Joel Cummings | VeeCon

“We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say–and to feel–‘Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.” -John Steinbeck via @BeeMacDee1950

@deekaymotion Oh! Just arrived ourselves from LAX.

Gm Portugal 🇵🇹

@ShaanVP @triplewhale @NumeralTax Any insights on product reviews on shopify?

my ecom stack (to get to $25m/yr) - here's each tool that I use, and what I use it for. 1) @triplewhale - mobile dashboard is great. I can monitor the business at a glance on my phone. 2) @NumeralTax - state taxes. If you're not doing state taxes right, you're going to end up royally screwed. Numeral just handles it for me. 3) @FinaloopTeam - finance/P&L in realtime. I used to have to wait till the end of the month for a bookeeper to finish my books in Quickbooks. Finaloop is realtime and made for ecommerce specifically 4) @northbeam - ad attribution. Figure out which ads to spend more/less on. 5) @Shopify & @klaviyo - pretty standard store/email sender 6) @PostscriptIO to send SMS. We used to have another provider. so janky. Postscript interface so much easier to use, and they have features that generate more revenue 7) @PassportShip - this is how we do international shipping. They integrate w/ 3PL and make it super easy to grow internationally 8) @getpostpilot - I think of them like "klaviyo, for sending physical mail". We run post card campaigns with them to retarget existing customers, and get pretty crazy roas 9) @weareshepherd - for hiring overseas talent (eg. data analytics, virtual assistant, marketing assistant, social media, designers etc... ~40% of our team is international). and @deel to pay them (they handle the payments, currencies, compliance) I'm probably forgetting a few more. happy to answer any Qs for anyone getting started. Pretty crazy how easy it's become to run an ecom brand. Traditional retail would take ~100+ employees to do the same thing we can do with 14, just because the software stack automates so much manual work. *note, I own equity in a few of these, because after being a customer I reached out to invest.

@JustinPugh @JesseItzler @PeterAttiaMD So good.

@JesseItzler Outlive by Peter Attia @PeterAttiaMD

I am reading 50 books this year. What book recommendations for me?

@NoWackIsh @JesseItzler +1 Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

@ben_barton30 @JesseItzler +1 Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

Fate is the Hunter - Ernest K. Gann Winning is not Enough - Jackie Stewart Their Finest Hour - Sir Winston Churchill When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi The Match - Mark Frost (if you’re a golfer) Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl Red Rising - Pierce Brown All the pretty horses - Cormac McCarthy

@JesseItzler Absolute best book on Storytelling by @BeeMacDee1950. Simple, not easy. Straight forward, no fluff. Invisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories that Resonate a.co/d/b9f94UT

Come join @House_of_Ren89’s first space!!

@House_of_Ren89 @garyvee Nice Job Man!

4 month update since I've been posting everyday. I really love history and love what I'm doing. Slowly trying to make it into a business and working towards monetization on YT. I need to work on making better videos. All a process. Thanks again for all the knowledge @garyvee !!

@House_of_Ren89 @garyvee @veefriends 🤙🤙

Tonight's video is Authentic Anaconda! Sorry for being late again 😅 Just talking about myself and my personality. This is the real me :) Hope you enjoy! Keeping myself accountable and posting everyday! @garyvee @veefriends

@JulianGilliam Next time!

Anyone wanna hoop tomorrow at 9am in LA?

🚨 GIVEAWAY TIME 🚨 2022 VeeCon Viper "POAP" Plaque ✨ Rules to enter 📋: - Like & RT this post ✅ - Follow me @BurgeUK ✅ Ends at 10PM BST (5PM EST) tomorrow! ⏰ @veefriends @veecon @garyvee

100 days sober today 🧵💌

HERE IT IS, @VEECON THE MOVIE 2023 QUOTE-TWEET/RE-TWEET with a comment of your favorite part of the movie to enter to win a “GIFT GOAT” @Veefriends Series 2 NFT. Winner gets chosen within 24 hours. Help us spread the word. Sponsored by my alcohol company: drinkamati.com Use coupon code VEECON for 35% off. Help support my cousin and myself for growing organic sustainable myrtle berry liquor on our 23 acre farm in Fallbrook, California. Those who buy a bottle of Amati will get a special something in the mail from me :) Must be over 21+ in America to order alcohol. Please drink responsibly. TIMESTAMPS: DAY ONE [0:35] The Barbershop - shoutout to @DaBarberSh0p, @AjayFlemings, and @AfakasiBrand for getting my hair game on point. [1:49] Hangout Hawk Lunch - shoutout to @LaptopLaura for organizing it. KAWWWWW! [2:23] Leaders On Chain - shoutout to @LeadHersOnChain ⁦@VDizzle777 @NatLangford @HollyRoznowski @JapaneseNFTgirl @SeemaAlexander & @CarlyComTar for organizing that…oh and meeting @KATZNESS who organized the Veefriends event in Miami during Art Basil. [2:59] PreCon - Ran by @wellbeings_xyz x @livehiped [3:20] My first after-party. Shoutout to @jeremyknowsVF for taking the time out of his insane schedule to say hi to everyone. DAY TWO [5:50] Spectacular Lunch - shoutout to @fisherbenny and @david_matheney for putting this together. It was getting a word in with @davidrocknyc & @dustynotjusty here. [6:48] VeeCon Welcome Party - shoutout to Gentle Tornado and all the other community speakers. [7:49] Busta Rhymes Concert - @BustaRhymes DAY THREE [10:40] Gift Goat Signing Event - shoutout to @dannycoleee from @creatureworld for literally signing people’s stuff with proper artwork. Insane dedication. [11:14] VEECON! Shoutout to @JesseItzler @scooterbraun @andrewschulz @JordinSparks and more. [13:16] SHIV’S AFTER PARTY: Is it weird to give a shoutout to me on this one? Haha. Somehow got 800+ people to party together. Idk how we pulled it off. [15:56] SHIV’S AFTER AFTER PARTY: Did I mention I make alcohol called Amati. Buy a bottle. Help a brotha out. Kthx. DAY FOUR [16:31] Unboxing 10 C&C Boxes [18:48] Pulling a spectacular & talking to @garyvee! [19:25] My final farewell after after after party in the JW Lobby. Ends up @adamripps dad is super dope. Drink responsibly. Support me by buying a bottle of ‘Amati’: drinkamati.com Use coupon code VEECON for 35% off. Help support my cousin and myself for growing organic sustainable myrtle berry liquor on our 23 acre farm in Fallbrook, California. Shout-out to @JassimJust for filming and editing this masterpiece and of course @garyvee, @krainak and the entire Veefriends/Veecon team.

5 months ago my computer got hacked and I lost $150,000 At the moment it was the worst day of my life I lost a tremendous amount of money and was embarrassed on a public stage. Looking back now, I couldn't be more grateful Let me explain: On January 13th of this year, a group of Russian hackers (shout out the internet sleuths for figuring that out) broke into my computer and took everything. Hijacked my Twitter, Substack, Gmail, Discord, and broke into all of my crypto wallets. Heck, even to this day I'm getting alerts from accounts I reporting I have suspicious activity. I still remember where I was. Sitting on my couch about to eat dinner with my partner. I started getting texts that my assets were being moved. I look at my digital wallets. All empty. Tweets being sent out with malicious links from my account. Emails with malicious links being sent out from my Substack. I was in shock. Didn't even move for hours from that spot. I knew my entire life just got turned upside down. What made it worse was I was a public figure. Everyone knew about it instantly. All I could read online was about how I lost it all. I wish you could see my DMs from that month. The most vile, toxic, putrid individuals in the darkest corners of the internet were attacking me. It was brutally difficult. Not only because of the negative attention, but because it felt like my goals were torn away from me. I'm not rich. I come from 0 money. I was saving everything I could so I could chase my dreams. My dream was to quit my job and build this account and my business full time. The money I lost was my ticket to achieving those dreams. All of a sudden, it felt like those dreams were destroyed. It felt like my purpose was taken away from me. So I disappeared for 3 weeks. I can still remember what my partner said to me on that night. That somehow, some way, things would be better after this than they ever were before. Turns out she was right. It's funny what being in the trenches does to you. Being at rock bottom. It changes you. It changes the way you think. It changes the way you operate. I don't mean to offend anyone, but I don't think people who are handed everything, who have never faced a true challenge, can ever truly experience the hardening that comes from hitting rock bottom. There's a mental toughness you can't create through meditation and saunas that you can only get from being punched squarely in the face. That punch in January changed me. When I came back from that long break I was a different man. I completely transformed emotionally. The small things that bothered me before, have almost no impact on me now. I came back with my singular goal in mind, building a business and working for myself. I doubled down on effort. I doubled down on eliminating distractions. 3 months after the hack, I quit my job My newsletter and socials were growing faster than I ever could imagine. My community was at an all time high. Never did I think within 12 months would I be making enough to support myself with this account. I accomplished it in 3 months. It's hard to say what life would be like if I didn't get almost everything taken away from me. I can very confidently say, I wouldn't be here. If you've gone through something similar or are going through tough times now, just remember that as long as you have your health, you have everything you need. Everything else is just noise. Let all that sh*t and all those people that try to tear you down go. They don't matter, they're just deeply insecure. Keep fighting. Keep pushing.

made it to 27, grateful af 💚

Couldn’t have got this done with out my folks… Appreciate everyone who helped pull this together. This was hella big… @garyvee @Head8cke @fam1stfam @_T3MP0 blockster.com/veecon-23-vips…

Mr. Beast has made $100 million off of YouTube I’m going to do the same thing off Twitter Here’s my simple playbook you can use:

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Meeting people like @BmtAlexis is what @veecon is all about. 🙌🏽 Thank you so much for all you did for me while I was there. 🎉 HUGE SHOUTOUT to you and the entire FRENCH team 🔥 You’re the definition of what of @veefriends is all about.

@EdKrassen "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike" -Oscar Wilde

Conservatives want to cancel North Face because their ad is “offensive” to them. Liberals cancelled several Dr. Seuss books because their books were “offensive” to them. Conservatives cancelled “Critical Race Theory,” because they didn’t agree with it. Liberals cancelled the 1776 commission promoting “patriotic education,” because they didn’t like it. Everyone supports cancel culture, but just in ways that fit their own tribe’s ideological views. The question is, how do we stop this pendulum from swinging back and forth? Or do we even want to?