Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

His Team Wanted More Pay 😓

29 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube video titled "His Team Wanted More Pay 😓" (uploaded/created by Mike Andes) featuring Brandon describing a recent panic attack and a diagnosis of panic disorder, the stress of employees demanding pay advances/raises, and a consequential restructuring where Brandon let go of accounts and people, reducing maintenance revenue from about $35,000/month to about $14,000/month.

Questions this video answers

2013 (he said it was his first panic attack since 2013).

Panic disorder.

About $35,000 per month.

About $14,000 per month.

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I had my first panic attack since 2013. I have something called panic disorder. I couldn't even, like, move. I was on the side of the road. I called Brittany to come pick me up because I couldn't even drive anymore. I wouldn't be able to be sitting here with you right now talking if I weren't in therapy. I mean, I got jacked up with meeting with my employees. I would show up in the mornings, bombarded by employees, asking for advances, demanding advances, giving me ultimatums on increasing their pay. Because you got the whole bunch of free accounts someone gave to you? Basically, yes. It was like overnight. We had to figure this out.
Out. And Brandon said, I'd rather let go of accounts than to give you. You. You strong arm me into. You're gonna pay me.
X let go of all the accounts that I acquired. I let go of a lot of people. And we just started over. And then we went from roughly 35,000amonth in maintenance revenue down to about $14,000 a month in revenue.