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  • (phone ringing)

  • (phone ringing)

  • - [Taylor] Hello? - Hey Taylor, it's GaryVee.

  • You're on The #AskGaryVee Show.

  • - [Taylor] No way!

  • - Yes way. - [Taylor] Holy crap.

  • Okay.

  • - Where you from? - [Taylor] Yeah, sweet.

  • I'm from Buffalo, New York.

  • - I love it, are you a Bills fan?

  • (Taylor sighs)

  • - [Taylor] Unfortunately yes.

  • - I know you said unfortunately 'cause you're trying--

  • - [Taylor] We're not doing good.

  • - Well listen, neither are the Jets, don't worry.

  • So what's going on?

  • (Taylor laughs)

  • - [Taylor] Nothing much.

  • I basically was just dying to ask you a question.

  • Currently graduated college last May

  • and I'm trying to build my own business,

  • brand, hustle, all that kinda stuff.

  • My question for you is, and I'm probably sure

  • that a lot of people ask this--

  • - It's okay. - [Taylor] The same things.

  • - It's okay.

  • - [Taylor] How do you get over

  • the stump of you're graduating, and you feel

  • all this pressure 'cause you're trying

  • to build something but you're still so young.

  • But you wanna do the stuff and grow it big.

  • I'm just in a rut and I can't get out of it.

  • But I have a hustle and a drive

  • that I know I'll be able to build something.

  • But I'm just in this space that's not--

  • - I know where you're at.

  • - [Taylor] That's not allowing me to.

  • - Let me help you.

  • The space you're in is

  • probably the macro, micro issue.

  • So it's macro patience, micro speed, right?

  • - [Taylor] Yeah. - What do I mean by that?

  • You need to be patient as fuck, Taylor.

  • You're 22, 23-years-old.

  • Like what do you think's gonna happen overnight?

  • - [Taylor] Yeah, I know.

  • - You need to be fast.

  • 7 A.M. to two in the morning every day.

  • But in the big picture, you need to realize nothing good

  • is gonna happen for the next six years.

  • - [Taylor] Okay.

  • Do you think that I should just

  • try every good idea that I think

  • I have and just go for it all out?

  • Or do you think I should stick with one thing at a time?

  • - I think the fact that you even

  • asked that question, that you should

  • taste flirting with a lot of different things

  • because you'll be crippled by the what if if you don't.

  • Even though that's not the perfect

  • formula to build the biggest short term wealth

  • because you should triple down on one thing

  • instead of being half pregnant on nine.

  • - [Taylor] Okay, I like that.

  • - Taylor, let me tell you something.

  • Let me ask you, the pressure, who do you?

  • Like are you trying to prove to yourself,

  • to your siblings, to your parents, to the world?

  • Who are you trying to prove that

  • you're successful to, or that this

  • was the right call, or you're gonna make it?

  • That's what you have to figure out.

  • - [Taylor] Hmm, that's a good question.

  • - What are you impatient for?

  • What's the problem?

  • You wanna buy a fuckin' Rolex?

  • What's the rush?

  • - [Taylor] I feel like I've known

  • that I'm mean to do something big.

  • - Me too. - [Taylor] And I grew up in

  • an entrepreneurial household. - Me too.

  • - [Taylor] So it's in my blood,

  • it's in my bones. - Good.

  • - [Taylor] I feel like I watch

  • all these other Millennials hitting

  • these huge I guess milestones in their life--

  • - What milestones?

  • - [Taylor] Then I'm sitting here.

  • - Let's break it down. How old are you?

  • - [Taylor] I'm 22, about to be 23.

  • - Okay, what milestone, please give

  • me a Millennial and the milestone

  • they achieved that makes you feel

  • like you're just sitting in fucking Buffalo?

  • - [Taylor] Well, I'm sitting in Buffalo,

  • which is one thing I'm not happy about.

  • But-- - That's right 'cause

  • it's home of the Buffalo Bills, piece of shit team.

  • - [Taylor] Yeah. (laughs)

  • - But before you go there, forget about sitting in Buffalo,

  • who's the Millennial and what's the milestone

  • that's making you feel like you're sitting there?

  • Go.

  • The truth, go.

  • - [Taylor] Well honestly there's people

  • on social media which definitely

  • is not always true-- - Who?

  • - [Taylor] But I watch, oh god, the only thing

  • on the spot I can think of is a Kardashian

  • or a Jenner which is lame, but. (laughing)

  • - Can we talk about this please?

  • - [Taylor] Yeah, I feel like, sure.

  • - Like you're telling me that Kylie Jenner's fucking

  • trillion followers on Instagram

  • makes you feel like you're just sitting there?

  • - [Taylor] No, I feel like the fact

  • that she's already got a business

  • started that's super successful,

  • obviously that comes with her fame.

  • - Did you factor in the fact that

  • her sisters and mom architected

  • something for 10 years while she was a teenager that she

  • was able to walk directly into, that gave her a springboard?

  • That she had the financial capabilities

  • of deploying ungodly amounts of plastic surgery,

  • and all the other variable things that she's been able

  • to do to create that culture, and that financial benefit?

  • - [Taylor] Yeah.

  • - Did you factor in that her mom

  • is a ninja architect of business and created that framework?

  • - [Taylor] Yeah and I feel like

  • not many people give them the credit for that.

  • - I agree. - [Taylor] I totally think that

  • they built this empire. - I agree.

  • But what the fuck does that have to do with you?

  • - [Taylor] It has nothing to do with me.

  • I know. - No shit.

  • Remember how I?

  • I don't know if you saw this where I said

  • stop looking at your friends' shit

  • or whatever the fuck I put on Instagram?

  • - [Taylor] Yeah.

  • - I don't know if you saw it

  • or not but it doesn't matter.

  • Like you looking at the Kardashians

  • is the most ludicrous horseshit I've ever heard in my life.

  • (Taylor laughs)

  • - [Taylor] Well that's just first one that can pop into my

  • when you asked me. - Great.

  • Listen, we're here, we're here.

  • Give me another one.

  • - [Taylor] There's a guy in London.

  • I can't think of his name

  • at the top of my head. - I'm gonna stop,

  • I'm gonna stop you right now.

  • - [Taylor] Okay.

  • - Let me give you some, I was gonna say fatherly.

  • I guess my father was 40, now I'll give you some

  • massively older brother, uncle advice.

  • You ready? - [Taylor] (laughs) Okay, yes.

  • - Every second you spend thinking

  • about what somebody else has is taking

  • away from time that you could create something for yourself.

  • - [Taylor] Yeah.

  • - You're losing.

  • You're losing 'cause you're laying

  • in your bed looking at somebody's fucking

  • glamorous photoshopped picture of them doing something cool.

  • You're envious, and you're jealous,

  • and you're impatient, and it's crippling your upside.

  • - [Taylor] Yeah 'cause that's where

  • I wanna be and I know I'm not there yet.

  • - You haven't done shit.

  • - [Taylor] I know.

  • - So go do shit that actually gets you there

  • so that you earn it instead of like

  • you