fact when they asked me to talk about this I'm like ew I hate that I even did that if I'm the closest in proximity and somebody else is not gonna be able to get to it for a significant period of time and it's going to help somebody on the team then I'll do it okay where was printed and what date okay yeah okay I'll do it right now and send it to you all right yep love you bye do I like doing little things like that not really I usually have other people like I have a whole admin team but in that moment it felt like that would just be lazy I'm almost down I'm down nine pounds why are you looking at me like that he doesn't encourage me I do encourage you I'm happy that you're happy whatever it is you look great and I see it as like you wearing different outfits like you look great in a ball game or craving gym clothes and so it's like you look great at 10 pounds look great at 10 pounds out here yeah I would say that actually health is a byproduct of me wanting to look a certain way you know when I lost 100 pounds the motivation was not to be healthy it was to be a representation of what Excellence looks like and then as I got into business I noticed that when I worked out it felt like I was much better after for my team though what got me started was wanting to look good what kept me going during the times that I was running the business up really chaotic were that I felt like I was way better for the team when I worked out [Music] actually just bought a new condo so I'm gonna give you guys a little sneak peek of our new condo Alex's temporary office so this is going to be my office because we're making his office in one of the giant closets so a lot of you have seen content where Alex and I talked about how we like sold our big house sold all of our cars sold all of our [ __ ] and just like went into renting and so the reason that we decided to buy that condo is honestly like anything that we wanted to live in you have to buy you can't rent kitchen much more refrigerator space the whole time will be in our last place the freezer had been set too low so we were always like a bag of ice cream it's so hard this little Alex was like this freezer is so much better dude like the ice cream is like scoopable he was like what the [ __ ] it was just the temperature guest room they showed us this one after we moved in so it's like a secret closet it's like well that's kind of cool toilets right so there's like music so you can play music in here while you're going to the bathroom you can like decide how to flush and then it's like a bidet as well this is the TV right here and it comes out and it's you can turn it either way so it'll like 360 rotate I love the bathroom the shower has like a bajillion nozzles but you gotta sit on this couch the only thing we were saying is we're like we like have guests over and this is not like a like sit-up couch it's like you're like you know I like working from home I probably would like to do both I mean that's really ideal for me I'd like to have an office that we can go into I never want to force anyone to go into an office it's been seven years that I've run a remote company I've been able to mitigate a lot of the negatives that people find from working from home from learning how to do it in a way that still Fosters culture and kind of relationships there's like your podcast stuff in the kitchen isn't it because you love looking at yourself in the morning no that's not even my face anymore people are like distracted by it and they're not even like looking at my content there's like talking about my face I'm like no this is not AI Layla this is Layla after she got her brows and her nose done you know a lot of people ask why I'm like I don't know I wanted to so it's like took the like hump off my nose so he was like it'll be really nice if we do the nose and then your eyes you just pull it it's almost to the side and up and so I did that too I wanted to be public because I think a lot of women are ashamed of getting things done they're ashamed of having filler Botox by the way I've had both of those for like the last six years I have done all these things in my business career and never mixed the personal with the business it's important in a way to be open about both just so people know who I really am [Music] all right see you team we were talking about adjusting our 14 degrees I think it's a little bit repetitive because I just know the other meetings that we now have because we have a bigger team and it's expanding those meetings cover some of the stuff on this meeting the point is that the information gets disseminated how it gets disseminated usually changes based on the size so like when we were smaller a full team meeting makes sense to distribute like functional Department information but when you are then having a full functional department meeting which now we like are having more of those than to also say that information on the full team meeting is just duplicative and then people are disengaged well that's all I had for for pipeline today so we took his numbers we put our deal flow through it if we were to basically take him on and then eventually feed him deal flow from e-commerce companies and so that's like kind of The Stance we're going to take it's like what is a pipeline meeting a lot of companies that inquire every month to be a portfolio company the pipeline is to see like where are all the opportunities who has come into the pipeline we have levels of filtration like somebody who calls all those people and if they pass the call they go into somebody who has a thick call with them and if they pass that person they have another fit call and if they pass that person they talk to our head of Business Development and if they pass that person they talk to the head of Business Development plus a couple people from the team that are on Deal Board and then if they pass them they talk to me so I think it's understanding the purpose of the meeting I know that I have meetings that in a year I will not have I have to email a couple people back and I'm probably gonna try and finish my makeup that I still haven't done cool thank you Justin for putting all that together yeah thank you guys I don't feel tired I just have a headache not like a headache it's just uh it's actually just since my surgery it I make a lot of Expressions my head just gets sore still haven't put them off so now what uh I mean I have like 10 minutes until the next meeting what do you usually try to do with those 10 minutes I have uh people that I need to respond to but I'm not going to do that until I have a 30 minute break in like I think an hour and a half and so I have a couple emails that I need to respond to I like that there's mirrors everywhere in this place you can like leave them on for a couple days too they look a lot better mascara like comes off all day I think it looks more uh like natural I value what I look like I value my appearance like I do place value there like I'm not gonna pretend like I'm not vain I got plastic surgery because I care what I look like you know whether you guys think it's bad that I did this or good that I do this is divorced from the fact that all I care about is that I'm honest that's all I promised I'm not saying that what I do is like setting the best example for people I'm not saying I'm Gandhi out here I thought that it would look better if I changed my nose and I do think it looks better like I think a lot of people assume like oh you must have just really hated your face I'm like no I actually I've always thought I'm very pretty I like doing makeup and hair and all that stuff like it's not like I must sacrifice because of business we had just made that Playbook so it's perfect timing because we just have the whole thing ready not saying I recommend it or think people should do it I'm just pro-doing whatever the [ __ ] you want I felt good about these conversations I just am myself and apparently and honestly and then people like it they like it if they don't they don't hi Leila nice to meet you nice to meet you nice to meet you sprucing up getting good Lighting in here uh probably replace the so all the flooring is the rubber what we're looking for in an office is less traditional I know [Music] they jumped out of him and find me office in Vegas if you can find me an office in Las Vegas I will [ __ ] pay you a million dollars not a million dollars but I will give you really Great Commission parking garage until it becomes the Mega Gym you know that's what he's wanting this is why it's been so hard that Alex wants like a full commercial gym in the office really we're looking for a place where we can mostly facilitate media we have the idea to have a YouTube studio for me a YouTube studio for Alex a podcast studio for the two of us I think I should get surgery like you're not thinking about work at all and so I actually then looked at it as like this is a great opportunity to delegate to the team to give them more opportunity to take on these challenges that normally I do I thought the recovery was pretty good I just decided to go on camera two weeks later I was like I don't give a [ __ ] I'm not gonna stop making content I think I want to be open about it because 40 of women have had some kind of cosmetic procedure yes carpet walls I think it's weakened yeah it depends on I haven't been too bothered by it I just don't like when people say why are you being secretive about it I'm like oh my gosh I put it everywhere little like it just looks a little old so maybe just like whatever we can do that's like the lightest touch to like just make it look spruced up a little bit okay do you want this to be your office you have a little area right here you can do little presentation stuff and then we could make this the main office you can get ready in here that's literally all you needed to say is there's a [ __ ] shower in here and I'm in I could just make this the whole like get like literally get ready area I can put a closet right here what if we turned into pink and there's a closet here with my racks of clothing to wear I too care about what I look like to be like I don't care what I look like it's not true I do are we stuck for sure I'm hungry you know like the only person that I care that likes what I look like is my [ __ ] husband [Applause] [Music] thank you again Stella I think all the assumptions I assumed people would make were correct which is fine I look um but it doesn't bother me I'm not gonna not do something because of what I'm afraid people are gonna think do you want to do the drive Sarah said in there fine hello [Music] also appreciate those of you who didn't support it because it has actually just made me better every time I see somebody who says something you know negative about it I think it's an opportunity for me to be better and more resilient and I appreciate it I appreciate all of you guys who have been so supportive I just love that you guys understand that I'm just trying to be honest and I don't expect people to like support the decision but I love that you're supporting me being honest [Music] I feel like on camera I get nervous or like I'm more intense or just not as much myself it's like direct to camera content feels like a show more than it is like me that version of myself is not what has created the success the information has but the demeanor has not I think like the demeanor I have in the Vlogs it's like much more aligned to like that's what it looks like and that's how you act I think to like create a good culture thanks for the feedback on the first Vlog like curious what you guys want to see more of and just appreciate all the support and we hope to keep doing these if you guys like them so let us know