4.8 • 18.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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In this episode, GaryVee answers career questions from professionals navigating how to speak up, challenge the status quo, and lead with honesty without risking their job. Whether you're in a new position, trying to build influence, or just tired of holding back, this is a practical and powerful conversation about courage, communication, and building long-term leverage.
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0:00.0 | We have a question from Michael. How do you go into a new position with little influence within your |
0:04.3 | organization and communicate with a little grace and dignity that they're doing it wrong? |
0:08.7 | By communicating with grace and dignity. He's got it. He, you know, like by not being scared of the |
0:17.3 | ramifications. What he's really asking is I'm a little bit scared to do that |
0:21.1 | because they might fire me or I might think I'm a complainer or they might think of a problem. |
0:25.5 | And he's not wrong. But here's my thing. Do you know why VaynerMedia became the largest |
0:29.3 | independent global agency in the world? It's because that's the only thing I do. You know why? |
0:34.7 | We don't get clients all the time because of it. |
0:43.9 | We, for a lot of you on Team Gary here or V friends, you don't know this. We do not get clients a lot because I tell them directly the truth and they don't like the truth. |
0:52.8 | But here's the punchline. |
0:54.8 | We get a lot of clients because of that. |
0:57.6 | And so if Mike does this and gets fired, |
1:00.5 | he wouldn't have won there anyway. |
1:03.0 | So you, and I love him because he asked with, |
1:05.5 | you know, the problem with a lot of people |
1:07.2 | is they come in and they, and they're like 23 |
1:09.3 | and they think they fucking know everything. And they're like, you don't do social right. And they like in and they, and they're like 23 and they think they fucking know everything. |
1:12.6 | And they're like, you don't do social right. And they like, you know, and they do it audacious. |
1:16.4 | They do it classless. |
1:18.6 | They do it with like entitlement. |
1:21.1 | But notice how great that question was. |
1:25.1 | You know? |
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