A Conversation About Being An Immigrant
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
For those of you here that don't know, my family immigrated to the U.S. from Belarus when I was a young kid. The immigrant hustle is real and this talk will give the insight needed to understand what the struggle is like but also the advantages of being an immigrant. To me, being an immigrant is one of the fundamental reasons why I'm successful. Perspective is everything and this conversation definitely provides the perspective needed in order to make it, whether you're an immigrant or not.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Gary. Thank you so much for your time. |
| 0:01.8 | It's a pleasure being here. |
| 0:03.2 | First of all, I just... |
| 0:04.4 | You can close that door if you want to. |
| 0:05.8 | Sure. |
| 0:06.8 | First of all, it will be great if you can present yourself, |
| 0:11.8 | introduce yourself to the audience, |
| 0:13.8 | that five people that might not know you. |
| 0:16.2 | Yep. |
| 0:17.2 | And just a little bit about who you are, what you do. |
| 0:20.5 | I think the way I, you know, |
| 0:22.5 | I always laugh about this because my wife always makes a joke, |
| 0:25.7 | because yesterday I said to her, I have an idea, |
| 0:27.5 | she goes, not another business. |
| 0:29.2 | You know, I'm an entrepreneur. |
| 0:31.4 | I grew up, I was born in the Soviet Union, |
| 0:34.2 | came to the US when I was three, |
| 0:37.0 | lemonade stands, baseball cards, |
| 0:39.0 | which was a big thing when I was a teenager, |
| 0:41.0 | just selling stuff, pencils, anything, anything. |
| 0:44.2 | Salesman, salesman, salesman. |
| 0:46.0 | My dad eventually owned a small liquor store in New Jersey, |
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