The Game with Alex Hormozi
The NO BS Way To Build $1,000,000 Business (on Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu Pt 2) | Ep 857
25 Mar 2025
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Hey guys, welcome back to the game. This is part two of the Impact Theory guest spot with Tom Bilyeu. We go deep on a ton of topics. It's me, so it's going to be business related. Tom talks about a lot of stuff, but in terms of this podcast, it's mostly business. And so I think you'll enjoy the exchange. I don't get to go this deep on stuff. often. And so it was enjoyable.
If you like the first one, you'll like the second one. Enjoy.
Yeah. Now the willingness to try things I think is incredibly important. You said earlier about courage. I want to go back to that. So what is, what is the most courageous thing you've done? I actually think it's quitting my job. I think that's the hardest thing. Back in the early days.
Yeah. Because actually, weirdly, I think about this a lot. Like, what are the hardest things that I've done? Hard thing number one was quitting my job. The decision of quitting my job and then leaving Baltimore.
Because to give you everybody an idea, like, you see me now, but I was so afraid of my father's judgment and the few people that I knew from back home that I was going to, like, quit my white-collar job to go start a gym and be a personal trainer that I actually drove across the country and called them when I was already there. Because I basically left in the dark of night, like no one knew.
I basically was a stowaway to my own fear. And so I had to just, I just had to, I just drove there and I, I called my dad. I think when I was going through Texas and Texas is like forever when you're driving across it. Yes, it is. And I called him. I was like, Hey, I'm going to, I'm going to do the gym thing. And he was like, yeah,
no worries he's like just you know come over we'll talk about it at lunch because he would always talk me off the ledge you'd be like hey you've got the you did you did vanderbilt you did in three years you got the good consulting job he's like you aced the gmat he's like you're gonna go to harvard you're gonna get your mba there or stanford you'll pick one of them he's like and you're set like you're good just just follow the plan um and i was like i i don't i don't want to do that and uh when i was like i'm already gone then like the flip you know then the thing that i was most afraid of was that he was freaked out which is exactly what he did
And the thing is, is that a lot of people would expect the story to be like, oh, my dad understood and he was super supportive. But he wasn't. We didn't talk for a few years after that because I was the prodigal son and I did everything to his plan. And I was living the most successful version of his life, not mine.
And it was one of those realizations where you're like, I'm winning at a game that I didn't design. And so I'm actually by default the loser. And so me quitting my job to then pursue fitness was the hardest thing I've done. The second hardest thing I've done was actually getting my gym to work because I had so little understanding of how anything worked.
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