Zarna Garg: Proof It’s Never Too Late to Start Over (and Crush It) | GaryVee Audio Experience w/ Zarna Garg

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Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

I sat down with my good friend Zarna Garg, and what unfolded was a raw, unfiltered conversation about rejection, resilience, and rewriting your story — even when it feels like the world just slammed a door shut.

Zarna is one of the funniest, most driven people I know. From stay-at-home mom to touring stand-up comic, bestselling author, and opener for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, her journey is straight-up bonkers. But the real story here? She just got devastating news — a major network passed on her sitcom — and still showed up with grace, grit, and good humor.

This episode is for every underdog, every immigrant, every late bloomer, every person who’s ever asked, “Is it too late for me?” Spoiler alert: It’s not. Her story proves it.

We talk about:

📺 Getting so close to selling a sitcom… then losing it
👩‍👧‍👦 Going from full-time mom to full-blown creator at 45
🧠 Processing rejection without letting it break you
🎤 Why she performs at funerals (yes, really)
🧳 The immigrant advantage — and why Zarna celebrates it
📚 Her new book This American Woman and the wild endorsements on the cover
🧠 Why I hate “imposter syndrome” and how Zarna turned pain into power

If you need a laugh, a mindset shift, or a hard reset on your perspective — you’re gonna love this one.

🎧 Listen. Laugh. Get fired up.

📚 Want more Zarna?
Her memoir, This American Woman: A One-In-A-Billion Memoir, is out now — a hilarious, heartfelt story of escaping an arranged marriage, finding her voice in America, and launching a comedy career in midlife. It’s a must-read for anyone chasing big dreams. Grab your copy here:
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0:00.0	this next guest is not only one of the true funny people in society, one of the great comedians
0:04.4	currently touring. We have a book that we're about to have everyone's going to buy a bunch.
0:08.4	The reason I want her here is because her story is bananas. Her story is bananas. She's a true
0:15.6	inspiration. My friend, how are you? I'm okay. I think destiny brought me here today.
0:22.3	We were booked to come here.
0:24.0	But I got the call yesterday that they're passing
0:26.4	and all the press that goes out when they pass on something that big.
0:31.3	And, you know, in another world, when I didn't know you,
0:34.5	I would probably be scrolling your videos
0:36.6	to remind myself that it's okay.
0:39.3	You have to take hits and keep coming back because that's the business.
0:43.9	Yeah, of course.
0:44.7	But life had it that we were going to sit across from each other.
0:47.9	You're the king of resilience, Gary.
0:50.0	And for years, I've leaned on you for support.
0:54.1	And I'm like, thank you for having.
0:55.8	I love you.
0:57.2	Sister, listen to me.
0:58.4	This is really, like, honestly, do you know how blessed you are to be able to be disappointed about this?
1:02.9	I know.
1:03.6	I mean, there's literally over the next decade, millions of people that will listen to this of the long tail of podcasts who would die to even be in a position that they were in
1:13.1	striking distance of selling a sitcom to a major network it is a remarkable accomplishment from
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