Stop Sitting in the Passenger Seat of Your Own Life | A GaryVee TV Classic
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode is a GaryVee TV Classic from an interview on “Tea With GaryVee”. Too many people are unhappy with where they are in life but are not doing anything about it. They think that just by waiting and dwelling on what is wrong, it will just go away on its own. The reality is that you are in control of your life. If you don't like something, there is a 99% chance you can fix it if you take the initiative! Enjoy! Let me know what you thought.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Gary V. Audio Experience. |
| 0:04.6 | Over the last three years, I did... |
| 0:07.5 | Basically, I alert my skills, I got some degrees because I wanted to work for a big brand. |
| 0:13.7 | And after that, I got an internship with one of the biggest brands in the world. |
| 0:18.7 | And I got the opportunity to work for them, which was amazing. |
| 0:22.1 | And I basically said, well, I want to break the door in, right? |
| 0:25.2 | I have to put into the door now. |
| 0:26.6 | So I want to go in. |
| 0:28.2 | And I worked my ass off to get there. |
| 0:30.6 | And there were a lot of opportunities opening up to the end of my internship, |
| 0:35.2 | but right around that time, Corona broke loose. |
| 0:39.6 | So the opportunity is vanished. |
| 0:42.2 | And now I'm living in my current space, basically, again, with 24, which is fine. |
| 0:46.9 | So I said, let me lean into my personal brand, because I'm into fitness. |
| 0:52.5 | I've been training for like eight years, a little bit over that. |
| 0:55.6 | And I'm also a coach. |
| 0:56.7 | So I said, well, I'm going to develop my brand a little bit and push that on Instagram and wherever, |
| 1:01.3 | because I'm just in it. |
| 1:03.1 | But I catch myself looking back, because I don't want to miss out on the corporate world as well, |
| 1:08.6 | because I love that as well. |
| 1:10.0 | I met so many amazing people. |
| 1:11.9 | So it's like, how can I combine that? |
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