462. Q&AF： Aggressive Patience, Improve Your Social Skills & Avoid Getting Laid Off
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In this episode of Q&A, I answer a bunch of questions submitted by you, the listeners. I also talk about some of the crazy things going on in the world right now, and how we can all be a part of fixing it.
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What is up guys, it's Andy Priscilla and this is the show for the realistic, goodbye to
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the 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 submit the questions and I give you the
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You could submit your questions a couple of different ways.
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Dude, I just saw this video, and I did not know this, but apparently in the state of Texas, they have a mutual combat law.
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Yeah, where you could declare mutual combat and the police can't interfere.
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I didn't know that they had it in Texas, but I'm familiar with the law.
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Do you think, like, if you were president today, would you instate that, like, federally?
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First of all, I think the law is far overreaching from where it should be.
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I think there's, listen, we've gotten way overly litigious to where the point, where you have no recourse against people harassing you or fucking with you or causing you grief or stepping your fucking toes.
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We had a much better society when people were afraid of fucking with people, okay?
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When people were afraid of stepping on someone's toes or disrespecting them or causing them harm.
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When people had fear of repercussions, we had a better society because everybody respected themselves and respect each other and themselves, okay?
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And they respected people's families, they respected boundaries, and we have this situation now with social media where we have all these people out there that think that people don't exist that will fuck you up from fucking with you.
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And so people have gotten real comfortable just doing whatever the fuck they want, when in reality, bro, there's a whole lot of people out there that will ruin your fucking life without you ever even knowing it just for fucking with them.
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Yeah, but dude, like, you know, when you could settle a fucking dispute by going out in the street and getting in a fist fight and then having a beer after, the world was a much better place.
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It's not like just like, all right, fucking mutual combat.
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It can't escalate to, like, you know, aggravated assault.
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Well, I mean, dude, I don't understand, you know, this is the whole problem in society is that you have the weak people of society
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who are unafraid to fuck with people who are stronger and more capable of taking care of their own business.
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And by the way, those weak people aren't afraid of the law because the law right now in this country favors them and doesn't prosecute them.
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If you're politically on one side of the aisle, you don't get prosecuted for shit.
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You know, Antifa gets to go down and fuck in Atlanta this past weekend, burn all kinds of shit.
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These people have been getting away with this shit for fucking years.
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But would you take it as far as because, you know, like back in the gentleman, you know, what it is, dude, is the police need to stand the fuck down
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when it comes to good citizens holding the line of the law, protecting their own communities.
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Would you take it as far as like, you know, back in the days to gentlemen, they could have the I don't know.
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I mean, like, bro, I don't think that most things have to go to that.
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The reason that we've gotten so gun happy is because we don't have an outlet with the fist fighting.
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OK, like when I was growing up, dude, and you had a problem with like, dude, when I listen, dude, there's a massive difference between people that are my age and people are 30 and 25 years old.
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I grew up knowing that if I did fucked up shit, if I fuck with somebody's girl or I fuck with them or I disrespected them, bro, I'm fighting.
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Now, whether or not I won that fight, you know, that was up in the air.
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But like, bro, you knew that if you did certain things, you're going to get fucking punched in the motherfucking mouth.
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And I grew up knowing that it's very clear the people in this world that had grown up not having that.
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They're these fucking pussy ass clout chasers on the Internet that try to fuck with everybody because that's the only way that they can offer any kind of fucking relevancy at all.
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That's that's why these people exist, because they've never been fucking destroyed in a fist fight.
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They don't know what it's like to get punched in the fucking face.
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Natural order will return because if we're looking at society in the way that the laws are enforced and they're being selectively enforced, eventually, if things don't change, the law will erode to a point where natural order will restore itself.
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Now, if the if the law goes back to applying the law evenly across the board to all citizens evenly, the way it should be, the order will be restored and we won't need to do that.
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But it's going to go one of two ways, because this idea that certain people can do anything they want, depending on what group they belong to and certain other people can't do shit.
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Right. Like all these people burning down the fucking country for three fucking years, they're they're fucking victims.
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Yeah. And if if American citizens say, fuck this, I'm done with this shit and go down there and fucking stop them.
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They're domestic terrorists. Right. We're taking a tour of the Capitol.
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I'm just saying, bro, it's a fucking double standard is bullshit.
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And the only thing holding back and they know this, too, the only thing holding natural order back from becoming reality again in society is this double standard application of the law right now.
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Like if the law completely eroded, all the fucking problems, society correct themselves very quickly.
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Yeah. I'm actually hoping for that. That's a fact. I'm hoping for that.
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Yeah. So long time will tell. Well, I'm just saying, bro.
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But I think, you know, you learn a lot as a man.
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In that environment, you know, those are necessary lessons.
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Well, it's the only way we know is men. Once you're in the real world, where the fuck you stand.
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That's it. It's what you can defend yourself. That's it.
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And dude, you have a whole generation of people now, 15 years worth of people who don't understand that and they're not afraid of it.
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And then when some when they do fuck with someone and someone fucks with them back, they play victim.
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I just watched four days of Yellowstone. So I'm feeling a certain way about it. I'm just saying, dude, it was a better place.
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It was a better place when there was consequences for your fucking words and actions immediately.
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Wasting tax money on the police, the police need to be allowed to do their fucking jobs.
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OK, if the police were just allowed because police understand this shit.
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It's not that it's not that there's bad police or the police are pussies and this and that.
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And like some of these people say that the fucking leadership of the police prevents them from doing their job effectively.
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Then you have the court system who will not prosecute criminals, but they'll gladly prosecute certain people that stand in a certain political dimension for anything that they do.
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We have an unjust, unfair, unethical fucking bias legal system and law law structure.
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And it's fucking up the culture and it's fucking up the respect among citizens.
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And if they we did have mutual combat where people could fucking fight it the fuck out and use, you know, someone just got their ass beat and you walk the fuck away.
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Louis has had mutual combat for the last three years straight.
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I mean, dude, look, when you fuck with someone, you got to be prepared to be fucked with back.
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And nowadays, you know, you just got to get creative about how you fuck with people.
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Number one, Andy, when you have a huge goal in front of you, OK, and you've made the list of what needs to get done, you do it.
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What do you recommend doing during the time from the point of execution of the plan to the plan actually coming into fruition?
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Well, I mean, dude, this is the concept of aggressive patience that I talk about.
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I just wrote about this two days ago in Andy Graham.
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By the way, if you guys aren't subscribed to Andy Graham, you should.
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OK, a lot of you guys misunderstand the purpose of this.
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Like you say, oh, why don't you post in your feed?
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I post Andy Graham's every single day and I have for the last three years.
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I'm more consistent than anybody on the Internet.
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So if you want my posts, go to go subscribe to the Andy Graham.
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It's generally the first post that I post in the morning every single day.
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All you got to do is click on that link and subscribe to go right to your email, dude.
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And I don't spam your shit with a bunch of bullshit emails.
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So anyhow, you have to you have to understand and I give away a lot of fucking really good
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lessons in there that will help you, especially in business.
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You have to understand, dude, aggressive patience is a concept where you you work every single
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But you also understand at the same time that it's going to take time.
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And this is a concept that people get very confused about because you hear people, other
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And people misinterpret that and think that like that means that they can just chill and
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It's it's executing day in, it's executing day out, it's executing for weeks, months,
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years, understanding that that's the amount of time that it takes.
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It's this urgent work every single day, but also have the patience to understand that no
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matter how hard you work today, it's still going to take time to materialize.
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And so this is a this is a major concept of success that people misunderstand because so
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You have a lot of people out there that just say patience, patience, patience is the key.
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If you understand the aggressive part that you have to execute day and by day by day,
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week by week, by week, year by year, by year, that's that's what actually makes it happen.
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So the answer to this question is you're you need to be urgently executing during that time
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between the beginning and the result that you're trying to produce, understanding that
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Yeah, it's not waiting around like you're saying, what do I do?
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It's like, oh, man, there's that's you're just by the nature of that question.
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I can tell you're misunderstanding how this works.
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And this is frustrating for me because I see a lot of really good intent people who have
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the right idea and they want to succeed and they're willing to work for it.
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But because people tell them patience, patience, patience, they think like, OK, well, I did this.
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And because of that, because they don't execute during the time that they think is free time.
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I mean, just over the court, like, you know, for months at a time.
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You need to fill that gap with productive action.
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OK, I talk about this very, very, very in detail in episode 16 on the Real AFV, which is called
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Win the Day, Win the Day episode will tell you my powerless method for basically running
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your goal setting system and how to execute it properly.
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So go listen to episode 16 to give you a better understanding of what we're talking about.
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Do you have you found because 24 years in business, have you found that that lag time
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between the input and the output over time has that shortened?
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Are you able to are you able because of all your tools in your belt?
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And when you get versus when you started, is that lag time much bigger?
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Well, see, well, that's a that's a that's a complicated question.
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OK, because first of all, when I started, there was no Internet.
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But not there was Internet, but it wasn't the Internet that you guys see today or have
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I was just talking to one of my buddies last night about how valuable this Internet and
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social media is to people who are just starting out in business now, because when I started,
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There was no access to people who are doing shit or have done shit.
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And I could read his book, but I couldn't like tune in and listen to him talk.
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I couldn't I couldn't watch him on the Internet.
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And and by the way, I wouldn't be here without that man.
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But you guys who are just getting started, you don't really understand how how lucky
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And, you know, it's funny because I was talking to this friend who is also a business coach,
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And we were laughing because motherfuckers will bitch about spending two or three, four
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hundred dollars a month to get access directly to people like me who have fucking built
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ridiculously massive shit or people like this dude who's worth a billion dollars.
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They'll bitch about three hundred bucks, but they had no problem fucking spending one
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hundred twenty grand on a fucking education from a from a school who's taught by a bunch
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You know, I'm saying it makes no fucking sense.
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And by the way, most of the coaching programs out there are garbage.
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But there are a handful of them that are extremely valuable because they are led and taught by people
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OK, so you have to understand the value exchange there and the access that you have.
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So the point I brought up this conversation is because I was we were talking on on the
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phone and I said, bro, if I had access to me now, like, OK, me in the beginning, if I
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had access to me now, I could have cut down the twenty four years by at least fifty percent
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OK, meaning I could have got where I'm at now in a third of the time because I know
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Like I can look back and say, OK, don't do that.
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And I could fucking direct the traffic like perfectly because I've been down the path.
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And dude, like they say, hindsight is twenty twenty.
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So that's what you get when you work with someone who's done real shit.
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But the fact that we have the the access that we do now and the information that we
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do now, you know, these people don't understand how fucking lucky they are to have it because
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it never fucking existed before and they've come in and they've run their whole lives
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on an iPad and iPhone and this and they they like just they're like, oh, OK, cool.
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At the longer that you go on, OK, the longer that you go down the path that you're on right
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now, you're going to have you're going to start to meet people.
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You're going to meet people with with different skill sets and different relationships and
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connections and like all that networking that you try to do intentionally now will organically
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be in place because you've been doing it for a long time and motherfuckers know you're
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And I mean, bro, a fraction of the time of what I would have been able to do in the beginning
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because of that, because I have financial resources now, because I have the experience
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and the knowledge and all the mistakes I made through the process, all those tools and skills
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that I got from those mistakes I have in my tool belt.
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And that's why you should appreciate the struggles that you have.
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And that's why you should appreciate overcoming those struggles, because when you overcome
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them in the beginning and you make mistakes in the beginning or even if you make mistakes
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in the middle or wherever, it's still a cheaper mistake than what it would have cost you five
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And that's how you should look at these things.
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So, you know, when you when you look at the journey, right, and you're just in the beginning
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and you're looking at, you know, 10, 20, 30 years down the road, you have to understand
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that that 20 year version of you is going to be a fucking monster that can accomplish
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shit in the snap of a finger where, you know, the you couldn't get that done the first two
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Where it went at 20 year, you can make a phone call and that shit can happen.
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And so that's what you have to look forward to by persevering and not quitting.
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Like, for example, you know, my goals now are exponentially bigger.
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They're their global size goals in terms of turning my company from a medium sized company,
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right, that we are now, um, to to a global brand.
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And that that is every single fucking bit as hard as it was getting the thing started
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off the ground, but see, not everybody continues to expand their vision or their goal or what
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Um, and the reason I do isn't for my fucking ego or anything other than I have a bunch of
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people over here who have all worked very hard for a long time to get us to here.
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Um, and I've become very successful and there's a bunch of people in this building who have become
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very successful and I want them, uh, the other people who have worked and paid their dues
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So like, I look at it as paying them back for the work that, that they have invested
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Like, bro, I don't even get paid from first form.
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And like, you know, I invest all my money back into first form, the money I pay myself.
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That's why we're able to fucking grow this other, we're opening this new building.
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And then that next one over there and all these things, it's because bro, I, I care about
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the people in this building and I want to build something really special.
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I think we've built something incredible now, but it's nothing compared to what we want
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And, uh, you know, it did stop being about me a long time ago, you know, guys, that was
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question number one, uh, any question number two, Andy, what are some things I can start
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doing immediately to help me get out of my introverted shell?
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I had a really hard time with this and I still have a hard time with this.
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In fact, we were talking about this right before we started the show.
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We were talking about how uncomfortable it is for me to have cameras around to shoot content.
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Uh, and how big, how big of a douche bag I feel.
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In fact, I said, I think I feel like a super douche, right?
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Like, so like, bro, it's just not who the fuck I am.
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Uh, I don't really care for that, all that stuff.
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And, um, you know, it's not comfortable for me and, and, and it's not, is it, it may appear
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that's the opposite, but the reason it appears that way is because I practiced it.
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So I used to have a very hard time with people as well.
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Uh, two things that really fucking helped me with this.
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If you can work in a retail environment, you're going to get a number of reps every
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single day, interacting with random strangers, and that will help build your skill and interaction
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That's going to help you in a, I mean, in a million different ways in life, a million
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It's going to help your, uh, you know, your personal friendships.
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It's going to help you fucking in every possible situation.
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The better you can get with people, the better your life will be and the more success and
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The only way to get better when you're not a natural gifted extrovert, which most people
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So you want to put yourself in situations where you practice that.
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When I first started on day one, when I, when we first started supplement super stores,
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our first real company, um, bro, I was scared to death.
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Like I can still remember my first customer coming in and I can remember my, my first customer
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My second customer, I didn't know from shit and I was scared shitless.
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And like, like he walks in and I'm like, holy shit, you know, like what do I do now?
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Like I didn't fucking, bro, I didn't have anybody to coach me.
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I didn't fucking have anybody telling me anything.
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Like I, I, I hadn't thought that far ahead, bro.
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So this dude comes in and I remember specifically, dude, this dude walks in the store and we didn't
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And he goes, he looks at me and he goes, he, he goes, so you guys like going out of business?
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And I'm like, dude, I didn't know what he meant.
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It took me like six or seven years to understand, to get what he was saying.
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What he, what he meant was we didn't, we had so little inventory.
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Now you got to remember, we built our shelves out of wood, two by fours and fucking particle
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This dude walks in and he says, he looks around and he looks at me.
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He goes, so you guys like going out of business?
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Dude, this was the second day we were in or the third day we were in business.
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It took us three days to have our first real customer comes in and I, and he says that
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and I'm like, Oh man, we just opened, you know?
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Like I had no idea that like, dude, I was, I was like the fuck now we just opened.
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And bro, that's, that's, there's a lesson in that.
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And the lesson in that is like, dude, you may not have a spectacular start.
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You may not have this amazing start and people might think it's a fucking joke.
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And if they, it wasn't always to our face, it'd be behind our backs.
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So let them fucking think it because one day you'll end up in a good spot because of it.
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But he comes in and he walks in and he's like, he's like, Hey dude, uh, uh, so you got
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I just knew I saw this other guy do it and I thought, well, if that guy can do it, I
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And so, uh, this dude walks over and I'm like, and, and I remember like putting this
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product out and it said on the front of it, it said, uh, gain seven pounds in seven days.
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It was, it was a product called cell tech by a company called a muscle tech, which they're
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They've been around for a long time, but it used to say on the front of it, I don't know
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And I don't even know if they make the product now, but it used to say.
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Put on seven pounds in seven days, a creatine product with, uh, some sugar in it and stuff.
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So anyway, I remember seeing it and I'm like, yeah, actually we do have some stuff to put
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See this right here, seven pounds, seven days right here.
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So like you fuckers think that like, we're like, I'm some kind of genius or fucking got
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Don't fucking don't say, you know, when you don't know, just tell them you don't know
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I read about a word for word of this motherfucker.
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I said, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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He didn't, I didn't, you know, he didn't buy it.
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He never came back, but you know, like that's how you learn.
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I realized, oh shit, I don't want that to happen again.
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I went around and read every motherfucking product in the store.
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I went around and fucking learned what the shit was.
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When I didn't understand what something was, I called the company up and I started asking
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So, you know, you have to be willing to do that to get started.
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So I didn't even know where the fuck I was going with the retail options.
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The second thing, see my fit, you guys, if you don't know, I've been sick as fuck for
00:29:25.680
Um, the second thing was, uh, I, I made up this little game that I practiced.
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So, so first thing is try to get yourself in a retail environment.
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The other thing is I made up this game and this is a game that I played for a long, long
00:29:45.300
And what I would do, there's a grocery store chain here in St. Louis called Dearburg's
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famous, famous family, great family, uh, does a lot for the community.
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Very, very, uh, very great company that they run here.
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And there's another family owned company here, Schnucks.
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Um, this was a Dearburg's and it was by my house and, and I would go to Dearburg's and
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So I'd make myself have three conversations with random people in the grocery store and
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Like highs and byes or like legit conversations.
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Like if I saw a dude looking at green beans, I'd be like, I'd start talking about green beans.
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Or, you know, I'd have to, you know, sometimes if I saw someone and I liked their shoes, I would
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You know, and we would start talking about shoes.
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And what that did was it, it, it lowered my fear of approaching people and it gave me
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the confidence to have conversations with random strangers.
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Just like I said, the one in retail where it's going to help all areas of your life.
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So will this, uh, especially those of you who can only approach people online now and
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You, this is another thing people don't have perspective on because a lot of people,
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a lot of you young guys have grown up so digitally connected.
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You lack very, very, you lack your personal skills fucking suck.
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I don't know how to say this any better than that.
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Like, so this is an important thing, especially for you younger people who have grown up with
00:31:35.880
a lot of technology for you to practice because you may think these skills don't matter,
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but I can assure you they still matter because you're not going to get in that circle of,
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you know, the 10 figure, the 10, nine, eight figure people that you're trying to get connected
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to without having personal skills and being cool as fuck.
00:31:55.200
Like if you, you show up and you meet someone in person, cause dude, relationships are still
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No, when, so when you show up and you meet someone in person and you're awkward as fuck
00:32:05.100
and you don't know how to interact, bro, that's going to cost you the relationship because
00:32:08.200
people are going to be like, what the fuck this dude weird shit, what the fuck's wrong?
00:32:13.500
They're, there's, there's so many people out there who have money and have success and have
00:32:18.740
things that you have to offer something else to get into the circles that you're trying to get
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And that needs, that requires personal skillset that requires your ability to connect and make
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I did that for fucking years where I would go in there and I would practice, I would
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practice, I would practice because guys, the truth is I, and I try to say this, you know,
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Everything I am as a result of me getting my face smashed in and learning, that's it.
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That's why I tell you, there's only two things that you need to truly succeed.
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You have to be willing to fall on your face and you have to be smart enough to learn the
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lesson, whatever that lesson is, because every time you fall on your face, there's
00:33:14.280
So whatever that lesson is, you have to be able to learn it and then not do the same
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You might do some of these things twice just because you don't know, but definitely not
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And the other thing is you just have to be willing to keep going.
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So if you're willing to learn from your mistakes, if you have the capacity to learn from
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mistakes and you are willing to endure and not quit, you will eventually find yourself
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That's really the only two things that you actually have to have.
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Do that, do that little game and get yourself in a retail environment.
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Guys, Andy, our third and final question, Andy, question number three.
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Andy, with so many companies doing massive layoffs currently, what do you recommend to
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entrepreneurs or just employees in general that are working within a company, what do
00:34:10.080
you recommend they should do to avoid getting cut?
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Um, that means being undeniably valuable for the company.
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First of all, there's two things to consider here.
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One, are you with a company that is continuing to grow and can you grow to your full potential,
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whatever you believe that might be inside that company?
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If you cannot, you should no longer spend time at that company.
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Because there's nothing worse than spending three, four, five years in a company and then
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So you have to really pay attention to what's going on in the company to recognize that.
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So let's ask that because a lot of them aren't.
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Now, the good news is, is that while there's all these companies doing layoffs, there's
00:35:09.880
also all these new companies and younger companies hiring and growing.
00:35:14.720
Because what's happened here in the business environment is culturally, there's a whole
00:35:19.780
lot of companies that have violated consumers trust.
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Over the last three years, they've pushed a fucking super hardcore woke agenda in their
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They've pushed super politically correct work environment that nobody likes.
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They've made people do shit that violates their own personal fucking freedoms and rights.
00:35:43.980
And they, they've pushed shit like, you know, like Disney pushes way too much fucking woke
00:35:53.000
You know, these tech companies, people are recognizing, like I said, that nobody wants
00:35:59.360
In a fucking house with on, on communist government assistance for the rest of their life.
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So people are rejecting all this shit that these companies went all in on.
00:36:08.200
And that's why you're seeing so many layoffs with some of these bigger companies.
00:36:17.680
The other side of this coin, which I've been telling for years are the pro-American pro-freedom
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People want to support small business more than they ever have.
00:36:31.960
They want to support the local entrepreneur more than they ever have.
00:36:35.820
They want to support the, uh, the midsize companies that don't buy into the woke agenda
00:36:42.160
and the pushing of shit and believe they believe in freedom and they believe in this country
00:36:47.860
And they believe in not violating people's personal freedoms.
00:36:50.100
And they believe in unity, not division and all this shit.
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And I said this for years, for, for years, I've been telling you that was the trend.
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All of my companies are trending way to fuck up.
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My retail company is setting fucking records, bro.
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We have a fucking 24 year old retail company and everybody's like, Oh, retail's dead.
00:37:19.280
Your fucking model sucks and you suck at running it.
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If you provide what they're looking for and what they're looking for is not to walk into
00:37:31.020
an environment where they get fucking wokeness, shoved up their motherfucking ass.
00:37:38.740
And by the way, why would you pander to the people who don't have the money to spend on
00:37:52.580
So you want to make your business appeal to the people that are customers.
00:37:59.500
And the way you do that is by being pro freedom, uh, pro unity, pro America, people are starving
00:38:07.800
So seek those companies out, get in one of those companies and those companies are growing
00:38:25.920
So those companies are growing now that's, that's just an audit to assess where you're
00:38:34.460
Do you, do you, is this a good time for you to leave this environment where these companies
00:38:42.340
Are you going to have a place there or are you just delaying the inevitable?
00:38:48.540
Then is now a good time for you to jump over to somewhere that's growing because of the
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And these motherfuckers going to argue with me.
00:38:59.200
You don't know what the fuck you're talking about because I'm going to show, I can show
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So you could theorize all you want in the fucking comments.
00:39:10.600
It would be a good idea to consider getting in with one of these companies.
00:39:13.840
If you have skills and you were in fear of losing them over here, I will take as many
00:39:17.900
of you high-skilled motherfuckers as they come my way because we're fucking growing.
00:39:23.340
Now, to answer the original question, which what can I do to not get laid off?
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You got to be willing to do more than the other people.
00:39:37.180
Whatever that means, you've got to be able to contribute to the mission.
00:39:40.240
You've got to make yourself undeniable inside the company.
00:39:43.820
There is a great book written about this by probably the smartest business guy out there
00:39:56.140
Lynchpin is an amazing book about how to be valuable inside of a company, how to be undeniably
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That book will give you far more insight than I could give you on this show, but the bottom
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You have to become that motherfucker that they can't live without because if you could
00:40:15.520
become that, that makes you immune to the layoffs because when the layoffs happen, they
00:40:22.940
So like, they're not saying like, Oh, you know, it sucks that we have to cut all these
00:40:28.740
The conversation is, okay, who's the dead weight?
00:40:33.500
Who are the people that we can get away with not having here?
00:40:36.080
And you don't want to be on that list and you never want to be on that fucking list.
00:40:42.080
Let me, let me, I wanted to ask you when you brought that up, would you say that a company
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that is doing layoffs is almost indicative of a company that's not growing?
00:40:52.040
Well, of course, why would you lay off a bunch of people if things were fucking wonderful?
00:40:57.980
Like that's, is this a good judge as an employee?
00:41:00.160
Like if your company's already doing layoffs, that's probably not the right place to be at
00:41:04.440
And you automatically start looking for these other places.
00:41:09.420
There's also, no, there's exceptions, exceptions to everything.
00:41:12.600
You know, there could be a situations where you're restructuring.
00:41:15.540
There could be situations where you're adjusting.
00:41:21.620
That could, that could allow a company to, to take one step back to take three step forward.
00:41:28.380
So it doesn't necessarily mean that the company is going to fail long-term, but it certainly
00:41:38.420
And, and you have to understand that if they're making cuts and you survive, you're probably
00:41:42.340
going to have a lot more asked of you at that company for the same amount of money
00:41:48.820
And you know what, sometimes in the economy, that's the fucking reality of business, you
00:41:53.340
And so like if that situation comes to you where they say, well, Hey, uh, you could stay, but
00:42:00.160
Instead of getting all pissed off, you should stop for a second and say, okay, well, what's
00:42:07.900
The ones I just laid out, but people ain't talking about them.
00:42:12.520
If you get with a company that has, there's lots of companies right now that are fucking
00:42:18.620
And all the ones that are crushing are the non-woke companies.
00:42:24.680
I've tried to, I've tried to lay this out for you guys for a year.
00:42:27.120
If you've been a long time listener, I've tried to show you and tell you, I was telling
00:42:30.800
you in 20 fucking 19 and 2020 that that would be the trend now.
00:42:39.340
So if you have high skills and you want to work for a bad-ass company, uh, maybe think
00:42:44.780
about one of the companies that I have, because we're kicking ass guys, Andy, and we're always