REAL AF with Andy Frisella
864. Q&AF: Young Entrepreneur With Big Goals, Taking Out Time For Yourself & Building Company Culture As A Young Leader
Mon, 07 Apr 2025
On today's episode, Andy answers your live call-in questions on how to achieve your ambitious goals when you’re just starting out as a 20 year old, how to take out time for yourself without feeling guilty about it, and how to create great culture in your company when you are a young team leader with older employees working under you.
Chapter 1: How can you submit questions to Andy Purcell?
What is up, guys? It's Andy Purcell, and this is the show for the realest. Say goodbye to the lies, the fakeness, and delusions of modern society, and welcome to Motherfucking Reality. Guys, today, we have Q and AF. That's where you submit the questions, and we give you the answers. Now... There's a few different ways you can submit your questions.
The first way is... Guys, email these questions in to askandy at andyfrasella.com. Don't forget to put your phone number in there. We will choose your question and let you know if it's going to be on the show. I don't know how you guys are doing it, talking to the team. You guys got it under control? Our whole system. All right, so what do they need to do?
Yeah, guys, email your questions in. Put your phone number down if you're interested. And then, you know, we review these questions. And then if... You got a good question, we'll put it in another pool of questions. And from that, that's where we pick.
Yeah, so what you're saying is if you ask shitty questions, you don't get to be on the show. Yeah, you won't get picked.
But even if you ask a great question, there's no guarantee that we'll pull you. I mean, we got right now 15 questions lined up.
For today's show? Yeah, well, here's the other thing. If you act like a boner, I'm going to... You got a boner button right there. That's the boner button. All right? And you will be disconnected.
Yeah.
Yeah. Your boner will be disconnected. And I know that's in these days. Yeah, it is in. You know? So anyway, yeah. So we got Q&AF.
Yeah, that's the one way to go in.
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Chapter 2: What is the Q&AF format and what other formats are there?
They told me, you got out of agency, figure it out. So those are the hands I'm dealt. So I'm focused on engagement and culture. So far, I've been doing monthly cookouts, town hall meetings with raffles, different competitions with the staff. I have an anonymous box for staff that don't feel comfortable talking in public about any issues.
Employee of the month and $5 gift cards for staff members that receive positive Google reviews. What are some other strategies I could implement to help compete with these higher paying competitors?
Well, look, first of all, When you make the atmosphere... I think you're on the right track, by the way. When you make the atmosphere fun and rewarding and something that people want to be a part of, you can overcome that issue that you have with the wage being less. However...
It's going to take more than, you know, just doing a cookout or giving a, you know, a special gift card for a review or something like that. What we have to do is we have to get clear on what the mission is for these people. All right. And then reward them back.
based around what the mission is and how they accomplish the mission instead of talking to them about the money all right there's an old saying people will work for money but they will kill for recognition but the recognition has to be genuine and it has to be real and it can't come off as corny or uh we're just trying to do this fake culture to appease you um it has to be real and
to make a real culture the culture drivers of the department or of the business need to make sure they're building real relationships with the people that they want to buy into the culture how many people are we talking about here i have a total staff of 130 and on average i have 40 to 45 staff members in my building at a time okay do you know all these people by name
I don't and that's I've identified that as a massive area that I need to improve on like I talk to them but I need to get more in depth with my communication with them.
A thousand percent okay you got to know who they are you got to know what what their story is and you have to build a personal connection with these people and then facilitate an environment for them to build a personal connection with each other. That might look a number of different ways, okay? But how it's really gonna look is you guys spending time together in a genuine way.
So when we think of, and really, dude, and I know you're in healthcare and this might not suit what you're doing, but the quickest way to build camaraderie and teamwork and culture is through mutual suffering, meaning we work out together or we go on a run club or we do something like that. I don't know if that's a real thing
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