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The GaryVee Audio Experience

Admiration Is The Framework For A Better World | Good People Day 2019

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Marketing, Business

4.818.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

What’s up podcast … if you follow my social closely you know that a few days ago on April 3rd my team brought back something I came up with 11 years ago called Good People Day.
 
This movement started on Twitter which at the time was super new and primed for viral content. It was a big success and I thought it’d be fun to bring it back and spread more positivity and happiness today.
 
In this podcast I sit down with a friend of mine who embodies the “Good People Day” movement. Please listen closely for the next 39 minutes
 
:25 - What is Good People Day
 
5:00 - Introduction to Richie Swaim
 
11:02 - How the loss of a child changed my life
 
19:20 - Why Instagram?
 
23:35 - Being comfortable when your dreams don’t happen
 
28:30 - The value of admiration
 
Hope you enjoyed this year’s Good People Day podcast, tweet me @GaryVee and tell me a good person in your life ;)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Podcast. Today is a very special day. If you follow my social media, you would have

0:11.9

noticed several days ago or a week ago or a couple of weeks ago, it depends on how

0:15.6

quickly the team gets this podcast out. That I rebooted something I did back in

0:20.8

2008 or 2009. I don't recall right this second on Twitter called Good People Day.

0:25.9

At the time, Twitter was super new. It might have been 2007, but I think it was

0:31.2

08. Twitter was08, thanks Dustin. Twitter was new. There was something that got very

0:36.4

viral called Color Wars where like every single person on Twitter back in 2008 picked

0:40.9

the team. I created the very green team because somebody started the green team

0:44.9

before me because of my beloved jets and just fun fact, the very green team won.

0:48.7

The game was very simple. Who could get the most people to pick their color and

0:52.7

make it the background of their Twitter account? Super fun. It got me motivated. Twitter

0:57.3

was a very, very naive Nirvana place back then. There was zero conflict or controversy

1:04.5

back then on there. A couple weeks later, I got inspired and said, look, this is a platform

1:08.5

that goes viral and does fun stuff. Let me create a day. Let's start Good People Day.

1:12.4

I think there isn't enough positivity in the world. I think we focus on the negativity.

1:17.2

That was a really fun day. It went super viral, ish. A lot of people, the concept of the

1:22.3

day was give a shout out to somebody who you thought was a good person. Super positive.

1:28.3

It was super fun and it was really enjoyable and it was probably popped up in my mind

1:33.3

maybe once or twice since. I don't think I even, obviously at the time, like in 20 years,

1:38.1

this would be huge and obviously many things as an entrepreneur. That one just went by

1:42.1

the wayside. Then six or seven or eight, and maybe you guys can remember months ago,

1:48.4

these two gentlemen came into. Actually, this is really fun. We did a conference called

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