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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And I think that's where people's vulnerabilities are. They love the praise, so now they're validating other people's singular opinion. But then, whoops, what just happened? You know, pretty goes to ugly really fast. And now you're caught because you loved him when he was pretty. But now somebody said ugly.
And I would tell you if you said push comes to shove, Gary, which one do you hear more? I have empathy for the negative feedback because I want to continue to evolve and I don't want to just say it's a hater. You know how many people say somebody's a hater or a troll but that person's actually right?
You're saying that these goji berries cure cancer because you have an MLM and you're trying to sell people into it. They're right. You're wrong. So I never want to become that person caricature of myself, I never want to be resistant to feedback, so even though I don't value the opinion, I listen.
It may not penetrate my soul or my behavior, but I listen and I always try to calibrate it against of like, do not become delusional, do not become a caricature of yourself. Got it? It's very easy to get caught up when you have as much positive reinforcement as I have, but I try to keep myself very much in the zone.
Listen, I'm more likely to really be thoughtful about a troll comment than smell the roses. I really am. And I think that level of, if you're gonna have confidence, you need to balance it with humility. That's where it gets really going. And then you sprinkle a little empathy
for the other person, again, everybody who's listening, if you've literally stopped posting because somebody said you're ugly or stupid, you have to understand that that person's in a bad place. We have to start talking about that. It takes energy to muster up watching something and then leaving a bad comment. Could you imagine if that was your life? No, it's very sad.
Like I've never done that in my life once. No. Never.
The only version of me that's like that is sports me. I just said I've never done that and I actually just thought of something that almost happened yesterday.
Yesterday, the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Celtics, you might be a Celtics girl since you're from up there, and it goes to three to one, the series, and I wanted to tweet at Paul Pierce, who after game one when the Celtics won said the series was over and the Bucks were finished, I wanted to tweet and be like, now what, dick? Because I hate Paul Pierce because I'm a Knicks fan.
Again, back to how I mentioned my grandmother. Because I have a version of me where I'm sad as a Knicks and Jets fan and I want to pull down the Patriots and the Celtics, I'm like, ooh, that's sports. That's a different arena. That's right. But I really feel it. But that's sports. Wait a minute, that's how people actually live life. If my real life was Jets fan Gary... I would be devastated.
And the fact that that's how everybody actually is acting right now about politics and life and social media, that's why I understand certain things. I'm self-aware that I am envious of other teams being successful. I'm sad that my team is not winning. I don't feel in control. One of the biggest reasons I tell everybody you're fully in control is because I believe it.
I believe I'm fully in control. Makes my life happy. I am not in control of the New York Jets. Why do you think I want to buy them? That misery, I want to get into control. If I own them, then I am in control. And so like, that's how people live their lives. They feel like the government's in control. They feel like their spouse is in control. Their boss, their corporation, the system.
I don't believe that. I believe you can be very, that doesn't mean that women don't face more difficult things than men. That doesn't mean minorities don't feel, like there's systematic issues. But like, everybody's got problems. Having too much is a problem.
I've been talking, not only do I think it can be, if you actually hear what I said earlier, the BMW story, I spend way more time on the entitled rich kids than I do on the poor kids. I think the poor kids have it good because they have a chip on their shoulder and with the new internet, nobody's stopping them.
I think it's the rich kids or the over-spoiled kids that are in deep, deep, deep, deep shit. They're soft. What about your kids? They're gonna be soft. I mean it, I'm not joking. But what can you do then to address that? I'm gonna do the thing I'm gonna do, which is I'm gonna cut them financially off completely. Oh my gosh. Completely. Are you serious?
I feel like I'm going down an inevitable path of giving away all my wealth to charity. I really believe that. Which is wild, because 10 years ago I would have laughed you out of the room if you told me I'm an immigrant, you give your family the money. I just think the money's a problem. That's shocking. You know, it's shocking for it even to come out of my own lips.
But this is what happens when you live something. This is why I love talking about things I know instead of judging things I don't. I judged Bill Gates and Warren Buffet 15 years ago when I first heard it. But that's because I hadn't lived it yet. Now I realize, oh my God, if my kids know that they have a parachute at all turns, they can't live a life of that. Which then leads to uncomfort.
Exactly. But I have to watch them because they're still young. For example, it's uncomfortable to me because I would never want anything I achieved to be hedged that it wasn't done by me. But that's me. Not everybody's like that. Some people love the idea of being third generation wealthy and just enjoy. I have too much pride and love of the process. Some don't like it. So you've got to listen.
So I'm just going to be thoughtful and woke and open to all these things with my kids and we'll see. I have no idea. Most likely one of the kids is going to want to climb my mountain and be bigger than me and one kid's going to want to give away all the money in Africa and all of that's fine. I will not judge my children on how they react to their circumstance and DNA. I will not.
I have no interest in my kids being entrepreneurs. I have no interest in my kids being competitive. I have no interest in my kids being like me. I have interest in one singular thing. Can they have as much peace of mind and happiness as I do?
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