Freed Minds Behind the Magic with Andy Louis-Charles

We have a very special episode in store for you today as we welcome Freed Fellowship founder Andy Louis-Charles. Andy was only eight years old when he started his first business, and he continues to do great work as our inspirational Freed leader. As our leader, he removes obstacles and roadblocks and also serves as a coach, but he, as he states himself, also tries to let us do our own thing.

Andy shares how and why he founded Freed Fellowship, as he noticed a lot of disparities in economic and career opportunities. He consequently wanted to create an environment and a program that allowed people to free themselves from the limiting and unhelpful stories that they tell themselves, hence the name of the fellowship.

Offering plenty of helpful advice, Andy encourages us to get in over our heads because doing so forces your hand and makes you need to find a solution. He also advises us to find our personal discomfort zones and to build a team before going into a project alone, even if you can't initially afford to hire people and need to ask family members and friends to come on board or at least be a support system for you.

He reveals that he is the type of person to not overthink things because, from his experience, overthinking things tends to kill them. He is not a fan of the word failure because, as he declares, nothing is a failure if you have learned from it but is rather a lesson. Andy has ambitious and admirable goals for the future, hoping that Freed will help at least a thousand entrepreneurs form million dollar companies within the next decade, and he even shares with us what he believes his superpower to be!

Please continue to tune in to the Freed Stories podcast as guests share their stories of entrepreneurship – their successes, their failures, their goals, their hopes, and so on, and be sure to hit that subscribe button so that you never miss an episode!

 

Time Stamps

[0:59] – Jackie introduces us to this episode's guest, Andy Louis-Charles.

[1:24] – Andy provides us with some background information about himself, such as how he is the founder of the Freed Fellowship and describes his role with the fellowship.

[2:40] – We learn what inspired Andy to establish the Freed Fellowship, as he noticed gaps in economic and career opportunities that he wanted to close.

[5:00] – Andy revealed where the name of Freed Fellowship came from – wanting to help us free ourselves from the limiting stories that we tell ourselves.

[6:37] – Andy shares that another definition of the word freed in the context of the fellowship is freeing locked up human potential.

[8:28] – Jackie and Andy enthuse over how Freed Fellowship can help people unhappy in the corporate world explore other opportunities.

[10:54] – Andy asserts that if you truly find something that is important to you, then you will figure out how to make it happen.

[12:36] – Andy offers us advice if we're looking to become entrepreneurs, advising us to get in over our heads.

[14:17] – We learn what obstacles Andy has faced over the years and what lessons he has learned from them.

[16:08] – Andy strongly encourages us to build a team before starting a project or business, even if it's made up of family members or friends.

[18:21] – Andy reveals two things that he wants fellowship members to get out of being members – removing unhelpful stories about ourselves and feeling like we are in a community.

[20:30] – Andy hopes that, over the next decade, Freed Fellowship will help at least 1,000 new entrepreneurs grow their businesses to million dollar businesses.

[23:20] – We discover that Andy believes his superpower to be his ability to connect dots and connect people.

[26:31] – Andy discloses where online we can reach out to him and the fellowship.

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