Use your Story to Inspire Yourself and Motivate Others

 

How do you use your past pain and failures to come out as a winner? Andy tells us how his previous experiences paved the way to his success.

In this podcast with Mike C-Roc, Andy shares that all his experiences that influenced how he is now started when he was 12 or 13 years old. His learnings during those times prepared him for adulthood. He gathered all the good things he received, the love from his family, his strength from God as well as the pain and challenges to enable him to handle the future challenges to come.

Living in Rhode island, Andy was seeking for progress. He used his skills, like being a keen observer as a drive to supply that hunger for growth. 

Andy encourages you to change your mindset for the better. Do not get too comfortable and keep on improving and doing your job.

You will learn:

  • That both positive and negative experiences can be used for success.
  • The importance of having a mentor
  • That pursuit of growth should be continuous
  • Importance of a change of mindset 

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Transcriptions:

Mike C-Roc

what's up? It's your boy. C rock and you're listening to what you made of podcasts with Mike C rock. AnD I got a special guest today and I'll get into the bio of a man, Andy in a second. But before I do that, I want to thank our sponsor nations for lending home loans made human keeping the home, the human element into the mortgage process of helping people buy homes and finances.And we have all the technology at nation's Lenny. And I say we, because I work at nations lending, running a division in the mid Atlantic and Southeast or Florida. But I say we because I work there, but we have all the technology, but we like to keep the human element and we'd like to keep the focus on the people.We grow, our people that work with us in, in the better people. And we also. We don't look at our clients. Our customers are a number. We keep the human element in it. So shout out to the nation's lending. Shout out to the graphic design team, Nick Hollis, Josh, and also Howard in the marketing department and our rest of his team.

Thank you guys. Appreciate all of you. And, so Andy, all day, is that, did I pronounce it right? Alright, so let's start off, because I like to do this in the beginning because a lot of people listen to some of the podcasts and I want to make sure we get your podcast, your website out right now, your, your website address is.Andyaudate.com right?

Andy Audate

Andaudate.com. And that's going to be like more about me. And then the more about the tour, the tour that we're hosting and that we're promoting as a progressiontickets.com, but Andyaudate.com is a great start. 

Mike C-Roc

Yeah, we're going to, we're going to get into that too, cause I want to hear about that.,so Andy, where the buyer that we have and my team can let you know, they can, edit this as well. The bio we have is, yeah, Ford slash Andy, right.  dot com slash got it. All right. Perfect. All right. Let's hear about Andy. Andy is a published author, motivational speaker, and serial entrepreneur. He's widely recognized as an eminent speaker with a delivery that is high energy, which fits my mold, right, right away, high end.I love it. And human potential is stimulating. Raised in a city of impoverishment and college dropout with a little formal education, he took a path of entrepreneurship forcing a course of endless self-education that has amounted to his successes. This path has not only allowed him to change his circumstances, but allowed him to effectively communicate the desire to be great to others.He helps entrepreneurs start and scale their businesses and he hails. From the city of angels, Los Angeles, California. So,

Andy Audate

Hey man, thank you so much for having me on your show. I'm actually, I'm actually from the East coast man. 

Mike C-Roc

Oh, I, yeah, I think I saw that up.rhode island, right? Rhode Island. 

Andy Audate

Yeah, Rhode Island. So Rhode Island is the smallest state in the, in the country, and I come from the smallest city in the smallest state. Literally trapped in a bucket land, central falls central. Follow them to tuck it practically in Rhode Island, both of these cities where I was raised in. 

Mike C-Roc

Okay. Got it. Yeah. So I left, I was in Hartford, Connecticut for six months.I started the business up there, just my wife and I back in the day, and it was like one of the worst winters that Connecticut had seen and we were coming from a place that had snow once in a while. And we got out of there, man, we got the hell out of there. Six months, I think we went from like August to February and that was it, man.You was about you, that baby. Do you see 18 inches outside? This is ridiculous, bro. We've been here for 180 days. I gotta go. It snowed every six, six inches every day. And I had enough. And one thing that surprised me about up there, I didn't realize this. I thought Italians, I'm Italian. I got a background Italian So Rocco. Mmm. I thought Italian stopped in New York, but when I got to Connecticut, I realized in Providence, Rhode Island, it's like little Italy up there. I couldn't believe it. So that's one thing that surprised me. We've got all this, we got all this spaghetti and pizza stops over there. Yeah, I couldn't believe it, man.So, all right. So here's the thing, what do you mean of movement that I started is all about. What has happened to you in your life, not so that you could play a victim role and look back on it and play that. Why me and this happened to me, and I can't go anywhere because of this, but us to come out as Victor and look back on these events and use it to inspire yourself.Use it to be a role model to others and inspire others to get through tough times. Break through barriers and also not only that things go good. Sometimes. And what do you do at that point? Do you just stay put or do you push to the next level? What do you use in your past to do that? So I believe everyone has a story. Andy, what's your story? 

Andy Audate

So as I look at it, look back when, as I look back, as I, as I, throughout my experiences in life, where I really do recognize that a lot of the things that I do today at 24 years old, I learned from when I was 12 I learned from it. That's 13 I learned from even experienced that six years old.And. And it's the pain that I experienced that is the challenge that I experienced is the love that I receive and link using that to progress me forward and propel me as an adult. And so I use pain from my past to propel me forward and look at the pain and my past and say, dude, if you can handle that, you can handle this. And, and recognizing also that the strength that I have in God to really allow me to propel forward. Alright, so first of all.

Mike C-Roc

How old are you right now? 24 years old, man. Come on, man. I wish if I had the head on the shoulders that you have right now, when I was 24, I probably would have the jet already sitting on a billion, no doubt about it. I'm, I'm a little slow starter I guess, but,you got me by about two decades. 

Andy Audate

I mean, I mean, and I've heard that before, realistically, I've heard that before. But I also look at scenarios like with biggie and Tupac, for example, like they got shot in the diet at 25 and 24 you know, so, so we could look at the successes and say, okay, the successes or the mindset is one way.And at that age, and I would be here, but Hey, maybe because the direction that you took is the reason you're alive or even is the reason that you're at where you're at. Cause if it's two decades and that means you're at 44 so that means, but there are people who are homeless at 44 and you were sharing with me, you got your wife, you got your kids, you've got your dog, and you're getting, you got your, your company.And I'm like, I look at that as a profound because the amount of people I might, when me and my whole entire company talked to on the phone, man, you got 63 year olds. I still haven't figured out that life. 

Mike C-Roc

Right, right on. Yup. Yup. So tell me, tell me Barbara Island is that, that's where you grew up. How long were you there?What age? And tell me some experiences that you dealt with growing up. Man, 

Andy Audate

Rhode Island, Rhode Island is home to me, first and foremost. I love it. I love Rhode Island, but when I was 21 I started resenting home and I was like, yo, I gotta get outta here. I had some experiences that I can kind of visualize and see.I was always the person that was kind of keen. T. T. E. Okay. E. N. And what I mean by keen is that. I was the person that left the club early, recognizing that there's got to be a fight. I was a person that said, Hey, those guys, let's not talk to them because I know that they are about some bad stuff. They're about that bad.You do. Okay. So I was keen. So I pray.  I'm grateful that I wasn't a victim, too much, much violence, but it was definitely around me. I have friends who are in prison. I got people in my phone book that are essentially in prison for the rest of their life. So I'm in. Technically we delete the number, but regardless, it's a serious environment that that's where I come from.So what I remember in my youth, I remember walking down the streets with my home, with my friends, and right in front of me, my friends getting robbed, you know? Right, right then and there. And I'm looking and I'm like, I'm stunned. I'm like, I can't believe this is going down in front of me. I remember a situation at a young age seeing guys get jumped in the blood on the floor, and then the police come into my door talking about like, did you see something.And you know what happens when you can't see nothing but also saw the effect of when you do say you do say like, Oh yeah, I did see that thing, and next thing you know your, your name is on paper. So that happened to my family. Your name was on the paper, on the document. So that's the type of environment: gunshot, the whole nine yards, stabbing, going on yard.But I saw the positive side of it and just having friends, essentially just having friends and going out. But the environment wasn't progressive. The environment was more of saying, Hey, we're here. We're just going to make it with the, like, we're just going to chill and hang out. It wasn't a progressive environment.So once I got around progressive people, that's when I realized what progression was and how to grow. And there's actually a system of leveling up and pushing forward. 

Mike C-Roc

Yeah. You know one thing I've noticed, and I, you know, I noticed this back in the day, but over the last year I started traveling a lot more. And one of the reasons that I wanted to start growing in Southeastern Miami. Or Southeast or Florida in Miami. I love that area. First of all, I love it when you get off the plane. I love the smell. I love the people. I love the culture. But the thing about it, what I realized is, is the people around there were thinking differently than the people were almost from in Maryland.And so, you know, there are some big thinkers in Maryland, don't get me wrong, but what am I in my community in ocean city, it's small town. You see the same people over and over again and it starts to get comfortable. You start to get complacent. I mean, for crying out loud, my house. Am my officer about one to two miles apart.My gym is across the street from my office. My grocery store is right next door to the gym. The golf course I golf at is a couple of miles down. So I stayed on the same street for years, and I started getting complacent and just didn't feel right. So when I started traveling and meeting other people, my mind started opening up.I started stretching, I felt uncomfortable.and I started realizing that. This is what it's all about, man. This is what you needed, this is what you need to do. And so that's kind of what you went through from Rhode Island. How, how long old were you when you started traveling or, or when you moved 

Andy Audate

At 19 years old? Well, before 19. So let's look at the, from birth to 19. I stayed in Rhode Island, like I didn't, we didn't, we didn't, I didn't go anywhere, you know, so, so. You should share where it's like that the gym is right there, that you know that, that the gym is right there. Your job is right there. You know, you, you really use your car.Like to, to, to travel a square mile. Now the city I come from is a square mile, just so you know. So it's, it's one mile from, from one end to the other end. And everything you need is in that city. So your job, your girlfriend, everything that you needed in that city and that one mile. And so, you know, I don't even know where I had a car, cause I live in downtown LA now and I barely use my car because my office is six minutes away, you know.But when I look at. When I started traveling, it was because I started a business at 19 so someone who believed in me suggested that I open up a small business and I told him, I said, look dude, I'm black. I'm overweight. I just dropped out of college. I work at a cell phone store now. I don't think I can open up a business like, do you know where I'm from, bro?I'm from the fucking hood. Like, do you know where I'm from? And he was, he was like, he was like, dude, I believe in you and you're so good at selling cell phones, man, you should open up your own profile store. So at 19. I opened up my cell phone store. I had just enough money that I saved in like one of the college accounts that I was stripping money to every week.That ended up being just enough to open up a store, open up that first store. I. Sold enough cell phones. I opened up a second store within a year and a half. I had four locations where 14 people worked for me. I then did the math. I made my first million dollars by 21. I took that money out. Well, since we're talking about this shit that really happened, I've got a gas station, so I used to drive different cars every single week.

Every new, every seven days. I got a new car. I got an Audi, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta. I got a Ford, a tourist. I got a Ford Explorer, like I'm going to see the cars left and right. Every week I'm at, I'm at the gas station and Adam, when I pull up to the gas station, I'm pumping gas. A car pulls up and it's somebody I knew from college, from high school, and he's like, Hey man, I see you doing good man.I see you doing well man. You know, you know you got homegrown working for you. You got that girl because I hired people from school. So you got that person working for you. Got that bro. I see you man. Now I know that his friend has got.indicted for murder a couple of days prior. His other friend is in jail because he pulled out a gun while they were on the highway. So they got, so I, that's who he was. It surrounds himself with, and I knew that energy wasn't in alignment with the type of energy that I would want it to be around, and it's because the crap is in a bucket area. I just said, Hey, I gotta get out of here.

Mike C-Roc

Right, right. And you, you mentioned that you had, you were keen, you had a sixth sense.is what you're saying, right? Or spidey? Spiderman is one of my favorite superheroes, but the spidey sense. Right? And you realize these things, and I'll let you get back to that point in a second, but when that happens. So many people fall victim to the, the, the people, like you said, the crabs in a bucket, pulling them back in and they don't want to be, they don't want to be, for lack of a better term, mr. goody two shoes, or mr mr. Motivational speaker guy. Oh, you want to be like that? And then they back off their dreams and then they fall back into the basket like you're talking about. Right. And we got you and I, and a lot of us have to get together. We have to unite. We got to get the word out to young people as early on as possible that they need.To claw, scrape, call, whatever they gotta do to get out of that bucket. Don't worry about what people think, know what the right thing is to do and commit to it and go for it and get out of, get out of the damn basket. And that's something that you did. Thank God.  but so many people fall victim to that.I've seen it. I've felt a little bit to myself as I was a younger kid. And  you know, I want to teach people like, I want to mission with this to teach people to not worry about what people think, man. So yeah, I want to point that out. 

Andy Audate

No, that's powerful. That's a powerful point of view. And to be quite Frank, that's what I call fact.

 with what you shared about, Hey, not, not caring about what people think. I think what happened with me is sales. sales gave me a tremendous amount of confidence to do whatever the fuck I wanted to do.and I'm teaching people in my staff the same thing were experiencing confidence in sales. When I see someone who's coming, who comes into my company, it's very 10 minutes, very shy, and then coming out like, Oh man, how are you doing?And I see that turnaround. I'm like, dude, do you know who you were two months ago? But it did that for me. I was very shy. I was very timid. But she sat when I told them cell phone stores. That gave me confidence. And then as I grew my business, and that gave me even more confidence that I said, Hey man, I leave here.

I become successful wherever I go. So I went to my friends, my friend's house, who was a positive friend of mine, and I went to him. I said, look man, I don't want to be here any more. And he said, what are you talking about? I said, I'm gonna do something crazy in 2016 bro. I said, well, he said, what do you want to do?I said, let's move. He said, we want to move to, I said, I don't know, Los Angeles. That's the first thing that came to my mind. I said, LA, Los Angeles. I don't know. Like I said, if I had, I said Phoenix, it would have been Phoenix, the biggest it would have been Vegas. I just say, we just gotta go, bro. And then he was like, when you want to leave?

I said, bro, I got leave. That ends in one of the stores. The end. The last leaf, the end of one of the stories is april something. I said, let's leave that same day, bro. Let's leave that. I'm going to close all the stories. I'm going to transition all the employees out. I already know who I am sending them to. don't worry about it, bro. I'm going to transition out. and then, you know, I was still swapping cars out, like still swapping cars out and I was just, I was just like, Hey, it's time to make a move. So I 

Mike C-Roc

hold up, hold up, hold up. So I know my audience is going to wonder about this. Why are you switching cars out?And where are you leasing them? Where are you buying them? And just trade them in losing money every time was

Andy Audate

what happened was  so I had, I had a black on black Honda accord and in that area, black owned, I stood out black on black Honda. Well, but in that hair area, like to have the tit, two windows black car, like everything that was like. you up like, like, you know, so, so I, what happened was the transmission blew out on it, on the car, and then I said, Hey, I got two choices. I got a new car, or do I fix it? And then I went to rent out a car. I want to go rent out a car at this spot. When I, when I went to go to like enterprise and Hertz and those big, because I was so young, there's actually a $25 fee every day that you rent out the car.And I just felt some type of way about paying an extra $25 you know, I had the money, I was just like, why? Why are you going to charge me extra? I took it all real personal, man. I took it right. So why are you gonna talk? So I went to a place like a hole in the wall spot. And when I went there, I ended up building a relationship with the guy and the guy was like, yo, he was like, Hey man, you're gonna have a car whenever you want.And so I was paying about a thousand to $2,000 a month and just just rental cars. And he wasn't charging me the fee. Maybe the connections. But other people were like, dude, you're stupid. The first Honda that had it was like three grand or two and a half grand. That's how much these cars were.You know, I'm talking about 2005 cars, two and a half grand for a car. So instead of me buying a car, I just said, Hey. One of the reasons why is because I knew that that goes as a woman, it was his people, his employees. I was firing. And they get aggressive, like you take their job away, they get aggressive.And I ended up happening where she ended up trying to go to find my car to go smash the windows, but she couldn't find it. You know? So, so, but, but really, realistically. So when these events started taking place, I said, you know what? I'm not, I'm not buying a car. I'm not buying a car. So I kept on renting our cars and then at the end of the, when it was time for me to move, I went to him. I said, Hey man, I'm ready to buy a car, that is, give him five grand for the car. For a car. 

Mike C-Roc

Yup. Gotcha. And then you guys headed to LA? Just what kind of business did you start when you went there to start with? 

Andy Audate

So I get to LA now. Here's the jacked up experience. I'm so mad that I even did this in running the cell phone businesses. My day to day was literally me looking at my camera because every store had a camera. So me waking up a little bit, my day starts at 10 o'clock in the morning. I swipe up on the camera and I see the store is open. If the store was open, I called the manager, Joe managed all the stores, so I said, you know, Joe, these stores are open.I'll either, I'm on it. and it probably didn't show up. He had to show up. So, so I don't, I wasn't working, I was just calling shots. But I'm telling you like I was raking in, I was breaking it. Okay. And then, and then, so this Laurel, this resting on my laurels creeped in when I came to california, cause I hadn't worked in so long. I actually haven't actually sold anything. I was just telling people what to do. I wouldn't selling 

Mike C-Roc

stay in the trenches a little bit. 

Andy Audate

I didn't understand the worst mistake, man. I promise you in my lifetime, I will, I won't do that. I don't know if I will ever do that, but cause, cause it hurts so bad as before, after. So when I got the County, I'm still resting on my laurels and I'm not stoning because I can't be, Kelly was so dope then. And they were all in different accounts. Add money on all different accounts, different institutions. So then at that point I was like, yo, man. What am I, how do I make money? I don't know how to go back into a cell phone store.I'll tell you this, the story of Mike, I feel like your podcasts kind of raise it. Yeah. You look like you're kinda raw. So I'd like to be honest, because some of the podcasts I'd be like, Oh, you know,so what happened was I have Kelly now. I don't want to, I'm not doing anything for a couple of months. I'm, I'm, I'm actually just chilling, chilling, and I don't have any relationships. So I'm out spending money going and taking trips, doing a bunch of nonsense. So I say, Hey, you know what? It's time for me to do something with my time. I actually started writing a book called semi retired, semi retired at 21. Because I wasn't doing anything. I just had, I was just living off my savings. So I went to cricket, wireless cricket wireless was a cell phone dealership, and I went, I showed them my resume since, not my real method, but I showed him like, yo, this is what I've done.That's what I did, and I obviously I've got the job. So they're like, Hey, we want you to come back on Monday to fill out the paperwork. I said, okay, no problem that weekend. I'm telling you I haven't smoked in a long time. Okay. That we can, somebody pulls out a blunt. I'm like, yo, it's been a while since I've done that, man.

Yo, let's take a hit. I'm like, man, I'm high. I'm chilling. Monday comes around and says, Hey, okay, great, Andy. Great. Welcome to the team. I'm going to have you run these locations. I'm like, all right, great. Lock me in like a minute. Lock me in. And they're like, Hey, we just need to do a quick, quick drug test, you know, you know, quick urine test, nothing. I said, listen, listen sir, I don't do it anymore. It's been a long time since I've done it. I, it was just one time and he was like, he was like, we have to follow protocol, man. I'm sorry. We have to follow protocol. Should you do this? Should you do the test? I said, I know I'm gonna come back with a positive test, and I left.That was probably the best thing. I think that was God telling me because had I gone that direction, I probably wouldn't be doing this. I'd probably be like, you know, like a regional or own cell phone source. Again, I think God, actually that situation happened. So then, so then I go back to my house.I'm like, I need a job. I needed to do something. So I get it, I go online and I type literally millionaire mentors. I'm just like a Craigslist millionaire mentor. Like I'm hoping for the best. No, you'd be crazy. I had this one guy who owned a cool bunch of copiers and copiers. He owned the copier dealership.He made his million million that way, and he had a training called millionaire mentor. Or a millionaire mindset. And so I go there and I actually can, I have a job here and they're like, it's door to door sales. I'm like, man, my ego is so high. I'm like, I can sell anything, man. I feel so from my own cell phone store, the, and they're like, okay, great.So I, I do my interview. I'm like, man, this is my background. I'm 21 right now and this is what I've done is how are you sir? Somebody goes so high then. Then he's like, okay, great. I'll tell you what. You got the job. They put me out into the field. The manager who is like a great friends with me now and still to this day, but the manager back then, he took me out to the field and he, he made me go through the trenches like I, we're talking about door to door in the hot summer after wear my suit, the nice shoes, the whole nine yards, and I'm walking on dirt.I'm walking on dark shit. I'm going door to door. You want to buy a copier and we're getting kicked out of the office. I get outta here. I'm like, yo. But I'm good though. Like, you know where I come from? Like you think you think a little old lady is gonna yell at me, sing it out of here. It's to scare me.And he, so he's like, I'm very impressed. The managers are looking, I'm very impressed. I'm like, man, let's go this. We'll get this money, man. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Like, so they gave me the job, I ended up hitting breaking a record right in the company. I'm the first, no, my first month making X amount of time. I think it was like $6,000 in revenue in the first 30 days. Cause usually you make a deal in 90 let me tell you, sign up for your people that I listen to him. They had a, what we call a, that we call Puerto rico. It was an inside joke because if you're great at sales, if you did great at sales, one of the guys who was constantly grading, getting good at sales, getting sales, it was a time he took off and went to puerto rico and the owner said, Hey, the reason why he's going to puerto rico is because he sold machines.He hit his quota. So if you want to go to Puerto Rico, it's real quotes. So we call that Puerto Rico. So then I stopped. It wasn't three weeks. I hit my say, my target. I'm in. I'm in Puerto Rico. Technically I'm, I'm having my time off. So the manager calls me. He didn't hit his quarter to have his subordinates, which included me.So he didn't hit his part yet. So he calls me and says, Andy, are you coming to work today? I said, nah, man, I'm in Puerto Rico. I hit my quota. You hit yours and you need me to help you, help you hit yours. But I don't really know you like that. I ain't man. I ain't Puerto Rico. Let me tell you something, man. I had, I thought I had this plaque coming from my name. This pack is an andy audate. It literally will be in that company for the rest of the company's life. It was that type of, that type would be on the wall still to this day, and that's from three, four years ago. Within the last week, two days before the end of the month, I got a call and I'm like, what's going on?Hey man, we hired a new hire, a new hire. And bro, in one week, this guy went out in the trenches, brought not by the grace of God. Somehow he brought in three deals. You brought him too, I said, what? He couldn't get the going to get. He's going to get the plaque and he's like, yeah, man, that's what, that's what he pays me.We've got a couple of days left in the month. I'm like, Oh shoot. I put on my suit. I drove right to Orange County. I go door to door. I'm knocking on doors, pounding the doors. And the end of the month comes, I missed it literally by one respect. It wasn't even the machine, it was about revenue, so I missed it by a few dollars in revenue. I was like, man, that was so close and I relaxed so close to success and I relaxed thinking I was coasting by, and that got burned by somebody who was brand new. That just started. Less than is. Well, he's there. I said, 

Mike C-Roc

What is the lesson from that man?

Andy Audate 

Yo, don't relax, bro. I'm fucking done relaxing. Oh my God, I'm done.Like, why? Why are you, do you know how painful it is to see like what you thought it was supposed to be? Yours and then relaxed and then I relaxed. I ended up relaxing, resting on my laurels after, so I quit that job because I was like, yo, door, it's hard. Sales is hard. That job is why I'm able to close the deals I'm able to close now that job, like it's the mindset of doing whatever the fuck it takes to get a deal, whatever it takes, whatever it takes to get what you want. And that's how I transitioned to speaking because I had the opportunity to go on tour with Les Brown and I did whatever it took based off the principle of bandwidth, B, A, N, W, I T by any means, whatever it takes. So let's round go on tour as a motivational speaker. The number one motivational speaker. He's going on tour. I kept on going and saying, give me a chance. Give me a chance. Give me a chance to get a chance until they either bought in or I just want to stop. So the battery died at that moment. 

Mike C-Roc

Right? Right. Yeah. So here's the thing, man. One of the things that people don't realize. I think it's, they get comfortable, right? And it can be, it's subjective. It can be, you know, having enough money just to get by. It can be having enough money that really you can't get by, but you just, you got enough credit cards or something that you're stacking dead on and, but you're still eating. It could be that you're, you have plenty of money and you're just sitting back, like you said, resting on your laurels, but you are comfortable or complacent.The problem is, is that no matter how good or how bad you're doing. You will always go down like this if you let up. It's just the mat. It's a fact of life and people need to realize that and people need to really figure out what they want. In a perfect world, if they could actually have anything that they want and it would actually happen, figure it out and write that down. And I was talking to one of my mentors, Brandon Dawson the other day, and Brandon told me, he said, he asked people that question, what if you had two or three things that you could have and it would actually happen in a perfect world? What would they be? And he said, 95% of the people said the same. Same exact answer.Do you know what that is? And the guests? Nope. I don't know. I don't know. So why people aren't doing better than they should be doing? Why are they not doing, you know, financially, emotionally, physically, it's because they don't know what they want. And so first of all, we have to figure out what we want.And you did that. We have to figure out what we want in life. We have to write it down. We have to commit to it. We've got to sell out, like you said, by any means necessary. Right. And it's funny, it's, it's life or death. Like can you imagine if you're under water and you need a breath, what you would do to get to the top of the water?That's how we have to operate now. We should be operating our life like that. Our relationships like that, our work like that. You know, with our kids, I mean, all that stuff should be like, I need a breath, man. I need a breath, I need food. And if you do that, you can get that set in your mind that way. that sky's the limit. 

Andy Audate

That goes to like how hungry you are, man. Like how hungry I like, I know like for example, like in my life, the amount of times that people have been telling, like you'll take some time off, take some work, take some days off of work and relax or whatever. I'm like, why? Why would I do that if I, if I'm determined to win, if I'm determined to make my, to experience freedom, I think I've got to take off two months. I want to take some time off. Let me take off two months. I want to take this time off. 

Mike C-Roc

Who are the people that tell you that? 

Andy Audate

Hey, nah, it's my mom that's telling me it's people who are working on a five that are telling me and like the nine to five system to say that, Hey, Saturday is off Sundays off. Monday through Friday between these hours working and I'm like, I'm like, well, a man created that system, right? If I want to build something, I want to say, Hey, I want to take two months off. I want to get to a point where I could say, Hey, I'm taking two months off and I took it on my call and I know everything's going right.

Mike C-Roc

Right? Like a machine, like a snowball. 

Andy Audate

One point. Wait, that's a choice. I'm like, that's the thing I'm trying to say. I'm trying to share with the audience here. You're your people. That's a choice. Hey, it's a choice to take that time off. So, so, so, Hey, we're not the first couple of the first, I think the first eight months, I didn't take time off on the cell phone business, but I was then when it was time for me to travel, I said, Hey, let's go to Vegas, man. I'm taking, I took my right hand man to Vegas. I'm like, bro, the business is running fine. I go to Vegas. Hey man, let's go to LA. Hey man, let's go to Florida. And we start traveling and I'm talking about young books. Because we can, we grind in every, every day. So some people are just like, Hey, I'm gonna relax. I'm gonna relax. And they get to the door, they get to the, I think they get through the door of success, and I'm fearful to get through the door of success and say, you know what, let me relax a bit. Yeah. And then I stopped. I stopped on the treadmill of life. Take me backwards. 

Mike C-Roc

Right. Exactly. Exactly, man. I think Grant Cardone calls gravity pulls you down. So one thing, one thing I think, and I, this is what, for me personally, people that listen to my show know, people know my story  know I was 11 years old, my dad crumpled up a hundred dollar bill, threw it at me, said I was going to need it when I was living on the streets one day. just because I decided to move in with my mom.that's an event and I think everybody has an event in their life that they can use. They got to find it though. But that's the event that keeps me hungry. It keeps me going. And then Saturday or Sunday or whatever day it is, Christmas, I was looking for something to do to be productive. I mean, this past Christmas, I'm like, I'm sitting there on my phone.I'm like, man, is anybody working? Let's get some, let's get something going then, and I think I put a story up on Instagram like, Hey. Anybody else? Am I just crazy or weird? Anybody else wants to do something to help improve their business themselves or help other people right now, like, I got it, I got it.I can't help it, but I can't let my dad win. That's one thing, whether it's good or bad. That's one thing that I always keep over and over again that you ain't going to win. I'll show you. I'm going to be better than you. I'm gonna be a better father. I'm gonna be a better husband. I'm going to be a better businessman.I'm going to have my money. Right. I'm going to be better than you now. I use that all the time, but the other thing is, is that I want to help other people that were given up on, and the only way that I can, there's a lot of ways, but the one reason, one way that I know I can help people, when I was 11 years old when I made that commitment to help other people that have been given up on, is to be a role model.To show them that someone that was given up on by their father can't be stopped. And you can do the same thing. And so that's why, that's where my story comes from. And that's what I go back on to dig upon. And then that's not the only story I have. I have many in my life. and I know like if people look back at their life's, whether it's 24, 25 years old, 40 years old, it doesn't matter.There's one. Or five events that you can thrive off of and just got to sit down, get in someplace, an hour with a pen and a paper and just go back in your life and start from year one that you can remember. I don't know if it's your one, but it might be your five that you can remember and just start thinking about things that happen and then what you learned from them and the fact that you made it through those things.

Andy Audate

Yep. That's fine. You know, I was just reminded of a situation, Les Brown motivational speaker, where I worked for people like Tony Robbins and such. He's the one who mentored me. And this is a story that he has about, when he was younger, he was walking by an old man's house and the dog was moaning.And it's like and then, so let's go to the owner, like, why is he, why is it dark morning? And then the guy there, the owner said, Oh, he's, he's laying down on the nail. And he said, he said the dog was laying on a nail and Les was like, curious, like, why doesn't the dog move? Oh, I mean, it hurts, but it doesn't hurt that bad enough for it to move. Right. And I was like, damn. So you thought you call it advanced, I call it painful. The painful experience that took place. Right. And there it was, it was a painful time where we're in my path. I looked back and I said, Hey, I don't ever want to go back there. Yup. And it has to do with finances. Like I'm talking about going like, I can't, the heat is not on it because we can't afford the $900 oil. I'm talking about. I didn't know anything better than ramen noodles. So when I came to California and I had Fleming steakhouse where it's like $50 a steak, I'm like, dude, this. Man, I'm talking about,

Mike C-Roc

I like these, I like these

Andy Audate

let's go to Fleming's, man, let's go. Let's go down to our metros in Beverly Hills after the girl. I'm like, yo. 

Mike C-Roc

Hold up, hold up. So here's, here's something that I was thinking about recently. I want to go into high schools and I don't know how we got it. We got to do this, figure us out. Do it so we don't get into trouble with our words, but we need to go and for guys and girls, but like, I can only speak from a guy, but we need to teach the kids to stop chasing the opposite sex until they get themselves right and their money right.Because one, that's the main problem. A lot of people like get held up by, all they could think about is as women, let's say, Oh man, and you start that hormones, start kicking them in a puberty in high school, and then they start thinking about that all the time. It's all about where's the party at? Where's this?Where's that in school? What's she wearing? Oh, check that out. You remember that? Right? And then so then you're not thinking like, we're thinking now about, Hey, how can I help people? How can I solve problems? How can I get my money right? Because when you do that first. You're, you're ahead of me. Like I said, I'm learning from my mistakes.If I would have done that at a younger age and got my money right, and I'm not saying I'm not happy where I am right now because God, God blessed me with an awesome wife. I don't even know how, how I'm so blessed. She's beautiful on the outside, but even beautiful on the inside. I got two beautiful kids, but I'm not talking about myself necessarily for that part, but I see it too often with people that.They, they focus on chasing, chasing the opposite, sex, dating, all this other stuff. They don't focus on what they need to focus on first. And if they did do that one, they'd be more stable. They'd have their stuff together. And headstart Padella thing is this is a bigger selection of people and I'm not talking about like you can, that's what I'm saying.You got to be careful with your words and that's all. I'm hotter, girls are better. But quality of people to have a relationship with because you're not as desperate to just get into a relationship and you don't just take the first person that shows you some attention. You have a choice and you can choose.A quality. What I mean, the quality is that somebody like that has a good head on their shoulders and they're going to treat you right and they're not going to blame everything on you. They're not going to nag, you know, all those kinds of things that come along with relationships.

Andy Audate

I liked that. I liked that. And I really think back, you know, I'm doing, I am doing a high school tour, so if you want to get involved in that, let's, let's, let's lock and load on that was in the North and the Northeast region. So I'm hosting a seminar conference called the progression conference. It's a one day business event where I'm taking it.I took, I did it in Los Angeles. It's transformed people's lives. It gives people access to the idea of how to make more money system by system, as well as relationships and mentorship. For the people that are interested. Progression tickets.com now, during that tour, and we do in 13 States, 13 cities from the East coast to the West coast, and we're going to be doing Philadelphia, New York, and Philly and Providence, Rhode Island in one week.And during that one week, there's going to be a break in between each event. So like Tuesday is Philadelphia, then Thursday is New York, and in between that break, we're going to do the high school tour. We're going to do high school. So if you want to get involved, definitely come through and we'll, we'll figure out how to fit you in.But however, I think it's because of lack of purpose, lack of determination, like what are you hungry for? When I was in high school, which was, you know, to some people like, Oh my gosh, you were in high school six years ago or seven years ago. And it's like, yeah, that's my age. But I had wisdom when I was in that during that time.My mindset was on the hustle. I was figuring out how to make money. I was figuring out my purpose, like why am I on this planet? So my friends looked at me weird when, when I, when I wasn't, I wasn't as interested in, they had girlfriends I dated, but I wasn't as interested in chasing women and chasing multiple women as my friends were. I wasn't interested in partying, but it didn't make sense when I gave them a job a couple of years later. 

Mike C-Roc

Right. Right, right, right. Yeah. There's an isolation feeling that comes when you start focusing and getting committed on something. And like you said, the crabs are pointed out, but there's a, there's an isolation feeling. I remember. So you said your mentor, Les Brown, was one of your mentors? My mentor is Grant Cardone and you know, I'll wear the 10 X hat proudly. I don't like them, I don't like to promote other people as far as just the brand and all that, unless they've done something really to change my life. And something had helped me and, and if I can help them in any way, I'll run through a brick wall.Because when, when grant and I found grant, I found a couple of other people like Brandon Dawson, like I said, but he gave me. He gave me the, yeah. Legitimacy on my commitments that I had because everybody else I was looking around me looked at me like I was crazy.some of the, like, I'm an animal man, I go hard. A lot of people can't keep up with me, so my activities and what have you at work. But when I felt so isolated and alone and doing that sometimes, Grant gave me the okay to be like that, if you know what I mean. And that's something that's the biggest thing. That from a mentor point of view that, that, that I got was okay to do that.Or the validation, that's the word I was looking for, the validation. And when I had that validation son, let me tell you. That was about a year, a year ago, man, it's been, I've got a podcast, I've got a book coming out. Our company set six records this year. You're not supposed to break six monthly records in a year.It's not supposed to happen. We did that there's so much stuff happening now that I had that validation. So I wanna encourage people, if you're listening to this show and you're committed to something and you wanna make something happen and you're focused and everybody else around you is looking at you like you're crazy and they're discouraging you, or they're saying negative things. I am giving you the validation right now, coming from a grant from me to make it happen. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Don't let them talk you out of it. You push through when you hear negative or somebody says something to you other than what you are committed to, push harder. Use it as fuel. 

Andy Audate

That's powerful. That guy, that guy grant that we were talking about, man, you know, he's your mentor and he's the one who I'm with you on the same page. Like I got permission because it was like average people were around me telling me like, don't do that. Don't do this. So I'm battling the internal. Because the internal battle takes place where it's like, Hey, I want to be successful.I want my team to be in complete, complete control of my life. Like I don't want to worry about finances. You know, I want to be able to take care of my mom. If I'm going to take care of my mom, I want to be able to travel. So I had had dinner with him and he was the one that was like, Hey man, like you're asking too little.From, from, from my ass. Cause I was charging $299 for coaching at the time. This was a couple of years ago. I was starting 2,009 that was coaching and I was like, Oh I, you know, I guess because I'm 22 at the time, like I should only not be charging a lot. And then he said, you increased your ask. So I said, you know what, I'm gonna go.So I wouldn't ask somebody for five grand. And that person, I was originally going to ask them for two, two 99 that person, that time I was struggling, struggling financially, that person. Now it took confidence. Here's a key determining factor for all of this. Because people will take what I'm sharing with you, and they're going to go and do it and they're going to do it.

Lack of confidence. I sat at that Starbucks table and I said, look, when I work with five grand. No, it was 5,000 and I knew then, well, like a couple of minutes a couple of days ago, I just proposed to someone else at two 99 I said, it's five grand. And then she went around and she said, you know what, I'm getting a loan and that day, and she got a loan and she paid me the five grand.Then she want her to have a boyfriend and he's, and he, she said to him, Hey babe, you gotta kind of windy. So 10 grand that weekend then that we can. Then on that Tuesday, I had met a dude and the dude, one of my, my experience, my training, and I would have charged him 299 I said, Hey man, six grand. I went from five to six, you know, I was like, I want to go up, but not too far off, you know, five to six. And then so he said, there's a lot of money in the, I said, you're damn right. That's a lot of money. How bad do you want this? And he said, okay, let's do it 16 grand in a couple of days. I said, Oh my God, I couldn't pay you rent a couple of weeks ago. Man. So, man, that's, that's that type of progression that you want to express.So once I experienced that meant, now I share that with other people, I should owe other people how to as well. How to make you know, how to make six figures. 

Mike C-Roc

So on that note, on that note, which I love because you got to have confidence and just ask. Just ask and you shall receive. That's, that's, that's a great point. But what's the, what's the so you, you've been plugging in tour, what, anything else you want to throw out there and how, how can people get in touch with you. 

Andy Audate

Yeah, and the  andyaudate.com. However, really check out this event progression ticket.com where I've been sharing with you today as far as bandwidth, as far as getting this understanding of going to that next level. As far as success, as far as mentorship, the progression conference encompasses all of that. The reason I am successful, I have successful millionaires and billionaires in my phone book. I call him up and I say, Hey, I got an opportunity for you to share your story and give back. So they speak on my stage and I allow people in the audience to have access to those people, and I make it intimate enough where there's opportunity to create a relationship.So there're people who came to my event, who came to my event within three days, they quit their job and start a business. And that business is thriving because of the type of people that's in that environment. It's what I call it. It's a family. About, I would say so far in this experience, just in this experience, people in the last year from this tour, I would have 15 people who have reached out to me and say, Hey, because of your event.I'm no longer doing this, who reached out to me. Now there's a greater percentage of people that don't even tell him because it was like the one guy who said, Andy, I totally forgot the reason I even quit my job was because of that one speaker on your stage. But it's been eight months and I just been going at it and I'm producing all this money.Now I'm changing my life and I forgot the key to present your event. That's what the progressive conference dictated to me. Thank you, Andy. I just wanted to let you know, after eight months, my life has completely changed. I said, man, this is why I'm expanding it. Giving people access to progression conferences is unlike no other events in the world.

Mike C-Roc

I'm going to tell you right now something, and this is obviously up to you, but, and I don't know when it's going to be. I'm making a commitment right now. I'm writing it down because this is what I do for my goals. I'm going to get involved with that and I'm going to help. I'm going to help propel it and do everything I can because I love the mission of it. So I wanna, I wanna help out any way I can. Man. 

Andy Audate

Let's lock and load Mike look man. Like we, if people like you and I, and I'm really connected, I feel I, as soon as I, the screen popped up and I saw you, I was like, man, cause we do about 30 podcasts a month, man. So we were doing a lot of communications. 

Mike C-Roc

I did too so I know what you're talking about.

Andy Audate

I say, I know what you're talking about. I get it. So, when I saw her,  I was like, yo, this dude, this dude chill. I like, I like this guy.

Mike C-Roc

We can, we can, we can, we can make some big things happen, man. For sure. No doubt about it., but listen, I'm glad I had you on the show. I again, and thank you so much for everything that you put in here.And we'll, we'll do this again. We'll talk about some more topics cause we've been going on for a long time and I just want to thank you, wish you happy new year. this will probably air in 2020, but obviously we're recording it prior and if there's anything I can ever do for you, man, just reach out, stay connected. We'll talk after the show. And everyone just hit up, Andy, man. 

Andy Audate

Lock and load man bandwidth by any means. Whatever it tastes go after what it is that you truly desire to support you in your progression. 

Mike C-Roc

Thank you. Andy, you've been listening to the, what are you made of with Mike C rock podcast. Thank you for listening and we will be back next time with some more content to take you to the next level. 

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