There are 2 Ways to Get to the Top.
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the GaryVee Audio Experience, I sit down to discuss my true life’s mission: helping the world dream bigger by building real self-esteem. I dive into the two distinct ways people reach the top and why only one leads to long-term fulfillment. I also share my personal aspirations for my family and how I hope to help them—and you—find a sense of "lightness" and balance in a materialistic world.
You’ll learn about:
The difference between insecurity-driven and love-driven success
How to build real self-esteem vs. entitlement
My childhood dream of buying the New York Jets
Why self-awareness is the key to eradicating hate and envy
Practical ways to find "lightness" and reduce anxiety
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There's two ways to get to the top. |
| 0:02.0 | One is extreme insecurity. |
| 0:04.4 | And then there's a smaller group of people |
| 0:06.2 | that get to the top |
| 0:08.0 | on a pure form of confidence |
| 0:10.3 | driven by love, |
| 0:12.5 | driven by patience, |
| 0:13.7 | and those not only get to the top, |
| 0:16.9 | they get to stay there. |
| 0:18.6 | This is the Gary Vee audio experience. |
| 0:21.6 | Okay, bro, so I'm on a life mission called 10,000 dreams |
| 0:26.6 | and I'm filming 10,000 people saying what their dream of life is. |
| 0:29.6 | I've done it for 10 years and I've filmed 2,500 people. |
| 0:33.6 | And this is my life mission, bro. |
| 0:35.6 | I want to help the planet dream. |
| 0:36.6 | I love that. It's taking me all of the world. |
| 0:38.3 | So I'm gonna ask you, Gary, |
| 0:40.3 | what's your dream? |
| 0:42.3 | My dream is that people can build real self-esteem and real self-awareness, |
| 0:51.3 | which I think would eradicate darkness and negativity and hate in the world. |
| 0:57.0 | That when you're good and you know yourself, you struggle to have energy to hurt others, |
| 1:04.8 | that you realize that building, your building does not require you tearing down everyone else's |
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