TLS #131 with Gary Vaynerchuk: Self-Awareness & Knowing How Hard to Hustle (or Not)
The Lively Show
Bella Lively
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
I’ve been following today’s Lively Show guest, Gary Vaynerchuk, for the past seven years and it is a dream come true to get to interview him about his Values and his newest book, #AskGaryVee .
Gary is a four-time New York Times bestselling author, keynote speaker, angel investor, runs Vaynermedia, and is looking to own the New York Jets one day.
In today’s episode, we dive into a variety of topics including: how Gary’s intentionally designed his life according to his Values, why intense work “hustle” isn’t right for everyone, and how he cultivates his self-awareness and intuition.
This episode is perfect for anyone who is interested in hearing how Gary merges lofty ambitions with his Values, and how to double down on your own strengths, self-awareness, and intuition.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL FIND OUT ABOUT
- Gary tells us about his “clouds and dirt” thesis which the clouds are about living a true entrepreneur life while the dirt is the actual practice.
- He tells us about his family-first mentality and how his values are import to keep the work-life balance even.
- Gary talks about his hustle and drive in business and how his business motor pushes him to perform at maximum capability.
- He’s explains how self-awareness is the single most important thing since it allows people to be happy with themselves.
- Gary voices that entrepreneurs should be in business to be happier with themselves and their lives, not to be making more money.
- He talks about how following his inner voice and intuition allows him to move ahead and go full speed with his career.
- Gary mentions his feelings about the alternatives to unpredictability and how there are no guarantees in life.
- He tells us that we shouldn’t blindly take advice from others, rather take the bits and pieces that are right for us instead.
- Gary advises that if people were to put things into perspective more often, they would win.
- He identifies the reason believes he is good in business and because of his strong work ethic and hustle he puts into life.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Lively Show, episode 131. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the Lively Show. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host Jess Lively, and this blogcast is designed to uplift, inspire, and add a little |
| 0:12.3 | extra intention to your everyday. Welcome to the show guys. Thank you so much as always for listening. As you guys are |
| 0:26.0 | listening to this I am probably just coming back from Austin, Texas. I'm |
| 0:31.2 | recording this introduction right before I head out to Austin so that I can hang out |
| 0:36.0 | with my brother and friends, get some new photos taken, but as you're listening to this, I have probably |
| 0:41.3 | returned. My hope is that I, if everything goes |
| 0:44.4 | this plan to the next coming days, we'll have a vlog for you soon showing what |
| 0:48.7 | that adventure was like, but now let's move on to today's episode. Today we're speaking with Gary |
| 0:53.7 | Vainer check. This is one of the most special guests I can say that I've ever |
| 0:58.1 | gotten to interview. I can't believe that I got a half hour of Gary's time. I've been following Gary's time. I've been following Gary myself since 2009 when I |
| 1:06.7 | started my own blog and I've looked up to him ever since. It's been amazing to watch his |
| 1:11.4 | career unfold. |
| 1:12.9 | He's done many things over the years, |
| 1:14.8 | including Wine Library, growing his family's |
| 1:18.3 | wine business in New Jersey to, I think, |
| 1:21.2 | something like $50 million or something crazy and then his |
| 1:24.9 | YouTube channel Wine Library TV which is when I found Gary that's what he was |
| 1:29.8 | doing back in the day which were really fun irreverent wine tasting videos on YouTube. |
| 1:35.0 | Since then he's transitioned, he's written for New York Times best-selling books |
| 1:39.2 | including his new book, which we're speaking about today hashtag ask Gary V and he has |
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