Gary Vee to the rescue

The following events took place yesterday:

1. I have lost my aunt’s £5,000. I’m such a great niece, I am.
2. Gary Vaynerchuk’s Crush It! arrived from Amazon
3. So did a Mira showerhead minus a hose washer = water everywhere
4. I finally finished drafting three marketing jobs descriptions for Huddle

Overall, it could’ve been worse. I could be pregnant. It would cost more than £5,000 in a first year, wouldn’t it? Or I could’ve slipped on #uksnow last night, fallen on my face and needed some expensive re-constructive surgery (post-Nude LondonTech Calendar, I’ve become exceedingly vain). No one died, no one got diagnosed with a terminal disease.

Yet, losing £5k of my aunt’s money that I invested in my former company’s shares (seven years of sweat and tears) left me a bit weepy. It’s not fair, I thought. It was supposed to be my Dodge fund (you do need a Dodge on a ranch).

But then, I started reading ‘Crush It’ on my way back home. By the time I got to Gary Vee’s baseball cards-$1,000 borrowed from dad-lost-repaid within four months story, I couldn’t care less if my former employer went bust (it didn’t, most likely won’t, but my monies, sorry, auntie’s monies lost). One way or the other, my auntie’s getting her money back.

According to Gary, I’m on my way. Success is in my DNA. I, too, know what it’s like to queue six hours to buy a loaf of bread. I follow his three rules: Love your family. Work superhard. Live your passion. I might have to work on the ‘Love your family’ bit after my mother’s reaction to the #LDNnudetech was, I quote: “Well, well, you don’t look too bad”.

I guess being passionate about building brands may seem pretty lame to some, but hey ho, rocks my boat. It’s on par with, let’s say, a fast trot. And hearing from some of you that you need ‘a Zuzanna’ or ‘a @huddlesuz’ for your marketing team surely means that the formula works.

Huddle and building our marketing team aside, I still have some time to spare in a day to make my auntie’s £5k back (7pm-2am since I don’t have any kids, Gary says). Perhaps, it’s just a kick in a butt I needed to take some proper care of Horselicious. Failing that, I’ll be setting up some lemonade stands across Camden.

If you missed the moral of the above story: read Gary’s book, it’s fucking awesome.