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Scooter Braun

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“I appreciate that. Keep doing the work together, and this is the beginning of a great friendship, and I'm really honored to be here and really happy for all your success.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I didn't say I was going to write it. I said fear's been holding me back. Maybe you'll turn off the camera and go in your nudge and this will be the nudge for me.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've always think it's my brother wrote a book, a really great one called The Promise of a Pencil. And he was a New York Times bestseller. And I was always like, that's Adam's thing. And I've always wanted to write, but I always feel like my mind and the things I'm working on on myself, all these things, they change like every week. And I've always felt like deep down, like, oh, yeah, you should write a book. But you're really not going to write a great book if you do. And I think it's always held me back from actually just sitting down and doing it.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Man, I can do one thing. That's a really great question. You know, at first, I was thinking it would be like, oh, say sorry to somebody or this, that, but I feel like I've gotten to do that with people in my life for the last couple years for things that I wanted to kind of talk about. And some things you realize, like, it's just not the season for that. You know, it takes two. and I have felt myself it was almost the fear of saying this out loud. Write a book.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My mom is the reason she, as I started building in college, she said, just promise me, you know, you'll do Seduka, which is charity within our culture, to give back. And I basically said every aspect of my business will have a give back component. And Shauna Nepper runs our family foundation, like our job is to make the money. Her job is to help me give it away. And sometimes it's with money. Sometimes it's with effort. But I've met so many incredible heroes, unsung heroes, in all this work. People who really dedicate full-time their lives to this. And I really, I always say my grandfather before he passed, he said, if your glass is filling with water and you're one of the lucky people in this world that God continues to pour water into your glass, well, you better start pouring it into other people's glasses, otherwise it's just going to spill and make a mess. And I never forgot that.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“By the way, I just want this because I struggle with giving myself credit, I want to say this to you The kid from Botswana is teaching me as well the kid from Casca. You know, it's a As much as that's an incredible thing. I wanted to come on here because I've listened to your podcast before and I've bid one of those listeners who grew and learned from it. So thank you, honestly, and continue to give yourself the credit you deserve and continue to ask the questions.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And what I will tell you is you are way ahead of the game at thirty two compared to where I was. And I had a lot of success at 32, but I wasn't asking these questions. And I wasn't pushing myself the way you did. And I think it is an incredibly cool thing that this is what you get to do as a career. Because I think you get to help a lot of people. And don't ever lose sight of the fact that the kid who was building in his room is now building in a lot of other people's rooms, and it's really impressive.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is the most valuable thing I could probably do, but the reason I don't do it is because deep down I feel not worthy of it. I feel like Who am I to tell anybody anything? You know, all of us, we feel like a fraud when we're giving any kind of advice. And that creeps up in me. And I get this very, if I'm being very vulnerable, it gets this place of... I don't even want to say, oh, thank you for saying that at first because I'm like, well, if someone's watching, they'll be like, this arrogant guy, or you get all the voices coming back in your head. But the truth is I want to go and build something next. I want to fall in love again. I want to be present for my children. And I want to be someone who can give advice from a place of wisdom. Be proud that I give it, but also receive it because I've”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When you just said to me what I did here today. I smiled because I was being really honest with myself and I really appreciated you saying that. But I also smiled because I was being honest with myself of how funny it is that when I leave here. All I've been doing lately when I'm away from my kids is thinking of what do I build next? So I can show my value. I'm going back to that old habit because I'm excited to build something else. But when I'm being really deep, honest with myself, really going deep, it comes from this place of, well, if I can do it again. This time will be the one that I'm happy about, this time, like it's that same old thing that comes every single time. And I still want to build something because I get joy out of that. But while I'm giving you this advice, when you said that to me, I went, oh man. He's”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You've done research, you know a little bit about my life. What would you say to me? What should I be doing next? What do you think I should be nudged to do?”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, look, I think being competitive is always a beautiful thing if used in the right way. I love that. But I will say to you, when you talk to me about where the AI staying up at night, where building your company came from, it was a kid building in his room. That kid wasn't competing with anyone. He was having fun in his room, he was building. That's when you're at your best. It's when you're actually just building for the joy of building. And I think along the way, based on our fears, based on the I'm not enough, based on all these different things, we start to take that thing that brought us joy and we start to think if I don't crush it now that people are watching me do it, I'm not good at it. You're asking me for this question is almost as if it's like advice. I'm trying to figure it out the same time you are. So I guess.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Bring her into every aspect of it, bring her into the fears that you have with this, bring her into, you know, that's what I, you know, I didn't know that. It's bring every aspect of your life together and share and let them be with the ups and downs and you do the up and downs and kind of go across the board. And then also, like I said, do the work to find out why you ask all these questions, but still with all the nudging that's happened, do the work to find out why you're so afraid to actually turn off the camera and just do it.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Jeff Bezos was the one who said it. He was like, don't balance things, harmonize. Why weigh things that you love against each other? You love building in your room. You love learning things and building things. You love that. You love your partner and you want to build a family with her one day. Not about balance, it's about putting them together”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know. I think everyone's journey is different. I think everyone experiences things in a different way. Some people are able to, like you talked about with addiction, some people are able to say, just stop. And other people can't. And other people have to go through a different process to get there.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The building in your room and the building with AI should be just fun. It shouldn't be terrifying anymore. It should be fun because the terrifying thing is turning 90 and not having the thing you really want. That's when I woke up”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think you're an incredibly intriguing guy. That's why I wanted to meet you. And I love how much you push yourself and you question things. But I find it very interesting that when I asked you about your 90s and when you look back, You name things that are very attainable to you because you found someone that loves you and you love them. And then when we're talking throughout this entire conversation, It seems that when you actually open about your personal life, you spend a lot of your time avoiding that thing. Focusing on all these others that make you feel worthy to experience that thing. And I guess what I'm just trying to say to you for as smart a guy as you are, this is coming from someone who literally suffered from the same thing. The thing that you want the most at ninety you got.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm confused because you haven't named all the achievements of AI. You haven't named all the things that you think you need to do.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I guess I'm intrigued because one, you don't give yourself the credit of how much you go into the unknown. It's almost like you do it out of fear necessity. But I'm really pushing you on like, what does success look like for you? Because you're on the surfboard and you keep serving. I'm trying to figure out like where is what is success to you? Is it? You're 90 years old, and you're looking back to your life. What are the things that you could not live without? You'd be disappointed if they weren't there.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Swim on the beach, but I didn't really want to go into the ocean because I didn't have control out there. You know, I didn't know what was in there. I didn't know what could get me. Like I couldn't see it coming. I couldn't control the outcome. And you talk a lot about the need for control that makes you feel uncomfortable. But you are also a very big risk taker. I mean, you're 32 years old. You've achieved all this. You're pushing yourself to find out more. You're defying all the odds. You got the kid from home who's still talking crap because, you know, look everything what you're doing.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I understand that, but I find that interesting only because the ocean is a place where you have absolutely no control. The ocean can do what we want. You don't know what's in there. A lot of people, like I see when they walk control, I realized there were years that I kind of just didn't swim in the ocean.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When we spoke earlier, you were telling me that you'll stay up all night long, like learning how to code with AI and you're trying to understand all the AI tools that are in front of us. You can kind of be first because you feel like you weren't at the right place in the dot-com boom. And you want to make sure that you're in there. Can I ask you what you consider success? Is it you don't want to miss out? Like, what is the success? Why do you feel like you want to not miss out? What do you want to be first to? If you achieve something on the other side because you actually master AI and you are one of the first, what are you hoping happens?”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I think the one thing that will never go away is humans want for taste, for human error, for experiences. If anything during COVID, we saw national parks explode. People had time for experiences. I think AI is going to make us more productive. We're going to have more time for experiences. And I'm excited for that. And I'm excited for what that world looks like. And I think there will always be growing pains when there's change. But on the other side, societies have always been measured by productivity, not by wealth. How productive is that society?”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But there's just so much opportunity because things are shifting and things are moving and we're becoming a more productive society. Because like you, I've gotten to see some of the things that are coming on the technology side and it's mind-blowing what's coming and it's mind blowing what's already happening that people, a lot of people don't even realize. And the innovation is going to get faster and faster and faster.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What does relationship look like? And then I'm excited to be a rookie again and try new things and get into industries because I said to you before we started taping. You asked me about AI. And I said, I feel like we're in the beginning of an industrial revolution and a Cold War at the same time.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The only thing I want to make sure is that I want to be the father to my children that I want to be. That's the thing. That's the one consistent thing. I want to make sure that I put them first, that they are my priority. Because I get them until they're 18, and then, you know, they're going to be like, dad, we're out. And I'm still going to obviously look forward to the next chapter. But I got 10 years of that. I think something I'm excited about in the next chapter is like, what does love look like?”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Daniel's a very innovative guy and I remember him as the kid I called on that list, and who, when he came to the United States a couple weeks later, played me in ping pong eight times, you know, and that's how he became friends. And he's incredibly humble, incredibly smart, incredibly hardworking, and he has changed a lot of people's lives.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He saved the music industry. And I think now that he's the biggest thing in the music industry, it's easy to point at him as like the big oil. And yes, he's always trying to innovate and change, but he has brought more money back into our industry than we ever thought would be there. And I'm grateful to him. And I think he saved a lot of careers.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It gave value to our business. It gave multiples on publishing and masters that we had never seen before because now everyone's music can be heard and heard for a long time. At the time Daniel came along, all I would hear going in the music business is, man, you missed the 80s and 90s. Sorry, kid. You know, this business is going down. And Daniel was streaming, made it so that, you know, these major labels and these independent companies. you know, these artists are able to do things they've never been able to do before one on bringing that amount of revenue to our business, but two, also bringing our global community together. And that was Daniel's foresight and his vision and his, I mean, he didn't have any relationships. He didn't know the major labels.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now, I'm a firm believer in that company, and I'm a firm believer in Daniel. And I think Listen, I hear all the time where people are like, oh, look, this is so unfair. Daniel Eck, with his bravery and his foresight, saved the music industry. He gave value to our industry again. He found a way to make us go from going in one direction to the most successful we've ever been. And I don't think people realize that and give him enough credit for what he did.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah, he was just when I called him, he was, you know, they were talking about this new thing, Spotify, but it was in Sweden. And we met and I tried to get in right away after we met because I was like, what is this? And he didn't let me in at first. And then, you know, I went and met Shaq. I met Shaq in London. We walked around, and then DA Wallach was like advising them. And I ended up getting to be a significant investor at that point in my life in this new young company Spotify. And I have not sold a share in probably 18 years.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I am an early investor in Spotify because of that phone call. He was just, I'm sure he told you this, he was just a company in Sweden.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because every single time I met someone very accomplished and successful, and they wanted to help me, they'd say, well, who are you trying to reach? And they'd say, oh my gosh, I've known them for 20 years, thirty years. And they would pick up the phone call, and their power was in relationship that was expansive and long, and they knew each other from the beginning. Not that they had met some powerful club at the end. And what I realized was The real powers in community. And I wanted to know my peers. I wanted to grow with them that we didn't need to go and find someone who already had it. We needed to support each other.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I named my holding company, I had SB projects, but then when I did the holding company and started doing other things too, I named it after this poem because I was so moved by it. And the concept of the poem of Ithaca is you're on the way to the island of Ithaca and the Greek islands. And along the way, you're going to see so many different things. And you're going to meet scholars and you're going to learn wisdom and all these different things. And when you find Ithaca, finally, if you find her poor, she did not fool you. Because it was never about the destination. About the journey. And I think right now If I get to this endgame with you, That's no fun. Then it's over. So keep the waves coming.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Hell no, that's life You know, I asked You said I had a company Ithaca. Do you know where it comes from? So some people think they're like, oh, Ithaca, New York? No. It comes from a poem by Kafi. I asked David Geffin years ago. With his extraordinary life and career, when did he feel like it was like enough? I was 30 years old when I met him, and I asked him that question the first meal we ever had. And he looked at me and he said That's not how life works. It goes up and down this that and he goes, I want you to read a poem. And he gives me Ithaca by Kafafi.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All part of the process. It's like a constant surrender to your human experience. The work for me is... Life is going to throw the things you need at you. So, like I said, tomorrow something could happen that I'm being ridiculed again and I'm having to learn again, you know, or a praise could come and I'm having to learn how to handle that. Like I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring. It's always a new experiment, but it's almost as if when you're doing this work, people call it, it's as you're swimming in the waves. And now you have the skills to get through the wave. The waves still come, but you're just going through them differently.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think I have a lot of things left to learn. I find myself sometimes needing to defend myself, sometimes not defending myself when I should. I feel like sometimes I feel misunderstood or not loved. I have that moment. And then even on the other side, there's times where you feel like, oh, you're doing all this work and people see you as someone who's done the work and then you don't want to be seen as someone who's failing at that work. And the truth is.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I do, especially reading this book and then studying Kabbalah. And I started studying Kabbalah about a year ago. I like some of the principles I've learned from Kabbalah about this idea of being a custodian. That nothing is actually ours, but we're custodians, you know, that God Hashem is what they say in Kabbalah, but this idea that we're supposed to give 10% to charity, but no more than 20, you know, because the belief is if God is giving you this, he's asking you to hold on to it because he has a purpose for you. But if he chooses to take it away, you should be just as joyful because it was never yours in the first place. You are a custodian. And I think that's a really great way of looking at materials, looking at life, and understanding, like I said, participating. And I'm getting to play in this game.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He actually goes, Well, you know, we're Jews, we don't believe in reincarnation. And when I started studying Kabbalah, I realized that actually Kabbalah teaches reincarnation almost the exact same way this woman was describing it, which means Judeo-Christians. Actually, believe in reincarnation, but many of us don't know it. And it was just a really interesting way of looking at life.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It made me look at death differently and life differently were here to learn, and then if we don't figure it out we leave and we come back again and if we learn that one we come back and it's transitions and but it's never it's not ending. It's all about coming here to learn but I feel like I have so much to learn and at least I know that and I'm such a mess and I'm figuring it out every single day that if Brian Weiss's book is right, I'm not going anywhere for a while. But it's a really amazing way to look. And what was interesting is when I told my mom had read it, when I told my dad.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She does hypnotic regression. She goes into something from like age zero to six that she couldn't remember. Very traumatizing. He's like, oh, this will make a difference. She comes back the next week. It's even worse. That makes no sense to him. He does hypnotic regression again and she goes into a past life. He calls bullshit. He does another hypnotic regression, she goes into another past life and he realizes her educational background could not know the things that she's saying that he's looking up. So what happens is he just writes a book about this patient and how she changed his entire practice. And what was really interesting about it is that”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I think that's something I think about. But then also just trust that like if it's supposed to be, it's supposed to be. My journey was supposed to be exactly the way it was. Even when I found out things and she found out like. About ourselves, it was exactly when we were supposed to find out. So I just, I'm a firm believer, you know, you're here to learn exactly what you're supposed to learn. Have you read many lives, many masters? Brian Easy quick read on a weekend, you'll enjoy the hell of it. Brian Weiss was the head of psychology at University of Miami, and he was recommended a nurse from the hospital would he see her. And he saw her and she had deep trauma and he couldn't figure it out. So he goes, we're going to do hypnotic regression.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, it's just, there's no good time in the future. There's no when I get to 35, when I get to 36, when I get to 40, there's when I achieve this. Go do it. One to two weeks out of the year will not kill you, it will only make you stronger. Because what you're dealing with, with what you're telling me, has nothing to do with the two of you. It has more to do with your stuff. And she has to go do her stuff. You have to see if she wants to go do the same thing and work on herself in the same way. Because it's a constant thing. The second thing is go on vacations together. And when the kids come go on vacation, that's something I think we forgot to do. We did the vacations with the kids. We do the vacations with friends, but we didn't do vacations together because we were so, we had three kids in five years.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Couple things. Number one, turn the cameras off and go do some self-work. Stop being nudged. Just go do it. Stop being with all due respect to pus”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think so, but I also didn't know who I was. I think I was happy because everyone in the world told me I was doing great, and I thought that that was enough, and I feel like looking back now, I feel like I was asleep at the wheel. I feel like I didn't know myself at the time. And, but I had so much success at such a young age, so everyone was telling me I was doing great. So I just chose to believe them. And it wasn't until the foundation broke and there was nothing underneath it that I was like, oh shit, I'm actually not happy. And I never knew. And it's like, I wouldn't go back to that before all the crap in a million years. I want to stay here. Because now like I'm awake.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he says Is your loved one? Is she healthy? Does she love you? Is she here with you right now? Everything you're working to achieve? That perspective, you already have it. And they said it to me, and it sounds great. I'm seeing it on your face you're a smart guy, it's logical. You're like, yeah, I get it. And then you're going to go repeat the same stuff because that's what we do. And what I realized when I went and did this work was it's not going to change between you and her or me and my ex. You know, that wasn't what it was about. It was actually something deeper, deeper underlying that had nothing to do with the current relationship. It had to do with that lie that I'm not enough, that this person actually doesn't really love me unless I do this.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Listen A long time ago, someone really smart ran this little exercise with me. And I wish I would have paid better attention to it other than just thinking it was a cool saying to use in the office. He said Have I told you someone you love was sick, and you had a billion dollars, how much of it would you spend to save them?”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The choices that you make that you justify Oh, I got to do this because if I don't do this one, it could all fall apart. No, it isn't. If I don't stop everything I'm doing and choose this, it could all fall apart. Or yeah, okay, you're saying this to me, but you don't really mean it because you don't understand what I'm going through because I'm in this grind. I'm in this hunt that no one can understand because only I can achieve this. You're smiling because you live. Can I ask you some questions? How long have you guys been together”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't want to go into details. I have a lot of respect. We're family forever. It goes both ways. It's not like there was one thing happening both people have to play a role in where we got to. You know, things happen on, you know, both ways. However, Chris Rock says something really special. He goes, relationships are actually quite easy. You ever try to pick up a couch with two people? No problem. Pick up a couch by yourself And that was the thing. We both went to pick up the couch at different times. And. We were made to be amazing co-parents. We were made to come into each other's lives to help each other be better in different ways through the heartbreak of our relationship ending. And we were brought together to make three incredible souls. And now whoever gets me next is in for a treat.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All you get to do is work on yourself. You don't get to work on the other person. Like, you can really only work on yourself. You can help the other person, but the work, that's only here. I think that I saw my life is perfect, so why change anything? And that's why you're smiling.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I cared. I just, childhood trauma is a hell of a thing, man. And we all have it. That was the thing. The reason I didn't think I had it is because I had friends who had parents who were alcoholics. I had friends who had parents who this. So I always thought, you know, both my parents are here. They love me. Like the stuff I dealt with, that's not real. You know, I come from an immigrant family. Like we can deal with this. Like, we're strong. You know, that's not real. And what I realized is. Everyone has trauma, that's the human experience. And the faster we value our own trauma and stop trying to downplay it because we don't think it equals someone else's, the more we can work on ourselves.”
2025-06-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Scooter Braun: The Lie I Chased Almost Broke Me... You’re Probably Chasing It Too! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT