Firing somebody is not punishment. If somebody does something wrong in your company, the immediate

thought should not be, oh, I should fire them. Firing somebody should be a strategic move that protects

the company, protects the mission, protects values, and protects your high performers from being

dragged down by the wrong people.

What's up, guys?

Welcome back to Filled.

And today I want to talk about something that nobody wants to do and nobody wants

to talk about, but everybody has to do at some point when you run a business, own a

business, or work in a business, which is firing people.

This is top of mind for me because, you know, unfortunately

had to go through the process of relinquishing, you know, two people in the last six weeks

from the business for reasons that just sucked. And it sucks. Like, I don't know any other way

to say it. Like, the process sucks, the entire thing sucks, happen to tell people

sucks, having to tell the person sucks. It's uncomfortable. I think if you are not a complete

apathetic person, it's an emotional process. And I think that most of the time, if you're a

manager and you're really good, you actually probably avoid it for a lot longer than you should.

And so as I was going through

this process with my team, I realized that for me, it's really easy to make these decisions. And the

reason it's easy is because I've done it so many times. I remember the first time I ever had to

let go of anybody. Guys, Alex and I started our first business gym launch and we were living out of motels. In fact,

we were at the extended state in, I want to say it was like Phoenix, Arizona. And one of our sales

reps that was at a gym in, I think, I want to say it was Florida. It was like middle of nowhere,

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