You have questions America's number one business coach has answers.

It's your Broda from Minnesota.

Here's another edition of Ask Clay Anything on the Thrive Time Business Coach radio show.

Yes, yes, and yes, and yes,

Thrive Nation on today's show I'm very excited to answer a question from a

Thriver that is not a fun question to answer, but it is a question that needs to be answered and I am excited

because the person asking this question is a great person and I want to help them out

Jason the question is an employee has left me to go work for my competition, even though they have signed a non-compete,

can I do anything?

Ooh, been there.

Okay, we've heard this question from a lot of drivers, I've dealt with this before, and I am going to walk you down the path so you know what you can and can't do, but it's not going to be fun.

It's not, it's necessary going to be fun.

It's not.

It's necessary knowledge, but it's definitely not fun.

Okay.

So step number one is when you hire people,

you want your people to sign a non-compete agreement if you want any chance at all to ever win or ever keep

people from going to compete directly with you.

You'd like them to sign that going into another.

There are certain states though that forbid

the usage of non-competes altogether.

But if you are in a state and you say, look,

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