REAL AF with Andy Frisella
848. Q&AF: Getting Your Fire Back, Handling Anxiety & Managing Ego In Employees
Mon, 03 Mar 2025
On today's episode, Andy answers your questions on how to get your “fire” back when you feel monotonous on your journey to success, how to handle anxiety when you have too much on your plate, and what’s the best way to manage ego in high-performing employees.
Chapter 1: What is the format of Andy Frisella's podcast?
Q and AF. That's where you submit the questions and we give you the answers. Now you could submit your questions a few different ways. The first way is guys email these questions into ask Andy and any for solid.com or go on YouTube in the Q and AFs. Ask your questions in the comment sections and we'll choose some from there as well. Uh, other days we're going to have shows within the show.
This is not a single format show. We're going to have CTI tomorrow. That stands for cruise the internet. That's a society culture comedy all mixed together. Uh, try to deliver the news in a different way. Uh, We speculate on what's going on, what's true, what's not true, and then we talk about how we, the people, have to solve these problems going on in the world.
Other times, we're going to have real talk. Real talk is just five to 20 minutes of me giving you some real talk. And then we have 75 Hard Verses. 75 Hard Verses is where people who have completed the 75 Hard Program come on the show.
They talk about how their life was before, how their life is now, and how they used the 75 Hard Program to transform their mental state, which transformed their reality.
Chapter 2: Where can you learn about the 75 Hard Program?
all right if you're unfamiliar with 75 hard is the world's biggest most popular mental transformation program it is the initial phase of the live hard program and you can get both of those programs for free at episode 208 on the audio feed there is also a book available at andyforsella.com called the book on mental toughness it covers the entire live hard program
Plus a whole bunch of chapters on mental toughness, why it's important, how to use it, and has some case studies on some famous people as to how they got to be famous using these skills. So go get the book if you want. It's for people who, I don't know, like the ins and outs and the ups and downs and all the details like me. I have to know everything before I start things.
Chapter 3: How can you support Andy Frisella's show?
Or you could just go to episode 208, get the whole thing for free. It's your choice. Book is very popular. We're always sold out. So if we're sold out, that sucks for you. I mean, it does. One thing about this show, we don't run ads on the show, okay? We're the biggest show in the world that doesn't run ads. I am an actual entrepreneur. I run actual companies. And I finance the show myself.
And the reason for that is because I don't want anybody telling me what I can and can't say. And in exchange for that, I ask very simply that you help us grow the show by sharing it. A lot of you guys listen. You habitually listen. And you don't help us. You don't share the show. Okay? So don't be a hoe. Share the show. All right. And, you know, buy our shit. You know what I'm saying?
We'll just throw that in there. As a reminder, yeah, and by the way, if you do want to support us, you can buy these first form energy drinks at your local convenience store, grocery store. If they don't have them, ask them what the fuck is going on. What kind of operation are you running here? Can't be a good one. Clearly not. Let's see.
Chapter 4: What is the MFCEO Project and its significance?
mf ceo project coming back i just want to remind you guys of that uh we'll have some announcements on that very soon if you're unfamiliar with the mf ceo project it is the first podcast before real af that i did it was the number one business podcast in the world not much changed there but uh Also, it was the number one overall show for a long time. So we're bringing that back.
And the reason I'm bringing it back is because I feel that I'm needed to teach the younger generation the skills of winning. And we're going to do that. So if you're interested in getting the new MFCEO project, it will not be available on iTunes or YouTube. It's going to be available on an app. When I launch that app, I will announce it through my email list. So go get on my email list.
Subscribe to the Andy Graham. You get a little motivational writing, a little tactical knowledge every day to your inbox. Plus, you'll get notified when the MFCEO project drops. I'm excited about that, bro. Yeah, I'm excited about the things we're doing different.
And, you know, we're lining up testimonials of people who have built seven, eight, nine-figure companies with the skills of the first series. That's going to be cool. I mean, a lot of things are going to be different.
Well, I mean, I think the coolest piece of it too, man, like outside looking in is like, I mean, you talk about like, you know, that's going to be the interviews and the guests.
Right. Like, it's going to be cool, man, because it's going to be, you know, not just the real entrepreneurs that I know. It's going to be people who have used, you know, like, bro, fucking. I talked to a guy yesterday who's got a three hundred million dollar company that was talking about how he used to listen to MFCO when he was fucking, you know, hustling back in the day. So stuff like that.
You know what I mean?
Well, you talk about what I'm what I like about it most is like, you know, you've talked about this before, like how business has its cycles and its evolutions and like you're in a new phase of business new to you. Right. Yeah. Being able to apply all the shit that you've learned even.
Yeah.
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Chapter 5: How do you regain motivation and handle monotony?
So all of these skills overlap, but it is gonna be a lot different. It's gonna be a lot more knowledge to bestow. You know, I'm excited about it. Word of the day right there. Yeah, bestow. So let's bestow them with a little appetizer of knowledge. Let's do it. Just to get people through the week.
Well, I got some good ones for you.
I know you do.
You got three good ones for you. As usual. Let's do it. That's a new one for today, too. The what? Usual. Usual. What? Usual. Usual. Usual.
What does that mean? Usual. Okay. Let's bestow. Let's do it.
Guys, Andy, question number one, man. Let's get into these, dude. Andy, I am in college and I'm doing excellent, especially compared to last year. I used to party all week long, was able to maintain good grades. I changed it up and I am 20 years old and I have completed 75 hard back in November for the first time. I haven't had a sip of alcohol since August.
I'm actively doing 75 hard again and I'm giving it my all. I have aspirations to become a firefighter and a tattoo artist on the side to fill in my days off. But I often feel like I've been spaced out or that I have little to no interest in doing things. I used to dream of cars, houses, solid family. Now I have a hard time focusing on my purpose and my why. Am I doing the things that I am?
How do you recommend getting that fire back? And is it normal that it will get monotonous? Did you ever lose that fire of what you wanted to get and why you wanted to get it? And how did you get it back? Of course.
This is a long, hard, intense, brutal journey. You are going to feel like not doing it way more than you're going to feel like doing it once you start to do it. The way you feel about doing it is irrelevant. And every championship person, every successful entrepreneur, every person that you've ever looked up to and said, fuck dude, I want to be like that.
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Chapter 6: How do material goals relate to success?
It's not because it doesn't work It's because it trains you to make the better decision not the harder decision the better decision and
you don't feel like making it okay and that's another thing why don't you reframe the decisions that you are making from this is the hardest decision to this is the better decision this is what's going to move me forward this is what's going to get me what i want when you think about it like that it makes it a lot easier to get off your ass and go fucking do it so yes it is absolutely normal
Do not feel like doing it. There is not a single person who has ever achieved anything that you want to achieve that has felt like it every single day. It's hard. It's frustrating. There's things that are going to happen. You're going to get punched in the face. You're going to get sick. You're going to have breakups. You're going to have people let you down.
You're going to have people steal from you. You're going to have friends let you down. You're going to be embarrassed. You're going to make mistakes. And everybody's going to see it and laugh at you. All of these things are going to happen. You have to build yourself into someone who can continue to execute regardless of what's happening around you.
And if you can do that, it doesn't matter what's happening around you. It doesn't matter if they're laughing. It doesn't matter if they're making fun. It doesn't matter if the weather's bad. It doesn't matter if the economy's bad. It doesn't matter if your parents don't approve or your wife or your girlfriend or your husband.
It doesn't fucking matter if you keep executing because eventually you will find yourself in the place you set out to be. Okay, that's the game. And I don't know how to explain it any better. Like if you are going to be a slave to your emotion, you are going to lack control in all areas of your life forever. You cannot be a slave to how you feel.
Decisions made about your life have to be made with the outcome in mind. And you have to commit to taking those actions with the outcome in mind, understanding that if you don't take them, your life is going to be shitty and you're going to be frustrated and you're going to be, be fucking disappointed and unfulfilled.
And, and dude, it's, it's just, uh, it's the way it is. Yeah. Let's, let's tie this into materialism. Cause he mentioned like, you know, he had these dreams of cars and houses and stuff. And I know for you it was a Lamborghini Countach, right? Yeah. How important was that for you? Like, I mean, like can we, we talk about motivation, right?
Like it's hard to like on those days you don't feel like doing shit. I mean, Is that really what you look towards? You know what I'm saying?
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Chapter 7: How does Andy Frisella redefine purpose over time?
you got to take care of yourself to solve that problem okay but once you have it a lot of this is why you hear a lot of people go broke once they get some success because they lack the ability to redefine what their purpose actually is and so I got to a point where I had all this stuff. I started looking around and then I expanded my purpose. Okay. I expanded my purpose.
I realized, well, dude, you still got a long way to go. You got to scale these companies so that the people who helped you get where you are can have opportunities to get what they want. Okay. So that became like a second purpose and a new wind in my sales, which pushed me down. Now, by the way, still love the cars. I really don't care about watches anymore. I like suits.
But the point is, none of that shit really gets me that excited. Okay. Once in a while it does, but that's really not it. Okay. And by the way, now I have companies built to where really anybody that's in these companies has unlimited opportunity and upward mobility if they want to dedicate themselves to it the proper way.
Right.
So there's that. Okay, so I did that, and I'm continuing to do that. So what's my bigger purpose past that? So what, am I supposed to go home at 42 years old and fucking sit on the couch and fuck off? You know, that wasn't very fun. So then I had to redefine my purpose again. And what my purpose became then was, all right, well, what's going on in the world?
Well, for the last five years, and really now that I've become more aware, it's been the last... 100 years We have lived in a country That isn't what it should be and the reason it isn't what it should be is because the individuals allow it to be that so What's that problem?
Well, that is a problem that I can help solve because if we can make the people great and we can make the people skilled and we can make the people high achievers, that makes it harder to control them and they have a better life. If they have a better life, that means the standard is raised. If the standard is raised in the household, the standard can be raised with the neighbor.
If the standard can be raised with the neighbor, it can be raised in the community. If it can be raised in the community, it can be raised at the state. If we can raise all the states, we can make the country great again by individual efforts
success and accomplishment and the holding of standards and so when i say personal excellence is the ultimate rebellion that's what i mean because our country is only as good as its individuals so now my purpose has expanded where i feel the need to teach what i know about business and success more in a more pointed fashion so that we can help solve that problem so these are this is the scaling of of
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