Gary Vee: Reveals How Interest Media Is Changing the Game

Mick Unplugged

Realm

Entrepreneurship, Business, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Gary Vaynerchuk—known to millions as “Gary Vee”—is a serial entrepreneur, visionary business leader, and globally recognized voice on marketing, personal branding, and living life with authenticity. From his humble beginnings as a Soviet Union immigrant hustling at garage sales to building multiple successful businesses and amassing a massive online following, Gary has become the “inconvenient truth” in the world of self-improvement and entrepreneurship. Renowned for his candor, empathy, and relentless consistency, Gary has inspired generations with his actionable wisdom on gratitude, accountability, and the true intent behind success. On this episode, he joins Mick Hunt to dive deep into interest media, personal brand building, and uncovering the purpose that fuels his unstoppable drive.

Takeaways

Intent Matters More Than Tactics: Gary emphasizes that true impact comes from a genuine desire to serve your audience, not from chasing likes or followers for personal gain. Authentic intent can be felt by your audience and sets you apart from the crowd.
Interest Media Over Social Media: The way people interact with digital platforms has shifted—platforms are now more about sharing interests and connecting over passions than about purely social connections. Creators should lean into authenticity and share what makes them unique to attract the right audience.
Accountability and Gratitude Are Superpowers: Blaming others or circumstances doesn’t lead to growth—taking responsibility for your actions, being grateful for what you have, and minimizing negative influences can supercharge personal and professional progress.

Sound Bites

“I’m more proud of the compliments and the words of affirmation than any material thing I’ve gotten from my success.”

“If you want to make real impact, run it like a business or don’t do it at all.”

“You are the brand. The more you’re you—all the way you—the more you’ll win.”

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Are you struggling with your social media likes, clicks, engagement?
0:04.0	It's probably because you're thinking about social media and you should be thinking about it as interest media.
0:10.0	In this podcast episode, I sit down with the goat.
0:13.0	He's going to break down literally every single thing that you need to know about interest media.
0:18.0	But we're going to go further.
0:19.0	We're going to go deeper.
0:20.0	We're going to talk about some things that you've never heard Gary V talk about. This podcast is the one you want to listen to. Buckle up. It's live. Gary, how you doing today, brother? That's very kind, my man. Thank you so much. I'm doing quite well, and I'm glad to be here. I'm the honored one, man, you don't know how much you mean to me, to my life, to my businesses.
0:40.2	Most importantly, to my life, to my
0:39.3	businesses, most importantly to my podcast, man. I started this podcast 18 months ago. So well
0:46.1	before it became the number one self-improvement podcast before it started doing crazy numbers,
0:51.1	you were in my ear. And you said, Mick, if you're going to do a podcast, do it with
0:55.7	purpose and do it like a business. Because so many people play. If you want to make impact,
1:01.2	do it for real. So I owe you that, man. And no one knows that. I've never told you that.
1:07.3	But that's why I do what I do, because in my ear, you said, ran it like a freaking business or don't do it at all.
1:13.9	Thank you, my man. Thank you so much. I mean, you know, I'm in this great point in my career where it's, you know, it's, I'm detached from it.
1:22.6	Because, you know, as the great poet once said, never get high in your own supply, right? Like, I'm detached from what I know
1:28.6	I've been able to accomplish. The humility comes very natural to me because I was well-mothered,
1:35.6	but, God, it feels really nice, man, like to really know that I'm putting out stuff there for the last
1:42.4	15 years that people that have amassed
1:45.2	more wealth, more fame, more happiness than I have
1:49.0	on the backs of the content and the words
1:53.2	that I've put out over this last decade and a half,
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