510. Q&AF: Solopreneur To Entrepreneur, Formal Education Vs Self Education & Getting Focused
REAL AF with Andy Frisella
Andy Frisella
4.9 • 33.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Andy answers your questions on how to build your one-man operation into a business with employees, the best way to train your employees to apply the formal education they've learned in the real world, and how to get refocused in the fast pace world we live in today.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up guys it's Andy for Sella and this is the show for the real estate goodbye to the lies the thickness and delusions of modern society welcome to motherfucking reality guys today |
| 0:25.5 | Hey, we have Q and A F that's where you get to submit the questions and we give you the a F's you could submit those questions a couple different ways the first way is guys you can email those questions into ask Andy at Andy for Sella.com |
| 0:38.4 | The second way is now that we're on YouTube you can go to YouTube and under the Q and A F episodes after you click subscribe of course you could drop a comment in there and ask a question we'll pick something there as well. |
| 0:50.0 | Other times that this your first time listening we have multiple shows within the show other shows that you will get to have your eardrums blessed with if you keep listening will be CTI CTI is cruise the internet that's our current event show that's what we talk about what's going on in the world we break down some headlines that are trending we talk about what maybe true what may not be true we speculate and we talk about how we can all become the solution the problems going on in the world. |
| 1:20.0 | Then we have real talk real talk is five to 20 minutes of just shit that I think you need to hear and know about that's what it is and then we have full length full length is like what you see on most other podcasts where we have a guest or two possibly when we sit in on the show and we have a conversation and then sometimes we have 75 hard verses I got a good 75 hard verses episode coming up for you guys soon that's for those of you that don't know I am the creator of 75 hard and live hard program and I'm going to do that. |
| 1:50.9 | I like to bring people on who change their lives and tell their stories so sometimes we do that as well and I got a good one coming up for that. |
| 1:56.5 | So that's the basis of the show and then we have what's called the fee all right the fee means share the show I give you a lot of information on this show that I've gathered over my 24 years being an entrepreneur I'm fairly successful entrepreneur and that's being humble about it okay I share a lot of valuable shit on this show for free for you young bucks that are trying to build something out of your life. |
| 2:16.4 | Now I ask and return is that you share the show so when I say please pay the fee that means share the show it's important that you share the show because a lot of you guys get aggravated with what's going on in the world and you get frustrated you say fuck and you everybody should be listening to your show well look that's in your hands that's why we ask you to share the show I don't run ads for the show I don't run ads on the show I simply ask that you share the show it's that simple so that's the rundown man that for you anything nothing that's it yeah the Q&A have questions can be about. |
| 2:46.4 | Anything but this is a business entrepreneur ship podcast at heart and the reason that we talk about business and entrepreneurship as the focus but also current events is because for you to be successful in business you have to have freedom you have to have low taxes you can't be a press otherwise we can't be successful so we have to keep an eye on our environment our business environment and make sure that soil that we're planning our seeds in as fertile and we'll help us grow the life that we're trying to grow so we talk about both here so I don't want to hear none of your bullshit |
| 3:16.4 | about what do you cook or cook or what do you just stick to personal development fuck bro it's different shows you can choose which one you want to listen to holy shit yeah alright so simple yeah alright now you know the interesting thing about you know the the analogy with fertile soil man it's like even with all like I have to remind myself you know with all the crazy shit going on this is still one of the best countries that I've ever existed yeah absolutely and I think that even |
| 3:46.4 | despite all the crazy shit the soil here in this country is still fertile enough to build some shit which is why these episodes are so fucking crucial because it's like yeah we got to cover the crazy shit but you guys should still be trying to build and still trying to fucking grow shit because the for the soil still there it is there but it could be a lot better you know we have to be back yeah the the we're we're suffering in this country from an embarrassment of riches okay it's been so easy to be successful and you might want to be successful |
| 4:16.4 | you might be sitting there saying what the fuck are you talking about it's been so easy to be successful over the history of this country if you just put in work put in effort stay the course don't quit the basic shit right and over the course of the last 246 years our freedoms have been slowly eroded little by little by little by little |
| 4:39.3 | when now we live in a business environment where they have a spend to where we're paying the exact amount of tax that you can handle to pay as a business owner an entrepreneur operator that will allow you to profit but also make it extremely hard and it's intentionally set at that point and if it goes further than that it's going to be almost impossible for you guys who are coming up to really execute and build what you're trying to build |
| 5:09.3 | and so that's why it's important that you get engaged in the conversation that's why it's important that you find some courage that's why it's important that you stand up for what you think is right and stop sitting there thinking that someone else is going to work it out for you because nobody's coming dude it's us we're the solution to this and the solutions going to be you going out given everything you have living at a much higher standard and representing that saying the personal excellence is the ultimate rebellion okay standing up showing people what it looks like to win showing people what it looks like to win and |
| 5:39.3 | like to have high standards and those people start to see that when you and they start to emulate that that's how culture changes so if culture changes politics have to change because politics is downstream from culture and if culture starts demanding politicians that will go in and give us a 10% tax like they should because it should be spent properly and not embezzled or funneled or put the special interest if that if we actually started demanding that they would have to do that and that's how this game works. |
| 6:09.3 | So the culture is the most important part of that culture starts with you a lot of you guys trying to opt out and say what can I do well you can actually do a lot it's just you're trying to defer out of the responsibility because you feel like you know that's going to be hard guess what it is hard so anyway that's my little speech yeah I like it yeah all right so what else we got guess what I bet you got some good ones for me I know I guess let's knock these out man let's get right into an any question number one |
| 6:39.3 | and the I own my own outdoor cleaning and landscaping business I've been doing it for about seven years now and I'm doing very well but I'm at the point where I am turning down work because I am getting so busy I just can't handle more I'm afraid to hire my first employee because I just don't know how to hire somebody that I trust I feel like I can only trust them if I'm watching over their shoulder the entire time my customers are used to seeing my face |
| 7:08.3 | and me doing the job so I feel like I would just lose business if I told them that I was sending someone else to do it I want to grow and expand but I don't feel like I can do it on my own any advice and help would be appreciated so when I started in business in 1999 we started with $12,000 okay we had one retail store is me and my business partner Chris and it took us six years to open our second store and the reason it's not going to be a big deal is that I'm not going to do it. |
| 7:38.3 | I took us six years to open our second store is because we couldn't comprehend actually trusting someone to go around another store for us and because we couldn't comprehend it and we couldn't come to terms with it like you you spent seven years we spent six years basically standing on the breaks of our progress |
| 7:58.3 | so those six years in business that first six years are six years that I really regret now that I'm 24 years in and I believe that it had I understood that you will be able to hire people and scale people and people are generally trustworthy and want to do a good job and want to win and want to contribute had I understood at that time I would have been where I am now probably four to five years earlier in my life okay so |
| 8:28.3 | you need to understand that if you don't come to terms with reality that people will do what you ask them to do if you learn to leave them properly and delegate properly and hold standards properly they will not only do what you ask them to do when you get good at it some of them will do even a better job than you would do all right so so you have to come to terms with your own false belief about other people and I understand this because it was the same for me |
| 8:58.3 | and out of all I get asked often out of all the things I've done people ask they say well what's your biggest regret one of my biggest regrets was not learning that lesson faster all right so my advice to you now if you want to stay how you are and you want to continue to do all the work yourself and you want to have a moderately successful landscape business |
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