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1063. Q&AF: Competing Against Friends, Passion vs. Profit & Leadership at Scale

REAL AF with Andy Frisella

September 28, 2026

On today's episode, Andy answers your questions on how to handle the situation when friends become business competitors, how to keep your passion alive during your struggle phase, and how to lead your team when you're not involved in the day-to-day operations.

Speakers Andy Frisella, DJ

TopicsEntrepreneurshipBusiness

Andy Frisella (0:16)

What is up, guys? It's Andy Frisella, and this is the show for the realest, say goodbye to the lies, the fakeness, and delusions of modern society. And welcome to MFCEO. Guys, today we have Q&AF. That's where you submit the questions, and we give you the answers. DJ's gonna tell you how you could submit your questions.

DJ (0:34)

Guys, you can email your questions in to askandy at andyfrisella.com. You can also check the links in the description below, submit them there, or just drop them in the comments section of this video right here on the YouTube.

Andy Frisella (0:46)

If you're unfamiliar with REAL AF, we have shows within the show. Tomorrow, you're gonna hear CTI, that's Cruise of the Internet. Today, we're gonna talk about how to get better, how to build your business, how to make more money, how to kick ass in life. Tomorrow, we're gonna talk about what the fuck is going on in the world, right? That's what CTI is about.

Other times you tune in, we're gonna have 75 Hard Verses. That's where people come on the show. They talk about how they use 75 Hard to improve their lives, how to become the best version of themselves. If you're unfamiliar with 75 Hard, this is the initial phase of the Live Hard program, which is the world's most famous mental transformation program in history. All right? Get that whole entire program for free at episode 208 on the audio feed. There's also a book. The book is called The Book on Mental Toughness. You can get that at andyfrisella.com. It is not free, but if you want the ins and outs, the nuts and bolts, and the in-depth, you know, extra knowledge, that's how I'm wired anyway. I like to know everything. The book is the way to go. All right? Now, one thing about our show is we are the biggest show in the world that does not run ads, and we ask for a simple trade, OK?

We're not going to bombard you with ads. We're not going to talk about a bunch of stuff that, you know, I don't use, and because someone pays me, I'm not going to give you my opinion because someone's telling me to tell you. And we ask in exchange for that just to help us grow the show, man, that makes you think, that makes you laugh, that gives you new perspective. Do us a favor and don't be a ho.

DJ (2:15)

Share the show.

Andy Frisella (2:18)

What's up?

DJ (2:18)

What's good, gang, man? It's a beautiful Sunday.

We got cars and caffeine happening. This is the last one of the year. And it is fucking packed out there. We just took a break to come in here and make some people better.

Andy Frisella (2:30)

Yeah. Yeah. Also, I wanted to mention this.

A lot of you guys have been asking about the MFCEO. You listen to Q&A AF. You want the personal development. MFCEO Project's been going for almost a year now. It's on the Operator Standard app, which you can get at operatorstandard.com.

And if you're unfamiliar with that entire project, dude, it is an amazing, an amazing project. It's not just a podcast. There's a massive community of like-minded people. There's no ads. There's no bullshit. There's no trolls. It's everybody wanting to get better. And that's not even really what it is. It has the most incredible production system, human behavioral operating system that if you follow, it pretty much guarantees your result. That's what the product is, okay? It's not free, but it's less than what it would cost you to order pizza one night a month. And if you're not willing to give up pizza to get your life together, then you probably shouldn't be listening to the fucking show, all right? But if you want the MFCEO Project and you want to check out this amazing technology that we have built that I believe is the closest thing to guaranteeing your success, go to operatorstandard.com and check that out.

DJ (3:46)

Yeah, dude, let me let me actually, I know because I've been getting the DMs too, like people see the clips from the show and like, where the fuck is this show at? Right? For those, because I'm like, dude, I know the the the base of people that, you know, listen to the first MFCEO. What do you know for new listeners who maybe didn't listen to the first?

Andy Frisella (4:03)

Yeah.

DJ (4:04)

What is the biggest difference?

Andy Frisella (4:05)

What are they getting out of it? So it's got Vaughn, the pastor of Disaster, who is my original co-host on MFCEO Project. And basically, what we do is every episode is an in-depth hour-plus-long episode on personal development, how to build your life, how to build your business, how to make money, how to kick ass, how to become the problem that you need to become in society in order to not be dependent on, quote, unquote, the matrix, okay? And that project that we built, I'm very, very proud of. I think it's the best technology product that is out right now that really nobody knows about yet.

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