Essential Tips for Growing Your Side Hustle | Q&A at University of Western Ontario
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I'm excited to share some real, no-nonsense advice I gave to students at the University of Western Ontario. We dive into what it really takes to achieve big goals, why empathy is critical for leadership, and the importance of focusing on what truly matters. I talk about the power of kind candor when you're building a team and share why being authentic—especially in a digital-first world—is essential.
For the young entrepreneurs out there, I give my best tips on balancing risk and reward, managing co-founder relationships, and making social media work for you, not against you. I also touch on my own journey, sharing insights on how I’ve stayed motivated and grounded while pursuing my dreams. If you’re looking to grow, learn, and find practical advice you can use right now, this episode is for you. Let's get into it!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Gary Vee audio experience. I'm Mike from |
| 0:04.6 | Team Gary Vee. In this episode, we're sharing a recent Q&A session that Gary did at the University |
| 0:09.7 | of Western Ontario. He answers some of the students' questions regarding business, entrepreneurship, |
| 0:15.9 | and much more. I hope you all enjoy. Just some of your name and we'll rock and roll. |
| 0:20.6 | So my name is Malina. I'm 13 years old. Amazing. And my question is, so I recently started a |
| 0:26.1 | business and a podcast. Yes. And I want to know how I can grow that and I can leverage that |
| 0:30.7 | to help me reach my goal, which is to get, donate $1.5 million to sick kids hospital. |
| 0:38.2 | And I want to leverage using my podcast and my business. |
| 0:40.8 | I want to know how I can make that money so I can donate. |
| 0:43.4 | So why 1.5? |
| 0:45.9 | Because I just feel like that would be, |
| 0:50.8 | that's just a base number for me. |
| 0:52.7 | If I could do more, it's even better. |
| 0:54.6 | The reason I ask that question is I think you should take that number out of the equation. |
| 0:59.6 | Even based on your answer, meaning 1.5 is remarkable and unbelievable. |
| 1:05.0 | 3 million, unbelievable. |
| 1:07.1 | But so is 10,000. |
| 1:08.8 | And I think when I think about goals and I'm using your question |
| 1:11.6 | to make sure I bring value to everybody, |
| 1:13.6 | one of the great mistakes people make. |
| 1:15.3 | And that doesn't mean have big goals |
| 1:16.9 | and big numbers. |
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