How Adversity Shaped Me | GQ Interview

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Such a fun GQ interview on today’s podcast - we really dug deep into my story and some of the topics I’m really hot on, like how I maintain perspective, the value of adversity, parenting, and a ton more. Listen and tweet me your favorite moment @GaryVee!

TIMESTAMPS:

00:45 - Adversity is the Foundation of Success

2:45 - Health over everything shapes my perspective

4:30 - My talent is being good at making money

5:15 - Being bullied by teachers

7:00 - Starting VaynerMedia at 34 with nothing

9:00 - Building Generational Wealth

10:00 - How Instagram getting rid of likes bring values to people

11:10 - The great curse parents give their kids

12:00 - I don't get to judge whose influential, the audience does

13:30 - Triple down to make sure my humility outpaces my growth

16:30 - Giving back to what put me on

17:45 - Doing the right thing is always the right thing

19:30 - How I listen

20:30 - Obsessive over my community

22:00 - What makes me happy?

24:00 - Role of a businesses for society

24:45 - Lead by action, not words

27:30 - Keyboard warrior culture

Transcript

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0:00.0	And every day that I'm consciously aware of my influence, my scale, my notoriety growing,
0:08.2	I subconsciously continue to triple down to make sure my humility is outpacing my growth.
0:15.0	This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.
0:19.1	Let's rock and roll, um, Amari, Gary.
0:23.2	Uh, this is the J. Humanity profile.
0:26.0	Thank you guys.
0:27.0	I'm very flattered.
0:28.0	Hey, Gary.
0:29.0	How are you?
0:29.9	I'm very fond of the award.
0:30.9	Thank you so much.
0:31.9	Gary, you and I, we are obviously bonded by our similar background.
0:36.4	It's something that we discussed from the very first moment we met.
0:39.8	You know, both of our parents were immigrants, um, not only did they run their own family
0:45.0	business to make a living, but they also settled into this same area in New Jersey.
0:50.4	Um, very middle-class America, a lot of ethnic pocus.
0:54.2	How does that experience we do here?
0:56.6	Um, I think that adversity is the foundation of success.
1:00.2	And I think one of the great vulnerabilities of the modern empires America included is
1:06.6	the demonization of losing eighth place trophies, everybody trying to make everybody feel
1:11.5	good all the time.
1:13.4	I, I have this great honor completely on the backbone and on the steps of not being
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