Tom Bilyeu

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745 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 14 Jul

Tom Bilyeu’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Leap Academy with Ilana Golan · Tom Bilyeu: How I Proved Everyone Wrong and Built a Billion-Dollar Brand | E62 · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

And so I was constantly, I wanted things that I couldn't have. voice-verified

And I was told, you can't have that because we can't afford it. voice-verified

I'm actually glad that they baked that in. voice-verified

So I really grew up with a lot of resentment about not being able to have the things that I wanted because I couldn't afford them. voice-verified

And then in my household, you had to have a job in the summer. voice-verified

Every summer, I had a job from the time I was 12. voice-verified

So I got a job in a door factory when I was 12 because my parents refused to buy me a Nintendo. voice-verified

One, because it was expensive. voice-verified

And two, because they believed that video games would rot your brain. voice-verified

I highly disagree, obviously. voice-verified

But all of that really instilled in me this resentment of not being able to control my own life voice-verified

And then that, oh, wait a second, if I work for something, I can get money and then I can control my life. voice-verified

I was like, okay, yeah, I can get behind that. voice-verified

It's just cause and effect. voice-verified

And so, yeah, from the time I was 12, I had horrible jobs and my dad always said, this builds character. voice-verified

And so I just had it beat into me voice-verified

that you do hard things, you learn the lessons. voice-verified

Sometimes it's, I don't want to do this, but you don't quit, you push through. voice-verified

And so even though I resented it tremendously, it built a lot of resilience, a tremendous ability to suffer because I was just so often doing things I hated that were physically demanding that voice-verified

It really showed me, one, none of this broke me, none of this killed me. voice-verified

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