How to Overcome Fear and Find Success
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the GaryVee Audio Experience, I sit down with Channing and Ryan Clark from the Pivot podcast to discuss how to navigate a world weaponized by fear. I share my perspective on why impatience for success is often rooted in insecurity and how true winning requires discipline and patience, comparing it to throwing a football on an opening drive. We also dive into the truth about AI, the secret to separating self-worth from business success, and why I’m buying Bitcoin while it’s crashing.
You’ll learn:
- Why I believe starting a new venture with "no" means it's "over"
- My honest take on the overrated aspects of success, including the lack of privacy
- Why I am not scared of AI and how I believe it will revolutionize medicine
- Why I believe kids are "getting grown too late" and the importance of full accountability by age 25
- The three foundational principles I use to build a brand: Curiosity, Discipline and Patience, and Perspective.
- The only thing in life I am truly scared of
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Everyone who's scared about AI and mad about the work stuff, |
| 0:02.7 | wait two people realize what AI is going to do to medicine. Yeah, you might lose a job, you'll get another one. But when your daughter lives to save your mom's life because of AI medicine, and she wouldn't have without it, hmm, I think you're going to have a different take on AI. This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience. Brian Taylor, this is Channing Cron, I'm Ryan Clark, Pookewage, fan. I think you can pivoting with us. |
| 0:23.4 | Gee, like, when I look at a lot of the things you post and pay attention to the way you move and what you do, you have a hustler's mentality. Right? Like your focus is like, hey, you've got to continue to work. You've got to continue to put yourself out there and give yourselves opportunities to succeed. |
| 0:39.2 | Sometimes though with the hustler mentality comes impatience. |
| 0:43.4 | Yes sir. |
| 0:44.2 | So how are you able to know I'm trying to get this thing, |
| 0:48.2 | I'm trying to move this needle this way, |
| 0:51.9 | but I need to be patient to allow that |
| 0:55.0 | to happen through my consistency. |
| 0:57.0 | Because I want to win. |
| 0:59.0 | You know, I love talking to athletes and you know how much love |
| 1:02.0 | I have for all of you and you're, the professional athlete |
| 1:05.0 | community. |
| 1:06.0 | Men, is it a good idea in professional football |
| 1:10.0 | to throw 45-yard bombs on every play on your opening drive? |
| 1:14.2 | You're gonna pick the ball off on a second play. |
| 1:16.7 | I just don't understand how people understand. |
| 1:18.5 | Honestly, how am I so patient? |
| 1:21.0 | I have no choice. |
| 1:23.5 | Like when you are trying to make it happen quick, |
| 1:27.2 | often it's because you're insecure. |
| 1:30.4 | You know this, a lot of us came up different but in similar ways. |
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