This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

The biggest thing that I spend time thinking about is living within your means and how much

simplicity is actually happiness.

So I, my journey, I know a lot of people listening have never heard of me or might even think I'm

loud or don't really know me or have a hot takeoff of one video.

Sure.

So I'll give you a little context.

My background was I built my dad's liquor store business for him in my 20s and 30s.

I'm a, I'm a Belorussian immigrant.

We came to America.

We had nothing.

I grew up in Queens and then Edison, New Jersey, you know, very immigrant lifestyle.

My parents, like Nintendo, I had to buy with my own baseball card and lemonade money.

So my mom was like, we're not, you're not getting stuff.

Like you'll get clothes, food, like she would buy the occasional present for a birthday,

but I didn't get toys off cycle.

It wasn't like, like I'm not a, like there's, there's two people in the world.

Kids get people that got toys on cycle or off cycle.

Encycl was birthday and the biggest holiday.

Christmas.

That's right.

For me, Hanukkah, right?

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