Gary Vee
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561 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard Sep 2025
Gary Vee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She did it. Do you understand? It sucks. What people don't know is everything about me because I don't share everything like I just shared with you. The reality is I've seen it up close and personal. I know the extreme positivity. I know extreme negativity.
Not only was she a disproportionately negative person, she lived her adult life until she was my age right now, 43, before she moved to America and lived in Soviet Russia. She was a widow with a 15 year old. She had shit. She had a tough life. She was a child in World War II. I don't judge her. But I also understand what it is.
And I understand why my dad is the way he is because that was his framework mother. His environment was the Soviet Union and that mother. Mine was America and coming of age and my mother. So I'm grateful. How did your dad and your mom get together?
Sometimes opposites attract. And my dad is amazing in a lot of ways. But he will look at the world negative. My dad starts with no. I start with yes. That's a very different way to see the world. Are they proud of you now, your dad specifically? My dad and I are outrageously close.
And my dad, you know, just because he starts with no or just because he had a negative mom and because he's negative doesn't mean there's so many. I mean, my dad is ridiculously loyal, outrageously proud. Has crazy work ethic. Let me tell you what I mean by that.
You know what's funny? I think my parents... Well, first of all, my mom, I've literally made her out, like my mom loves her life.
Well, she worshiped me from the get. She lost her mother at five. Her dad went to jail when she was a kid, like for 10 years. She had a tough life too. Way tougher than my grandmother. Wow, interesting. Thus, as you can imagine, it's very hard for me to accept people blaming their childhood when my mother lost her mother.
at five and lost her dad for 10 years to jail when she was a teenager and like, who raised her. A stepmother who wasn't thrilled about it because she was just devastated from losing her new husband to jail and then she came to America and was poor and she worked every day of her life, went on zero, my mom and I went on two family vacations, like my mom never complained a day in her life
Her life is shit compared to 99.999% of people that come to me with complaints. It's hard for me to get going to accept your complaints when that's my mom's life and it's right in my face. Forget about my life, which had its hardships but not compared to most or just in the mix. My mom's the most positive. like amazing, like I'm a byproduct of her. So what do you think that is, a choice?
DNA is big. Chemicals that were put in her, because she didn't decide at five years old to be like, fuck it, I'll face this disaster. I think chemicals are real. I think chemicals are real. Look, this has been figured out long before us, like DNA and environment is real. DNA is... Crapshoot. Environment gets into an interesting game, right?
It's also a crapshoot, you don't pick your parents, but what you decide to listen to and whom becomes a very interesting debate to me. You know, one of the things that I'm very proud of is I am the practical positive reinforcement in a lot of people's ears right now and I take that very seriously and it really makes me happy.
Because a lot of people don't have the luxury of having family that is cheering for them. You know, most people have family that's booing for them. Misery loves company. Most people want to tear down everybody else's building to make theirs feel bigger.
It's very rare to have pure practical positivity being pumped into the ecosystem, hence why all the attention I have and easy for me not to get high on my supply because as you can tell by this conversation, I view that as a cosine to my parents and my circumstance. I'm not special. My parents are special. My circumstances were special. I'm just living out the circumstances.
No.
It folds. Or they rally and decide to keep it afloat in the honor of their fallen leader. You never think of that. No, because it's a silly thing to think about. It's interesting to me. It's an ideology. First of all, it's selfish. Like, I'm dead. Why would you want to set your people and your teams up for success? I have a reason. Not the company, them. The company. I care about them.
Do you know what happens to Dustin? He writes a blog post and does his story of what he remembers about Gary this one time he said this thing to me, posted on LinkedIn, and 400,000 people asked him to be on their personal brand team. This is where I'm unbelievably selfless. I don't care about my company. I care about the human. You like it? Crazy, right?
Because I actually think it's also practical, not just altruistic. I've died. I'm not gonna care. I don't know. I literally don't know what's happening. It's over. It's a wrap. What I've done is I've built such a progressive, forward-facing personal brand that the collateral on my employees is remarkable. Do you know what's going on right now?
My people are getting offered all sorts, especially for Team Gary Vee, these two characters, they just have options and that makes me happy. Kenny just left the team. He got a great gig in California.
Now, I think it's super great here that people are naive about and I think that I'm a uniquely kind of interesting character and I make it look a lot easier than it is and that will either play out or not for Kenny but he's now family and I think I think I've done, that's what the best part of what I'm doing is. I'm just in the middle, right? I just established to you what's above me, right?
My parents, my circumstance. And what's below me is my employees. They're feeling all the benefits of it.
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