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

You have to be grateful for your childhood. It might not have been perfect but it made us who we are

4 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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Mike Andes reflects on his childhood: a strongly religious upbringing (frequent church attendance), extreme family mobility, financial instability including buying and losing a house during a market collapse, and how those experiences shaped his avoidance of spending and strong drive to earn more. He frames hardships as formative and ultimately responsible for who he is.

Questions this video answers

Three times a week (plus usually a youth service).

About 23 times.

They bought a house during the market collapse and later lost the house and had to move out.

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My upbringing. Yeah, it was very religious, obviously. We went to church three times a week, plus usually a youth service. We moved like 23 times before I was 18. So, like, we never really had like a home thing going. We never really had money. The one time we bought a house like that was right in the middle of the collapse. We lost the house and had to go move out. We can always look back and see how our childhood could have been better, but it's ultimately what made us who we are. Ultimately I could look back and say yes. Like every time I saw any friction in my family, it was around money. So that probably bent me in the direction of like, I do not want that and I will do anything possible. And that's probably the reason I am the way I am and don't spend the money. I just like keep making more.