When You're An Entrepreneur, Your Business Is Like Your Child | Interview on The A List with Alison Lebovitz
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Really really enjoyed sitting down with Alison Lebovitz to flush out what people don't show about being entrepreneurs - it's lonely, and it really does take on a role as a second child. Anyone that considers themselves an entrepreneur really needs to give this one a listen.
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| 0:00.0 | Gary sits down with Allison Leverwitz on the A-list to talk family business what it's really like to be an entrepreneur and why your business is also like a child |
| 0:09.3 | This is the Gary V. Audio experience |
| 0:21.8 | Well Gary V. Welcome to the A-list. Thank you so much |
| 0:24.6 | Now you have a great back story and I feel like the people who are watching those are gonna be in two camps |
| 0:29.4 | Either they are just stark-raving mad lunatics and followers of you on every device they own or they're saying hmm |
| 0:36.4 | Who is this young man and I don't mean to say that from an older perspective, but I think that's right |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah, so give us some background and I will say I now know we're talking. I've done so much research |
| 0:47.5 | That diet. I don't know if you've heard of that diet the whole 30 diets |
| 0:50.4 | Yes, so I've been telling my family. I'm on a whole Gary diet |
| 0:53.1 | That I've been listening to you so much that our 14 year old got in the car yesterday and there was only like four seconds of your voice |
| 0:59.5 | He goes that guy. I got a big let's do it. So now he's on the Gary V. I love it |
| 1:05.6 | Is the car is the cursing okay because when I'm on not |
| 1:09.2 | Television there is some Jersey words in there. Yes, I will just say that I glad you brought that up |
| 1:15.2 | Yes, the only effort we use in PBS is funding |
| 1:18.0 | Understood. Yeah, please fun your local so I was born in the Soviet Union, okay |
| 1:23.7 | Which has had a huge impact on my life because a it makes me |
| 1:28.5 | Disproportionately in love with America and all its opportunities |
| 1:32.3 | And I think it's a grossly underrated even though a lot of people watching think it's the risk |
| 1:35.8 | I think it's better than we even realize |
| 1:38.0 | B it means I grew up with very little we came to the US it was the late 70s the Jimmy Carter years the economy collapsed and |
| 1:45.7 | We lived in a studio apartment not bigger than this area that we're in with 678 family members depending on the timing |
| 1:52.8 | So it was very humble beginnings, but a very loving family. I have an all-time mom |
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