Hey guys, it's Gary Vay, Nerd Chuck, and this is the GaryVee Audio Experience.

On this episode of the GaryVee Audio Experience, Gary sits down for a fireside chat with

banner media summer interns and talks about things like dealing with doubt, expanding a retail

brand outside of its physical presence, and his opinions on sports leagues putting advertising

on their jerseys.

My question is, what is the most important year of your life?

I think the most important year of my life was the first one because I think...

Oh, in business.

I would say the first one.

I had unbelievable bravado going into my dad's like our store, right?

I'd been working in it since I was 14, so I had a lot of experience.

I was a completely shit student, and my whole claim was, you know, I'm a shit student,

but I'm going to be more successful than all of you when I talk to my friends.

And so, like, I really talked a lot of shit.

And so that first year, I just remember being like obsessed.

This is really fun to tell you guys because it's basically around the same age.

I don't know if you can imagine, maybe you can, depending on how you roll.

The day I ended school, I drove from Boston to New Jersey and worked in the liquor store that night,

and basically didn't stop for seven years, but let's say didn't stop in that first year.

Like, genuinely, again, at this young of an age, no Jersey Shore, no dating, no hanging out, no whiff of ball, no nothing.

7am, liquor store, 11pm, leave every day, seven days a week, sleep on Sunday because it was a half a day, right?

Like, just fucking pot committed all in.

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