Hey everyone, welcome back to the GaryVee audio experience.

In today's episode Gary speaks at the annual Sands Leadership Lecture,

giving his wisdom on what makes a great leader.

We hope you enjoy.

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Gary, you take it from here and I'm very excited to hear what you have to say.

Thank you Richard.

Everybody, I'm so honored to be here.

You're hearing it right now out of nowhere, a little construction work has popped up in my building.

So I apologize, but I think at this point we've all got very accustomed to all these noises and sounds.

So you know, it's interesting as Richard was talking and as I think about the Q&A with my man,

oh, here in a little bit, I actually think the reason that I'm excited to get to the Q&A part so much is because

that's how I think about leadership, that really it's a game of listening.

Really it's a game of almost opposite of what everybody thinks.

I have the timing of this talk is quite interesting because I'm writing a book that's coming out in November this year.

And it's titled 12 and a half.

And it talks about the 12 and a half ingredients that I go to the spice track on when I create meals in my day to day decision making.

My investing, my operations today, I'm at the head of a 1200 person global company called Vayner X for a lot of agencies and publishers and companies.

I'm just so excited to be here because I think all of us as we get, you know, gray here start to come in.

We start to get a better sense of ourselves and I always think about what comes natural versus what is forced.

And for me, emotional intelligence that I derived 100% from my mother from a DNA standpoint, but then also had the great luxury of being the oldest son and to tomorrow Vayner Chuck.

And not only that, I had the luxury of being an immigrant that came from the old country that is, you know, someone who sits with you today and can taste what it felt like to live in a studio apartment with multiple family members to be in a place where I didn't have a lot of toys to be in a place where I, you know, by 10 or 11 basically limited mindset of, well, if I want money, I have to get it myself.

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