401. Q&AF： Gossip In The Workplace, Potential Executive & Mindset For Huge Power List Tasks
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In this episode of the show, we talk about the importance of freedom in business and life, and how we can all work together to achieve it. We also talk about how to tactically win in business, and why it's so important to have freedom in life.
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What is up guys, it's Andy Priscilla and this is the show for the realest sake about the
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lies, the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality
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guys. Today we have Q and AF, that's where you can submit your questions and I will answer
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them live here on the show. You submit those questions too, email those questions in guys
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to askandyandandifusella.com. Yeah, give me what you got dude. How can I make you better?
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How can I help you? How can I make you more successful? How can I make you better at whatever
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it is you do? That's what we do here. We are unlike most other podcasts, okay? We have multiple
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shows within the show. Q and AF is the one you're listening to right now but other times
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that you tune in, we might have what's called CTI. CTI is Cruise the Internet and what we
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do on that show is we put up headlines on the screen, usually three or four. We discuss them,
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we talk about what could be true, what probably isn't true and why they are propagating us with
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these untruths when they are happen to be untrue. We give our opinion, we make fun of it. It's
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a humor-based show on all the shows. We have a sense of humor here unlike many of the people
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out there in the world. So if you don't have a sense of humor, this is not the show for you.
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Turn the channel, go listen to someone else. I don't give a fuck, okay?
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But basically, our premise with CTI is for you to understand that the foundational
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principles of freedom are required for you to be successful in business and life. For those of you
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that don't know my history, I'm an entrepreneur. I've been fairly successful and I have one of the
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most successful podcasts of all time called the MFCEO Project. The MFCEO Project does stand for
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motherfucking CEO. And what we did on that show was we brought all of the lessons that I've learned
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over the number of decades that I've been in business and we taught them to people.
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And all of those things that I taught, by the way, I'd say that's probably the gold standard of
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entrepreneurship lessons. I think it's widely accepted that's the case. You can go back and
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listen to those episodes, the first 300 episodes in this feed. Where you have to understand and why
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we have CTI mixed in with all of this personal development content is because without freedom,
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none of that shit that I did for all those years or any of the tips that I give you or any of the
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tools I give you or any of the hacks that I give you or any of the advice I give you about winning
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works. Okay. So those of you that want to win, those of you that want to be rich, you want to be
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successful, you want to be wealthy, you want to make a difference, whatever your reasons are for
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wanting that. Okay. I'm not here to judge. What I am here to tell you is that you cannot have that
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without fucking freedom. Okay. So understand that it's important that you listen to both,
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both kinds of content, how we preserve collectively the opportunity for freedom to win.
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Okay. And then also how we tactically win, which is what we're going to talk about today.
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Other times when you tune in, we have real talk. Real talk is four to 20 minutes of me just
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ranting about what I think is valuable and what I see in society that needs to be fixed collectively
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or individually. And then we have full length and full length is the episode that is most like
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most of the other podcasts. It's sort of an interview episode, but it's not really an interview.
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It's more of a conversation. And I bring on successful, interesting, wealthy kick-ass motherfuckers.
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And we talk about how you can be the same because the ultimate truth that no one wants to share with
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you guys is that everybody's the same. And all the things that you see in myself or anybody else that
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you happen to look up to or want to learn from or be like, or emulate, they're all human beings,
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dude. They all have the same issues that you have. They've learned to overcome them. Okay. This idea
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of luck or being in the right place at the right time that might, you know, be true once in a while,
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but it's not the standard is not the norm. And it's not how you're going to fucking get there.
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You're not going to get lucky. You're not, you don't have rich relatives are going to leave you
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inheritance. Uh, you don't have some sort of special skill that everybody else doesn't have. And neither do I,
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and so the premise of the show is how to be individually great. And while we're being
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individually great, uh, we make the world a better place. So that's what the show is about.
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Now we do have a fee for the show. And the fee is if you like the show, share the show. If the show
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makes you laugh, share the show. If you learn something you didn't know before, share the show.
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If it's good advice, share the show. If it helps you share the show, because guess what? I could make
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eight figures a year running ads on the show. And I don't do that because I don't like that when I
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listen to other people's stuff. And I know you don't either. So let's just leave it at that.
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Uh, I deliver value to you. You share the show. Now you have, uh, one advertisement I'm going to run
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and the advertisement I'm going to run right now is for Arte Syndicate Live. And Milet and I have
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Arte Syndicate. Many of you know that it is, uh, one of the premier, if not the premier
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premier entrepreneurship networking group in the whole world, we are doing a live event
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in Nashville, November 5th. And there is a live stream available for that. I believe we are sold
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out of tickets now. Uh, but there is a live stream option available that you can watch from home.
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Um, that's available at ArteSyndicate.com. So if you're interested in that, I have to mention it.
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Now, I only have a limited amount of time today, DJ. So we're going to have to get through it.
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Rapid fire. Yeah. Rapid fire. Uh, that's the co-host DJ. Hello children. Yeah. And, uh,
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sometimes he tells jokes most of the time they're bad. Uh, but that's the show, man. That's how we
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do it. So, uh, uh, what do we got today, man? I got some good ones for you. I know you do.
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Yeah. Always do. Yeah. Let's get into it, bro. What's going on today? I have been so busy today.
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Honestly, I have no idea either. Yeah. I've had my head like productive. Yeah. I've had meeting
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after meeting after meeting. I just had like a three hour meeting with Eric Gritens about some
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cool shit, uh, that he's working on. Yeah. I told these guys, I came in, I'm like, all right,
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we're about to record. But then I look, I'm like, Oh shit, he's in a meeting. Yeah. I'm going to get
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my workout in real quick. Yeah. Did you get it in? I had to squeeze it. Yeah. Um, you know,
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talking about, I think, you know, what we talked about on the show yesterday might've got skipped
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over by most people, you know, what's going on in the world guys, like our, our, our system is
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crumbling. Right. And we can look at that one of two ways. We can look at that as, Oh shit,
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the system's crumbling. Or we can look at that as, Oh shit, the system's crumbling and we can build
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something that actually makes better sense than what we had before. And it's not this globalist
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communist, you know, you'll own nothing and fucking like it shit. Um, it is real freedom.
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It is real American freedom. It is a, uh, truly free country with individual rights and opportunity.
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And, uh, I'm really excited about what I think will come out of all of this, uh, as, as, as
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demoralizing and as frustrating as it can be. It's chaotic. Yeah. It's crazy. I think it's important
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that all the good Americans and the people who believe in real freedom and the people who are
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looking at what's going on and getting tired of the lies, tired of the deception, tired of the
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fucking tyranny, uh, to realize that we do have an opportunity here to come together in common sense
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and build a system that actually works to benefit the people, which is what this country was founded
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on in the first place. So I'm slowly starting to get real excited. I'm concerned because I do think
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that things are going to get worse. I think they're going to get way worse. You know, um, a lot of you
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guys in business, you're feeling it right now. Like, dude, business is going to be harder and harder
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to execute. And you know, what's going on right now, uh, for those of you who are entrepreneurs and
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are operating a business, um, you know, you're seeing inflation, take away people's purchasing
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power. You're seeing your costs go up. You're seeing your shipping costs go up. You're seeing, uh,
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your raw material cost of goods sold go up and everything is, is moving up. And what's happening
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is customers are becoming more, um, selective with where they spend the available money they do have
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left. And the best way for you to weather this storm is to become great at what you do and to become
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better and become the best option for them to spend their money with you. And, um, I think for the
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businesses that make it through what's going to happen in this country, there's going to be massive
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opportunity, uh, but not everybody's going to make it through. And you know, a lot of you motherfuckers
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that have been like yelling at me for the last three years while I've done this real AF project,
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uh, which I've done for you by the way, and you've just chosen to listen to the personal
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development stuff, but ignored the societal, uh, political, social, economic, world economic
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situation. You guys probably won't make it. You're not informed. You don't understand what's
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happening, you know? And so you'll remember like all these things going on in your business. I've
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explained along the way that these were going to happen. You know, all of these, all of these
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things that you're having to deal with in your business right now, where things are getting a
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little bit constricted after the last 12 years of total fucking bliss and productive growth,
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the best time we ever had in this country of growth. Now you're, you're not living in the same
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world anymore and it's not going to become a different world. It is a different world already.
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And because you've chosen to ignore what's going on in the world, the situation has gotten worse and
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worse and worse and worse. And so those of you who are entrepreneurs, those of you who are wanting
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to build a business, you should listen to what the fuck I have to say about the shit going on in the
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world, because I've told you this whole entire time that this was going to happen. And I've
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explained step by step by step by step. And I've said some uncomfortable things. I said some things
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that, that you believe maybe you don't agree with, or maybe you think my politics are trash,
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but some shit that was uncomfortable for you to say, I hate saying the shit I'm saying.
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Yeah. But I won't fucking say it because I care about the people listening to the show
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more than I care about the people who fucking hate what I have to say for how you say it.
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Yeah. I don't fucking give a fuck, bro. Here's the point. The point is the reason we are in this
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situation and the reason you are feeling a squeeze and the reason that you are having more difficulty
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and the reason, uh, you know, it's fucking up your business is because you've chosen to stick your
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head in the sand on all these other issues that I've been covering. And now you're reaping
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what you sowed. Yeah. Okay. So now would be a good time to start paying attention. Now would be a good
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time to, uh, really get on the freedom train, bro. Get involved, bro. Yeah. And get engaged.
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I'll say this real quick. So, um, I was actually, I was going to wait, but fuck it. Uh, so I got
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selected to be, uh, an election judge for singles County. You know what I'm saying? Like we talk about
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getting involved. What can we do? Right. Yeah. And I got fucking selected. Yeah. You didn't tell me
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that. It will just fucking happen not too long ago. Um, like an hour ago. Um, yeah,
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I got fucking select. What does that mean? So that means I'm going to be at the fucking
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ballots to put me somewhere in North County. Okay. All right. And we know how North County
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is, but they said there's no, uh, there's no Republican demographic up there. So they need
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somebody up there. No, I was like, no, no, no, no. Hold on. There's a massive Republican
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demographic up there right now, right now. There hasn't been before. That's what the person
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was saying. Yeah. Yes. And I, it was actually, it was a funny phone conversation, bro, but
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it's necessary. Listen, the black communities have woken up. Oh, fuck. Yeah. There's still
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some people who are still indoctrinated into that, but they're getting it. Oh yeah. Well,
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I mean, how refreshing would it be to come to, you know, you go place your fucking vote
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and you're reassured because you see a fellow black Republican fucking ready that right there
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with you. Remember when Tyreek came up to us when we were doing the Blake Schneider Memorial.
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Yeah. So 24 year old young man named Tyreek and he's listening to the show because he
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listens. So what's up, bro? Love you, man. Uh, cream soda. Yeah. We'll tell that story
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in a second. He definitely called me out for my whiteness on my cream soda preference, but
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it's all good. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? We, we had a Blake Schneider Memorial, um, who
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was a friend of ours who was killed in the line of duty, uh, very close to HQ, our old
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HQ. Um, we raised some money for his family and other families who have lost, um, police
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officers in the line of duty, right? Uh, charities called backstoppers here in St. Louis. And it's
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our number one contribution, uh, that and 30 for the kids are where we, we try to raise
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money. Um, most of the time. And so we have a 5k and, uh, Tyreek showed up. I've never met
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him before. Never seen him before. We start the 5k. We're not even through the first quarter
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of the first lap. He shoulders up right next to me. And he's like, Hey man, you don't know
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me. I'm Tyreek. You reach out his hand, shake hands, start talking. He walked the whole 45 minutes
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or the whole 5k with, with DJ and I, and we talked the whole time and a 24 year old young
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man wants to create success. Uh, he's working, he's in a fucking trade right now. He's working
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HVAC. That's right. I mean, like working hard working. Yeah. And you know, he's from,
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uh, a bad part of the city crime wise. Okay. And we started talking and one of the things
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he was like, he's like, dude, I grew up in a Democrat family. You know, I, I was, uh,
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I was raised a Democrat. My parents were Democrats. My grandparents were Democrats. And he said,
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you know, we're starting to understand what's been going on. Um, they've, my family gave me
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a lot of trouble when I first started trying to talk about these things, but he said they
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get it and we're starting to, you know, and, and dude, that it's reassuring that whole talk
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for that. Like, I don't know if like God, like put him there that day for that reason,
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but like, you know, a lot of times guys, you know, I don't post on social anymore. So I don't
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see you guys, you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't see the support. I don't see the comments.
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I don't see. And then when people talk shit, you know, sometimes, but sometimes you guys don't
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come out like the way you used to come out. And so I don't, you know, like, so I'm always wondering
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if I, if like people are hearing what I'm saying or if it, if it matters or if it, and like that day,
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particularly I was having a pretty down day. And then here's this young man from my hometown who's
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telling me how our show has helped inform him, which has helped him inform his family
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and get them to understand the big picture of manipulation has been happening in the black
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Uh, it's, this is going to sound real, real ghetto. Sorry. Sorry, Tyree, but it's
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Uh, and I really appreciate you coming up that day because I think it meant more to
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Um, but you know, I'm seeing it, I'm seeing people individually come to me or write me
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or, or send me letters that are saying like, bro, you know, when you first started talking
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about this shit, I thought you guys were like, you know, these far right people they said.
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And, uh, and, and those letters almost always come from the black community.
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And, um, I, I think, you know, it's not Republican or Democrat, you know, like I say, often on
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the show, I don't really care for a lot of the Republicans either, but we do need someone
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We need people to be in our government system right now who are going to stop the bleeding
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And we need to work towards a better reformed America that is not communist and not Marxist.
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And it's thinking, but it's based on common sense freedom moving forward.
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You know, I offered some examples on the show yesterday, you know, about the legal system
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where we should have repercussions when people falsely accuse, um, there, there should be,
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Not, not this overly, you know, uh, abusive tax code that we live under.
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You know, there's, there's all kinds of special circumstances for the people that make our
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laws and rules that we have to live by, but they don't, there's all kinds of things that
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And, and, and, and these, the way this is accomplished guys is through cultural reform.
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It's accomplished by all of us uniting and coming together and realizing like, Hey man,
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these powers that be the media, the politicians, uh, the world economic forum motherfucker.
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They do not have any of our best interests in mind.
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They're working on their best interests and trying to sell us on why it's in our interest
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And anybody who has a brain that functions can look around and say, clearly things are
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We shouldn't be oppressed by our own government or paying for people to go into government and
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come out worth hundreds of millions of dollars because they have special privileges that we
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And I love watching you hustle every single day.
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Uh, question number one, uh, Andy, we are a small company of 35 employees.
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Um, and have been recently running into some issues with team members gossiping about one
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Uh, and what has your experience been like with gossip in the workplace and what suggestions
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do you have on eliminating it and the toxicity it creates?
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You know, unfortunately we live in a culture where gossip is like a currency for people.
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There's a lot of people who, uh, they get attention on the downfall of others.
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Uh, they like to celebrate the hardships of others.
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And this is all a reflection of their own miserable lives.
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Anybody out there who gets their attention from tearing others down, they're doing so because
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There's a human nature aspect to gossip, uh, that really cannot be eliminated.
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And it is a, it is a active, intentional discipline to not gossip for every single person.
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I'm saying we have to work to eradicate that from our individual character.
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And that's been something I've had to work on too.
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Um, I was never a big gossiper, but, uh, I don't think the gossip is a good thing at
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I think that's how weak people get derived the value of their own existence is to gossip
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Um, most of the time it's not even fucking true shit.
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Well, well, we live in an attention economy, right?
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So a lot of people have learned that drama and gossip actually get them attention.
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And so that's, that's why we have this situation in our culture right now.
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Um, and to eradicate it from your workplace is, is not as simple as coming in and saying,
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Um, what it is, is one, you have, you have to define the values that you expect in your
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And then you have to live those values, uh, all of the time.
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And so, you know, we used to have this problem back, like how I corrected this problem as
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much as it can be corrected, uh, was really more.
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So I made a rule like 10 years ago, 10 years ago, it's probably 12 or 13 years ago, um,
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But if I find out that you're saying the shit to other people, I will fire you.
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I, I enforced that rule and it wasn't just about me.
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If someone, and what it did was it created a culture where for the most part, now I know
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there's obviously situations that I don't catch or don't hear about or don't see, but
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for the most part, it creates a culture of direct communication where if someone has an
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issue, they can walk up to someone and, and discuss the issue.
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Solve the issue face to face, give a hug, give a handshake with respect and walk out.
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I personally believe that as a culture, one of the biggest things that we need to correct.
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And this is not just in your company, but this is in culture in the world is that we need to get
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really, we need to get back to a more respectful way of dealing with each other.
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And that means having discussions face to face with issues that we truly have with a productive
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And the people who gossip and drama for attention, in my opinion, those are the people that should
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Those are the people that cause the pain for society.
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Those are the people that create a situation where most people won't even come out and do
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great things because they're so afraid of those people.
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Well, I have to tell you guys, those people never amount to fucking anything.
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You're, I've had many, many, many of those people in my life and I've just kept moving.
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And they've kept doing their thing and their thing eventually quit working and they had
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And then they disappeared into irrelevance because they're not providing any real value.
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So you can't let the fear of gossip or frustration of gossip stop you from doing what it is you
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Because if you stop, you're stopping for a false reality that doesn't even really affect
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What you'll find is that you continue to move and you continue to progress.
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And you continue to do what it is you know that you need to do, you will continue to
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And this is a big myth that people have when it comes to external forces stopping them,
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Like if you say, okay, well, why did you stop that?
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Whatever that is, like your momentum, your business, your fitness, your this, your that,
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it will always be some sort of external circumstance that has to do usually with someone else.
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And if you would have just kept moving, that situation would have changed just like the
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And you would be that much further down the road.
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And the truth of the matter is, is nobody stops you.
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Think about a time in your life, dude, when you stopped because things got upsetting or
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someone said something or someone's, you know, made up a rumor about you or someone
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fucking did something to you that didn't stop you.
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Look, dude, for most people, they've never experienced a real hater.
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They've never had someone break in their house.
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They've never had someone pour sugar in their gas tank.
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They've never had someone paint some shit on the inside of their fucking, of their house.
00:24:23.880
Or you thinking they'll say some things about you.
00:24:26.120
Well, that's the thing is most people don't even get to the point where people actually
00:24:35.260
So they tell themselves this story about what people may think if they go out and do whatever
00:24:43.380
And what ends up happening is they create the scenario in their brain of what could happen.
00:24:49.580
And so because of what could possibly happen, they choose to take zero action or they choose
00:24:57.620
That means that your own biggest hater is actually you.
00:25:08.220
Most of the time it's you seeing the worst case scenario and choosing to not take action
00:25:14.940
because you've seen something happen to someone else or you've had something happen to you.
00:25:21.360
Well, if you've already had that thing happen to you and you're trying to stop it from happening
00:25:27.180
again, do you not realize that it's already happened?
00:25:34.720
So I know this isn't necessarily the question, but I think it's relevant to the top.
00:25:41.140
And I think the best way to rid your office of gossip is to create a culture intentionally
00:25:51.860
If someone, dude, I've had employees sit down right in front of my face and say, bro, I
00:26:01.880
And through that direct communication, like, bro, I'm not like, hey, you're fucking fire
00:26:11.540
And from those clear communications, resolutions usually arise.
00:26:18.460
Sometimes the resolution is we don't work together anymore.
00:26:22.020
However, there's respect there because of how it was handled.
00:26:24.820
And so having an open door policy when you're a manager or a leader of a small group,
00:26:34.120
I, I think that having that open door policy and that open discussion is one of the main
00:26:40.960
keys to having a great environment where there isn't so much cancer in, in the water.
00:26:47.320
Cause dude, like a lot of these people that come to work at your guys' businesses, dude,
00:26:51.020
you got to remember they're not familiar with how you operate.
00:26:55.440
They're not, they don't understand what the game is here.
00:26:59.080
And you're not intentionally designing a culture.
00:27:03.760
So they're just bringing in all their bad habits, all the shit they've learned out there in
00:27:07.220
the real world or on social media or in their Facebook group where they trash everybody into
00:27:12.220
So it's very important for you to have an intentional culture in regards to cancerous
00:27:20.720
It's about cancerous behavior because that'll become cancerous behavior.
00:27:25.100
Gossip is cancerous behavior, but it's not the only cancerous behavior.
00:27:29.980
So you want to build a culture based around no cancerous behavior.
00:27:33.860
And the way you do that is you allow for, um, bottom up communication that is open and
00:27:39.580
honest and fair and real without punishment for that communication.
00:27:44.840
And so what ends up happening is people start to trust that they can come to you so they
00:27:50.520
don't go to the fucking person next to them and say, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
00:27:54.180
And if they do, that's cancerous behavior and it's grounds for fucking termination.
00:28:00.320
Uh, any question number two, uh, Andy, what do you look for in potential executives?
00:28:05.960
Uh, I have about 15 employees, uh, and I've been needing someone to manage some backend
00:28:11.760
Uh, they would be leading a team of nine or so.
00:28:14.440
The issue is, is that they're all amazing employees with exception of one who just isn't
00:28:19.020
management material, but no one has really emerged as quote unquote, the one, how do you
00:28:25.260
Well, I mean, there's a couple of different ways to handle this, you know, and companies
00:28:31.480
Um, how, how I handle it is not necessarily the only way most companies in that scenario
00:28:37.780
would probably hire someone with a nice resume who has got a C-level executive title at some
00:28:48.100
Um, and they're going to come in and operate the thing that's outside in.
00:28:52.000
That is the solution that most companies will do.
00:28:56.940
And that's also why most companies have a shitty culture.
00:29:01.220
I have always been a believer from promoting within.
00:29:04.000
It sounds like the way this person worded that wants to do it.
00:29:07.200
It wants to do that, which I believe is the right way.
00:29:09.000
It's also, it's a slower way, but it's the, it's this for sure way.
00:29:12.620
Um, and so in that scenario where no one's emerged, the reason no one's probably emerged
00:29:19.860
is because they're not aware that you're actually looking for a new career for one of them.
00:29:25.120
So, you know, you have to let people know in your ability to paint the vision for the
00:29:30.900
upward mobility of the company, that there are these opportunities, right?
00:29:34.980
Like as the leader of the company, one of the biggest things that you have to do if you
00:29:41.180
want to continue to grow is that your vision has to be communicated clearly over and over
00:29:46.380
and over and over again, and every single correction, every single talk, every single
00:29:51.700
communication, every single, uh, you know, contact that you have with the team should
00:29:58.580
be tied into the company growing as a whole and their position that they want to achieve
00:30:04.360
And so what I think is probably most likely happening here is they don't understand the
00:30:11.620
Uh, because if they did and they truly understood and believe that you were going to grow the
00:30:16.280
company in that direction, they would be fighting over it.
00:30:21.960
Like you don't want to create a hostile competition.
00:30:27.160
So, um, my suggestion is to get them all in a fucking room, including the one, you know,
00:30:37.020
And, uh, and say, Hey guys, look, this is what I'm trying to do.
00:30:43.060
Um, we're going to need this and we're going to need that.
00:30:45.480
And we're going to need this and we're going to need that.
00:30:47.580
And I could tell you, you, what would they say?
00:30:52.860
So your whole team of 10 for your company to get where the fuck you want it to go.
00:30:58.160
And I don't even have to, I don't even have to know where your company is going.
00:31:00.760
I'm just telling you to get any reasonable size of company.
00:31:04.500
That team of 10 should all be brought up as leaders because you're going to need that
00:31:09.400
many leaders to build a company of any sizable significance or wealth.
00:31:15.660
Let me, let me ask you, there's any followup on that?
00:31:17.340
Cause you know, you're the executive team here in this company.
00:31:20.420
First one for, uh, for example, man, you got some, you got some, some tenured fucking people,
00:31:26.300
people that have been in the ground for, you know, over 10 years.
00:31:31.160
Looking back at it now, was there a way like when you, when, when these employees, those
00:31:35.180
same executives, when you first saw them, when you first hired them, like, did you know
00:31:39.740
that that person would eventually be running the company?
00:31:45.500
These, all of our guys, um, all of our team members on the executive level, except one.
00:31:52.060
Um, yeah, except one of them started here at $7 a fucking hour or whatever the fuck a minimum
00:32:02.440
Um, and I did exactly what I just communicated over and over and over again.
00:32:07.980
And they're, these are the people that chose to come with me.
00:32:10.920
You know, there's been, there's been hundreds of people who I've given this talk to that
00:32:16.620
And that's okay too, because they don't have to be on my path.
00:32:21.740
They don't have to like, bro, sometimes people leave and they go do other things and they
00:32:28.240
And I personally am equally as proud of those people because what they did was they took
00:32:32.620
the lessons that they were able to absorb here while they were here and go create some
00:32:42.760
So, um, the, you know, I think it's important to remember that everybody has their own path.
00:32:56.500
And some people, um, you know, you could have the greatest opportunity in the world.
00:33:04.000
That's a healthy way to think, you know what I'm saying?
00:33:07.640
Like, like a lot of you motherfuckers out there in these relationships tied up with
00:33:11.320
these people and you're like, I fucking have to have them.
00:33:17.480
Well, how much, you know, and then they break up.
00:33:23.060
Bro, you motherfuckers that do that are the clowns of the internet.
00:33:27.020
No, people who are together and then trash each other publicly are the clowns of the fucking
00:33:33.980
Oh, like we all didn't just watch you for the last, however many years make post after
00:33:39.920
post, after post, after post of how awesome this person was.
00:33:44.160
And now, because they want to move to something else or you wanted to, or now they're a total
00:33:54.440
You know, it's just like when it keeps receipts now, bro.
00:33:57.820
It's just like 10 years ago when a customer would just destroy a company online and everybody
00:34:04.660
Now people are smart enough to understand that there's perspective and sides to a situation.
00:34:15.820
But the point is, if you had an attitude of, okay, I understand that.
00:34:21.400
I appreciate everything that we've had together, but, you know, I can appreciate that we're
00:34:29.860
And bro, think how much heartache and frustration and pain having a perspective like that will
00:34:41.420
So, but you have to, you have to have self-confidence and you have to believe in yourself.
00:34:46.280
Too many people out there are attaching their identities to a relationship or a job or a
00:34:51.260
career or a fucking outcome that is dependent on someone else.
00:34:56.800
Your happiness should never be dependent on a partner or a fucking job or a career.
00:35:02.140
It should be dependent on who the fuck you are and the standard you hold to yourself.
00:35:07.160
This is why 75 hard and live hard is such a great way to live because what it does is
00:35:13.320
it teaches you to believe in yourself and know your own worth, your real worth as a
00:35:24.040
You know what you're capable of and you're able to truly believe that.
00:35:27.460
And if someone walks away from you, you're okay with it because you're a bad motherfucker.
00:35:34.980
And most people have never lived in that reality.
00:35:38.540
And so they suffer because they're afraid to lose the thing.
00:35:42.900
Um, and so a lot of you guys have a lot of work to do.
00:35:47.100
You know, uh, the live hard program is a great place to start episode 80.
00:35:52.320
Uh, you can also listen to it on episode 208, but this is what will teach you how to get
00:35:57.060
to this point of what I'm talking about of, of not fearing, uh, separation.
00:36:03.140
But, but it goes into business just like we're talking now.
00:36:06.780
And you know, you have to be, you, you, your intent has to be right for your team, bro.
00:36:12.720
Like if you have fucking nine people and you go up there and you tell them some bullshit
00:36:17.160
story about how the fuck you're going to grow the company and this and that, you know, they
00:36:23.700
But they're going to start building this track history.
00:36:29.360
Like a lot of you guys out there as bosses, CEOs, entrepreneurs, like you're, you're looking
00:36:34.940
at your, your employees the complete wrong way.
00:36:37.820
Like you're seeing them as a revenue generator for your personal life.
00:36:42.280
And if that's all they are to you, then you can't expect them to ever really give a fuck
00:36:48.600
But if you actually do give a fuck about their career and you see it as what I think, what
00:36:56.260
I call, you know, a responsible capitalism or ethical camp capitalism, which is how I
00:37:03.480
I look at every person in this building and I say, fuck dude, I'm responsible for all
00:37:08.260
these motherfuckers, all their bills, all their fucking life, all their progress.
00:37:11.720
Like if we don't win, like as a company, regardless of me, right?
00:37:15.440
Like, cause I'm in a good spot in life, regardless of my own spot.
00:37:26.840
And so there's a, it's a perspective switch that you have to, it's really leadership maturity
00:37:34.000
Like, you know, because dude, you should just assume that you'll eventually get everything
00:37:39.320
Everything you fucking want, you, you will get.
00:37:45.200
What about when you have the income you want and you have the home you want and you have
00:37:52.260
I'm not saying what it is or it isn't, but okay.
00:37:54.400
Let's just assume as an entrepreneur right now, you have that.
00:38:01.540
Do you think it's cool that you have all that shit and those employees of yours are fucking
00:38:09.660
And that's that, if you want a special company, that's the key.
00:38:17.380
And that's an intent that you have to continue to audit in your leadership team.
00:38:24.500
You have to continue to audit in yourself because even when you are in tune with this,
00:38:29.340
you could still have moments because we are human beings of selfishness.
00:38:34.280
That's like why one of our core values here is be selfless.
00:38:39.560
But regardless, dude, the point is you could solve this really fast in two ways.
00:38:51.760
And three, have the proper intent and responsibility for the livelihoods of your employees.
00:38:58.160
If you do those three things, you will not have a problem with leadership emerging.
00:39:02.340
Andy, guys, our third and final question, Andy, question number three.
00:39:08.100
You've talked about long-term goals, short-term goals, right?
00:39:13.360
Tagging in this question specifically about the powerless.
00:39:16.040
When you're about to attack a massive obstacle for the day or you have a huge critical task,
00:39:22.340
what's your mindset like and what steps do you take to prepare yourself for it?
00:39:27.240
Well, first of all, you got to realize I've been doing this for a very long time, okay?
00:39:34.860
I've been using this system for more than 20 years.
00:39:40.160
I've also been in business for a very long time.
00:39:49.840
I don't have this rain dance or some shit I do before I fucking go and attach it.
00:40:07.100
There's no salt and pepper in that motherfucker.
00:40:08.560
All right, look, dude, the truth is, you know, I've put in so much work for so long
00:40:17.140
that it's just me checking things off as critical tasks is just part of my life and who I am
00:40:30.560
So, like, you know, like, when people say, like, oh, I got this-
00:40:37.240
And they're like, oh, it's 15 minutes of Tai Chi, you know, like, fucking 10 more minutes
00:40:50.800
And second of all, I would only listen to the motherfuckers who actually have the results
00:40:55.100
to prove that this actually is a good way, right?
00:41:02.960
I'm not even going to get the names, but my point is-
00:41:05.840
If they haven't produced real shit and they aren't real and they don't have real success
00:41:09.920
on a mass scale, their morning routine doesn't necessarily work.
00:41:14.480
That's about the nicest way I can put it, okay?
00:41:18.740
That's the problem I have with, like, so many of these fucking coaches out there.
00:41:22.260
It's like, you're coaching, but what do you have to show for your methods of coaching?
00:41:28.120
Like, Hani Rambod has won 20 motherfucking Olympias.
00:41:39.920
But, like, you know, there's especially in entrepreneurship and life coaching, there's a lot of people
00:41:45.420
with shitty lives calling themselves lives coaches.
00:41:47.920
There's a lot of people with no successful business other than, you know, selling you how
00:42:01.020
So, validate the real world results that the person's producing if they're trying to sell
00:42:06.520
Um, and by the way, it's not just their financial success.
00:42:16.840
Where, what's their, uh, you know, what's their lifestyle?
00:42:20.880
Are they, like, are they fit and healthy and in good shape and, like, taking care of business?
00:42:24.500
Are they some, like, weasel little wormy dude, uh, that, you know, looks like shit that is
00:42:30.800
trying to tell you how to fuck it on your morning routine.
00:42:33.300
Motherfucker, what the fuck are you, what do you, like, let's be smart here.
00:42:38.200
Um, so, I can appreciate this for the beginner, right?
00:42:45.760
Uh, but the mindset really ultimately comes down to what I call zero options mentality.
00:42:55.060
Uh, zero options mentality is the mentality that I just don't have another choice.
00:43:01.340
My other choice for not doing my critical tasks is actually digging ditches.
00:43:13.560
You either are going to succeed or you are going to be everything that you're afraid of.
00:43:19.900
You should consider that everything you're afraid of becoming.
00:43:23.700
Is the alternative to you not executing on your critical tasks.
00:43:29.880
And you should choose the harder path, like the immediate harder path, the delayed gratification
00:43:38.040
I've executed consistently for a very long time and it's been very difficult and it's been
00:43:46.180
very, very frustrating and it's driven me literally insane a couple of times.
00:43:51.700
But the alternative was me living a life of digging fucking holes, which would have sucked
00:44:04.300
If you're 20 years old and you're listening here, that's your choice.
00:44:07.340
Your choice is a little bit different than what mine probably was.
00:44:10.380
Your choice is either win and become everything that you think you can be and everything you
00:44:15.940
should be and everything, in my opinion, that you're obligated to be so that other people
00:44:22.300
Or you're probably going to be on government assistance.
00:44:26.500
You're probably going to be hooked up to metaverse.
00:44:35.520
You're probably going to be very frustrated, unhappy, and depressed.
00:44:39.320
And you're probably gonna be fucking miserable and you won't be able to break out of it because
00:44:45.760
You can either become what you're afraid of becoming, or you could become the best version
00:44:49.300
of your whole fucking life that you dream about, that you are afraid to tell anybody
00:44:53.080
about because you're afraid they'll laugh at you.
00:44:54.700
And then you go out in public and execute against that for the next fucking 15 years,
00:45:00.920
So to me, I have no other choice because I'm not willing to accept digging holes.
00:45:12.180
My life, whether what happens, it doesn't matter.
00:45:16.380
Every single day, I'm going to wake up, I'm going to execute, and I don't have a choice.
00:45:21.060
And this is why the plan B mentality is so fucking toxic to success.
00:45:25.820
You know, every time I say this, every time one of my videos goes viral about this, I get
00:45:47.540
Let me see your fucking, your, uh, your financial statements.
00:45:52.800
And then maybe I'll listen to what the fuck you have to say.
00:45:55.300
But until that, I'm telling you as someone who has a good representation of all those fucking
00:46:00.580
things I just said, if you have a plan B, you're going to lose to someone who doesn't.
00:46:08.200
Because a motherfucker who goes all in with zero option mentality, I'm going to do this
00:46:12.820
or I'm going to fucking die doing it, will always beat the person who says, well, here's
00:46:22.600
Because that person is so much more heavily invested that even if they are a lesser skillset
00:46:29.000
and have lesser resources, they will still beat the person who is not completely invested
00:46:41.540
Because every time I say it, I get all the internet experts saying, well, you're only
00:46:53.240
I'm going to fucking win or I'm going to die on the process of winning.
00:47:01.080
There's no other alternative for me and there never will be an alternative.
00:47:04.400
This is why most of the very successful, very wealthy people I know are also the hardest
00:47:12.280
I know the people who don't have to work anymore are the people that usually work the hardest.
00:47:22.640
You either have to decide to get hungry for life or at some point you will be starving.
00:47:32.360
You have to build yourself into this machine that executes regardless of what the fuck is
00:47:38.720
going on in the world, regardless of what's going on in your life, regardless of, especially
00:47:43.640
whether you feel like it or not, which most people can't even get past that, which is
00:47:53.780
If you want to win, if you want to dominate, if you want everything that you fucking say
00:47:58.220
that you want on the inside of your heart that you're embarrassed to even admit, you
00:48:06.260
So you're either about it or you're really full of shit and your actions tell the story.
00:48:12.720
I'm saying as a matter of fact, your goals really are your goals and your actions will
00:48:18.180
back that up or you're just spouting off bullshit like most people do.
00:48:23.020
And most people, here's the fucking great tragedy in this because people are like, Andy, why
00:48:29.280
Well, first of all, I have a huge fucking heart.
00:48:41.340
And I was still able to figure it out how to win with these simple systems of execution.
00:48:46.040
So if I can do this coming from fucking nowhere in the middle of nowhere out here in Missouri
00:48:52.700
to most of the world, most of the world can't point where the fuck I live on a fucking map.
00:49:04.360
That's why you guys, you guys say, oh, he's so intense.
00:49:08.800
No, I care because I know what you are capable of.
00:49:13.900
You just aren't aware of what you're capable of.
00:49:16.960
And if you were aware of what you're capable of, you would be pouring yourself into that
00:49:26.640
You can have that, but you're not going to have it by spreading your resources across
00:49:32.540
multiple plans and contingency plans because there's too much competition.
00:49:37.200
And there's too many people who are obsessed with becoming the best at what they do and
00:49:43.460
obsessed with becoming the best that they can be in all areas that you, there's too many
00:49:48.100
of those people to win half-assing it, no matter how much talent you have.
00:49:53.600
So when I say don't have a plan B, that's what I mean.
00:49:56.420
When I say have zero option mentality, this is what I'm talking about.
00:49:59.440
I'm talking about a mentality of no other choice.
00:50:03.380
And by the way, that's an easy mentality to have when you don't have shit because you
00:50:10.980
And that's the most people, most people have that, right?
00:50:15.680
The reason they get up and they go to work and take into a job they fucking hate is because
00:50:25.480
But if you could trick your mind to always believe that to be the truth, as you escalate
00:50:31.620
up through the ladders of success, holy shit, you can't be stopped.
00:50:38.200
Because comfort kills this mentality for most people.
00:50:42.940
So my question to you is you might be doing pretty good.
00:50:50.860
You might have a nice home, drive a nice car, have a nice fucking life.
00:51:01.400
And if we're honest with ourselves, there's a whole lot of shit we could be doing better.
00:51:04.920
And that shit that you could be doing better that you're not doing better, somebody else
00:51:10.520
And that's the point in the realization that I talk about all the time.
00:51:19.140
They may propagate you to the point of believing that everything is going to be equal even if
00:51:24.680
It never will be because of this fucking principle of natural order.
00:51:28.740
There will always be people who are unsatisfied with their bank account.
00:51:33.280
There will always be people who are unsatisfied with their fitness.
00:51:35.740
There will always be people who are unsatisfied with their relationship capacities.
00:51:38.980
There will always be people who want to get better in every single fucking area of life.
00:51:44.620
And those people will be the people who fucking win.
00:51:54.780
So you ask what my mindset is, what my routine is.
00:51:57.800
I don't need a routine because I understand that if I don't execute,
00:52:13.840
And as a reminder, the MFCEO project is coming back.
00:52:17.420
I will have announcements on that over the next few weeks.
00:52:23.280
So with that being said, please share the show.