Candid Conversations with Scott Galloway
Mick Unplugged
Realm
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Scott Galloway is a serial entrepreneur, NYU Stern professor, and best-selling author known for his candid takes on business, masculinity, and modern leadership. Raised by a single immigrant mother, Scott Galloway built and sold companies worth hundreds of millions and has dedicated his career to unpacking the realities of success and manhood in today's society. His latest book, "Notes on Being a Man," challenges conventional wisdom while offering a blueprint for personal growth, fatherhood, and meaningful dialogue about what it means to be a man.
Key Takeaways:
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The crisis of masculinity today isn't just about men feeling lost—it's reflected in statistics surrounding addiction, homelessness, suicide, and economic viability. Empathy and honest conversations are needed to help young men find purpose and direction.
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Social isolation and lack of social capital are major issues facing young men, fueled by screen-addiction and technology that keeps them disengaged from real relationships and experiences.
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True parental impact comes from presence—whatScott Galloway calls "garbage time"—consistent, non-scripted moments where children feel valued and loved. Hard conversations and genuine involvement from male role models are essential for building resilient, confident adults.
Sound Bites:
"If you walk into a morgue and there's five people who've died by suicide, four of them are men."
"Young men age 20 to 30 are now spending less time outside than prison inmates."
"Garbage time, having the tough conversations and always ensuring that every day they know... that's the thing, it's most important to me in my life is seeing them and talking to them."
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| 0:00.0 | Beyonce could be working at McDonald and still pull Jay-Z. |
| 0:04.0 | But Jay-Z couldn't do the same thing working with Donald. |
| 0:06.0 | Shout out to Chris Rock for that note. |
| 0:08.0 | And shout out to today's guest, Scott Galloway, |
| 0:10.0 | for referencing that, but more importantly, giving us an amazing master class |
| 0:15.0 | where we go through his new book, Notes, on Being a Man. |
| 0:19.0 | So if you are the parent of a man, if you're a young man under |
| 0:22.1 | the age of 30, promise you this episode, it's going to change your life. Ladies and gentlemen, |
| 0:27.0 | I present my good friend, Mr. Scott Galloway. You're listening to Mick Unplugged, hosted by |
| 0:35.0 | the one and only Mick Hunt. This is where purpose meets power, |
| 0:39.0 | and stories spark transformation. Mick takes you beyond the motivation and into meaning, |
| 0:44.3 | helping you discover your because and becoming unstoppable. I'm Rudy Rush, and trust me, |
| 0:50.0 | you're in the right place. Let's get unplugged. Scott, how are you doing today, brother? I'm good, and I'm enjoying this podcast so far. Thanks for the kind of words, Beck. Hey, man, I'm honored to have you on. I know how busy you are. And it just means the world that you're here with me, Scott. And there's so much I want to get into with the book. But I want to start by asking you, |
| 1:13.1 | brother, like, what is your because, that thing that's deeper than your why, that passion, |
| 1:18.5 | that purpose that's driving you forward every day today? It's a generous question. So trying to |
| 1:24.7 | not put as much polish on it, it's changed. I would say it's kind of pre-45 and then post-45. |
| 1:34.0 | I didn't grow up with a lot of money. |
| 1:36.1 | Mick, did you grow up with money? |
| 1:37.8 | Not at all. |
| 1:39.4 | So that scarcity, some of that anxiety that I was raised by a single immigrant mother who lived and died |
| 1:45.9 | a secretary, money was a thing for us, or a lack of money was a thing for us. And I don't want to say |
| 1:52.2 | it traumatized me, but it made me very aware, aware or self-conscious about not having money. And so, |
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