- [Gary] What episode is this 70?
- [DRock] 71.
- Episode 71, late afternoon Chicago
now flying to Toronto.
You got your passport, DRock?
- [DRock] I do.
- Remember when you missed that flight to Australia?
(light music)
- Yeah, just sitting in the back of the car thinking about work
really but just broke out of it for second and thinking about
DailyVee and this journey.
It's super interesting.
I hope some of continue to get inspired and continue to vlog.
I really wish I did this my whole life.
It'd be so fun to make,
you know, content
mash-up content right now of like these days
like really in the grind obviously
I assume that you will show some of the
can't see moments of earlier today.
- [DRock] Only in Chicago for a few more hours.
- Yeah, we only go to Chicago for a few hours.
- [DRock] Is there a rule that we can't stay for a day?
- I'm not giving you any content right now, DRock.
I'm so livid.
I'm about to rip faces.
That was a nice little bright spot
in what's been difficult morning.
I'm super pissed at some executives at VaynerMedia.
This is a fundamental low light for me in the company's history.
I am, I have no idea how I'm gonna build an organization that
can allow to happen what just happened with (censored).
I'm not gonna, we're not gonna air out the laundry here.
I will figure out exactly how I got to this horse shit place
right now but the fact that I have this completely set up and
take 10 hours to build a relationship over the course of
two years with (censored) and have it handed to us on a
platter and to have the embarrassment that this is
is fucking asinine and is loser shit at the highest levels.
Dropping the ball is just not interesting.
- [Woman] We're ready.
- Ready? Great.
Interesting to see how I handle things today versus those issues
back in Wine Library or in that transition when I started
speaking compared to today.
Be really cool to compare today's talk to
one from 2009 or what have you.
If I was giving this talk four years ago, I would've said the
following which is, and honestly if you're making enough and you
like they way you're doing it and you love your work life
balance like do you.
What's changed in my tone over the last four years is knowing
what's coming.
And what's coming is a bigger tidal wave
than the one we just went through.
Really enjoying the journey.
Really appreciate the feedback from the community and also
really giving a lot of thought right now and being
introspective right now even in the car, really trying to
challenge me and DRock.
Had some good creative ideas I thought the other day.
(light music)
- [Man] How do you talk to people about overcoming the
fears of getting out on social?
'Cause I think whether you're a lawyer or not there's insecurity
that's (inaudible) there.
- I talk to them about their first kiss, driving a car,
going to college, getting married that's what is.
I don't know.
And those are all good things.
I think not adopting technology is a bad thing.
Meaning you can go out of business.
You can lose your clients.
They liked using you as a lawyer,
somebody started a YouTube or a podcast show
that they like and they go to them instead.
- [Man] Thanks for being here.
- Thank you brother, thanks for having me.
- [Man] You bet.
- [Woman 2] Awesome. - Awesome.
- Thanks man. - Thanks for having me, man.
- Yeah, no,-- - I'm excited.
- I'm a huge fan by the way. - Thank you, bro.
- One of our gentlemen who works in our marketing department his
name is Ken Kelkatis.
- Ken? - Yes.
Huge fan of you.
- You have your phone?
- I do.
- Let's make him something.
Ken, it's GaryVee.
I'm super sad you're not here.
He's not here, right?
- [Woman 2] He's not here, I'm sorry.
- Ken, we will meet I promise.
It will happen.
Thank you so much for the kind words and love brother.
I hope we get to meet super soon.
Take care.
Alright. - Thank you so much.
- You're welcome.
- Oh my gosh, he is going to absolute,
he's gonna be like you set this up.
- You got it right? - Yeah.
- Just want to make sure.
- You know what?
We can just sneak across the front.
- [Gary] Okay.
- [Woman 3] Hey! - [Gary] Hi, how are you?
Good to see you.
Are you well? - [Woman 3] Yeah!
- [Gary] Awesome.
- [Man 2] Sup GaryVee? - [Gary] Sup man?
How are you? Good to see you.
You're well?
- Selfie?
- [Gary] Of course.
Thank you, man.
- [Man 2] Kick ass.
- [Gary] Thank you, man. Thanks for being here.
- [Man 2] Go Jets! - [Gary] Yes.
- So when people ask dumb questions--
- I love it.
- and I also use it as a branding opportunity.
Whenever you do, just have fun.
- DRock, save this, let's put it in the background of the show.
Of The #AskGaryVee Show. (bell dings)
- And I'm glad I got to talk to you because
I called my shot this morning that I was going to do anything
I could to have a conversation with you.
- Such a pleasure.
- If there's anything I can do
to be an asset to you, I appreciate it.
- Thank you, brother. - Thanks Gary.
- Your grandparents and
great-grandparents didn't have this opportunity.
They couldn't do it.
The technology didn't exist.
They didn't have the luxury and the opportunities we have and
for us to sit here and not take it and not have a chance to get
the most out of it and to take this huge opportunity for
granted because it's new and it's hard work feels very
loser-like and I'm trying to will one or two people per talk,
every day to stop doing it.
And so please, my friends,
understand how big of a deal this is.
Get educated on it, put in the work, 50 hours of reading and
listening will put you at the top of your craft.
Another 50 hours of producing and testing and getting over
yourself and not worrying and just trying will put you in a
position for so much more
success than you could even imagine.
I've become realistic that that means only three or four of you
are actually gonna do this but that seems great to me.
I'll take it and so I really, really hope you understood the
essence of the talk and I really appreciate you having me here.
Thank you so much.
(applause)
- [Gary] Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks, man. Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Are we doing Q&A?
Does Q&A happen here or somewhere else?
Thank you so much.
However you take this statement I can't control
but I will tell you this, this is what it is.
Day in and day out.
Episode 71 is gonna look a
lot like episode 710 if we get there.
It's operations, it's people management,
it's putting in the work.
The flights, the grind, it's debating the future.
It's strategizing the opportunity.
It's being practical while on the offense.
It's keeping a million different balls in the air.
It's juggling short-term goals versus long-term.
Ambition.
It's just rinse and repeat.
And for people that are watching this for entertainment value,
it'll be interesting to see like what that
continuous unfiltered
reputation, repetition of this grind
is gonna do for your viewing pleasure.
Because one thing I promise I'm not gonna pander or be concerned
about the fact that it all looks the same forever.
'Cause that's the punchline.
Do you have the tenacity and the ambition and the skills and the
hunger and the want and the need
to be able to keep doing it day in and day out.
And day in and day out.
Through all the adversities that trying to achieve something
special are naturally structured in.
I'm interested in it.
(light music)
- [DRock] Are you, do you think you're more refined?
- [Gary] I think I definitely think to like, you know, it's
unbelievable and for all of you at home right now, I thought
I was unstoppable and great 10 years ago.
I'm just better now.
- [DRock] (inaudible) - [Gary] Yeah.
I mean I'm just better and I'll be better then.
Experience matters.
It's just part of the equation.
When you're 24 and you've got skills,
you don't want to think so.
You're different.
You know what it is?
It's like a baseball pitcher.
You throw harder when you're young but you're a better
pitcher when you're older.
Toronto bound. Canada, baby.
(light music)
- [Gary] And I think you get craftier and smarter and even
know how to allocate your time better.
And as great as I like to think
I am at focusing on the big things,
I'll get better at that. I've gotten better at that.
But for me, you know, and much like an athlete, you can be
craftier but then you still gotta throw the ball.
You still got to put the ball in the hoop.
You gotta still put the puck past the goalie.
So I don't mind getting my hands dirty.
I don't mind operating.
I'll never get too fancy and sit in an Ivory Tower.
It's just not where I come from.
It's just not how I'm wired.
(light music)
- [Gary] And it's an advantage in some ways and in other ways
I look at other people and I'm envious they don't have a need
or a want or a desire to do that grind-y, grimy shit
but that's just in me.
(light music)
- [Gary] And that doesn't go anywhere.
No matter how much money, fame, opportunity you get.
(light music)