On this episode, I answer book questions on my book day.
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You ask questions,
and I answer them.
This is the #AskGaryVee Show.
Hey everybody, this is Gary Vay-ner-chuk
and it's episode 190 of the #AskGaryVee show.
I have a fun idea for the editing, Staphon
make sure I don't forget.
Vayner Nation big heartfelt thank you.
Obviously, I gave you a huge rant at the end of 189.
We don't need to go through that again.
So if you're watching 190 right now
because we put out 189 late, you alright?
- [India] Yeah. Since we put out 189 late
that episode ended with the
heartfelt thank you for everybody.
Today is book day, I am leaving in a second to go to St. Louis.
I will see so many of you tonight
at a big, big book event with my boy Andy.
Looking forward to that. I will bring serious fire.
Actually, you know what, Staphon we haven't edited in a while.
Fire! Make it come out of my mouth.
There we go. Feeling good.
Feeling good about the book.
Last night, CNN was good.
Talked a little Snapchat and politics.
India got a shoutout on CNN.
She was fired up. - I was.
- Did you get any love from some of your friends?
- Yeah. - Amazing.
Good Day, New York this morning
was very feisty. We should have that clip shortly.
Me and Greg Kelly got in to a
young man, old man conversation in my opinion.
- Most people when they ask me questions
are asking me to give them encouragement
to go for it because their parents didn't build their self esteem.
- Ok, that's a little bit respectfully outside your field--
- No, it's not. - of expertise.
- I totally disagree. - I mean look but it's an opinion.
You have one, I have one. - Well, listen, that's fine.
That's your opinion. Now I'm going to set you straight.
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- And here we are, India, and so here we are.
I think that we should go in to it, right?
- Let's go in to that thing that we do.
- Let's do that thing we do. - That thing that's now a book.
- That's right. Let's get into
- [Both] The show!
- Oh, your energy is not working. This is book day.
Let's go again. - No it's not. I can't. (laughs)
- Let's-- - Get into--
- Get into-- - Get into--
- [Both] The show!
- There we go. There we go.
India, let's do it.
- [Voiceover] Matt asks, "What was the most difficult
"aspect about the production of this book?"
- What was the most difficult
aspect of the production of this book?
As a matter of fact, this was probably the easiest book
I've ever written from a production stand point
because so much of the content had a framework.
One of the things I'm most proud of
is the responses on social media and email this morning
of people that are stunned how
different it is than the actual show.
Way too much, maybe a bad job by me,
way too many people assuming that it was a transcription
from the show. We took every question
and answer that we did from the show
and then added 100 of them but the ones that came
from the show, I reread, I added sentences, context,
updated and so it wasn't super hard.
Steph Land, who I acknowledge
in the book, my ghostwriter for
the fourth business book in a row
is incredible. She knows me.
We're a book married couple.
We know how to jam with each other.
I did a lot of it during my summer month in August
in the Hamptons. So I was in a very good place.
It was kind of like, get a cup of coffee in the morning,
play with the kids a little bit and then they'd go to camp
and just get in that place, put on the headphones
call Steph and be like,
"Alright, Steph, what's the question?
No! What you have to do is"
I would start off zen but it went intense very quickly.
It was great. You guys were a big help.
We organized. This one was quite smooth.
I mean honestly this could be the blueprint
if this #AskGaryVee, what a lot of people don't know
is that the #AskGaryVee show ends today
and we're going to be transitioning to DailyVee
and so with the book launch, I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
What's a lot of fun is if this show keeps going
you know even though I want to write Perfectly Parented
even though I want to write I Wish Everyone Was an Immigrant
even though there's other books that I'd like to write
I could see an #AskGaryVee Book Volume 2.
I mean this is a format that could work.
Andy, the response is real. - [Andy] Yes.
- There we go. India.
Oh, I should answer it. The toughest part,
I guess the toughest part was the pressure I felt to make it
not a transcription of the book. And that's actually
why I think the book came out really strong.
I forced myself to go, you know, I love to talk in tweets
and in headlines and powerful punches.
I keep my second, third and
fourth tier stuff normally for my businesses.
#AskGaryVee, the show, made me get into my second and
third tier stuff and I tried to force myself to
get in to some fourth tier stuff in the book.
- [Voiceover] Keith asks, "Can you talk a little bit about the
"outline/organization process of the #AskGaryVee book?
"How did you decide the best order of info?"
- Steph Land, Steph Land. What Steph does extremely well
is she watches the last two years of my videos
I got on the phone with her and said
"Look, these are the things that are mattering to me."
If you remember, you might have been on this but
Stunwin, by the way, big shout out to Stunwin
I texted him last night before I even texted you guys
big shout out to Stunwin who was a big part of this book
obviously, India killed him and he is no longer around.
We miss him, let him rest in peace.
We love him very much. He's actually on floor 12.
Actually Staphon, when you get a chance,
I'm not even kidding, go down and capture him
real quick just so we can edit him in for a quick second.
Literally just roll up on him when he's not paying attention
get it and leave.
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He was a big factor.
I think we all, if you remember there was a two hour call
I remember I was somewhere on a client thing
when we talked about what should the chapters be.
For some reason, patience didn't make it.
I'm devastated.
But you know, we talked about parenting
and self-awareness, we got a lot more into that EQ thing.
We got on a two hour call, me and the team,
we all talked about what the themes were
about 150 episodes into the show.
We got into them and they became chapters
and then I had to call Steph and literally it was
like "Okay, Clouds and Dirt" and then I just talked.
I just talked and then it was recorded,
she layered on grammar and away we went.
- [Voiceover] Daniel asks, "What is the most humbling
"thing that has happened to you
"through this book's promotion?"
- I think the most humbling thing is,
this is actually very easy for me to answer,
it's the extremities on both sides of the equation
of the audience that consumes my content.
The people that know me the longest
the Justin Thorpe's of the world,
that are saying "Wow this is really quality stuff."
You know, people that have listened to me
for seven years. They know my spiel.
I mean think about you and Andy,
you literally watch me at the 92nd St Y
the other day and you know what's about to
come out of my mouth before it comes out.
When you're around somebody, right, and you're consuming.
For the people that know me the best,
to really get their $19 worth because there's
really more stuff 'cause I forced it to level four
and on the other direction, the people that are in
mainstream media, the people that are
a little more cynical by DNA nature.
The people that think I'm a loud mouth
or don't think that cursing is gentlemanly
those people reaching out, some of the heartfelt
emails that I've got in the last week of like
I didn't believe in you and this has caught me off-guard
or I've never been a fan but I had to review this for my
website and I was blown away. Or I never really understood
that you were anything more than a blowhard promoter.
The two parties, really into me,
really not into me going, I don't know, nonetheless,
that has been humbling in the fact that I know
I've created something really strong here because
I'm getting reactions from both sides of the aisle.
That matters to me.
And that was a goal and that feels good
when you accomplish a goal.
- [Voiceover] Tim asks, "What surprised you the most about
"the success of the book launch compared to your last book?
"Thanks for all you do."
I don't know, I mean, there was so many
more of you guys than there was with just
me and Nate for Jab, Jab, Jab.
I don't know if anything surprised me.
I would say that my team starting with you Andy
you guys really, really brought it.
You really did. I'm really proud of the team.
And it built momentum. I think Staphon, Andrew I could see
even halfway through like the whole team came together.
Like you guys really worked it.
Especially since the first of January it really was rolling.
I think the other thing that surprised me
is that I fucked up, I didn't have that one
organized day 30 days.
There was no reason to have the fuck up of
not having that one organized day and that's on me
not on you guys. I like how you looked at Andy.
There's one day that we should have had
that wouldn't have allowed all the vulnerabilities
that I can think of now.
Like there's literally like 40 more people
that I could have write a Medium reivew.
There's probably 100 more influencers.
I said this yesterday,
we said this Staphon at the end of DailyVee yesterday
as hard as you leave it on the field
there's always the 15 other things you can think of.
There's things that we did better on Jab, Jab
that we didn't do on this. That I'm just like, man.
I guess what surprised me,
it's not what surprised me, two observations are
I'm so proud of the team, I thought they really brought it
and I'm used to being the strongest energy
and for the team to match my energy or get close to it
excites me, and then two, even with all that even when I
think I'm the best, even with all that support,
seven, eight of you underneath me
I literally right this minute can think of 25
more things that we left on the table.
Crazy.
That's what's important.
I think a lot of people beat themselves up
for it. I recognize it because I want to give a good answer
on the show mainly because I want to give you
a proxy which is like look, you give it your at-bat
and that's what it is.
When you see an athlete retire. A lot of big guys are retiring,
Peyton, Kobe, all this. If you can get into that place where you
felt like look, you left a lot on the table.
You don't think Kobe and Peyton
are thinking right now about that one championship
that they had.
Kobe's thinking about that Game 7 against the Celtics.
You don't think Peyton's thinking about that Saints game.
They're thinking about it every second of the day
because that's what winners do.
Winners think about that but it doesn't destroy them.
It doesn't become cancer.
It's just something they love to ponder
while being equally massively content
that they left it on the field.
And that's how I feel about this book.
We did a really great job. I'm really proud of it.
There's 25 things I wish we did.
That was deep. I like that one.
Cool. Last one, you're excited about this one.
- [India] It's a cute-y. - Oh, you like cuteness.
You're into cute? - Sometimes, yeah.
- Great. - [India] I'm not upset.
- No, I just have you positioned as cute. You know?
Not that you're not cute, I mean like you're not into
"Let's have pink fluffy flowers thrown in the air."
- [India] Things can be cute and not be fluffy, too.
- [Gary] Yes, I know that.
That's why I'm curious to see what this is.
Let's see--
Let's see how cute this is?
- [Voiceover] Dan D asks, "What did feel like to see
"the book in stores today?"
- I haven't seen it yet. - [India] (laughs)
- Great question, India. - [India] (laughs)
- You know that I didn't see--
- [India] What about people tweeting you and stuff.
- That's not me seeing it. You lost.
Question of the day:
What the hell was India doing on that last, just kidding.
Question of the day,
yeah, yeah,
you know what, this actually in your world too
we're going to do it together.
Question of the day:
Tag the person that I should give this book to.
We're giving away 100 copies on me.
You're going to work with me on this.
Now these are people that 100% don't know about what's going on here
but you see from afar could benefit from this.
We're going to surprise some peeps my friends.
We did this yesterday too, right?
So some people that reply we're going to do
four or five there but we're going
big today. This is me giving back to the Vayner Nation,
to the people that are most important in your life
and things of that nature.
We're going to go hard at this, Andy.
I really want to surprise people.
I like that people on Facebook Live are like,
"Whoa, whoa, whoa." They're going to be ready
for when this goes up in a couple hours.
Staph, what do you think, four hours from now?
- [Staphon] Yeah. - Ok.
Facebook, YouTube. It's Facebook.
YouTube if you're watching go to Facebook.com/Gary
please tag the person that you think needs this book.
India, put together a team. Garrett, Riley
so they reply in there, they go,
hey Staphon tags Terry Rice.
Riley and Garrett and you have to go
or whoever we put the team on
goes in there and says, "Hey Terry Rice."
Tag them, "If you DM me your address
we'll get the book out to you."
Let's make 100 people better.
You keep asking questions,
I'll keep answering them.
Thank you Vayner Nation.
Go, nope, I have a different plan for it.
See ya later.
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