If You Make $54K and You’re Happy, LISTEN UP

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is an interview I did with Nihal Mehta on his podcast the Human Unicorn Podcast. I get real about what actually matters — happiness, humility, and hunger. I talk about why money and fame don’t change you (they expose you), why it’s hard to stay hungry when you’re always fed, and why ego is the fastest way to lose. If you care about staying grounded, grateful, and focused in a world full of noise, this one’s for you.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, sitting on a plane right now, but pretty excited about this podcast. I think it's going to hit for a lot of you, a lot of good themes about hunger and being fed, about making 50K a year, about people being mad about dumb shit. Anyway, get into it. I hope you enjoy it. Let me know if you liked it. Hit me up on social. This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience. So, Gary, man, you've been a great friend.
0:23.2	You're so generous with your time, with their relationships, with your emails.
0:26.7	I mean, almost two decades now.
0:29.1	You know, we grew up together kind of in this, the beginning of this, like, New York
0:34.8	tech wave, right?
0:36.2	And the social media wave.
0:55.6	You're now a mogul. So what the fuck happened? Like 20 years? Or take me even before that. Like what? You jumped on one of those like video game like Sonic the Hedgehog fucking. And all of us are like walking on the sidewalk. And you jumped on the ramp and dushing. In some and in other ways you know and you know this a lot of our friends everyone took kind of different paths it's so
1:00.1	weird we're getting together i had a i had some really long flights recently and i get a lot of work done
1:06.0	in my flights but these were like 20 hour flights oh man and so i everything done, and I had a little bit of time on my hand.
1:13.8	And, you know, time on your hand can go anywhere.
1:16.8	You can go into, like, TikTok and Instagram stream for nine hours.
1:20.2	You can get into these weird, like, Wikipedia.
1:22.0	Now my new one is just weird prompt engineering on chat GBT.
1:25.7	I just start asking crazy questions.
1:27.1	Like, what if the roman
1:28.4	empire was actually based on 19 like like i just get into weird places by the way imagine a social
1:35.2	network for prompts oh i mean like show me your fucking prompts i mean there's so much coming oh yeah
1:40.3	like venmo yeah i was really yeah venmo was one of my best New York investments.
1:46.1	They sold too early, Katrina.
1:52.5	But nonetheless, in some ways I went on that video game in the way of being known, right?
1:57.9	I decided amongst a group of many people running here that the personal brand was a moat,
1:59.7	that it was misunderstood.
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