REAL AF with Andy Frisella - January 26, 2023


462. Q&AF： Aggressive Patience, Improve Your Social Skills & Avoid Getting Laid Off

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Andy Frisella
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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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00:00:00.000 What is up guys, it's Andy Priscilla and this is the show for the realistic, goodbye to 0.98
00:00:20.640 the lies, the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality. 0.81
00:00:24.820 Guys, today we have Q and AF, that's where you submit the questions and I give you the 0.98
00:00:29.980 answers.
00:00:30.440 You could submit your questions a couple of different ways.
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00:02:49.760 Yeah, it is what it is.
00:02:51.140 All right.
00:02:52.280 What's up, man?
00:02:53.740 What's going on, dude?
00:02:54.940 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.
00:03:01.220 Did you know that?
00:03:01.820 Yeah, where you could declare mutual combat and the police can't interfere.
00:03:06.220 Yeah.
00:03:06.600 Yeah. 0.98
00:03:06.920 I had no fucking idea. 0.98
00:03:07.860 I didn't know that they had it in Texas, but I'm familiar with the law. 0.98
00:03:10.880 Do you think, like, if you were president today, would you instate that, like, federally?
00:03:15.900 Yeah, I think it should be everywhere.
00:03:17.420 Yeah.
00:03:18.420 First of all, I think the law is far overreaching from where it should be. 0.99
00:03:26.220 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. 0.96
00:03:41.580 Like, we were both civilly and criminally. 0.99
00:03:44.580 We had a much better society when people were afraid of fucking with people, okay? 0.78
00:03:49.780 When people were afraid of stepping on someone's toes or disrespecting them or causing them harm. 0.92
00:03:56.300 When people had fear of repercussions, we had a better society because everybody respected themselves and respect each other and themselves, okay? 0.99
00:04:05.280 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. 0.99
00:04:18.640 You know what I'm saying? 1.00
00:04:19.940 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. 1.00
00:04:29.460 Yeah, they've had to adapt. 1.00
00:04:30.740 Yeah. 1.00
00:04:30.900 Back then, they were just fucking. 0.99
00:04:32.060 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. 0.99
00:04:40.540 And they have rules. 0.94
00:04:41.560 It's not like just like, all right, fucking mutual combat. 0.94
00:04:43.500 Like, both have to be, it's mutual, right? 0.95
00:04:45.540 Like, they both have to decide.
00:04:46.640 It can't escalate to, like, you know, aggravated assault.
00:04:49.400 But it's simple assault.
00:04:50.400 Yeah, go for it.
00:04:51.280 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 0.99
00:04:59.380 who are unafraid to fuck with people who are stronger and more capable of taking care of their own business. 0.98
00:05:06.460 Yeah, that are held back by the law. 0.99
00:05:07.920 That's right.
00:05:08.380 Yeah.
00:05:08.580 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. 1.00
00:05:16.740 If you're politically on one side of the aisle, you don't get prosecuted for shit. 1.00
00:05:20.980 Right. 1.00
00:05:21.480 You know, Antifa gets to go down and fuck in Atlanta this past weekend, burn all kinds of shit. 1.00
00:05:26.360 And I'm glad they arrested him this time. 1.00
00:05:28.240 But here's the thing. 1.00
00:05:29.780 These people have been getting away with this shit for fucking years. 1.00
00:05:32.500 And that's the problem in society right now. 1.00
00:05:35.700 Yeah, no, that's real shit. 0.99
00:05:36.740 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 0.99
00:05:42.620 when it comes to good citizens holding the line of the law, protecting their own communities.
00:05:46.380 Yeah, 100 percent.
00:05:47.900 Would you take it as far as like, you know, back in the days to gentlemen, they could have the I don't know.
00:05:53.340 Yeah, like a duel.
00:05:54.540 Would you take it as far as that?
00:05:55.980 I mean, I don't know.
00:05:57.700 I mean, like, bro, I don't think that most things have to go to that.
00:06:00.080 The reason that we've gotten so gun happy is because we don't have an outlet with the fist fighting.
00:06:05.800 Yeah.
00:06:06.120 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. 0.94
00:06:16.620 Massive fucking difference. 0.94
00:06:17.940 Yeah. 1.00
00:06:18.360 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. 1.00
00:06:27.400 We're fighting. 1.00
00:06:28.220 You don't have to defend that.
00:06:29.080 Yeah.
00:06:29.400 Yeah.
00:06:29.740 I knew there was consequences.
00:06:31.340 Now, whether or not I won that fight, you know, that was up in the air.
00:06:34.980 Right. 1.00
00:06:35.520 But like, bro, you knew that if you did certain things, you're going to get fucking punched in the motherfucking mouth. 1.00
00:06:40.360 And I grew up knowing that it's very clear the people in this world that had grown up not having that. 1.00
00:06:46.240 OK, because they're the mouthiest. 0.92
00:06:48.340 They're the most disrespectful. 1.00
00:06:49.780 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. 1.00
00:06:59.540 That's that's why these people exist, because they've never been fucking destroyed in a fist fight. 1.00
00:07:05.020 They don't know what it's like to get punched in the fucking face. 1.00
00:07:08.660 Yeah, it's dude. 1.00
00:07:09.920 It's it's the it's the destruction of society.
00:07:12.200 It's a destruction of natural order.
00:07:14.260 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.
00:07:28.980 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.
00:07:40.900 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. 0.95
00:07:51.300 Right. Like all these people burning down the fucking country for three fucking years, they're they're fucking victims. 1.00
00:07:59.640 Yeah. And if if American citizens say, fuck this, I'm done with this shit and go down there and fucking stop them. 1.00
00:08:04.920 They're domestic terrorists. Right. We're taking a tour of the Capitol. 1.00
00:08:08.380 I'm just saying, bro, it's a fucking double standard is bullshit. 0.99
00:08:11.220 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. 1.00
00:08:26.000 Like if the law completely eroded, all the fucking problems, society correct themselves very quickly. 0.90
00:08:32.260 Yeah. I'm actually hoping for that. That's a fact. I'm hoping for that. 0.97
00:08:36.260 Yeah. So long time will tell. Well, I'm just saying, bro.
00:08:40.120 You know, it is what it is.
00:08:42.620 But I think, you know, you learn a lot as a man.
00:08:47.640 In that environment, you know, those are necessary lessons.
00:08:50.500 Yes. Yeah, bro. Yes.
00:08:52.960 Well, it's the only way we know is men. Once you're in the real world, where the fuck you stand. 1.00
00:08:57.060 That's it. It's what you can defend yourself. That's it. 0.99
00:08:59.340 Yeah, man. That's real shit. 1.00
00:09:00.640 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. 1.00
00:09:09.760 And then when some when they do fuck with someone and someone fucks with them back, they play victim. 0.99
00:09:13.700 Right. Right. It's just pussy shit, bro. 1.00
00:09:16.460 Yeah. 1.00
00:09:17.160 Got a lot to work on, man.
00:09:20.640 Listen, man.
00:09:21.340 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.
00:09:31.720 Yeah. 0.99
00:09:32.400 It was a better place when there was consequences for your fucking words and actions immediately. 0.99
00:09:36.560 Yeah. 1.00
00:09:36.920 I mean, yeah.
00:09:37.880 People respected each other, bro.
00:09:39.720 Yeah. 0.99
00:09:40.220 That we don't have that shit right now. 1.00
00:09:41.540 Wasting tax money on the police, the police need to be allowed to do their fucking jobs. 1.00
00:09:46.700 OK, if the police were just allowed because police understand this shit. 1.00
00:09:50.400 If they were just allowed to do their jobs. 0.99
00:09:53.720 Because they're not.
00:09:54.660 That's what people don't understand. 1.00
00:09:55.740 They're not allowed to do their fucking jobs. 1.00
00:09:57.940 It's not that it's not that there's bad police or the police are pussies and this and that. 1.00
00:10:02.100 And like some of these people say that the fucking leadership of the police prevents them from doing their job effectively. 0.99
00:10:09.180 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. 0.98
00:10:22.180 We have an unjust, unfair, unethical fucking bias legal system and law law structure. 0.99
00:10:29.780 And it's fucking this country up. 0.99
00:10:31.760 And it's fucking up the culture and it's fucking up the respect among citizens. 0.99
00:10:35.980 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. 1.00
00:10:45.880 Shit would be better. 1.00
00:10:47.080 Right. 1.00
00:10:48.060 Right.
00:10:48.900 Well, the good thing is St.
00:10:50.100 Louis has had mutual combat for the last three years straight.
00:10:52.520 So I mean, it's not terrible.
00:10:54.180 It's the last 20 years.
00:10:55.200 Let's be real. 1.00
00:10:56.920 I mean, dude, look, when you fuck with someone, you got to be prepared to be fucked with back. 1.00
00:11:01.760 You know what I mean? 1.00
00:11:02.640 That's it.
00:11:03.180 Yeah, that's it. 0.99
00:11:04.620 And nowadays, you know, you just got to get creative about how you fuck with people. 0.99
00:11:08.500 So let's get into these, man. 0.99
00:11:10.220 We got this Q&A.
00:11:12.020 Hey, guys.
00:11:14.140 Let's let's get better here, man.
00:11:16.420 Any question?
00:11:17.160 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.
00:11:23.840 You did it.
00:11:25.100 What do you recommend doing during the time from the point of execution of the plan to the plan actually coming into fruition?
00:11:33.520 What do you do with that lag time in between?
00:11:36.700 Well, I mean, dude, this is the concept of aggressive patience that I talk about.
00:11:40.700 I just wrote about this two days ago in Andy Graham.
00:11:43.900 By the way, if you guys aren't subscribed to Andy Graham, you should.
00:11:47.500 OK, a lot of you guys misunderstand the purpose of this.
00:11:50.100 That's that's my post.
00:11:51.640 Like you say, oh, why don't you post in your feed?
00:11:53.700 I do.
00:11:54.760 I post Andy Graham's every single day and I have for the last three years.
00:11:57.960 I'm more consistent than anybody on the Internet.
00:11:59.860 I post I haven't missed a single day.
00:12:01.800 Yeah.
00:12:02.120 So those are my posts.
00:12:03.460 So if you want my posts, go to go subscribe to the Andy Graham.
00:12:06.760 It's the first.
00:12:07.340 It's generally the first post that I post in the morning every single day.
00:12:10.600 All you got to do is click on that link and subscribe to go right to your email, dude. 1.00
00:12:13.740 And I don't spam your shit with a bunch of bullshit emails. 1.00
00:12:16.600 OK, so. 1.00
00:12:17.620 So anyhow, you have to you have to understand and I give away a lot of fucking really good 0.76
00:12:23.960 lessons in there that will help you, especially in business.
00:12:27.220 You have to understand, dude, aggressive patience is a concept where you you work every single
00:12:36.520 day as hard as you can towards your goal.
00:12:40.260 But you also understand at the same time that it's going to take time.
00:12:45.800 All right.
00:12:46.440 And this is a concept that people get very confused about because you hear people, other
00:12:51.300 people out there say patience.
00:12:53.000 You got to be patient.
00:12:53.700 You got to be patient.
00:12:54.540 And people misinterpret that and think that like that means that they can just chill and
00:13:00.100 their goals will eventually happen.
00:13:02.100 And that's just not the way it works.
00:13:03.700 It's aggressive patience.
00:13:05.080 It's it's executing day in, it's executing day out, it's executing for weeks, months,
00:13:11.380 years, understanding that that's the amount of time that it takes.
00:13:14.780 So you have to do this intense work.
00:13:17.620 It's this urgent work every single day, but also have the patience to understand that no
00:13:23.600 matter how hard you work today, it's still going to take time to materialize.
00:13:28.220 And so this is a this is a major concept of success that people misunderstand because so
00:13:34.780 many people don't communicate it clearly.
00:13:36.580 Right.
00:13:37.740 You have a lot of people out there that just say patience, patience, patience is the key.
00:13:42.480 Patience is a virtue.
00:13:44.100 Patience is only a virtue.
00:13:45.360 If you understand the aggressive part that you have to execute day and by day by day,
00:13:51.060 week by week, by week, year by year, by year, that's that's what actually makes it happen.
00:13:55.940 So the answer to this question is you're you need to be urgently executing during that time
00:14:03.620 between the beginning and the result that you're trying to produce, understanding that
00:14:08.540 this is still going to take time.
00:14:10.240 Yeah, it's not waiting around like you're saying, what do I do? 1.00
00:14:12.680 Oh, you just twiddle your fucking thumbs. 0.99
00:14:14.000 It's like, oh, man, there's that's you're just by the nature of that question. 1.00
00:14:18.900 I can tell you're misunderstanding how this works.
00:14:21.440 And this is frustrating for me because I see a lot of really good intent people who have
00:14:27.720 the right idea and they want to succeed and they're willing to work for it.
00:14:32.120 But because people tell them patience, patience, patience, they think like, OK, well, I did this.
00:14:37.680 Now I have all this free time.
00:14:39.280 And because of that, because they don't execute during the time that they think is free time.
00:14:43.780 They don't ever get there.
00:14:46.500 And I don't mean free time at night.
00:14:48.540 I mean, just over the court, like, you know, for months at a time.
00:14:52.040 Oh, I made these calls.
00:14:53.040 I got this thing.
00:14:53.740 It's I'm waiting on this.
00:14:54.780 I'm doing this.
00:14:55.740 No, bro, whatever.
00:14:56.840 You need to fill that gap with productive action.
00:14:59.620 OK, I talk about this very, very, very in detail in episode 16 on the Real AFV, which is called
00:15:06.800 Win the Day, Win the Day episode will tell you my powerless method for basically running
00:15:13.300 your goal setting system and how to execute it properly.
00:15:17.380 And it includes aggressive patience.
00:15:18.940 So go listen to episode 16 to give you a better understanding of what we're talking about.
00:15:24.300 And I would use that system.
00:15:25.600 That's the system I've used.
00:15:26.620 And it works very, very well.
00:15:28.180 Yeah.
00:15:28.440 Let me ask you this.
00:15:29.420 Do you have you found because 24 years in business, have you found that that lag time
00:15:33.960 between the input and the output over time has that shortened?
00:15:39.020 Are you able to are you able because of all your tools in your belt?
00:15:42.660 Are you able to speed that up?
00:15:43.680 And when you get versus when you started, is that lag time much bigger?
00:15:47.220 Yeah, dude, for sure.
00:15:48.420 Well, see, well, that's a that's a that's a complicated question.
00:15:51.800 OK, because first of all, when I started, there was no Internet.
00:15:56.160 All right.
00:15:56.760 So like that's it was it was a long time ago.
00:16:00.660 Right.
00:16:00.800 But not there was Internet, but it wasn't the Internet that you guys see today or have
00:16:06.120 that access to.
00:16:07.080 I was just talking to one of my buddies last night about how valuable this Internet and
00:16:13.460 social media is to people who are just starting out in business now, because when I started,
00:16:19.660 bro, there was no access.
00:16:21.440 There was no access to people like me. 0.99
00:16:23.160 There was no access to people who are doing shit or have done shit. 0.99
00:16:27.420 But you had to observe from afar. 1.00
00:16:31.580 Right.
00:16:31.980 Like I looked at guys like Tony Robbins.
00:16:34.100 Right.
00:16:34.340 And I could read his book, but I couldn't like tune in and listen to him talk.
00:16:38.300 I couldn't watch his show.
00:16:41.300 I couldn't I couldn't watch him on the Internet.
00:16:43.460 I couldn't I couldn't really see that much.
00:16:45.900 All I could do is read his book.
00:16:47.540 And and by the way, I wouldn't be here without that man.
00:16:51.040 I'm very thankful for the work that he did.
00:16:52.760 But you guys who are just getting started, you don't really understand how how lucky
00:16:57.660 you are to have the access that you have.
00:17:00.200 And, you know, it's funny because I was talking to this friend who is also a business coach,
00:17:04.600 a very successful, successful business coach. 0.99
00:17:06.960 And we were laughing because motherfuckers will bitch about spending two or three, four 0.99
00:17:11.320 hundred dollars a month to get access directly to people like me who have fucking built 1.00
00:17:15.800 ridiculously massive shit or people like this dude who's worth a billion dollars. 0.99
00:17:19.920 All right. 1.00
00:17:20.480 They'll bitch about three hundred bucks, but they had no problem fucking spending one 1.00
00:17:23.960 hundred twenty grand on a fucking education from a from a school who's taught by a bunch 1.00
00:17:27.920 of fucking fuckers who haven't done shit. 1.00
00:17:29.720 Right. 1.00
00:17:30.240 You know, I'm saying it makes no fucking sense.
00:17:32.640 You guys have access to multiple. 0.99
00:17:35.480 And by the way, most of the coaching programs out there are garbage. 0.98
00:17:39.120 All right.
00:17:39.880 But there are a handful of them that are extremely valuable because they are led and taught by people
00:17:47.440 who have actually built things in real life.
00:17:49.580 OK, so you have to understand the value exchange there and the access that you have.
00:17:54.900 So the point I brought up this conversation is because I was we were talking on on the
00:17:59.400 phone and I said, bro, if I had access to me now, like, OK, me in the beginning, if I
00:18:04.840 had access to me now, I could have cut down the twenty four years by at least fifty percent
00:18:10.840 and probably by two thirds.
00:18:12.900 OK, meaning I could have got where I'm at now in a third of the time because I know 0.99
00:18:17.660 all the shit now. 0.99
00:18:18.480 Right. 1.00
00:18:18.840 Right.
00:18:19.120 Like I can look back and say, OK, don't do that.
00:18:21.160 Do that.
00:18:21.580 Don't do this.
00:18:22.220 Do this. 0.97
00:18:22.880 And I could fucking direct the traffic like perfectly because I've been down the path. 0.68
00:18:28.160 And dude, like they say, hindsight is twenty twenty. 0.87
00:18:30.160 Right. 1.00
00:18:30.660 So that's what you get when you work with someone who's done real shit. 1.00
00:18:33.980 Now. 1.00
00:18:36.260 You know, I never got that.
00:18:38.080 I had to pay my dues the long way.
00:18:39.400 But the fact that we have the the access that we do now and the information that we 0.85
00:18:45.000 do now, you know, these people don't understand how fucking lucky they are to have it because 0.91
00:18:51.020 it never fucking existed before and they've come in and they've run their whole lives 0.95
00:18:55.960 on an iPad and iPhone and this and they they like just they're like, oh, OK, cool. 0.99
00:19:01.080 Like, fuck, dude, four hundred dollars. 0.99
00:19:03.540 Yeah. 1.00
00:19:03.740 You're learning from someone like you.
00:19:06.200 You can't get them to understand it.
00:19:07.720 Right.
00:19:08.060 You know what I'm saying?
00:19:08.640 So like.
00:19:10.440 At the longer that you go on, OK, the longer that you go down the path that you're on right
00:19:17.280 now, you're going to have you're going to start to meet people.
00:19:20.000 You're going to meet people with with different skill sets and different relationships and
00:19:24.420 connections and like all that networking that you try to do intentionally now will organically 0.99
00:19:30.180 be in place because you've been doing it for a long time and motherfuckers know you're 0.99
00:19:34.060 real. 0.99
00:19:34.480 OK, so like, yes, now now I can do things.
00:19:40.340 And I mean, bro, a fraction of the time of what I would have been able to do in the beginning
00:19:45.480 because of that, because I have financial resources now, because I have the experience
00:19:50.400 and the knowledge and all the mistakes I made through the process, all those tools and skills
00:19:55.560 that I got from those mistakes I have in my tool belt.
00:19:58.280 So like that's something to look forward to.
00:20:01.060 And that's why you should appreciate the struggles that you have.
00:20:03.820 And that's why you should appreciate overcoming those struggles, because when you overcome
00:20:07.700 them in the beginning and you make mistakes in the beginning or even if you make mistakes
00:20:12.580 in the middle or wherever, it's still a cheaper mistake than what it would have cost you five
00:20:18.120 years from now.
00:20:18.880 And that's how you should look at these things.
00:20:20.600 So, you know, when you when you look at the journey, right, and you're just in the beginning
00:20:26.360 and you're looking at, you know, 10, 20, 30 years down the road, you have to understand 0.99
00:20:31.200 that that 20 year version of you is going to be a fucking monster that can accomplish 0.99
00:20:37.180 shit in the snap of a finger where, you know, the you couldn't get that done the first two 1.00
00:20:42.660 years when you were just starting out. 0.99
00:20:44.320 Right.
00:20:44.720 Right. 0.99
00:20:45.100 Where it went at 20 year, you can make a phone call and that shit can happen. 0.99
00:20:48.480 And so that's what you have to look forward to by persevering and not quitting. 0.98
00:20:51.580 It does get much easier.
00:20:53.160 Um, certain things don't get easier.
00:20:56.100 Like, for example, you know, my goals now are exponentially bigger.
00:21:03.220 They're their global size goals in terms of turning my company from a medium sized company,
00:21:09.300 right, that we are now, um, to to a global brand. 0.98
00:21:13.080 And that's a fucking massive goal, bro. 0.96
00:21:15.300 And that that is every single fucking bit as hard as it was getting the thing started 0.96
00:21:21.300 off the ground, but see, not everybody continues to expand their vision or their goal or what
00:21:26.260 they're trying to do.
00:21:27.380 I do. 0.97
00:21:28.800 Um, and the reason I do isn't for my fucking ego or anything other than I have a bunch of 0.91
00:21:33.800 people over here who have all worked very hard for a long time to get us to here. 0.94
00:21:39.000 Um, and I've become very successful and there's a bunch of people in this building who have become
00:21:43.320 very successful and I want them, uh, the other people who have worked and paid their dues
00:21:48.520 to build their best careers they can.
00:21:51.320 So like, I look at it as paying them back for the work that, that they have invested
00:21:55.640 in.
00:21:56.180 You see what I'm saying?
00:21:57.140 Absolutely.
00:21:57.680 So, uh, plus like, what else am I going to do?
00:22:01.260 You know what I'm saying? 0.91
00:22:02.100 Like I, I fucking, I have everything. 0.98
00:22:06.520 You know what I mean? 0.94
00:22:07.240 It stopped being about two years ago.
00:22:08.560 Yeah, no, dude, it really did.
00:22:09.960 People don't understand that though.
00:22:11.120 You know what I'm saying?
00:22:11.840 Like, bro, I don't even get paid from first form. 0.98
00:22:13.320 People don't fucking get that. 0.98
00:22:14.300 Right. 0.98
00:22:14.600 Like I make all my money doing other things.
00:22:16.320 And like, you know, I invest all my money back into first form, the money I pay myself. 0.55
00:22:20.760 That's why we're able to fucking grow this other, we're opening this new building. 0.69
00:22:25.660 And then that next one over there and all these things, it's because bro, I, I care about 0.94
00:22:30.460 the people in this building and I want to build something really special.
00:22:32.960 I think we've built something incredible now, but it's nothing compared to what we want
00:22:37.340 to build.
00:22:37.780 And, uh, you know, it did stop being about me a long time ago, you know, guys, that was
00:22:45.320 question number one, uh, any question number two, Andy, what are some things I can start
00:22:50.620 doing immediately to help me get out of my introverted shell?
00:22:54.880 Well, this is a great question.
00:22:56.240 I had a really hard time with this and I still have a hard time with this.
00:22:58.520 In fact, we were talking about this right before we started the show.
00:23:01.660 We were talking about how uncomfortable it is for me to have cameras around to shoot content.
00:23:07.960 Uh, and how big, how big of a douche bag I feel. 0.56
00:23:09.980 In fact, I said, I think I feel like a super douche, right? 0.99
00:23:12.800 Like, so like, bro, it's just not who the fuck I am. 0.99
00:23:15.400 Like I'm a head down dude. 0.98
00:23:17.020 Uh, I don't really care for that, all that stuff.
00:23:21.860 And, um, you know, it's not comfortable for me and, and, and it's not, is it, it may appear
00:23:29.080 that's the opposite, but the reason it appears that way is because I practiced it.
00:23:32.420 All right.
00:23:33.080 So I used to have a very hard time with people as well. 0.86
00:23:36.400 Uh, two things that really fucking helped me with this. 0.78
00:23:40.880 Okay. 0.89
00:23:41.320 One was that I worked in a retail environment.
00:23:44.200 If you can work in a retail environment, you're going to get a number of reps every
00:23:49.240 single day, interacting with random strangers, and that will help build your skill and interaction
00:23:54.780 with people.
00:23:55.620 That's going to help you in a, I mean, in a million different ways in life, a million
00:24:00.100 different scenarios.
00:24:00.800 It's going to help you professionally.
00:24:01.940 It's going to help your dating life.
00:24:03.660 It's going to help your, uh, you know, your personal friendships. 0.98
00:24:06.460 It's going to help you fucking in every possible situation. 0.94
00:24:09.720 The better you can get with people, the better your life will be and the more success and 0.98
00:24:15.260 fulfillment you'll have.
00:24:16.980 The only way to get better when you're not a natural gifted extrovert, which most people
00:24:22.480 aren't is to practice.
00:24:23.980 So you want to put yourself in situations where you practice that.
00:24:27.620 Okay.
00:24:28.460 This would include things like working retail.
00:24:30.900 That's something that I did for a long time.
00:24:33.620 When I first started on day one, when I, when we first started supplement super stores,
00:24:37.080 our first real company, um, bro, I was scared to death.
00:24:41.560 Like I can still remember my first customer coming in and I can remember my, my first customer
00:24:45.420 was a, was a friend of mine named Nick Vespa. 0.99
00:24:48.560 My second customer, I didn't know from shit and I was scared shitless. 0.99
00:24:51.440 Okay. 1.00
00:24:52.360 So shit is, okay, we're good. 1.00
00:24:54.240 And like, like he walks in and I'm like, holy shit, you know, like what do I do now? 1.00
00:24:59.620 Like I didn't fucking, bro, I didn't have anybody to coach me. 0.99
00:25:01.760 I didn't fucking have anybody telling me anything. 0.98
00:25:03.220 Like I, I, I hadn't thought that far ahead, bro. 0.96
00:25:06.120 If I'm being completely honest.
00:25:07.740 So this dude comes in and I remember specifically, dude, this dude walks in the store and we didn't 0.99
00:25:13.480 have shit. 0.99
00:25:14.120 Like we didn't have fucking anything. 1.00
00:25:15.400 And he goes, he looks at me and he goes, he, he goes, so you guys like going out of business? 0.99
00:25:22.600 And I'm like, dude, I didn't know what he meant.
00:25:26.580 I didn't know what he meant.
00:25:27.860 It took me like six or seven years to understand, to get what he was saying.
00:25:31.660 What he, what he meant was we didn't, we had so little inventory.
00:25:35.080 It looked like we were going out of business.
00:25:36.680 Okay. 0.98
00:25:37.000 Now you got to remember, we built our shelves out of wood, two by fours and fucking particle 0.99
00:25:42.920 board. 0.99
00:25:43.280 Like that was our store. 1.00
00:25:44.580 It was a fucking, we built them. 1.00
00:25:46.600 Okay. 0.99
00:25:48.540 This dude walks in and he says, he looks around and he looks at me.
00:25:55.180 He goes, so you guys like going out of business?
00:25:57.580 Just like that.
00:25:58.540 Dude, this was the second day we were in or the third day we were in business.
00:26:01.700 It was the third day.
00:26:02.540 It took us three days to have our first real customer comes in and I, and he says that
00:26:08.720 and I'm like, Oh man, we just opened, you know? 1.00
00:26:10.760 Like I fucking was so stupid, dude. 0.99
00:26:12.340 I had no idea what he meant. 1.00
00:26:13.520 Like I had no idea that like, dude, I was, I was like the fuck now we just opened. 1.00
00:26:18.520 Like I didn't even, I was just so stupid. 1.00
00:26:20.440 I didn't know. 0.99
00:26:21.400 I was really proud of what we had.
00:26:23.420 You know what I'm saying?
00:26:24.400 Like, I'm like, Oh, this is great.
00:26:25.880 We got a store.
00:26:26.660 And bro, that's, that's, there's a lesson in that.
00:26:29.260 And the lesson in that is like, dude, you may not have a spectacular start. 0.97
00:26:33.140 You may not have this amazing start and people might think it's a fucking joke. 0.97
00:26:36.980 Everybody laughed at me. 0.99
00:26:39.020 Everybody laughed at us.
00:26:40.680 Everybody, bro.
00:26:41.740 Everybody.
00:26:42.680 And if they, it wasn't always to our face, it'd be behind our backs. 0.99
00:26:46.120 Everybody thought we were fucking insane. 0.99
00:26:47.720 So let them fucking think it because one day you'll end up in a good spot because of it. 0.99
00:26:51.660 But he comes in and he walks in and he's like, he's like, Hey dude, uh, uh, so you got 0.99
00:26:58.220 anything to build muscle? 0.98
00:26:59.260 And I'm like, I fucking don't do. 0.99
00:27:01.140 I don't know shit about supplements either. 0.99
00:27:02.620 All I knew how it was like to lift weights. 0.96
00:27:04.560 Like I, I didn't know anything.
00:27:06.160 I just knew I saw this other guy do it and I thought, well, if that guy can do it, I
00:27:11.640 can do it.
00:27:12.160 And so that's how we started it.
00:27:13.440 And so, uh, this dude walks over and I'm like, and, and I remember like putting this
00:27:17.500 product out and it said on the front of it, it said, uh, gain seven pounds in seven days.
00:27:22.400 All right.
00:27:22.880 It was, it was a product called cell tech by a company called a muscle tech, which they're
00:27:26.800 still around a big, big company.
00:27:28.280 They've been around for a long time, but it used to say on the front of it, I don't know
00:27:32.020 what it says now.
00:27:32.680 And I don't even know if they make the product now, but it used to say.
00:27:36.460 Put on seven pounds in seven days, a creatine product with, uh, some sugar in it and stuff.
00:27:41.240 So anyway, I remember seeing it and I'm like, yeah, actually we do have some stuff to put
00:27:45.600 on some muscle.
00:27:46.280 See this right here, seven pounds, seven days right here.
00:27:50.760 And he's like, what is that?
00:27:52.340 And I'm like, well, sell tech.
00:27:55.780 I swear to God.
00:27:58.160 That's how we started there. 1.00
00:27:59.360 So like you fuckers think that like, we're like, I'm some kind of genius or fucking got 1.00
00:28:03.940 that's where we started. 1.00
00:28:05.840 Okay.
00:28:06.760 So he's like, well, what is it?
00:28:08.320 And I'm like, you know what?
00:28:09.500 I don't know.
00:28:11.140 I dude, I swear.
00:28:13.060 Cause I didn't know.
00:28:14.220 And so, and this is another lesson. 0.97
00:28:15.760 Don't fucking don't say, you know, when you don't know, just tell them you don't know 0.97
00:28:19.020 and you'll find the answer. 0.97
00:28:20.060 And that's what I did. 0.99
00:28:20.960 So I turned the fucking bottle around. 0.99
00:28:22.300 I started reading it. 1.00
00:28:23.220 I read about a word for word of this motherfucker. 1.00
00:28:25.720 I said, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 1.00
00:28:28.940 Seven pounds, seven days.
00:28:31.040 He's like, well, have you used it?
00:28:32.300 I'm like, nah, man.
00:28:33.220 But I, you know, sounds pretty good.
00:28:35.660 And I would buy it.
00:28:37.140 Yeah.
00:28:37.920 So he didn't buy it.
00:28:39.660 He didn't, I didn't, you know, he didn't buy it.
00:28:41.340 He said, I'll come back later.
00:28:42.360 He never came back, but you know, like that's how you learn.
00:28:46.640 You know, that's how you learn. 0.99
00:28:47.940 After he left, I fucking started. 1.00
00:28:49.940 I realized, oh shit, I don't want that to happen again. 0.99
00:28:53.440 So you know what I did? 1.00
00:28:54.440 I went around and read every motherfucking product in the store. 1.00
00:28:57.540 I went around and fucking learned what the shit was. 1.00
00:28:59.860 When I didn't understand what something was, I called the company up and I started asking 1.00
00:29:03.260 them and I said, what's this?
00:29:04.280 What's that?
00:29:04.820 How's this work?
00:29:05.940 Right.
00:29:06.660 Cause I didn't want to feel like that again.
00:29:08.640 So, you know, you have to be willing to do that to get started.
00:29:13.000 And that's where I started. 0.94
00:29:14.400 So I didn't even know where the fuck I was going with the retail options.
00:29:18.080 What's the second thing? 0.92
00:29:18.660 Oh yeah. 0.98
00:29:19.060 The second thing, see my fit, you guys, if you don't know, I've been sick as fuck for 0.98
00:29:22.820 like a week. 0.97
00:29:23.340 So my brain is a little bit foggy on things.
00:29:25.680 Um, the second thing was, uh, I, I made up this little game that I practiced.
00:29:32.320 Okay.
00:29:32.620 So, so first thing is try to get yourself in a retail environment.
00:29:35.420 That will help a lot.
00:29:36.540 Um, and it's worth doing.
00:29:39.840 The other thing is I made up this game and this is a game that I played for a long, long
00:29:44.920 time.
00:29:45.300 And what I would do, there's a grocery store chain here in St. Louis called Dearburg's
00:29:50.180 famous, famous family, great family, uh, does a lot for the community.
00:29:54.800 Very, very, uh, very great company that they run here.
00:29:57.620 And there's another family owned company here, Schnucks.
00:30:00.260 They do the same thing.
00:30:01.100 They're both great families.
00:30:02.580 Um, this was a Dearburg's and it was by my house and, and I would go to Dearburg's and
00:30:10.940 I would make myself talk to three strangers.
00:30:13.260 Okay.
00:30:13.700 So I'd make myself have three conversations with random people in the grocery store and
00:30:18.540 then I could go home.
00:30:19.520 Like highs and byes or like legit conversations.
00:30:22.540 No, it wasn't like, Hey, how you doing?
00:30:24.180 Had to be some sort of interaction.
00:30:26.160 Like if I saw a dude looking at green beans, I'd be like, I'd start talking about green beans.
00:30:30.660 I'd be like, Hey, have you tried those before?
00:30:33.000 And he'd be like, you know, nah, man.
00:30:35.740 And you know, we would start talking, right?
00:30:37.360 Those kinds of things.
00:30:38.400 Or, you know, I'd have to, you know, sometimes if I saw someone and I liked their shoes, I would 0.97
00:30:43.000 say, bro, those shoes are fucking cool.
00:30:45.360 You know, and we would start talking about shoes. 0.97
00:30:46.660 I would try to find something to talk about.
00:30:48.960 And what that did was it, it, it lowered my fear of approaching people and it gave me
00:30:55.400 the confidence to have conversations with random strangers.
00:30:58.900 And that's a massive skillset.
00:31:00.860 Just like I said, the one in retail where it's going to help all areas of your life.
00:31:04.180 So will this, uh, especially those of you who can only approach people online now and
00:31:10.140 can't have like conversations in real life.
00:31:13.000 You, this is another thing people don't have perspective on because a lot of people,
00:31:17.420 a lot of you young guys have grown up so digitally connected. 1.00
00:31:21.360 You lack very, very, you lack your personal skills fucking suck. 1.00
00:31:28.980 Some fundamental skills. 1.00
00:31:29.920 I don't know how to say this any better than that.
00:31:31.220 Yeah.
00:31:31.560 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,
00:31:40.900 but I can assure you they still matter because you're not going to get in that circle of,
00:31:45.680 you know, the 10 figure, the 10, nine, eight figure people that you're trying to get connected 0.97
00:31:52.080 to without having personal skills and being cool as fuck. 0.81
00:31:55.200 Like if you, you show up and you meet someone in person, cause dude, relationships are still 0.96
00:31:59.620 in person, bro. 0.99
00:32:00.420 No, when, so when you show up and you meet someone in person and you're awkward as fuck 0.98
00:32:05.100 and you don't know how to interact, bro, that's going to cost you the relationship because 0.99
00:32:08.200 people are going to be like, what the fuck this dude weird shit, what the fuck's wrong? 1.00
00:32:11.180 They're not going to care what you build. 1.00
00:32:12.620 They're not going to care.
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
00:32:24.300 into.
00:32:24.800 Okay.
00:32:25.280 And that needs, that requires personal skillset that requires your ability to connect and make
00:32:31.040 friends with and be cool with people.
00:32:33.700 All right.
00:32:34.340 So it's an important thing.
00:32:35.480 I, I did that, that, that Dear Brooks thing. 0.95
00:32:38.240 I did that for fucking years where I would go in there and I would practice, I would 0.94
00:32:43.280 practice, I would practice because guys, the truth is I, and I try to say this, you know, 0.99
00:32:48.140 but people don't fucking believe it. 0.92
00:32:51.800 Everything I am as a result of me getting my face smashed in and learning, that's it. 0.94
00:32:59.560 That's why I tell you, there's only two things that you need to truly succeed.
00:33:03.240 Only two.
00:33:04.440 Okay.
00:33:04.760 You have to be willing to fall on your face and you have to be smart enough to learn the
00:33:09.940 lesson, whatever that lesson is, because every time you fall on your face, there's
00:33:13.360 a lesson.
00:33:14.280 So whatever that lesson is, you have to be able to learn it and then not do the same
00:33:18.500 thing twice or definitely not three times.
00:33:21.060 Okay.
00:33:21.200 You might do some of these things twice just because you don't know, but definitely not
00:33:24.920 three times.
00:33:25.480 All right.
00:33:26.640 And the other thing is you just have to be willing to keep going.
00:33:29.720 You have to be willing to not quit.
00:33:31.160 So if you're willing to learn from your mistakes, if you have the capacity to learn from
00:33:34.400 mistakes and you are willing to endure and not quit, you will eventually find yourself
00:33:39.400 in the place that you want to be.
00:33:40.660 That's really the only two things that you actually have to have.
00:33:43.960 Yeah.
00:33:45.320 Yeah.
00:33:46.280 But practice those people skills, man.
00:33:48.000 Do that, do that little game and get yourself in a retail environment.
00:33:50.980 Those two things will help you a ton.
00:33:54.220 Guys, Andy, our third and final question, Andy, question number three.
00:33:57.440 Andy, with so many companies doing massive layoffs currently, what do you recommend to
00:34:04.660 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?
00:34:13.160 Be as valuable as you possibly can.
00:34:15.720 Okay.
00:34:15.860 Um, that means being undeniably valuable for the company.
00:34:22.020 All right.
00:34:23.040 First of all, there's two things to consider here.
00:34:24.960 One, are you with a company that is continuing to grow and can you grow to your full potential,
00:34:32.660 whatever you believe that might be inside that company?
00:34:35.480 If you cannot, you should no longer spend time at that company.
00:34:39.820 You should move to somewhere that you can.
00:34:41.800 Okay.
00:34:42.000 Because there's nothing worse than spending three, four, five years in a company and then
00:34:47.780 being capped because they're not growing.
00:34:50.360 And that's very common.
00:34:51.620 So you have to really pay attention to what's going on in the company to recognize that.
00:34:55.880 So that's the first thing.
00:34:57.900 So, so is your job worth saving?
00:35:00.180 You see what I'm saying?
00:35:01.320 So let's ask that because a lot of them aren't.
00:35:04.420 All right.
00:35:04.760 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.
00:35:14.120 Okay.
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.
00:35:22.120 All right. 0.97
00:35:22.680 Over the last three years, they've pushed a fucking super hardcore woke agenda in their 1.00
00:35:27.820 fucking culture. 1.00
00:35:30.040 They've pushed super politically correct work environment that nobody likes. 1.00
00:35:34.500 They made their culture suck. 0.96
00:35:36.560 Okay. 0.99
00:35:37.540 Um, they've pushed vaccines on people. 0.99
00:35:39.800 They've made people do shit that violates their own personal fucking freedoms and rights. 1.00
00:35:43.980 And they, they've pushed shit like, you know, like Disney pushes way too much fucking woke 1.00
00:35:50.040 shit. 1.00
00:35:50.500 Now their stock sucks. 1.00
00:35:51.620 Right. 1.00
00:35:52.100 This is happening.
00:35:53.000 You know, these tech companies, people are recognizing, like I said, that nobody wants
00:35:57.920 to live on metagoggles, bro. 0.99
00:35:59.360 In a fucking house with on, on communist government assistance for the rest of their life. 1.00
00:36:04.240 So people are rejecting all this shit that these companies went all in on. 1.00
00:36:08.200 And that's why you're seeing so many layoffs with some of these bigger companies. 0.99
00:36:11.300 Yeah.
00:36:11.720 All right.
00:36:12.580 But that is not the other companies.
00:36:15.140 Remember, there's two sides to this coin.
00:36:17.680 The other side of this coin, which I've been telling for years are the pro-American pro-freedom
00:36:23.480 brands that people are starving to support.
00:36:27.140 Okay.
00:36:27.700 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 0.98
00:36:42.160 and the pushing of shit and believe they believe in freedom and they believe in this country 0.97
00:36:46.020 and they believe in doing the right things. 0.99
00:36:47.860 And they believe in not violating people's personal freedoms. 0.98
00:36:50.100 And they believe in unity, not division and all this shit. 0.83
00:36:54.720 People starting to support those companies. 0.98
00:36:56.900 They're starving to support them. 0.59
00:36:58.640 Okay.
00:36:59.120 And I said this for years, for, for years, I've been telling you that was the trend.
00:37:03.260 That trend is happening.
00:37:04.960 Okay. 0.99
00:37:05.460 All of my companies are trending way to fuck up. 1.00
00:37:08.280 My retail company is setting fucking records, bro. 0.99
00:37:11.660 We have a fucking 24 year old retail company and everybody's like, Oh, retail's dead. 1.00
00:37:16.780 Retail's dead. 0.99
00:37:17.480 Read.
00:37:17.820 No, it's not dead. 1.00
00:37:19.280 Your fucking model sucks and you suck at running it. 1.00
00:37:22.740 Right. 1.00
00:37:23.180 Okay.
00:37:23.860 That's the truth.
00:37:25.180 People, the customers are there.
00:37:26.900 If you provide what they're looking for and what they're looking for is not to walk into 1.00
00:37:31.020 an environment where they get fucking wokeness, shoved up their motherfucking ass. 1.00
00:37:35.960 They don't like that. 1.00
00:37:37.220 Nobody likes that.
00:37:38.420 Okay.
00:37:38.740 And by the way, why would you pander to the people who don't have the money to spend on
00:37:45.460 your business?
00:37:46.120 Right.
00:37:48.920 Right.
00:37:49.580 You know what I'm saying?
00:37:50.400 Like these are not the producers of the world.
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 1.00
00:38:06.900 for that shit. 1.00
00:38:07.640 Yeah. 1.00
00:38:07.800 So seek those companies out, get in one of those companies and those companies are growing
00:38:12.440 like crazy.
00:38:13.100 They won't, you won't have all this.
00:38:16.420 Oh, I can't say this.
00:38:17.660 I can't say that.
00:38:18.840 Can't do this or HR or blah, blah, blah. 1.00
00:38:20.940 You won't have that shit. 1.00
00:38:21.940 It's actually fun. 1.00
00:38:22.720 It's fun to work here.
00:38:23.600 People like working here.
00:38:24.620 You see what I'm saying?
00:38:25.720 Yeah.
00:38:25.920 So those companies are growing now that's, that's just an audit to assess where you're
00:38:33.400 at.
00:38:33.980 Okay.
00:38:34.460 Do you, do you, is this a good time for you to leave this environment where these companies 0.99
00:38:39.040 are getting their asses beat? 0.74
00:38:40.360 Are these companies going to recover? 0.99
00:38:42.340 Are you going to have a place there or are you just delaying the inevitable?
00:38:46.920 Okay.
00:38:47.360 Assess that.
00:38:48.540 Then is now a good time for you to jump over to somewhere that's growing because of the
00:38:54.260 things I just mentioned.
00:38:55.120 This is a real business trend.
00:38:56.700 Hold on. 1.00
00:38:57.480 And these motherfuckers going to argue with me. 1.00
00:38:59.200 You don't know what the fuck you're talking about because I'm going to show, I can show 1.00
00:39:01.360 you the real fucking data. 1.00
00:39:02.660 I'm operating these companies. 1.00
00:39:04.400 You don't fucking get it. 1.00
00:39:05.900 So you could theorize all you want in the fucking comments. 1.00
00:39:08.300 I'm telling you the facts. 0.99
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 0.99
00:39:17.900 of you high-skilled motherfuckers as they come my way because we're fucking growing. 1.00
00:39:22.940 Okay. 1.00
00:39:23.340 Now, to answer the original question, which what can I do to not get laid off?
00:39:29.100 You got to be valuable, bro.
00:39:30.680 You got to be willing to do more than the other people.
00:39:32.820 You got to be willing to drive the company.
00:39:35.260 You've got to be willing to drive revenue.
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
00:39:50.300 that nobody really talks about.
00:39:51.760 His name is Seth Godin. 1.00
00:39:52.800 He's a fucking legend. 1.00
00:39:54.220 He wrote a book called Lynchpin. 0.99
00:39:56.140 Lynchpin is an amazing book about how to be valuable inside of a company, how to be undeniably
00:40:01.840 valuable inside of a company.
00:40:03.580 Go read that book.
00:40:04.460 That book will give you far more insight than I could give you on this show, but the bottom
00:40:08.880 line of it is you have to become that person. 0.99
00:40:12.120 You have to become that motherfucker that they can't live without because if you could 0.99
00:40:15.520 become that, that makes you immune to the layoffs because when the layoffs happen, they 1.00
00:40:19.720 don't cut the good people, bro.
00:40:21.160 They cut the people they can get away with.
00:40:22.940 So like, they're not saying like, Oh, you know, it sucks that we have to cut all these
00:40:26.640 good people.
00:40:27.300 That's not the conversation.
00:40:28.740 The conversation is, okay, who's the dead weight?
00:40:31.580 Who are the people that aren't contributing?
00:40:33.500 Who are the people that we can get away with not having here? 0.99
00:40:36.080 And you don't want to be on that list and you never want to be on that fucking list. 0.97
00:40:39.260 And every company has that list. 0.99
00:40:41.500 Oh yeah.
00:40:42.080 Let me, let me, I wanted to ask you when you brought that up, would you say that a company
00:40:45.580 that is doing layoffs is almost indicative of a company that's not growing?
00:40:48.920 Is that the same thing?
00:40:49.980 Or is there like a, you know? 0.94
00:40:52.040 Well, of course, why would you lay off a bunch of people if things were fucking wonderful? 0.90
00:40:57.380 Yeah. 0.98
00:40:57.500 That's what I'm saying.
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
00:41:03.540 anyway.
00:41:04.080 Right.
00:41:04.440 And you automatically start looking for these other places.
00:41:07.260 You know, not necessarily, man.
00:41:08.880 That's what I was at.
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.
00:41:17.660 You're making a pivot as a company.
00:41:19.540 There's all kinds of things, right?
00:41:21.400 Okay.
00:41:21.620 That could, that could allow a company to, to take one step back to take three step forward.
00:41:27.980 Okay.
00:41:28.380 So it doesn't necessarily mean that the company is going to fail long-term, but it certainly 0.99
00:41:33.320 means the shit ain't going well right now. 0.99
00:41:34.860 Right. 0.99
00:41:35.340 You know what I'm saying?
00:41:36.080 Right.
00:41:36.400 So that's how you should read that.
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
00:41:45.780 or even less money.
00:41:47.060 So that's another thing to consider too. 0.98
00:41:48.820 And you know what, sometimes in the economy, that's the fucking reality of business, you 0.98
00:41:53.120 know? 0.94
00:41:53.340 And so like if that situation comes to you where they say, well, Hey, uh, you could stay, but
00:41:59.020 you got to take less money.
00:42:00.160 Instead of getting all pissed off, you should stop for a second and say, okay, well, what's
00:42:03.840 the market like?
00:42:04.840 Where are the options?
00:42:05.860 Where can I go?
00:42:06.580 Now there are options right now.
00:42:07.900 The ones I just laid out, but people ain't talking about them.
00:42:11.220 Right.
00:42:11.660 Okay.
00:42:12.300 Right. 0.99
00:42:12.520 If you get with a company that has, there's lots of companies right now that are fucking 0.98
00:42:17.400 crushing, dude. 0.96
00:42:18.620 And all the ones that are crushing are the non-woke companies.
00:42:21.620 They're, they're crushing.
00:42:23.040 They're crushing.
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. 0.96
00:42:36.100 And here it is. 0.96
00:42:37.260 It's happening.
00:42:38.340 It's happening right 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 1.00
00:42:49.800 looking for motherfuckers. 1.00
00:42:50.860 Yeah. 1.00
00:42:51.820 So guys, Andy, that was three.
00:42:54.320 Yeah.
00:42:54.900 Go pay the fee.
00:42:55.560 Pay the fee.
00:43:09.340 Hint, shot, case, cloak, cloak.