REAL AF with Andy Frisella - 931. Q&AF: “Balance” With A Busy Schedule, Handling Salary Frustrations & How To Work With A Team

Episode Date: September 1, 2025

On today’s episode, Andy answers live call-in questions on how to create “balance” when you have a busy and irregular schedule, how to handle situations where you feel you’re being paid less c...ompared to your coworkers, and how to work with a team to grow your business when you have always operated alone.

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Starting point is 00:00:13 Just a no headshot case closed Close What is up guys It's Andy Ficelling This is the show for the realists Say goodbye And lies, the fakesness And delusions of modern society
Starting point is 00:00:23 And welcome to motherfucking reality guys Today We have Q&AF That's where you submit the questions, and we give you the answers. Now, you could submit your question a few different ways. DJ is going to tell you how. Guys, the first way is you can email your questions in to Ask Andy at Andyfercella.com. Or?
Starting point is 00:00:44 Or you can drop your question down in the Q&AF episodes in the comments. Or you can click the link in the description below and submit your questions that way. Yeah, that's the way you guys should be doing it. Get live on the show. Tomorrow we're going to have CTI. It stands for Cruz, the Internet. We're going to talk about what's going on in the world. We're going to put topics on the screen.
Starting point is 00:01:07 We're going to speculate on what they really mean. And then we're going to talk about how we, the people, have to do the things that need to be done to solve these problems in the world. Other times, we're going to have real talk. Real talk is just 520 minutes and me giving you some real talk. And then we have 75 hard verses. And we have an awesome episode coming up for you guys this week. If you're unfamiliar with 75 hard, it is the initial phase of the Live Hard program, which is available for free at episode 208 on the audio feed.
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Starting point is 00:02:18 Yeah, so I have another movie recommendation for you. Really? Mm-hmm. Okay. And, you know, speaking that I'm like two, two right now on your what the fuck no I uh no I uh oh dude oh man yeah it's a three-sum I got another movie recommendation for you yeah since I'm two for two right now with you our movie recommendations you are two for two
Starting point is 00:02:55 Yeah. Kingdom of Heaven. Yes. And Brokeback Mountain. You said you really like that one. I asked you not to repeat that. No. No, I watched this movie last night. I didn't sleep well last night.
Starting point is 00:03:09 I don't know. It was weird. But I was on YouTube and there is a free movie on YouTube with ads. It's called Nefarious. Yeah? With Patrick Flannery. What's his name? Sean Patrick Flannery.
Starting point is 00:03:24 Yes. from Boondot Sanks Okay He's like the main It's him Dude I don't even want to get into it It's good
Starting point is 00:03:34 You have to watch it All right Absolutely have to watch it Okay It's all I got No it's a really good movie I'm telling you If you guys have seen it
Starting point is 00:03:48 Let us know in the comments It's a really good movie Okay It's a mind fuck man Have you seen a new F1 movie I've not. It's on Amazon. Is it?
Starting point is 00:03:57 I watched it. Everybody's talking about how good it is. I haven't seen it. Yeah. All it is is Days of Thunder remade. Is it? Yeah. I probably hate it.
Starting point is 00:04:06 It's exactly the same scenes. It's like the same movie. Oh, they took the same plot line? Yeah, it's the same plot line. It's like, dude is like a washed up driver. Then he gets a ride in the big show. You know, him and the other driver hate each other. Then they go to dinner and they play poker.
Starting point is 00:04:23 and they start getting along and then he gets in a wreck the other the young driver and then like they win like it's the fucking same story dude yeah it's the same story so what was better days of thunder yes yeah i'm watching this i mean dude for you young guys you probably never seen days of thunder but i mean straight rip off bro yeah real talk well i mean like cool repeats itself or at least attempts you yeah right days of thunder is way better yeah well i don't know man but you gotta watch it nefarious yeah watch it okay you'll love it you'll thank me okay let's do the show fuck i got it nefarious shit man who's in it yeah all right um yeah well let's uh let's get into some q and as man it's it's it's a beautiful monday um labor day happy labor day
Starting point is 00:05:14 to everybody out there and um let's make some people better let's do it let's knock these out man Guys, Andy, question number one. Andy, my question is, how do you sustain a healthy balance working out, working 12 to 14 hours a day, six days a week, I operate dump trucks, and I want to improve on myself. I'm not overweight, but it is hard to keep at it with a changing schedule. So I guess just balancing, like what's this idea of balance that people are talking about that I always want? I don't know. You tell me, dude. Who makes up this rule about balance and everybody has to have this same balance like who wrote this thing like oh, we got to have a healthy balance who fucking defines a healthy balance wouldn't a healthy balance be determined by what your desired outcome is and how to get there? Okay, like this trying to take
Starting point is 00:06:14 extraordinary goals and ambitions and plug them into the idea of balance that everybody else lives by does not work. The reason it doesn't work is because they're looking for one outcome and you are looking for a different outcome. And this would be the same thing if I were to say, hey, I'm driving to Boston. you're driving to California let's take the same fucking route like that doesn't work
Starting point is 00:06:49 so what is this with you fuckers that makes you think that you're going to have balance and also win at a big level now you can have balance and you can get by and you can live a good life
Starting point is 00:07:04 and you can sit by the pond and whistle fucking tunes or whatever you do but bro that's not going to get you the prize too. Okay, you don't get to have your cake and eat it too. That is not how the fuck the world works. And it is so overdone and overcooked and ridiculous at this point in time that people have not figured out that you can't have both. You can't build amazing shit and also have
Starting point is 00:07:36 balance. It's just not real. And anybody who tells you different hasn't built anything. Okay. Now, can you do things to optimize the amount of time that you're going to get? Yes, you can. That's why I developed the power list. That's what it does. You can get it for free at episode 16. There is also amazing app on iTunes, wherever you get your apps, you can get your apps. You can get it there. This product, this system allows you to create productivity over the course of time, day in and day out, and still have free time. Okay? Being busy is not the same as being effective. The more effective you are, the more free time you have. The more busy you are, the less free time you have. Busy equals broke, effective
Starting point is 00:08:38 equals rich rich in money rich in time rich in opportunity okay so we have to define and think about what it is we are actually talking about here we are talking about being effective if you are effective you will have time to do things with your friends with your families the problem is you all think that fucking being busy is how you get there and that's not the truth okay so and then on top of that there's going to be times where there's zero balance no matter how effective you are during the day like when you're in startup mode or you're in build mode there's no balance bro it's every day all day as much as you can do and it's like that for a long time in the beginning it's a grind yeah 100% dude it doesn't fucking the rules don't
Starting point is 00:09:33 change because you want them to change they don't change because your favorite therapist you follow on the internet says that whatever you're doing is unhealthy okay well then be like them but you don't want to be like them you want to have that lifestyle and then you want to have all the other shit too and that is now how the fuck it works bro and i'm so fucking tired of people asking this stupid ass question okay i've answered it for 10 fucking years every guru dude out there tries to tell you that you can fucking become a gazillionaire in an hour a day they're lying they're misleading you all of this shit on the internet is bullshit okay you have to pay the price and not only do you have to pay the price you got to pay the price well meaning the actions
Starting point is 00:10:27 you take have to be executed at a high level like this is not that hard to understand you just don't want to understand it. You want it to be that you can fuck off half the time and still get where you want to go. And that just doesn't work. Okay. So I don't know what it is with you guys. I don't really understand this. But you ain't ever going to get there with that mentality. The mentality should be like this. How the fuck do I get there? Period. Okay, because it is very hard to get there. It's not easy. It's not guaranteed. There's nothing about it that's fair it's very difficult it takes your entire life all of your motherfucking energy and to think that you can get there with balance too is a ridiculous belief and it's insulting to anybody who's been
Starting point is 00:11:18 down the path because quite honestly you don't have any skills you don't have any experience you don't have the fucking tools you don't have the resources you don't have the connections and somehow you think you're going to get there with less effort than even the people who do like it's it's so ridiculous and this is like this is the problem with glorifying entrepreneurship this is the problem with glorifying success and all of these dumbass coaches out there that lie to people about what it actually takes so that they can sell them their little system and they can make money all the while the person who's buying the system it never works for them and then they think I'm not cut out for success. I'm not cut out to win. I'm not cut out
Starting point is 00:12:06 to be that person I'm wanting to be deep down inside. When in reality, you're just being lied to about the fucking game. Okay. And if you knew the actual rules, you would understand what it took to get there. And you wouldn't stop yourself and say, oh, well, I guess I don't have what it takes. This is like the diet industry. Okay. The diet industry survives because because easy, quick, instant, 20 pounds in fucking one week. And everybody knows this bullshit. But what happens? Somebody who doesn't know anything starts to buy this shit.
Starting point is 00:12:43 They don't lose any weight. And who do they blame? They don't blame the company for lying to them. They don't blame the marketer. They blame themselves. And they say, shit, well, I guess I'm just different. I guess I'm just going to be fat. And in entrepreneurship, they're saying this, I guess this isn't for me.
Starting point is 00:13:02 I guess I can't make money. I guess I can't succeed. When in reality, lots of people have the potential to succeed, but they're being lied to about the price they have to fucking pay. Okay. So get this in your head. The bigger the life that you're trying to build, the less fucking balance you're going to have. Okay?
Starting point is 00:13:24 And the more balance you have, the smaller the life. life you're going to build that's the reality when it comes to quote unquote success now I'm not trying to fucking talk about oh what the fine success it's fulfilled you know city grounding on the earth is the new rich no motherfucker I'm talking about rich rich I'm talking about fucking money I'm talking about the real success of what we talk about I'm not talking about this bullshit fucking feel good nonsense you know how people are bro oh yeah oh fucking new rich is peanut butter and jelly no it ain't the new rich is a big ass bank account bitch you know what i'm saying like it's always been that way that's the only fucking rich sending your kids to schools you
Starting point is 00:14:06 want them to now you could be fulfilled that's a different thing yeah that's different bro but like i can't stand this fucking saying inner peace is the new rich that's rich for you whatever bro i don't give a fuck but stop trying to convince people that there's nobility and being less than what they could be and less than what they should be because that idea is what's killing the motherfucking world, okay? Every single motherfucking person that lives out there has this vision of who they were supposed to be that was placed in their heart by God. And we get beat by society in our friends, in our family, and we get convinced that
Starting point is 00:14:42 that's ridiculous. Would you tell God that's ridiculous? I don't think you would. Okay. Becoming that version of yourself takes courage. Becoming of that version of yourself takes strength. strength and grit and discipline and consistency and it's hard, but it's worth it and it's what you're supposed to do because the reality is other people will win or lose because of what
Starting point is 00:15:09 you did with yourself and what you did with your life. And it's very easy to convince yourself that you don't matter. Well, yeah, because they spend trillions of dollars trying to convince you of that. And if you didn't matter and your life was irrelevant, then why would they spend so much time, energy, and money convincing you of that fact. Your results and your life are the biggest thing that you will ever do because it's going to determine what the next generation sees and does. And if you don't respect that, if you don't, if that doesn't motivate you to get off your fucking ass and build something, then dude, I'm sorry, you just don't have it.
Starting point is 00:15:56 go sit at McDonald's bro and fucking eat happy meals you know be happy yeah dude just fucking accept accept your reality that's the problem we have so many of these people that they don't want to accept the reality the reality is you either pay the price now or you're gonna pay in a different way later right that's it so yeah uh if you you could do things to optimize balance bro but like this idea of balance is is ridiculous how do you balance working 10 hours a day working out do like bro lots of people do that like what do you mean how do you just do it you get your shit organized get the power list out make it a fucking priority like see i've i've and you can tell me if i'm right around brandy i'll listen to you like
Starting point is 00:16:52 Your word is gold, bro. But this is something that I've done, and this might help. I don't know. But, like, I've gotten away from thinking about life and that way of balance. Like, I look at it more like on a macro scale of my life. You know what I'm saying? It's like, okay, well, for these 10 years, bro. That's correct.
Starting point is 00:17:10 I'm going to, like, it means it's going to be late nights. Correct. There's going to be some misparties. There's going to be, like, I got to grow right now. I got 10 years, bro. And then in 10 years, then we can talk about, okay, well, now can I work on this? That's right. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:24 That's exactly how it should be looked at. But how most people look at it is balance over the course of 24 hours. Right, right. How highly successful people look at it, they look at it as a balance over the next 30 years. I'm going to pay the price now so that later I can have more balance in my life. I can do things I enjoy. When my kids are 10, 12 years old, I can do the things that they need to do.
Starting point is 00:17:50 this is reality dude and like if you can't do it or you're not willing to cool but like the games rules don't change just because you don't fucking like them you know and uh i i feel like a lot of the questions we get are just people that want to hear some sort of like confirmation that their little way of seeing things is correct and the rules are going to bend just for them and they have yeah dude it's not like that the rules are the fucking rules it's like gravity dude like you may not like gravity I don't fucking I don't like gravity okay well that doesn't mean
Starting point is 00:18:26 it's not gonna smash your fucking face if you fall off the edge of a building right you know like I don't know man but yeah it's there's distinct differences upon how people evaluate balance
Starting point is 00:18:44 and how successful they are I mean there's a correlation there right yeah I just look I would rather work my ass off now than be fucking 50 something and have to and you have to and have to yeah well dude I mean you see it every day like how many of these people I mean how many of these people are completely fucking fucking themselves and don't realize that like dude when you're 50 you're gonna be working at fucking Taco Bell like you're because you're gonna have to you know what I mean so anyway dude like yeah uh i say this all the time but you guys shall remember this all these memes
Starting point is 00:19:26 and all these fucking feel good bullshit all that does is cloud your mind all it does is soft in your edge all it does is remove your focus and i would argue that the more content you consume from people who are trying to make you feel good and find peace and find peace and happiness and this in like this very soft way the less successful you're going to be bro because it dulls your edge it makes you think things should be a certain way for you when you've picked a completely different fucking path and then you end up in this situation where you're extremely frustrated because you're like well I should feel peaceful but I'm fucking this is so hard no you're trying to mix the rules of two
Starting point is 00:20:17 different fucking games bro you understand like dude this this is this confuses the fuck out of people and dude it ain't it it just eight you got every fucking fuck face on the internet telling people how to win and they never fucking won I don't I don't know what to tell you man it's real bro yeah like it's it gets frustrating dude no just because you don't like the rules doesn't mean they aren't the rules That's real, man. Guys, Andy, let's get another question in, bro. Guys, Andy, question number two.
Starting point is 00:20:52 Andy, I could really use your perspective on something. So I've been with a company for seven years and worked my way up from store manager to area manager and now into upper management. Along the way, I've taken on everything from hiring, onboarding, and training to employee development. and I've become the person people turn to when something needs to get done. The company has grown from four stores to 17 during my time here. And I've always stepped up without hesitation when the business needed me. Here's where I'm struggling. I just found out that two of my male peers who started about the same time as me
Starting point is 00:21:35 and were promoted earlier are making more than I am. and their bonus percentage is 15% higher. Now, keep in mind, I am paid very well. I feel very greedy even feeling this way. I've never believed gender played a role in my career, but seeing this has really shaken me. I've always given 110% and never let money stop me from doing what's right for the company. But now that I know I'm being compensated less while doing just as much, if not more,
Starting point is 00:22:05 I really mean I'm doing a shit ton more. I find it harder to keep going the extra mile. What would you do in my situation? Well, are you sure it has to do with gender or are they better negotiators than you? Do they voice their frustrations better than you? You said, oh, I don't want to be greedy. Well, you've obviously felt that for a while that you probably needed to make more money. Why have you not said anything?
Starting point is 00:22:30 Why have you not gone in and say, hey, Joe and Steve make more than me and I'm kicking their fucking asses? if you're so badass why the fuck are you not doing that okay i i would say it probably has little to do with gender and i would say it probably has a lot to do with lack of communication because if you had come to me and and these are assuming everything you said was true facts okay assuming all was true yeah and you are highly influential and very much a part of my company going from four stores to 17 stores i'm taking care of you yeah i'm gonna fucking make sure you got what you need and not only am I going to make sure you got what you need, I'm going to make sure you got more than what you need because I don't want you worried about shit.
Starting point is 00:23:12 I want you worried about what we're doing here, okay? And that's the way people treat valuable employees. And, you know, it's completely different than non-valuable employees. Non-valuble employees take up space air and resources. Valuable employees are investments. You fucking make sure they don't go anywhere, okay? And if the company's not doing that, it means two things. Either one, you're not vocal enough about what it is that you're doing and you're not
Starting point is 00:23:40 tooting your own horn to the people who matter, meaning not your peers, you don't go around to your peers, I'm the fucking best, that's cancer is shit, that's not leadership. I don't think you do that because you wouldn't have been able to grow the way that you said you've grown by doing that. And the other one is, is that, you know, you need to take that into your superiors and say, hey, because nobody's going to to toot your fucking horn unless you, you know, you're it and I would have my fucking stats I would have my data I would have my KPI's and I would have my case made for why I should be making more money and I would be prepared to leave if they
Starting point is 00:24:17 didn't give it to me that's the truth oh that's a tough one yeah well there's plenty of companies to hire someone like that you fuck come work for me if you really did all that shit yeah I'm always looking for people that build shit okay that's assuming what you said was facts okay because also I'm going to say a lot of times people believe they're more valuable than they actually are and they will take credit for things in companies not realizing that those same things would have happened with or without them. So, you know, I don't know if you're that kind of a person or not, but I'm going to take you at your word and say, you were highly responsible for this. It's either A, you're not tooting your own horn or B, you're probably in the wrong company.
Starting point is 00:25:00 You know what I'm saying? Yeah, dude, I mean, one thing I was thinking, too, like, could it also be, too, that, like, Steve and, you know, Joe Dird or whoever, like, they are bringing other things to the table that you're not aware of that, you know, is bringing value somehow? Everybody likes to go to this fucking gender race fucking shit. I don't give, listen, I want to win. People who run companies want to fucking win. The competition is hard. it's a hardest fucking thing ever do you really fucking think
Starting point is 00:25:35 that somebody is going to risk not succeeding when they have their whole life and their whole financial future and their whole thing on whether or not the motherfucker's a male or a female or fucking black or white or fucking this or that those people don't last in business because they're fucking stupid
Starting point is 00:25:52 okay I want the best motherfucking players it's like the NFL dude I don't give a fuck Bro, if we got a tailback and it happens to be a woman and she can run fast for everybody else and run the fuck over everybody I'm putting her in a fucking game bro Oh there coach yeah like like dude no one gives a fuck that's the shit people that have excuses Say that's the shit that people say when they you know look at things and they're like oh this isn't fucking fair It's not fair that's why you have to be so fucking good and so undeniable
Starting point is 00:26:27 that when the conversation comes up it's not like I'm taking fucking pat my homes bro it's it's pat my home yeah like it is what it is i'm fucking lose like that's that's undeniable and people don't realize when we talk about undeniable we're not talking about a little bit better we're talking about so much better that every motherfucker that walks in that building whether they work there or don't work there understand who the motherfucker is right when they walk in that is undeniable undeniable is a thousand steps above everybody else It is not slightly above, okay?
Starting point is 00:27:02 Not close. No. So, you know, look, I don't think it's because of gender. Your boss wants to fucking win. They're growing the company. They went from four to 17 stores. They want to win. Okay.
Starting point is 00:27:19 So if you're that, if you're that much of a key of the equation, he's going to recognize or she's going to recognize that they need to fucking pay you. and if if they don't and you really are that person they're fucking stupid okay and you know but I think it probably has to do with you not making a case for yourself the way they maybe have done yeah I'm gonna actually that too because like you know dude let me tell you something yeah now most people who run companies will not pay someone unless they ask okay and most employees are uncomfortable asking which creates this dynamic of frustration okay and so the employee doesn't communicate it's unreasonable expectations the employee doesn't communicate the boss feels like
Starting point is 00:28:11 everything's cool and then all of a sudden the employee fucking bounces they fucking underpaid me they fucked me they bullshit you you didn't fucking say a goddamn word you just sat there and took it if you got a problem with what you're getting paid you should make a fucking undeniable case for why you should get paid more and you should take it to your leadership that's the truth but it has to be real it has to be stats it has to be data it cannot be i think i'm doing better than everybody else i feel it yeah yeah fuck i work hard i show up on time yeah you're supposed to bitch like fuck you know what i'm saying yeah look go tell him what you want you want hit him with the facts
Starting point is 00:28:53 period yeah yeah I was thinking this too man because like again like I'm with you I'm pretty much every day bro and I see what you have to go through like dude there's a major
Starting point is 00:29:07 there's a major lesson in a development of an employee yeah to teach them that they have to do what I just said to their own horn hold on no they've got to make a case data reality statistics points on the board a real case why do you think that is important for an employee's development because eventually you're going to have to negotiate deals
Starting point is 00:29:36 and eventually you're going to have to handle finances if you continue to move up the chain and so an intelligent leader will not fucking give someone a raise until they make a case for it because it's part of their development. That's a whole other play there. Yeah. I was just thinking, I think, I think, too, along your lines, though, of just, like, the disconnection, though, it's like, there's a false assumption that, like,
Starting point is 00:30:01 you know, your owner or your operator, whoever, is supposed to know and be aware of all these interests. Like, in every little space, you just grew from four to 17 stores. How many more employees is that? And so he's supposed to, all right, hey, yeah, yeah, come in here. I know, you know, you ain't said nothing in a while to me. Bro, I had an employee. recently come up to me and tell me that they that they weren't being treated fairly and all this
Starting point is 00:30:22 shit right and I'm like well I don't how much do you get paid I don't even fucking know yeah right you know I don't know I have no idea exactly exactly exactly that's what that's my point is like being tapped in and I'm like it's not fair well have you brought that to anybody well no no have you said anything to anybody no right have you what the fuck man right right right And that's where they go and build their own stories. And they start to leave in their own. And then it's you fuck them. Yeah, right, right.
Starting point is 00:30:53 When we, like, dude, no offense to this woman here, but she's already started to build that story. She's already started to build the story that the reason she's not paid equally is because she's a woman, which data nationally does not actually back that up at all. True. Okay. So you're making a story in your head that may not be true. And if it is true, it means you work for a shitty company because a real company that wants to fucking win doesn't give a fuck. who what color race gender I don't give a fuck bro I'm on here every day talking about I don't care win winners win bro and the best player plays and the people who own companies
Starting point is 00:31:31 want to fucking grow and make money and they're gonna put like this whole idea is so absurd to me oh you're discriminating against me because I'm black what the fuck are you talking about bro I want to fucking win can you do the job you show up late to work bro like what do you want me to do sorry that's for tomorrow that's not exclusive to any race that's a character thing and you know
Starting point is 00:31:57 and then people will show up on time for fucking six months and like I didn't fucking showed up on time for six months it's like yeah that's how you don't get fire that's the base line extra that's real man fuck that's real I love it man we got one more question bro final question
Starting point is 00:32:15 Guys, any question number three. Andy, I have always been able to go after anything I wanted and getting it by working hard and relying on myself. I've never felt like I needed anyone else for anything. However, as a business owner to a service plumbing company, I've come to realize that I do need others for my success. I need customers to want to do business with my company. I need them to trust me that I will fix their issues efficiently and for a fair price. I need them to refer me to others. I need them to entrust my abilities and allow me to show them that I am an honest business owner
Starting point is 00:32:55 and that I will conduct myself in a professional manner. I need suppliers to trust me and give me accounts that will allow my business to be competitive within the industry. So my question is, how do I internally accept the fact that I need others to help me so that I can become successful? I struggle with needing anyone and being vulnerable and even more so conducting myself in the manner of needing others. I do not want to come off as a struggling business, but- Jesus Christ, bro, this is the most ridiculous shit I've ever fucking heard.
Starting point is 00:33:26 Okay, I'm just going to stop you right here. What the fuck are you talking about? Are you going to go play in the NFL and run the fucking football down the field by yourself? You get fucking killed. Business is a team sport. Part of being successful is working with other people. In fact, it's the main part. you can't do everything on yourself
Starting point is 00:33:43 that's a small minded mentality and it's also an insecure mentality no one thinks you're vulnerable because fucking you are struggling business because you do what everybody else in the world does and fucking work with people right like that's fucking insane bro do you know do you don't understand
Starting point is 00:33:59 how ridiculous that fucking sounds it's insane you're going to be the only person ever to build a fucking awesome plumbing company by yourself no customers like what the fuck are you talking about dude okay let me give you the answer to your question it's real simple change your perspective change your framework from this i don't need any people i'm a big tough guy i can handle myself i can do all this
Starting point is 00:34:25 shit to this i love working with people i fucking love talking to customers i love the people i go to work with i love my vendors i love my suppliers i dude every time you see him be excited Hey, DJ, what's up, man? You know, how's business for you? Your day will be so much more fulfilling and so much more fun. And you will make so much more money by just changing your perspective from, I'm a big tough guy, got to fucking do everything on my own. And otherwise, I'm a bitch to, man, this is so cool.
Starting point is 00:35:01 I get to do all this great shit with all these awesome people every day. Dude, I could be working by myself, being miserable, not having anybody to talk to. I get to wake up today and I get to go to work and I get to see this person and that person And I get to talk to him about this that this like bro. That's a fucking privilege Not everybody has that man and like I'm gonna tell you this the times I've struggled in business the most are the times I've lied to myself about what I have to do I look at it like fuck I got to go in I got to handle this problem or I got a this and this and this and now as I've gotten older I've started to see it like this you know what this guy's such an idiot for doing this
Starting point is 00:35:41 but like he's a young guy he doesn't fucking know so now I get to help him and I get to save him from doing this shit later on you know I change my framework yes so you got to change your frame dude and you got to realize that like the and I'm going to tell you guys this too let me I'm going to be really fucking honest
Starting point is 00:35:57 I've made a fuck ton of money everybody knows that it's no secret I'm very wealthy I've been very successful in almost everything i've done since the time i was 19 years old the best part of that entire journey is the people you get to do it with it's the people you get it's the vendors it's the customers it's the people you talk to the relationships you build the friends you make it's the best it's the
Starting point is 00:36:31 best part of it so just embrace it dude and stop thinking like over analyzing yourself like you're not going to be the first person that does this on your own nobody's going to think you're vulnerable or weak because you're doing things that everybody else in the history of fucking earth has had to do bro you get what i'm saying this is an ego problem you need to humble yourself okay you think you're fucking so good and so strong and so tough and so independent you probably were raised by an old school fucking man who said this shit Blue-collar man who said, oh, real man, doesn't, la-da-da-da, okay, cool. You're trying to do something different, bro.
Starting point is 00:37:11 And the truth of the matter is, those people are fucking miserable. Nobody likes them. They don't have friends. They walk around grumpy all the time. They walk around being kind of dicks. You know, no, like, you know, it's like the motherfucker you meet. We all know the type. Hey, man, what's up?
Starting point is 00:37:30 How are you doing? Living the dream. It's like, all right, well, fuck off then. you know like you know i mean that that's the truth so like dude you got to change your frame man and the cool thing is is once you start treating people like that not only are you have more fun and you're happy or more fulfilled but you're way more successful because those people want to help you you know what i'm saying bro winning is a team fucking sport okay even when it's not a team sport it's a team sport tennis team
Starting point is 00:37:59 sport or no yes coaches travel organization training training trainers, recovery, team sport, race car driving, individual or team sport? Massive team. That's right. You've seen it up first hand. Okay. There are people to one team. But people don't fucking think like that.
Starting point is 00:38:15 Yeah. Okay. There is not anything out here that you can win at a high level on your own. It's impossible. Nothing. I can't think of anything. Fucking, you, oh, you're an accomplished author. Okay, well, who edited the book?
Starting point is 00:38:27 Who marketed the book? Who did this? Who did it? Yeah. It's team. Yeah. It's always team, bro. You can't win without it.
Starting point is 00:38:34 all right so bro humble yourself like for real realize that you you you can you're not weak you're not a bitch you don't struggle you're doing business and business requires relationships and relationships when seeing through the right lens are very fulfilling and fun and when you're having fun you make more money it's just the truth okay so stop that stupid ass shit that's a dumbest shit I ever heard bro I love it yeah I mean shit man you know I want you guys to win dude like this is why I do this stuff you know I don't do you know I don't show I'm not a I'm not like I don't show my shit and cars and life and I want you to see what the fuck is at the other end if you want it you know and that doesn't come from doing things on your own or
Starting point is 00:39:29 trying to have balance like everybody else like dude Tom Brady's life and Joe, the fucking plumber's life, look two different ways. And whatever outcome you're desiring requires a certain path. And when you try to fill your head with information from everybody who's on a different path, that's only going to fuck you up mentally. Okay. And you have to realize that, dude, as an entrepreneur, as someone who's ambitious, as someone who has big goals, you know, the data says, oh, 10% of people are entrepreneurs. No, they're not.
Starting point is 00:40:07 It's like, serious entrepreneur is like 2%. Okay. Everybody likes to say they're an entrepreneur. I own a fucking, you know, a drop shipping thing. Like, dude, no. No. Listen, people are not going to understand, dude. They're not going to understand. And by the way, they don't want to understand. stop explaining yourself stop worrying about what they think they do not give a fuck about your reasons for doing it they want to talk you out of doing it so they can feel better about not doing it themselves so you have to stop listening to everything and everyone and reading all this stupid shit on the internet about healthy balance and this and this because it's going to get you into a place you don't want to be and then you're going to look around and be like
Starting point is 00:40:59 the fuck did i never get where i wanted to go wouldn't you rather just get where you want to go i don't know man i got nothing else dude it's just like i love it's like fuck like i just don't understand this i just don't understand this mentality dude i don't understand this mentality of i want to be a pro football player but i want to work like i'm you know uh selling snow cones like what are you talking about man and by myself yes like what are you talking about you're talking about two different things yeah I love not trying to take the actions of everybody else and think you're going to have an exceptional result everybody else talks about all this shit and you if you talk and think like them you're going to be like them it's not that hard
Starting point is 00:41:50 to understand you got to if you want to win you better listen to motherfuckers have built real shit not some asshole who's just selling you some nonsense on the internet yeah that's real bro I love it dude yeah I love it too but like I want to sometimes I want to fucking grab you motherfuckers by the hair and look you in the eyes and be like what the fuck are you thinking yeah like it's not that hard bro it's really not it's really not you just have to understand you are on a different path than everybody else you are on a different path you can't listen to your mom you can't listen to your aunt you can't listen to your cousin You can't listen to your friends
Starting point is 00:42:29 You're on a different path, bro And it takes different actions And it takes different thoughts And it takes a different kind of life And that life ain't for everybody And if it ain't for you, that's okay too But you're not going to get the ex The excellent
Starting point is 00:42:42 Exceptional result With, you know, like there's the saying, bro You're not going to get a million dollar result With fucking minimum wage work ethic It's not going to fucking happen No That's real bro All right
Starting point is 00:42:56 Well that's a hell of a way To start a week, don't? Yeah. yeah stop stop being ridiculous guys like i feel like i just yelled at everybody for the fucking 40 minutes they love it though they like they like yeah it's fine we got a bunch of fucking weirdos all right listen i just want you guys to win bro and i want you guys to know the reality of it and i want you to understand that most of these people out here aren't telling you because their idea of winning is how to sell you some sort
Starting point is 00:43:22 of solution that isn't even fucking real man anyway All right, CPI tomorrow. Go on kick ass. We're from sleeping on the floor. Now my jury box froze. Fuck a pole. Fuck a stole. Counted millions in a cold.
Starting point is 00:43:39 Bad bitch, booted swow. Got her on bank row. Can't fold. Just a no headshot case closed.

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