Alex Hormozi on Fatherhood, Leadership & The Cost of Success
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This is the Ed Milan Shaw. Welcome back to the show, everybody. So here's who I have with me today: somebody that I admire a great deal. I wish I spent more time with. I think he's one of the great American entrepreneurs, actually worldwide entrepreneurs. He's um I told him this privately on a conversation, I don't know, about six, eight weeks ago. I think he's the best in the world at teaching people how to be better business people and better marketers. I think he's number one in the world. And I say that as somebody who does it myself. So I have a great deal of admiration for him. Um most importantly, his brain is huge, but his heart is bigger. That's the one thing I think most people online would not know about this young man.
He's got a heart of gold. He's a kind person. He's a humble person. And he still is curious and still wants to learn. He still actually asks for advice from time to time. And so um you're gonna get his advice today on the Ed Milette show with the great Alex Armozzi. Welcome back.
Thank you for having me and my only goal in this podcast is live up to that introduction.
So uh you got a lot going on in your life. Congratulations on the potential the the soon coming fatherhood for you. Yeah. Has it changed you at all? Like just the thought of it?
Knowing it's coming. I'd say the thought has changed my life maybe in two ways. One is that I'm actively really um trying to get ahead on education for my son and thinking like what inroads do I need to do so that I can set him up education-wise, because I don't like the system, obviously. Um I'd say that's one. I would say two is that I feel like I've had a little bit of a shift in terms of uh up to this point I've just only had I would say I have had reverence for the game, and that is why I continue to play it. Um but I've had a weird shift where I was like, oh I guess I am gonna leave this to someone. Because until this point it was just I'm gonna write it to charity. In one check and let it go to like the Acumen Fund or some of these really good institutions that know how to deploy capital in a charitable way.
Cause I was just like, this was just chips to play the game. Um But so that's I would say those are the two things that have changed about in terms of like what has what new weights are waiting my decision making. Yeah. Those are those two. Um I'm more it I'm more likely to respond to a s a student outreach, you know, like something student related. Um but beyond that, in terms of my like internal stuff, um I'm here to support Layla. Um and I expect the emotionality of it'll probably come when he's born.
Yeah. But I know we you and I have had enough conversations. I think it's more than that with you. I think it's changed your overall look on everything. I mean, you've asked me a few questions in different ways. But but You appear to, at least to me, it seems to have almost, I don't know, broadened your perspective, made it bigger. Uh totally. In what way? Like if if we're using my terminology because I think it's important, you have a lot of young people that follow your content. You have a lot of people that follow your content. But a lot of them are guys like me when I was coming up, guys like you when you're coming up, and they're not at this stage of their life yet. I wonder knowing what you know now about you're gonna be a dad.
Yeah. Would it have changed anything you were doing or thinking prior?
Layla and I are really serious about having kids when I was twenty eight. And we were like really going to do it. And then we were like, you know what? Let's not. But there was like, you know, a few month period where we're like, let's do this. Um, and I think that we could have like again, I can't replay life, but like I think me doing it at that point when I was twenty-eight and she was twenty-five might have been like that would have been good. I probably would have been easier to have more kids. Um, because I think Lila and I are very all like all or nothing. Um and so I as soon as we found out that she was pregnant with um our son, um, we were like, Well, I guess we're gonna have a lot more than one, or at least that's the goal.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–3:40
2
How does Alex Hormozi’s upcoming fatherhood change his perspective on entrepreneurship?
3:40–16:08
3
What’s the secret to protecting your highest cognitive hours for the most important work?
16:08–36:07
4
Why does Alex say “work is the goal” and how does it reshape success metrics?
36:07–49:48
5
What is the $1‑million‑to‑$3‑million “swamp” and how can entrepreneurs escape it?
49:48–1:01:43
Speakers
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