MicroVee: If You Think Money Will Make You Happy, Listen to This

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Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Think more money means more happiness? Think again.

In this episode, I go all in on one of the most misunderstood ideas out there — that success, fame, or financial wins automatically lead to fulfillment. Spoiler alert: they don’t.

Whether you're on the come-up or already living with some wins, this episode will challenge how you define “success.” I talk about keeping life simple, the emotional toll of chasing more, and how gratitude and perspective are the real ROI.

If you've ever felt overwhelmed by the pressure to keep climbing — or you're scared of what happens if you lose what you’ve built — this one's for you.

We talk about:

💡 Why keeping it simple beats chasing clout
🧠 How happiness before the money is the real secret
💸 Why “more” doesn’t mean “better”
🫂 What really matters when life gets real
🎯 Why losing something is scarier than never having it
💬 The danger of defining happiness through other people’s lenses

This is one of those episodes I want every young entrepreneur, creator, and dreamer to hear. If you’re in your head about money, status, or pressure from the outside world… take a breath and press play.

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0:00.0	I keep my life very simple.
0:01.7	If my family is healthy, everything else is so secondary.
0:05.5	Even my professional career, everything else is secondary.
0:08.5	I feel like it all comes down to the quality of life, right?
0:10.7	Yeah, and everybody gets to define it differently.
0:13.0	I actually think we're all screwing it up and making it too complicated things, stuff,
0:19.4	clout.
0:20.4	Yeah. I think it's scary to me how passionate I am for to spit in this mic to everyone who's
0:27.1	listening, like simplify your stuff, simplify.
0:31.1	Because here's my thing.
0:32.8	I know a lot of people that are winning in life, fame, money, and so many of them are not happy
0:40.6	that I'm like, this isn't it.
0:42.2	And even the ones that are happy,
0:45.0	when something bad happens, like they lose a parent
0:47.4	or something even worse, a child,
0:49.2	which is the scariest thing, they're wrecked.
0:52.0	So I'm like, wait a minute, if this is life, the hell of my word,
0:55.0	about anything other than the health and well-being of like my circle, my family, the friends
1:00.4	that have become my family, I'm just detached from the Gary V, from the money, from the notoriety.
1:06.0	I'm grateful for it. I want to play. It's like a, it's like a game. If we, if you all, like, now we're
1:11.9	playing pickup basketball. Yeah. I'm going to try so hard, but that's how I think about life
1:17.6	and business. Like, it's a game. I'm going to try, but I'm going to keep my shit simple.
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