5 Pieces of Advice That Will Help You Succeed

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing

4.8 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

There are so many people racing to earn more money than they can even spend, even if they have to sacrifice their happiness and livelihood to do so. The really disturbing part about this is that most of these people only want the money so they can be flashy and show off their overly expensive cars (that they don't even want) and other dumb things to other people. Happiness needs to be the Northstar that we strive towards. If we aren't aiming to be happy, then is it really worth having more money than you can spend and more cars than you can drive?

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0:00.0	Take a step back and understand what you're doing with yourself.
0:03.3	What makes you happy?
0:04.9	Are you trying to be rich because you want to stick it
0:07.6	to your parents or everybody else that said that you couldn't?
0:12.3	Or are you trying to do something because you actually like it?
0:16.0	Are you trying to be rich because you want to go buy shit
0:19.1	to create a perception that you're happy?
0:21.8	Or do you actually want to be happy?
0:23.6	This is the Gary Vee audio experience.
0:27.8	So listen, I think there's two core things that I want to think about, which is there's a lot of
0:34.2	ways I say it, macro, micro, perspective and execution.
0:39.3	When I think about why the 9,000 of you
0:43.3	would allocate time and money to come to an event,
0:47.3	it means that there is a need for offense,
0:51.3	more offense, getting out of defense, offense.
0:55.0	To me, this is about one big conversation,
1:02.0	one big conversation of what are we actually doing here.
1:05.0	And so for me, when I think about what are we actually doing here,
1:09.0	the first thing that always comes to mind,
1:11.1	and I know some of you have heard this for me,
1:12.8	but the fact that the odds of being a human being
1:16.6	are 400 trillion to one is something that I struggle
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