This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

I'm very excited.

You know, I'm going to go right into it.

Somewhere when I started living somewhat of a public life, when I wrote a book called

The Thank You Economy, I started getting random emails that made reference to my guest

right now and maybe three years later, we met each other in a panel in Columbus Circle.

And within 18 seconds, I'm like, oh my god, I'm going to know this guy for the rest of

my life, which is kind of like how I think about life quite a bit with people.

Like, is this somebody I'm going to know forever?

Is this somebody I'm going to kind of know?

Is this somebody I'm never going to talk to again?

And this is only now, and a lot of you follow me who watch this, only in the last two

months have I started using the word kindness.

You know, as I try to really dissect why good things are happening to me and what I see

is happening in the world, kindness as a business thing, because I do look through the world

through an entrepreneurial lens, kindness is a word I finally use.

And if you asked me to define this man with all the things he does that are very special,

I would say he's kind.

And that is the feeling I felt on that panel that day, though I didn't use that terminology

for a long time.

It's so exciting for me, even though I've been doing this kind of Q&A show for a couple

of years, that only in last 100 days have I finally gotten to that word.

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