REAL AF with Andy Frisella - September 11, 2021


140. Q&AF： Imitation, Bitch Voice & The Bigger Picture

Topics
imitation casting a vision vision casting business landscape
Hosted by
Andy Frisella
Mentioned
Andy Frisilla James Lawrence Brandon Tatum Mike Taylor Ed Milet Headshot Goggins Jason Dude Chad Cody
139. The Soil of America Ft. Officer Tatum 141. Q&AF： Sharks & Spoons

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Length

26 minutes

Words per minute

208.3

Word count

5,548

Sentence count

485

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

sentences flagged

Toxicity

49

sentences flagged

Hate speech

7

sentences flagged


Summary

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In this episode of The Real Reel, DJ and Andy answer your questions and talk about a variety of topics. DJ talks about how he went from sleeping on the floor to sleeping on a pole, how he got into the NBA, and why it's important to have a community of like minded people in your life.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Yeah, went from sleeping on the floor, now my jewelry box froze, fuck a pole, fuck a 1.00
00:00:07.440 stove, counted millions in the code, bad bitch, booted swole, got her on bankroll, can't fold, 1.00
00:00:13.820 doesn't know, headshot, case closed. 0.99
00:00:17.220 What's up guys, it's Andy Frisella and this is the show for the realistic about the lies 0.99
00:00:21.480 of fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality. 0.92
00:00:25.880 Guys, today we have a Q and a F. This is where I answer your questions. Now, a lot of you 0.96
00:00:34.980 guys, I just want to say this up front, this is sort of an ad, hashtag ad, all right? I
00:00:41.660 want to say this up front. A lot of you guys like my personal development content, all right?
00:00:46.240 I do almost all of my personal development, how to win, how to make money content in the
00:00:50.400 Arte Syndicate group. If you're interested in that content and you want more of that
00:00:55.540 content, you should join that group and you should apply to join because that's where
00:01:00.440 I do most of the content. I just want to say that because people are like, oh, when
00:01:04.620 are you going to do more personal? Listen, dude, it's hard for me to talk about that shit 0.99
00:01:08.320 when the world's fucking burning, okay? So I'm going to talk about what I want to talk 0.99
00:01:13.640 about. This is my fucking show. If you don't want to listen, you don't have to. Plenty of 1.00
00:01:18.240 other shows. There's a whole bunch of them that will pander to your sensitive little
00:01:21.620 feelings, okay? I won't. Now, with that being said, the way this works is this. I get asked
00:01:29.660 a question. DJ, are you paying attention? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So how does this work?
00:01:35.020 I'm sorry, I was sleeping over there. Oh, no, I was reading this one-star review.
00:01:38.180 Oh, were you? Those are the fun ones. Yeah, yeah. I'm just like, holy fuck. All right.
00:01:44.700 Yeah, no, I asked three questions, guys. You guys email your questions in to askandy at
00:01:48.680 andyfasella.com. Again, we always thank you guys for sending those in. So I picked three
00:01:54.420 of those, and here we are. Yeah, here we are. See what happens. Let's go. Let's get
00:01:58.520 it. Let's get it. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, I'm still tired from yesterday, bro. Yeah. Like,
00:02:04.800 that was a lot of, like, yesterday, we had Brandon Tatum here, Officer Tatum. What an awesome
00:02:12.800 dude, man. I was just about to say that, man. That dude's cool, man. Super cool. We went
00:02:16.640 at the dinner last night. We had a good time. Yeah. Dude, it's fun getting these people
00:02:22.920 in here to do this show. I'm starting to have fun with the show again, for real. For
00:02:26.100 sure. Yeah. For sure. Awesome people, man. And, dude, it's super important that, you know,
00:02:30.900 for us, it's like, you know, we're meeting these awesome people, right? But, like, for
00:02:33.940 you guys, it's super important to take that content in because in a world of all this negativity,
00:02:38.440 it's nice to have some refreshing breath of life and perspectives. I'm trying to show
00:02:45.840 people that there's other people out there that think like them. You know, like, I get
00:02:49.380 so many people that write in, bro, and they're like, man, you're the only one that thinks like
00:02:55.560 me. No, dude, I'm not. There's lots of people that think like you, but they're all sitting
00:03:00.020 there thinking, damn, this Andy's the only one that thinks like me or whoever they're listening 0.78
00:03:03.580 to, right? Guys, democracy only works to the level that you participate in it. Okay. So 0.98
00:03:10.200 if you stay quiet and you don't let people know your views, of course, you're going to
00:03:13.480 feel alone. Right. So look, we're going to be okay. People are getting involved. You
00:03:20.420 know, it's going to take a long commitment. This isn't something that's going to take a
00:03:23.400 month. Right. But, you know, it is what it is. We're going to get back to focusing on
00:03:27.520 our civic duties here in America, as well as winning, as well as because those are duties as
00:03:32.280 well. Right. Succeeding, building a life, becoming successful, becoming an example for
00:03:37.720 your children, for your neighbors, for people that know you. You know, most people, the
00:03:41.560 reason they struggle with building success here in America is because they don't know
00:03:45.900 anybody who's successful because they don't seek those people out. And, you know, one of
00:03:51.200 the most important things that you guys have to remember is you need to be surrounding yourself
00:03:56.060 and working towards putting that sort of information in your brain all the time. You're not alone
00:04:00.780 in how you feel. You're not alone in what you want to accomplish. You're not alone in
00:04:04.780 any of those things. You guys and all of you out there are just a little bit timid and you're
00:04:09.100 a little bit new and you're a little bit nervous about saying things. And guys, I was thinking
00:04:13.380 about this this morning as I was getting ready to come up here. You know, we really Americans
00:04:18.180 and I'm talking about the left and the right and all of America, we've been mentally abused
00:04:22.420 by the media for a long time, like a long time. You know, if you think about the things
00:04:26.900 that we used to be able to say here in America, we used to be able to express opinions and
00:04:31.120 say, hey, this is how I feel. And, you know, you could say how you feel. We're no longer
00:04:36.020 able to do that anymore because this narrative has been pushed down the pipe. You know, that
00:04:40.940 if you say anything that's even kind of out of line, you know, you're a racist, you're 0.99
00:04:45.620 a bigot, you're a, you're a bad person, shame on you, all these things. And what it's 0.99
00:04:50.660 done is it's shut people completely down to where they feel like they're living in a jail
00:04:54.220 already. Like, guys, it's real simple to break out of that jail. You need to quit worrying
00:04:59.540 about what people's reaction is going to be to the truth and just start speaking your
00:05:05.300 truth and let them handle it however they're going to handle it. Right. That's going to
00:05:09.820 make your life much better. It's going to make your life much easier to live. It's going
00:05:13.340 to be less stressful, less confining and less pressure. You know, just tell the truth.
00:05:19.340 And if people don't like it, that's OK. So let's answer some shit. All right. 1.00
00:05:24.220 Let's go. White Lightning. All right. First question. Question number numero uno. How do
00:05:31.340 you handle imitation? Like, do you consider imitation like flattery or people get nuked
00:05:38.160 when they imitate you? Like, how do you handle that? Well, look, man, they say imitation is
00:05:44.160 the most sincere form of flattery. And there's a multitude of ways that I've thought about this
00:05:49.020 over the years. When I first started becoming successful and our businesses started to work,
00:05:56.400 you know, well, before that, you know, everybody laughed at us. Right. So like we started up on a
00:06:03.920 business model that had never really been done before. And people said it wouldn't work. And,
00:06:09.340 you know, we got laughed at. And then as it started working, you know, I started seeing people copy it and
00:06:13.660 all these things. And, you know, I guess. For me, you know, I, I, I used to get pissed off about it
00:06:22.780 where I was like, dude, fuck, you know, fuck that guy. He's trying to steal my this or that or this, 1.00
00:06:28.000 this, this. And I spent a lot of time angry, dude, because I'm looking at everybody stealing all my
00:06:33.360 shit. And it was pretty blatant. You know what I mean? Then as I and really what that was a result 0.99
00:06:41.660 of was not realizing that I was a leader in that area. So like I was insecure in my position of what
00:06:49.080 I was doing. So then I felt angry when I saw other people doing the same. And as I grew, grew and
00:06:55.400 matured and, and have become, you know, more experienced, I started to realize like it actually
00:07:01.840 is a pretty big honor for someone to think that you're somebody worth emulating. Right. And so
00:07:09.100 now I look at it and I do think like, okay, cool. I appreciate that. I really do. Cause it is an
00:07:17.360 honor, but I also think it's really dumb. And the reason I think it's dumb is because strategically, 0.98
00:07:22.000 it's a dumb thing to do. Not specifically copying an idea or a direction that someone's trying to go, 0.93
00:07:31.640 but trying to copy them exactly is a bad strategy because here's the thing guys. And this is what you
00:07:37.320 don't understand. When you copy someone and you, what you see on the outside of their organization
00:07:44.680 or the outside of their personal brand is the product of many, many months or even years of
00:07:50.960 discussions, brainstorming, execution on the backend that you don't really understand.
00:07:56.820 You just see the end result and you say, I want to do that. And the problem with that, which is good,
00:08:01.680 right? If it's producing a good result, you could say, oh, okay, well, why wouldn't I want a good
00:08:05.220 result? Right. Makes perfect sense. But the problem with that is, is that while it might work
00:08:10.580 for you in the short term, you're always a, you know, a year to two years behind those people when
00:08:15.780 you're trying to compete in business, because those ideas are already two years old, the result that
00:08:20.820 you see. So my warning to people is, you know, don't copy people, look at people for influence,
00:08:30.860 and then try to create the best version of you and your plan based around that. That's how I try to
00:08:37.660 see it. You know what I mean? We all have unique gifts. We all have, uh, things about us that are,
00:08:43.500 you know, positive, uh, attractive, uh, dynamic. We all have those certain things. And what happens is,
00:08:52.220 is people get caught up in trying to copy this one concept or this one person. And what happens is
00:08:58.100 that, you know, uh, they lose the ability to actually let their gifts sprout. So they never
00:09:03.860 really become great. They just become a cheaper version of someone else. And you see that all the
00:09:08.920 time. And, you know, it's a hard thing and I get it, right? Because when you're in, cause I've been
00:09:13.560 that person, right? I've been the person who looked at other people and tried to copy them. Exactly.
00:09:18.620 This is back when I was, you know, 20 to 25 years old and it never worked out and nothing ever really
00:09:25.460 worked until I just started doing what I thought was right. Using those things as sort of a guide
00:09:30.840 of where I wanted to be. Right. So for example, like if I saw someone in business that they had
00:09:36.480 what I wanted, I would look at them and I would say, okay, um, I'm not going to, you know, wear his
00:09:41.400 clothes or talk like him or this or that. Uh, but I am going to look at how they did that. And I'm going
00:09:47.700 to sort of craft my own version of, of how to get there. So that way I'm operating on an original plan,
00:09:53.680 um, that insulates me from somebody else being able to steal it. Does that make sense?
00:09:58.040 That makes perfect sense. Dude. I also think of it like too, like, I mean, can they really copy you?
00:10:02.540 You know what I'm saying? Like, like, like you have to have the thing. You can't imitate what you
00:10:05.680 can't do. Exactly. So, so like you, you know, there's a skill aspect to that.
00:10:13.440 Certain people have more skills than other people. Those people that you're trying to copy and you're
00:10:18.280 trying to execute that play that they're running that are 10, 15 years down the road from you,
00:10:23.080 they have the skills to actually execute that plan where you do not. Right. And so you, you can't,
00:10:29.840 you can't imitate to the point where it takes away from your gifts. You have to let people inspire you
00:10:37.800 so that then you can cultivate your gifts. And that's how you're going to be able to become
00:10:42.040 the best version of who you are. So I hope that explains it. You know, I used to get angry.
00:10:47.960 Um, I do get honored sometimes when I see people do it, but I also want to put my arm around those
00:10:52.120 people and say, Hey, listen, bro, that ain't the way. You know what I'm saying? And even though
00:10:56.480 they're copying me, like I could be like, Oh yeah, dude, that's cool. But no, dude, like you,
00:11:01.720 you DJ has things about you that are better than things about me. We have different things that
00:11:06.920 we're better at. And you would stifle those by trying to use my gifts. You see what I'm saying?
00:11:13.740 Oh, absolutely. Same thing with business. It's the same thing. You, you, you just have to let
00:11:18.500 people inspire you and then develop sort of, um, your own path to get there. That makes sense.
00:11:27.060 Perfect sense. Perfect. Awesome. One for one. All right. Number two. So for you going, you've been
00:11:33.460 through the live hard program multiple times, right? Like, like it was a way of life. I see it every
00:11:37.420 fucking day. Right. When was the last time that you heard the bitch voice? Like, has it been 1.00
00:11:43.460 completely silenced for you at this point? No, but, but I, but no, absolutely not. I hear it
00:11:49.240 every day. I mean, dude, every day I do cardio every day. I get three quarters of the way there
00:11:57.460 and I'm like, all right. And then I get five minutes away and I'm like, all right, I'm good
00:12:01.660 enough. And like, that's the voice in my head. And I have to, I have to consciously stop that
00:12:05.860 voice from allowing me to take that action. So, um, it's not that it goes away. It's that
00:12:11.300 you become so aware of it that you're easily able to squash it when it happens. So that's
00:12:17.060 what you're looking for. If you're, if you're looking to completely eliminate it, you might
00:12:21.200 go through periods of time where you don't really have any thoughts and everything's sort
00:12:25.420 of clicking automatic, but that's not the time of value. The time of value is the time that
00:12:29.960 you have to fight. Time of value is the time that you have to argue inside your head. And
00:12:34.400 then you come out as a victor in that argument. That's the valuable times that you need to
00:12:39.780 recognize because when you have those little victories, you are creating more deposits into
00:12:45.000 your confidence, into your self-esteem, into your self-belief, into your fortitude, into
00:12:49.100 your grit, into all these things that we're working to build. Um, you're making deposits when
00:12:54.060 you have to fight when it's automatic, you're not really improving. Now it's a good place to
00:12:58.040 be, right? Cause it produces a good result, but it's not really improving your skillset.
00:13:02.460 So my advice would be for them to realize it never goes away. Uh, and then to value that it
00:13:10.200 never goes away because it keeps you honest, keeps you moving. It keeps you, it keeps you
00:13:14.340 developing. It keeps you getting better. I don't think it's, it's just a huge misconception that
00:13:19.380 people are like, like, Oh, you don't have to struggle with that no more. Like, Oh yeah. No,
00:13:23.320 dude, they've reached the highest level. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and people look at people like
00:13:27.620 Goggins or James Lawrence or other people. And they say, Chad writes. Yeah. And they say,
00:13:32.740 Oh, those guys never want to quit. No, that's not true. They do want to quit. They just know
00:13:37.220 how to not quit. You know what I mean? So, and that's the value of this whole program. The whole
00:13:42.280 program is not to make you, um, not to eliminate the, because dude, like how, how boring would your 1.00
00:13:50.560 life be if that shit, if that shit was just easy for you to do, you know what I'm saying? You're not 1.00
00:13:55.080 learning. You're not progressing. You're not getting better. You're not developing skills.
00:13:58.260 It's just what you do. So like I'm for a long time, I cursed the Lord, you know, for having
00:14:04.500 the fat guy jeans. But like the truth is I'm super grateful that I have those because it's
00:14:10.000 forced me to have to learn that, which has been infinitely valuable in all areas of my life.
00:14:16.640 Yeah. That's good. Fucking dope. Two for two, baby. I'm shooting fucking shooting shots over
00:14:21.620 here. All right. Last question, Andy. So, you know, over the course of 23 years, right? 1.00
00:14:28.920 You've been building this fucking empire, right? That's what I would call it. Um, how did, like, 0.99
00:14:35.220 how exactly do you cast your visions onto the team? Or if you're not, you know, like, you know,
00:14:39.860 if you're not a business person, how do you cast visions on your family or your employees? Like,
00:14:43.880 how do you get your vision, what you saw in your head, you know, 23 years ago, how do you get it out?
00:14:48.940 Like, how did you manifest that into the people around you? Well, the thing about, first of all,
00:14:55.100 it's real simple. You just tell them what you're going to do. This is what I'm going to do. This
00:14:58.860 is what we're going to do. I need your help. And this is how it's going to benefit you and where
00:15:02.820 you're going to fit in. The problem with these, um, with, with casting a vision that most people
00:15:08.200 have is that they haven't developed the vision, right? Like a lot of people, and there's two problems
00:15:12.700 that most people have when they were trying to paint a big picture. One, they haven't actually
00:15:16.160 thought it through themselves or two, they don't intend to actually complete it. Right? Both are
00:15:20.920 bad because one, if you haven't thought it out, you can't get where you want to go. It's impossible.
00:15:25.240 I just had an Enneagram on this a couple of days ago. You cannot get where you don't know you're
00:15:29.440 going. You see what I'm saying? How the fuck can you get there? So you certainly can't get your team
00:15:35.700 to get on board. If you haven't done an in-depth thought of where I'm going to be three, five,
00:15:39.740 10, 15, 20 years from now and how these people are going to be involved and what it's going to
00:15:44.540 mean to them and what it's going to mean to their families and what it's going to mean to their
00:15:47.140 lifestyle. Like, if you haven't thought that through, you have no chance of getting anybody
00:15:51.080 on board. Right. But the other problem is you have a lot of CEOs and a lot of business owners that want
00:15:56.560 to pretend like they're going to do all these things with the intention of getting their employees
00:16:02.000 to work really hard. And then they just basically don't intend to build the company that way.
00:16:06.480 And those people will cycle through employees over and over and over again. They'll have a
00:16:11.640 high turnover rate. People will hate them because you are stealing their life. You see what I'm
00:16:16.880 saying? And so you as an employer, you know, these little businesses that, that say this shit like, 1.00
00:16:23.560 oh, well, you know, we're happy where we're at, bro. You're going to get your fucking ass beat, 1.00
00:16:28.220 you know, because there's companies that are doing what you do that are not happy where they're at. 1.00
00:16:32.260 Okay. And those companies that are intending to grow, they're going to attract your best people.
00:16:36.140 They're going to bring the best people who have the, who have the, uh, want and the drive and the
00:16:42.300 will to succeed and do bigger things. Those people are going to find those people and they're going to
00:16:47.220 meet up and guess what? They're going to beat you. So you have to be genuine and you have to follow
00:16:52.800 through. A lot of people try to create buy-in with their team inside of a vision with no intent.
00:16:58.760 And like, dude, I'm sorry, but, uh, everybody knows when they're getting lied to. Everybody knows when
00:17:03.920 they're getting told a bunch of shit and you, as the owner of your business are not exceptionally 0.99
00:17:10.300 more intelligent than the people that work for you. You just happen to be in a different role 0.99
00:17:14.240 than them. Right. So, and that's another thing I could go into. Like a lot of people think because
00:17:18.100 they, they own a business, they're smarter than all their employees. Well, if you own a business and
00:17:23.020 you're smarter than all your employees, you're a dumb ass because I'm going to tell you this, 1.00
00:17:26.940 everybody I have in here is smarter than me in a lot of ways. 1.00
00:17:29.860 You know, I told you guys last night at dinner, I said, Hey, I got one job here. My job is very
00:17:34.500 simple. My job is to evaluate the ideas and the thoughts of very smart people. And then to pick
00:17:39.480 the one that I think is best. That's it. Right. My, my job is not to come up with the plan. Now,
00:17:44.480 sometimes do I sure, but I don't, I build a team that I'm intentionally the dumbest person on. 0.98
00:17:51.400 See what I'm saying? And so like when you cast a vision, you've got to take all these things into 0.84
00:17:55.840 account. Biggest part of vision casting is let's just wipe all that shit. I just set off the table 1.00
00:18:01.040 and you're in, you, you intend to build a fucking empire. Okay. And you're doing it with the right 1.00
00:18:06.960 will and you're doing it with the right heart and you really truly intend on doing it. Dude,
00:18:11.140 the biggest thing you can do is to sit down with your team and say, God, and be real. Yeah.
00:18:14.940 Guys, look, this is what the fuck we're going to do now. I don't know exactly how we're going to do it. 0.98
00:18:20.460 I don't know. Uh, I have a good idea. I think we're gonna do it like this, like this,
00:18:24.240 like this, but dude, this is what we're doing. Okay. And I'm going to spend my whole fucking life
00:18:28.180 doing it. I'm not interested in selling out. I'm not interested in, in, uh, exiting. I'm not 0.99
00:18:33.360 interested in this. I'm interested in creating this. And this is what your role is. And this is
00:18:39.360 how it's going to affect you. And we're going to have this and we're going to, dude, I stood in
00:18:43.040 front of, I stood in front of, uh, and by the way, the best vision cast you could ever have, uh,
00:18:50.000 is the one that comes true. Right. Yeah. Okay. So let me tell you something. I've never cast a
00:18:55.000 vision in this company ever. That hasn't happened ever. And if you ask anybody who's been here since
00:19:00.020 day one, uh, which there's, there's a few that day one was six years in, but you know, if you go
00:19:06.240 ask the Jason's or the Cody's or the Tyler's and the Mike Taylor's, you go ask them if I ever said
00:19:11.300 anything that never happened, they will tell you absolutely not. Now it might take a little bit
00:19:15.600 longer, but what I say happens. And so now that trust that we have here is compounded because
00:19:21.820 those guys have all seen it for the last 16 years with me. And now they're able to spread that to
00:19:25.740 them. So you have to follow through on your promises. And the biggest thing, you know,
00:19:31.300 I sat in front of my team in 2010, um, in one of my retail stores. And I said, Hey,
00:19:36.840 one day we're going to have this amazing headquarters. We're going to have a gym. We're
00:19:41.620 going to have a turf field. We're going to, we're going to have locker rooms. We're going to have
00:19:44.540 showers. We're going to have, uh, this amazing building that people come from, from all over
00:19:49.320 the world. And they're going to see it. And they're going to want to be a part of this.
00:19:52.400 And they're going to come here and they're going to feel the experience. And we're going to sit
00:19:55.000 with them and we're going to, we're going to help them develop their businesses and we're going to
00:19:58.880 help them grow their brands. And we're going to do all, I said that in 2010, bro. And if you go ask
00:20:03.840 any of them, they will tell you, I said exactly. Now, what do we do? Yeah. That's what the fuck we do
00:20:07.880 now. Right. So my point is, and by the way, there's three guys out of maybe 16 that were 0.99
00:20:14.120 there at that time that are still here. So you could be the best vision caster in the world.
00:20:18.920 And the one that you could paint the biggest vision you could possibly think of. That was
00:20:22.180 the biggest vision I could think of at that time. Okay. And you're still not going to have
00:20:26.920 everybody believe. And that's just part of the deal. That doesn't mean you can't do it. That
00:20:30.240 means you got to keep going with the people that you got. Some people will fall off and other people
00:20:34.500 will step in. And you know, here's another thing. Those people that fall off, you should be thankful
00:20:38.300 for them too, because they, they helped you get where you are, even if they didn't stay the whole
00:20:42.060 time. You know, a number of the guys that used to work for me, I'm still really good friends with.
00:20:46.880 Now I'm investing in their businesses that they run. You see what I'm saying? Because they put in
00:20:51.760 time for me. Now I'm looking to help them back. And so you have to value these people. And I think,
00:20:58.300 you know, understanding that they have lives and they have careers and they have dreams
00:21:02.320 and you trying to accommodate those lives, careers, and dreams inside your vision is the best way to get
00:21:08.000 people on board. But dude, it all comes down to, you have to mean what you say. You have to intend
00:21:13.740 to do it. And it has to be genuine. And you have to know in as much detail as possible, what you're
00:21:19.780 going to actually do. Because the biggest reason is still the first reason I said that people struggle
00:21:24.300 with this. They just don't think it through. You can't get where you don't know you're going.
00:21:29.840 So that's that. That's awesome. That's three for three right there, baby. Yeah, I know. Yeah. I thought
00:21:38.680 when you were talking about, you know, some people falling off of that team, I also thought like a
00:21:41.980 thought came up, man, like how many of those people too would have slowed down the process of you getting
00:21:46.460 to where you got to go? But dude, like, you know, and that's the nature of business. Some people, it's not for
00:21:51.480 them. That's okay. You know, a lot of people like, dude, when you're in the beginning, like if you're in a
00:21:57.300 beginning entrepreneur and you, you, let's just say you've got five or six or 10 people, right?
00:22:01.760 And you're trying to cast this big vision, dude, it's demoralizing. Like, I understand what that's
00:22:06.640 like. Like you're, you try to get these guys on board. They don't really believe you. You're
00:22:11.820 fucking reading everything, doing everything, putting it all the time. You fully intend to do 0.99
00:22:16.220 it and they still don't believe you. It's very frustrating. But the point is, is that you'll get the
00:22:20.600 last laugh by just staying on the path. Keep pushing, keep driving, keep working, keep trying to help
00:22:26.860 people, keep trying to develop people, keep your word to your people. Those things are all going
00:22:32.300 to work themselves out. You know, the real problem here is that entrepreneurs want the end result
00:22:37.760 in five minutes. And this shit just takes time, dude. So be patient, understand that people are 1.00
00:22:43.480 going to come and go, understand that you're going to, the longer you're at it, the better your core is
00:22:48.220 going to become. And, um, you know, there's no, there's no limits to what we can do here in business,
00:22:53.660 guys. It's the biggest opportunity, especially right now. You know, we just came through,
00:22:58.000 we're, we're, we're working through and still in this shit show in the world. However, um, 0.98
00:23:04.700 you know, a lot of businesses and, you know, this sucks, but it's the truth. A lot of businesses are
00:23:09.280 falling off. A lot of businesses are closing up. A lot of businesses are pulling back. Even the ones
00:23:13.920 who are good are pulling back their, their offense and playing defense. And that creates a tremendous
00:23:19.540 opportunity for entrepreneurs that have the grit and have the, the will and the fight in them to
00:23:24.780 stick it through and to keep growing. Because at the end of this, this is how it always works.
00:23:29.020 When these world crises or economic crisis happen, there ends up being a shit ton of opportunity.
00:23:35.220 You know, the only reason that we're sitting here in this building right now is because in 2007, 0.99
00:23:39.980 eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, we went on full offense when everybody else fucking pulled their shit in. 0.99
00:23:44.820 So, you know, we were able to gain 10 years of ground in five years at that time. And that's 0.99
00:23:50.960 the same thing we're doing now. You know, right now, uh, we built this building. We hired almost
00:23:55.420 200 people in 2020. We have two more buildings we're building next door that are exact same size
00:24:01.680 as this. Okay. Like, dude, we're on offense, bro. Like we're here to fucking gain as much as we can.
00:24:07.340 I'm going to employ another 200 people in the next 12 months. And you know, it is what it is. 0.97
00:24:12.140 Yep. That's the way business works. And you guys who are small, you know, you have to gut through
00:24:18.080 this and you're going to get a proportional response to what I'm getting. If you gut through
00:24:22.700 it, you're going to see a whole bunch of market open up for you. You're going to be able to grab
00:24:26.360 it. You're going to be able to move. And for the next 10 or 12 years, it's going to get you through
00:24:30.900 until the next crisis. And in the next crisis, you'll be where I'm at, where you have a ton of
00:24:36.220 resources. You have a ton of connections. You have a ton of, uh, you know, ability to take
00:24:42.020 advantage of these situations. Every, every super successful person I know right now is on 1000%
00:24:49.100 offense. They are gobbling it up. And the people, the people who aren't, they're going to get gobbled
00:24:54.600 up. It's just reality. So, you know, I'm excited about the business landscape, even though with all
00:25:00.820 this shit going on and like this crazy, you know, like they put this, uh, automatic mandate through 0.99
00:25:05.760 for a hundred and put, no, you know, if you don't want to, I'm not doing that shit. So if you don't 1.00
00:25:10.440 want to do that shit, come work for me. If you're a killer, come work for me. I won't force shit on 1.00
00:25:15.540 you and we're going to win. So, um, so yeah, that's it. So dude, if you guys want that personal 0.99
00:25:24.260 development content, more regular, dude, uh, you should apply to Arte. That's where we do it. And I do it
00:25:28.860 with Ed Milet. He's one of the best in the world at this. So, um, anyhow, what else? That's it,
00:25:35.480 baby. That's it. All right, guys, I appreciate all the love. I appreciate all the shares. I
00:25:40.720 appreciate all the love and shares on the American podcast as well, because dude, it's something that
00:25:46.360 I truly passionate about. I truly care about. And we all have to realize that without fertile soil
00:25:51.840 here in America, we don't have a chance to win. Right? So I appreciate you guys who are here for the
00:25:57.460 entrepreneurship, but are also taking an interest in the societal views that we have here. So
00:26:03.820 I just wanted to give you guys a shout out for that. The show made you think if it made you,
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00:26:11.320 please share the show. You don't like to run ads. I don't run ads for the show. It's all on word of
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00:26:21.180 pay the fee. Love you guys. I'll talk to you next time.
00:26:24.660 Went from sleeping on the floor. Now my jewelry box froze. Fuck a pole. Fuck a stove. Counted millions 1.00
00:26:30.620 in the cold. Bad bitch. Booty swole. Got her on bankroll. Can't fold. Doesn't know. Headshot. Case closed. 1.00