What Leila Hormozi And I Accomplished In Q1 And HOW We Did It | Ep 835
episodePreviously titled “What Leila Hormozi And I Accomplished In Q1 And HOW We Did It | Ep 860” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 2, 2026
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What is the theme of the collaboration between Alex and Layla?
What's going on, everyone? Welcome back to a new episode, joint style between the game and build with Layla. So this is a collab, you know, because we're influencers. We're collabing.
Did you even, did you hesitate when you said the name of my podcast?
I feel like you were like, you didn't even know, did you? I wasn't sure if it was scale. Oh my God, no. I know it's Bill, I said the right word. No, you don't. I said the right word. This is so fucked. So we thought we'd give you guys a 2025, one sixth of the way through the year update, which is kind of insane when you think about it. Like we're almost done the first quarter. How fast that moved. I mean, yeah. Layla, would you like to kick us off?
Yeah, Alex. If you had one word to describe the first six of the year, what word would you use? Is dick punch one word? I was trying to think of mine, so I was giving myself time by asking you. Yeah, I think that's my word. Yeah, I would say eating glass.
Yeah. eating glass. I don't think we have the staring into the abyss part. For those of you who don't know, that's an Elon Musk quote that Layla and I both like. He said, entrepreneurship is a lot like staring into the abyss and eating glass. Staring into the abyss because you don't know if your company is going to make it and you're always facing existential threats. And then eating glass because the way entrepreneurship works is that you were a funnel for all the problems that people either could not solve on their own or did not want to solve on their own. And usually it's both of those things, the ones that they don't know how and don't want to solve. And so basically your every single day is just only solving the worst things on an unending basis.
And the number of problems that go wrong is just astounding. As an entrepreneur, how can we even function with the amount of things that are going wrong at any given point? But for some reason, we keep doing it. And so here we are. But anyways, that's what Layla was referencing. So it's definitely been an eating glass period.
Yeah, it's interesting because I think I was thinking about it because I think a lot of people obviously go through this phase and it happens no matter how big your business is. And I would actually argue that the bigger your business, the more glass you eat, because the problems are bigger.
More service area of glass to break.
Yeah, there's more glass to break and sharper. But I was thinking about why, like what keeps you going throughout it? And I actually think, I mean, I don't know if you would agree with this, but I was thinking for myself is that I am good at it. I'm good at eating glass. Like you gain the skill, you know how to make the decisions. It's just that I think what it is is that you get better at making the decisions and making them quickly and knowing what to do. It's just that the execution is just as painful every time. And I was just thinking about that earlier today when I was thinking, you know, okay, my media has suffered this quarter because I have not been putting my attention there at all.
And I honestly don't put that much attention in general, but it's just that when I do, I like it to be high quality media. And I felt like I've been so distracted that it's just been just shit. And as I was looking at, okay, making more media versus solving the problems of this week, then I was like, well, why is it that I actually like solving the problems more? And I think it's because I'm like, well, I'm good at it and I know what to do. I know how to solve them.
You're better at solving problems than you are at making content.
Well, yeah, for sure. But I think it's just the difference is just it doesn't get any easier anytime. It's like people think when I fire somebody, oh, it probably hurts less. It probably feels not as hard. When we have a lawsuit, oh, it probably hurts less. It probably feels not as hard. But it's like, I just have found that the decisions get easier and it goes faster because you make decisions faster. So you get out of pain faster, but it's not any less painful.
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