Arrests to Entrepreneurial Success

A story about how Leila Hormozi transformed her life after hitting rock bottom in her teens.

"Ever since I was a teenager, I wanted to get into entrepreneurship, mostly because of my father. He was a tenured professor who did everything by the book and was honestly miserable. I felt that wasn't the way to go, but I didn't know what the way was.

I got lost along the way. When I was 19, I had been arrested 6 times, I was drinking, doing drugs, I was 230 pounds, my life was going nowhere, and I was flunking out of college.

What really made me think was: when does it end? At 8 arrests? At 10 arrests? At 300 pounds? At 350 pounds? I thought about what my life would look like in 3, 4, 5 years if I kept doing this, and that terrified me enough to immediately change literally everything.

I ended up losing almost 100 pounds, moved across the country by myself from Michigan to California to pursue a career in fitness. I had to finish school for exercise science - useless, but nonetheless, I had to finish school for it."