Why I Turned Off Alex Hormozi’s Podcast

Like many small business owners, I’m always working and always learning.

Podcasts are one of my favorite ways to learn. They fit into dog walks, dishwashing, and school pickup lines—moments when I want my brain to stay active even if my hands are full.

This morning, while walking my dog, I pressed play on The Game with Alex Hormozi. I’m new to his show. This was maybe my third episode.

Alex was talking about what he called “exploitation mode,” his strategy for extracting the most value from the thing you already have. I was listening in, curious about how to apply that mindset to my business.

Then he said this:

“And so to be really crude here, so I apologize to the women in the room… it only works one way, but you can understand it. Like you can’t sleep with every woman. It’s not going to happen and it doesn’t work. And so you have to choose.”

And I turned it off.

Why did Alex Hormozi, a supposedly a smart, wildly successful entrepreneur with a massive platform reach for an analogy that reduces women to exploitable objects? Because the casual objectification of women isn’t limited to old movies or outdated jokes. It’s a worldview, and it's everywhere.

If you need to preface your point with, “so I apologize to the women in the room,” you need a new point.

And if your audience is full of women—business owners, caregivers, leaders, builders—we notice.

We’re listening. And we’re turning it off.