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Welcome to the first episode of my new show! This is the perfect way to start things off as we get into some nitty gritty about long-term business goals, Facebook dark-posts, and even non-profits. This is the beginning of a new era, my friends. Get ready!


#AskGaryVee Episode 1: How to Utilize Native Ad Platforms

This audio track is from my latest video "The Most Important Word Ever" Watch the original here: http://youtu.be/PIJElPStJpg?list=UUctXZhXmG-kf3tlIXgVZUlw

The Most Important Word - Audio Podcast

People ask me all the time, "How do I get covered in the New York Times, or how do I get that meeting with that CEO?" My response? 1 is greater than 0. 

What I mean by this is that people underestimate the steps it takes to get to the biggest places in the world. It just doesn't happen over night. You've got to put in the work and you've got to continuously provide value to whomever you're trying to reach, be it an audience of a million, or an audience of 1. 

If you want to get the prominent news coverage or that high-profile meeting with today's luminaries, you need to do a lot of the little things to build up your cadence to actually get those opportunities. Because people have seen me on shows like Ellen, or Conan, The Today Show, or CNN, they often ask how they could get those opportunities for themselves, and the hard truth of it all is that you've got to earn it. You've got to put in the time to get asked to get that coverage. Before I was ever covered by any of these big names, I was doing interviews and appearances on shows that only received 1, or 19 or 137 views. But why? Why would I do that? Because those few views, that extra one view, is so much greater than none at all.

So, are you willing to take ten minutes to get 150 views? Because I am. It's not always about the width or the size of the platform. It's about the value you're providing to the people who took the time out of their lives to listen to you. Whether that's a group of ten or one hundred, or one million - It's all the same. And the value you set out to provide each time should remain as such. 

So my advice is to put in the work and do all of the little things that you don't want to do. Nothing is going to come easy so stop looking for that one golden moment. Work on expanding your reach and building your network through the value you can provide, regardless of the "reach" or the audience that may be present. Intent trumps all. And if you stick with that notion, there may just be that one person in that crowd of 5, 10, 15 people who can drastically change the course of your journey. 


One is Greater than Zero

[Bonus Track] Part of The Equation

A Keynote: Entrepreneurship Can't Be Taught

What would you say is the the biggest obstacle to your success right now? A lack of time? Maybe a lack of capital? Or maybe a lack of good employees?

Nope. All wrong.

The biggest obstacle to success is a lack of optimism.

I’ll back up.

The fact that people go straight to any other answer is the problem in itself. Money and time are, of course, difficulties. When I started WineLibrary, I had time but we didn’t necessarily have the money. So it took more time. Today, I have the money, but boy do I not have the time. Fact is, though, that neither should ever be an excuse. They weren’t for me, and they shouldn’t be for you.

This is something I really need everyone to understand. No one should ever point to time or money as an obstacle. They are firmly in the excuses column, and I have no patience for that. I will never make an excuse. Everything that is a problem with me, everything I don’t achieve and everything wrong with VaynerMedia is my fault. I succumb to that, I respect that, and that’s how I think it should be. No excuses. Even more so, you shouldn’t let yourself have patience for excuses either. Train yourself to believe this, and you will see amazing results. No joke. There will always be problems, and you need to get out of the mindset that they are obstacles because you should already assume they will be there. They’re just part of the path, my friend.

Because guess what? There are about a million other things that could stop success in it’s tracks. The health and well being of your family. The world is changing. The media, bad coverage of you. I’m a human being, and I always wonder what would happen if I say the wrong thing. Any of these things could happen, but they are the same thing: excuses.

There are a million reasons why not, but there is one good reason why, which is this: you just have to persevere.
No matter what happens, it’s the way it is, and you have to keep going. And that is where the optimism lives. If you truly believe that you can do it no matter what, you’ve got this. The only reason you might bring up any of the previous excuses we talked about is because you DON’T believe, right? Do not let that kind of thinking ever get in the way.

So. You can pick time. You can pick money. Pick any one or two things that you think stop you from winning your game. But the truth is there are a million reasons. Get thicker skin. Build up your self esteem. To be able to get through, you need to have optimism. Every day is hard, and all you have to fight it in the end is yourself.

The music for this video is a song from the motion picture "Inception" titled "Time" ALL Music rights belong to Hans Zimmer and the studio behind the creation of this song. 

The Straightest Road To Success

There is something that is rarely talked about in the business world and I want to start building more attention for it.

That thing is self-awareness.

I’m upset that the narrative these days is that everyone needs to be number one, own a company, be in charge. A lot of people are going to lose that way.

Self-awareness allows people to recognize what things they do best so they can then go hard on those aspects of their life. It also helps you accept your weaknesses.

What works for one person doesn’t work for everyone. I want people to learn to be at peace with themselves, to understand what they can offer, because everyone’s got something. The key, however, is learning how to find it.

Self-awareness can help you do that.

Self-awareness is being able to accept your weaknesses while focusing all of your attention on your strengths.

The moment you decide to accept your shortcomings and bet entirely on your strengths, things will change. Trust me.

The Importance of Self-Awareness

Hard Work & Patience

There's no such thing as an overnight success. It takes work. Period. 

Overnight Success

In the last sixteen months of my life, I've changed something major about myself: I've started being healthy.

A year and a half ago, I was eating like crap, not working out, and generally feeling awful. It was a tough life, and I realized quickly that I couldn't sustain a life like that. It was impossible. So I hired a trainer to force me to be better. I made an enormous lifestyle shift, and I am so happy I did.

But it made me realize something about the current state of fitness entrepreneurs. And I want to shine a light on it.

Everybody defaults to what comes easy to them. That should be obvious. But greatness comes from adversity; it comes from looking a challenge directly in the eye and having the fortitude to step up and go after it.

This is what's going on with the fitness want-repreneur world right now.

Everyone is going for what is easy. And that isn't going to pan out if they are serious about becoming a business person. Just like I knew being a great business person wouldn't pan out if I didn't get healthy.

Fitness entrepreneurs want to do the minimal work and still expect a huge return. It's easy for fitness entrepreneurs to do the push ups, to do the squats and deadlifts because that is exactly what got them to where they are now. They started in fitness and now they want to make money just by having those guns or that body. They default into what is easy without recognizing what is hard: running an actual business.

You know what was hard for me? Waking up early. Not eating what I wanted to eat. Powering through workouts. Yet it was easy to build 50M dollar businesses.

I wanted to pass off getting up and running. I wanted to pass off lifting, squatting, stretching. I didn't want to do it. But I had no problem working eighteen hours a day, taking meeting after meeting, and putting in the actual work.

Fitness "entrepreneurs" want to pass on replying to tweets all day to get the word out. They want to pass off the marketing. They want to pass off working hard to create a great interesting post, or doing a bunch of podcasts to get a larger audience. They want to go straight for the mirror selfie so you can get a bunch of Instagram likes, then call that their "business".

Well guess what? It's not good enough.

I have sympathy for how long it can take for something to come together in a big way. I get thousands and thousands of emails a year from people saying they've been working for months at something and they aren't seeing results. It can be disheartening. In a weird way, working out has shown me that more than anything else. I've been working out for sixteen months now and I'm happy, but if you told me sixteen months ago that this what I would have by now, I might say "Ehhhh…"

But the reverse is far worse.

That's why I say to you: just start the work now. Do it. Work hard. Be diligent. Do not let up. You have the body. You have the chops. You did all that. Now get to the business side of things and grow that muscle too. 

MUSIC BY: https://soundcloud.com/deisel1time 

A short: The Current State Of Fitness Entrepreneurs

This is the one. I may have been out for August, but this interview I did with the Haste and Hustle crew brought straight fire back to me. Loved diving into the difference between what I consider macro failures and micro failures, and stretching one of my top beliefs - that you need to make sure you're doing what YOU want. Focusing on doing things with yourself in mind is going to get you so far ahead, because it lets you leave the losers in the dust. It doesn't matter what happened in the past, only what you're gonna do about it. &lt;3&nbsp;

A FIRE Interview for Haste and Hustle | The Winning Formula vs The Losing Formula

Sometimes you need a big dose of tactical knowledge to blast straight into your weekend hustle. From Instagram strategies and tactics straight to cold calling, and influencer marketing these are some of my favorite tips to get fired up. &lt;3

My Top 5 Tactical Tips For Marketing Businesses

This entire keynote in Idaho was on FIRE. Besides a funny interaction with a couple fans, the content here is absolutely incredible. So much love and inspiration in this room, and dove deep into a number of topics, including why audio is so important, how important it is to be first in emerging platforms (because you'll never know what's going to skyrocket) and how to measure ROI with influencer marketing. You're not gonna want to miss this one, trust me. Shoot me a note on Twitter and let me know what you thought ;)

A FIRE Keynote: ClickFunnels In Boise, Idaho | Audio & Being First & Measuring ROI Of Social Marketing

It's all about finding a way to tell your story while finding a way to respect your users' time. Just remember that this time around it's more about CONTEXT than CONTENT. This can boil down to creating platform specific content, or simply respecting and engaging the way that a specific platform requires. This is one of my favorite keynotes, hope you enjoy ;)&nbsp;

Stop Storytelling Like It's 2007 | A Keynote: 99U

If you've missed ANY of my September podcast, you're gonna love these 5 clips that embody exactly what I'm about and why I'm so fired up after August. Whether you're curious about what Russ and I wish we would've thought about before getting big, to some business advice from entrepreneur about.me founder Tony Conrad, it's all here. I know you're gonna love this one ;)

A Mashup: 5 FIRE Clips From September | Russ, Tony Conrad, Nicholas Megalis & the Atlanta Keynote

So psyched to be able to share these quick chats around my thoughts on business that I have, chatting with my team writer Colin Campbell. Here I expand on my thoughts behind storytelling on social media - why it's key to be genuine and what good storytelling and engagement leads to, touching on where the best places to spend ad money on, focusing on ROI. Hope this one brings some massive value to you &lt;3&nbsp;

A Rant: How To Tell A Story On Social Media

If you're still looking at Monday morning as a chore, and dreading it on Sunday night, your shit is BROKEN. These clips will help push you over that barrier and start getting you fired up for Monday, and to stop living for Friday. Get ready, because here it comes :)

A Rant To Get Your Monday Morning Fired Up

This was a fire keynote that I gave in Amsterdam a few weeks back to the Bookings.com crowd. One of the main themes here is why you should always keep Dying on your own sword in the back of your mind. As long as you keep this theme constantly in mind, and are doing this for yourself it keeps you at the top of the crowd. Another big theme here is practicality. If you're too far behind on emerging platforms and networks, you're not practical because you're not taking advantage of the massive potential there is to grab onto new audiences. I loved this one, and I hope you do too ;)

A Private Keynote: Bookings.com In Amsterdam

This totally FIRE interview dives deeper than a lot of my other more recent interviews. I sat down with Biz Insider and took some time to expand on the conversation with Mark Zuckerberg before Facebook's 2008 IPO, the process behind early investing in now-huge tech companies like Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr, and a VERY deep dive into the massive growth I provided at Wine Library. This is a really, REALLY big one guys - I know you're going to love it. Hit me up and let me know your thoughts !!

An Interview on "Success, How I Did It" by Business Insider

I'm pumped to be able to continue to bring these quick little chats that I have with Colin, the writer on my team. In these I dive into the thinking behind two of the articles that we wrote together and expand on just how I make decisions &amp; talk about what I really believe makes a winner a winner. Do you like these fast little chats? Hit me up on Twitter and let me know!&nbsp;

Why Winners Win & How I Make Decisions | Two Saturday Rants

Test, learn, produce, document, just fucking DO! This is one of my favorite rants, because it puts every single thing that I talk about into one single message. There's no bullshit stopping you from taking that step into doing what you want to do. It just takes the effort. &lt;3

A Saturday Rant: 5 Minutes To Do

If you've listened to my content, you know that I'm a massive supporter of paying your dues to get ahead in the long run - as most of my team has and work for free or little money. Especially when you're young or straight out of college and can afford to. One of the best ways to dive into what you want to do, whether it's building your portfolio or providing value to strive to work with someone that you want to is to show firsthand what you can do, and that you're motivated to work, and these 5 examples are spot on what I mean.&nbsp;

5 Examples Why You Should Work For Free

What’s your excuse for not making millions? My friend Randall Pich was raised by his mom in extreme poverty, in one of the most dangerous parts of the country. Now he’s the very wealthy founder of multiple brands, most notably Live Fit Apparel, a top social media influencer, and a model for how to build an enthusiastic following around an in-demand brand. In this episode, we talk about the connections between creativity and business, and how these things apply to the art of making money.

Creativity, Conflict, and the Art of Making Millions ft. Randall Pich, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO197

You know how many people who fully committed themselves to becoming a billionaire AT LEAST ended up becoming a millionaire or multi-millionaire? Every one of them.&nbsp; But most people don't get it. Most people still set "small realistic goals." You can't be like that if you want the kind of life that people would kill for.&nbsp; You have to redefine what's "realistic" and learn to visualize what's possible, which is every f*cking thing you can dream up. So set massive f*cking goals!

Why Your Goals Should Embarrass You, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO198

Many of you who listen to my content have heard me talk about what my thoughts are around going to college and the after college experience once you've attended. Here, I talk about my experiences, my thoughts, my wishes and what I think college is both good and not good for. This different for everyone, but there's something here that anyone can and should take away. Hope you enjoy, have a great weekend &lt;3&nbsp;

5 Of My Thoughts On College

You can develop the same drive for success as The Greatest of All Time…elite athletes like Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and even Michael Jordan.&nbsp; There is zero reason you can’t be a Hall of Fame level performer in everything you do in life. That’s what my friend Tim Grover says, and he should know. He is the one of the most revered mental toughness and performance coaches in history. Those guys I just mentioned? They chose to work with him.&nbsp; In this episode, Tim and I talk about how YOU can be like them.

Insanity, Intensity, and Becoming a Peak Performer ft. Tim S. Grover, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO199

This rant is the absolute definition of what I mean when I say that I think long term - and you should too. When you stop worrying about what your bank account will look like in 1 or 3 or 7 years, you start moving yourself forward to be massively successful in the long term. Start looking at every single move you make as an impact to your legacy, and decide whether it'll impact positively or negatively. It's your choice, it's your time in the end game. Get it? Hope you enjoy &lt;3

A Rant: Think LEGACY, not DOLLARS

The Classic

Unleash the Power Within (Tony Robbins) (Part 2)

Gary Vaynerchuk speaks about the art of marketing. A series of questions that go in depth and allow him to expand on some of his core beliefs. 

This is a must-listen for fans of Gary, and anybody looking for inspiration in the workplace or in their personal lives.

Gary Vaynerchuk  The Art of Marketing - part 1 (The Stream Economy)

Hey Soundcloud users! I realized that a lot of you might not know who I am, so here is a little intro I just recorded to let you know who I am and what I'm all about.

Quick Introduction to Gary Vaynerchuk

Family 1st! but after that, Businessman. Just a dude that Loves the Hustle, People & the @NYJets. CEO of @vaynermedia. Tasted wine for years at @winelibrary

A Rant: Think LEGACY, not DOLLARS

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