A speaker recalls stammering through a grade 10 speech at 118 kg while classmates laughed, but finished anyway and told his mother he did it for her. He frames that humiliation as the starting point that built his resilience.
Chapters
If you could hire one famous person as your agency's creative director, who would it be? Gary Vee. Gary Vee is the answer to 90% of the questions. So you've spent a lot of time on stages. Uh, your favorite stage moment where you came on and said, okay, wow, like, this is super? When I was in grade 10 and I was 118 kilos and the whole— everybody was laughing. And my mom said, you had, you know, you have— you swear by me that you would have finished the speech. And it was excruciating because I was stammering and I was overweight and people were laughing. But when that speech finished, I— everybody was still laughing and I was like, wanted to die. But I knew I could go home and tell mom that I did it. That going home and telling her that, you know, I did it for you, I, I'm still like that. I still want to go home and tell her that I did it for you. And yeah, you spoke on some big, big stages then, all the way back then. Very super.