Looking back on life lessons, is there any part that you would change?

I have historically struggled and continue to not be great at candor for my employees,

which is bananas. If you would ask me, why does Gary Vee do well?

I would tell you that candor is a core rationale.

I'm great at candor in this setting

because I'm not talking to a person, I'm talking to the world. I so dislike

negativity and darkness and hate and bad that I try to avoid at all cost firing people.

We're curious about a few things, so there's a few different categories.

Early life, you know, and we just kind of want to get an understanding

from the type of environment you were exposed to in your childhood

and the pathways that were in front of you and how you avoided certain pitfalls.

Figuring out what your passion was, you know, understanding, you know, how things were important to you, how you viewed them, and how you sort of went against the grain as you were growing up and figuring out some of those main things. Then, you know, catching wind, right? What was your turning point? What was, you know, things that you did to get to where you are today, right, with Vainer Media and how you approach ideas.

And then looking back on life lessons,

is there anything you would change,

right?

So we're going to kind of go through that flow

and then we have a few other questions regarding empathy which we're I'm I'm very

interested in and our team is very interested in as well on how you

emulate that in your company and your daily life. I love it. I'm incredibly locked in and ready to go. Very good. Well let's start off with with your early life. What were what were some things in your

environment that you were exposed to in your in your childhood?

Adversity. your childhood? Um, adversity, great warmth and love, accountability, responsibility, you know, I'm an immigrant from Belarus, which, you know, unfortunately for their actions as now a place people know.

And came to the US in 78 was very poor. You know, that's really the only way to put it. We had nine family members in the studio apartment. I'm really need people to wrap their head around what I'm saying. So it was really hardcore stuff for a couple years.

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