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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How I Stopped Being the Escape Hatch for My Team | Ep. 354
<p>Read the unfiltered memos I send my team as we scale Acquisition.com to $1B+:</p><p>https://leilahormozi.com/subscribe </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>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 that teams can perform without constant oversight.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><...
The Market Does Not Care How Hard You Worked | Ep. 353
<p>Read the unfiltered memos I send my team as we scale Acquisition.com to $1B+:</p><p>https://leilahormozi.com/subscribe </p><p></p><p></p><p>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 mindset shifts necessary to grow a start-up into a multi-million dollar business.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In this episode</p>...
How to Stay Consistent When Life Is Not Going Your Way | Ep. 352
<p>Read the unfiltered memos I send my team as we scale Acquisition.com to $1B+:</p><p>https://leilahormozi.com/subscribe </p><p></p><p>Consistency isn't a personality trait that only a few people possess, but an engineered outcome.</p><p>In this episode, Leila Hormozi explains how people often fail to stay consistent because they haven’t designed their habits to work under real-life conditions. She shares five principles to build habits that stick– for people who have big ambitions and need to be consistent with the actions that will get them to their goals.</p><p></p><p...
The 5 Rules That Make People Want to Follow You | Ep. 351
<p>Read the unfiltered memos I send my team as we scale Acquisition.com to $1B+:</p><p>https://leilahormozi.com/subscribe </p><p></p><p></p><p>Leadership is not about being the smartest person in the room. In this episode of Build, Leila Hormozi reveals five underrated leadership traits you should master to get people to follow you, admire you, respect you, and treat you like an outstanding leader or CEO. She describes simple yet powerful day-to-day actions to help you become better at leadership.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In this episode</p><p>00:00...
Scale Your Business Like a Pro in 2026 | Ep. 350
<p>Read the unfiltered memos I send my team as we scale Acquisition.com to $1B+:</p><p>https://leilahormozi.com/subscribe </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Each stage of business growth brings new challenges, and founders often find themselves stuck at the same point: doing too much. In this episode, Leila Hormozi explains why scaling requires specialization and mastering systems, not adding more tasks. She shares how narrowing focus at each level accelerates growth and allows a business to run smoothly without the founder’s constant involvement.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In th...
Stop Sabotaging Every Smart Financial Decision You Make | Ep. 349
<p>Read the unfiltered memos I send my team as we scale Acquisition.com to $1B+:</p><p>https://leilahormozi.com/subscribe </p><p></p><p>Financial freedom is driven more by mindset than income. In this episode, Leila Hormozi shares the five money habits she had to quit to move from broke at 20 to a millionaire by 24. From making impulse purchases to failing to track numbers, Leila exposes common money mistakes that hinder people from building long-term wealth. The secret isn’t working harder to earn more but making sustainable, smart decisions that build your wealth over time.</p><p>...
Every Word You Speak Decides Your Worth | Ep. 348
<p>Get the unfiltered memos I send my team as we scale Acquisition.com to $1B+:</p><p>https://leilahormozi.com/subscribe </p><p></p><p>Overexplaining and rambling nearly hurt Leila Hormozi’s first business, but learning how to communicate clearly helped her grow a $250 million portfolio. In this episode, she explains why poor messaging is the reason most founders get ignored. She breaks down how a lack of clarity, coupled with wrong positioning and expectations, makes a leader forgettable. So what's the solution? Saying fewer things, more clearly, and repeating them until they stick.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I...
Your Calendar Reveals Why You’re Not Growing | Ep. 347
<p>Read the unfiltered memos I send my team as we scale Acquisition.com to $1B+:</p><p>https://leilahormozi.com/subscribe </p><p>Being super busy and yet not managing to achieve goals is more of a priority problem than a productivity problem. In this episode, Leila Hormozi breaks down the importance of aligning work schedules with the natural rhythms instead of pushing through exhaustion. She shares the six principles that the top 1% use to achieve goals. Energy management trumps time management when making major decisions.</p><p></p><p></p><p>In this episode</p><p>00:00 Stop maximizing...
The 5 Systems That Will Make Your Business Run Itself | Ep. 346
<p>Read the unfiltered memos I send my team as we scale Acquisition.com to $1B+:</p><p>https://leilahormozi.com/subscribe </p><p>Building a billion-dollar company depends on systems, not on working harder. In this episode, Leila Hormozi reveals the five systems necessary to break free from the bottleneck of being the business’s only driver. She explains how building the right culture, hiring funnel, and operations system, among other systems, allows founders to finally step out of the way and let their businesses take off.</p><p></p><p>In this episode</p><p>00:00 Build culture as a...
Unlock Your Best Year Yet | Ep. 345
<p>Read the unfiltered memos I send my team as we scale Acquisition.com to $1B+:</p><p>https://leilahormozi.com/subscribe </p><p></p><p>A founder’s strengths can be the very thing that limits business growth. In this episode, Leila Hormozi shares key principles for scaling a business, starting with the need to delegate what you're already good at, so you free up time to acquire new skills. Sustainable growth also requires normalizing setbacks, prioritizing rest and recovery, and building decision-making systems that function seamlessly in the founder's absence. These strategies build businesses that scale beyond one in...
