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

You're One Accident Away From Bankruptcy

29 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this excerpt from his YouTube video, Mike Andes recounts how his growing business—approaching $1 million in revenue—was nearly driven to bankruptcy after a severe workplace accident that left him on a hospital bed. While working 80‑hour weeks without proper systems, he managed jobs via FaceTime, realizing that many small‑business owners face similar hidden struggles. He explains that he uses cameras to document these challenges, showing that struggling entrepreneurs are not alone and that a path to recovery exists. Andes claims that 70‑80% of the businesses they assist successfully turn around and thrive.

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If I had a family or kids, like, I would've been bankrupt. We grew to about $1 million in revenue, just under $1 million. And then I got in a workplace accident and I got caught in the PTO of a dump truck. And so in that time, like, I was working crazy hours, like 80 hours a week, not making any money, didn't have any systems in the business. I was literally on the hospital bed, like, FaceTiming my crew to walk through the next job. But if I had a family or kids, like, I would've been bankrupt. And so I realized that so many other people were going through the same thing, but everyone just doesn't talk about it. Yeah. Yeah. And so partly why I bring the cameras is to show like, first off, people are not alone if they're struggling. And that secondly, there is a way out. Almost probably 70 to 80% of the people that we come out and do help with, they turn the business around and like they succeed, do really well.