This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

VaynerNation, how are you?

It is me, Gary Vaynerchuk.

Thank you so much for joining the audio experience.

I have the great pleasure of having a guest on today that I am incredibly fond of.

Normally, I would say probably 80% of the time, the guests that have come through your

last three years have been people I don't really know, just a little bit from maybe a little

interaction here and there on DM, but never a meal, never like lots of time.

It's just, it's infrequent that I use the platform for people that I have more context

for.

And so I'm really excited today.

Robert Hansen has become a friend, but most of all, and the reason I wanted to have him

on the podcast, and I asked him to be on the podcast is, I'm spending a lot of time around

leadership.

As a lot of you know, I haven't really announced this.

Some of you in my Discord, if you're following me, friends know I do have a new book coming

out in November.

I'll give it a big promotion soon, so I'm not going to say any more here.

But it made me really tap into emotional intelligence from a leadership standpoint.

It's been always very clear to me.

I've always put it out in my content.

But the truth is, I haven't been big close enough to enough executives to really feel like

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