The #1 Quality to Look for When Hiring in 2026
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the GaryVee Audio Experience, I dive deep into the nuances of parenting and leadership. I share personal stories about how my mother, Tamara Vaynerchuk, shaped me through extreme positive reinforcement while simultaneously holding me to a standard of zero excuses. We discuss why empathy is a massive competitive advantage and why "tough love" is a necessary ingredient for raising accountable humans.
You’ll learn about:
- Why Empathy is a Human Strength, Not a Weakness
- The McDonald’s Story: Shaping a Child’s North Star
- Why Parenting and Leadership are the Same Skill Set
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I was really, really good at baseball. |
| 0:02.3 | One day after a game, I struck out. |
| 0:05.8 | In the car ride home, I kind of just tried to say |
| 0:09.1 | that the reason I struck out was that the son got in my eye. |
| 0:12.7 | I believe many modern parents, A, let that go, |
| 0:16.8 | B, sometimes add to it. |
| 0:18.8 | My mother was like, there was no son. |
| 0:21.1 | He struck out. |
| 0:22.1 | This is the Gary Vee audio experience. |
| 0:26.1 | So as you know, my mom and I, we wrote some children's books, and they're kids' books, but |
| 0:31.5 | really, their secret stories to help with hard conversations, what we call productive |
| 0:35.7 | conversations, what you might call kind candor tools. And we really lead with empathy. And so there's all these business guys |
| 0:45.7 | like Elon Musk, my mom sent me a quote that was like, empathy is the fundamental weakness of |
| 0:50.2 | society. They say shit like that. I want to know how are you counteracting that sentence |
| 0:57.0 | in your home and your business and your everyday. |
| 1:00.0 | That empathy is the weakness of our society. |
| 1:04.0 | I mean, me personally, I've been pretty loud and aggressive |
| 1:09.0 | for over a decade publicly on an almost weekly basis that I think empathy |
| 1:15.2 | is one of the great human strengths of our society. |
| 1:18.4 | So, you know. |
| 1:20.9 | Well, we really, yeah, we set you up for that |
| 1:23.1 | because exactly, like when we hear really powerful people |
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