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00:24:56.940i believe that in the entrepreneurship stage that we are in it's important for you
00:25:08.660to try a few different things examine what it is that you're into okay you might say oh i'm not
00:25:16.480passionate about this what do you do every day what let's start there what is your daily routine like
00:25:22.400what do you do every single day i get up i brush my teeth i take a shower i go to the gym i do this i do that
00:25:31.000what's the one thing that you can't live without that you find extremely uh beneficial to you and
00:25:39.620your day what is it and when you identify those three or four things how could they be made better
00:25:46.020okay and start thinking like that in everything that you see like when i go to a restaurant i'm not in
00:25:52.720the restaurant business but you've been to enough restaurants with me to know exactly what the fuck i do
00:25:57.840i sit at the table i order the food and i say they should have done this should have done that
00:26:02.860should have done this if these guys were doing this they'd have five times much business i fucking do
00:26:06.960that i analyze how everyone does everything and that is a trained way of thinking that i've had
00:26:14.360for many many years because who knows what kind of idea will come from that so to say you're not
00:26:21.360passionate about anything i don't even think that's true i think there's things that you are
00:26:26.760passionate about you've just not thought about how you can make them better or how you could sell them
00:26:30.720as a product and i would encourage you to do that third of all you don't have to be passionate about
00:26:37.980fucking anything you could be passionate about making motherfucking money okay but i will say this
00:26:45.420that while that is cool when you don't have any money to start making money and you say fuck i love
00:26:52.240making money you will eventually get to a point where if you are doing it just for that you will be burnt out
00:27:00.560you will hate your life you will be miserable and you will be searching for meaning and purpose
00:27:06.400and something that you do and so the reason that we recommend people be passionate about things when they start
00:27:16.260is because there is a lag time where you start the business and where it becomes successful that is very hard for people to get through
00:27:27.700and most of the time the only reason people can get through that part of the business is because they actually care about what the fuck they're doing
00:27:35.840so if you are passionate about something that you are actually building a business around your chances of sticking it out during this lag time go up
00:27:45.760right all right so uh and i will say this even the thing you're most passionate about over the course of time you're going to go in and out of being passionate about that
00:27:56.220there's been many times in my life where i haven't been passionate about what i do every day
00:28:00.860and then got out of that funk and got more passionate again and then back and forth and back and forth
00:28:05.760that's normal and a lot of people the first time that happens the first time they lose a little
00:28:11.180they get into one of those funks they're like fuck i don't have this passion for it anymore
00:28:15.420and then they fucking quit and they got to go start over if you just stick with it dude it'll come back
00:28:20.380so uh we see a lot of people fail in that regard uh during those those those times when we don't feel great about what we're doing
00:28:27.600and it's just normal don't do that um but yeah man uh if i were you instead of saying you know i'm not passionate about anything
00:28:37.860i would say well i can't i need to really examine what it is i would like to do uh if i only had to do this
00:28:46.060every single day of my life for free okay and i can say that like i love helping people i love people getting better
00:28:53.200i like making people better with their finances with their fitness their mindset i fuck i do this
00:28:58.920shit for free yeah you know i love this shit um so even like for me even if i if you were to ask me
00:29:08.080like what would you do every day if you didn't get paid for i would still do the same shit i'd come in
00:29:13.100here i'd help where i can i do the show and you know i i would find fulfillment in that yeah and so
00:29:21.260you know um when you're in the beginning stages and you can't figure out what your passion is you
00:29:25.700need to get passionate about making some fucking money and you need to save that money so that you
00:29:30.680can roll it into something that you are passionate about whenever you do become passionate about it
00:29:35.260and then you can build a business out from there i love it now you started when you were 19 yeah how
00:29:39.660many what were some of the other i guess pathways you tried before you started with s2 i tried to i tried
00:29:47.320to buy into this uh internet yellow pages situation which because before listen before google there was
00:29:56.800no way to search the internet so like everything back in the day was you had to pull out a fucking
00:30:03.760phone book and you had to like look for shit yeah right okay right kids now can't even comprehend
00:30:10.640that no there was a book that had everybody's number everybody's right and in businesses it would
00:30:15.580it would be categorized it would also be sorted by their name um there was a yellow pages and there
00:30:21.520was a white pages the yellow pages was sorted by category the white pages sorted by name
00:30:26.060all right and you got two for free you got one of each for free at your house every single year
00:30:30.960all right um that is crazy to think about that's what they did okay now it's all here on your hold on
00:30:37.560bro but but when they when the internet started to get popular google hadn't really
00:30:43.140matured into what it is today um and there certainly wasn't ai or anything like that
00:30:50.780so this dude created this thing called internet yellow pages and he sold out franchises i tried that
00:30:58.300didn't fucking work okay i had to go door to door to businesses and try to get them to sign up for
00:31:02.880something that nobody really understood was going to be beneficial at all yeah so that was that was
00:31:08.080a failed thing um i tried an internet dating service that was a failed thing i tried uh fucking you
00:31:17.320know what are some tanning beds or some shit tanning beds couldn't get enough money to do it uh you know
00:31:23.240painting the stripes on parking lots you know could never get enough money to do that uh on our own
00:31:28.600you know i mean bro i could go on and on and on i had a different fucking thing every single year
00:31:34.460trying to build something out from the time i was eight until the time i started you know with chris s2
00:31:41.880right and um so none of those things was i really passionate about except the baseball card thing that
00:31:48.640i did but you know i didn't know enough about i was only like fucking 10 yeah right right right but um
00:31:55.640but yeah dude i mean most of the shit and by the way i still know a lot of the lessons i learned
00:32:01.540through that process which allowed me to create the retail stores which which is what bore uh first
00:32:09.900form and you know it's no different than what i tell you guys you're gonna have to go through shit i
00:32:15.820just started when i was real young yeah you know so yeah dude there's a i mean there's a lot of shit
00:32:23.440like i did uh i did nightclub promotion um for uh concerts when i was in college to try and make
00:32:31.380some side money you know and that actually worked out okay i made a little bit of money doing that
00:32:35.420um to kind of float me through you know not getting paid at the stores but i mean there's all kinds of
00:32:41.080things that honestly didn't work but there's also things that could have worked had i stuck with it
00:32:46.280had i stuck with it right yeah 41 percent man i love it man well guys let's get to our third and
00:32:51.560final question mr andy uh guys any question number three hey andy so full disclosure i'm not an
00:33:00.440entrepreneur i mainly listen to you for the other good stuff on tuesdays and fridays wink yeah
00:33:05.460but my best friend is and he listens to the show as well um he has been in business for like four
00:33:11.260years now making uh beautiful amazing woodwork i mean like seriously amazing stuff dining tables that
00:33:18.900he sells for like fifteen thousand dollars oh um really dope shit and he is crushing it here's the
00:33:24.240thing uh the dude does it all uh from the production wood procurement marketing sales inventory concept
00:33:31.780design like a thousand hats uh we have been talking more recently about him hiring employees
00:33:37.360i see how hard he works runs around like a chicken with his head cut off and i tell him all the time
00:33:43.940bro you need help uh you're going to need help many hands lighten the load etc but he stands firm
00:33:50.520and says i'm good don't need him uh because he is being a pussy and i know he wouldn't ask can you
00:33:57.500talk some sense into him for the love of our dear lord and savior all jokes aside i don't want to lose
00:34:02.680my best friend from a heart attack because he thinks he doesn't need the help much love from detroit
00:34:07.320well look it depends on what his operational goals are you know some people just want to be artists
00:34:13.880like what he's doing is an art to him so when we think of you know business we have to understand that
00:34:21.860not everybody's trying to be a fucking billionaire not everybody's trying to be worth a hundred million
00:34:26.440dollars not everybody's even trying to make a million dollars they're just trying to not have to work
00:34:31.140a regular job that they don't get fulfillment out of so it depends on what kind of person he is
00:34:37.440and what his goals are because if he's just a one-man operation making super high quality shit
00:34:43.340you know there's a lot of fulfillment in that in fact when we went down to see jesse james jesse james
00:34:50.080is an artist he's in his shop doing the work himself now does he have people that do other things
00:34:56.900yes absolutely but he is an artist and i think that and i could be wrong i think that he would do
00:35:07.040the shit for free and i think he would do it on his own and do all of it on his own and i bet he did
00:35:11.600for a long time and then you know he realized hey man i want to make some fucking money doing this so
00:35:16.560they expand it into an actual company and dude honestly i think he's one of the best entrepreneurs
00:35:21.100out there um that doesn't get the credit for being such a great entrepreneur i mean dude he's sold
00:35:27.600fucking like a like some sort of bolt like billion dollars worth of fucking apparel off of his brand
00:35:34.660like crazy yeah like dude he's he's crushed it um but at heart he's an artist right and he loves the
00:35:43.200work and he gets fulfillment from the work and so if your friend is one of these guys he might be doing
00:35:48.060exactly what he wants um if you think that he's killing himself and he's saying fuck i'm so big
00:35:53.260maybe he needs to hire you know some some uh executive assistant or somebody a coo or a ceo that will run
00:36:01.920all the business affairs for him so he can focus on what he does best you know um there's lots of
00:36:08.940solutions to this problem depending on where he wants to take it but i just got to be real with you i
00:36:14.200mean some of my friends who are tremendous at what they do they're just artists that make shit to sell
00:36:19.800and they fucking love that so um if he if that's what he loves leave him the fuck alone you know what
00:36:26.240i'm saying yeah but if he wants to turn that into a business that does you know 30 50 100 million
00:36:33.880dollars it probably could easily be done uh you know you could build out a few people that would
00:36:39.500handle all the logistical shit and the minutiae of running a business um he could concentrate on
00:36:45.560what he does he could bring in apprentices to help him and maybe as it goes you know help them learn
00:36:50.640how to do similar to what he does but i also bet that people are buying these tables because he
00:36:55.640fucking does them yeah so there there's a lot of ways to scale those out but ultimately it comes down
00:37:01.640to what does the artist actually want you know you know how many great photographers i know that could
00:37:07.960be fucking worth 100 million dollars that just don't they just do one their one thing or uh uh you
00:37:14.000know sculptors or fucking people that work with their hands like bro these these people are built
00:37:19.500different than than uh you know most people and and the truth of the matter is entrepreneurship is
00:37:25.320also a creative art that's what people don't understand it's not corporate this this this this this
00:37:30.600until you get to that fucking way up level right um where you're you're you're managing so many
00:37:36.880people there has to be rules set in stone uh but small small business i think is the most fun kind
00:37:43.100of business because there's you can you get to be close with all your people you know there's a
00:37:48.460common goal you get to build a strong team it's fun you get there it's not like how the fuck do i
00:37:54.020go to dinner with fucking hundreds of people you know saying like i can't do that yeah but back in
00:37:58.600the early days when there was 20 of us or the whole 10 of us yeah we fucking hung out all the time
00:38:03.500is awesome my favorite memories of of building the company were those days um and you know it's
00:38:11.160just all the phase of life where you're at does he say how old he is uh no i didn't he didn't say
00:38:15.360yeah i mean look bro if you really care about him and you really uh you know you really think you
00:38:21.940can help him why don't you draw out a little plan for him you know on how you could help him why don't
00:38:26.600you say here here's what you could do to lighten your load and and even make more money you see what i'm
00:38:31.460saying for sure so you know not everybody who creates is an actual effective entrepreneur you
00:38:37.720know um having the business sense and the marketing ability and and the brand ability and all these
00:38:43.980things those things you know they they they're a different skill set than making a fifteen thousand
00:38:49.980dollar table that's amazing yeah uh so you know maybe taking some of that profit and reinvesting
00:38:56.260into team you know will help him scale have uh less actual workload and make more money i mean
00:39:02.860that's the truth that's what you're talking about um and i'm very confident that that would be the
00:39:08.600result of streamlining what he has going on so it depends on what he wants to do bro um and if he
00:39:14.680wants to make more money than that i mean fuck dude you could take that all the way it just depends
00:39:18.940on where you want to go uh so i'd start with you know him listening to what i'm saying uh you
00:39:25.080evaluating whether or not that's what he wants him evaluating if that's what he wants decide where
00:39:30.860he wants to take the business and then make a plan from there you know because dude in the early days
00:39:36.460of entrepreneurship and i see a lot of guys do this you know they are they're they're in that creative
00:39:43.100mode where they're creating the product and they get so busy that they can't think of how to scale
00:39:48.780the business out because they're just running the business how do you say i think you've described
00:39:52.740it before is like you're working in the business and you gotta switch to working correct on the
00:39:56.200business but but when you're the one creating the shit you know like like when you're the one baking
00:40:01.260the fucking cakes and people are buying the cakes because you're baking them yeah um that's a little
00:40:06.140bit different of a situation yeah for sure you know but people do it bro like look uh katie's pizza
00:40:11.220who i use as an example people used to go to katie's because fucking katie made the motherfucking pizzas
00:40:16.200right now she sells pizzas in walmart and they're fucking amazing uh many restaurants throughout
00:40:22.740st louis that have a very good reputation because guess what they're good and she was able to take
00:40:29.220her culinary skill set and scale that and you could do that with your woodworking as well and it could
00:40:34.660still be you know your brand whatever that's called there's all kinds of different ways to do this
00:40:39.240bro um and the least effective way is to do it all yourself and run yourself into the dirt you know
00:40:45.360you could probably do way less work by getting a little help you'll make way more money uh and build
00:40:50.900a much more successful company without sacrificing the fulfillment and the enjoyment or the brand
00:40:58.260quality that he gets from doing it himself so it's just about what do you want yeah you know what i mean
00:41:04.260like everybody thinks that when i'm taught and i am for the most part because most people want to make
00:41:10.540as much money as they can for sure but not everybody does some people just want to make enough
00:41:15.340some people just want to improve their life and give them some more freedom uh and then they want
00:41:20.900to live their life you know and it sounds like he's not able to do that because of how busy he is with
00:41:25.780work so you know i know i'm throwing a lot of different scenarios at you but you know one of those
00:41:30.500scenarios is the right one and if you if you really think you have good ideas for your buddy uh why don't
00:41:35.420you map it out and kind of show it and say hey why don't we do it this way yeah you know what i mean
00:41:39.660yeah i love it man dude this is honestly i'm i get excited hearing these questions for mfco come
00:41:45.700back bro we've been recording the episodes i fucking love it like i look that's my fucking wheelhouse bro
00:41:54.040yeah you know i've been doing something that people want to do for as long as most of them have been
00:42:00.120alive okay i i i'm the dude that all these other motherfuckers out here you know are trying to
00:42:06.840pretend they are they don't have the experience they don't have the actual business the most of
00:42:11.120them most of them okay um the answer i just gave like that's not an answer that you would know unless
00:42:18.480you've been through it can't pull that out yeah so like look man um yeah i'm excited about it too
00:42:25.780uh i'm excited to really switch from bringing where we all understand i think at this point in time
00:42:32.820that the country uh has issues that we need to take responsibility for to fix and
00:42:40.960the next phase of making you know this country what it should be is getting the young people to
00:42:49.380understand how things actually work helping them collapse that time frame from trial and error being
00:42:56.92010 years now because of technology instead of 20 or whatever right uh down to you know a few years
00:43:03.080you know what i mean and just help these people become independent financially become fit physically
00:43:09.120become intelligent you know because the the thing is is we have to become everything that they tell us
00:43:14.660um that we shouldn't which is you know they want to make it okay for us being fat and sitting in front of tv
00:43:21.900and then getting sick and the reason they want to do this and being poor is for control they want
00:43:28.400us to mega consume all of their things they want us to be dependent they want us to sit in front of
00:43:33.100the tv and eat a bunch of shit so then you know uh we're not only subscribing to the data and using up
00:43:39.380all the data but then we require their medications as well um the the big food companies are propagating
00:43:46.180this you know it all ties together dude and personal excellence is the ultimate rebellion to all of this
00:43:53.180shit and part of that personal excellence is is making a lot of fucking money which is what i love to talk
00:44:00.000about i love it so i'm excited to get it going too uh and by the way if you are wanting to listen to it
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00:44:46.400we'll go from there but i'm excited about it too bro because real talk is so the fact that we've
00:44:52.280started making the cti's like more fun um and like more you know i guess you would say like comedy
00:44:59.360based as opposed to just all serious all the time i'm having a lot more fun doing that but real talk
00:45:05.260dude like i love the education aspect of personal development and entrepreneurship i fucking love it
00:45:15.060it's a part of my life i'm always trying to get better and i think i think i have a duty i feel
00:45:20.480called to help these young people especially young men um make better decisions and and put themselves
00:45:28.260in a position to be successful so i'm excited about it as well 100 man it's gonna be fucking great
00:45:32.440well guys andy that was three all right guys don't be a hoe share the show
00:45:38.560went from sleeping on the floor now my jury box froze fuck a pole fuck a stole counted millions in the
00:45:46.100cold bad bitch booted swole got her on bankroll can't fold doesn't know headshot case close