The Game with Alex Hormozi
How I Lost Everything Twice and Kept Going (Rachel Hollis Interview) | Ep 880
06 May 2025
In this reshare of his interview on The Rachel Hollis Podcast, Alex (@AlexHormozi) opens up about the painful personal sacrifices, betrayals, and brutal lessons that shaped his journey, from losing everything twice to rebuilding with more clarity, discipline, and drive than ever before.Welcome to The Game w/Alex Hormozi, hosted by entrepreneur, founder, investor, author, public speaker, and content creator Alex Hormozi. On this podcast, you’ll hear how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons Alex has learned and will learn on his path from $100M to $1B in net worth.Wanna scale your business? Click here.Follow Alex Hormozi’s Socials:LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter | Acquisition Mentioned in this episode:Get access to the free $100M Scaling Roadmap at www.acquisition.com/roadmap
Full Episode
Welcome back to the game. This is a guest spot on Rachel Hollis' podcast. Main things I talked about in this podcast are the reality of hard work and sacrifice. You can't get around it. Learning from some of our failures and investing in companies in the early days of acquisition.com. And I also mentioned a little bit, as is the Hormozy way, talk about death to gain freedom of mind.
There is a little bit of my story in this one. And so if you are somebody who's heard my story, then I would, you know, skip forward a little bit. And then you can get to the mini stuff that is not my story that you've probably already heard. All right. Rock and roll. Love you. Enjoy.
Okay, so I know this is annoying but I do feel like we have to give a tiny bit of your backstory to the audience who has not met you before because a big part I'll just like lead you down the garden path in advance a big part of what I'd love to talk to you about today's mindset because what I'm so in love with in your story is how many times
it has all fallen apart and that you've rebuilt yourself. Because I feel like the world is in a place of really needing that conversation. So will you take the audience on a backstory of how you got to where you are today?
Yeah. And I will highlight my exceptional proclivity for finding a way to lose everything. You know, pulling defeat from the jaws of victory. Yeah. The quick story is that I was a management consultant out of college, got to what I would consider a rock top experience where I was 22.
I owned my own condo on like a pretty nice high rise, had a balcony, I was looking over the city and I was like, is this it? Like, I just do this until I die and maybe marry somebody. And I was like, this feels terrible. And so I quit. That whole quitting process took me six months from when I decided that I didn't want to do this anymore until I actually quit.
And I still think to this day that was the hardest decision I've ever made. Because I think in the beginning it's like you have to forego what you know for something that is unknown. And so you can quantify what you have to lose but not what you have to gain. And I think that's what makes the decision so hard. Now, obviously, on the other side, it's very easy in retrospect.
Like, I can't believe it took me so long. It's like, yeah, but you didn't know. Yeah.
It's like saying, oh, I should have just, you know, invested into the stock market for every year for 20 years. It's like, yeah, but every single time you're about to do it, it's like, oh, but it's down now. It's about to go. Like, there's all this uncertainty. Maybe it's different now. But just for context for the audience so that I don't seem more heroic than I am, I ended up –
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