Leila Hormozi: The Leadership Mindset That Changes How You Operate in Business and Life | Leadership | YAPClassic

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What's up, Young and Profitors? Today's YAP Classic is for anyone who wants to move like a boss, lead like a boss, and build like a boss. Leila Hormozi is the co-founder of acquisition.com, a holding company responsible for over $200 million in yearly revenue.
In this conversation, she breaks down what it takes to lead at a high level, from building discipline and hiring great people, to giving honest feedback and raising your standards. Earlier this week, we talked about building a business that gives you freedom, and Leila shows us that freedom does not come from vibes, it comes from leadership. So listen in and learn from the one and only Leila Hormozi. Leila, when we look at personalities as adults, it can often drive the reasoning behind our strongest personality traits from our childhood, right? We can often see the experiences that we had sort of shape us as we're an adult. So you are an extraordinary example of an entrepreneur. So I'd love to understand what were your experiences growing up? How do you think they shaped you as the entrepreneur that you are today?

**Leila Hormozi** (3:09)
Yeah, you know, I think it's experiences and also lack of experiences, right? And so if I look at what I had as a child and what I didn't have as a child, which I'm really grateful for because it's made me who I am today.
I didn't have a very present mother figure after a certain point in my life. My parents got divorced when I was young. They got divorced. My mother kind of went off the rails, you know, into alcohol and drugs and just not down a good path. And I still continue to live with her during that time because when my parents were married, my dad and my mom, like my dad was always at work. And so I wasn't really close with him. And so when the divorce came, it was kind of like, you're going to live with mom because she was a great mom up until that point in my life.
But at that point, a shift took. So my sister actually, at that point, was six years older than me, left the house. It was time for her to go to college. And then my dad left because they were getting divorced. And so it was me and my mom. Then her dad died. And that really set her off. And so that is when she went down, not great trajectory into alcohol. And I witnessed it as a young kid. And so there was quite a bit of a lack of leadership. Because I would go to my dad's, I think once every two weeks in the beginning. But I hid what was going on for my dad because I was afraid that I would have to go live with him. And at that point, I didn't really have a relationship, which is crazy to say because now I'm so close with my dad. He's amazing. But at that point, we didn't have the closest relationship. And I was a kid and I just wanted to be near my mom. And so she continued down this spiral with alcohol.