Hey podcast listeners, this is Josh Bippman from VaynerNation, an avid listener of the GaryVee

audio experience. I do town acquisition and corporate strategy and I'm thrilled to intro today's

podcast episode. Today's episode is a motivational mashup around happiness, work ethic, and the journey.

I really hope you enjoyed as much as I do. GaryVee up next.

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You know, I've been thinking a lot lately about this whole journey, about how entrepreneurship has

become something of a status and has been put on a pedestal. I've also been thinking about

how scary it is when something becomes cool or interesting and what that creates.

And I've been pondering that quite a bit, which is the differences between being an entrepreneur

and being a successful entrepreneur. You know, putting the fact that you're a CEO in your

Instagram profile doesn't mean that it's what you're going to be able to do for the rest of your life.

And what I'm really concerned about is that we have lived both in Canada and the US with basically

an eight to nine year macro, almost a decade of good economic growth. We just have. You know,

obviously there was a crash in the US in 2008 or 2009, but if you look at the data,

we're probably on the tail end of economic growth. You know, obviously nobody knows, otherwise they

would make trillions of dollars. But one of the things that I did want to talk to you guys about

today is practicality. I think practicality is stunningly not talked about enough. So for example,

if you're running a business right now and it's predicated on raising money or you've raised money

and you lose money each month, it's probably a really good idea to change course pretty quickly.

Because the biggest issue for me right now is that we have a lot of people who want to build

brands, who want to become influencers, who want to start companies, but they're not putting in

the pieces that actually allow them to weather the storm. You know, the thing that I'm most proud of

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